Category: Adventure
|OF Arthur Leroy, commonly known throughout the Yukon as Three-Ace Artie, Ton-Nugget Camp knew a good deal--and equally knew very little. He had drifted in casually one day, and, evidently finding the environment remuneratively to his liking, had stayed. He was a bird of passa...
|THEY sat on two benches by themselves, the witnesses in the trial of Henri Mentone for the murder of Théophile Blondin. On one side of Raymond was Valérie, on the other was Mot...
21. CHAPTER XXI--THE CONDEMNED CELL|THE reins lay idly in Raymond's hand. The horse, left to its own initiative, ambled lazily to the crest of a little rise that commanded a view of the town of Tournayville beyon...
17. CHAPTER XVII--THE COMMON CUP|IT seemed as though it were an immeasurable span of time since that voice had rung through the courtroom. He could hear it yet--he was hearing it always. “Father--Father Franço...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--THE CALL IN THE NIGHT|IT was very dark here in the front room, and somehow the darkness seemed tangible to the touch, like something oppressive, like the folds of a pall that was spread over him, an...
19. CHAPTER XIX--THE TWO SINNERS|INTROIBO ad altare Dei--I will go in unto the Altar of God.” It had been days, another week of them, since the morning when he had raised his head to that call for early mass,'...
2. CHAPTER II--THE TOAST|THREE-ACE ARTIE, sprawled comfortably cally at the book he held in his hand, a copy of Hugo's _Claude Gueux_ in French, tossed it to the foot of the bunk, and sat up, dangling...
20. CHAPTER XX--AN UNCOVERED SOUL|IT hung there precariously. All through the mass that morning Raymond's eyes had kept straying to the great cross on the wall that old Mother Blondin had disturbed the night be...
13. CHAPTER XIII--THE CONFEDERATE|THERE had been a caller, there had been parish matters, there had been endless things through endless hours which he had been unable to avoid--except in mind. He had attended t...
1. CHAPTER I--THREE-ACE ARTIE|OF Arthur Leroy, commonly known throughout the Yukon as Three-Ace Artie, Ton-Nugget Camp knew a good deal--and equally knew very little. He had drifted in casually one day, and...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE HOUSE ON THE POINT|IT was late, a good half hour after the usual supper time, when Raymond returned to the _presbytère_. He had done a very strange thing. He had gone into the church, and sat the...
11. CHAPTER XI--“HENRI MENTONE|VALERIE'S flushed face was lifted eagerly to his. She had caught impetuously at the sleeve of his _soutane_, and was urging him forward. And yet he was walking with deliberate...
10. CHAPTER X--KYRIE ELEISON|ST. MARLEAU was agog. St. Marleau was hysterical. St. Marleau was on tiptoe. It was in the throes of excitement, and the excitement was sustained by expectancy. It wagged its h...
12. CHAPTER XII--HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER|FATHER ALLARD'S desk had been moved into the front room. Raymond, on a very thin piece of paper, was tracing the signature inscribed on the fly-leaf of the prayer-book--Françoi...
5. CHAPTER V--THE “MURDER|RAYMOND stooped to the other's side. He called the man's name--there was no answer. He lifted the priest's head--it sagged limply back again. He felt quickly for the heart beat...
24. CHAPTER XXIV--THE OLD WOMAN ON THE HILLRaymond's eyes fixed ahead of him, and he was silent. Valérie! Ay, it was the end! He had thought to see her before they should take him to Tournayville--but he had thought to s...
15. CHAPTER XV--HOW HENRI MENTONE RODE WITH JACQUES BOURGET|IT was eight o'clock--the clock was striking in the kitchen--as Raymond entered the _presbytère_ again. He stepped briskly to the door of the front room, opened it, and paused-...
9. CHAPTER IX--UNTIL THE DAWN|THE man upon the bed moaned continuously now; the wind swirled around the corners of the house; the waves pounded in dull, heavy thuds upon the shore without--but Raymond heard...
22. CHAPTER XXII--HOW RAYMOND BADE FAREWELL TO ST. MARLEAU|AN hour! There lay an hour between himself--and death. Primal, elemental, savage in its intensity, tigerish in its coming, there surged upon him the demand for life--to live--t...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE JAWS OF THE TRAP|VOLEUR! Thief! Murder! Murder!”--it rose a high, piercing shriek, and the wind seemed to catch up the words and eddy them around, and toss them hither and thither until the sto...
23. CHAPTER XXIII--MONSIGNOR THE BISHOP|THE train had come and gone, as Raymond reached the station platform. He had meant it so. He had meant to avoid the lights from the car windows that would have illuminated the...
7. CHAPTER VII--AT THE PRESBYTÈRE|IT was Valerie who held the lamp; and beside her in the doorway stood a gentle-faced, silverhaired, slim little old lady--and the latter was another Valerie, only a Valerie who...
4. CHAPTER IV--ON THE ROAD TO ST. MARLEAU|RAYMOND descended from the train on the opposite side from the station platform. He proposed that Monsieur le Curé, _pro tem_., of St. Marleau, should have a start sufficient t...
8. CHAPTER VIII--THOU SHALT NOT KILL|IT seemed as though the stillness of death were already in the room; a stillness that was horrible and unnerving in contrast with the shrill swirling of the wind without, and t...
3. CHAPTER III--THE CURÉ|RAYMOND CHAPELLE, once known as Three-Ace Artie, and now, if the cardcase in his pocket could be relied upon for veracity, as one Henri Mentone--though the cardcase revealed ne...