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Doran Co Tartans waved and bagpipes creamed defiance as Montcalm waited which never came for reinforcements and the bushes and knolls and corn fields were taken by fifteen hundred Canadians and Indians whose guns answered with a roar Back anT forth the battle raged and began to crumble Then came ten o’clock must have broken In Something Montcalm's heart Ills 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 stood with guns In a thin red line Level long Had England ground lay between advanced history might have written But England waited Itself differently France advanced Jeems went with her He was ready hit A shot had caught him In the shoulder and blood ran down his arm and dripped from his fingers He felt no pain but a slumberous feeling was creeping over him as he staggered on with the lines He saw ride along the front of his men he noted cheering them on to victory the green coat he wore the polished cuirass at his breast the white JInen of his wristband and he heard his voice as he asked “Don’t you want a little rest before The answer you begin?" "We’re never tired before a battle!" rose about him Jeems’ Ups framed the words which were repeuted like But the increasing blasts !u a storm sun was growing less bright to his 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 distance between himself and the red line of the British At each halt he fired with then loaded and adhis comrades The red line had broken vanced It made no move to play precedent routine of Its part In the prescribed war and continued to stand like a came In It where wall Openings crimson blotches sank to the ground but those who remained were unmoved and steadfast as they waited with A tremor kthelr guns a thickening TTrtmghjthe French of men' breaths a quickening of their heartbeats a crumbling under strain while the melody of the bell stole softly over the Plains of Abraham They halted again less than a hundred paces awny and still England's A man thinning line did not fire close to Jeems laughed as If nerves had cracked Inside his head Another as If he had been struck gasped tried to hold himself erect Jeems The weird sensation came over him that the armies were not going to fight after all It was Then he heard his name He answered his mother calling him with a cry and would have swayed toward her If hands had not dragged “Mad!’’ he heard a voice him back He dropped his gun as he tried say to wipe the blindness from his eyes There were the red Things cleared line the open space sunlight — someThose who lived did thing passing not forget what they saw England took the story home with her France gave it a little place in her history For a few seconds men were not looking at death but at a dog An old decrepit dog who limped as he walked a dog with one foot missing Jeems made an effort to call “Odd— Odd— ” came Montcalm’s command— I” He marched with the others Into the strainJaws of death blind groping to make the dog hear words which ing never passed his Ups There was no No red wall No sun longer a day But hla ears still caught before him the tramp of feet and the melody of the bell These died in a roar the roar of England guns fired at forty paces and France went down In a shapeless mass of dead With the front line fell Jeems Then "Forward CHAPTER XIV It was a long time heard the melody he broke through had overtake- x-o- r OLIVER CURWOOD m Inn CHAPTER XIII—Continued again When which — before Jeems of the bell the blackness him bn the Plains of Abraham he found himself the general hospital under the care of the nans of thut Institution If seemed as If only a few minutes ha passed since the crash of the EngUs But it was the middle of 0 jruns wer Montcalm and Wolfe tober In dead Quebec lay In a mass of ruin England was supreme In the Ne world the battle of Sain' although Foy had not been fought From th until late In November when he was atrong enough to take advantage of the freedom of movement the British gave to French soldiers who had been wounded he thought frequently of the dog that had passed between the French and English Uncs He said nothing of the Incident not WNU even to Mere de the Superior who took a special interest In him nor to any of her virgin sisters who cared for him so tenderly in tjje dark hours of his struggle for Ufa and the more hopeful ones of hla convalescence Each day of Increasing strength added to his suspicion that what he had seen and heard were the Illusions of senses crumbling under the effects of hurt and Shock and he kept to himself whatever faith he bad in them When at last he was able to mingle with the (l'surmed populace andthe crowds of soldiers In the streets be was strangely unlike the old Jeems lie 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 did not accept as a blessing The impression grew In him that he had His Excursions Were pandered Short Alone and Ha and been very close to his mother Tolnette and that a fate not satisfied with his unhappiness had drawn him estabThis back from them thought lished Ids belief thnt Odd’s appearance as well as his mother’s voice and the nearness of Tolnette had been purely spiritual But whenever he saw a dog In the streets of Quebec he looked to see if one foot was missing were short and ho Ills excursions He saw a number of wandered alone his comrades but they did not recogif nize 1dm and he did not feel the Impulse to let them know who he was Flesh had dropped from his bones until he resembled one approaching He death Instead of escaping It Ills 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 The small Interest life had held age for him seemed to have shriveled with the strength of his body The English the rekindled 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 — unbelievably — friends From the to the comMurray gallant Brigadier monest soldier they were courteous humane generous dividing their rashartions with the starved citizens with them helping ing their tobacco 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 Vaudreull and his degenerate crowd and by the weakness of the Even the nuns and king of France the priests welcomed them men and women of God who for two hundred had for fought tndefatlgably years Honor and chivalry had New France Service to conquer Quebec and had brought such friendship for Its peopb that a British aoldler was hanged In the public square for stealing from a resident of the town Jeema felt'thla comradeship of hi enemies At first ha waa taciturn and aloof and talked only when courtesy He ob required the effort of him served that many eyes regarded him with a pity which added shame to the burden of his distress and at times when he waa struggling to hold his stooped shoulders erect aympatheth hands came to help him In spite of himself Ills health returned slowly but In the second week of his freedom an Incident occurred which sent lie warmer glow through his veins heard two soldiers talking on the street They were talking about a dog —a d dog 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 genera Mere de hospital thought fever had set Itself upon hln The Dext day he went on again looking for the dog and found other: who had beheld what his own eye had seen But he asked no question except In a casual way and did no reveal the reason for his Interest II knew the dog could not be Odd yet was Odd for whom he was seeklns This paradoxical state of mind both ered him and he wondered If his Hines had left him entirely sane To thin Odd had escaped TIaoga’s vengeanc and bad wandered through hundred of miles of wilderness to Queb would surely be an Indication that had not He continued to seek trylu to believe he was making the quest diversion which was healthful for hi body and that curiosity not hope o faith was encouraging him to fin the dog As Lower Towi was the home of most of the dogs he spent much of his time among It: ruing but without success Ilig search came to an unexpected end In St Louis street where many aristocratic families of the city lived Nancy Gagnon who had been Nancy before her marriage te Lotblnlere Teter Gagnon and a dearly loved belle of the town described the InciIn a letter to dent soon afterward come Anne partly Is a and this letter St unintelligible because of Its age 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 stmt where" him out from the plot of ground the dog was watching little Jeems at and sticks play with some blocks 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 hr against the gate with a staggered strange cry I thought he was about to faint and hurried toward him Then a most amazing thing happened The dog sprang straight at him and so was I by "the unexpectedfrightened ness of his attack that I screamed at the top of my voice and snatched up one of the baby’s sticks with which I was about to bent the animal from his victim "when to my still greater astonishment I saw that both raai and beast were overcome by what ap peared to be a paroxysm of recognl tlon sad Joy The action of the dog with my scream set little together Jeems to crying lustily and my terrl fled voice brought Tolnette and my father to the door Shall I ever forget what then? Tolnette happened started first toward her baby then saw the man at the gate and the cry which came from her lips will remain with me until my dying day In a moment ehe was In that poor wreck of a soldier's arms klasing him and sobbing until with the antics of the dog and the fiercer shrieking of the child to say nothing of my own wild appearA ance with the stick we were beginning to attract the attention of the pub” lic (TO BS CONTINUED) Odd Beliefs Long Held Concerning the Sneeze The Greeks when they ask for a blessing upon those afflicted by sneezing “claimed to follow the example who stole celestial of Prometheus fire to animate the beautiful figure he had made of clay as the fire permeated Its frame the newly formed creature' Sneezed 'ftnd the delighted Prometheus invoked blessings on It" According to Aristotle the first man who conceived the Ide ger Therefore whenever a man finds himself still living after a good gusty sneeze people should express their with a blessing gratitude Gar Name to University Howard at Washington university Important hegro college was named for 0 O Howard a native of Maine a brigadier general and corps com mander In the Union army in the Civil war and in subsequent Indian wars He was commissioner of the days bureau In reconstruction and waa noted for his Interest in the elevation the colored race He was of a leading dowment and atlon God made a general deCTe ttia every man should sneeze but once his soul should depart whereupon from Ids body without previous warnJacob got the deing or Indisposition cree withdrawn so that man can sneeze as often as he chooses without dan- donor of the university s Ye Indeed me “Will yon please complete for ub requests an Ohio State Journal acriher “thnt old proverb which begin' “II rms In need— —’A friend the up to dab thus” accommodated one vvho editor “A friend In need is market has been playing the stock T |