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Show of the "Algle, and erstwhile patron of Le Cheln Heureux. De la Chaise not answering; the other continued, trfthi a now shining In the- dark upon tbe Englishman's Saw you tbe Count de Caseneau this afternoon, may I ask,' Captain Stanley? The latter encountered, and appear ed to understand, the look oC his questioner, and a glinting showed In hie eyes ss he replied, "That Is an back a him,' their heads drooping, their breath freezing upon their. costa la aplculae of white. , "Walt!" cried Franklin. "I know this, hole! I've been here befocr The teams come here for shelter Oh. It's the White Womsa breaks sure! cried Sam In return. why, 9 Ctitriwhlid, 1191, Attht 4 Ctmnmr, ttw Vrk VX Yea, that's where It la. Were leea than half a mile from the house. Wait, MTH ILLUSTRATIONS BY' DON C. WILSON steel-lik- e Ive' got to ' now, and let me think. 003. fromi & CHAPTER IX. XXV. some Continued. words drove go day. . Hia -n X V' out a this while." figure .The aun came on, valiantly atripped Franklin again to his feet, and he odd inquiry to make, Don Morales, tor It's off there, said Sam,' pointing knowing wbat waa to be. Still walked up and down, his face gone across the coulee; but we cant CHAPTER VII. Jean, angry and reckless, exclaim- as much as 1 have to recall that I met bare, get louder rose the requiem of the wire. pinched and old. ed: "Ill be no hypocrite, nor pretend you 'entering bis' house as I was there. Tbe no on. smiled was At dawn wind The lulled. Tbraa weeks lotas, and a aullen to what I cannot feel. I have hated There the sky Yes, we 'can, old man; yea, we token to strike with alarm these hu- clouda swept by and the aun shone peace had fallen over'Toukm. Jean Etienne all my life, and with good lnglt so you did, admitted can! Insisted Franklin. Ill tell you. true; "Very man waa still weak and emaciated from beings, their faculties dulled by for an hour over a vast landscape Let me think. Good God! cause: and I will never say otherwise, Laro (for he It was), "and I was wonwhy cant . buried under white. Sam waa ready I think? Yes see From Orelolre the boy had now that he Is dead. I would spurn dering If you left the count to the a thousand years of differentiation. you go down here, To the north there appeared a long. to atari, having worked half the night heard and with outspoken Indigna- any title or position that had been bis same devilish humor as that In whle Mack cloud, hanging low as the trsll making runners for a sled at which the bottom of this gully to tbe mouth tion of General Bonapartes depardespise myself if ever again I lived I found him. ' of the coulee, and then we turn to tha i.': of I cube fsr-of- f locomotive, new upon hla wild team snorted in the terror loft no. Its to the ture, shortly after hla own arrival at beneath the roof who had sheltered At this an angry, red showed to tiff right and yon The sled box bear the convent, which bad been turned one who spoke such dastardly words officers cheeks, and a gleam of wratl the land. All at ..once the cloud of unacquaintedness. aide of the draw tbe up along Into a hospital. of guy mother! I want to go over seas, in his eyes. But, without looktoi sprang up, unfurling' tattered battle waa piled full iff robes and coal and til you et to the ridge, and then tha "He went away and, left me! Jean avay from France, away to the new again at Laro, he picked up hla card. flags, and hurrying to meet the aun food and liquor all things that seem- house la right In front of you. Listen ed needful and which could hurriedly now! Tbe exclaimed angrily, the color aaffualng world, and carve out a name for my- and glanced at them; then, with ar upon the senith battle ground. winds northwest and thd Once the wind pelted the slant snow be secur'd. hla cheeks. "Left me, when I was not self gain fame and riches. I should oath, he threw them upon the table; house ! west of the head of the cot ' ' Sam With perfect horsemanship able to apeak to him! die, like a wild bird In a cage, to live gathered his earnings and strode from through the interstlcee of the grasses lee; to the mouth Is east of us. and upon the furry back of the cowering drove hla team rapidly on to the that He left a letter with Pere Hoot, and such a life as men pass here. The the room. brings the wind on the left cheek Now five coyote. miles, ten miles, fifteen, at tha mouth of the coulee,, and it they found a new sport south, ' farewell message, which the good very thought of It Is hateful to me. .. It was generally suspected that Cap In driving the Icy powder through the the horses now warming up, but still "Ah! exclaimed, the priest . "This tain' Edward cornea more and more on the right father win doubtless give yon when Stanley was one of the cracks of the loose board comes from Laros teachings. shanty, upon restless and nervous, even on the cheek ss we turn up the ridge; and he sees lit." numerous worshipers of Count df thq stripped back of the mother hud- way so familiar to them from their lta on the front half of the "No, father indeed no! cried Jean, Caxeneau's lovely "Then why should not Pere Huot right daughter; and go Journeylngs. Tbe steam of cheek when we face tbe house. Im have told me so before? demanded all the fire gone from his eyes. "I have sip had been unusually busy with tbeii dling her sobbing children against the frequent 'breath travelers enveloped the perhaps wrap- their always longed to live such a life sure thats right wait, III mark it names during the present week, at the empty,herimpotent Instove, Jean,' half rising from his seat beside the worn and whit- In a wide, white cloud. The rude out here In the ' young ping always!. snow. God! how cold the bed. havof which close the ofllcer, English t v ened robe of the buffalo taken years runners crushed Into and overiAhe It Is! It must be right Come on; "Always all of thy very, long life, ing concluded the mission upon which "Easy, moo ami; sit still, said Gre-loirago. For It was only the buffalo, packed drifts, or along the sandy come! We Do not get excited, Jean, my son? said Pere Huot, a sa- he had been sent to New Orleans, was mugt try it, anyway. calmly. now departed, which held the grime where the wind had swept the We may hit the house, Cap, said else 1 shall regret telling you any- tirical smile touching his thin lifts. ' to return to Mobile, where the garrl though Infrontier snow. for an bare of less than America. in this unpre- earth Sam calmly, but if we miss It well The boys face became crimson, and son was composed equally of British thing about the affair. We have to ' season, the Christmas of the hour they would aee . the Halfway go God knows where! Anyhow, Im . remember that you have been very he said nothing. and Spanish troops. It was also under pared Great Cold. The robes saved many House. They would know whether with 11L you, an if we dont tarn up, we Tenderness showed In his tone, We have talked long enough for stood that Count da Caseneau had no of the children, : and now and then or not there waa smoke. cant help It,' an we done our best and he gently touched the thin hand the present, my son, the priest add- liking for the stalwart, calm-face- d a mother also. But in less than two hours on that Come, cried Franklin once more. resting on the cjverlet. ed; "and now I will leave thee. Read Englishman. .The men who had no fuel did at morning of deceit the aun waa lost to tbe mouth of the coulee. ' Lets Late in the afternoon of this same General Bonapartes letter; and may Why did you try to prick him, Don their natures bid, some dying at the again. The winds piped up, the cold 1 knowget ' this place perfectly. day, Pere Huot,- sitting with Jean In it bring thy mind to bolding more wor- Morales? asked one of the players, a .stove and others In the continued, and again there came the And so, advancing and calling, and the latters room, had been Informing thy Ideas of the future than those I tall, spare man, with gray hair tad 'fipdTwf'thelr way for fuel. Mishap blinding snow, wrapping all things waiting while Sam fought the stubhim of what had transpired since the have Just heard from thee. And Jean, heavy, overhanging eyebrows. mist. but passed by few. of. the remoter in its dancing, born horses with lash and rein out' morning Murier brought him to the my son coming close to him, and Don Morales laughed scornfully.:',-"Becaus- homes . found wlifda just on my right of the shelter which The with fuel, unprepared wilful shelter and safety of his present laying a carefcslng hand on tbe they coveted, " It la worth something to and Christmas day, mitdeceitfully fair, cheek, said Bam, putting up a Franklin led of flat coulee, . out the and harbor abode. head "I beseech thee, try .of ; kindle a little fire lnthe cold blood dawned on many homes that were to ten.- "But wherea It gone? Into the wider draw, and edged np He watched the boys face care- kindlier feelings and more Christian-lik- e afl English dog. Frankbe fatherless, motherless, or robbed of cried man! fro "Youre sen, and up to the right, agonlzedly refully as he told him of Margots burforgiveness for thy brother. But what Is It all about? inquired a first-borThus it was that from lin. "Pull up, and let me rub your peating to himself, over and over ial, and of Bonapartes many 'Visits to He left the room, closing tbe door another of the party, "Don Morales ' face. the hardiest and . most again, the instructions he had laid V his bedside,' where he lay tossing In softly, and Jean sat staring out of the but asked a simple question.. What this, population ever known on earth, "No, no, we cant atop, said Sam, down, and which the dizzy whirl of f delirium; and the good priest window, though the suns rays now was there In' it to Justify any : man, there rose heartbroken cry for catching up some snow and rubbing tbe snow mingled ever confusedly la within himself to see the look stole down to touch his brow. But English or otherwise, calling for sat comfort and the for help, the frontier for hla white cheeks as he drove. "Keep his mind.' At last sf dogged grief soften Into one of sub-- . after musing a few seconds, he roused lsfactkm? they had the full the first time begging aid to hold the the wind on your right cheek we're faces as they ln their gale again ued gratification. himself with a quick, nervous moveYes, added, a young American of- skirmish line. over' the Sand Run now, I think, and reached the level of the prairies, and . "My son, where la the box of par ment and' looked again at the Jetter. ficer, looking to be twenty-tw- o or i Sam Poston came into the office on the long ridge, hack of the White cast loose for what they thought was seal: thereabouts, sitting , beside Colonel pers Monsieur le Baron, thy father. A moment later he broke , t west, fearfully, tremblingly, the voyto Intrusted to Margot for safe keeping? seemed thin and the paper pulse Zachary; "what was there for him to age a quarter of a mile, the danger "The box of papers, Pere Huot, the with his own heartbeats as be read get angry about, for angry he was, at d Infinitely great;' for beyond lay only its words: boy repeated, as It trying to recall and something? It couldnt have been hlsr the cruel plains and the bitter storm ' cards, for I looked at what he threw this double norther of a woeful down. Chrlstmaatlde. See here, Don, inquired the quickOnce again Providence aided them, v. witted ensign, who, although a recent agency of brute Instinct. One of by widower, with a young boy, was in 4 Stbe horses threw up Its head and . one of Roselles adorers, "is it secret and then both pressed forneighed, that you know or think he went fo The low moan of . ward eagerly. sec Count de Caseneaifthls afternoon,' .HvV. came down the wind. ; cattle penned and that his asking for the daughters They crashed into a fence of lath. hand aroused, the old mans temper? They passed its end a' broken, ratA curious and not pleasant exprestling end, that trailed and swept back sion came to Don Morales' eyes, and : r and forth In tbe wind. ' the colonel said, now speaking some cried-Sam,chicken1 corral, It's the hitoucbed-tbs-what sternly as an ltS down! They've been, r4"A du mans arm, "You are forgetting bnrnln usual code, .Tommy, to say nothing of Go on! Go on hurry!' shouted your good sense. This Is neither tha down his head so' Frankltn, bending time nor place to be discussing such not quite rob him the that gale might sacred matter as a ladys affairs. a of his breath, and Sam urged on the ; vIs it true, what I have heard, Don now willing horses. Morales, now Inquired De la Chaise, They came to the aod barn, and "that you sail for France in the mornhere they left the team that had sav-;-e- d ing? If so, I am of half a mind yes, not pausing to take them them, three-quartto ask you to let me "Whoa, Jack! Whoa, Bllll Git out o' here! from the harness. They crept to the take passage. wall in which and white-banke- d "I carry no passengers,- was the where Franklin aat on Christmas eve, Woman. It qant be over two milea low two windows,- - glazed with showed more. of to the Git rattle Whoa! the What's listening clinking along, boya. brusque reply, made while the speakfrost. They could see the chimney er was drawing In some winnings; and hard snow on the pane. Bam waa the matter there?" wfite face plainly, but It carried no smell of Hla to from head horses had The at foot stopped plunging Colonel Zachary, looking distinctly "I want to go over seas, away from F ranee, and carve out a name for myThe stairway leading .down smoke. waa hla which habitual could not uncertainty something anxious, pass, they annoyed, remarked, 1 was not aware, self Good God!" cried Franklir. whose to tbe door of the dugout was missDon Morales, that you kept tbe com- and diffidence were gone. "Cap, aald he, with no prelude, fence Is that? Are we at Bufords?' ing, the excavation which held it waa "Mon ami mon cher ami De 8olo munity Informed as to your sailing something. "I cannot say; I do not whole country below 11 be fro re "the No, said 8am, this must be at drifted full of snow, and the snow I am grieved to the heart that I must hours and destination. know. man Hancocks. He .fenced across bore no track of human foot. All was old awful." The out bllxiardi exclaimed leave do Is! I "I thee. But go must, relieved not, replied Laro, with a "Know not where it "We Franklin. said old road, and we had to make a white and silent It might bav6 been I the know It," (he priest, with a marked change of by tbe assurance that I leave thee In quick, meaning glance, which the cola srast a vault far In the frozen northern soon as we Jog around hla d with d broom-corout help get met this? with Is a nel which soon nurse "How tone. smile. "But and must, loving hands, slight bearing sea. the think field. a do can. o down How It's far now milea you only couple . seem to be those who know my . thee back to that health I pray will there What was done with It? (To be continued.) . to Buforda. line begins? The good priest spoke urgently, al- always be thine. Pere Huot will tell business better than I know It my- danger miles four or I to 8hall tear down three fence? askthe Well, up and self. forward of our for future. thee I If most impatiently, leaning plans thy ADMIRA OGOS CADET DAYS. iit its thicker settled, an, most o ed Franklin. . "'When shall you be back here? looking fixedly Into tbe boys per- have thy love, do as the good father As fur town.' no Into the folks could git .No, Its use; it'd only let ns In shall tell thee, and. pray that we may asked De la Chaise. ' plexed face. . "When my vessel reaches New Or out as thirty mile to thejwuth, they his field, an maybe we couldnt hit Reminiscences of the Foremost Jap-"Burned, wltb the cottage, replied soon meet In happy days. Let Grelolre Admiral. aneae on over on timber a little the trail side. fur the We yet, might git got bring good news of thee, to rejoice the leans." Jean. A retired English naval officer, who, the Smoky. The worst atrip Is fifteen to follow the fence a way. May God Pisarro. Know you not, my son, what this heart of thy '( (To be continued.) when a lad, was on board the traine below. man twenty-fivmile damn to thatll everlastingly any As Jeans eyes lingered over the box contained?" inquired Pere Huot, at hia fence up the free range! ing ship Worcester at the same time.' a felt Franklin Whoa. tightening and see seemed of to face final he speakIn Birth. the tbe word, the Story smile, Ganymede's boy looking A professor In a Western college, Heart ; About fifteen to twenty Jack! Whoa, Bill! Git ont o' here! as the prominent Japanese Admiral! half rallying entirely tender, that was ing sternly. miles?" be said. ' Sam nodded. Git up!" Togo, tells the following reminis"Tea some jewels and papers, the Invariable accompaniment of their while giving an examination In myth-- , cences: to were tried the Both silent but parallel fence, a They one of in another. He called ology country of them? school, playful naming upon what driver aald the horses from the Togo was constantly the victim of Look the away edged here. Cap, a and It see to firm touch the seemed bright looking girl and asked the "Those papers were the proof lips, the young vindication of thy birthright, de- which, with the pale, grave face, Im- following question: "Who was Gany- presently, "youve alius told me not wind continually, so that It was dif- all manneronof chaff from him called who folks Britishers down ficult to bout board, the the nuthln to eye upon keep ; motnow say mede? infrequent before brought vividly agination clared the priest solemnly. "Tby Disliked I at an of the. haint fence to meagre, the house, posts Halfway straggling hers marriage certificate was amongst him. Promptly came the answer: "Ganyman had put upon the pub- first, perhaps because he waa unlike I Jarred this low that got a you said make thing. was faded All lbss of mede son this with this the of may the and, an away,' and and 'them; Olympus his mates, he grew in popularity on down there some. Ixknow how that lic lands. gulping sob,. sounding like the cry of a eagle. trouble for thee. Hold on, Sam! cried Franklin. account of his remarkably alert mind'-anThe class teacher blushed for her la. All the same, I reckon maybe you The boy's eyes now turned from the lovely heart, the boy flung his head Let me out." agile body, until at length he beupon his arms, and lay silent window to meet those of Pere Huot pupil and exclaimed, "Why, Elisabeth! sorter 'have a leanln that way still. came a general favorite with officers some Sam. said Git That's worried be You Cap." right. all may Where did you learn that? "Did Margot tell thee, father, of m Franklin groaned as he sank Into out an go on ahead a way, then hol- and boya. New Orleans, and the night before "Indeed, It says so in the book, retiY befell the last night we passed at He stood all chaff with a certain a chair, his face between hla hands. ler to me, ao'st I kin come up to you New Tears day of 1795, saw the win- plied the girl. Languedoc? When v git around the corner well amount of bravado, nnlesa It touched dows of the governor's house ablase . The professorjhen asked the girl to Thun be sprang np. "We must go! I and for waited have mv son; fes, be all right on hla resemblance to the Chinese. a fitting time to speak to thee of the with light, and a constant stream of find the place and read tbe paragraph he cried. But when they got around the cor- - To one fellow sailor who dubbed him Sam simply. matter. General Bonaparte and my--. people coming and going through the aloud, whereupon the class was both ' "I know it aaldexclaimed Franklin, , j ner they were not all right At such a Chinaman he said with emphasis: Get, ready! portals. Selected musicians nstonished and delighted to learn that self talked of it as well; and I must wide-fluntimes the nilcd of maa la thrown off Yon wait; when I am the admiral hla for coat fort from for dancers waa the the reaching borne to Olympna by played Ganymede say that thou were cruelly and need- In "What do you mean. Cap now?" its balance, so that it does strange I hang (ou on the yardarm. room 1 and the ball the entertained an wounded. and But eagle. Llpplnpotta Magazine. lessly angered Both these and irregular things. One day that Togo had hla leave at once. Yea, was grieved that. thou shouldst have large gathering of spectators outside, men had agreed a moment ago that stopped for some small offense, Libd fool! said Sam. Yon d Leas Hunting In England, been led to the act that so nearly who looked through the open window coward! cried Franklin. the wind should be on the right; now erty boys to go ashore was piped,, You From every quarter one hears of tbe mii thee a murderer. As to thy upon the flash of color and sparkle of to go out they disagreed,-on- e Are afraid What! thinking that and tbe boys went up to him and said, elite you as of the and the decreased Interest In, hunting this seacity brother, we must forgive the dead, gems, Hancock's bouse was to the left the Are you to go?" No," he replied. even more freely than the living; and province celebrated the annual ball son. The general want of money la when people are freezing when Sam rose to his feet, his slow feat- other to therlght,- their Ideas as To. Immediately the youngsters got round - Etienne Is now gone where he should given by Don Francisco Louis Hector, :;ily a partial explanation, for hnntlng the direction of the Buford ranch him and pinched him for telling Ilea, Baron de Carondelrt. Governor and ran be done very inexpensively. To ures working. That aint right Cap, hare thy forgiveness In full. I know Im scared to do being equally at variance. The horses shouting at the same time, You are he disgust of enthusiastic masters of aald he. He paused, and Jean turned In his Intendant of Louisiana and West Floronce again down Togo! ida chair to look At him questloningly. hounds, motoring, golf and other some things, but I I dont believe decided It, breaking sulHis Christian name being rather In an apartment opening from , the sports have arisen In the .last few Im no cowsrd. I aint afraid to go wind, and striking a Tea. tby brother is dead, he eon- outas would I len wont but down trot, to pronounce, Togo was told difficult go though ball several they whose there, I .room, men, more set s and years still Impressively. tinned up dangerous comperears, to tell thee that he was found or tastes made cards more attractive tition, for football has for some Mme ner let you go. for lta the tame as march the storm, Aud so the two by one of the boys to shoot his godWe couldn't argued, and so they rode, until at father and godmother on his return death to start now. descended In the social scale, and alguilty of a crime the Great Committee than dancing, wetp gathered about In but last there was a lurch and a crash, home. It make the We do not shoot gods In table which daytime, and were maybe silver of upon gold never forgives that most ceased to exist. Until lately there treachery. While seeming to serve their cause, stacked in miniature towers before has been hardly any. other winter I'm willin to try it then. Dont you and they found themselves In rough Japan, was his reifly. call no coward to me. It aint right going, the sled half overturned, with the players, one of whom was saying .p-- rt for the country gentleman he sold Its secrets to the English. no fence, no house, no landmark of Into bis cast Franklin himself an unconcealed with a again directed but with sneer, scorn, Traveling Together. Jeans lips curled shooting and hunting. London a tall, handsome man, who. clad In the Globe. chair, his hand and arm smiting on any sort visible, and the snow driftWnere's that dude hunter? ' he made no spoken comment I beg your pardon, Sam, the table. ing thicker than before. They sprang Oh, he left me to go after a bear. "Etienne now dead, thou, my son. British uniform, sat opposite, "Msleu: I know you're ont and righted the sled, but the said he presently. When's he coming back? Unwritten Language. art heir to the title and estates, which, Stanley's hoard of gold promises to br in horses doggedly pulled on, plunging coward. not can a Well well mere atari he the bear does. "Whenever than together declared confiscated, may away. carry Interested Father "Did although you tell her the morning. But Ita killing me to down and down; and they followed, Why not pay more attention to how sorry you were tn leave he? yet be rescued and saved to thee, Couldnt Find It. . Son "No. hut I brought consider, wait Good God! they may be freez- clinging to reins and sled aa best through the Influence of thy friend. your cards, De la Chaise, and prevent warm and were while don't man me a tell you appeal to his con now, they might the who here, bade "Why Inquired ing to increasing? pile bear General Boflaparte, able pressure in the subject We've lost the trail, but we done science? thee this at the proper time, and also at the little Frenchman's side a man I think she unde- -"Detroit Frea safo!" n neatly, resembled Laro. cantair nres. "Id have to locate It first, and I Thats so. said Sam sententloua-y- . the best we could said Sam doggedly, to Rive thee this tetter. We can't help it. We all got to going to the heads of the horses. have no micro core." lAFETTEBY Whlch looked questloningly THE GIRL AT THE;. SLirlfHALFWAY HOUSE - ARY SEVERE . to ' -- e. - e, . . ..-i - d dly self-relia- . .: n . X: . - " yi . er . - n ' , s . - et ex--p- pt |