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BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Fate had seen fit to mold the life
of Barry Houston into tragic molds.
Tried for the murder of his cousin.
Tom Langdon, ana acquitted because
of favorable testimony of Agnes
Jierdon, and acquitted becaues of fa-
Ma9(vorable testimony of Agnes
Jierdon, Houston’s father dies with
out regaining faith in his son. He
leaves Barry timber holdings in Tab
ernacle only on condition that a high
output be maintained.
Mysterious accidents in the mill
have prevented this and Houston
arriving from Boston, finds that he
has been betrayed by his mill
superintendent, Fred Thayer. Hous
ton discharges Thayer. First the mill
is burned down and then Houston
is deprived, by a forged lease, of
the rights of his timber lands. Wi h
the aid of Ba’tiste Renaud, an eccen
tric French-Canadian, whose life has
been saddened by the double tragedy
of his son’s death in France and the
unsolved murder of his wife, Hous
ton continues the fight. During his
stay in Tabernacle, Houston has been
attracted by Medaine Robinette, own
er of neighboring timber lands. He
tells her that Thayer’s statement that
he was accused of murder is true.
GO O NWITH THE STORY.
A slight gasp traveled over the
lips of Medaine, still by the window.
Ba’tiste, his features old and lined,
reached out with one big hand and
patted the man on the shoulder.
Thon for a long time, there was sil
ence.
"Eet is the lie, eh?”
"Ba’tiste,” Houston turned appeal
ingly to him, "as I live, that’s all I
know. I never saw Langdon after
he took that mallet from me. Only
one shred of evidence was presented
in my behalf. It was by a women
who had worked for about six
months for my father—Miss Jierdon.
She testified to having passed in a
taxicab just at the end of our quar
rel, and that Langdon had the mal
let.”
"Miss Jierdon is the same one who
is out here?”
“Yes.”
"She testified in your behalf?”
"Yes. And Miss Robinette, if
you 11 only talk to her—if you'll only
ask her about it, she’ll tell you the
story exactly as I have told it. She
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trusted me; she was the only bright
spot in all the blackness. I may not
be able to convince you—but she
could, Miss Robinette. If you’ll
only—”
“Would you guarantee the truth of
anything she should tell me?”
“Absolutely.”
“I’m—l’m sorry.” She turned
again to the window. Houston went
forward.
"Sorry? Why? There’s nothing—”
Miss Jierdon has told me,” came
in a strained voice, “that she did
pass as you were struggling. That
she saw the blow struck—and that it
was you who struck it,”
“Miss Robinette!”
“That further, you confessed to
her and told her why you had killed
Langdon—because he had discovered
something in your own father’s life
that would serve as blackmail. That
she loved you. And that because she
loved you, she went on the stand and
perjured herself to save you from
a conviction of murder—when she
knew in her heart that you were
guilty!”
CHAPTER XI
It was a blow greater, far greater
tnan one that could have been
struck in mere physical contact.
Houston reeled with the effect of it;
he gasped, he struggled aimlessly,
futiley for words to answer it.
\ aguely, dizzily, Houston started to
the door, only to be pulled back in
the gigantic of Ba’tiste Renaud.
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“No! No! You shall not go! You
tell Medaine that is a lie!”
“It is,” Houston heard his voice
as though coming from far away,
“but I don’t know how to answer it.
Where is Miss Jierdon?”
“Miss Jierdon,” Medaine Robinette
answered with an effort, “went back
to camp last night.”
They drove on in silence.
Ten minutes late, Houston leaped
from the buggy and knocked at the
door of the cottage.
“I wan’t to see Miss iJerdon,” he
told the cook who had opened the
door.
The cook bustled back into the
house, to return with a sealed envel
ope addressed to Houston.
"Dearest Barry:
“Hate awfully to run away like
this without seeing you, but it can’t
be helped. Have an offer of a posi
tion in St. Louis that I can’t very
well refuse. Will write you from
there.
“Love and kisses,
“AGNES.”
Ba’tiste slapped the reins on the
horse’s back.
“She is like the Judas, eh?” he
asked quietly, as they went back to
the cottage. Ba’tiste soon went
forth into the night. Later came a
scratch on the door. It was Cole
mar, followed a moment later by a
grinning, twinkling-eyed Ba’tiste.
“Bon! Good!” he exclaimed. "Now
—alert, mon ami! The pencil and
the paper!”
He slumped into a chair and dived
into a pocket of his red shirt, to
bring forth a mass of scribbled
sheets, to stare at them, striving
studiously to make out the writing.
“Eet is—the copy of the bid!”
“From the Blackburn mill. There
is no one aroun'. Ba’tcese, he go
through a window. M’sieu Houston,
he too will bid. But he will make it
lower.”
“But what with, Ba’tiste? We
haven’t a mill to saw the stuff, in the
first place. This thing we’re setting
.up now couldn’t even begin to turn
out the ties alone.”
“Ah, oui! But the man who is
drowning, he will, what-you-say,
grab a hay: tack.”
And together they settled to the
making of a bid that ran into the
millions, an overture for a contract
for which they had neither mill, nor
timber, nor flume, nor resources to
complete!
CHAPTER XII
Time dragged after that. Once
the bid was on its way to Chica-
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go, there was nothing to do but wait.
December came. February and
then—
“Eet is come! Eet is come!” Ba’-
tiste, waving his arms wildly, in
spite of the stuffiness of his heavy
mackinaw. “Eet is come! I have
open eet—l can not wait. Eet say
we shall have the contract! Ah, oui!
oui! oui! oui!”
“Eet say five thousand dollars
cash, and the rest in a bond!” came
enthusiastically, from Ba’tiste. “Ba’-
teese, he have the friend in Denver
who will make the bond.”
"But how about the machinery;
we’ll need a hundred-thousand-dollar
plant before we’re through, Ba’tiste.”
"Ah!” The old French-Canadian’s
jaw dropped. “Ba’teese have not
think of that.”
“Tomorrow morning we take the
train to Denver, and from there I’ll
go on to Boston. I’ll raise the
money some way.”
They went on to Denver, there to
seek out the few friends Ba’tiste pos
sessed, to argue one of them into a
loan of ten thousand dollars on the
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The cook bustled back into the
house to return with a sealed envel
ope addressed to Houston.
land and trustworthy qualities which
formed the total of Ba’tiste’s re
sources, to gain from the other the
necessary bond to cover the contract
—a contract which Barry Houston
knew only too well might never be
fulfilled.
Came Chicago and the technicali
ties of ironing out the final details of
the contract. Then, deal in mil
lions and the possessor of nothing,
Houston want onward toward Bos
ton.
He wandered the aisle of the
sleeper, entered the smoking com
partment and slumped into a seat in
a far corner, smoking in a detached
manner, often pulling on his cigar
long after lengthy minutes of re
flection had allowed its ashes to cool.
About him the usual conversation
raged. With sudden interest, Hous
ton forgot his own problems to lis
ten.
"Speaking of gruesome things,”
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the talker' had said, "reminds me.
I’m a doctor, former interne in Bell
strand Hospital in New York.
“They’ve a big room on the fifth
floor where somebody is always dis
secting. Sunday night I hap
pened to look in and saw a man in
there, murdering another one with a
wooden mallet.”
“Murdering him? The doctor
laughed.
“Well, I should have said, acting
out a murder. You can’t very well
murder a dead man. The fellow he
was killing already was a corpse.
"You mean—”
“Just what I'm saying. Pretty
big doctors, I learned, all from Bos
ton. They had taken a cadaver from
the refrigerator and stood it in a
certain position. Then the one man
had struck it on the head with the
mallet with all the force he could
summon. Os course it knocked the
corpse down—l’m telling you, it was
gruesome, even to an interne! The
last I saw of them, the doctors were
working with their microscpoes—
evidently to what effect the blow
had produced.”
“What was the idea?”
"Never found out. You see , op
posite sides in a trial are always
carrying out experiments and trying
to keep the other fellow from know
ing what's going on.”
"You—you don’t know who the
men were?” Houston, forcing him
self to be casual, had asked thc
question. The young doctor shook
his head.
“No—except that they were from
Boston. I suppose the other man
was a district attorney.”
“You never learned with what
murder case it was connected?”
“Na”
"Pardon me for asking I—l—
came from Boston and was trying to
recall such a case. You don't re
member what time of the year it
was, or how long ago?”
“Yes, I do. It was in the summer,
along about two or two and a half
years ago.”
Houston slumped back into his
corner.
But once in his berth, the picture
continued to rise before him: of a
man “killing another with a mallet.
Had it been Worthington, the de
termined, over-zealous district attor
ney, who had struggled to send him
to the penitentiary for life. Yet
if that had been Worthington, if
those experts had found evidence
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