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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-09-24, Page 7MEMBER 24, A_ immoimminm ed Si sold only in !Al air -tight packets 7eserVe its native gess. SEPTEMBER 24, MO. k• image of Christ before Pontium r, picturing the humility of the - before his earthly judge, 1 kept her hand in his, helping e climb, and when they rose and rded the Others down the narrow they went hand in hand and in silence back to the church- led hurch - led her in through the great for it was getting near to they ;appointed by the priest. They at to one side of the rave in: the space. It was dusky where they : the afternoon was waning, But istant altar was gloriously alight against the gleam of the won- t marble of the chancel's balus- rose the pedestal and the heroic e of La Bonne Ste. Anne, her T eyes looking down on the of Mary's Son. er the heads of the two wander- Yowl ander!rom the woods 'glorious waves gen music rolled and surged, and felt a lift and a swing as they Felt the swaying of the eanee on. waves. Then, a distant voice ed strange words. Worshipers sidling, shuffling, creaking out. is there—the Chapel of Saint may?' He released her hand_ hinted to the archway. "I hope, that what you may find there:. make you happy." ou are willing to cone back—it :lot trouble you—?" am glad of the chance to visit here and have z jolly tine." v turned from her and was gone iickly that she choked hack her , afraid to speak aloud in that place. e fought back ar impulse', almost stible, to run after him, to beg ay. She was homesick and ter - vas in her. She felt as if she seen tossed in an instant out of ,r into black emptiness, She re- mc're fully how much his prese had signified. (Continued next week.) ',WEST NOTES OF S, XENCE substantial holder for a. pail i cannot be kicked over by a` cow milked has been patented by a ?rnian. ve stones and skins and similar e from oil presses are used for : the kilns in the potteries of cco- e bathroom spigot:; an 'electric hment has been invented that small quantities of water as are drawn. re thane half of the total area agland and Wales is under the as compared with only 15 per of Ireland. VILSON'S • them all, and the rms too. 10c a packet Druggists, Grocers end General Stores. 5 The Rider of the King Log HOMAN DAT msmessmeassisi HARPER & BROTHERS r.' (Continued from last week.) Lola ran to her fettered men and kneeled behind thein. But the warden was no longer in the mood for courtship; he stumbled ;away to the shore and dashed water Against his forehead and doctored the cut with his medicament. When consciousness returned to , Paul he made no move which betray- ed etrayed that fact. The night had settled over the lake and the wind was stilled. For a time he listened to an acrimonious debate carried on by the three officers at the camp -fire. The discussion concerned the custody of the girl. Wallin insisted that he be allowed: to take her back to her home wherever it might be. The Cana- • diann€s put equal insistence on their claim that she must go with them to -appear as witness against - the two prisoners. The debate was arriving at no conclusion because both parties knew that their claims were subter- fuges and they were not willing to admit the truth. It was plain contest for a trophy or a victim; at any rate, Paul found sinister intimation of danger for Lola in this dispute They were not re- garding her as a woman entitled to deference and help. On. account of the color of her face they had set her apart from such consideration. There was peril in this drunken estimation of her as a plaything. He wanted to shout that she was the daughter of Farmer Onesime Hebert of the big islands; but his • astonishment when he had first seen herin the north country now settled into a more cautious emotion — speculation as to why she was voyaging in that far land. She had a purpose; her eager pleading had revealed that the purpose was a compelling one. His fear in her behalf was nearly balanc- ed by his generosity; he did not want to betray that which she was try- ing to conceal. Evidently she had not as yet told those men who she was; the daughtereof Onesime Hebert would not be humiliated thus by a discussion which fitted the case of a vagrant squaw; the men were not moderating their voices. The waves were splashing lazily in the cove; the lake was going to sleep. Sabatis felt that these dogs would soon be doing something else besides -prolonging a quarrel over this mor- sel; they would be taking advantage of the calm to go their ways. elf Wallin should prevail, what sort of agony would the pinioned lover be called en to undergo? He had been having bitter experience in finding out how far Wallin's contemptuous disregard: of the human feelings of Indians would carry the brute. If she went with the others, then what he might suspect but could not see— The poor boy rolled upon his face and moaned; bound hand and foot, bruif,ed, numb, and aching, he was such a broken and useless weapon for her defense! They next moment he felt her two -warm hands on his two cheeks, "Paul! Pant!" she. w=hispered. "What have vre done? What does it all mean? Oh. I pity vou. He was wicked!" Wallin leaped from the fire; he had seen her when she hurried to Paul. The warden set hands on `her and pulled her to her feet. "No conr;ivering here„ sis! Whiat are you up to?" "He is much hurt. He groaned. I eerie here to help him." Wallin suddenly crushed his lips against hers. "You think of me!, it's enough for you to be thinking of. 7'il look after you!" In spite of her struggles he drew her to the .fire. "Look here, men! Let the girl say 5"mething about it. Sas, if you go with these men you'll be put into Mail. If you come with me, Pll take you to your home, wherever it is. I'm taking that prisoner back." "My 'men " "It's no use to argue about that, I ke13 you. They've got to go. the other way!'' .b;D• a`zed up at the stars—into -Che north. In that moment she look- ed deeply into her own heart:as well. The pitiful, battered figure ` dying near her under the tree! He had' de- fended her as best he' could. She did not dare to glance in his direction; she knew that she would betray her- self and him by speaking what she wanted to tell him. Then inspiration helped her in that crisis. "I'm try - i ng hard to know what is best, sir. Will you wait while I say my prayer to the Great Spirit? I want to know what is right to do." "He'll probably tell you to go home. :lo go ahead and pray," consented the warden. She clasped her hands and raised her eyes and spoke to the heavens in ;,he Mellicite tongue. "Brave, good bo;', I am talking to you. Ido not understand. It breaks '-my heart be- cause I cannot go on. But after what you have done to help me .11 weehl he too selfish if I go on, even if I might. Pll go with you and try to stop that wicked man from hurt- ing you any more." She was silent for some time. "You haven't said 'amen,'" prompt-, ed Mr. Wallin. "If you're done, though, what's the verdict?" "I will go with you, sir." '10 thr- tortures of Paul was added this -new agony of knowing that she bad failed in some precious quest and in her own troub:c, was willing tv as ii t him in his woe. Gratitude fla'Y'etl' in him and his zeal burned to r€pay her with deeds. Could his reuscles have swelled as did his heart e THE HURON EXPOSITOR he would - have burst those ropes which bound -him. "Youheard what she said! That i settles t, gents!" "We're not letting our prisoner settle anything." Belt Mr. Wallin had been looking ahead to that final. clinch. He him- self, before relations had becomestrained, had collected all the rifles and had stackedle then against a tree. He leaped, `gathered them in his arms/ ran towarc4 the shore, pluck- ed out his own weapon, and flung the others into the cove. "Now who's boss?" he squalled. 1 He came back into the edge .of the firelight and patted the rifle. "Get along out of this with your prisoners." After considerable of a wait the Canadian 'officers started toward 'Dunos and Peter,' walking close to- gether and mumbling: A click, a rattle and the two of them cam back, one of them dangling empty hand- cuffs. "So long as you're crazy a - boat collecting Indians, you're wel- come to a couple more." But two loose- Indians did not fit in with Wallin's calculations. "You haven't any right to let your pris- oners go that way!" "We've been' thinking it over, and you seem to be the only of ie who knows what they're guilty of'" was the unabashed, reply. • Wallin set his back to _a tree in a position where he could -command the few square rods ,of the clearing. "I shall do shooting if I'm forced to it," he declared. "Yes, you'll do 'most.. anything, ac- cording to the waY we've got you sized up. Whitt you have done to our rifles was a plenty!" It was said in tone of anger and disgust; the speaker turned promptly to Lola and put out- his hand. "Good luck to you, girl!" His back was toward Wallin: Undetected by the warden, the Cana- dian passed to her a .knife from the sheath in his belt. "You may have luck if you keep this handy,"" he mur- mured. "He's a bad one!" "Don't you two Indians move out of your tracks or Pll -bore you," bawled Wallin. He shook his . rifle threateningly. In desperation he was striving to build a plan to suit this sudden dilemma. Elimination -of the surly. Canadians was the first requis- ite. He felt that he was able to cope with the Indians. He ordered the officers to leave and they started for their canoe. He gave his full atten- tion to them, for they were on the move and there were loose rocks at hand. - Lola stepped backward; she ° was tingling with the resolution which comes to women\in extremities. The proximity of an apparently' helpless girl and a pinioned prisoner did not appear to draw Wallin's attention from ` what he was regarding with impatient intentness the embarka- tion of the white ,men. She stooped slightly, set the keen ' hunter's blade between arm and -body of Paul and drove downward; the ropes were severed. Then she dropped the knife on his knees and stepped away from -him. He _drew up his feet and cut the cord that fettered them. But his confinement., his fall, Wal- lin's blow, had combined to take his strength from him. He sat there, without moving. - A sudden reflection that had to do with prudence was thrust suddenly into the ward'en's ugly mood; he was dealing with officers; there might be complications if they were not t ap- peased' sufficiently so that they would not report to headquarters. "Look here! I lost my head a little, gents. That rum hit me pretty hard. If I apologize and hand you fifty dollars to pay for those rifles will you say that we have broken about even? If 1ad more than fifty I'd give it to you." "We'll take what we can get. We need the money." "One of you come and get it." Wallin, desiring to show a new and friendly- spirit, set his gun against a tree and drew his wallet. "That's right! You needn't be nervous," -protested the officer, on his way from the shore. "We'll call it a trade—mum ote both sides. It's the best way out of a bad scrape." The moment the heads of the two were together -over the money Sabatis rose and lunged toward thein, head low and body bent. He staggered as he ran, but the spirit of vengeance, love, and hatred! poured through his veins and put the paralyzing numb- ness from him. The camp -fire had dwindled tb coals -and figures were hardly more than shadows, but the .man at the canoe saw Paul's rush and shouted warning. . At that moment the Indian leaped and, fists driving in- to the Canadian's back, smashed him against Wallin. The two went down together and Sabatis turned to meet the other man who came running. Paul used the officer's momentum to ACIDS IN STOMACH CAUSE INDIGESTION Create Gas,So ness and Pain How to Treat. Medical authorities state that near- ly nine -tenths of the cases of stomach trouble, indigestion, sourness, burn- ing, gas, bloating, nauseae etc:, are due to an .excess of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and not as some be- lieve to a lack of digestive juices. 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When he had placed her in the craft he jumped upon Wallin's canoe, up- turned on the shore close by. He crushed the shell beyond hope of remedy; the sachem -canoe was out of commission and he did not harm it furhker. Standing in the captured craft, he paddled madly, turned the wooded headland, and kept on to the north. "There was not •room for all," he gasped. "But they have the rifle. They can patch their canoe! It was desperate! There was no time!" Then he seated himself and paddled on. Lola had surrendered herself to him without struggle or word. She kneel- ed in the canoe, crouching low, fight- ing her terror. "They have no canoe! Don't be afraid any longer. They cannot chase us." "But we must wait for them for Dunos and! Peter." He paddled sturdily. "It's better to keep on. There's no telling what may happen balk there." "Bet I need them. They are tak- ing' me a long way—into the north." In that upheaval of his nature he was not in the mood to surrender her to anybody. What did this journey of hers mean? "I am as good as the two of them," he boasted, no longer the bashful youth who had been so meek in her presence. "I am your friend, too. I will help." "But I will not go—no, I cannot go with you this way!" "Are you afraid of me?'-" he asked, mournfully. "You must understand. Then you will not wish to go. Stop! You must listen to me." She spoke with so much earnest appeal that he obey- ed; he Laid the paddle across the canoe and the little craft rocked on the slow waves. "They were taking " me to the shrine of Sainte Anne the Good." "I will take you," he promised, gravely. "I can serve you better than they when you are there; one of the priests was my teacher in the college. He is my friend." "It's not honest for me to take your help. I must tell you. I. am going because the cure told me about the miracles. I am going because I want to ask the good saint to give me my husband and all his love. So you caniot help me." He leaned forward, his cupped palms supporting his " head. • She waited a long time for him to speak. "I could not ask you to help me, Paul." . "Once I pledged my word that I would help. I went and; did my best. But it was not help—it was harm be- cause the man lied before them all— lied and said that I was your lover. I'm . telling you the truth, Lola. I don't know what you have heard But it was the man who talked—who lied. Because I dill not help you then I -will do so now. Give me leave to help you. I beg it." "After what I have said to you?" "Yes." • 41 won't understand." "I explained to you once. I have not changedi since then. It's a poor friend who will not stick fast in deep trouble. But I'm selfish. I want to do it alone. Don't you know that you can depend on me and trust me?" "Yes, I do know it, Paul." "Because we are going together— just we two -a -this is no time for the folly of talk about that between us." "But is it folly because I want to go—do you think that?" "It is not folly when we do all we can to • cure unhappiness. Most would call this folly—what I want to do. -But I have been unhappy be- cause I harmed you instead of help- ed you. We will go. It will be good for both of us." - He dipped his paddle and drove the canoe on to the north. With the reddening light of dawn to help his vision in scrutiny of the wooded shore, he found his own canoe and his belongings; then they went on again. Lola Said nothing. more about waiting for Dunes and Peter; she did not look behind to see whether they were following. De- spite Paul's protest, she took the bow paddle and helped to hurry. CHAPTER' XXVI The end of a pilgrimage and the guardian shield of the black robe. There were huntsmen's cabins and loggers' camps in the wilderness; farther on there were settlers' clear- ings along the streams of L'Islet. The two pilgrims found shelter and welcome and food as'they made. their best haste down from the mounts of Notre Da a towards the great river. There ere streairas and little lakes to help aid hurry them; there were -carries :a d cliffs and ,'crooked trails to harass " and make progress slow. The clearings grew wider and then there were pastures and rolling fields, and the little whitewashed houses had broad eaves which made a porch, and had. balconies running across the upper story. Within each house were many children about the, high iron . As brother and sister, Paul and Lola journeyed. That natter -of -fact relationship, announced unassumingly, was 'never questioned. There were days when the sun was benignant and the sky was boundless. The girl looked up into it gladly, as if her hopes were winging high in the azure expanse. There were days when gray clouds were packed close to the tops of the hills and sheets of- sleety rain nar- rowed the horizon. And then Lola was grave and timidly stole glances at Paul, .seeming to question him with her eyes, and he did not understand her thoughts because she put none of them into words. As for him, he was the same whether the sunshine sparkled in his eyes or the rain pel- lets beat against his cheeks. He was placid, patient, silent, impassive, in- scrutable. There was no more talk • between them regarding their errand. They came to villages and popu- lous towns which were threaded on broad highways. A habitant farmer squinted ,shrewdly, scratched - his head, and named a modest fee for conveyance to the shore of the St. Lawrence. The fuzzy little Norman horse trotted away, drawing a sway- ing buckboard wagon. The farmer's youngster went as their charioteer. and continually clapped the reins and made the whip whistle over his head and cried, in high-pitched voice: "Va Ven! Hell! Marche dent!" . And, at last, they looked upon the great river, a w -de expanse tf tuinbI- ing waters swept by dm cold wind. From- the deck Li the •f erry,-tioat Peul pointed out to Lola the gray bulk of the ivin-towered church of La Benne Sainte Anne. It was so far away that it seemed like a mere bas-relief .against the brown, steep background of the Cote de Beaupre. They were landed at the end. of a long pier down which streamed jostl- ing throngs, embarking on a steam- boat. "They are pilgrims," Paul told her, for she showed timidity and waited at the pier's guard-rail for them to pass; many were laughing loudly and others pushed and skylarked. "They come like this in big parties from down the river before the winter closes in —frown Tadousac and Trois Pistoles and all the way between. Because they laugh and play you must not mind. They are good folks. It ought to give you .:courage to see them coming away so happy from the shrine." But the spectacle- of so many strangers disturbed her; when.she and Paul had made their way up the pier other chattering crowds were pouring from the cars of a railroad train. In hurrying platoons, like rafts in a river, they were swinging into the courtyard which stretchedibefore the basilica's gray. facade. salheepiIgrims on the pier had, been humbler folk than these who came from the. train, Here were no wicker baskets for food, no clumping boots, no knitted hoods. They were city folks, smartly dress- ed. Runners from the village inns pounded on the iron fence which kept them from the yards, and their clam- ors added to the general din. "But you must not mind them," urged Paul, taking her hand in his. "They are folks whit have made money in the mills in the States and they are glad because they are here for a blessing." On the tables of a long arcade the family parties had spread their food and were eating; . hawkers and venders of relics and souvenirs; of crosses and cards, were calling from, their booths. Around the fountain in the center of the court were men and women who were filling bottles with water; after the water had been bless- ed, Paul told her, it -would be taken to far homes:; and a few drops would sanctify the cold brow -of death or bless the opening eyes of birth. Overhead the bell clanged its call to Mass—the Mass for the arriving ex- cursionists. Lola, on her journey, hurrying, hoping, dreaming, had hung only one pictures -in the g lery of her' fancy: the dim - sanctuary, , the good, saint high' on her pedestal with the Infant Christ in her arms, and, over all, a holy, brooding silence, as if the In- fant were asleep and the grandmother warned with finger on her lips. This merchandizing, this chatter and clatter, clang of bell and bang of sticks against the iron fence, this haste as if the mother of Mary had not all eternity for her uses, this crowding of the stolid man in muddy sabots against the .mill -hand beau _who was ushering past his sweet- -heart perked in her finery—it was strange, it was rather terrifying. She clung to Paul's comforting hand and, like a marveling child, tried to look everywhere at once. Cassocked priests, heads bent in humility, passed on,their errands. The basilica's half -hundred chapels of confessional were receiving the pil- grims who had newly arrived. Suddenly Paul began to elbow the throng on his own account. He hur- ried Lola along. "It's Father Hedeau my teacher—the good priest. I will ask for a word with him." . Father Hedeau's greeting furnish- ed e ialence that Paul had ,not exag- gera ed when he had said that the priest was a friend. His graciousness extended to Lola when Paul explained that she had come as a pilgrim, seeking the bless- ing. "She has much to tell to you, Father Hedeau. She will tell it for herself." "I will listen." Out of his under- standing he guessed at the reason for her trepidation; she was looking at , the throngs with timid side -glances. "But I shall be able to listen much better after the Mass when there are not so many people in the church. Come in an hour—the chapel of Saint Anthony, my daughter." "Another word, Father Hedeau!" pleaded the young man. "I have told her that the Black Sisters often take into their are a girl who is alone. She will tell you why it's the best she should stay with them.. To be alone, in an incl that would not be good for her," "It w uld not be good! The Sis- ters will 've her shelter." He went on his way. "Now you 'll be cared for, You will be safe. But I will wait with you until it's time to go into the chapel," "Ajnd then you're going away— away from here?" she asked, tremu- lously. "You will do the nine days of loeeoonsme, prayer, as you said, eh?" "Father Pierre -I don't just re- member—but e- member— b u tt he spike of the novena. If ram not/ patient and faithful the blessing may be denied." "It's best to stay." He hesitated. "You know that I have :much money now, Lola. It came from bad things and it ought to be spent to do good," "I have my own money! Plenty!" she told him. "At the end of the nine clays I will come. We will go home that way!" He pointed to the train of cars. "The snows are due. To Quebec and then down the long railroad! And now, as for me, I have friends along the . (Continued! on page- 6) 7 USE " DIAMDND DYES Dye right! Don't rink your material. 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