The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-01-29

A light fOotstep sounded beside him
Joyce stood there. Lee swung toward
her.
II came to make sure you were safe
Joyce" Lee held out his arms.
"Dinna speak to him, Mees Pelly.
un0erstan' he's helped ye-aye, there's
good in the wursst of us-but he'll
get around We, Mees Pelly, Go back y
Father, there's something | want to
say to him." Joyce answered In a low
voice.
AYE, but he's got a smooth tongue,
and the stomp Of ineequity hasn't come
upon his face yet. Ye w0uldna theenk
he'd sold hisself to his master. II
We must speak to him, I'll just stand
by, and if | see he's getting round We
I'll send him ABBOTT his business"
With which the doughty father took
up his post Just out of hearing, glar-
ing at Lee and prepared for instan-
taneous Intervention. Joyce stepped
forward.
lee, I'm sorry for what / said
to you this afternoon. 1t was partly
the shock of awakening, | think. I
was unjust to you, and unjust, too, in
coming here without trying to get
word to you. | owe you a great deal.
l accept your word that when you met
me In the range you did not know who
| was, that you did not pursue my
acquaintance because | was the
daughter of the man whom 1t was your
duty to apprehend. Il bear you no
ill-will for having to do your duty"
"Then, Joyce"
But" she said solemnly, you will
see how my fathers safety, perhaps
his life, stands between us. We can
only be enemies-at least, until"
"That's what / wanted to speak
about" said Lee. "As / understand 1t,
this killing a committed years ago.
a whole generation ago. 1t was more
or less justified. If your father is
almost certainly be for manslaughter.
His sentence will be q nominal one.
Quite probably 1t will be impossible to
produce the witnesses required to con
vict at all. In such case he will go
free.
"He has acted il-advisedly. He
should never have fled. His best
course will be to surrender. ne VII
find himself a free man In a little
while, instead of a hunted outlaw.
VIII you unite with me in ~persuading
him to surrender"
She shook her head. 1--WE always
told him that-my mother and l." she
answered. "But the thing had crazed
him, he hated civilization after it hap
pened. He was insane upon that sub
ject. He will never surrender.
Let me try to picture to you what
happened, and the treachery and faith
lessness that have always pursued
him. When my father fed from the
law he came here and settled with my
I was born here. For a long
time we were very happy. My father
and in those days this was
one of the richest fur districts in
Canada.
But my father was an educated
man, and in his heart he was always
against his exile. He always
cherished the hope some day to take
rs south where I could be educated
properly. Then in an evil day he fan
,ied he had discovered a gold mine.
ut became a mania with him. He
would tell no one where 1t was, except
Jacques Leboeuf, an old servant, whom
lie trusted. They used to go off by
hight and work 1t together. My father
vas always talking about the gold he
lad collected. He wanted to develop
he mine, to sell it for a fortune, but
le was always afraid of being dis
covered, and he put it off and put it
If and neither my mother nor I ever
believed in the mine.
"Then in an evil day a nan called
PATHWAY came up. He was a small
peddler. He had committed
ome crime against the Indians. He
lad been beaten, pursued, and was
lalf dead when my father saved him
rom their vengeance. He took him
n and fed and protected him. Rath-
way learned of the mine, and was al
searching for it, but neither my
iather nor Leboeuf would tell him
where it was. Once he tried to spy
N them, and Leboeuf had him by the
hroat and would have killed him if
ny father had not interviewed in
ime,
MY mother died. Railway grew
at and consequential, lived here,
Helped my father with his traps, and,
hough for a long time my father did
lot know it, continued debauching the
indians with his whisky. When / was
girl of seventeen he began to take
notice Of me. He said he loved me.
didn't know much about love, but
knew | hated him. Then one day my
father came in from the woods just in
-ime TO protect me from him, and he
shot Railway through the arm.
"He was aiming again to shoot him
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