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Show day. We are facing Hire :t,rs now: and the stalwart but . macl-atethe rate of those we left behind; his Indian who had beckoned to fate; and the going back. We are litem s' -- ak to each other in the Chithirty miles from Manitou Mountain nook the jargon common If he is found. I should not fear at all to all Indians of the West. the return journey: success gives Jaspar Hume saw a form reclining on hope. We trust In God." a treat DUO Ale of pine blanches, and Another da passes and at night, knew what Lose Lepage had after a hard march, they camp five hp lor had tome to pass. By the prayed miles from Manitou Mountain. And tif a handful of fire he flickering not a sign! But .laspar Hume knows saw Varrelight Li pase rather what was that there is a faint chance of Varre left of him a shadow of energy, a Lepage being found at this mountain. heap of nerveless bones. His eyes His iron frame has borne the hard were OF THE shut, bin as las ar Hume, with ships of this journey well; his val- a quiver of memory and sympathy at iant heart better. Hut this night an his heart, stood for an instant and unaccountable weakness possesses looked ft the man whom he had cherhim. Mind and body are on the verge ished as a friend and found an enemy, ot helplessness and faintness. Jacques the pale lips of Varre lepage moved seems to understand that, and when and a weak voice said "Who is he is unhitched from the team of dogs, there?" now dwindled to seven, he goes to his "A friend." master and leaps upon his breast It "A Come near me, friend! was as if some instinct of sympathy, l SIR GILBERT PARKER friend!" of prescience, was between passing .laspar Hume made a motion to Late the man and the dog. .laspar Hume who was heating some Carscallen. beul his head down to Jacques for an at the fire, and he came uear liquor instant K Rami & rubbed his Pernio side Co.) Copyi Mfk lAi, 17 kindly; then he said, with a tired accent, "it's and stooped and lifted up the sick man's head, and took, his hand. CHAPTER IV. Continued. all right, dog: it's all right!" A tent was set up. provisions were "You have come to save me to laspar Hume did not sleep well at save me!" said the weak voice again. pni In it. a spirit lamp ami matches first tiiat night, but at oblivion length were added, and the simple menage came have come to save you.' "Yes: lie waked to feel Jacques tugNot was complete. quite, .laspar ging ai bis blankets. It was noon. This voice was strong and clear and Hume looked round. There was not Late true. Carscallen and a tree in sight. He stooped and cut were still "1 seem to have heard youi inanimate bundles sleeping was used for away a pole that before I the (logs. In an hour they voice before somewhere among " of runners the the strengthening Hut he had fainted were on their way again, and toward seem to have sleds; fastened it firmly in the ground, sunset they had reached the foot of , Jaspar Hume poured a little liquor and tied to it a red woollen scarf, Manitou Mountain. Abruptly from the down the sick man's throat, and Late which he had used for tightening his plain rose this mighty mound, blue Carscallen chafed the. delicate hand-deli- cate white blankets round him. Then he and white in health, it was like that ol upon a black base. A few said: "lie sure and keep that flying, now. When, breath came a lktle child near its foot, grew struggling pines men." latitude, as the mountain it- again Jaspar Hume whispered to his defying Jeff Hyde's face was turned toward self defied the calculations of geograand helper. "Take the north. The blind man's instinct A and geologists. halt was get wood; bring fresh branches; phers was coming to him. Far off white called. Late Carscallen and Cloud-in- clear one of the sleds, and we will eddying drifts were rising over long hillocks of snow. When Jeff turned round again his face was slightly troubled. It grew more troubled, theu it brightened up again, and he said to .laspar Hume, "Captain, would you leave that book with me till you come hack that about infirmities, I knew a dangers, and necessities? river-bos- s who used to carry an old spelling-booround with hint for luck. It had belonged to a schoolmaster who took him in anil did for him when his father and mother went into Kingdom Come. It seems to me as if that tiook of yours, Captain, would bring luck to this part of tin' White Guard, that bein' out tat the heels like has to stay behind." Jaspar Hume had borne he sufferings of his life with courage; he had led this terrible tramp witli no tremor at his heart for himself: he was seeking to perform a perilous act without any inward shrinking: but Jeff's request was the greatest trial of this momentous period in his life. This book had not left his breast, save when he slept, for twenty years. To give it up was like throwing open the doors of his nature to such nesses that assail and conquer most men at some time or other in their lives. Jeff Hyde felt, if he could not see, the hesitation of his chief. His rough but kind instincts told him something was wrong in his request, and he hastened to add. "Heg your pardon, sir, it ain't no matter; oughtn't to have asked you for it. Hut it's just like me; I've been a chain on the leg of the White Guard this whole tramp." had The moment of hesitation "You You Are Jaspar Hume." passed before Jeff Hyde had said half a dozen words, and Jaspar Hume put looked at the chief. His eyes start back with him in the early mornthe book in his hands with the words. the Sky were scanning the mountain closely. ing." will It it. bring "No, Jeff Hyde, take Late Carscallen, looking at the skeletPut it Suddenly he paused. Five hundred luck to the White Guard. on-like hole a is round feet there up figure, said, "He will never great where 'have carried if. and keep it in the solid rock, and from tnis hole get there." I come back.'' safe until there comes a feeble cloud of smoke! "Yes," said Jaspar Hume; "he will Jeff Hyde placed the book in his Hume's hand points where his get there." Jaspar a but guttural "Ugh" hearing bosom, "Hut he is dying." are fixed. The other two see. behind' "hint he turned round defiantly. eyes "He goes with me to Fort Provigives a wild whoop, The Indian touched his arm and said. a whoop as only an Indian can dence." such book Strong-bac"Good! good!" "Ay. to Providence he goes, but give, and from the mountain there Jeff was satisfied. comes, a moment after, a faint replica not with you," said Late Carscallen, Jeff At this point they parted, Hyde of the sound. It is not an echo, for sadly but doggedly. and Gaspe Toujours remaining, and there appears at the mouth of the Anger flashed in Jaspar Hume's followers two his Hume anjl Jaspar cave an Indian who sees them and eye, but he said quietly, "I shall take Mountain. going on toward Manitou makes feeble signs for them to come. him to his wife; get the wood, CarThere seemed little probability that In a few moments they are at the scallen." ,n Varre Lepage would be found. cave. As Jaspar Hume enters. Cloud(TO HE CONTINUED.) their progress eastward and northward they had covered wide areas of country, dividing and meeting again after stated hours of travel, but not a sign had been seen: neither cairn nor staff nor any mark of hitman prescations is the hot water. Hut colds ence. must run their course, and stop of of Grand Makes Jeff Science Light Hyde'B Medical Jaspar Hume had noticed themselves. Hot water, olive oil or mothers' "Cures." face when it was turned to the eddy Worcestershire sauce would do as well under he and the of north, ing drifts as any other preparation for bruises stood what was in the experienced A distinguished inventor has applied and stiff muscles; it is the huntsman's mind. He knew that se- for a patent for a very superior lini that heals, not the liniment. rubbing Porous and before them, vere weather was has compounded and plasters and other counter-irritanthe which ment that the greatest difficulty of the jourdid him are as a rule useless. Nosebleeds rarelYet, which he honestly believes ney was to be encountered think y last more than a few minutes. Napeople Intelligent him Many good. sirmehow, the fear that possessed ture aids quickly, and the specific gets to aches be applied when the book w.as taken from his liniment should the credit. do not doctors he Modem and him. reaped Mid bruises. breast had left Some very serious diseases, such as a larger in his act of believe in it and oppose the authority pneumonia, typhoid and consumption that than rarer this and not strength courage only upon of our grandmothers be drugged In all mannner to that used on him which had heretofore stayed point but upon a multitude of others of ways are now let alone by the best this cheerless journey., with respect to "sovereign" remedies. practitioners after the patient has That night they saw Manitou Mounmade clean and comfortable, K. Hlrshberg, M. D.. says In the been I.. tain, cold, colossal, harshly calm; and that saw- while a greater percentage of cases American Magazine current a arose there with that sight jointly The would cure bolls, bee than formerly make recoveries. shrieking, biting, fearful north wind. dust poultices crisis of a particular disease Is not It blew upon them In cruel menace of stings and mumps as well as flaxseed necessarily on an odd day, as the third, It or other poultices; that sage, saxifrage the seventh, or the ninth. conquest, in piercing itx leniency. Obesity is struck a freezing terror to their std beef tea never relieved a bodily not caused by overmuch drinking ol unattack violent in and grew hearts, disorder: that mustard footbaths, hot water or cured by Its abstention. Sleep til, as if repenting that it had fore- lemonade, hot Scotches, whisky and ing after meals Is not unhealthfttl gone Its K)wer to save, the sun sudand powders are all alike hope-le- Dyes in stockings are not poisonous quinine and and red spread angry denly grew for colds; that faulty logic stops a and taking lime water will not cure out. a shield of blood along the basby pinching the patient's warts. nosebleed tions of the west. The wind shrunk at"1 ,,ial ,)"i,H wl" no m"r' Hp. back and grew less murderous, and Dppo blood" than electric belts the Grandees of Spain. "purify ere the last red arrows shot up be has tiflO.OOO titled hOI ward off ghastly maladies. or Spain of wall western white, hind the lonely bOOl one to every !tS is an exaggerated pimple, Inhabitants A boll worst of the the the three knew that the incursion of noxious Such titles are held of no esteem to storm had passed and that death had caused by without upon slight abra the original peerage of the country from ernis What a time for back Jaspar drawn That is why men however These original peers are skin. of the Ions from we shall gather Hume, thought stiff collars are more sub- known as grandees and form an arls his diary; for ere he crawled In anions who wear affliction than women. The tocracy entirely of birth, some of the dogs and stretched himself out ject to this If any. in poultices and them having no handle at all to thelt agent. healing these words beside Jacques, be wrote in the various effusions of herbs and names, yet they refuse to mix with with aching finger concoctions for internal appll even dukes of new creation. "January 100) Camp St. A Diner other MARCH A Prearranged Match GUARD - I Cloud-in-the-Sk- y Cloud-in-the-Sk- y By Genevieve Hays TREAD POWERS Miss Murray paused, brush in hand, as an ominous sound reached her ears from at: adjoining room a sound IN DAIRY. that had grown distressingly familiar since her arrival at the Courtlands' and which always betokened a disturbance In the domestic atmosphere of that plai "They'll- at it again," she commented. Carelessly, nodding to the bright, Insouciant face in the glass and bringing he brush down vigorously upon the wealth of hair falling about her like a silken shroud. "They quarrel Incessantly, day and night, and keep one in a delightful state of as to which it will be a skirmisli i. .1 battle royal. And. considering this little peculiarity, it seems that I was not given a room farther removed from theirs. Fortunately, life at Brother John's has accustomed me to such a state of affairs but poor Den ni ' Genise Murray was an orphan. The greater part of her life had been At 18 she spent at boarding school. returned home to find that her brother to whose care had been intrusted her share ot her father's estate had lost all tier money in an unlucky specShe was penniless. ulation. John Murray briefly stated this fact to his sister and suggested but one alternative to marry rich. "As yet no one knows of this unfortunate loss. You are still considered an heiress, and are handsome enough to marry where you choose. have here an invitation from the Court lands for you to spend a month or so with them. They are wealthy and have but one child an unmarried son. j , 1 mm torn lM L 1 1 Cloud-in-the-Sk- - Old Remedies Laughed At s Uniform Rate of Speed Secured by clously. "It would not be tree ty- na-J Use of Heavy Fly Wheel. fiut it were otherwise! tufe your parents did not know thatM am Utter-- I While the small gasoline engines ly penniless. John lost all my money to running Cream separators adapted In some unfortunate speculation, and have been hailed with delight by many his only ideas of atonement are to the old tread power is s ill assist me In securing a tich husband dairymen, a very economical and reliable source and you were his first offering." of power. With a heavy sheep, dog stam"Lost all your fortune?" or the dairy herd bull, enough power Dennis. colonel mered "Why. the be produced to run the separator neer suspected this. He has repeat can and churn at practically no cost exedJy explained to me what a solid foundation your money would be to cept for the (read. One difficulty has been to secure a our tottering credit. Do you know that we are on the eve of bank-- j ruptcy?" Then they laughed, these two. as if this were the best joke of the season! Miss Murary was the first to speak. "It is too delicious," she gasped, sweeping a bit of filmy cobweb across her egfs. "Suppose they had really succeeded in their plans wouldn't the awakening have been Good Use for the Ram. terrible! Whatever else fate has in store for us, we are fortunate in uniform rate of speed, but this is Hut must tell you solved If a heavy flv wheel is atmissing that. why I accepted the invitation hero tached to the tread. While the sketch shows a direct drive from tread to I. lie was un- simply for a change! bearable at Brother John's, and I separator, a more desirable arrangement is to have the tread located in a told myself that would comegive room adjoining the separator room, you my confidence if you were worthy where the milk will not be exposed to of it (which the first glance assured me that you were), secure a few the breath of the animal. weeks' rest, and so have time'to colCAUSE OF GAS IN THE CHURN. lect my scattered thoughts and decide .jon some plan of action for the future. Was not my decision a wise An Explanation of This Peculiar Phenomenon in Handling Cream. one?" "Ask yourself that question at the ond of a week." answered Frequently in churning gas will acDennis, with an awkward laugh. "1 am afraid cumulate after several rounds and you have escaped Charybdis only to create a pressure inside sufficiently be wrecked at last upon Scylla! Ours great to produce a popping report at is not what would be termed a happy the buttermilk outlet when the cork is family. The colonel and his wife were removed. This delights the children never known to ngree on any subject, and calls for an explanation such as and they are always conversing." is requested In the following: "Do they quarrel?" "What causes the compressors of asked Miss have often noticed air in a churn? Murray, in an awed undertone. answered "Fearfully," Dennis, that after several turns of a barrel ( burn-onwould find the cream oozing grimly, rather enjoying his companion's perturbed face. out at the sides of the cover. In "Hefore people?" taking out the cork at the bottom th "Before people." gas would escape with force." The compressure of air is due to fits "Well," she said, reflectively, "entering upon such. a life will not be as formation of gas produced by certain difficult as if one had not servpd an bacteria.. These organisms exist in apprenticeship beforehand, and 1 am the cream when il is being soured lot already fortified, so you will have no churning. The gas is a occasion to feel annoyed about me. simply speaking, and as it forms by I hear you have a lovely place. I fermentation 'or other processes In will enjoy that, while whatever others duced by the gerns, it is held tji the think, you will know that I have no body of the cream, being unable tc Hut shall exdesigns upon you. rise and escape on account of the denpect you to be my friend and make sity of the same. 'my visit as plesant as possible; will The maximum amount of gas is you?" naturally contained in'the cream just "I shall do everything in my powat churning time. A little is liberated er," he answered fervently, actually in stirring and pouring. Cream that smiling upon her in a manner that, has been agitated with a paddle durhad they seen it, would have enraged ing the ripening process will often the feminine admirers who had vainshow bubbles on the surface. This is ly tried to make souk; impression the same gas as is collected In the upon his obdurate heart. churn. The greater the viscosity of the Thus was their friendship estabcream the larger will be the bubbles lished. before they break, says Coleman's In the weeks thai followed Dennis Rural World. The presence of thin Courtland fulfilled his promise. phenomenon indicates that more clean liness could be practiced. The obGray clouds swept over the sky. and to the gas is that it is liabl ) jection a little chill entered Miss Murray's to impart more or less of a strong ot de-as she heart made ready for her ' undesirable flavor In cream of parture and said she was glad she purity. was going. She said It repeatedly though no one had contradicted her Buy a Good Separator. and added that gloomy wesfher alWhen a separator is to be al-- : had made her Miserable ways see that it is a good one. ways! are many cheap and worthless And with this apology for an acWag There machines on the market that will heart, Miss Murray made a most be-- , disgust the buyers when they coming toilette and went down to simply come to use them. The separators ad Court-lands- . her the last with evening spend vertised in the Farmers' Review are not of this class, hut are of the class She was all alone and was singing when Dennis entered, sweet, old fash-- ' that will give satisfaction for many years to come. The buyer of a sep lotted ballads that our grandmothers arator should remember that when a knew and loved. separator is offered him at a price far A dull red fire, a warm room scented with chrysanthemums, a young below what the regular companies can make them for. something must be or the voice face (he girl singing the matter with it. The matter is was which the Bweetesf? He con!" generally that the cheap machine is not tell. But that the song, the me! manufactured at a very low cost out ody of which would echo down all th of poor material and lacks exact, less years of his after life, had been mad Without that exactin adjustment. for him and was now sung for hfm b ness a separator is of no value. "this lost woman of his youth yet possessed." Did You Ever. He roused himself at last to reali Did you ever stop to figure out how that she was going. He gazed Ion He much you lose by not knowing exact held hi Ingly Into her face. hands with a mighty strength, the ly what your cows art; doing fiom day IK) you ever sit. down and to day? pressed them gently to his lips. "Why, Dennis, you don't " study hard as to why your herd gave ?,00 pounds of milk one night and "But I do," he answered, with laugh that was half a sob. "I love you morning and only 273 pounds the secGenise! I would die for you!" ond night and morning following? Did Hut Miss Murray remained slleni you ever add a fresh cow to your herd her hands resting passively in his, he: and find at the end of a week that you were getting only as much milk as eyes fixed wonderlngly on the hand some, soldierly figure, the pale fac you were before the fresh cow was ana the glossy, cropped head. added, though you had fully counted That Dennis loved her her! was upon maintaining the original flow something almost beyond the young and being belter off by just one cow's lady's comprehension, and that the milk? How often were you successful knowledge of this fact should thrill in getting the herd hack to its former her with such wild, strange Joy, was flow under these circumstances? something almost equally Incomprehensible. Farmers. The The man was waiting for an anThe far sighted farmers are plan swer. She must speak. nlng on having an abundanec of rough "I want you," she cried, desperage for the cows next winter. With ately, all of her tact and graceful plenty of hay, corn fodder, rplllct (alaplomb deserting her at this crisis though millet is not an extra good "You are willing to trust me?" he feed to produce milk) straw, etc., supquestioned, plemented with a light grain ration, If "Yes." the present high prices of grain pre"For life?" vail, they will be able to make inonev "For life," whispered Miss MuTray. out of their cows next winter. Tie In delicious confusion, but utter conprevailing sentiment is la favor of tent. more cows, and lu this the farm en And this answer she has never are "wise in their djf and genera J k : ''Y . WHI self-sacrifi- 1 1" She was Alone and was Singing When Dennis Entered. Play your cards well and win him. It is the only chance I can give " you." And Genise Murray accepted the invitation as she did the advice, without comment. Three weeks' ' endur- ance with her uncertain temper and her brother's morose silence advised the wisdom of obtaining a temporary release from both, even if such were to be accomplished only by a visit to a certain tropical locality. "But if John thinks I am willing to take my chances in the matrimonial market after the insight he and Rosamond have given me Into wedded bliss, he is mistaken." soliloquized Miss Murray, as she paused in her trunk packing to mend a pair of torn gloves, "and so I shall tell this unfortunate young gentleman who is offered me without his knowledge In lieu of my lost fortune." Sb when Dennis Courtland in obedience to parental commands drove to the station to meet the girl who might prove a desirable consul t "In the role of sweet simplicity," he commented, grimly, noting iter dainty "If worn costume of nun like gray. en only wouldn't make their wiles so apparent r" Then he broke off In amazement at what she was saying: "Please drive slow, Mr. Courtland; I wish to talk to you." "Evidently doesn't Intend to lose any time," thought Dennis, cynically, as he acquiesced stiffly with her request. Flashing an Inquisitive glance into that haughty, defiant face. Genise Murray concluded that the woman who embarked In a matrimonial venture with this young man would have anything but a smooth sail through life; though aloud she only said: "We are strangers, and to some extent will be expected to entertain each otber In the coming weeks, so It Is best that we should have an unYou derstanding In the beginning may not know it but my brother sent me down here to marry you " No other woman could say things In Miss Murray's Inimitable manner "Your brother's wishes coincide with my parents'; they are anxious for me to marry you." "And of course you made up your mind to hate me at once." I'ennls winced and stammered. "Don't trouble yourself to deny the charge," laughed his companion, viva sister-in-law- 's ' first-clas- 11 Hon." |