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Show 7 -I-1'4 surety set on, so that of one thus Iso-staring dully through the opea dear; mented to his Inner self It may be and Murler, noticed that he shlvesed, mere accident which shall determine touched him upon the arm to attsaet to bo great artist or great whether !t la hla attention. artisan that Is to be born again. V Young m'sleur" and the soldier .To Franklin,' dreunlng aa he woll now spoke more briskly yon are te or slept, there sometimes waved come with me. My colonel hM orhand, .there sometimes sounded dered that you be brought to him. Voice, m that which of old summoned Jean glanced at Murler; than hla the- prophet Iii the watches of the BY eyes again sought the open door M he night , Neither In his waking nor his MTH ILLUSTRATIONS BT DON C. WILSON Mid slowly, Pierre and I are gulag to sleeping hours could he call this spirit Fere Huot. We are going to lake got lift, thorn snftc&pm) Into materialisation, however much he AM AkiA m Margot to his house. AIRfW wjr longed, to wrestle with it finally, It .1 Aye; that Is where I am ordered to remained only to haunt him vaguely, CHAPTER VI. which was to light them to their cham- take yon, wm the sergeant's aMt to Join with the shade of Mary Ellen- bers above. reply. And Pierre also Is to coas the Cruel to Mt misery on a life which i wm the night of December 19, They parted as usual for the night, He was moving toward the doorway, 9S, with a cold storm of wind and little he had thought happily assured. thinking that this was to be the when the same woman who had geld f making still cosier the living-o- iMt of earths nights for one of them. ed him to the house came forward the cottage, where, not far CHAPTER XXV. with a cup of coffee, which she offered the flames of the wood fire that It was the .next morning the morn- silently .to Jean, while an exyreaffioa more ruddy the neatly kept red ing after the flamellt, awful night that The Great Cold. of deep commiseration showed In her brick hearth, Margot sat The land lay trusting and defence- a' witnessed the capture of Toulon by haggard foes. 1ms under a cynical sky, which wm Jean, curled up In a big the Revolutionists. motioned her nwag as pposlte, watched Idly as many There Is no need to repeat the story beBut the boy unthreatening but mocking. Dotting exclaimed, turning to Morier, I 'ore her deft fingers smooth which history hM told of Its horrors; a stretch of country thirty miles on will not without Margot! go of flax. extendside either of the railway, and the of the bombardment and assault; Surely not, young msleur, the 2i heard aught of Langue-Vleft- r the unspeakable woe that was visited ing m for to the eMt and west along soldier assented. "Some of my me a Its line, there were scattered hundreds he inquired. upon those shut up within the doomed shall make a stretcher, and bring the now of homes, though often these were what new mood had city. The night was past; and us. dame after good hoy, that he should had come the grief and sorrow of the separated one from the other by many He had, while speaking, drawn Jeaa miles of open prairie. Most of them alters of which she had living, to fill the day with tears for the door and out of It, leaving contained families. Men had brought Ppe d to speak, but relieved the dead; now had come the moans to Pierre to follow with the soldiers who mI that she might now hither their wIvm and children little m and cries of the mangled and dying. were to construct a litter, and bear e . Information she had In one of the lower rooms of a children, sometimes babes, tender, convent of 8L time before, Margot re-- small, partially burned house, not far Margots body to the needful of warmth and care. . For Yes. The. chateau has been from the blackened ruins of her own Sulplce, which was now Pen Hoots these stood guardian the gaunt coal lossd since the month after we left, cottage, lay Margot, who had been home. chutM of the town, with the demandi It Is not necessary to describe what of a population of twenty-fivhundred,' wilt only Tatro there keeper; for killed while she and the boys Vere to ray nothing of the settlers round Monsieur Etienne hM returned to making preparations for flight to a Jean and Murler saw as they picked their way through the streets, some ef where he Is in high favor with place of greater Mfety. about, a hundred tons for a thousand with debris, and al of them Great living-rooIn Committee." were the t The out three families, scattered, dwelling along to the horrors of witness them filled Prate! bearing had The word, half sigh and where her whirring wheel breaks and coulees, and on worn hillthe peaceful silence cf the evening be- the night before. sides, and at the ends of long, faint self hiss, wm full of vindictiveness. Then the dagger did but slight Injury, fore. She had made up the bundle Jean wm silent, with white face, wandering trails, which the first whirl of snow would softly and cruelly wipe after all, for all the rust on Its blade, each one wm to carry (taking pains and stony eyes that stared varaatly ' wt. would sorely have poisoned bet-fi-r that Jean should conceal upon his per- ahead, while the soldier held hla arm away. blood, even If the thrust had not son the money Intrusted to her by the In a close grMp, and occasionally utYet there wm no snow. There had fat out life. baron), when a large piece of shell tered a few cheering words, te which been none the winter before. .. The ,1 "Jean, Jean, do not speak so!" cried tore Its way Into the room and entered the boy seemed to pay no heed. said that the trappers and argot, looking aghast And so they went slowly along, unSurely thou her brent, killing her instantly. winter wm rarely severe. The railnever realised this wish to had the kill boys Scarcely .really tpuldst til, In a narrow street, which wm comthy road men had ranged west all the winbrother! I always claimed that the when they found the cottage to be on paratively free from evidences of the at coats left throats and ter, exposed wm only because of thy fire over their heads. But they had asMult, the two paused before the the wagons. It was a mild country, a , g door of a Margot's heavy. brain; and with good cause, as time to gentle, tender country. In thla laugh one with heart and feeling must body to the street, and thence to the stone building. whoM see could who ing sky any cynicism? mlt bouse where It now lay, stretched windows were not much wider foau One morning the sun rose with a He of mine! de- upon a rough bench and covered by a the loop holes of a fortress. swift bound Into a cloudless field.. The clared Is no brother the boy, bis face kindling Into blanket, In this bare room, filled with Murler lifted the ponderous brass air wm mild, dead absolutely silent A fury of rage. "Never you say such men, women and children whom fire knocker, to let It fall with a peremp... and motionless. The wires along the .... had rendered homeless during the tory clang; and a few momenta afterrailway alone sang loudly, m though not nor Is he any kin of Jean his, ward the door wm opened ran Wendy, night In warning a warning unfounded and Outside, before the house, stood a while through Its crack a single eye, without apparent cause. Yet the sighShe made no attempt to calm him; file of soldiers in the uniform aol the under a shaggy brow, scrutinised him ing In the short grass wm gone. In but her face wm troubled m she reRevolutionary troops, at whom the with manifest suspicion. the still air the smokes of the town sumed her work. i homeless ones within stared appre- Open up, Martin. Tis L with the rose directly upright; and answering m'sleur for whom our colonel young to them faint, thin spires rose here said Murler, sent me, pushing and there far out over the prairies, all the doorway, and drawing through terstraight, unswerving, ominous, Jean after him. rible. There was a great hush, a , waBed, They were In a a The pause upon all things. calm, celled and along whisk passage, sky was blue and cloudless, but at Murler led the boy until they reMbed last it could not conceal the mockery the entrance to a large apartmrat; it bore upon Its face, so that when and here, without a word, the soldier men looked at It and listened left him. of wires and the singing they stopped, As Jean stood upon the threshold et without conscious plan hurried on, the dimly lit room aa he stood loansilent, to the nearest co'mpany. ing against the side of the doorway, Somewhere, high' up ln 'the alr,m? his eyes downcast, and the sound m heralded, Invisible, there were passof roaring waters In his ears, he ing some thin inarticulate sounds, far heard, even through this. Pare Hoot's above the tops of the tallest smoke familiar voice raying, Thank our spires, as though some Titan blew a Holy Mother, my son, that I aee Ihee for Jest across the continent to ansafe and unharmed, after this awful other near the sea, who answered night. Then a tremulous hand was with a gusty laugh, sardonic grim, laid tenderly upon his bowed head. foreknowing. Every horse free on the A murmuring of other voices same range came Into the coulees that mornto him; and one of them stirred Jenas ing, and those which were fenced In benumbed senses strangely, ran up and down excitedly. Men ate lous as he was from all he had safer- and smoked, and women darned, and ed and seen. babes played. In a thousand homes Lifting his eyes, he raw before him there was content with this new land, a face which seemed to have shaped so wild at one time, but now so quietItself from out the drifting base. It ly tamed, so calm, so gentle, so thorhe cried, sp ringing forward. Pixarrol my Pizarro! wm thin and careworn, with tumbled oughly subdued. focks falling over the pale forehead; (To be continued.) Hark to the wind how It pipes! henslvely, as the sergeant in command eyes were bent upon exclaimed stood listening to a woman who bad and the lac re! What a storm! which aroused a with him sympathy Faithful Dogs. Pierre, rousing again from his book, guided him and his men to their presall his swooning faculties. The faithfulness of the dog is well is there came a dash of rain upon the ent halting-place- . Pizarro my Pizarro! he cried, In there you will find them," she known, though not appreciated as It windows, while a blast roared over the and the cry was springing should be. Perhaps most faithful of tage and sent a brisk puff down the Mid, In a dull, apathetic way, pointing lost in a forward;sob, m he fell sensegasping all the species Is the Eskimo dog. to the door; and with them Is the ' ilmney. of breast the less Bonaparte, upon We learn the following about this; dreadful a Indeed dead of their mother, or whoever storm, .Tls body whose arms went around the Ump animal from the writings of Frederick as she now drew her wheel she was. form as though to shield It from But arther away from the fireplace. Schwatka, who made a wonderful tri; The sergeant thanked her; and, harm. on a sledge from Hudson Bay to th to here is one good thing It after bidding his soldiers to stand (To be continued.) Arctic Ocean. The sledges were draw What good can there be in such where they were, he went alone into who wli s and out the m orm he this? started by dogs, queried Jean, the house, the wretched occupants of How to Pass Hatteras. sixty of them, returning with onl; ;iru hoping It had not reached far which shrank away from him. Senator Vest of Missouri late The comfort affect the to westward nineteen, all the rest dying of starve igh The bench upon which lay Margot was fond of telling a story regarding so was foce beautiful tion en route. f ler whose stood In a far corner of the room; and a friend of his who' wm In terrible Says Schwatka: i In his thoughts. near it, on the floor, Jean was dread of the ordeal Involved in passbloodshed terr-blI to the a t will all this were, stop "They put through stretched asleep, with Pierre seated The best and beside him, his arms across his drawn-u- p ing Cape Hatterat. The mas wm a fo r a time at least. time, perfect respecters of the! confirmed victim of seMlckness, aad human allies, and the little child: ra est soldiers would scarce think to knees, and his head sunk upon while he made many trips on the as this. weather replied such used to go among them and pic in gh them. ocean, he always looked with fear to with them by pelting them with showing rare ignorance of to be He, too, appeared sleeping. period of time when the vessel whips; yet the same dogs were stare But at the sound of the soldier's voice that would be passing the tumultuous sea so it one that and should hi of would them ing, ittle die, they heed, he raised his head to look at him, Returning comrades would eat him. I notice thl sot wet their powder, asserted while a sullen light of grief showed In and around Hatteras. particularly, aa some sensational wrl Msumlng an air of superior wls- for an Instant In his heavy eyes. This, from one of his trips, he announced with Joy a cure for the dreaded Hatera have tried to make their reader however, softened Into recognition, as teras period. believe that the Eskimo dogs are looked at him thoughtfully for he heard the kindly tone and words. What is it?" asked a friend. able to become dangerous fellowi tnent before she said, in a voice I am glad to have fonnd Ah, Pierre, Why," wh the reply, when we got even to a powerfully built man, whe e yearning seemed tinged with you!" miles of Hatteras I orwithin If thoult grow up to be a good simply hungry, and to be worse tha It was Murler who said this; and dered twenty three a some make up quart bottles of chamwild beasts when ravenous. Any o day Jean, thoult his dark foce was full of pity as, after and sat In my stateroom and pagne soldier. slaught of Eskimo dogs Is unknou glancing at the bench, he added, I te can be brave without being have been sent here to find you, drank them one after the other. among the natives where I traveled. " What wm the effect of that? sailhis natural answered the boy, It was pitiable In the extreme and ed the friend. see their sufferings, as they devoted ardness asserting Itself, although He stopped; for Jean, now awake The effect, replied the other, la et her earnest eyes smilingly, helped us along many of them up Ht up and stared at him. astonishment we TOiy, there wm no all whom mr little colonel, the very minute they had to be tak Good morning, young msleur. And effect. When I came to we had pms-ehe hM the bravery 1 mean, from the harness and abandoned aloi so a Hatteras. Denver Republican. thou must own Tls well to be I regret Tlssaid truly other than good the road. As they dropped out aloi and nodding, Murler, morning, man, she insisted. the way, we harnessed ourselves grimly, as he looked down Into Cured by Life In Open Air. the boy said with a defiant smiling their places to the sledge traces, ai face and white the eyes. of the J. D. Smith, like Lara. more be will I "but It wm thus we were not compelled Jean, making no reply, rose to his New York Yacht club and a millionto! Margot repeated, her leave certain parts of our load. as he did so. aire resident of the eastern metropogiving place to anger. The feet, staggering Are see thee you young m'sleur? In- lis, has effected a remarkable cure ef to hurt, Perf stly True. keep us from living Or what was believed to he fatal Illness. to be such a villain aa Laro! quired the soldier anxiously. He says he la in business for hi In of seems cither any way? you Injured it these Early last spring Mr. Smith, who Is days ralf now manufacturing automobile! know, Jean, thou'rt like a soul between And he turned to Pierre, who also 76 years old, was taken 111 with a Yes. complication of gout and Bright's disand HelL The man we all had risen, and stood nearest him. And he claims not one of his Hurt? repeated the peasant lad. ease. By the month of June he had s thy good angel Laro Is thy chines has ever been known to bre fira lost flesh until he was a mere skeleAye, most sorely in our hearts. down on the road. he; and betwixt the two art thou atl cover from drew ton. Then he Insisted on being taken he the With this to for thee Tls feel I ray lght. Thats right; he hasnt sold a be: bench. on hoard hls yacht, on the deck of the what to upon lead thee shall lay of thy them yet tth. Poor dame!" muttered Murler, his which he had a special hammock be eyes resting upon the calm white foce. rigged. In this he lay all summer, ver mind Laro Season for Beggars. The devil himself was unchained last day and ntghL About the middle of her cheek lovingly, Even beggars have their IM and he spared neither the August he began to Improve and hM and f over the seas, now s night; In Constantinople. During the win never again see France nor I strong nor the weak. Poor dame the continued to mend ever since. He Is months the city harbors a mu now hearty once more and attributes saints rest her kind soul! :m. ex! larger number of them than In round be happier if I were certain Jean, appearing to disregard what hls recovsry entirely to llfo la the summer, when many migrate to et L she said, taking up the randle was happening about him, had been open air. country. 1 THE GIRL AT THE? f HALF WAY HOUSE! r ! I M T O R Y hough. fright $4, i THE O AUTHOK OP THU STORY fg A A THE COWBOY L. 1 Q Ctmfmi, fitm Ytrk CHAPTER XXIV Continued. "Ned," Mid the tall Irishman, rising sad laying a hand upon hla ahoulder, dont ye before Ill be lavin ye. Ive seen the worrld, an I must aee it again, but wance In a while Ill be cornin around here to aee the beat mane country on the globe, an to meet agin the beat man I lvver knew. Ill not till why I bclave it, for that I caa not do, but abure I do belave It, thla la the land for you. Dont be rest-leabut abide, an take ye root here. For Batty, Ita no odda. Hea seen the werrid." Batteralelgha words caused Frank llaa face to grow still more grave, and hla friend saw and suspected the real canae. Tut, tut! me boy, he said, I well know how your wishes lie. lta a noble gyurl yeve chosen, as a noble man should da She may change her thought Its change la the wan thing shure about a woman. Franklin shook hla head mutely, but Batterplelgh showed only Impatience with him. "Go on with your plana, man, said he, "an pay no attlntlon to the gyurl! Make ready the house and prepare the bridal gyarmenta. Talk with her rayaonable, an thin try and If aheU folly ye thin, to the lad of the earth, an love ye like a lamb. Its Batty has studied the sex. Mow wance there waa a gyurl but no; Ill not yet thrust mesllf to spake o' that Ood rlst her My lver-mera, el 'Tea, said Franklin sadly, that Is That la what my own answer has been. She tells me that there was once another, who no longer lives that no one else Battersleighs face grew grave In turn. Theres no style of assault more difficult than that same, Mid he. "Tet shes young; she must have been very young. With all respect lta the nature o the race o women to yield to the livin, breathin man above the dead an honored. It , AffTTTO 1L1UISIANA. BaRY OeVERBVX - Batteralelghs hand wu on the door The consate o you! he said. Thrue, yere a fine boy, Ned, an I knob. know of no conversayshun more entertainin tban yer own, but I fale that If 1 didnt get dhrunk like a glntle-ma- n thla avenln, Id be violatin me Juty to me own conscience, as writ as settln at naught the thraditlons o the Rile Irish. An so, If yell Just excuse me, Ill say good-bytill, say, noon. e And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West. The rapid changes, the strivings, the acand complishments, the pretensions the failures of the new town blended In the product of human progress. Each man fell Into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward. To Franklin the days and months and years went by unpunctuated, his life settling gradually Into the routine of an unhappy calm. He neglected foo much the social side of life, and rather held to his old friends than busied himself with the search for new. Battersleigh was gone, swiftly and mysteriously gone, though with the promise to return and with the reiteration of his advice and his well wishes. Curly wu gone gone up the Trail Into a far and mysterious country, though he, too, promised to remember Elllsvllle, sjjd had given hostage for his promise. His friends of the Halfway House were gone, for though he heard of them and knew them to be prosperous, he felt himself, by reason of Mary Ellens decision, In propriety practically withdrawn from their personal acquaintance. Because of his level common sense, which is the main Ingredient in the success-portiohe went easily into the first councils of the community. He made more and more money, since at that time one of his position and m . - spin-whi- le tak-f0w- n im-p- ar re-n- 1. u e half-fille-d skin-hunte- mad-enfe- d half-carry- half-dra- g gloomy-lookin- Iron-studde- d Ivy-hna- g La-fltt- stone-paved- . to-th- . -- The Consate had my hopes, said Franklin, bat theyre gone. Let It go that way. Ill not wear my heart on my sleeve not for any woman In the world. Spoken like a man, said Battersleigh, "an if yell stick to that yere the more like to win. Nlvver chance follyln too close In a campaign aginst a woman. Parallel an mine, but dont uncover your forces. If ye advance, do so by rushes, an not feelln o the way. But tin to wan. If ye lie still under cover, shell be sendin out skirmishers to see where ye are an what ye are doin. Now, ye love the gyurl, I know, an so do I, an so does lvery man that lvver hw her, for shes the sort min cant help adorin. But, mind me, kape away. 00 way, she says to Come back, she you, aa you go. whispers to herself, an you dont hear It Tet all the time shes wonderin' pfwhy you dont! Franklin smiled in spite of himself. uBatterslelghs Tactics and Manual of All right, Strategy, he murmured. old man. I thank you Just the same. I presume Ill live, at the Worst And theres a bit In life besides what we want for ourselves, you know. Theres naught in life but what we're ready to take 'for oursllves! cried Battersleigh. Ill talk no fable of other fishes In the say for ye. Take what ye want if yell have it An hearken; theres more to Ned Franklin thM bein a land agent and a petty lawyer. It's not for ye yersilf to sit an mope, neytber to spind your life dlggln In a musty desk. Yere to grow, man; yere to grow! Olt your dom up, Ned, or youll be unwlttin classlfyln yesllf with the great slave class which we lift behind not long ago, but which Is follyln us hard and for. Git your nose up, for Its Batty has been thinkln ye've Destiny Inside your skin. Listen to Batty the Fool, and search your sowl. Ill tell ye this: I've the feelln that 111 be bearin of ye. In all the marrehes o' the worrld. Dont disappoint me, Ned, for the ould man has belaved In ye more than ye've belaved In yersilf. As to the gyurl bah! go marry her some day, av yeve nothin more Important on yer hands. But, me dear boy, spakin o lmpor-than- t things, I ralely must be goln now. I've certain Important preparaare esslntlal before I get tions dhrunk tin evenin O Battersleigh, do be sensible, said Franklin, and do give up talk of getting drunk. Come over here this evening and talk with me. Its much better tan getting drunk. 1 tat tls o youf half-deli- r- opportunities could hardly avoid doing so. His place In business world wm assured. He had no occasion for concern. For most men this would have been prosperity sufficient; yet never did Edward Franklin He down with the long breath of the man content; and ever in his dreams there came the vague beckoning of a hand still naif unseen. sense of Haunting him with unfulfilled, the face of Mary Ellen wm ever in the shadow; of Mary Ellen, who had sent him away forever ; of Mary Ellen, who wm wasting her life on a prairie ranch, wit naught to inspire and none to witness flowering of her soul. So much for d frame of mlpd due for the most part to reflex of a body made sick by an Irregular and irrational life. This much, too, Franklin could have established of his own philosophy. Tet wm not all, nor was the total so easily to be explained away. Steadily, and with an Insistence somewhat horrible, there mb to Franklins mind a feeling career which he saw before him would not always serve to satisfy him. Losing no touch of the democratic loyalty to his fellow-mehe none less clearly saw himself in certain ways becoming Inexorably separated from hla The executive average fellow-mainstinct wm still m strong wltin him, but he felt It more creative, and he longed for finer material than the seamy side of mans petty strifes wit man, made possible under those artificial laws which marked mans compromise wit Nature. Longing for noble things, he satisfying, for found himself irresistibly facing toward past, and irresistibly convinced In pMt, as In the swiftly marching present, there might be some leMon, not Ignoble and not Horrified he could not rest In the way that he had chosen, distracted at these Intangible desires, he doubted at times his perfect sanity; for though it seemed there wm within him the impulse to teach and to create, he could not say to himself what or how wm to be the form, whether mental or material, of the thing created, the thing typified, the thing which he would teach. Of such travail, of such mould, have come great architects, great engineers, great writers, musicians, painters, indeed great me of affairs, beings who stand by the bead and shoulders above other men m leaders. 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