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Show Back to the Old Home Use I Have yon anything to propose? I suppose not." he added, despairingly, as he cd into the Lice of the Other "Yes. Mr. Field. 1 propose this: that the expedition shall start at Rooa lo-.i- ! y BY ELIZABETH ROBBINS stood In fTOni of t'.: store o.l wtlicD the BritWh Bag was hoisted with an other beneiUl it bearing the magic letters, H. It. C; nia;ie. because they have opened to the world regions that seemed de ined never to Know the touch of civilization. The few inha hi' a .it at the Fori "had inhered: the dogs and 'ailed sleds were at the do..r. The Yvhi'e G.ard were there too all but their leader. It wanted but two minutes to twelve when Jaspar Hume came from his dressed also in the white house, blanket costume, and followed by his In moment more he dog, Jacques. had placed Jacques at the head of the first team of dogs. They were to have their leader too: and they testified to the fact by a bark of approval. Punctually at noon, Jaspar Hume hook hands with the Factor, said a to the rest, called out a quick good-byfriendly "How!" to the Indians stand-- t ing near, and to the sound of a hearty cheer, heartier perhaps because uone had a confident hope that the five would come back, the March of the White Guard began. I "Shall start at noon ?" "In two hours." "But, who are the party?" "Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours. Late Carscallen and "And who leads them. Hume? Who leads Oh THE. "With our permission, sir. do." "You. Hume! You' But, man, consider the danger! And then there is there is j'our invention'"' "I have considered all Here are three letters. If we do not come back in three months, you will please send ' this one, with the box in my room, to By the address on the envelope; this is for a solicitor In Montreal, which you SIR GILBERT PARKER will also forward as soon as possible; this last one is for yourself; bv.t you will not open it until the three months have passed. Have I your permission (Copy i llfht. 1IWS, liy It. t. Kenno Co. to lead these men? They would not CHAPTER 1. Continued. go without me." The men grouped themselves about "I know that, I know that, Hume. CHAPTER III. the fire. Late Carscallen getting the I hate to have It is 18 days after. In the shadow can't you go. but coldest corner. Each man drew his say no. Go, and good luck go with of a little island of pines, that lies in tobacco from his pocket, and, cutting you." a shivering waste of ice and snow, the Hume to it, waited for Here the manly old Factor turned White Guard camp. They are able to speak. His eyes were debating as away his head. He knew that do this night what they have not done they rested on the four. Then he took Jaspar Hume had done right. He for days dig a great grave of snow, out Hose Lepage's letter and, with the knew the this man and building a fire of pine wood at sacrifice possible group looking at him now, he read it was making of all his hopes, of his each end of this strange house, get aloud. When it was finished very life; and his sound Scotch heart protection and something like comfort. gave a guttural assent, and appreciated the act to the full But They sit close to the fires. Jaspar Gaspe Toujours, looking at Jeff Hyde, he did not know all. utne is writing with his numbed He did not said, "It is cold In the Barren Know that The extract that follows is Hume was starting lingers. Jaspar Grounds. We shall need much tabac." to look for the man who had robbed taken from his d'ary. It tells that These men could read without diffi- him of youth and hope and genius day's life, and s.) gives an idea of culty Jaspar Hume's reason for sum- and home. harder, sterner days that they have moning them. To Gaspe Toujour's re"Here is a letter that the wife has spent and will spend, on this weary mark Jeff Hyde nodded affirmatively, written to her husband in the hope journey. and then all looked at Late Carscalthat he is alive. You will take it "December 25th. This is Christmas len. He opened his heavy jaws once 27. with you. Hume. And the other she day We have and Camp animal-likor twice with an sound, wrote to me; shall I ' five miles We it?" inarched keep only and then he said, in a general kind of way: "To the Barren Grounds. But who leads?" Jaspar Hume was writing on a slip of paper, and he did not reply. The faces of three of them showed just a shade of anxiety. They had their opinions, but they were not sure. however, grunted at them, and raised the bowl of his pipe The anxiety toward the then seemed to be dispelled. For ten minutes more they sat so, all silent. Then Jaspar Hume rose, handed the slip of paper to Sergeant, Gosse, and said, "Attend to that at once, Gosse. Examine the food and blankets closely." The five were left alone. "Jeff Then Jaspar Hume spoke: Hyde, Gaspe Toujours. Late scallen, and man, aHve or dead, is between here and the Barren Grounds. He must be found for his wife's sake." He handed Jeff Hyde her letter. Jeff Hyde rubbed his fingers before he touched the delicate and perfumed missive. Its delicacy seemed to bewilder him. He said in a rough but kindly way, "Hope to die if I don't," and passed it on to Gaspe Toujours, who did not find it 'necessary to speak. His comrade had answered for him. Late Carscallen held it inquisitively for a moment, and then his jaws opened and shut as if he were about to r speak. But before he did so the said, "It is a long journey and a hard one. Those vttio go may never come back. But this man was working for his country, and he has got a wife a good wife!" He held up the letter. "Late Carscallen wants to know who will lead you. Can't you trust me? I will give you a leader that you will follow to the Barren Grounds. you will know who he is. Men, are you satisfied? Will you do it?" "We'll Drink to the Day When We See Them Again." The four rose, and nodded approvingly many times, "No, sir, I will keep it, if ycu will are 80 miles from Great Fish river, r The held out his hand. worst yet to do. We have disEach man shook it, Jeff Hyde first: allow me. It is my commission, you and the know." of a smile covered no signs. Jeff Hyde has had And the shadow and he said, "Close up ranks for the a bad two days with his frozen foot. H. B. C!" (H. B. C. meaning of hovered about Jaspar Hume's lips. The Factor sfniled kindly as he re- Gaspe Toujours helps him nobly. One course Hudson Bay Company.) of the dogs died this morning. Jacques "Ah, yes, your commission Once more Jaspar Hume spoke: plied: Jaspar Hume of of what. is a great leader. This night's shel"Go to Gosse and get your outfits at Capt. ter Is a godsend. Hume?" nine morning. Just then the door opened, and has a plan whereby some of us will have your sleds at the store at eight o'clock, to be loaded. Then there entered the four men whom sleep well. We are in latitude 63 fire degrees 47 minutes and longitude 112 all meet me at 10:ir at the office of we saw sat around the the night, before. They were dressed degrees :',2 minutes 14 seconds. Have the Chief Factor. Good night." out observations. lunar r Left alone the sat down in white blanket costumes from worked Have marked a tree JH, 27, and to the pine table at one end of the head to foot, white woolen capoti room and after a short hesitation be- covering the gray fur caps they and raised calm No. 3. We are able gan to write. For hours he sat there, wore. Jaspar Hume ran his eye over to celebrate Christmas Day with a s good basin of tea, and our standby of rising only to put wood on the fire. them and then answered the Factor beans cooked In fat. I was right about The result was three letters; the question! "Of the White Guard, sir." was the "Good," reply. "Men, you hem; they have great sustaining powlargest addressed to a famous society we will start at ten one er. in London, one to a solicitor in Mon- are going on a relief expedition o'clock." D You which Is in there to Mr. one and danger. treal, Field, the Chief Factor. They were all sealed carefully. a good leader. You have one in Jas The writing done. Jaspar Hume puts his book away and turns toward the Then Jaspar Hume rose, took out his par Hume." Jeff Hyde shook his head at the rest. Cloud-in-thknife and went over to the box as If Sky and Late Carex scallen are smoking. to break the red seal. He paused, others with a pleated Little can be n; however, sighed, and put the knife pri grunted bis seen of their faces; they are mufback again. As he did bo he felt deep approval; and Late Carscallen fled to the eyes. Gaspe Toujours is d his lips Id a satisfied man drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde something touch his leg. It was the dog. Jaspar Hume drew in a sharp ner and rubbed his leg with a school is fitfully dozing by the fire. The dogg breath and said, "It wag all ready, boy sense of enjoyment. The facl are above In the tent, all but Jacques, Is permitted to be neat Jacques; and in another three months continued: "In the name of the Hud who I should have been In London with It. son Hay company I will say thai II his master. The Sub factor rises, takes But it will go whether I go or not done your from a knapsack a small tin pail, and you come back, having Whether I go or not, Jacques." The duty faithfully, you shall be well re puts it near the fire. This operation Is dog sprang up and put his head warded. And I believe you will come watched by the others. Then he takes back. If It 's in human power to do five little cups that fit snugly into each against his master's breast. "Good dog! good dog! It's all right. so." other, separates them, and puts them 11 Jacques; however It goes, It's Hero Jeff Hyde said, "It Isn't for also near the fire. None of the party reward we're doln' it. Mr. Field, but (peak, A change seems to pass ovei right!" Then the lay down and watched becau e Capt. Hume wished It, be the faces of all except Cloud in He smokes on unmoved. At the man until he drew the blankets ceuse wo believed he'd lead us; and to his chin, and sleep drew oblivion for the loat fellow's wife. We wouldn't length the Sub factor speaks cheerover a fighting but masterly soul. have said we'd do it, if it. wasn't for ily; "Now, men. before we turn In him 'i'Bt'a Just called us the White we'll do something in honor of the CHAPTER If, day. Liquor we none of us have Guard." At ten o'clock next morning JasUnder the bronze of the Sub far1 touched since we started; but back par Hume presented himself at the tor's face them spread a glow more there In the for', and maybe In Chief Factor's office. He bore with red than brown, and he said simply. other places, too, they will be think him the letter he had written the "Thank you, men" for they had all ing to ur; so we'll drink a health to them though It's but a spoonful nodd rt assent to Jeff Hyde's won1 night before. The Factor ftld: "Well. Hume, i 'Com with me to the store We will and to the day when we see then am glad to see you. That woman's start at noon." again!" letter was on my mind all night, i And at noon tho white Gurd (TO UR CONTINl KD. 'o-da- I (Copyright, by Joseph Miles Torrey had not written when he was coming home, for he dearly loved a surprise, and so there was nothing for it but to walk the two miles from the railroad station. When he reached a certain rise in the "swamp" road he paused to take an observation. There, over across on the "Bridge" road, was the old Torrey homestead, looking exactly a it had always looked. Farther on were the Gilsocs' roofs, then the Witherells' chimneys, and away beyond the untainted corner of something that must be the little new chapel his mother had Written about. On the nearer side was the Harwood place, and neaer yet, the Caswells' barn, which, from this point, he remembered, shut off the view of the house. Miles continued on his way with a feeling of lively satisfaction in finding so few changes after five years' absence, so when he had turned the corner and come to where the house ought to be, and there beheld only its blackened timbers lying on the ground, he was a good deal shocked. "When and how did it happen?" he asked his mother, after he had enjoyed to the full her astonishment at seeing him. and each had inquired after the other's health. "It was three months ago, in September, just after that last letter I "Dr. sent," Mrs. Torrey told him. Burrell came along one day and said old Jed Washburn had been sick, all tumble-alone there in his down place, and they packed tip some things and started right off to do what they could for him." "Aunt Mary and Uncle Nathan, all over!" exclaimed Miles. "They think the chimney must have been burning out, and somehow set fire to the woodwork inside." Mrs. Torrey went on. "At any rate nobody saw the smuke in time to save anything, and everything was flat when they came back." "Too bad, too bad!" said Miles. "1 suppose they went to live with the boys?" "Yes, though I couldn't find out from their letter which one they're with. Neither Mary nor Nathan were very much for writing." "Perhaps they'll build again." "Oh, they can't! They were too good hearted ever to save much, and there was no insurance." "It isn't likely that Ed. nor Gib can help them any," Miles reflected. "They're two as good fellows as ever Cas-well- Paused to Take an Observation. lived, but they were never moneyI would have stopped to makers. see them as 1 came through the city, If I hadn't been in such a hurry to get home. Hut I'm going again soon, to talk with an architect." "An architect?" Mrs. Torrey's face flushed. She had always wanted a new house one in which the south side was not almost wholly taken up with entries and stairways and closets a house with a bathroom and bay windows, and possibly a little conservatory. Was her wish to come true? or was Miles thinking of getting married "Yes, mother. I've made my pile out there, and you're going to have your house." "Where are you going to haveI it?". uWhere tne nouxe i nun is uir It?" isn't on the farm, sightllest spot "Yes. I think so. What will you do with this house?" suppose," he an"Tear it down, kind of "though slowly, swered 1 1 hate to." They were both silent for several minutes. Hi. n Mrs. Torrey cried out suddenly: "Oh, Miles! Why couldn't It be moved Ht to the Caswells?" He whs alert in an instant. "That's so!" be exclaimed, "and not let them know anything about it till 'twas all H be great!" ready for em. Wouldn't with this be moved, it "But could Mrs. Torrey all?" and chimney big asked anxiously. B.hu m! I d risk Andrew Hale" to move anything on top of the earth ..tu that's settled," said Mrs Torrev happily "But mother!" Miles laughed In the midst of It. "Maybe they don't want back. Likely as no' they're In Watter suited with the city than they - IS. 9mm) ever were with the country, and wouldn't come hack for anything." "Maybe so," she assented, doubtfully. "But you will be seeing them pretty soon, and can find out all about it." "Did they say anything about coming back?" Mrs. Torrey asked Miles on his return from a visit to the Cas- wc-ll- 'Tncle Nathan did. after we left Aunt Mary s. They want to come and camp out in their barn next summer, he to work for the neighbors. guess the boys don't think much of it, by the way he brightened up when I said 'twas a good scheme and we'd lend em the furniture for it. I made up my mind then and there that they must have this house. We'll give 'em the biggest kind of a surprise." la March came Mil-- s Torrey with an invitation: "Mother wants you both to come out and stay over Raster Sunday the new chapel is going to be dedicated then. And I am going to take you there in my new automobile." The journey was interrupted halfway by the rain, and Miles and his guests had to spend the rest of the afternoon at a hotel. At nine in the evening, however, the rain had entirely ceased, and they started once more. The air was warm, but there was a great deal of water standing on the road, and that and a dense fog made it necessary to proceed at a snail's pace. Aunt Mary and Uncle Nathan's was unimpaired, but cheerfulness .Miles was disappointed and disgusted This was all so different from what he had planned. Then suddenly the fog suggested an idea. He would still let them think they were going to visit his mother, and let the situation reveal itself as it would. He could not be a witness to the surprise, but wouldn't it be tremendous! "Here we are at last," said Miles, bringing the automobile to a stop. "And it is as. J. feared; everybody is abed." "Don't wake her up!" they both besought him earnestly. "You jest show us to our room, and we won't make a hit more noise than we can help." 1 ; A Sabbath quiet brooded over the house when they awoke in the mornOutside they could hear birds ing. bluebirds, a chickadees, singing robin, a nuthatch. They talked awhile in whispers, then Uncle Nathan said: "Don't you s'pose we could get up real still and slip out and over to the old place? Seems 'sif 'twould make it seem more like Sunday somehow." "I don't see why we couldn't," Aunt Mary answered. "I wonder if we can see it from here." She got up and went to look out of one of the front windows. She held the curtain far"Why!" ther aside and looked harder. "Why, I can't make it seem right. Why, Nathan!" as the sun burst forth "the sun is Hsing over across the road in the west, or else I'm losing my mind!" Uncle Nathan sprang out of bed and "It stared out over her shoulder. ain't the Torrey place," he said, slowly. "Miles has been playing some joke on us. If I didn't know it couldn'-- t be. I should think" He went to a window on the other side. ' Mary come quick!" he cried, excitedly. "It's c r elm tree, and our barn: the Torrey place Is over there, and their house is gone!" Aunt Mary sank into a chair. "What does it mean?" she asked weakly. "I don't know," he answered, beginning to dress in feverish haste. They were both dressed, when a large piece of paper, half under the door, caught their attention. As Uncle Nathan's name appeared on it, ho opened and read it. "Mr. and Mrs. Caswell: This houss and everything in It Is yours, a froo gift from your many friends.' "They moved the Torrey house oer here and fitted it all up for us," said Uncle Nathan in an awed voice. They looked at each other as if stunned for a moment, then Aunt Mary threw herself into Uncle Nathan's arms, and they cried together. He was the first to recover. "How ridickerlous for us to stand here a weeping!" he said. "Come let's explore." Aunt Mary wiped her eyes and followed him Into the kitchen. "Just like our old one, for all the world!" said Uncle Nathan. "And the woodbox full of kindlings, all ready to start a Are." "They went over the house togethI see how er 'twas," said Aunt Mary thoughtfully. "As long as the house Itself was like the old one, they thought they'd make the rooms as near like as they could, and 'everybody helped. That grandfather clock must have come from Jed Washburn you know his and our'n wag jest alike: the sitting room carpet Is the one Susan Witherell had in her spare room we bought em off the same piece; ths paper is some Silas Crane had left on his hands when he failed up five years ago; Dr. Burrell give that old des- kmost every why! I can tell where single thlna come from ! Then with grateful hearts they walked along the road they had trav-fleso many times before, to meet t ht ir old neighbors and Join them In r service at th,e new chape!. !, MARCH WHITE GUARD e 1 Sub-facto- r Cloud-in-the-Sk- Cloud-in-the-Sk- Sub-facto- Cloud-in-the-Sk- Sub-facto- Cloud-in-the-Sk- y Sub-facto- - Cloud-in-the-Sk- Cloud-in-the-Sk- s Sub-facto- e Cloud-in-the-Sk- the-Sky- . NORTHWEST NOTES A Greek laborer who has been working on a section gang for the Southern Pacific at Verdi, Nevada, was struck by a train and fearfully mangled. son of J. F. Hussell, the ranchman of the Allen, a Clark's Fork country near Cody, Wyo., was kicked to death by a horse last week. son of William The five year-olGeorge ot 1. a ramie, fell from a wagctx and the wheel ran over his head, tearing the scalp loose and removing one ear entirely. Somewhere in the desert near Mt. Brougher a meteorite fell one night last week. The fall was seen by hundreds in Tonopah, and a search may be made tcS it. John I.uther, a ranchman living nea. Laramie, is quite ill at the hospital in Laramie with ptomaine poisoning, believed to have been received from eating canned tomatoes. During the progress of a race war between Greek and Italian employes at Bucktown. Colo., Joseph Musago was shot in the head and is now at the hospital in a serious condition. Through the accidental discharge of a pump shotgun, Mrs. Nellie Hockel, a member of a hunting part, was shot and instantly killed about twelve miles east of Denver, in Adams county. During a fight over a game of billiards at Billings, Mont., Joe Lawson struck Charles Fisher, knocking him against the wall and breaking his neck. I.awson is in jail awaiting trial. Mrs. W. 1!. Howard, wife of a prominent resident of Jansen, Colo., is la a critical condition at her home as the result of a shock from a bolt of lightning which struck their home during a storm. Eddie Harriman, jr., the son of E. H. Harrininn, the ndlioad magnate, recently fired an engine the entire distance from Laramlo to Kaw-11n- s and unaided succeeded in getting in on the dot. Perry Roberts, living near Laramie, is in a hospital undergoing treatment for broken ribs, one of the bones puncturing his lung. He fell from a oad of lumber and the wheels of the wagon ran over him. Francis II. Cook, a Spokane pioneer, has secured a patent on a device for transferring the mail and baggage of railway passengers to and from moving trains without stopping at stations or slacking speed. W. M. Brown, Wells-Fargagent at Tallac, Lake Tah.ee. Nevada, has departed for parts unknown and it i3 also asserted that he took several thousand dollars of the company's money with him. While attempting to steal ducks from the ranch of W. A. Wilsey, near Reno, Nevada, a young man whose name th police have been unable to obtain, was shot in the back and quite painfully wounded by Wilsey. B. F. Caldwell, a forest ranger at Pinedale, Wyo., for several years, has resigned because he could not consistently carry out the orders of M superiors and do justice to the stockmen and small settlers. Because he had been notified by the mayor to get out of town, coupled with the fact that his sweetheart had gone back on him, Oscar Jones, a man or Fas Animas, Colo., sent a bullet through his brain. The plumbers of Butte have won their strike, the master plumbers finally acceding to the demand of the union for $8 a day The plumbers haw been receiving $7 a day. lor which sum thev struck several months ago. Joe Lafieur, a typical bail man, was killed by Deputy Sheriff Kmerson at Arwood, Nevada, while resisting arrest. Lafieur atacked the deputy with a knife, stabbing him in the shoulder, and was shot by the officer. Freeman Charles of Council Bluffs, la., who is visiting at Piedmont, Wyo., while hunting accidentally shot himself in the left foot. Inflicting a painTwo ful but not dangerous wound. toes will probably be amputated. By the bursting of a stertM pipe at level of the shnM on the the Nevada Smelter & Mines Corporation 'a Tybo property, at Tonopah, J. Jensen. J. M. Savage and Frank A. Woodward were so horribly scalded that they may die. Jennie Galloway, a negress, accusea of attempting to blackmail Frank Vor-hea prominent merchant of Colorado Springs, by threatening to abduct his children if he did not give her 1100, has been bound over to the district court. windmill Falling rrom a sixty-foot- , and for almost four days lying on Co ground helpless, with both legs oroken and unable to summon assistance, was the experience of TltomaR HiiflWIy. an elderly farmer, who lives near Fort Morgan, Colo. A party of Rock Springs people will make an attempt to climb Frem "it . the highest mountain In They have taken along ropes, hooks and other mountain-climbtns- , paraphernalia, and expect to succeed in scaling the heights Enraged from a slap In the face. W. W. Wilson, a drlllmnn who has employed by the l lah Oonal mtloh at Chllcoot, Nevada, shot and almost Instantly k'lled .Tames 'Slim"' Moon a construction foreman who bin beeii employed on the Western Pacific at Wlnnemitcca. Deputy Constable George Gib '', who shot and killed R E II. Mausi II rltf. a mining engineer. In (ho rdTt trlct of Goldfield. hits b"cn heir! to tr e district court by Justice of th ;' mifdf. i Henley on this c' tfl- v mediately followin- a verdict refttomj tv a ooroaer! well-know- n d o well-know- n 60-fo- Wo-mlng- snow-cappe- - in MtofgiMl" i |