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Show BEAVER PRESS 1 II - - he - . a Salt Lake City Directory Ab raha dins o By JAMES OLIVER aiRwrnr . tg by Doufcleday Doran Co, Inc. XIII CHAPTER Continued and bagpipes waved streamed defiance as Montcalm watted which never came, for reinforcements and the bushes and knolls and cornffifteen hundred ields were taken by Canadians and Indians whose guns with a roar. Hack and forth the battle raged, and France began to Tartans crumble. Then came ten o'clock. Something must have broken in Montcalm's heart His judgment wavered, and he gave the fatal command which raised England to the supremacy of the world. The French had formed with bayonets fixed in five short, thick lines, four white and one blue; the English guns in a stood with double-shotte- d thin red line. Level long, Had England ground lay between. advanced, history might have written Itself differently. But England waited. France advanced. Jeems went with her.. lie was' already hit A shot had caught him in the shoulder, and blood ran down his arm and dripped from liis fingers. He felt no pain, but a slumberous feeling was creeping over him as he staggered lie saw Monton with the lines, calm ride along the front of his men, cheering them on to victory ; he noted green coat he the wore, the polished cuirass at his breast, the white linen of "his wristband, and he heard his voice as he asked, "Don't you want a little rest The answer, before you begin?" "We're never tired before a battle!" rose about him. Jeems lips framed the words which were repeated like Increasing blasts lu a storm. But the tun was growing less bright to his even to Mere de Stalnte-daudthe Superior, who took a special interest uur lo 8ny or her : ters who cared for him so virgin sistenderly in the dark hours of his struggle for life and the more hopeful ones of his Each day of Increasing strength added to his suspicion that what he had seen and heard were the illusions of senses under crumbling the effects of hurt and shock, and he kept to himself whatever faith he had In them. When at last he was able to mingle with the d'sarmed populace and the crowds of soldiers in the streets, he was strangely unlike the old Jeems. He had been badly wounded and realized that nothing less than a miraculous Intervention which the nuns ascribed to the- - mercy of God could have kept him beyond the reach of death. A ball had passed through his shoulder when three others struck him at the discharge of the English guns. That they had failed to kill him he (lid not accept as a blessing. The impression grew in him that he had hi .MM, M eyes. An advance of forty or fifty paces, then a pause, another advance, another pause, In the way regulars fought at that time on flat and open battlefields, and Jeems measured the distapce between himself and the red line of the British. At each halt he fired with his comrades, then loaded and advanced. The red line had broken It made no move to play precedent its part in the prescribed routine of war, and continued to stand like a vail Openings came in it where crimson blotches sank to the ground, but those who remained were unmoved steadfast as they waited with and their double-shotteguns. A tremor ran through the French, a thickening of men's breaths, a quickening of their heartbeats, acrumbling under strain, hi!e the melody of the bell stole toftly over the Flains of Abraham. They halted again less than a hundred paces away, and still England's thinning line did not fire, A man close to Jeems laughed as if nerves bad cracked inside his head. Another gasped as If he had been struck. d Jeems tried to hold The weird sensation himself erect. came over him that the armies were not going to fight after all. Then he heard his name. It was lis mother calling him. He answered with a cry and would have swayed if hands had not dragged JJad !" he heard a voice lie dropped his gun as he tried toward her kim back. tay. to wipe the blindness Things cleared. There line, the open space, from his eyes. were the red sunlight something passing. Those who lived did not forget what they saw. England took the story home with her, France tm It a little place in her history. Tor a few seconds men were not lookup at death but at a dog. An old, creplt dog who limped as he walked, dog with one foot missing. Jeems made an effort to call " "Odd Odd Then came Montcalm's command orwarar - Hemarpho mm i. iv. me , uuit'is luiu me Of (tenth Mr i wwuu, fe vying, oiiaiu- 10 the dog hear words which -" passed his lips. There was no njter r. rea wait.. -a Ho v buu. no wrore him. But his ears still 7 "ae v caught f feet and the melody of rmo bell. Ul Tr, Ti,ooa double-shotte- jj i guns. His Excursion Were Short and Wandered Alone. been very close to his mother and Toinette and that a fate not satisfied with his unhappiness bad drawn him back from them. This thought established his belief that Odd's appearance as well as his mother's voice and the nearness of Toinefte had been purely spiritual. But whenever he saw a dog in the streets of Quebec he looked to see if one foot was missing. His excursions were short and ho wandered alone. He 6aw a number of his comrades, but they did not recognize him and he did not feel the impulse to let them know whtie was. Flesh had dropped from his bones until he resembled one approaching death Instead of escaping it He His walked with stooped shoulders. eyes were sunken, and his hands, in one of which he carried a staff, were emaciated to the thinness of extreme age. The small Interest life had held for him seemed to have shriveled with the strength of his body. The English rekindled the spark, his mother's English, the half of himself which he had tried to hate. They were not acting the part of conquerors. They were From the friends. unbelievably comto the Murray Brigadier gallant monest soldier, they were courteous, humane, generous, dividing their rations with the starved citizens, sharing their tobacco with them, helping without pay to build up ruined homes, each day working themselves deeper Into the good will of those who had been cheated and despoiled by Governor Vaudreuii and his degenerate crowd and by the weakness of the and king of France. Even the nuns the priests welcomed them, men and women of God who for two hundred years had fought Indefatlgably for New France. Honor and chivalry had England ft ai rain When whir Plains 10 B le of th Inn. n ... . . . . meiody or the hell, e t,,rouKQ the blackness I him on the ov"aken or Abraham, he found himself . -- i . eonproi "wopuHi unaer me care hi,j kV fecuM na? ? u 8 nUn' 0f that '"stitutlon. It lf onIy a few minutes had cV1,e msh of t,,e EnK,ish Wns tIie D,l(Il,le of 0 v tober ' mass or ruins, in the New " l"B oi fiume Jot had not l,onn VUS'" rium uieu ,r'tll ai. , ; when he was tron "uveniner, ... .. u"is enough u luhe Bavnnln-'- e . free,!,. "l movement the British ta, fn ' rcne "oldlers who had been thou2nt frequently of the that hud passed beFrcncn and lle mm English linos. aotUag of the Incident not nd pn r'n n. w, l!,tt,(J 'as ui,,-em- 8. West nd Laboratory tJ Offlr Totnple Kt., Halt Lake Clly, Utah. P. O. Hox nee. 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He was a leading donor of the university's endowment CONOCO GEkM 's T d they stay sold! ger. Therefore, whenever a man finds himself still living after a good gusty sneeze, people should express their gratitude with a blessing. Yet Indeed "Will you please complete for me," requests on Ohio Slate Journal "that old proverb which begins "It runs In need A friend the accommodated thus," Is one who editor; "A friend In need has been playing the stock market" 31. Mrs. C. C. Coleman writes from A'entura of "an actual experience I had during my career as a teacher In Arizona." A teacher of fourth-gradMexicans In Jerome, Ariz., while conducting a reading lesson, explained that the word "glorious" meant "grand." Later, when she asked little to give a sentence using the word "glorious," she received this reply : "My glorious mother died last week." Odd Beliefs Long Held Concerning the Sneeze g, CHAPTER XIV Castoria corrects CHILDREN'S ailments NICHOLS d It .v. i iorty paces, and France went !. 1 a shapeless mass of dead. "'" me iront line fell Jeems. H come to conquer Quebec and had brought such friendship for Its people that a British soldier was hanged in the public square for stealing from a resident of the town. Jeems felt this comradeship of his enemies. At first he was taciturn and aloof and talked only when courtesy required the effort of him. He observed that many eyes regarded Mm with a pity which added shame to the burden of his distress, and at times when he was struggling to hold his stooped shoulders erect sympathetic hands came to help him in spite of himself. His health returned slowly, but in the second week of his freedom an incident occurred which sent a warmer glow through his veins. He heard two soldiers talking on the street. They were talking nhout a dog a three-leggedog that passed in front of their line as they had stood ready to fire upon the French. When he returned to the little room which he still occupied In the general Mere Sainte-Claudhospital de thought fever had set Itself upon him again. The next day, he went out looking for the dog and found others who had beheld what his own eyes had seen. But he asked no questions except in a casual way and did not reveal the reason for his Interest He knew the dog could not be Odd, yet It was Odd for whom he was seeking. This paradoxical state of mind bothered him, and he wondered if his Illness had left him entirely sane. To think Odd had escaped Tiaoga's vengeance and had wandered through hundreds of miles of wilderness to Quebec would surely be an indication that it had not He continued to seek, trying to believe he was making the Quest a diversion which was healthful for his body, and that curiosity, not hope or faith, was encouraging him to find the three-legge- d dog. As Lower Town was the home of most of the dogs, he spent much of his time among its ruins, but without success. His search came to an unexpected end in St. Louis street where many aristocratic families of the city lived. Nancy Gagnon, who had been Nancy Lotbinlere before her marriage to Teter Gagnon, and a dearly loved belle of the town, described the Incident soon afterward In a letter to Anne St Denis-Rock- , and this letter, partly unintelligible because of its age, Is a cherished possession of that family. "I had come out of the house (she wrote) in time to see a strange figure pause near the iron gate which shut him out from the plot of ground where the dog was watching little Jeems at play with some blocks and sticks. He was a soldier In a faded uniform of France, with a hospital badge on his arm, and had apparently Just risen from a terrible sickness. As he staggered against the' gate with a strange cry, I thought he was about to faint and hurried toward him. Then a most amazing thing happened. The dog sprang straight at hira, and so frightened was I by the unexpectedness of his attack that I screamed at the top of my voice and snatched tip one of the baby's sticks with which I was about to beat the animal from his victim when, to my still greater astonishment, I saw that both man and beast were overcome by what appeared ta.be a paroxysm of recognition arvj Joy. The action of the dog together with my scream set little Jeems to crying lustily and my terrified voice brought Toinette and my father to the door. Shall I ever forget what happened then? .Toinette started first toward her baby, then saw the man at the gate, and the cry which came from her Hps will remain with me until my dying day. In a moment she was in that poor wreck of a soldier's arms, kissing him and sobbing, until, with the antics of the dog and the fiercer shrieking of the child, to gay nothing of my own wild appearance with the stick, we were beginning to attract the attention of the public. . . .w RISMON ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS PROCESSED r AUf FIN BAS MOTOR. OIL Travtl u ilh Contra Panportt . . , Send n outline of your proposed trip or let us help plus your trip. Get a Conoco pauport, in- Snotor dividually marked maps and other travel helps . . . all FREE! More than ihiny thcttMnd uotoruts used this service in the season just patted. . CONOCO TRAVEL BUREAU Denver. Colorado. . 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