Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-09

murder"
The priest laid a hand on his shout
der. eye Gamma do that, lad" he an
swered. There's ma court in the land
would convict him. In the first place,
| though We meant only to save the
lassie from him, there's ma jury would
believe it. They'd say that compact
by which We were to get his wife Tor
the mine stinks in the sight O. heaven.
Ave. and they'd say We arrested him
/ to get the Wumman. Aye, and, Iur-
thermair, We Gamma shame her by
bringin' her into court as a witness.
Ma, lad. yen cen ha' to let it go.
aye fought guild fight for her, lad,
but there's naething more to do. NOR
can We arrest him for hootch-sellin',
for that wud be meexin' up public
duty wi private vengeance. Yell see
it, lad, when We grow cool"
The shrewd, hard, common sense
seemed to turn Lees heart to stone.
He knew Father McGrath was right.
There was nothing he could do.
He could not even attempr the
arrest of Pierre and Shorty for the
dynamiting without bringing the whole
story into publicity. And he knew
well enough that, prima facie, It looked
simply like an attempt on his part to
possess himself of the wife Of another
man.
Then there was the discredit that
such a case would bring on the police.
But as he stood there, feeling MS
last hopes gone, Leboeuf laid down
his skillet and came toward them. The
old man had overheard all that had
passed.
Listen, Messieurs," Leboeuf said,
"now I can tell you what know. !
lave known Jim Railway under many
/ other names, since, when he was a
Young man, he first came into this
district to sell drink to my people
''Messieurs, many years have gone
by-twenty years since he came to
Lake Misquash, where my people had
their tepees. He was friend to us.
He trapped, and, If he sold a little
whisky, that was between ourselves,
you understand, Monsieur. And he
was my friend.
zone day we both start to take the
furs from our trap lines. His line
runs east and mine runs west. |
leave my woman in my tepee. A
young wife, Messieurs, much younger
than myself. In one week | return.
My tepee is empty. My woman is
gone So, too, my furs.
Later learn. She has gone with
Railway. He keep her six weeks.
Then he drive her away into the for
est. She dare not return to her own
people. So she go south to the cities
of the white people. Long search for
/ her: but I never find her. You know
what happens to our women in the
cities of the white men, Messieurs.
"Then my heart becomes hard, like
a stone. AS for her, she is nothing
to me no longer. But some day find
Railway again, and then / kill him.
"Well, Messieurs, many years age
come here | work for my master,
Mr.. Pelly. He trusts me. He tells
tine the secret that he has come here
to hide He shows me the mine that
he has found. And for years we work
| it together, taking out the gold. He
want me to take a share, but gold is
nothing to me, now that ] have the
revenge in my heart. 1t shall be all
for him and Mam'zelle Joyce some
day.
"Then Railway comes. My people
have caught him doing another such a
forgive, and because they love my
MASTER they do not injure him. So the
peace is laid upon me also.
"But / tell my master what Rath-
way did to my woman, and he turns
back in time to save Mam'zelle Joyce
from him. He shoots him through the
arm. And Railway smiles and tells
him he has learned the secret that
can bring my master to die.
after that my master is as his SER
want. And again | say, let me kill
him, and again my master says no,
And he obeys Railway in fear, only
he would never show him the mine,
which is for Mam'zelle Joyce
Might after night Railway follows
us, but always he loses us at the
rocking stone, for he cannot come near
enough to discover the secret without
being seen. Then Mam'kelle Joyce goes
away to school, and after that Rath-
way gives my master no peace. And
at last he betrays him, thinking that
when my master has been hung for
the murder, the mine becomes Nam
'zelle Joyces, and he will marry her
and it will be his own.
"And so q policeman comes here
that was during the war. But my
master could not be found, for he was
dead already. You see Messieurs,
Railway thought perhaps he would
not be hung after all, since 1t was so
long since my master killed his enemy
and so the mine would not be his; and
so-he murders him.
whats that?' cried Lee, starting
toward Leboeuf
HE kills my master, Monsieur"
You saw this e.
Eyes, Monsieur 1t was near the
rocking stone. Pathway had followed
him and demanded knowledge of the
entrance. He threatened him with
his revolver My master drew his
and Railway fired. Ny master dropped
dead. Railway flung his body over
the cliff into the mine not knowing