INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, SEPTEMBER, 25 1919 PAGE TORS* tBere." He musf'Bave been in waiting, but when he saw Jacqueline run from me he changed his plana and sent the sleigh after her. Then, realizing from $525 my actions that I was snow blind, he $625 F. 0. B. FACTORY had remained behind with some, of his followers to enjoy the sport of' baiting me, and incidentally to drive me out of the way while the sleigh went on. TOURING CAR TOURINGJCAR But Jacqueline— She had tried to escapp me. P.!io lacqudine could not have been playing a part— Announcing the 1920 Ford she was too transcendently sincere. Something must have occurred—some °f Golden dream which had momentarily crazed her and she had confounded rae wither persecutors. I stood deep in the snow, a pistol ii, With Electric Starter and Lights also 30x3 1-2 lector Rou^u River" each hand, waiting. Once I heard the usseau doss yelp, far up the valley, and then there was only the soughing of the tires all round and demountable rims wind and the sting of the driving sleot flakes. And the gray mist had Copyright W. O. Chapman THE CAR OF THE HOUR (^osed in all about me. I was alone in i'.at stornl-swept wilderness, and there \v:.s no sun to guide me. rrseh'Tipoh Eef Tcnees ^sfie flung her 6YNOPSIS. plunged along—half delirious. I arms out wildly, and suddenly she believe, for I began to hear voices on caught her breath and screamed, and at CHAPTER I—Paul Hewlett, loitering every side of me and to imagine I saw stood up and ran uncertainly toward Bight In Madison square, New i'ork, Is Simon standing, just out of reach, a approached by an Eskimo dog, which me, with hands that groped for me. •eems desirous of attracting his attention. shadow upon the mist, taunting me. She found me I caught her, and she He follows the animal to Daly's gambling a I followed him at an undeviating distance, Place. As he reaches the house girl pushed me from her and shuddered •merges, evidently in a state of great agitation, firing, reloading and firini and stared at me in that uncertain who displays a large amount of agnin. money. She is the owner of the dog. doubt that follows dreams. She is attacked by two men, who seek I was no longer conscious of my $ to force her into an automobile. Paul, "I am here, Jacqueline," I said. progress. The fingers that pressed the with the dog's help, drives them away, "With you—always, till you send me and, the girl telling him she has no triggers of my pistols had no sensation friends in the city, he takes her to his away. Remember that even in dreams, in them, and- in my imagination rooms. She is bewildered and all he can Jacqueline." learn from her is that her name is Jacqueline. were parts of a monstrous mechanism He leaves her in his rooms. She knew me now, and she was recoiling which I directed. My legs. ton. felt from me. out through the hut CHAPTER II—Puzzling over the situation, like stilts that somebody had stm^ped Paul walks for a time, but a presentiment to my body, and, instead of cold, a that she is in danger sends nim Our allotment has been increased and shipments back to his home. There he finds a man warm glow seemed to suffuse me. dead, stabbed, and believes Jacqueline to 8 have killed him. She is in a semi-stupor, and is unable to remember anything. are coming through every day. We can give you Somebody was shaking me. "Get up!" he bellowed in my enr. CHAPTER III—Hewlett carries the 3 dead man down the fire escape and leaves "CW np! Do you want to die in the prompt delivery. Our best driving season is now him in a little-used back yard. From the snow?" name of the maker, on the dog's collar, he gathered that they came from Quebec I closed my eyes and sank t,r.cL-: in and determines to take her there. a lethargy of sleep. on, summer and fall. Ask us about our dollar a CHAPTER IV—After banking her money they visit a store, where Jacqueline CHAPTER X. makes some purchases necessary for day time payment plan Car works for YOU and the journey. There Paul meets a man known to him as Simon Leroux, who evidently •V The Chateau. knows Jacqueline and believes I i\ni] nn indistinct imprr«!--'i of Hewlett does also. Leroux evidently is pays for ITSELF. Come In. an enemy of Jacqueline, and Paul evades br'wr carried for what seemed nn i-'ternlry $ him and with the girl starts for Quebec. n^on the shoulders of my -r:r-r, $ CHAPTER V—They travel as brother clinging there through the deilrir.m "Jewett's Want to See You" and sister and on reaching Quebec Paul ihat supervened. seeks the maker of the dog's collar, hoping through him to learn something of When at last I opened my oys it $ Jacqueline identity. There he meets a late afternoon. Thoi.ch ihey priest, Pere Antoine. The priest tells him vws Jacqueline is the daughter of Charles Duchaine, rned me. I could now see wirli toien.ble c. w. a recluse, and is married. distinctness. Inc. CHAPTER VI—Next day Paul arranges 1 was lying upon a bed of ririeri with a Captain Dubois to sail for St. hnh iim leaves inside a little hut. and Boniface, from which point they can travel by sleigh to the Duchaine chateau. through the half-open door I cou'd see Leaving Dubois Paul is attacked and left the sun just dropping behind the International Falls, Minnesota Telephone 15 unconscious In the street. mountains. Upon a wall huns a bier "CHAPTER VII—Recovering consciousness crucifix of wood, and under it an old Paul goes' to the hotel and finds Jacqueline has left with a man who man was standing. claimed to be a friend. Distracted, he AND THE FOLLOWING DEALERS Ite me stir and came toward hsard hastens to Dubois' boat, where he finds Jacqueline, whom Dubois had rescued by me. I recognized the massive shoulders C. W. JWETT CO., Inc Bemidji, Minnesota a clever trick. and commanding countenance of J. M. REED Blackduck, Minnesota "CHAPTER VIII—At St. Boniface Paul Pere Antoine, and remembrance came purchases dogs and a sled and they set I Sprang After Her. back to me. LATTERELL HARDWARE CO Kelliher, Minnesota out for the Chateau Duchaine. "Where am I?" I asked. door, Into the blinding snow. I sprang H. W. LESEMAN Northome, Minnesota CHAPTER IX—On the third day of the "In my cabin, monsieur," answered Journey their dogs die. poisoned by a after her. fungus placed in their food. Paul knows ARROLINE LIVERY & GARAGE Gemmell, Minnesota the priest, standing at my side, an inscrutable "Jacqueline! It Is Paul!" I cried. this to be the work of Leroux and that he calm upon his face. "It is is being followed. Jacqueline shows a HARDING & DUGAS Cass Lake, Minnesota And as I emerged from the hut's sudden fear of Paul and leaves him. He lucky that I found you, monsieur, or follows her but Is stricken with snow shelter a red-hot glare from the east GEO. A. JOHNSON Grygla, Minnesota blindness and in a helpless condition is assuredly you would soon have been seemed to sear and kill my vision. It met by Leroux and his crony, Philippe LESLIE REIMER Gonvick, Minnesota dead. But for your dog—" Lacrolx. They make sport of him and was the rising sun. I had thought it leave him to die in the snow. He Is found "My dog!" I exclaimed. night, and it was already day. And I by Pere Antoine. "Certainly a dog came to me and 3 could see nothing through my swollen CHAPTER X—Hewlett lies for days in brought me a mile out of my route eyelids except the white light of the the priest's hut, recovering his sight and to where you were lying. But, now I strength, and when Pere Antoine leaves shining snow. him he sets out to And the chateau. He come to think of It, it disappeared and It was horrible, In that wild waste, meets Jacqueline's Eskimo dog. surface" of "a' lat eT has not returned. Perhaps It was threatening "him"" wftIT arrest' has twenty mites, approaching" the chateau alone. I tried to gather my scattered And on a point of land projecting sent to me by le bon Dieu." 15ecause~T bade her. SEeUicTiicit ask gained a complete ascendency over by the edge of the lake. I concluded senses together. from the bottom of that mighty wall I anything of me. "Where Is Mile. Duchaine?" 1 burst that there must exist a ridge of narrow the weak-minded old man. However, Eastward, I knew, the river lay, and saw the chateau! The sun dipped lower, and far away out. beach between the whirlpool and the fact remains that his daughter that blinding brightness came from It could have been nothing els£ It I heard the howl of the solitary wolf the castle, though it was Invisible was married by me to M. d'Epernay the east. Southward a little distance Father Antoine laid a heavy hand was a splendid building—not larger again. some ,ten or twelve days ago at the from above, and that the entrance was the hill that we had last ascended upon my shoulder. than the house of a country gentleman, I gripped my pistols as we strode chateau. would disclose itself to me In the on the evening before. I could discern "Be assured, monsieur, that madame perhaps, and made of hewn logs along. course of my Journey. "My duties took me to Quebec. the merest outlines of the land, is perfectly happy and contented with but the rude splendor of it against "We went on and on. The afternoon Although the sun was well above There I learned that Mme. d'Epernay but I fancied that I could see that it her friends," he said. "And no doubt that icy, rocky background transfixed was wearing away the sun was very the horizon when I awoke I started had fled on the night of her marriage, she has already regretted her escapade. sloped upward toward the south. me with wonder. low now and all its strength had gone. out on the fourth morning eager to and that her husband was in pursuit I set off in the direction of the hill. I have to depart at daybreak On each side of the chateau a cataract "Courage, Jacqueline," I said, patting achieve the entrance to the chateau. of her. Again it was told me that she "Jacqueline! Jacqueline!" I screamed upon an urgent mission a hupdred plunged, veiling itself in an opacity her arm. "The huts ought to be here." First I plodded back to the two was living at the Chateau Frontenac frantically. miles away, which was interrupted by of mist, tinted with all the spectral Her courage was greater than my mountains which guarded the approach with another man. It was not for me No answer came. Once more I your rescue but I shall be back within hues by the rays of the westering own. She looked up and smiled at me. to question whether she loved her husband to the valley, then worked called. a week, by which time you will sun. The wolf crept nearer, and its howls round along the flank of the ridge of but to do my duty. A dog barked suddenly, not far doubtless be able to accompany me to Why, that position was impregnable! rang out with piercing stroke across peaks, searching for an entrance. The "I appealed to you. You refused to away, and through the mist I heard the coast." Behind it the sheer precipice, the silence. My eyes ached so that I further I went, however, the higher listen to my appeal. You threatened the slide of sleigh runners on snow "I shall not!" I cried weakly. "I am up which not even a bird could walk could hardly discern the darkening and more precipitous became the me, monsieur. And you denied my and then I knew. going on to the chateau!" the impassable lake before it, and the land, and the snow came down, not mountains. priesthood. I shall not help you In I scrambled down, slipping, and He looked at me steadily. torrent on either side! steadily but In swirling eddies blown There was no visible entrance to the pursuit of her, M. Hewlett, for you gashing my hands upon the rocks and "You cannot," he said. "If you attempt But—how had M. Charles Duchaine on fierce gusts of wind. that mountain lake on any side, and are actuated solely by love for the it you will perish by the way." ice. At the foot of the hill I saw two gained entrance there? And suddenly raising my eyes de... to descend that sheer, ice-coated precipice wife of another man. Is that not so?" straight and narrow lines on the soft I burst into an impassioned appeal There seemed to be no entrance. sparingly I saw the huts. There were was an impossibility. he ended, bending over me with a penetrating snow. They were the tracks of sleigh to him. I told him of Leroux and his And yet the chateau stood before my -five of them, and they had not been occupied It was long after nightfall when I look in his blue eyes. runners. conspiracy to obtain possession of the for at least two seasons, for the "Yes, it is so. But I shall go to reached the cabin again, exhausted •yes, no dream but very real indeed. I followed them, sobbing and catching property, of my encounter with Jacqueline, blackened timbers were falling apart, and dispirited. the chateau,"1! answered. Before I reached the hut again I had my breath and screaming: and how I had rescued her, omitting and the roofs had been torn off all but I awoke too late on the fifth morning, Pere Antoine rose up. formulated my plan. I would start at "Jacqueline! Jacqueline!" mention, of course, of the murder. one of them, no doubt for fuel. The and I was too stiff to make much "You will find food here," he said, dawn, or earlier, and work around Then I heard Simon's voice. "Bonjour, wind was ^whirling the snow wildly of a journey. I climbed to the edge "and if you wish to take exercise M. Hewlett!" he called mockingly. As I went on I could see the look around them, and it whistled through of the glacier once again in the hope there are snowshoes. Try to find the "This way! This way!" of surprise upon his face gradually the broken, rotting walls. of discovering an approach. I examined chateau—do what you please but remember I turned and rushed blindly In the change into belief. I flung my pack inside the roofed every foot of the ground with that If you lose your way I direction of the cry. I had left my When I had ended he was looking at one, and began tearing apart the timbers meticulous care. shall not be here to save you. I shall me with a benlgnancy that I had never snowshoes behind me in the hut,and of another to make a fire. But wherever I approached the edge return from my mission in a week and seen before upon his face. at each step my feet broke through Jacqueline, opening the pack, began the same wall of rock ran down vertically be ready to conduct you to St. Boniface. the crusted* snow, so that I floundered "M. Hewlett," he answered, "I have the ^preparation of our meal, which for some three hundred feet, And now,'monsieur, since we and fell like a drunken man to choruses long suspected a part of wliat you consisted of some biscuits left from veneered with ice and wrapped In a understand^ each other, I shall prepare of taunts and laughter. have told me, and therefore I readily the uight before, when we had made perpetual blinding spray. the supper." It was a horrible blind .man's buff, accept your statements. I believe now a quantity on the wood ashes. We I was within three hundred I swallowed a few mouthfuls of food feet of for they had surrounded me/yelling, that madame has suffered no wrong made tea over the roaring flames, and Jacqueline's home and .yet far and fell asleep soon afterward. In as from every quarter. from you. But I am a priest, and my sat listening to the wolf's call anil the away as "though leagues divided us. I the morning when I awoke the cabin "This Way, monsieur! This way!" care is,only that of souls. Madame is wind that drove our fire in gusts of looked down at the ehateau and was empty. piped .-a thin#voice which I knew to be married. I married her—" smoke and flame. ^ground my teeth and swore that I I'spe'nt the next two days recovering that of Philippe Lacroix. "To whom?" I cried. I scooped out a bed for Jacqueline •would'win lver. B,ut all the rest^of my strength, and on the third to A (snowball struck me on the chin, "To M. Louis d'Epernay, nephew of insi'de the snow-fllled hut and .-spread day went in fruitless searching. found mys&f al?le to leave the hut for Ythat and they began pelting me and laughing. M. Chartes Duchaine by marriage, less it with the big sleigh robe. She lay This was to be my last night in the a short tramp. I was like a baitedjJ&ar. I'was than two weeks ago in the chateau •down in her fur coat, and I wrapped 4cabin. I could not return, not though I found one of the* pistols ki the hut, here.". beside myself with rage^fod helpless •tI the ends around her. I looked into her were perishing in the snows. and in the poeket df my fur coat vere fury. The Icy balls hit1 my fece a The addition olLthe last word, singularly sweet face and marveled at its serenity. Happily my eyes were now entirely a coupes of cartridges /which I had dozen times one struck me behind the revived my hopes." It had slipped Her eyes closed wearily. well, and my hands, though chapped overlooked. The r'est I had fired away ear and huiled me down half stunned. from 6is lips unconsciously* bat It A dreadful fear held me in its grip: and roughened from the frostbites, in my delirium. I pulled my pistols £com my pockets gave me reason to believe that* the -what If she never .awoke? Some people had suffered no permanent injury. So The cabin was situated in a valley, and spun round, firing in every direction chateau was near by. died thus In the-snow. I raised the I started out with grim resolution on around- which high hills clustered. through that wall'of gray, yielding sleigh robe -and saw that the fur coat ^Father Antoine sat down- upon the the sixth morning,* when the dawn was Strapping on the snowshoes I set to mist that gave me place bufirever chair4besfte me. stirred softly as she breathed. work to elimb a lofity peak which only a red streak on the horizon and gave me vision. "M.lDuchaine has been a recluse for the stars stitl lit my way. At last, out of the wild passions that stood at no grejat distance. The clouds had obscured the jfry many years," he said, "and of. late his fought within ,irie, decision was born. I* must have turned at a slight jh and the snow-was falling again.^lify mind has become affected. It is said I would go on, because she had bidden myself angle which took me seme distance ftands* were bare andf numb, except that he was implicate^ in the troubles wolfs howl quite "Raisi sfng me. 'And I would be'ready for Leroux out of my course, for my progress-was where the cold steel of the pistol trigger of 1867, and that, fearing arrest, he my bead I saw no wolf but an jRkli pynmn and letihlm act^as he saw fit. I suddenly arrested by a mighty wall ..of seared my fingers like molten fled here and bulk thra chateau" in this loaded my'pistols. I could do no more dog—the very dog I had encountered rode, a sheer precipice that sefemed to metal. desolate region, where he wotid be to New York-*-Ja cqnellne's dog than fight for Jacqueline, and with God I descend perpendicularly into the valley A dog barked once more, very far safe from pursuit1*Solitude has made te 4he issue. underneath. Somewhere a torrent (To be continued next week.) away, and at last I understood their a hermit of him £nd taken him out* of "Paul!" was roaring like a*mlftpture Niagara. scheme. touch with the world erf today. must hfcve been half asleep, for I I sjopp&i to stare* in admiration. I -Saw the Chateau Doubtless Simon had reached the "I believe that Leroux has discovered Get your prescriptions filled at Rubin's ame back to myself with a start and Par^elow me the "narrow valley had huts at dawn and had discovered:, us conl on his property,' and by jgprang to my .Tp^oueUne had these mor'"fpjr"v a circuit of perhaps Drug Store. tf wid^red into, a. smooth, snow-coated &