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night?"
"But he will not return," the girl
cried. "Too long I have waited and
hoped. He was to be gone only
twelve short months. That was time
enough, but three years have passed
and he has not returned."
"What if he did not want to re-
turn?" the old woman questioned.
"Oh, but he loved me," the girl
cried, "and I sent him away on my
wedding day."
"Eh," said Grande Lew, "and I
said woe be to you for your wedding
day. But what would you do, Marci,
if Paroe should return tonight?"
"Why, I'd cry and I'd laugh," she
said. "He could carry me in his
arms, and hold me next to his heart
while he called me his lady from
France. Paroe is gone and he's gone
forever."
But la, Paroe was not gone for-
ever. At that very moment he sway-
ed into the cabin. He took Marci
in his arms and his hot tears fell
on his face and her hair.
"I have come back to you, Marci,"'
he cried. "For all these long years
I have toiled, suffered and tried. I
have roamed the lands and crossed
the seas once more, and Marci, I got
the things that you wanted. God, I
got it and anyway. It doesn't matter
how, the gold, the pearls, your
riches."
The man sighed. "I had hoped,
Marci. that you would not want them
when I returned. I had hoped after
three long years. that you would
want only me and my love. My life
has been lived in vain. What kind' of
a woman are you. Marci? You knew
that I had not all these things on the
days that I took you to be my wife."
And Marci remembered for she
was the wife of Paroe. And she sent
you, Paroe," she said.him away in search of gold on her
wedding day.
Paroe sat down at the table, and
let his dark head fall in his hands.
"I must tell you a simple story, Mar-
ci, and then I must go as you love
me so little. I got the gold that you
wanted, and I was happy as I sailed
up the Mohawk in my canoe, for I
was coming back to the wilderness
and you. Exactly three months and
twenty days ago a stranger came into
my camp. He was tall and blond
and English. When the night came,
after I had given him bread to eat,
and a friendly hand, he struck me
on the head and left me-almost at
death on the bank. The gold is gone,
Marci. The Englishman took it. Do
you believe me?"
Marci stood silent. "I do believe
Old Grande Lew chuckled from
her corner. "Three months and
twenty days ago," she said, "three
months and twenty days."
"I must go with you, Paroe," Mar-
ci said. "We must go tonight. Go
and prepare your canoe. "Paroe
wanted to stay, but Marci would not
have it so.
When he was gone to the river,
she whispered to old Grande Lew
saying,
"Damn, lying, white trash, Eng-
lish, thief and intruder, tell him I'd
rather have a Frenchman's love than
an Englishman's money. I went
away with Paroe. He is my hus-
band."
But King Mason did not return.
He forgot all about Morci. He drift-
ed dack to the coast, and one day he
rode a boat back to England. and
paid cash for his pass, too. Folks
said "Old Leah Mason's son walked
with his head up in the air. Why
he acted like he had a barrel of
gold."
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