Show 0 us SUP BY VICTOR ROUSSEAU by KIDD COMPANY CHAPTER continued 17 A cry broke trout from waltons Wil tons lips alps h raised ased his urnis arms and let them fall again aayne 1 a glanced at the llie jury their eyes were riveted oil kitrys kittys ance ile he knew lie had scored A disagreement ent even tin acquittal acquit ful if nil all went well thank you iou lie said quietly the crown attorney who lind had boon been whispering with bowyer bowser cattle came foard for ward to cross examine you told us ua sirs mrs bastock 96 stock lip lie said in ills his gurvest tunes tones that you loved loed end still love the defendant ilow how long havo have you loved loed him liver ever since I 1 first saw him whispered latty kitty I 1 how soon after your martlage marriage did you make ills his acquaintance 1 11 I saw him first on my marriage duy day fit the church cli lie he vas my hus bus bands best man A stir among tile the spectators payne clenched his fits lists flats and groaned everyone saw what was coming everyone but kitty then you were in love with hlin blin before you married mr rostock bostock not long before let us say half an hour you married a man whom you had ceased to love for half an hour i 1 I did not realize it then but you realized it soon after you were not heart heartbroken bro ken when air bostock died 1 I cared for joe I 1 admired and re specter him iut not in the same way you love two nien men in that hint way at tile same time no said kitty tremulously InI in fact utter after the first shock was ver over you felt that life might become worth living again 1 I dont know what you mean cried kitty desperately the TO court will salil said the attorney rith a meaning glance toward the jury juri dont let me lite perplex you now please answer me carefully you persuaded the defendant to let you build and occupy a cottage on big Alu muskeg close to his fits own and hidden from the sight of tile camp he tried to stop me ive said that already ready nl 11 it lias has duly impressed us us sirs mrs nos boa tock Ilo however wever in the end lie yielded ile he yielded because lie he thought that iwas I 1 was only interested in the work ile he cared for miss bliss wdonald mcdonald ile he antver neer dreamed I 1 cared until I 1 told him so you told mull him I 1 what did lie he bayl bay it cut him to the heart only a thread divided the tense drama draina of the colloquy front from inextinguishable inextinguishable pathos the attorney snapped in 11 in fact you found him a regular oseph joseph in fits relations vath youl you and the whole court was bissot dissolved v ed in laughter even the judge placed his hand blind across his mouth then will you tell me ine liow low you two cattle came to be seen kissing hissing and embracing one evening on the shores of big muskeg but I 1 wont press that question we still have further evidence to offer the mischief was done the net that had been woven about wilton could not be broken by lie hypothesis of conspiracy kittys kitrys confession of her ter love supplied a stronger argument against him blin and throw threw the dark ark it shadow of collusion about tier lier too mechanically chani cally payne called the next net wit ness but before lie he could take the stand haire here cattle came sounds of tin an uproar in the street there was a struggle lit at the entrance then to lie he amazement of all molly stood lit in tile the doorway jim betta was with lier her and t gether they supported the frail onn of We AI cDonald Donald unhindered they went down tie I 1 court courtroom roqui while tile spectators gap gaped d and Sill suddenly denly standing minding up tip in their places gave rousing riotous cheers unbind unhindered ered and despite tile general belief in wil 1 tons guilt stories C presence pre tit at the camp on oil the lie night of the lic lire fire had been widely bruited bruit brul ed ted the party were still advancing when bowyer lo 10 loosed sed himself in one of his I 1 nal rages tut ill t thrill thein out of here he bowled bawled its it a trick fi a staged trick to win ilyin pathy for that niall lie be silent tl I 1 thundered the he judge and then tie turned to payne aayne who was at his fits side alde spoiling in 9 low voice the col court rt aill adjourn for half tin an hour lie ordered and no person will leave this his courtroom in interval molly with it little cry ran jo to tile the dock anil and flung filing herself into waltons Wil tons ruis and at tills this the building rang gain with tile spectators cheers it was not for a full minute that tile the drew tier away CHAPTER the amazing truth donald cDonald bi McP onald 0 o lite lie witness box salti tile lie court clerk helped by payne and the lie policeman the old factor to made tile ills way painfully toward it und and sat down death was upon him so meager and weak V re ak 11 lie e looked t that hat it ell ns as if the vinn man lived in the impassioned fire of lite his eyes and the purposes pur poss lint kny buy cities wit his trembling tri tady you aru are acquainted with alth the circumstances cu cum stances of joe bostocky bostocks Ho Bo stocks death asked payne tell us what jou ou know about it 1 I killed him said mcdonald alia im all bowyer ISo cr leaped to ills his feet the crown cron ut attorney torney turning ns as if lie ho hod find been prepared for the movement pushed him down don sharply into ills his chair then the he story stori at last unsealed burst from tile the factors lips in tin nn irresistible flood I 1 ae 1 I shot joe rostock bostock I 1 lie he cried often id warned him what hat would be if ever lie he came betwixt me and mine and when lie ho sent will carruthers there to stent steal molly from me ine for J ken weel that eg as joes joea doing 1 itaw the lind come tom bowyer there had a hold on me aye tom your times conic come now und and ive ie listened to 0 o ye so long yell ell listen to me ile he was ever eer tit at tile me threatening me with the ilie auld threat if I 1 dinna obey when lie came to the store a year sear ago I 1 spoke of will carruthers and how flow I 1 toured eared lied hed been sent by joe to take molly away from me your hane will come mcdon aid lie ile said yell catch tile the hi a 0 them in the lie hush bush to gither 1 11 1 tin ha one inq X 1 I 1 killed him said mcdonald simply death on my soul now I 1 said lie ile laughed that fox fo lauch faugh of ills his yere afraid he taunt taunted edine me and that taunt and laugh put the dell into tile me billsten ILl listen sten now mcdonald cDonald Al 1 lie he said if ye ie could kill toe joe kostock bostock und and no come on ye would ye ie do it ile he knew the rancor that was alk ilka a living ihling coal in my m heart nud and he be naw caw that hell hed won oa then ihen lie he told me ills plan I 1 was vas to pretend it stroke so that my foot would ile he use less nd my arm would hang useless nt at mi llly side thence then 1 e said be no possible pit me lite As he said tas to feign it stroke nought nt at all just to lie town down and breathe brent lie licay heavy and never forget I 1 uste my mi arm or leg ile he went vent nna awa and left tile me wl ml the it brex gre in n me until it filled my iny heart lipert then one lie lam coin to me maily gldnn know eliat aind lie told tile me that joe and will carruthers were mere coming to 0 o the ole portage and I 1 could catch atheni alonet alone the ilic cliance cattle jules was in the bush tind mid gone to the lio indian camp 1 I flippin out 0 bed and took the llie rifle ani and one cartridge put on my snowshoes snowshoe und and ran across tile the inu muskeg it basna asna long before I 1 saw them liem on in the ridge black against the alie gray sky I 1 crept up behind the rocks rock till I 1 was it hundred paces aw awa a joe bostocky stocks Ko Bo back was turned I 1 drew a bead on ills his heart and fired they aliey baelli fell down I 1 ran buck back to tile store mid atilt went to bed jules see tile mo and molly come hame ile ho groaned and lung hung ills head upon ills breast the lite voice of payne cut the silence like a knife you tire arc tilling telling this of your own tree free will mcdonald lie ile naked asked As god Is uly witness I 1 im this my times come now and I 1 have will carruthers Carrut liers swing for that red to fox yonder what wits mas tile nature of sir bowyers bower s told on you mcdonald the th crown attorney stood up with a wry w ry smile 1 I object to that question lie he said gald quietly ill put it in this way then why did you ou hato hate joo joe bostock Il aye ae ril ill tell that too answered mcdonald loe joe was marrley marr lec when lie was ft as a young man long ago A good girl A heweet lass froin my one town in Scot scotland laud they were ft ere both young loung they quarreled she wanted to vex CK him silo she made up it a story that showed tier her to be a bad woman silo she went too far joo joe believed bellei ed tier her silo went to him and told him that shed glied lied lie ile bellee believe tier lier word because the foolish girl had manufactured proofs false til iso proofs anti and the lying scoundrel whom slie site trusted claimed they were true lie blackmailed tier lier after joe had left tier her site she was tit at tier lier wits end slie site went to ills to brg beg him to tell the truth I 1 happened to go there I 1 overheard site she became frenzied and drew a revolver on him ile he struck tier lier lie ile got lier by tile throat lie ile had aind it a paper w eight on oil the table a sharp edged metal tiling thing like a cleaver clearer I 1 struck him once with it it split ills skull froin side to side ile he tied died E lan en while I 1 watched him li ho lied died the girl was mad land wl fear I 1 took he her r awa ana I 1 married tier her for joe had divorced tier her lit in the states hut but that fox bowyer knew in my folly id told li li lm lin nil all ile he said lied hed be my friedl frie nl ile he got me my position tit at the portage ive ie lived there ever eer sance first with my wife tiled with my m fears and always with with mollar tier her child and joest joes 1 the hie girls cry rang mug wildly through the lie courtroom slie she reeled and ran toward him wilton unhindered stooped from fi the dock and sup cupi ported tier lier she bhe clung to him wild eyed eed and helpless nobody intervened liven even when sprang forward fur ward though the judge rapped lapped ills hh gavel smartly sni artl it seemed only lin an automatic or perfunctory act forlie made no effort to prevent ills his speaking s let in me finish it I 1 lie hu yelled celled ner fler cely ile he die you sou fool you oil old fool lord youve been a laughing stock these twenty yeara iles hes liere here in court and lies hes been ill achma I 1 ling me lite as lie blackmailed you jou clark tin tile gnaster forger and safebreaker safe breaker though we need for that stop forward I 1 look at is head bead sic donald and then see it you M remember him hill I 1 iles hes spoken truel true the old foots fools spoken true ive handle liand led many a man and woman in tay ray time but god himself ligy say cant handle it a fool ile he around on its ills accomplices neel keep your lour wits lh larel tyrel rel lie he howled in wild derision you know liow how joe died youre only tie ho the common thief I 1 hired to work for me you wont swing for this neither either will 1 I 1 I took my chances but fly by god I 1 handle a fool they rushed toward him but howyer bowyer was quicker than they and its ai the single shot allot echoed through tile the courtroom wilton saw that molly wits already mercifully unconscious hut but lie knew that till nil tile lie past pas would become dimmed with tier lier awakening tim nair |