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Show T MARCH OF THE WHITE GUARD Bj' SIR GILBERT PARKER (Copyi ight, 1904, by U. F. Feuno t At Co.) CHAPTER III. Continued. The cups were passed round. The r measured out a very small portion to each. They weie not men of uncommon sentiment; their lives were rigid and isolated and severe. Fireside comforts under fortunate conditions they saw but seldom, and they were not given to expressing their feelings demonstraBut each man then, save tively. had some memory worth a resurrection, and hearts are hearts even under all uncouthness. Jasper Hume raised his cup; the To rest followed his example. absent friends and the day when we see them again!" he said; and they all drank. Gaspe Toujours solemnly, and as if no one was near, made the sign of the cross; for his memory was with a dark-eyed- , peasant girl of the parish of Saint Gabrielle, whom he had left behind five years before, and bad never seen since. Word had come from the parish priest that she was dying, and though he wrote back in his homely patois of his grief, and begged that the good father would write again, no word had ever come, and he thought of her now as one of whom the candles had been lighted and masses had been said. But Jeff Hyde6 eyes were bright, and suffering as he was, the heart in He him was brave and hopeful. was thinking of a glorious Christmas river day upon the Madawaska three years agone; of Adam Henry, the blind fiddler; of bright, warmhearted Pattie Chown, the belle of the ball, and the long drive home in the frosty night Late Carscallen was thinking of a brother whom he had heard preach bis first sermon in Edinburgh ten And Late Carscallen, years before. slow of speech and thought, had been full of pride and love of that brilliant brother. But they, in the natural course of things, dilfted .apart the slow and uncouth one to make his home at last not far from the arctic circle, and to be this night on his way to the Barren Grounds. But as he stood with the cup to his lips he recalled the words of a newspaper paragraph of a few months before. It made reference to the fact that the Rev. James before Carscallen, D. D., preached her majesty on Whitsunday, and had the honor of lunching with her n And Late majesty afterward. rubbed his left hand Joyfully against his blanketed leg and drank. s thoughts were with the present, and his Ugh! of approval was one of the senses pureInstead of drinking to absent ly. r friends he looked at the He drank to the and said:, How! SuJ)-factq- Cloud-in-the-Sk- follows himself, a poor dispensing clerk In a doctors office, working for that dream of achievement la which his mother believed; tor which she hoped. And following further the boy that was himself, he saw a friendless first-yea- r man at college, soon, however, to make a friend of Varre Lepage, and to see always the best of that friend, being himself so. true.. And the day come when they both graduated together in science, a bright and happy day, succeeded by one still brighter, when they both entered a great firm as junior partners. Then came the meeting with Rose Varcoe; and he thought of how he praised his friend Varre Lepage to her, and brought that friend to be introduced to her. He recalled all those visions that came to him when, his professional triumphs achieved, he should have a happy home, and a happy face, and faces by his - fireside. And the face was to be .that of Rose Varcoe, and the others, faces of those who should be like her and like himself. He saw, or rather felt, that face clouded and anxious when he went away ill and blind for health's sake. He did not write. The doctors forbade him that. He did not ask her to write, j for his was so strong and steadfast a nature that he did not need letters to keep him true; and he thought if she cared for him she must be the same. fIIe did not understand a woman's heart, how it needs remembrances, and needs to give remembrances. Looking at Jasper Hume's face In the light of this fire it seems calm and cold, yet behind it is an agony of memory, the memory of the day when he discovered that Varre Lepage was married to Rose Varcoe, and that the trusted friend had on the grown famous and well-to-d- cifully took upon the Infirmities of men, and to stetch forth His hand to keep and defend them la all dangers and necessities. Late Carscallen, after a long pause, said Amen," and Jeff Hyde said la a whisper to Gaspe That's to the point InToujours, firmities and dangers and necessities is what troubles us. , Immediately after, at a sign from the Sub-facto- r, be- Cloud-in-the-Sk- y gan to transfer the burning vood from one fire to the other until only hot ashes were left where, a great blaze had been. Over these ashes pine twigs and branches were spread, and over them sgain blankets. The word was then given to turn in, and Jeff Hyde, Gasptf Toujours, and Late Carscallen lay down In this comfortable bed. Each wished to give way to their captain, but he would not consent, and he and ' wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering their heads completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone In an austere and tenantless world. They never know how loftily sardonic Nature can be who have not seen that land where the mercury freezes in the tubes, and there is light but no warmth in the smile of the sun. Not Sturt in the heart of Australia with the mercury bursting the fevered tubes, with the finger-nail- s breaking like brittle glass, with the ink drying Instantly on the pen, with the hair falling off and fading, would, if he could, have exchanged his lot' for that of the White Guard. They are In a frozen endlessness that stretches away to a world where never voice of man or clip of wring or tread of animal Is heard. It is the threshold to the undiscovered country, to that untouched north whose fields of white are only furrowed by the giant forces of the elements; on whose frigid hearthstone Cloud-in-the-Sk- y j o soft-cheeke- d box on his drawing room table, and, time hanging heavily on the boys hands, he amused himself with trying whether a silver dollar It was all the money he had in the world, and he had converted it into that gigantic coin for safety would go into the slit in the boxs top. It was a close fit, hut unfortunately It did go, and the coin slipped out of the embryo authors fingers. There as a terrible crash of stiver falling among the coppers and then the boy, as the novelists say, knew no more. When he came to himself he found the clergyman and hts family in raptures over his generosity. Why He Wa Jolly. Bidder met Kidder, and Kidder was just bubbling with good humor. What are you feeling so uncommon jolly over?" said Bidder. Why, my best girl went and got married yesterday, said Kidder, slapping Bidder on the back. "Seems to me that's about the last thing for a chap to feel Jolly over, said Bidder. What! said Kidder. It was me she ent and got married to! ' And so the cigars were on Bidder. Brownings Magazine. Time to Fly. The trust magnate leaped up from the banquet table and made a dive automobile. for his Hold on! cried the astonished toastmaster. Wont you wait for us to servo the dessert? . No, replied the nervous magnate; I just saw a suspicious face loom up at the window. The next thing served will be a process. And telling his chauffeur to put on full speed the wealthy fugitive headed for the next state. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, ease of smell M mercury will tureiy destroy the end completely derail the whale eveteni when it through the mucous surfaces. 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Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts the beBt way. Sir William Temple. actress. k (H)QQ FREE-Addres- you have a perfect case. If you wish, I can secure you a divorce without publicity In six months. Young Lady But, my dear sir, you dont Understand at all. I am an Fault-findin- I (S0G3dtf 1 The Appropriate Location. Caustic Critic Why did you put The Carthagenlan mercenaries, he that joker at the very end of the numsaid, encased their prisoners in a ce- bers in your entertainment program? Member of Committee Wasnt that ment that, as it hardened, contracted. You cant imagine how uncomfortable all right? I thought a wag ought naturally to come at the tall end. this wa8. Sub-facto- r, t Born, Not Won,, GIFT. open-wor- Not What She Wanted. Lawyer Yes, my dear young lady, no fire is ever lit; a place' where the electric phantoms of a nightless land pass and repass, and are never still; where the magic needle points not toward the north but darkly down . ward, downward! where the sun And Jasper Hume, the Be good, my never stretches warm hands to him of his dying mother, who dares confront the terrors oi what were his thoughts? boy, and God will make you great, His was a memory of childhood; and for his mother's sake he had com- eternal snow. a house besides a . of The White Guard sleeps! passion on the girl, and sought no rea gentle widowed venge upon her husband. Rare type river, where mother braced her heart against of man, In a sordid, unchivalric world! CHAPTFR IV. misfortune and denied herself and And now, ten years later, he did not No, Captain; leave me here an slaved that her son might be edu- regret that he had stayed his hand. cated. He had said to her that some The world had ceased to call Varre push on to the Manitou Mountain day he would be a great man, and Lepage a genius. He had not fulfilled You ought to make It in two days she would be paid back a hundredthe hope that was held of him This Im just as safe here as on the (ledt fold. And he worked hard at school, Jaspar Hume knew from occasional and less trouble: a blind mans nc good. Ill have a good rest while very hard. But one cold day of references in scientific journals. And he was making this journey to youre gone, and then perhaps my spring a message came to the school, and he sped homeward to the horme save, if he could, Varre Lepages life. eyes will come out right. My foot l! beside the dark river down which And he has no regret. Though just nearly well now. Yes, Jeff Hyde was snow-blind- . the Ice was floating he would re- on the verge of a new eia in his caThis member that floating ice to his dying reer to give to the world the fruit of the giant of the party, had suffered day and entered a quiet room where ten years thought and labor, he had most woman was breathing set all behind him that he might be a white-faceBut Jaspar Hume said, I wont away her life. And he fell at her true to the friendship of his youth, leave you alone, my man. The dog side and kissed her hand and called that he might be loyal to his manhood, can carry you, as theyve done for the to her; and she waked for a moment that he might be clear of the strokes last ten days. pnly and smiled on him, and said; of conscience to the last hour of his But Jeff replied. Im as safe hert good, my boy, and God will life. as marching, and safer. When the debathim now, the And then she Looking around make ygu great dogs are not carrying me, nor any one And some one ing look comes again into his eyes. said she Wft fold. leading me, you can get on faster; pJd soul who He places his hand in his breast and and that means felt her feet a everything to the mother iilets it rest there for a moment The shook her head sadly dont It?1 and looked pityingly at him; and a : look becomes certain and steady, the Jaspar Hume met the eyes of Gaspe vrice rising oyt of a strange smiling fcanfl is drawn out, and 1 H is k BoCa He read them. Then he Toujours. ! of Common PrayCfi upon the flyleaf Taiijiior murmured: Ill away, I'll said to Jeff Hyde, it shall bd is you "J&fie to dear .her Hume, wish. Late Carscftlldrt, jtway to the Promised Land to the is written, It is cold aq told sod Jaspar, on his twelfth birthday. Prjmised Land! and myself will push on to Man are Guard White of the men And ihe These God keep my boy! You and Gaspe Tou Mountain. ltou whatvoice ceased, and the kind bid soul not used to religious practices, will remain here. jours In that reWho had looked at Mm pityingly ever their past has bep Jeff blind Hydes eyes turned tofolded her irills about him, and dreta gard, and at fifty ether time they ward Gaspe Toujours, and Gaspe Toil-this at his brown head to her breast end might havS beefl Surprised Yes. We have said, jours some plenty of j kissed him with flowing eyes and action of JispAf Httme. Under tabac. leSsefied have it might Come awajf fc&ri come circumstances whispered: (TO B8 eQNYIlrtjED.) their epihibh tof him. but hlS influence , kway. But be came baqjr in the night and over them hoW wa complete. They Th. SupSMht American Workman. at beside hti and would not go kh'e they were getting hearer to him y ' Notwithstanding that he has to pay even done; hkd away, hut regained there till the than they more for 'his clothes than the English He that. spoke appreciated tun grew bright, and then through t6 th'em, but loosed at. them workmhn, the American dresses him another dr4y and night until thftlH Self and hfs family fat better and more bote he'.- out of the little house b'y! :j3id stJM tip. They fill 'Aid the same, than bis English cousin. thtt river to the frozen hillside. And Jeff Hyde leaning on 'the shoulders tastefully The also spends more American fir read . He Toujours,. ue world was empty and the icy riVer of GaspO Thirty-firs- t money on luxuries and legitimate Psalm, the of verses fouT his heart. teemed warmer than 'the 'pfayer, pf St Chry- pleasure, and the food he eats Is more And sitting here in this winter 'des- then followed ahd the hpdutifal collect varied and of better quality. W'-s'lolation, Jasper Hume beholds these sostom, ffeu tk to' tfie' Al frilgbty o mef- - Work. scenes of 20 years before 'fend which a p swift-flowin- A Little Margaret's grandmother hai Generosity That Waa Purely the Re- written for a photograph of her nam For material rea sult of Accident. sake, the baby. sons it was advisable that the little A missionary bishop told this story girl should appear as well dressrj as about F. Marlon Crawford, the famous possible, and a cousin's new dress was borrowed for the occasion. novelist; "Mr. Crawford went to school, he On being arrayed for the picture Man said, in Concord, and one day he was garet rushed to her father, crying: taken to call at a Concord clergyOh, father, Just look! These aint worn holes; they Is born holes. mans. The clergyman had a missionary I Oh, yes, I can," she answered. Bult when Cloud-in-the-Sky- Sub-facto- r. GIFT NOT ALL once had on a tight bathing It began to shrink. Car-scalle- Sub-facto- Sure to Have One. Lincoln Steffens, in an address on municipal politics, said in Chicago of a certain city; That city is as notorious for its rottenness as ths town of Pebbles is notorious for another characteristic. Here is an Incident that will give you an idea of the reputation of Pebbles. On a train one day a man rushed into a car, held up his hand for attention, and shouted excitedly: Anybody here who belongs to Pebbles T Ayef 1 do, said a small, dry old fellow calmly.. Then, said the other, lend ua yer corkscrew. wTMia waaar PUTNAM FADELESS hstereelws MweereewMMwii4 WSmwTiiMiiHklWit the sef ether MfntslerlrMhMU-MMtsDi,BiMchM8Mii- C4. On. lOe Mcke color til (Hwr. Thej Sr. Is new dd wtr hHf this tn MOM HOE Off 40 . cn ds OO., Quincy, llllm iff |