Show d tm OF GOP P act e oliver W N 5 service 90 5 aadil donw co ine SYNOPSIS I 1 introducing amil m of the people ot of the tha pretty aretty little french canadian village of 0 Perl Peril bonka wilha pirtie wally the crippled lady idoa idol of the simple inhabitants and heroine of 0 an epic destined to live congin lonar ln the village annals the romance jt t CHAPTER II 11 how trolly molly brant bl B 1 gocr ter of the giant 9 1 at indian chief joseph brant and sir william wililam johnson in p 0 days comes down to today with the th birth ot or a son paul to molly borke wife of 0 a powerful new york I nander cler anil andr her death when paul Is thirteen rtIn yeats old molly kerke was a oe de seen nt of molly brant and her boy has many of the indian characteristics at thirty two paul marries claire durand daughter or of his alg fathers ta business partner he ha Is in chaffe or of an immense engineering work on the tha river near onka which his hi millionaire father has undertaken but his indian blood deplores the destruction st of 0 the wilderness and his hi thought though ta are more of carla haldan not then the crippled lady than of hla his work CHAPTER p III pauls PALIS wife Is in ru rope slie she having no inclination to lt ile e in those horrible WOO woods db he tomes to see in carla daughter of a central european immigrant with her devotion to her invalid mother and her work of edu educating catina the village children his bis ideal of woman womanhood hond IV baui writes to lil fil wafe urging her to join hit him th h n carla Is tho the inspiration oi of ile the iet letter e liter later that evening passing the hal fian din home boine he hears carla crying ile hf enters the collato cot laTO mrs halican Ha lilan lone ft bove hopeless loss invalid Is dead pauls efforts to comfort carla caria he feels bring brine them closer together cether to CHAPTER V clairo announces her Intend intention lon of awning on the mis 1119 lassint in A short tim almi she also writes to arla of whom she hns han heard from paul a letter of 0 kindly sympathy on the death of nf her molher CHAPTER VI paul gros gro go s to que beo 0 0 meet Cli claere tire and her to his temporary home though he tf fr apparently fitly slad glad to be with him anil and apparel ey evinces nee warm friendship fr corli an anil l pauls other friends rl ends he feels eels she fhe Is only there because she feel it her duty she Is not really happy ire he becomes becoT neg aware abari of 0 a suit gulf between him and life his wife CHAPTER taul claire carla and two friends make a luncheon party darty to visit the bler borge of the rv an appallingly swift current currean which abl f h disappears in a mountain aide curre current nt belief Is that anything into it Is never seen been again in I 1 port they cast into the stream pieces 11 0 of f wood and other objects watching I 1 than tham disappear finally they parry carry a large log loe to the edge of the rushing water As they foss 1093 it ruperd g paul and throwing throw lne him ier the stream the two women with whom pauls life Is entwined see him po go to what they ars are sure Is certain deah oni one asks the other if she la is going with him elving no answer she BOB announces then I 1 am and springs into the water CHAPTER vin VIII 7 tpaul aul sees the action ard bel believes 1 eyes the woman Is cl n fee Clin clinding qIng to it a rock which temporarily cheeks checks his rush to death he recognizes carla caria as the water brings her nearer up he clutches her but the two are carried onward then a miracle ciul baulf teet feet touch earlb earh ile he drags himself with the sirl girl into a subterranean cave CHAPTER YX IX fully batliner Bat linea there Is no chance of escape and that for their few remaining hours they are in a world of their own paul and carls carla reach ft a perfect understanding as to their mutual love not that she spoke quickly 7 1 ai I would rather think I 1 am the one nab who 0 Is unclean I 1 that was all she said and ho he made I 1 no effort to answer her words bei came futile even impossible as she looked at mm him what he be might have I 1 said his pleading the arguments he had built for himself and tor for her crumbled under the tragedy which had bad come like a sickness into her white beautiful face a tragedy that was filled with appeal with pain and for a moment or two with an utter loneliness as if she had lost something which could never come back to her ue ile had seen the tame look in her eyes the night tier mother died then it had bad filled him with a great pity now its tenderness its yearning tor for a thing gone shook him to the foundation of his soul ue be saw carla as ho he had always known she would be when it came to her love for a man only a love that bad no scar ecar of agli ness upon it would she take to her breast and hold there the memory of love its burned out ash a love that ii was as crippled and blind but clean she would cherish with the sacred faithfulness of an altar nun but not such bueb a lovo love as be had offered her ber a theft though it could be made a legal theft from another woman even as ho be felt this crushing sense of his loss of her ha another emotion a freeing of hla hia spirit a rejoicing with his grief entered into him carla as she stood before him he be could worship through all eternity the carla he had asked for yielding to him would have descended out of heaven to the level of 0 his own debasement clearly as she had seen ids his passion tind and felt the crush of ids his arms carla now saw this saw change in him and elowe slowly Y b beliel ng joyously a miracle wrought itself in her face and all that paul bad seen been broken down built itself up again softness man CUBS alato into her el mouth and slie we ire go I 1 paul aul lie ile bowed ills his licad head then picked up the coat which had been her pillow and shook the sand from it yes the cleft in the rock faces west and I 1 think the sun was setting when I 1 found it it if we can got get out before oark dark and make a racket some one may be dear enough to hear us ue lie lighted 6 a torch rind and they walked across the sand together at the pile of rocks he took tier her hand helping and guiding her until they came to the beginning ng of the ledge from where r 4 V he 1 lighted a torch and they walked across the sand together he had looked down on tier lier sleeping form beside the fire U e told her about it is as they paused tor for a moments test rest carla looked at the fire in the pit ot of gloom below them it was dying out the yellow pool of light was narrowing find and growing dimmer A sob came in her throat we wont need deed ever to forget she said no never especially the little fire and you sleeping beside it added paul they continued upward the fire was vas shut out the ledge widened and turned so they were nere going through a tunnel in the rock where water had bad once made its nay ay to underground dept depths lis they had gone anne only a short distance when paul stopped and smothered his torch in thio the sand until its flame was extinguished after that they saw a pale reflection of light ahead of them when they reached it they could look up through a long narrow fissure that sloped steeply with day nt at the top of it tt it was a two or three hundred yard climb uttered littered with broken rock which half choked the ascent in places A mass close to them had freshly fallen 1 I spoiled my shirt on that said paul 1 I loosened the stuff and came dean with it I 1 hope there another place like it farther up paul was breathing deeply from Ms hs exertions and carla was fighting for breath lie ile could see where he sharp edges of the stones had bruised the hands which she was holding at tier her breast her skirt was torn and through a rent in her sleeve the whiteness of tier her arm revealed itself tier her face was streaked with rock dust and hollows which he had not noticed clearly before were in her cheeks and under her eyes over them was a broader I 1 lit of da day lie ile could have flung a stone up to the level of the earth and beyond that was a sly sky of vivid blue still touched by the glow of a declining sun it was this light descending iu in a pool upon them which made him see another carla the mellowing illumination ot of the pitch pine the velvety softening of shadows the pale unreality of first daylight had concealed things from him now they revealed betraying a change which could no longer keep itself behind the mask of tier her courage something la in her had died since they left the pitch witchwood wood fire the ash of it was lif in tier her face the ghost of it in her eyes and she knew that lie saw it and tried to smile at him bravely ile he wanted t to 0 take ler her in fr hla his arms anna and his lips almost cried out the desire cr carla a a saw that too and when the t tiling ill g of iron in him triumphed over boo bolli I 1 voice and act gratitude cased anc anguish in her face im glad you understand she said as it he be had bad spoken and knew what wnm in her ru nin dway away tirail bil va fici rr er r nr r im 1 could bilde myself aielli alwais love you can kill those things me memories morles and love loe I 1 would be satisfied to do that I 1 be almost happy nut but I 1 mast list do the other thing I 1 must go to clulee it will be hard to do that thai ner her admission ot of tier her love tor for him was made in a quiet and introspective way ns as it his physical self had censed ceaud to be a living part of nt it it was wag tills this and her reference to tc claire which strengthened his nil nation not to benken aher her faith in him to be |