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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1950-05-26, Page 7Ii ry; iA ;lf dye it CHAPTER -VllI Synopsis; Sot. Michael O'Hara, of the Mounted, is summoned to ap- pear before his chief, Inspector MacDonald„ who outlines to him the known details. of a crime, committed in the north. ern wilds" O'Hara seta out on the trall and comes Upon the deserted cable of the murder- ed Jean Gharian. He breaks in and comes face to face with Laure Gharian, widow of the slain man, who has been burn- ing some papers. O'Hara finds Mickty. Creuse locked in an. other room and liberates him. Mickey accuses Laure of the murder of his sister and Ghar- ian. harian. Creuse and O'Hara spend the night at the cabin, and the next day O'Hara brings Creuse I' to headquarters. He leaves a sealed envelope with Inspector Macdonald. "If 1 do not re- port in six days, open it," he says. 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RYAN Specialist in farm stock and itn- aflbniteints and household, effects. IBathitaction guaranteed,• Licenced din Huron and Toth, Oount1e5. yotrtiett ate sand open dated, 6 df MY a 3k58i+71'H .L 1tYAlt 11, 1, Pnbl* 'Pliette 40 50 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. McMASTER, B.A., M.D. Internist P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Wednesday and Sun- day. EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments made in advance are desirable. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN . DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 54 Seaforth DR. M. W. STAPLETON DR, ROSS HOWSON Physicians and Surgeons Phone 90 Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, 'University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moore - field's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Seaforth, third Wednesday in every month. 53 Waterloo St. South,Stratford. JOHN C. 'GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 - Hensall C.N.R. TIME TABLE Goderich Seaforth Stratford Goderich Seaforth Stratford Stratford Seaforth Ooderieh iitratford Etta otth GOING EAST (Morning) (leave) (arrive) A.M. 5.40 6.20 7.16 (Afternoon) P.M. (leave) 3.00 146 (arrive) • 4.49 GOING WEST (Morning)' A.M. (leave) 10.45 11.36 (arrtve) 12.20 (Afternoon) PQM. (leave) 9.15 10:y,i (arritd) .. w P • s r: • ils(id .at last,. hoarsely, "Do yon know why. I've come?"• "No, m'sieur," she replied stead - Ili, "but 1 thought you wore --any! friend!" • There was a terrible[ pause, then. his harsh, rasping vie broke, it. "Men know me' for what 1 am— a manhunter!" She did) -not speak, 'but he saw her hands go suddenly to her breast.. He took a step nearer and, drew' that small dark object from his pocket that he had dug from the creek ice. "Do you know this?" He held it out to her with a hand that shook. She did not touch it but she - stared at it with wide eyes. "It's my othdr glove, m'sieur, \the mate. t� the one you found before. YQU knew it by the beading on the gauntlet top?" "Yes, I knew it. Heaven knows I wish I 'hadn't recognized it!" She was far more calm than he was. "Where did you find it, m'sieur?" "Where you trampled it into the ice of the creek, the day you. fled later—after you had shot your husband and Ninon Creuse!" She drew a quick breath. "So, you came here for this?" "I came to ehai•ge you with that, double murder,, Laure Gharian and to take you back with me." His voice grated harsh and un- feelingly, but his face was ashen. For the first time in his life O'Hara knew the depths of an earthly hell. She did not blench, but lifted her eyes to his unfalteringly., "You'll tell me why you make this charge against a friendless• wo- man, m'aieur?" "Yes, I'll tell you, though the chief would charge me' to hold my tongue. But you're a woman and you shall know. That pistol Creuse found here was yours. You bought it at Le Pas on your way here. This man, Duval, drove you over. I checked up all this, you can't deny it!" he added sharply, as if she had tried, when in fact she had .said, nothing. ' "You found Ninon taking care of your wound- ed husband. I don't know what passer), but I can conjecture that you, his wife, were furious; that. you tried to drive the nurse out alone in the bitter cold of a coming; storm, that Gharian, who loved her, would not let her go alone, that he dressed and followed her, you overtaking them. Your tracks showed .,that; you all three quar- relled violently; you ' fired. two shots, both were fatal. Ninon caught at your coat, she clung to it, dying, and, tore these away! He' held out his hand. In it lay the two fur tails. The woman stared at them, white -lipped, but she did not speak. He pointed to her coat upon a chair. "They fit; I've tried them; the hole's• tori jagged!r'` he said There was a terrible silence; in it the man's breathing was aud- ible. Still she did not speak, nor did she touch the two fur frag- ments which had betrayed. her. At last he went on chokingly. "You couldn't go. You hung about the edge of the creek until Johnston caught a glimpse of you, then you fled, stumbling, and all but lost Duval on his way back to the cab- in; but he came after you and helped you, taking you back to Le Pas. At the edge of the creek you dropped your glove and trampled on it; it's stained with blood. I found it before I came here that day and found you and Creuse."' As he finished his accusation he turned away from her and rested his elbow on the shelf from which she haci removed the lamp. In that attitude he could not see her face, but he did not want to see it now. Something like fire was running through his brain; • there seemed to be a clamor in his ears. It was her voice that broke the awful pause. • "And you had this in your heart when you arrested Creuse and took him away. Why did you do that, m'sieur?" "Partly to see if you world let an innocentman suffer! Besides, I hadn't then found Duval., I didn't—" Suddenly the woman n screamed. O'Hara turned in the nick of time. The breed was at his throat, a long knife in his hand. "You ,,no find Duval den? By gar, you find heem -now, m'sieur!" he shouted: "My knife, he foniid you, too!" O'Hara reached for his pistol too late. He felt the breed's iron grip on his wrist. They clasped and grappled, the knife was at his throat, he felt it rip the flesh; and then a woman's,eilarp cry, a blind- ing rush past the lamp, and the grip on his throat loosed, sud- denly. Duval had him down, his knee on his breast, and Laure was holding the furious man back, crying to him, begging him for a ltfe'. "But, madame, eet's rig' he die!" Duval cried fiercely, "I leesten at de door—mon Dieu„ madame, he got to die—me, Duval, me he charges wid saying you kill Ghar- ian! He die, by gar!" "Jacques," she pleaded, "give me that knife!" "An' let heem live, madame? He kills us both! He's got pistol; he took mine, he made me come; like a dog he drive me. Me, Jacques Duval! An' he drag me an' you to prison, madame!" "Jacques, give me the knife!" Erect she stood and beautiful. Slowly, reluctantly, the halfbreed gave up his weapon, but his long sinewy fingers lingered at O'Hara's throat. "I take his pistol den, „ ma- dame?" "No!" . she said sharply, "not even that, Jacques!"r•--' The halfbreed; • mattered' but her eyes held his. Like a faithful dog the man Ming upon her words. He listed to yield; but -he did not move Ile Wafted Latcre,sure of hiri%, stead look- ing ooking loiafi at ,'the fallen ' Ulan% said �sd' fake +" Gp'sleu eutir .. andr grave yt .man'smy friend; as myt fried [ fought `Bast me IYou'd trusted! lie 'would have kept faith witah ut for me,, 1 ats'h you ia•s a:: fano o li woman to spare him, If h lets ' you go you'll ',pare m'sieur?" "If he leavesmy gun, one, and surrenders," O'Hara an veer- ed rimly, "and you keep his knife' fro .me," "Jacques," sheput her hand 011 the man's shoulder, "for my sake!" Sullenly, the halfbreed released O'Hara. Then, as both men sten).- hied ternhied to their feet. "But for yAu- self, madaine, you didn't make heem promise!!" Duval stood ready" to spring again. "You, mademe!" he gasped his. fierce eyes ablaze. O'Hara's hand dropped on the holster of hili pistol, but she stood between them, holding them apart, her hands against their breasts.. She did not look into the serge- ant's flushed face; her clear eyes,: held Duval's steadily. "I'm. gob* .,with, him, Jacques," she said gently, 'tof my —• free will." It was morning when they start-. ed..:back ....over the trail, the *OM= on the sled, the halfbreed beefs- his dogs. Behind them stalked the tall figure of O'Hara. The dazzling whiteness of the ice field's caught them. It played on the buckles of the sled traces, darkened the wild face of Duval, and lit up the profile of the wo- man, They were scarcely a rifle shot from the little cabin when she turned now and looked back at it as if in last farewell. O'Hara sa t'"haunting e a 'fie eats his hands Gley }'if± es. enly he reme.ibereki Rt.;.)4 to i'uspector'p desk, e ilry was there, all the c! a ), ; "checked up and at the eras i ` rcr : "If' I fail to bring n thef';,Mrlsoner in Six days, 'send °splamecOfe else • to do it." He had not trusted himself,. Yet he was doing it. She wee, guilty,, sruidi e was taking her back: He, had putt the case oat of his hand's, hadaeven it over to the, chief. No .1104,41d save her now, then he rensetnbered the breed's hands; at his throat, the flash of kis knife,,' and hdr intercession for his life. Duval would have killed, him and freed her, she had all to lose and nothing to gain by, saving him, yet she had done it. Why? 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