Show SERIA M MARCH A R C N OF THE WHITE PIT E M L GU GUARD cv U ZA ier by SIR GILBE GILBERT PARKER copy iwa ay R F fenno co CHAPTER X continued caspar hume looked steadily into the eyes of the man who bad had wronged him remember varre you begin the world again I 1 am going now by the memory of old daa da s good by and he held out his hand varre lepage took it and rose tremblingly to his teet feet and said you are a good man jaspar hume good by the sub factor turned at the door if ff it will please you tell your wife that I 1 saved yo i some one will tell her perhaps I 1 would rather at least it would be more natural if you did it he passed out into the heat of suh sunshine shine that streamed into nto the room and tell fell across the figure of varre le 10 page who sat and sa d dreamily and begin the world again before jaspar hume mounted al most immediately after to join the ilk white guard now ready tor for the jour ney back jacques sprang upon him and pushed his nose against his mas ter s heart and once again and for the last time that we shall hear it R t jaspar hume said it s all right jacques and then the started for the north again As they were doing so a shadow fell across the sunlight that streamed upon varre lepage he 01 looked up there was a startled cry of joy an answering exclamation ot of ion ioe e and rose lepage was locked in her lier husband husbands s arms A few moments after and the sweet faced woman oman said who N was as the man who rode away to the north as I 1 came up varie I 1 he ie relinde d me of some one but I 1 can t think who it is that was vas the leader of the white guard the man who saved me my wife he ile paused a moment and then solemnly said that man was jaspar hume the wife rose to her feet with a spring he saved you he saved you jaspar hume oh varre he ile saved me rose her eyed u were wet viet and he would not mot stay aal an let me thank him poor fellow poor jaspar hume has he then been up here these ten years he lie tace face was flushed and pain was struggling gling with the joy she felt in see ing her husband again yes he has been up here all that tha time he ile has not succeeded in life varre and her thoughts went back ao to the days when blind and ana ill III jaspar hume went away tor for healtha sake and she remembered how sorry then she felt for him and how grieved she was vias that when hen he came back strong and well he did not come near her or her husband and offered no con granulations she had not deliberately wronged him she did not know he wished her to be his wife she knew he cared for her but so did varre le page A promise had been given to neither when jaspar hume went away and after that she grew to love the successful kind mannered genius who became her husband aven in this happiness of hers sitting once again at her husband husbands s feet she thought with a tender and glowing lowing kindness of the man who had cared tor for her eleven years ago and who had but now saved her husband he ile has not succeeded in life she repeated softly looking down dolyn at her his brow i burning with a white heat varre le page said lie ile Is a great man my t wife I 1 am gm sure ure e Is a good man she adud perhaps varre lepage had borrowed some strength from jaspar hume tor for he said almost he is a great man his nwe ft lie looked up half startled at the tone an ani I 1 said yes dear he is a good man and a great man tie suel still came in through the open booi the saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks an eagle went floating away to the west robins made vocal a soli soll i tary tree a few yards away brool ers moved back and forward across the square and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold the wife looked at the yellow brood draw ing close to their mother and her eyes grew wistful she thought of their one baby asleep in an felish grave but thinking of the words of the captain of the white guard varre lepage said we will begin the v m orld again my wife she smiled and rose to kiss his forehead as the hen and chickens has felled away from the door and a clear bugle call sounded in the square yes dear she said we will begin the world again CHAPTER XI eleven years have rone u since that scene u oab enacted at edmonton and li 14 1 A up the flip curtain ris tor for the last act of tatt ali it drama of life wl ich Is connected with the briet brief I 1 lastoly of the white guard A gi gibat eat gathering is dispel sing from a hall in piccadilly it has been drawn together to do honor to a man wl 0 has achieved a triumph in engineering science As he steps fiola the plat form to go h he e Is greeted by a fusi fusillade lade of cheers lie bows bos calmly and kind ly he Is a man of vigorous yet re served aspect he has a rare lahty he ile recel receives ves with a quiet cor duality the personal congratulations of his friends he ile remains for some timp time in conversation with a roal duke who takes his arm and with him passes into the street the duke is a member of this gi gibat eat mans club and offers him a seat in his brougham amid the cheers of the people they drive away together inside the club there are fresh congratulations and it Is proposed to arianne an irn fin prompts dinner at which the duke will preside but with modesty and honest thanks the great man declines he ile pleads an engagement he had pleaded this engagement the day be fore to a well known society after his health Is proposed he makes his adieus and leaving the club walks away toward a west end square in one of its streets he pauses and en a building called providence chambers his servant hands him a cablegram he passes to his library and standing before the fire opens it it reads my wife and I 1 send con granulations to the great man jaspar hum stands for a moment looking at the fire and then saya says sim ply I 1 wish my poor old jacques were here he then sits down and writes this letter my dear friends your cable gram has made me glad the day is over my last idea was more success ful than I 1 even dared to hope and the carscallen I 1 e made the sign of the cios cio s that he I 1 ome back from saint gabrielle and that s next to the book with a papist it if lies hes alive hell come s he will carscallen and cloud in the sky he s still there and comes in and 4 I 1 smokes with jeff hyde and me a as s he used to do with ou on sir but he doesn doean t obey our orders as he did those of the captain of the white guard he ile said to me when I 1 left you see strong back tell him cloud in the sky good indian he get how jaspar hume balsi raised d his glasa glas with smiling and tho il taul eyes to cloud in the sky and all who never forget he said THE END k hl V I 1 ral po 0 7 I 1 f he saved youl he saved you jaspar hurnel oh varrel world has been kind I 1 went down to see your boy jaspar at clifton last week it was the his birthday you know ten years old and a clever strong minded little fellow he is quite contented As he is my god child I 1 again claimed the right of i ut ting a thousand dollars to his credit in the bank I 1 have to speak of dollars to you people living in canada which I 1 have done on his every birthday when he is twenty one he will have twenty one thousand dollars quite enough for a start in life we get along well together and I 1 think he will develop a fine faculty for science in the summer as I 1 said I 1 will bring him over to you there Is nothing more to say to night except that I 1 am as always your faithful friend JASPAR HUME A moment after the letter was fin dished the servant entered and an bounced mr late carscallen with a smile and hearty greeting the great man and this member of the white guard meet it was to entertain his old arctic comrade that jaspar hume had declined to be entertained by so solety or club A little while after seated at the table the ex sub factor said you found your bi other well Carscallen 9 the jaws moved slowly as of old ay that and a grand minister cap tain fain he wanted you to stay in scotland I 1 suppose ay that but there s no place for me like fort providence try this pheasant and you are sub factor now carscallen there theres s amo t of us sub factors jeff hyde and myself mr field is old and can t do much work and trade is heavy now yes I 1 hear from the factor now and then and gaspe he ile ent away three years ago but he said he d come back he never did though jett hyde believes he will he ile sa s to me a hundred times k 6 4 |