Show the ine crippled lady of by james jaines oliver curwood cu arwood WV 5 lou 21 doubleday doran ft a co 1 int STORY FROM THE START introducing some of th the people ale of the pretty tittle frenca r 1 c b village of 0 Perl bonka n ka particularly the Crippled Lady idol of the th simple inhabitants P paul a ul kirke li in a descendant of a sl bister ster of molly brant sister inter of joseph brant great indian chief lie he has inherited inherited many indian character characteristics his father to Is a powerful new york rork financier paul marries claire durand daughter of his fathers father partner lie ile Is in in charge of engineering work near Perl bonka pauls paul wife rife Is in in europe she Idl dislikes elike the woods paul becomes interested in carlo carla village teacher paul arl writes t es his bis wife to join hl him carlas mother long an invalid diem die claire announces announce her intention of joining paul on the tb CHAPTER V continued 9 ile he wax wat glad lie he had heard beard the words from her own lips it built up anew new comradeship between them and made ads him more positive of his bis triumph over himself A letter from claire helped him ills hla wife laughed at him pleasantly for his whimsical tion of a journey around the and then pointed painted in her picturesque slid nud vivid way the torture which she knew such a trip would be for him without your forests your open skies ales your big outdoors you would die before we got half around paul she wrote him it would be less of me to make you pay in that way for my presence up at the be MIS ills lassint I 1 am coming and lust just because I 1 want to come I 1 am anticipating seeing something very wonderful up there something which will mean greatly more to you and than six months or a year brambl rambling ing around the earth As for such it a trip with you yon in it if and then she went on to tell him more about film himself self than he be thought she had bad ever known the letter thrilled him it gave him alm a new vision of claire who had bad never analyzed him in this gentle and understanding der standIng way portraying for or him the life which he loved as though it were a part of herself but in the end after assuring him again that she was coming to him and was looking forward to the time when they would be together she spid said her return to america might be postponed until the following may or june could he be wait that long carla also received a letter from claire it was filled with a womanly tenderness and sympathy for one who had suffered buffered a great loss and was wall filled with t e intimate knowledge and sentiment which could only have been given ind ud inspired by paul carla let him read it IL iler her eyes were strangely st alight though she had prepared pie pared her self elf to show it to him you told me once that millions could not buy sentiment she sold said and millions could not bring what has come in her letter it Is IB her heart speaking to me carla became so deeply absorbed in wort woric outside of her school that he be did not talk with her again for or a week 8 she he formed evening cla clasara clas saes aea in which she taught english to the adults who wanted to come come to them and the few ew spare hours of her afternoons were spent among the mothers of her school children with the coming of winter baul an burled buried himself mori passionately in the actual stress of outdoor labor leaving his office routine largely to others und and the change benefited him carla on the other band seemed to have bare assumed too great a burden the strain if it were that began to show its effect on her until lucybelle lucy belle noted it and remonstrated with poul paul every day she Is growing less like the carla we knew before her mother died tile told him she Is breaking under tin aa effort to keep her mind away from fiura herself yesterday I 1 dropped into her cottage for or a moment when I 1 knew she was there and I 1 found her crying she Is growing paler and it frightens me to see the loveliness fading slowly out of her face you foil must do something paul make her drop her night classes send her away for or a vacation it if you can I 1 I 1 am the only one she elie confides in nt all and I 1 should not betray her confidence not even what I 1 have hare guessed about her but something Is eating at her life which entirely the loss of tier her mother she insists that her night work Is I a pleasure bays she Is feeling well ft ell and want to go away but I 1 know of a dream she has always had bad of visiting her mothers country it the company could arrange something like that paul saw carla the next day a cold fa sunday with snow on the he ground for the first time in many weeks they bad a long walk together and at the beginning of it she settled any augner eions he be might have had in his mind it was as it she saw written in his face what lucybelle lucy belle bella had said to him she mentioned mrs Der derwene visit and told him what she bad said about her work smiling the others other tears fears ausy an ay its BS absurd and without reason and adding with a very decisive tittle little note to in her voice that to give up this work or go away as aa lucybelle lucy belle belie had suggested was the last thing she would think of doing she had bad heard again from his bis wife it was her third letter and come came from capri where ehe wim was pending the i pida Unc claire had bad mat hw her a hit little e sketch of the vineyards vineyard and th the a picturesque houda on their tock clift cliffs these letters caren sall said would always remain brightly to her memories ories they were so BO friendly and cheering she had find answered them and had bad tried to tell claire claere a little about ties bei own work and of the glory and of the great forests and mighty river riven I 1 near them but she locked lacked the crea live five soul which his wife possessed tind could not adequately describe them paul knew that something of carlat carlas real soul was gone even as she talked to him ufa own dragged heavily through the winter spring came and his ol 01 days at tile the pit were almost over august would see his work finished lie he did not know what he would do then he told tarla carla things were tap hall in ID south america lie might go there carlo a future was settled for another an her year the government had bad offered her a contract contri ct to remain with ft ath the children on the and she had find accepted she hoped that within a year or two she might ibe be able to find a place in Perl bonka bonks near her mother late in may pauls wife sailed troa fron cherbourg Cher bourg and to his surprise win was coming straight to quebec to join him that Is wonderful of her said carla her eyes shining with the tight light which wai always in them when she was thinking or speaking of claire she Is coming directly to youl the day he left for quebec he saw sav her for a few moments to say goodby good by 1 I wish I 1 1 were a man and you she said A radiance was in tier her face when be D left her that evening at dinner lucybelle lucy belle hells said id to her husband carlny Ca rint school was closed this afternoon beryl told me she dismissed the children she had a headache we must ga g over and see her 1 I have been there replied derwent 1 I was a hit worried when out of the boys told me what tied had nap bened so I 1 went over to see ace if she ab needed me and found her crying ohl oh I 1 exclaimed lucybelle lucy belle now novi I 1 think chink I 1 under understand she said nothing more to her DUB bus band about carlo carla 11 aldan CHAPTER VI the tha crowning point ot of anticipation in pauls six years of married lift was his journey to meet claire front from the to roberval al from rob erval to and troa front there down to Chicou chicoutimi timi where be b took the cross wl wilderness I 1 berness train t quebec he be built steadily to the w which aich the increasing interest and corn cons radea bip in his bis cifes letters ball hn helped him to create during the long lon winter that she was not following her usual precedent ot of going to nevi nea york but was waa coming to him film him an emotional thrill which it hai not previously been his bis happiness it t experience in his hid relationship witt wit her he believed that tor for claire tt t divert herself in this way from home her own people ind a host of friends atter after an absence of nearly a year that she might come to hl him in in it i wilderness which she frankly detested was almost dramatically significant of a change in her attitude toward him blin it was the mystery of this chango which withheld from bis big feeling th IN one thing which might have made 11 areal a real passion of expectancy and joy in none of her letters which W ha drawn her nearer to him than she had bad ever been had bad she spoken of tovel love even in response to the warmest of hla his communications to her she had ba given him no definite satisfaction ex capt to write him tn in a way which without openly avowing herself drea tier her closer to him ard gave to hit bli ideals of her a glowing fleshly reality which excited and possessed him as hi h went to meet her TO BH BE CONTINUED |