Show 77 7 0 a tn es oliver dorwood WN U service FROM bonom THE START introducing some bome of the poo po tit of the pretty tittle little french canadian Cono dlan village of particularly the crippled lady idol oc the ei simple inhabitants paul kirke to in EC a descendant deacon dant of a later r of aloisy hrant drant sister of joseph brant great indian chief fie ia baa Inbe inherited many indian r i hie file r father e r Is a powerful new york anari clero paul mar marr leri claire durand daughter daught ar of his fa fu therB partner pe he ie n charge of engineering ork r near Pert bonka pauls paul wife trite to la in europe she dial litts we the woods paul becomes inter ested in carla village deac teace 7 or paul cripes his wife to join him him CA ilas other ni long an invalid dibs cleare hot her in n of joining joining paul on t the he she w r lt s a 1 of SYMIa sympathy thy to carla paul bh bb cornea comes a buu between en him and hla his wife paul claire carld and two wo friends anice up tip a luncheon p party irly t to 0 visit tile the UK bolge ot the mistassini paul and carla carl i carry cany a large log IOK hj the edge of f the rushing later ator CHAPTER VII 13 ive a R io 0 o ride this log brough ahe the gorge I 1 exclaimed lucybelle be ile 1 11 I 1 want tu to know what Is cun an and between taws gnoss walls which you say no DO one has ever explored jolln colin what do you suppose cao cal be there an inferno of devils I 1 imagine replied her husband possibly might dve there suggested claire 3 A black and su ulsa ss place ariere lovely water maids without eyes tv frolic Ilc in the darkness dark nesa added vaul c ora OP a king ilor of where dr i ams fire roade made aud and sent out into the world word said carla derwent der nevii was preparing hla his end ot of the log for a lenal beave Tin it is ai u lilace of devils rind death still atall like lucybelle lucy belle id like to sea kere tere after nil all its fifty hillan million years ars of mystery are ara you ready paul 71 ready V I 1 the log pitched pl down and ns 08 it went the end of it swung liko a hang living thing and struck paul the ban blaw O zin ln the flush flash of eyes behind could see it upon hla a sudden scream cited d his consciousness and na as tile timber caught him he saw it was claire whose cry lind had tried tp to warn bira thon then tie he was over with photographic clearness hla his eyes beheld lit his 11 fate the tha water seemed to reach up and catch him its ita oily breast and for a brief instant after athly there wasa eel pot unpleasing about its ita bold for soia some unaccountable reason hedelt DO sense of fear or terror even ea that were ible but gentle pulled him filin down life ile knew it was death deat hithe the death they had played with mill and lightly talked about yet closing about ailin did not rob fils alnor of its ta vision aad judgment nor hm into senseless with it it he would come up op again alive near tit 5 jagged tooth 0 rock oab after that would he be tila ills end and la in such an hour as this seconds became eternities ot life ilia his wife carla lucybelle lucy belle beile and derwent ere still nearer to hm him than the unal stroke of eath death d an ti would see tham especially claire end and carla when he be lOO tooke kAback Aback tn in those few ew moments of of grace erace which the ni monster onster of the un d L I 1 stows would gle give hirn him these two arid and the hemf fa alth which bal gaii wrought a comradeship beti between veca him and nil all the forces of nature ka anve ve him aad without evort et sort the courain courage not to ue be afraid the undercurrents under currents In draughts lits and refluxes carrle carrier 4 him with a quiet guhit tind deliberate dell berate 4 which alch gave hla him no phy mil alse ds comfort eceil that of holding MW brel yet they were so powerful southerly sout grip thaO thaD whon when he made an eberl mical kenjal effort jo reach the surface it ita was waa were struggling a wooden wall tosane tile the ali air in his jungs he be d himself broin further exer exertion clUn wd evid when at last he came up near the rock any and felt fresh air face he ha had suffered aufner red ed no greater In inconvenience conVen fence than if babad be had taken ablong a long dive ills first thought was iv of ble ala second of the granite snag against this after a moment be slowly lifted and throwing out nut his bands h was waa thrilled by the obron abrons slimy touch of a ropelike rope oye r like lika substance which e nai na gathered thickly abo about lit it jast i under ander thew the fac of 0 the river navo weada and mg flag atad wrapped ahem them to in a tough belt bell labour the rikk nick fand so 90 had aaa they ther attached them alvs to it that he fenar nw they woold for a affine at least hod bold tip hla i eight torn vs th flaa already irl ady gelci etrig to arrik pt at bis gumbl ilk H hackerl tle c clia and G 0 0 0 K 0 a raised one hand to wave at the four font who stood there With the distance and the water in his eyes lie he coull not make out which was claire or carlo carla or lucybelle lucy belle belie out but some something thInk him it was waa hta his gift who stood nearest rest to the edge with her arms reaching out toward him and then on tile the clift cliff one woman mid to another are you going t mth hemr the woman spoken to gazed w ida eyed motion motionless lesi holcel voli cloat A aej utter after a moment of tense waiting th the other said thon I 1 amill ami 0 CHAPTER VIII paul anthe swift 1 I e I 1 11 e r oc p I 1 tt n ge through of tt sliu abdy which in the uncertainty ty st 0 his vision an n instinctive instinctive an ond positive impulse told him was chalres Chil 1 lires res A woman alerc ing cry bame from the cliff but no responsive denho of horror escaped hlf his own owl lips no sound nut nn an gas gasp p ua as the figure claure struck the water lind and disappeared an up palling and devastating well bur blip a deadly sickness of shock a thing that loog loosened ened tile the grip ol of pis ls lingers from ilie the belt ol of weeda and made him limply impotent agali st it the 0 dragging force or of tile lie mider tow vor an instent ahli brain in dirk dark ness n ss he began to go ln easily and slowly as ai it if the cruel find and mar ibur ivious hands below were fearful of 0 abou arou sing tile the inertness to which halh tie had bad succumbed then ihen at I 1 S 0 paul sa N tho the swift dealbera Dell berat bera e plunge through space of the slim body water it etrich litick li to hi face and startled him film beart and brain leaped in re Z to and he thrust up wildly ande and aught the weeds again they rhey hung closely fo 0 o tile the alt k allow inri ing him to drag ds hla body antill his illers were out of water once more lie he heare heard derent shout shout as ag if from a mile away but ue he paid no attention to the cry j nor did he look toward foward the mcf the thomm I 1 t in his 1 l mind was waa that tha t claire clalra would be wibb him in pother n loment ut ol twi tao ta o she 0 would conic come to the surface near the rock and be must he ready to seize and hold herwit ib hini until the vi gave way or a nil 0 fideor six feet from him where all atle 16 was like a pool of oil that had no motion a little disturbance sudi sud denly necked flecked its surface e P of aig light ht a drifting up of something intangible ard and shadi twy a blotch which changed under tinder tits hla eya to atia substance tance a hinss of badr 0 the faa was shining tile the water wava alcoa black atit allro was nor giant in whitt whit tie be saw the huir iga wasU ark carlu carlas y tiie tave became a part of it in ii a moment it seemed se end to him that the wh ived about the rock held her up fur hla film with a a smile ou on her alps nud and in tier her e ee e her lee toward him bim ano ana her arms beack reaching ari g 0 oll ue w ass 1 s ha halulu if via a daze end and might have fanned admi of the afi things he saw but aria carla c was there she not his wife had conle come to join him lu la de dealu 1 the quiet terrible drama of it t n ald him from calling hs ri name cejas as is waited fr lur her ber to conia within tda hla reach but the und ri aw brought her tic no zaref for a second two othera of hera thresel three tour four it held it lier away a f from r 0 O m him art each of taase seit nd waa d ot a U lifetime i in pr then ue oe saw halpen them theia lening and as it tile 0 filings below bo ba gnu gaa to dras drar carto carlo iava adwa shel she 1 mads made tin no str cSele did tai cry out to him but pali only raised her standa en an that he ha might MIA sea sec they were irmI tIng for him and bila 0 o bar hera D king kingford dord tier lier fand land of 0 dremml 0 tto as OON J 0 0 0 0 V w 0 |