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Show V STORYgj MARCH or THE WHITE GUARD Bj, SIR GILBERT PARKER (Copjl l(tht, IMS, OJT H. F. Fenoct Co ) CHAPTER IV Continued. And Jaspar llume wan left alone with the starving Indian, who sat be side the lire eating voraciously, and the sufferer, who now mechanically was taking a little biscuit sopped In brandy. For a few moments thus, and his sunken eyes opened and he looked dazedly at the man bending above him. Suddenly there came into them a look of terror. "You you are Jaspar Hume," the voice said In an awed whisper. Yes, and the hands of the Subfactor chafed those of the other. "But you said you were a friend, nd come to save me." "i am come to save you. There was a shiver of the sufferer's body. This discovery would either make him stronger or kill him altogether. Jaspar Hume knew this, and said: "Varre Lepage, the past Is past and dead to me; let it be so to you. There was a pause. How did you know about me?" I was at Fort Providence; there came letters from the Hudson Bay Company, and from your wife, saying that you were making this journey, and were six months behind "My wife, my wife! Rose!" "Yes, I have a letter for you from her. She is on her way to Canada. We are to take you to her." "To take me to her!" He shook his head sadly, but he pressed the letter that Jaspar Hume had Just given him to his lips. "To take you to her, Varre Lepage." . No, I shall never see her again. "I tell you, you shall. You can live If you will. You owe that to her to me to God!" "To her to you to God. But 1 have been true to none. To win her I wronged you doubly and wronged her too; and wronging both of you, 1 wronged That Other One. I haVe been punished. I shall die here." "You shall go to Fort Providence. Do that in payment of your debt to me, Varre Lepage. I demand that. In this sinning man there was a latent spark of honor, a sense of justice that might have been developed to great causes, to noblo ends, if some strong naturo, seeing his weaknesses, had not condoned them, but had appealed to the natural chivalry of an impressionable, vain, and weak character He struggled to meet the eyes of Jaspar Hume, and doing so ho gained confidence and said, "I will try to live. I will do you justice yet. But, oh, my wife! "Your first duty is to eat and drink. We start for Fort Providence morning. The sick man stretched out his hand: Food! Food!" ho said. In little bits food and drink were given to him, and bib strength sensibly increased. The eave was soon aglow with the fire that was kindled by Late Carscallen and There was little speaking, for the sick man soon fell asleep Varre Lepage's Indian told the tale of their march how the other Indian and the dogs died; how his master became ill as they were starting toward Fort Providence from Manitou Mountain In the summer weather; how they turned back and took reluge in this cave; how month by month they had lived on what would hardly keep a rabbit alive; and how at last his master urged him to press on with his papers; but he would not, and stayed until this day, when the last bit of food had been eaten, and they were found! Cloud-in-the-Sk- Cloud-in-the-Sk- CHAPTER V. The next morning Varre Lepage was placed upon a sled and they started back, Jacques barking joyfully as he led off, with beside him. There was light In the faces of all, though the light could not be seen by reason of their being muffled so. All day they traveled, scarcely halting, Varre Lepages Indian being strong again and marching well. bundle on the Often the corpse-liksled was disturbed and biscuits wet in brandy and bits of preserved venison were given. That night Jaspar Hume said to Late Carscallen: "I am going to start at the first light of the morning to get to Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde as soon as possible. Follow as fast as vou can. He will be safe if you give lim food and drink often. I shall get m the place where we left them about noon; you should reach there at night or early the next morning. Cloud-ln-the-Sk- "Hadn't you better take Jacques with you?" said Late Carscallen. r The thought a moment, and then said, "No, he is needed mo6t where he is. At noon the next day Jaspar Hume looks round upon a billowy plain of sun and ice, but he seea no staff, no Sub-facto- signal, no tent, no sign of human life: of Gaspe Toujours or of JefT Hyde, ills stiong heart quails. Has he lost uis way? He looks at the sun. He is not sure. He consults his compass, but it quivers hesitatingly, and then points downward! , For a while wild bewilderment which seizes upon the minds of the strongest, when lost, masters him, in spite of his struggles against it. He moves in a maze of half delirium. He is lost In it, is swayed by it. He begins to wander about; and there grow upon his senses strange delights and reeling agonies. He heats church bells, he catches at hntlet flee, he tumbles in hay, ho wandeis in a tropic garden. But in the hay a wasp stings him, and the butterfly changes to a curling black snake that strikes at him and glides to a dark flowing river full of floating ice, and Up from the river a white bund Is thrust, and It beckons him beckons him! He shuts his eyes and moves toward It, but a voice stops him, and It says, "Come away! come away!" and two arms fold him round, and as he goes back from the shore he stumbles and falls, and . . . What Is this? A yielding , mass at his feet! A mass that stirs! He clutches at It, he tears away the snow, he calls aloud and his voice has a unnatural sound "Gaspe Toujours! Gaspe Toujours!" And beYes, It is Gaspe Toujours! side him lies JefT Hyde, and alive! ay, alive! Thank God! Jaspar Hume's mind is Itself again. It has but suffered for a moment what comes to most men when they recognize first that they are being shadowed by the awful ban of "Lost." Gaspe Toujours and JefT Hyde had lain down in the tent the night of the great wind and had gone to sleep at once. The B.jff had been blown down, the tent had fallen over them, the drift had covered them, and for three , new-mow- n c have acqulied new sirengtb. Through days of dreadful cold, through nights of appalling fierceness, through storm uion the plains that made for them paralyzing coverlets, they marched. And If Varre Lepage did not grow stronger, life at least was kept In him and he had once more the desire to live. Madam Snyder. $ CRISMON & NICHOLS. Assays rs and Chemisti. Office and Laboratory, 229 S. , Temple Street, SALT LAKE CITY. Theie was little speech among them, but once In a while Gaspe Toujours sang snatches of the songs of the voyagers of the great rivers; and the hearts of-- all were strong. Between Jacques and his master there was demonstration, occasional Jacques seemed to know that a load was being lifted ftom the heart of Jaspar Hume, and Jaspar Hume, on the twentieth day homeward, said with his hand on the dogs head, "It had to be done, Jacques; even a dog could see that! And so It was all right for the White Guard. One day when the sun was wanner than usual over Fort 1rovldenre, and just sixty-fiv- e days since that cheer had gone up from apprehensive hearts for brave men going out into the Barren Grounds, Sergeant Gosse, who every day and of late many times a day, had swept the , rushed northeast with a into the Chief Factor's office, and with a broken voice cried, The White The White Guard! 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"No, Jeff, Ive not come hack for that; and I did not leave you yesterday; It is three days and more since we parted. The book has brought us luck, and the best! We have found with him; and theyll be here him. I came on ahead to see how you fared. world Jeff Hyde In that frost-bitteuncovered his head for a moment. "Gaspe Toujours Is a Papist, he said ; "but he read me some of that book the day you left, and one thing wo went to sleep on; it was that about Lightenin the darkness, and defendin us from all the perils and dangers Here Gaspe Toujours of this night. made the sign of the cross. Jeff Hyde continued, half apologetically for his comrade, It comes natural to Gaspe Toujours I guess It always does to Papists. But I never had any trainin that way, and I had to turn the thing over and over, and I fell asleep on It And when I wake up three days after, heres my eyes as fresh as daisies, and you back, Captain, and the thing done that we come to do! He put the book into the hands of Jaspar Hume, and Gaspe Toujours at that moment said, See!" And far off, against the eastern horizon, appeared a group of moving figures! That night the broken segments of the White Guard were reunited, and Varre Lepage slept by the side of Jaspar Hume. n CHAPTER VI. To conquer is to gain courage and Naunusual powers of endurance. poleon might have marched back from Moscow with undecimated legions safely enough, if the heart of those legions had not been crushed. The White Guard, with their faces turned homeward and the man they had sought for in their care, seemed to Half-Deliriu- yet so kind about the eyes as he had been since Jaspar Hume had gone with his brave companions on this desperate errand. Already the handful of people at the Fort had gathered. Indians left the store and joined the rest; the Factor and Sergeant Gosse set out to meet the little army of relief. God knows what was in the hearts of the Chief Factor and Jaspar Hume when they shook hands. To the Factors "In the name of the Hudson Bay Company, Mr. Hume," there came By the help of God, sir, and he pointed to the sled whereon Varre Lepage lay. A feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of the Factor, and then they fell Into line again, running ahead of the dogs. Snow had fallen on them, and as they entered the stockade, man and dogs were white from head to foot. Cloud-in-the-Sk- y (TO BE CONTINUED.) Lombard Would Put Him Up. Harding Lombard, of Wales. Me., was a quaint character. He had a ready wit, but was slow to express it, on account of au impediment in his speech. One stormy night in winter a big tramp called, and Mr. Lombard, going to the door in his stockings, the tramp asked if he would put him up. Yes. sir; yes, sir, replied Mr. L. "You wait till I get my t on, and I will you up so high you neverll get down again." pu-pu- Her Own Way. 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