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His eyes had looked upon the last thing in the world he might have guessed at or anticipated when they beheld through the window of St. Pierre's cabin the beautiful face and partly disrobed figure of Carmin Fanchet. The first effect of that shock had been to drive him away.
The woman at the piano turned about, a little startled at the unexpectedness of the voice, and then rose quickly to her feet and David Carrigan found himself looking into the eyes of Carmin Fanchet!
In spite of the legal force of the argument which he was bringing against himself, David felt unconvinced. Carmin Fanchet, had she been in the place of St. Pierre's wife, would have finished him there in the sand. She would have realized the menace of letting him live and would probably have commanded Bateese to dump him in the river. St. Pierre's wife had gone to the other extreme.
Is this another bit of trickery?" "It is the truth," said St. Pierre. "Marie-Anne is my sister, and Carmin whom you saw in my arms through the cabin window " He paused, smiling into David's staring eyes, taking full measure of recompense in the other's heart-breaking attitude as he waited. " Is my wife, M'sieu David." A great gasp of breath came out of Carrigan.
In a great room at the end of the hall, with windows opening in three directions upon the wilderness, St. Pierre waited in his wheel-chair, grunting uneasily now and then at the long time it was taking Carmin to discover certain things out in the hall. Finally he heard her coming, tiptoeing very quietly from the direction of David Carrigan's door, and St.
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