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Show 1 ' through the passage hi the cflff. I had only proceeded a few steps when the air grew cold and sweet. And before I bad ira versed 'two hundred yards I saw a dim light In the distance. This was no candle light hut that of day. ' So I had endured all those agonies of mind with the open uir but a short distance away ! As I advanced I fancied that! heard the soft pattering of feet behind me. I halted and listened Intentlv. - I crouched against the wall and waited But I heard nothing' now except the distant roaring of the cataracts. How sweet they sounded now! I listened Intently, leaning agalnBt the wall and facing backward, holding my aword ready to meet any Intruder. But there was no sound from within, except the soughing which one hears at last that in a tunnel, and satis-fleI hid been the victim of an overwrought imagination I pursued my 'course. But I had not gone six paces before I beard a 'scream that attll rings In my ears today, and a shadow sprang out of the darkness and rushed at roe. It was old Charles 'Duchalne. His white hair streamed behind him; bis face bore an expression of Indelible horror and rage, and In its hand ho held the other aword. He struck at me, a great, sweeping blow wblch woqld almost have cut mo -- d Oowitf k; w. a. cimbu SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I Paul Hkwlktt, loitering at Nfbt in Madison aquara, New fork, is oproached by an fiakimo dog, which aros deairoua of attracting hla attention, to followa the animal to Dalya gambling taco. Aa ha reach ea the house a girl anargaa, evidently in a state of great who displays a large amount of ionay. She la the owner of the dog. he la attacked by two men, who seek force her into an automobile. Paul, nth the dog'a help, drives them away, the girl telling him she has no ends In the city, he takes her to his a. She Is bewildered and all he can from her la that her name is Jacqut-H- e leaves her in hla rooms. II: .CHAPTER Pussling over the situa-Pawalks for a time, but a she la In danger sands him that to hla home. There he finds a man stabbed, and believes Jacqueline to r, ve killed him. She is In a id Is unable to remember anything. ul pre-me- nt semi-stupo- HI Hewlett carries the dodn the Are escape and leaves llttn-use- d back ard. From the a igm Of Jim maker, 'on degs collar. that they came from Quebec nee to take her there. . CHAPTER IV After money they visit a store, where makes some purchases necessary for Journey. There Paul meets a man Wn to- him aa Simon Leroux, who evi. ntly knows Jacqueline and bellevea rwlett does also. Lsroux evidently Is of Jacqueline, and Paul evades (a enemy with the girl starts for Quebec. fin and CHAPTER V They travel as brother sister and on reaching Quebec Paul nd Seeks the maker of the dog's collar, hoping through him to learn something of Jacqueline s Identity. There he meets a priest. Pars Antdine. The priest tells him Jacqueline is the daughter of Charles a recluse, and It married. CHAPTER VI Next day Paul arranges wRh a Cgptain Dubois to sail for St. Boniface, from which point they can travel by sleigh to the Duchaine chateau. Leaving Dubois Paul is attacked and left unconscious In the street. CHAPTER VII Recovering consciousness Paul goes to the hotel and finds Jacqueline has left' with a man who claimed to be a friend Distracted, he ' hastens to Dubois' boat.where he finds Jacqueline, whom Dubois had rescued by 1 a clever trick., v CHAPTER VIII At St Boniface Paul purchases dogs and a sled and they sat eut for the Chateau Duchaine. CHAPTER IX On the third day of the Murney their dogs ' die. poisoned by a tobjrne pieced In their food. Paul know thifto pe the work of lsroux and that he !e being followed. Jacqueline shows e addon fear of Paul and leaves him. He follows her but Is stricken with snow blindness and In a helpless condition is mOt by Leroux and his crony. Philippe orolx. They make sport of him and ,re him to die In the snow. He Is found . by Pare Antoine. CHAPTER X Hewlett lies for days in the priests hut. recovering his eight and and when Pore Antoine leaves strength, him He sets out the chateau. meets Jacqueline's Eskimo dog. ' CHAPTER XI Paul follows the dog and reaches a cave. Passing through It he sees the chateau close at hand. CHAPTER XII Hewlett makes his way Into the house without being detected and there finds Charles Duchaine an aged imbecile. He meets Jacqueline. CHAPTER XIII The girl seemingly has taken a violent dislike to Fauland rehim. Leroux appears and Hewlett pulses Teams that Jacqueline Is 'the wife of Louis dEpernay. who has disappeared Jacqueline detests dEpemay and fled from him the day of their marriage, going to New York whh $10,000 of her gather's - money to play Ills ''system at roulette.- Her mind continues a blank aa to the happenings there. CHAPTER XIV Jacqueline, at the bidof Leroux, Insists that Paul leave ding chateau at once, and Leroux takes the him to the hut of an aged Indian. Pierre Caribou, to pass the night. (Continued from last webk.) nsf 'Kill to-fi- liltn He is lie screamed. ! py ! He 'has come to betray me to tbs government ! What followed was the work of a moment. I saw Jacquelln pull down both broadswords from the wall She flung one down beside me just as I was staggering to my feet. Leroux shook off the old man at laat He turned on me. I swung the aword aloft and brought It down upon n his knows I struck to kill; but my wrist was feeble from the' ropes. - skull.-Hoave- and the blade It fell flat. 1 -- , ' drew no bloody but Leroux dropped like a stricken ok upon the floor. This way gasped the wold man He pulled at Jacqueline's arm, and half led and half dragged her through the, open door behind his chair, I following. Lacroix sprang Into the room calling, but whether to us or to the other ruffians I did not know. Leroux sat up and looked about him, dazed and bewildered. was In the Uttle room with Than JacUfeUne and Duchaine, and he turned and bolted the door behind us. He j Stemtd possessed of all the strength and decision of youth again When I stood there before the room had been, as jdark aa pitch but now a flicker of light was at the far eud. A voice cried : Msleur ! Msleur I I have not for' gotten thee! ' It was Pierre' Cartbop. 1 saw his figure silhouetted against the ll,ght of the : flaring candle which he held In hla hand, Duchaine had placed one arm about hla daughters waist and was urging her along. But she stopped and looked back to me. I saw she held line broadswortl In her hand, aa I held I Struck to Kill. the other. Come, monsieur! she gasped. I am going back, I answered, fumbling for the bolt Duchaine had drawn. No! We are safe Inside. It Is a secret room. My father made It. In the first days of his sojourn here In case hi5 were pursued, and none but Pierre and he knew the .secret. Ah. Ho Struck at Ms. tingency as had occurred, for there in twoi I had just time to parry It, were wool rugs on the stone floor, and then he was "Upon me. raining blows upon my outstretched sword. though they had rotted and partly disThough Ms attack was wild the integrated from the dampness. vigor of his blows almost beat down M. Duelmine, he make this place In case govment come take him, ex- my guard. At last a random blow of plained Plprre as he placed the rugs. mine swept the weapon from his feeble No can And, no can break down old hand and sent it whirling down the lakoJelow. Stone door. Other way' Simon not cataract into-th.Then he was at my throat, and it know only msleUV and me. Old Caribou he conte that way ; he see you tied was fortunate that there wad firm rock and know It time to come here. Soon Instead of slippery Ice beneath us, or wo should both have followed the time to kill Simon as well. 'aword. When, In heavens name, will it "Calm yourself, fort heavens sake, conte? I cried. Come soon. His diable tell me." jnonsieur ! I gasped as I gained a moDon't mentary advantage over him. answered Pierre Caribou. you knowffie? I am your friend. I ToI go now, he announced. morrow I come for you, take all wont to save you ! "You shall not take me! I have through tunnel. You stay here till I done nothing! It was years ago ! Let come; all sleep fill morning. me go! Let me go! he screamed. I will go Vith yon, Pierre, I said. I released him for a moment hoping Still under my obsession. he laid But his disordered brnln would calm that his heavy hand upon my arm and for him to recognize me and enough pushed me away.' were ' 'You no kill Simon, he answered. that, whenhe ha saw ray motives would grow quiet. peaceful Why you no kill hint again when you ' But suddenly, with a final howl, he have sword? Only diable can kill him.-- , sprang past me, sweeping me against When time come diable tell old Carithe wall, and leaped out on the ledge. bou. You sleep now. I go for Jake I held jny breath. I expected to see my woman and gal safe through tunhim stagger to his death below. But nel to place I know. When m.v woman he stood motionless In the middle of and gnl safe I come back to m'sleur the Uttle platform and stretched out and mamselle. his arms toward the raging torrent as loneliwas I lay down. The silence though In invocation. Then he leaped ness Itself, and not rendered less across with the agility of a wild sheep lonely by the occasional cries of the and 'rushed on into the tunnel beold man and the drip, drip of water. yond. N I could not sdb anything, and JacqueI started back, keeping this time to line might have been a. woman of the right side of the tunnel, until I stone, for she made not the lefst moveheard the gurgling of the brook. Then ment. I heard Jacquelines footstep. y to her. M. 'At last I spoke Who is it? she called wildly. ! 1 Jacqueline Hewlett! My father! I heard her start, and knew that sha I caught her as she swayed toward hud raised her head and was looking He has gone Jacqueline, I said. me. after me. I crawled toward her, dragI went Into the tunnel to try to find ging my blanket after me. I felt in the way. He had been feigning sleep the darkness for the place where I and he crept 'after me. I tried to stop knew her hand must be. and took it in him. He was so frightened that I mine. it best to let him go. He ran thought Jacqueline! I sold again. On Into the tunnel the wearlnesa in Ah, M. Hewlett We must find him, she said. It might her voice went to my heart He will come back, Jacqueline. have been so different If He will never come back ! she anIf what, Jacqueline? x swered. "He must have been planning "If there hod not been the blood of this and waiting for me to sleep. He a dead man between us, she moaned. We must may be .hiding somewhere. If you had not killed him! Search for him. Her words were a revelation to me, Let us go, then. .Jacqueline, I anfor I learned that she had mercifully swered. been spared the full remembrance of - I led her back into the tunnel on what had happened In the Tenth street what was tojae, I hoped, our final jour-iteapartment. She thought that It was I We reached the ledge. The star who had killed Louis dEpernay. had faded now, and thA whole sky And how could1 1 deny this, when to was bright with the red clouds of so would be to bring to her mind the dawn. knowledge of her own dreadful guilt? At length I saw daylight ahead of The hours wore away, and we three me and there was no sound of tli lay there, Jwo waiting and one dreamtorrents. I left Jacqueline in the cave for a ing of the old days of youtii, no doubt I tried to light the candle Jo see the few Qomcnts and went into the smalltime, but my shaking hand sent It flyer one near by, where I had seen the ing across the cave, and when 1 provisions on the preceding days. I searched for m.v matches I found that found a small box of hard biscuit, the box was empty. with which I stuffed the pockets of my It seemed an eternity since we had coat, and, happier, still, a small recome there. It is one thing to wait for volver and some cartridges, to which dawn, and quite another thing to wait I helped payself .liberally. where dawn will never come. -Then I went back to Jacqueline. I resolved to follow the exit for a. ; Jacqueline, I said let us go on. little distance to see whither it led. Perhaps your father Is on his way outand' if I could discover the light of side the tunnel. ' . day. We cannot go without my father, So I took my sword and sallied out - Ihe aaswered, shaking her bend la to . -- . ' , ' 'erniinntion. I said, If we can And "Jacqueline, vour 'father you will come with me? l: cause it lias occurred to me, I went on. that if he had come this way his would be In the mud be- de the stream. It would take an hour or two for them to fill up again, f o perhaps he did not come this- far. in Is hiding in some cave In the tun-r- . through whleh we came. Will you alt for me here while I go hack and 1 arch? She nodded and I went hack into that Interminable tunnel again. - CHAPTER XIX. The Bait That Lured. weni along the tunnel in the direction of le Vieii Ange. picking tny way vary euiclully. peering into the uuiui r- ons small caves and fissures In the wall on eiiher hand. And I was ahotn half way through when I saw a shadow running In front of me a ml quaking no sound It tiie Ihieiiaine. There could be no mistaking that tall, gaunt figure. Just visible against the distant day. I raeul along the tunnel after him. But he seemed to he endowed wi'li the speed of a deer, for he kept his distance easily and I would never have cough! iii'ii had he not slopped for an instant ai the approach of the ledge. There, just as he was poising himself to leap, I seized him bt the arm. He did hot attempt violence hul gazed at me with hesitation and pathetic douht. M wont Ihiclmine. pleaded, you come hack with me atid let us talk it 'over? Jacqueline is with me You "No. no. lie crieij. laughing. can't cat'll Hie with such a trick as lira. My little daughter 1ms gone to New York to make onr fortunes at M. Dalys gaming house. She will he back soon, loaded down with gold. I answered Slip has come hack, She is not fifty yards away." With gold? he inquired, looking at me doubtfully. Wirh gold." I answered, trying .to nlltire his Imagination as Leroux had done She Mbs rh-gold, red gold such as you will love. You enn take up rhp coins In your fingers and let the gold stream slip through them. Dome with, monsieur. I grasped him by the arm and tried to lead him with me. My argument had moved him. I thought L had won But just as I started hack into the tunnel, holding the arm of the old man, who lingered reluctantly and yet began to yield, a pebble leaped from the rocky platform and rebounded from the cliff. I east a backward glance, and there upon the opposite side I saw Leroux standing. he culled Bonjour, M. 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Pierres candle flickered before us. and In another moment we had squeezed through a narrow opening Into a chamber In the cliff. On the ground were five or six large stones and Pierre began to flt them Into the aperture through which we had passed. In a minute the place was completely sealed, and we four atood and looked breathlessly at one another within what might have been a cenotaph. The chamber seemed at one time to have been prepared for such a con- PATRW, UTAH Estimates gladly furnished and advice cheerfully givea Central Lumber & Hardware Co. Frigid Service We,make regular deliveries every other day to any part of town. orders taken care ot any day no matter what part of town you live in. Special ! Miniumun each delivery 20 lbs. business. I have no business to talk with yon," I answered. But I did not say it was with you. he answered in sneering monsieur. tones. It Is with our friend Duchaine. -- You are losing money if you are not using Ice in your home. Our Prices are Right Hola, Duchaine ! At the sound of Lerouxs voice the old man straightened himself and began muttering and looking from one to the other of us undecidedly. Suddenly I saw him turnhls head and fix his eyeS upon Leroux. lie craned his neck forward ; and then, very slowly, he began to walk toward his persecutor. I craned my neck, Leroux was holding out the roulette wheel ! Come along. Charles, m.v fri nd." he cried. Come, let us try our fortunes! Dont you want to stake some money upon your system against me? The old figure had leaped forward over the ledge.-an- d in a moment had grasped him and pulled him Phone One 0 10 where the Icicles grow. tl-- into the tunnel. I hastened back to Jacqueline and encountered her In the passage just where the light and darkness blended, standing with arms stretched out against the wall to steady herself; and In her eyes was that look which tells a man more surely than anything. I think, can, that a woman loves him. Oh, I thought you were dead !" she sobbed, and fell Into my arms. I held her tightly fo support her, and I led her back to the gold cave. In a few words I explained .what had occurred. Now Jacqueline, you must let me guide you, I said. Dont you see that there is no chance for us unless we leave your father for the present where he Is and make our own escape? We can reach Pere Antoines cabin Payson Ice & Cold Storage Co. - soon after midday, and we can tell him your'father Is a prisoner here. He would not come with ns, Jacqueline, even If he were here. She did not respond. It "was the safety of us two and her father's life assured, agains a miserable fate for The New PAN TRACTOR King of the Field ' her, and I knew not what for me, though I thought Leroux would give me little shrift once I was In his power again. She was so silent that I thought I had convinced her. I urged her to her feet. But suddenly I heard a, stealthy footfall close at hand, between the cave and the cataract. I thought It was Charles Duchaine. I hoped It was Leroux. I placed my finger on Jacquelines lips and crept stealthily to the passage, revolver in hand. Thenwrfn the gloom, I saw the villain- ous face of Jean Petitjean looking into mine, twelve paces away, and in his hand was a revolver too. We fired together. But the surprise spoiled his aim, for his bullet whis-tied past me. I tli1: , my shot struck uttered a yell him somewhere, along the and began runnii g tunnel as hard ns he could. I followed him, firing as fast as I eould reload. Fortune helped the ruffian. for when I reached the light he was scrambling across the ledge, and before I could cover him he had succeeded In disappearing behind the projecting rock on the other side. So Leroux had already sealed one exit that by the Old Angel, where the road led Into the main passage. God grant that he had not time to the mine ! reach 'theIf I made haste If I made haste! 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