INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, OCTOBER 16th, 1919 fAGESlX *T' go now,"" Be announced. "Tomorrow tftought it besf talet Elm go. He ran spealT 15 yoTT Do you know BavS leave your fat&er for the" presenf I come for you, take all on Into the tunnel—" been conscious for a long time, my where he is and make our own escape? JACQUELINE through tunnel. You stay here till I "We must find him," she said dear? I have been thinking. Are you We can reach Pere Antolne's cabin JOHN H. BRAWN come all sleep till morning." "He will come back, Jacqueline." distressed because of me?" soon after midday, and we can tell Attorney at Law "He will never come back!" she answered. "I will go with you, Pierre," I said, "My dear!" I said and that was all him your father Is a prisoner here. He "He must have been planning Office over Q. M. Carr & Co still under my obsession. But he laid that I could say. I clasped her cold would not come with us, Jacqueline, this and waiting for me to sleep. He his heavy hand upon my arm and little hand tightly in mine. even If he were here." International Falls, Minneio* pushed me away. may he hiding somewhere. We must She did not respond. It was the "You must leave me, Paul, because— search for him." "You no kill Simon," he answered. safety of us two and her father's life because of what Is between us. You DR. H. H. IHRIG "Let us go. then, Jacqueline, "I answered. "Why you no kill him again when you assured, against a miserable fate for must go to Leroux and tell him so. GOLDEN RIVER have sword? Only diable can kill him. Dentist her, and I knew not what for' me, You love me, Paul?" I led her back Into the tunnel on When time come diable tell old Caribou. though I thought Leroux would give "Always, Jacqueline," I whispered »nei) Offict ever Holler's Coafecti -hat was to be. I hoped, our final Jourey. You sleep now. I go for take me little shrift once I was in his power, She put her arms about my neck. We ranched the ledge. The star -mesa* my woman and gal safe through tunnel "I love you, Paul," she said. "It again. V'd, fr»' row. and the whole sky to place I know. When my woman She was so silent that I thought I seems so easy to say it in the dark, •tv !r:^ ir nith the red clouds of and gal safe I come back to m'sieur had convinced her. I urged her to her and it used to be so hard. Do you J. J. HADLER and ma'-m'seHe.'* feet. But suddenly I heard a stealthy know what I admired and loved you ir'V. Ai ii,- "h I saw daylight ahead of BT I lay down. The silence was loneliness footfall close at hand, between the for, even when you thought my mind LAWYER ».'—ii 1 there was no sound of the Itself, and not rendered less cave and the cataract. unstable and empty? How true you orrents. lonely by the occasional cries of the I thought it was Charles Duchalne. were! It was that, dear. It was your Intsrnational Stat* Bank Buil i« VICTOR ROUSSEAU I left JncqiipHne in the cave for a old man and the drip, drip of water. I hoped It was Leroux. I placed my 'lonor, Paul. t»\v and went into the smallone I could not see anything, and Jacqueline finger on Jacqueline's lips and crept "That was why, when I remembered LAWRENCE'S' PHARMAC* hv. here I" had seen the rr v. might have been a woman of stealthily to the passage, revolver in erythiiig that dreadful night in the Qv-w-1 -he preceding days. I TIM RMD 9t«r» TI stone, for she made not the least movement. hand. Copyright W. O. Okkft box of hard biscuit. snow, the revulsion was so terrible I viind si sum!! Then, In the gloom, I saw the villainous Rubin, Prop. S. N. •::}i \v?i! .stuffed the pockets of my ran away in horror. I could not believe At last I spoke to her. face of Jean Petitjean looking Into CHAPTER XVIII—Hewlett, with a knlf* cfit !n! happier still, a small i-p International Falls, Minnesota that It was true—and yet I knew It passed to him by Jacqueline, frees himself "Jacqueline!" mine, twelve paces away, and in his from his bonds and attacks Leroux 'I"Ivor and some cartridges, to which was true. I heard her start, and knew that she hand was a revolver too. with a sword snatched from the wall, myself liberally. stunning him. Paul, Jacqueline ana "And Leroux was waiting there and had raised her head and was looking We fired together. But the surprise NORTHERN MINNESOTA Duchalne escape to the cave. Caribou T'v I wont hack to Jacqueline. after me. I crawled toward her, dragging found me. I did not want to leave spoiled his aim, for his bullet whistled meets them and tells Paul of his determination "Jacqnrline," I said, "let us go on. to kill "Leroux when his time you, but he told me there was Pere my blanket after me. I felt in HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION past me. I think my shot struck comes." Duchalne In a fit of madness o- hnns your father is on his way outthe Antolne's cabfn close by, and that you the darkness for the place where I flees from the party. him somewhere, for he uttered a yell Br. Craig Phont tunnel." would come to no harm. And he made knew her hand must be and took It In and began running back along the CHAPTER XIX—Paul follows him, but Br. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 "We cannot• go without my father." mine. me believe—you had stolen my money Leroux appears and decoys the old man tunnel as hard as he could. rnswered, shaking her head !c de •r. Mary Ghostly. Phone 301 where Paul can not follow. On his way as well. But I never believed that, "Jacqueline!" I said again. I followed him, firing as fast as I back to Jacqueline Hewlett Is shot at by ?rii:i nation. Hospital Phone "Ah, M. Hewlett"—the weariness In and I only taunted you with it to drive Jean Petit jean, a villainous follower of could reload. Fortune helped the ruffian, 71 Leroux, the bullet striking the girl. Believing "Jacqr.eline," I said, "if we can finri her voice went to my heart—"It might you away for your own sake." Office over International State Bank for when I reached the light he she is dying. Paul agrees to depart nrr father you will come with mo" have been so different—if—" from the chateau. She drew me weakly toward her and Pkrat 1S5 was scrambling across the ledge, and i^e it has occurred to me," 1 went "If what, Jacqueline?" went on: before I could cover him he had succeeded International Fans, Minnesota •). "that If he had come this way h's CHAPTER XVIII. "If there had not been the blood of in disappearing behind the projecting "Now that we are to part forever, r.otpvsrits would be In the mud hethe a dead man between us," she moaned. and perhaps I am to die, I can speak rock on the other side. stream. It would take nr. The Hidden Chamber. "If—you—had not—killed him!" So Leroux had already sealed one to you from my heart and tell you, W:r or two for them to fill up ajmin Simon turned Just in time. The Her words were a revelation to me, exit—that by the Old Angel, where dear. Kiss me—as though I were your 'o porh^ps he did not come this f?ir wheel went crashing to the floor and for I learned that she had mercifully wife, Paul. the road led into the main passage. nr hiding in some cave in the run bounded and rebounded out of the been spared the full remembrance of God grant that be had not time to "So you will go to Leroux," she The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel :ir»! through which we came. Will vr room and along the little hall. Philippe what had happened in the Tenth street added presently. reach the exit by the mine! for me here while I go hack 250 MODERN ROOMS jumped in terror from the place apartment. She thought that It was I .vnit :irv If I made haste! If I made haste! "Is that your will, Jacqueline?" ^vrh?" Located in Heart of Batmen District where he crouched— who had killed Louis d'Epernay. Bnt I would not argue the matter any "Yes, dear," she said. "Because we and I ONE PRICE--ONE DOLLAR nedded went hark intf And then the last strand broke and And how could I deny this, when to farther. I ran .back at full speed. I have fought, and now we are beaten, roil EUROPLAN HATE TWO PERSONS *1 .SO lnt'.Tir.inable tunnel I was free to slip the cords from my hut again. so would be to bring to her mind the Paul." reached the cave. mVATMATH, SHOWER AND TOILET EXTRA limbs. knowledge of her own dreadful guilt? COBSJPtETC SAFETY "Jacqueline! Come, come!" I I bowed my head. I knew that she XIX. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS "You old fool!" screamed Leroux, The hours wore away, and we three CHAPTER called. spoke the truth. I knew at last that AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION catching Duchalne by the wrists. But lay there, two waiting and one dreaming She did not answer. I was vanquished. For, now that INSURANCE RECORDS SHOW THAT NEVER Charles Duchaine possessed the of the old- days of youth, no doubt. Thij Bait That Lurei. I ran forward, peering round me In Jacqueline lay there so weak, so helpless, LIR* BBEM LOST IN ANT BUILDING 1: "*ril aioim the tunnel ii it.f !«,t.:ion PROTECTED BT AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS strength of a madman. He grasped I tried to light the candle to see the the obscurity. I saw her near the and thinking all our past was of K' Vieil Ange. pick ins.' iny SVERT ROOM HAS NOT AND COLD RUNNING Leroux round the waist and clung to time, but my shaking hand sent It flying earth-sack?, lying upon her side.- Her but a dream, there was nothing but to WATER, STEAM MEAT, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND few iiitiU'ly, peering into tin- imiim, him and would not be shaken off. TELEPHONE SERVICE. across the cave, and when I eyes were closed, her face as white yield. I could not fight any more. "Kill him!" he screamed. "He is a searched for my matches I found that as a dead woman's. small caves and Assures in the So I left her and climbed cross the UR spy! He has come to betray me to the the box was empty. villi on either hand. AM I was aboir bags and went down toward the The bullet from Jean Petitjean's revolver government!" It seemed an eternity since we had a!f way through when I saw a shadow stream. that missed me must have penetrated What followed was the work of a come there. It Is one thing to wait for lining in front of me and making n* But before I had reached it a dark her body. moment. I saw Jacqueline pull down dawn, and quite another thing to wait -und. figure slipped from among the shadows She lived, for her breast stirred, both broadswords from the wall. She where dawn will never come. I was Duchaine. There could be no of the rocks and came toward though so faintly that It seemed as flung one down beside .me Just as I I resolved to follow the exit for a ilsia&ing that tall, gaunt figure, jus1 me and by the faint starlight I saw though all that remained of life were was staggering to my feet. little distance to see whither It led, j^ible against the distant clay. the face of Pierre Caribou! concentrated in the faint-throbbing Leroux shook off the old man at and if I could discover the light of 1 raced along the tunnel after lilin. He stopped me and held me by both heartbeats. last. He turned on me. I swung the day. .'*ut he seemed to be endowed wiih the shoulders, and he drew me into the I raised her In my arms and placed sword aloft and brought It down upon So I took my sword and sallied out peed of a deer, for he kept his dls-, BETTER DENTISTRY recesses of the rocks and bent his a a sack beneath her head, making his skull. through the passage In the cliff. tance easily, and I would never have: wizened old face forward toward mine. Heaven knows I struck to kill but I had only proceeded a few steps resting place for her with my fur coat. caught him had he not stopped for an "Ah, monsieur, so you did not obey my wrist was feeble from the ropes, when the air grew cold and sweet. Then with my knife I cut away her instant at the approach of the ledge, FOR LESS MONEY old Pierre Caribou and stay In the no and the blade fell flat. It drew And before I had traversed two hundred dress over the wound. There, just as he was poising him-' cave," he said. a blood, but Leroux dropped like yards I saw a dim light In the There was a bullet hole beneath her self to leap, I seized him by the arm.' "Pierre, I did not know that you stricken ox upon the floor. distance. This was no candle light breast, stained with dark blood. I ran He did not attempt violence but would return," I answered. "This way!" gasped the old man. but that of day. So I had endured all down to the rivulet, risking an ambuscade, BrMf* gazed at me with hesitation and pathetic Work $3.00 "Never mind," the Indian answered, He pulled at Jacqueline's arm, and those agonies of mind with the open brought back cold water, and doubt. QoW Crowas looking at me strangely. "All finish half led and half dragged her through ulr but a short distance away! washed it, and stanched the flow as Whits Crowns "M. Duchalne," 1 pleaded, "won't now. Diable take Leroux. His time the open door behind his chair, I following. As I advanced I fancied that I heard Mafess us best I Could, making a bandage and you come back with me and let talk come. Diable show me!" Lacroix sprang iulo the room, the soft pattering of feet behind me. placing it above the wound. Is It over? Jacqueline with me—" GUARANTEED WORK "How?" I answered, startled. calling, but whether to us or to the I halted and listened Intently. I "No, no," he cried, laughing. "You I have a dim remembrance of losing "All finish," said Pierre inexorably, 10 YEARS other ruffians I did not know. Leroux crouched against the wall and waited. can't catch me with such a trick as my self-control when this was done, and, as I watched him a superstitious sat up and looked about him, dazed But I heard nothing now except the and clasping her in my arms and pressing that. My little daughter has gone to fear crept over me. He, who had and bewildered. distant roaring of the cataracts. How GET OUR ESTIMATE FIRST New York to make our fortunes at M. my lips to her cold cheek and begging cringed, even when he gave the command, sweet they sounded now! Then I was in the little room with her to live and praying wildly Daly's gaming house. She will be back now cringed no longer, and Special attsation |ir«a to Jacqueline and Duchaine, and he I listened intently, leaning against that she should not die. Then I soon, loaded down with gold." there was a look in his old face that turned and bolted the door behind ills. the wall and facing backward, holding •uKof-towa patients. Writs us raised her in my arms and was staggering "She has-come back," I answered. I had only seen on one man's before— He seemed possessed of all the my sword ready to meet any intruder. •bout your tooth tcouMos. Ws across the cave toward the tunnel "She Is not fifty yards away." on my father's the night he died. strength and decision of youth again. But there was no sound from within, which led to the rocking stone. "With gold?" he inquired* at a»s glad to answer an and ali "Pierre, where is Leroux?" I whispered. When 1 stood there before the room except the soughing which one hears me doubtfully. And then, just as I approached the Write vs. "Shall I surrender to him or a had been as dark as pitch, but now in a tunnel, and satisfied at last that "With gold," I answered, trying to barricade of earth-filled bags Leroux shall I fight?" flicker of light was at the far en/1. And the man Raoul emerged from the allnri Jjnaglnattoft Leroij* pfid I had been the victim of an overwrought "No matter," he said once again. DRS. NORCROSS 4k CLARKE A voice cried: tunnel's inouili and ran toward me. done. *She has rich fold, raid, Imagination I pursued my red "M'sieur, suppose you go back to Union Dentists "M'sieur! M'sleurl I have not forgotten will love. Ton can lake I stopped behind the barricade. .vurse. But I bad not gone six paces such as you ma'm'selle, and soon Simon come. His thee!" in and let Presently I saw something white before 1 beard a scream that still up the coins your fingers diable lead him to you. His diable tell It was Pierre Caribou. I saw his fluttering from the tunnel. It was a rings in my ears today, and a shadow them. the gold stream slip through you what to say. All finish now!" figure silhouetted against the light of white handkerchief upon a stick of sprang out of the darkness and rushed Come with, monsieur." He walked past me noiselessly, a Bemidji wood. the flaring candle which he held In at me. It was old Charles Duchaine. I grasped him by the arm and tried tenuous shadow, and his bearing was his hand. Then Leroux's voice hailed me from His white hair streamed behind him to lead him with me. My argument as proud as that of his race had been the tunnel. Ducluiine had placed one arm about his face bore an expression of indelible had moved him. I thought I had won. in the long ago, when they were lords his da lighter's waist and was urging "Hewlett!" he called, and there was horror and rage, and in his hand he But just as I started back into the where now their white masters ruled. The COLLEGIATE BUSINESS INSTITUTE, her along. But she stopped and no trace of mockery In his tones now, held the other sword. tunnel, holding the arm of the old I went to Jacqueline and took my Nicollet at Tenth, Minneapolis, "will you come out and talk with me? looked back to me. I saw she held He struck at me, a great, sweeping man, who lingered reluctantly and yet seat upon the earth bag barricade. I has been selected by the one broadsword In her hand, as I held Will you meet me in the open, if you blow which would almost have cut me began to yield, a pebble leaped from had my revolver in my hand, but it the other. prefer?" State Department of Education and the rocky platform and rebounded was not loaded. I threw the cartridges In two. I had just time to parry it, I fired one shot in futile rage. It "Come, monsieur!" she gasped. from the cliff. I cast a backward the Adjutant General to give advanced upon the floor. and then he was upon me, raining struck the cliff and sent a stone flying "1 am going back," I answered, glance, and there upon the opposite business training to returned men It seemed only a few minutes before blows upon my outstretched sword. into the stream. fumbling for the bolt Duchaine had side I saw Leroux standing. a voice hailed me from the tunnel. and women in the Service from Mianesota. Though his attack was wild the drawn. Then silence followed. And I took "Bonjour, M. Hewlett!" he called "Paul Hewlett," said Leroux, "you Seven other collegiate business vigor of his blows almost beat down "No! We are safe Inside. It is a Jacqueline and carried her back Into across the chasm. "Don't be afraid of have made a good fight, but you are ray guard. At last a random blow of courses for high school and secret room. My father made It in the little hollow space. I put my hand me any more than I am afraid of you. done for. I offer you terms." mine swept the weapon from his feeble college graduates exclusively. Fall the first days of his sojourn here In upon her breast. Just wait a moment. I want to talk "What terms?" I asked. old hand and sent it whirling down the term opens September 2. Write Pre»ident case he were pursued, and none but It stirred. She breathed faintly, business." "The same as before. I can afford cataract into the lake below. though she showed no sign of consciousness. Pierre and he knew the secret. Ah, A. E. Piekard for information "I have no business to talk with to let you go for, though my instincts Then he was at my throat, and it come, monsieur—come!" you," I answered. cry out loudly for your death, I am a was fortunate that there was firm rock Heaven knows wha» was In my But I meant to kill Leroux and still "But I did not say it was with you, CITATION FOR HEARING ON FINAL business man, and I can suppress instead of slippery Ice beneath us, or felt for the bolt. mind. I stood beneath that awful cataract monsieur," he answered in sneering ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIRUTION them when it has to be done. In we should both have followed the firing at the blind rock, and now As I fumbled there the door splintered tones. "It is with our friend Duchalne. brief, M. Hewlett, you can go when sword. suddenly and Jacqueline cried I was back behind the earth-bags Hola, Duchaine!" you choose." "Calm yourself, for heaven's sake, out. shooting into the tunnel. At the sound of Leroux's voice the Estate of John A. Holler. "M. Leroux," I answered, "I will say monsieur!" I gasped as I gained a momentary Then I yielded reluctantly to Jacqueline's So the afternoon wore away. The old man straightened himself and began State of Minnesota something to you for your own sake, advantage over him. "Don't violence. I followed her sun had sunk behind the cliffs. I had soft )ss muttering and looking from the and Mme. d'Epernay's, that I would you know me? I am your friend. I Koochiching County the dark chamber, under an fired away all but six of my cartridges. through one to the other of us undecidedly. not deign to say to any other man. want to save you!" of stone, and through a winding. IN PROBATE COURT archway Then the memory of my similar act of Suddenly I saw him turn his head She is as pure as the best woman in "You shall not take me! I have In the matter of the estate of John in the rock. Pierre's folly before came home to me. I grew pnssnge and fix his eyes upon Leroux. He the land. I found her wandering in done It was years ago! Let nuth'ng! A. Holler decedent. us, and another candle flickered before In more calm. craned his neck forward and then, the street. I saved her from the assault me go! Let nic go!" he screamed. The State of Minnesota to Mary I felt my way around the cave with E. moment we had squeezed very slowly, he began to walk toward of your hired. ruffians. I gave I him for a moment, hopin'g released Holler, and all other persons interest a narrow opening into a chamber the faint hope that there might be through his persecutor. I craned my neck. up my own apartment to her and went disordered brain would calm ed in the estate of John A. Holler. tlr.it Ills in the cliff. some other egress there. Leroux was holding, out—the roulette away. Do you believe what I have Whereas, Mary E. Holler has filed enough for him to recognize me and There was none, but I made out a On the ground were five or six wheel! said to you?" in this court her final .account of her when he saw my motives were that, recess which I had not perceived, large stones and Pierre began to fit "Come along, Charles, ray friend," He looked hard into my face. administration of the estate of the Peaceful he would grow quiet. into the aperture through which about one-half as large as the cave them he cried. "Come, let us try our fortunes "Yes," he said simply. "And it above named decedent, together with But suddenly, with a final howl, he we passed. In a minute the place Itself, and opening into it by a small had her petition praying for the adjustment Don't you want to stake some makes all the difference in the world sprang past me, sweeping me against passage just large enough to give admittance was completely sealed, and we four and allowance of said final account money upon your system against me?" to me." the wall, and leaped out on the ledge. to a single person. Here I stood and looked breathlessly at one and for distribution of the residue The old figure had leaped forward "Pere Antolne will marry you?" I I held my breath. I expected to see another within what might have been Should have only one front to defend. of said estate to the persons thereunto over the ledge, and in a moment Leroux asked. him stagger to his death below. But a cenotaph. entitled. It is ordered, that said So I carried Jacqueline Inside and had grasped him and pulled him "Yes," he replied. he stood motionless in the middle of petition be heard, and that all persons The chamber seemed at tne time to began laboriously to drag the bags of into the tunnel. "And her father?" the little platform and stretched out interested in said matter be and appear have been prepared for such a contingency earth Into this last refuge. Before It I hastened back to Jacqueline and "Is safe In the chateau, playing with his arms toward the raging torrent as before this court on the 8th day as had occurred, for there* had grown quite dark I had barricaded encountered her in the passage just his wheel and amassing a fortune in though in invocation. Then he leaped of November 1919, at 10 o'clock A. M, were wool rugs on the stone floor, Jacqueline and myself within a place where the light and darkness blended, his dreams." aerftss with the agility of a wild sheep at the Probate Court Rooms in the partly though they had rotted and disintegrated the size of a hall bedroom inclosed standing with arms stretched out "One more word," I continued. and rushed on Into the tunnel beyond. Court House, at International Falls from the dampness. npon three sides with rock. against the wall to steady herself and "Mme. d'Epernay is very ill. She was in said County, and then and there, or "M. Duchaine, he make this place in And there I waited for the end. in her eyes was that look which tells struck by one of those bullets that as soon thereafter as said matter can I started back, keeping this time to case gov'ment come take him," explained I sat beside Jacqueline, holding her a man more surely than anything, I be heard, show cause, if any they have, you fired through the door. Wait!" for the right side of the tunnel, until I Pierre as he placed the rugs. band with one of mine, and my revolver think, can, that a woman, loves him. why said petition should not be granted he had started. "I think that she will heard the gurgling of the brook. Then "No can find, no can breaP down In the other. There was a faint and that this citation be served by "Oh, I thought you were dead I" she live. The wound cannot have pierced I heard Jacqueline's footstep. stone door. Other way Simon not flutter at her wrist. I fancied that it the publication thereof in the International sobbed, and fell into my arms. a vital part. But we must be very "Who Is It?" she called wildly. "M. and Falls Press according to law. know—only m'sieur me. Old Caribou had grown stronger during the past I held her tightly to support her, gentle In moving her. Yon had better Hewlett! My father!" Witness the honorable, John Berg,: he come that way he see you tied half hour. and I led her back to the gold cave. and bring the sleigh here, and you I I caught her as she swayed toward Judge of said court, arnd the seal of and know it time to come here. Soon But I was unprepared to hear her In a few words I explained what had me. "He has gone Jacqueline," I said. will lift her into it. And then—I shall said court, this 9th day of October," as time to kill Simon come well." I whisper to me, and when she spoke occurred. not see her again." "I went Into the tunnel to try to find 1919. "When, in heaven's name, will It was alert in a moment. "Now Jacqueline, yon most let me the way. He had been feigning sleep (Court Seal) John Berg, ^4, come?" I cried. "Paul!" she said faintly, guide you," I saidi "Don't you see that and he crept after me. I tried to stop Judge. "Come soon. His diable tell" me," ••Jacqueline!" there is no chance for us_ unless we J. J. Hadler, HP was so frightejied that I answered-Pierre Caribou. (To be continued next week.) "PftuLL Bend- down.''?!.. want to o. 9-23. Attorney for Petitioner.