Show e 0 y 0 F it f payola ar 0 pa za k 1 71 taz eal L 01 cul wocia 1111 1 I 1 1 14 I 1 V Is 11 1 vi e C Z 9 1 4 dom I 1 SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 introducing soroa some of the th people of cf the pretty little french canadyan canadia Can adlan n village of 0 Perl Peri bonka bartic the crippled calv laay idol of the simple inhabitants anil and heroine of an plo ogle destined to live long lone in the village annals annais CHAPTER il II how ho the romance of t molly brant al sister alter ter of the groat great in dlan chief joseph brant and sir r wililam johnson in p e 1 ays cornea down to tod today ay with the b birth 1 0 of comi a zon non paul to molly kerke wit wife of a powerful new york cler aud ad her death when paul Is thirteen years old molly kirke nv was s a d scon dant of molly brant ancher boy hm T many r of the indian char IV at blanty thirty two paul marries claire durand drudd daughter aughter of hla his fathers father bu briness brines 11 partner lie he Is in charge of an tarn e nse engineering work on the river near Perl bonka which hla his mil millionaire liona ire father he has undertaken hot but hla his indian blood deplores the detraction destruction st of the te wilderness and hla his thone thought hta jp are more of carla carl a haldan got ot tah h the crippled lady than of to la work CHAPTER 1 rii III pauls palls wife Is in europe she havi having nir no inclan idon to 1 live 14 in those se horrible woods ile he to see in carla daughter of a central ent ral european immigrant with her to her invalid mother in ther end b hr r work of educating the te village villi iRe children his ideal of woman womanhood hond CHAPT CHAPTER Ert rv IV paul writes to hk 1114 wife urs ng her to join him film though carla to Is the tha inspiration of the letter liter that evening passing the haldan home be hears carla cor carving ving lip HP nars enters the cottage tage lira haman lone lone a hopeless invalid is dead pauls efforts effort to comfort carla he feels bring them closer together CHAPTER V claire announces tier her Inte intention rillon of joner r paul on the wf if busini in a short biml time she nis also so writes to carla of whom she has hag herd board from paul a letter of kindly sympathy on the death of her mother CHAPTER rl 71 paul goes to que boo bo 0 to o meet meat claire and brings s her to his hi temporary home homa though sho she la Is apparently glad to be with him and olvin evinces cea warm arm for carla and other friends he feels she ionly there because she teel feel it hor her duty she Is IB not really happy lie he becomes aware ot of a gulf erelt between him and hla his wife CHAPTER vil VII paul claire carli carla and two friends make a luncheon pirty to visit the big gorre gorge of tile the mis ta saini an appallingly swift current ibler bleh disappears in a mount mountain ain side current belief Is that belief drooped into it t la Is never seen again agnin in aport port they cast into the stream pieces of f wood and other objects them disappear finally they cairy to large log to the edge of the rushing water all A they ans it over I 1 li liar lipe pr fl 9 paul and throwing h him m ing in the stream the two women wit with it whom pauls life Is entwined a see e e aln CO 01 to what whal they are sure a c r n 91 ath one aski ak the other it if she is I 1 voina with hm him R nn she announces then I 1 tin am and springs into the water CHAPTER VIII paul sees itte the RC ab tion ard believes the woman la Is cleir to a rock which temporarily checks his rush in dolth h reo nane t carla its as be p wat vat r brints her neair r he H clutches clutch ca her hut but the two arr are ried onward then a ml paul feet touch tf if dri bilm wf with the gri g ri into n subterranean oate ave CHAPTER IX faly kaffl d to Is no chance of escape nril for their few i ne rw lb thov v pre ar li in a world of own varia carli reach R perl perc rf a to tn their mutu mutual it love CHAPTER XI paul mew knew he be roust must keep moving or rouse carla from her sleep the nakedness and desolation of aloneness alone ness w were e ro turning him into ackward not a coward who was afraid of death but one who felt increasing horror in passively waiting tor for it IL he went to the debris of rock again he hadano had no reason for this no thought except that it offered him the one chance to do something physical besides fumbling hla way over unstable and shifty sand the desire for a work to do was an ache in his bis body as aa well as his brain and ho he began to climb the broh broken brohen en mass as aa he had done once before he had gone about thirty or forty feet eat above the floor ot of their dungeon then trot but this time he found footholds which carried him a little farther UIl until til from the point he reached he could took over the bulge in the rock which had previously concealed thelt fire and could clearly see carla in the glow of it lie he had bad the desire to call to tier her to feel her glorious life a part of their existence again sleeping she seemed gone from him ne he swung his torch making a writing of fire to in the black ness nesa and his lips almost cried her narrie name then he recognized the weakness of his bis act and began to pull himself a little more up the broken wall it if carla had bad awakened and turned her eyes toward him she would have seen a strange and weird tiling thing the burning piece of was a spout of yellow flame daine illumining Illum ining 14 rit at times the ghostly figure that bure bore it and then floating alone in a limbo of midnight emptiness as it if borne by shades that in color and spirit were a part ot of the gloom site she might have leave thought rousing herself from slumber that hands bands which were no longer pauls were bearing it t toward towar d the root roof ot of their world steadily duy u ap P into lilt tills pit of ac achiron pron it want and M it I 1 als it ilk I 1 I 1 5 ili maty ty brel breadie tit tile that at libil tt it in a second vor for a time utter dartz darkness riess lay wile where re tile the light hall had boon then tile the torch reap reappeared Leared ns as suddenly as sable NN shad had eng alf edit and in at another iother moment it V was iq plunging down through space in a few nili niles 1 came where it had fallen sputtering in the sand picked it up lip again nor more than eer cier liis his face ace wash wis like that of a ghost ills HIS chock was MIA by a ble bleeding edin boull wound 1 ills his shirt was in shreds on liis ills breast hr lilb eyes blazed i in carla a way that would have startled I 1 I 1 lie ho went too tn the lie edge of ilie hie water and bathed ins ills fao evv tin and hands then lie returned to I 1 the tile lie and kneit ba beside curia carla Iler lie raised alsed tier lier leid bead g gently 1 in fit ills his arins and she not awaken ile he field it against liis ills breast aad kissed tier lier hair carla r ho whispered ve lips il inoch I 1 ed tier lice lasics trembled and opened slowly til ivil tier lier eyes you have hit dept pi a king tile ahe said at ceisl lease rt act iniel nied ian ang find and I 1 took a tech and lilt atcho pile of rocks ag ngien lin I 1 dij vin 1119 iii lier fief alj aai 1 before ev so high eliut lilt 1 i u to a ledge lede and followed lt it ind iba n 1 j came 10 lo a 11 great crack iu in um lie fall unit there at the end of il 1 siw saw light light she breal hed yes res light limn tte tt ll e sun I 1 afave found a wily Y OU oui L 1 thore there was sil n then almot almost withe iii effort it s kinod 0 16 o 1 baul aul carla crept vat ot ia lie knew aliat something s wis thins widd glicr forever her faela face was as whiter had WS his own ali at lie nn Si readell to la 10 aro sro I 1 lay in her ees a 8 di ling ink habelt anil and crushing the wory which hall lived in alivin for a the understanding of anal ills his dis discovery covely ugilt friml lie he SOW n fal ii clr bif isopi hii 0 ing to like tait 01 ry athe atje jim 0 S X 1 its roii 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slowly through ills his pt of stoicism into a of speech a il passion assion of desire henling loose alit n bit terne berness s against g life lis it t bad heen bae given him to live lire a sil io to turn it ills his own waybill last defore she child move ills arms were about tier her 1 1 I have lived a hel in tills this place lid he cried not beo because ause I 1 was afraid to die but because la ili dying I 1 knew I 1 would lose you only iu in life can I 1 have you and I 1 want life because of I 1 that you say it ft is god cod illi showing rArIng ns a way outa it Is abst that cod gaie gac you to me lite here that world up P thine ar ancans ans noti nothing irig to ine lipit with jou aou 11 in it it t too lias 1 aas been a hell for me ine now rai im going to malce make it II a huaien I 1 alt letman ieti llah made 1 idi 1 I va and fu id c stand in abe vit y of what li 13 right nnie intended tzi to b be e you yon tire lire mine and I 1 shall axe yo you U and keep you ono one uny ay or the other well forc irie i lie world and tell it so or iier eind never never let L t know v it ln t is rol you vl say vt it ifill lir ho hl y MIJI ilni bakti alil I 1 circa 11 re gly irr n cliance in ill latr filp hint 1 of if inels arms arins and liosis he lio sa nn an 1 binl I nad broken in her ep eves to to the iberl of that ruin tic lie had his hisa iown own 14 cal of co carlu raa no ile let tier her move away awny from lilno and stood with a grim set face before her im sorry hebald he sald 1 I know you yon lire tb inking that I 1 am vile ile and blenn 1 med i 4 |