The Geary Journal. (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1907 Page: 4 of 10
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March of the
White Guard
By SR. GILBERT PARKER.
|C*pyrl(kt, IM, bjr K. F. K«nno * OoJ
IV—Continued.
CHAPTER
And Jaspar Hume was left alone
with (he starving Indian, who sat be
aide the Are eating voraciously, and
the sufferer, who now mechanically
wns taking a little biscuit sopped in
brandy. For a few moments thus,
and his sunken eyes opened and be
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
aa awed whisper.
"Yea," and the hands of the Sub-
factor chafed those of the other.
"Hut you said you were a—friend,
and come to save me."
"I am come to save you."
There was a shiver of the sufferer'b
body. This discovery would either
make him stronger or kill him alto-
gether. Jaspar Hume knew this, and
uaid: "Varre Lepage, the past 1b past
nnd dead to me; let it be bo to you."
There was a pause.
"How—did you know—about me?"
"I was at Fort Providence; Uiere
came letters from the Hudson Hay
Company, and from your wife. Raying
that you were making this journey,
and were six months betind—"
"My wife, my wife! Rose!"
"Yes, I have a letter for you from
tier. She is on her way to Canada.
We are to take you to her."
"To take me—to her!" He shook
his bead 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."
"1 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 I
have been true—to none. To win her
I wronged you doubly—and wronged
her too; and wronging—both of you,
I wronged That Other One. 1 have
been punished. I shall die here."
"You shall go to Fort Providence.
Do that In payment of your debt to
me, Varre Lei.age. I demand that."
In this sinning man there was a
latent spark of honor, a sense of jus-
tice that might have been developed
to great causes, to noble ends, if some
Btrong nature, seeing his weaknesses,
had not condoned them, but had ap-
pealed to the natural chivalry of an
impressionable, vain, and weak char-
acter. He struggled to meet the eyes
of Jaspar Hume, and doing so he
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 to-mor-
row morning."
The sick man stretched out his
baud: "Food! Food!" he said.
In little bits -food and drink were
given to him. and his strength sen-
sibly Increased. The cave was soon
a it low with the fire that was kindled
by Late Carscallen and Cloud-lu-the-
Sky. There was little shaking, for
the sick man soon fell asleep. Varre
Lepage's Indian told ClomMn-the-Sky
the tale of their march—how the
other Indian and the do^s died; how
his master became III as they were
starting toward Fort Provldeuce from
Manitou Mountain in the summer
weather; how they turned back and
took refuge In this envo; 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!
CHAPTER V.
The next morning Varre Lepage
was placed upon a sled and they
started back, Jacques barking Joyfully
as he led ofT, with Cioud-in-the-Sky
beside him There was light In the
faces of all. though the light could not
be been by reasou of their being inuf-
flod so. All day they traveled, scarce-
ly halting, Varre Lepage's Indian be-
ing strong again and marching well.
Often tho corpse like bundle on tho
sled was disturbed and biscuits wet
la brandy nnd bita of preserved veni-
son were given.
That night Jaspar Hume said to
Late Carscallen: "1 am going to start
at the first light of the morning te get
to Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde as
soon as possible. Follow as fast as
you can. He will be safe If you give
him food and drink often. I shall get
to the place where we left them about
soon; you should reach there at night
or early the next morning."
"Hadn't you better take Jacques
with youT" said Late Carscallen.
The Sub-factor thought a moment,
and then said, "No, he Is needed most
where he 1b."
At noon the next day Jaspar Hume
looks round upon a billowy plain of
sun and ice, but he sees no staff, no
signal, no tent, no sign of human life:
of Gaspe Toujour* or of Jeff Hyde.
His strong heart quails. Has he lost
his way? He looks at the sun. He 1b
not sure. He consults his compass,
but It quivers hesitatingly, and then
points downward! For a while wild
bewilderment which seizes upon the
nds of the strongest, when lost,
masters him, In spite of his struggles
against it. He moves in a maze of
hulf-blindness, half-delirium. He is
lost in it, 13 swayed by it. He begins
to wander about; and there grow upon
his senses strange delights and reeling
agonies. He hears church bells, he
catches at butterflcs, he tumbles in
new-mown hay, he wanders In a tropic
garden. But in the hay a wasp Btings
him, and the butterfly changes to a
uncovered 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 we
went to sleep on; it was that about
'Llghtenin' the darkness, and defend-
in* us from all the perils and dangers
of this night.' " Here Gaspe Toujours
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 trainln'
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,
here's 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, ap-
peared a group of moviag figures!
That night the broken segments of
the White Guard were reunited, and
two months. The people of the Fort
Varre Lepage slept by the tide of
Jaspar Hume.
CHAPTER VI.
To conquer Is to gain courage and
unusual powers of endurance. Na-
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
have acquired new strength. Through
days of dreadful cold, through nights
of appalling fierceness, through Btorm
He Moves In a Maze Of Half-Blindness. Half-Delirium.
curling black Bnake that strikes at
him and glides to a dark flowing river
full of floating ice, and up from the
river a white hand 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!" tnd 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!
Ho clutches at It, he tears away the
snow, he calls aloud—and his voice
lias a far-away unnatural sound—
"Gaspe Toujours! Qaspo Toujours!"
Yes. It is Gaspe Toujours! And be-
Bide him lies Jeff Hyde, and alive! ay,
alive! Thank God!
Jaspar Hume's mind is Itself again.
It has but Buffered for a moment what
comes to most men when they rec-
ognize first that they are being shad-
owed by the awful ban of "Lost."
Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde had
lain down In the tent the night of the
great wind and had gone to sleep at
once. The staff had been blown down,
the tent had fallen over them, the
drift had covered them, and for three
days they had slept beneath the snow;
never waking.
Jeff Hyde's sight was come again
to him. "You've come back for the
book," ho said; "you couldn't go on
without It. You ought to have taken
it yesterday;" and he drew It from
his bosom.
"No, Jeff, I've not come back for
that; and I did not leave you yester-
day; It Is thr>e days and more since
we parted. The book has brought us
luck, and the best! Wo have foimd
him; and they'll bo hero to-night with
him. I came on ahead to see how you
fared."
In that frost-bitten world Jeff Hyde
upon 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.
There was little speech among them,
but once in a while Gaspe Toujours
sang snatches of the Bongs of the voy-
agers of the great rivers; and the
hearts of all were strong. Between
JacqueB and his master there was
occasional demonstration. Jacques
seemed to know that a load was being
lifted from the heart of Jaspar Hume,
and Jaspar Hume, on the twentieth
day homeward, said with his hand on
the dog's head, "It had to be done,
Jacques; even a dog could see that!"
And bo it was "all right" for the
White Guard. One day when the sun
was warmer than usual over Fort
Providence, and Just sixty-five days
since that cheer had gone up from ap-
prehensive hearts for brave men go-
ing out Into the Barren Grounds. Ser-
geant GoBse. who every day and of
late many tlm«s a day. had swept the
northeast with a field glass, rushed
Into the Chief Factor's office, and with
a broken voice cried, "The White
Guard! The White Guard!" and
pointed toward the northeast. And
then he leaned his arm and head
against the wall and sobbed. And the
old Factor roso from his chair trem-
blingly, and said, "Thank God." and
went hurriedly Into the square. But
he did not go steadily—the joyous
news had shaken bim, sturdy old
pioneer as he wgs. Ab he passes out
one can see that a fringe of white has
grown about lila templet In the last
had ald, they had never seen him so
irascible, yet so gentle; so uneasy, yot
so reserved; bo stern about the mouth
yet eo kind about the eyes as he had
been since Jaspp.r Hume had gone
witb his brave companions on this
desperate errand.
Already the handful of people at
the Fort had fathered. Indians left
the store and joined the rest; tho
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 Factor's
"In the name of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, 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, Cloud-ln-the-Sky
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.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
KEEP~YOUR DESK CLEAN.
Business Untidiness 8ign of Lack of
Order and Concentration.
"There's one piece of advice." said
the senior partner, "that I'd like to
give every young man taking a busi-
ness position with a desk attached
to It. It's this: Keep your desk
clean. What 1 mean by having a
desk clean Is keeping everything pos-
sible off It except that which is re
lated to the matter in hand. I've
observed in my time a good many
men in their offices, and I can say
that with very few exceptions the
real men of affairs are those who are
free from clutter.
"With a lot of paper In front of
you, it's almost a certainty that some
hour in the day you're going to be
flustered and very likely it will be
Just when you want a clear head. The
old Idea that a mass of material
every whlchway on the desk Is a
sign that a person is full of busi-
ness Is pretty well outworn. Such a
collection not only indicates a lack
of order, but also a sign that nerv-
ousness may be expected from the
man in t!ie chair. What with filing
cabinets and other devices no excuse
can be offered nowadays for confu-
sion.
"A well ordered desk means a well
ordered mind—a mind taking up one
thing at a time and giving It the
proper attention. It denotes regular-
ity and concentrated, effective ef-
fort."
Expected the Captain.
Passing the pantry of his boat one
day, Capt. Birch of Gloucester, Mass.,
overheard one of the cabin boys in-
dulging In animadversions on the of-
ficers and crew. He turned a very
severe countenance upon the boy and
said: "Young man. hereafter when
you have anything to say about any-
one about the boat, please except the
captain."
A few days later, w&en the captain
happened to bo on deck, the same
cabin boy carried past him a dish of
food prepared for the table, and a pet
hog running between the boy's legs
upset him, scattering the food.
Picking himself up. with a most
rueful countenance, the boy com-
menced berating the hog. "You are
the mlserablest hog I even seen." he
began, when, catching a view of the
old man, and remembering his injunc-
tion, he added, "except the captain."
The boy has had a secure berth on
Capt. Birch's boat ever since.
Black Walnut.
Black walnut Is produced in this
country at an annual rate of about 33,-
000,000 feet. The larger portion of it
now comes from southwestern Mis-
souri, Arkansas. Oklahoma and Indiaa
territory, although there is some scat-
tering growth still picked up In In-
diana, Ohio, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia. The most considerable stand
of the wood remaining east of the Mis-
sissippi river is on the upper waters
of the Guyandotte river in West Vir-
ginia, says a writer In The Southwest
The home demand for black walnut
lumber Is only for comparatively small
quantities. Its use Is largely confined
to gun stocks, novelties, electrical
work, etc. The chief demand for wal-
nut comes from Germany and Ham-
burg is the commercial center of the
market.
Had the 8ame Result.
In a Georgia town where prohibi-
tion prevails a man was arrested thres
times in one day, charged with being
drunk on the streets.
"Where.did you get the whisky?"
asked the mayor.
"I didn't drink no whisky," was the
reply. "Nuthn" In the worl', yer honor,
'cept cane Juice, liver regulator, hair
tonic, an' red ink!"—Pittsburg Presa
Everything Her Own Way.
He (af(er a spat)—1 sometimes
think you women court domestic quar-
rels.
She—We do not. If we had our way
there'd be none.
He—Oh, exaotly—If you had your
way.
Standing for a Good Deal.
"What, my friends." dramatically
demanded Thomas Bott. ' does the old
party stand for?"
"Well. you. for one thing," replied
a pessimistic voice from the hack of
the hall.—Puck.
AN IMPORTANT CASE
Patient Cured of Ataxia Gives the
Entire Credit to Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.
Mrs. S. C. Wellock, of 114 Cleveland
Avenue, Everett, Mass., the wife ol
an employe In the government works
at Chelsea, says:
"I had been troubled with nervous-
ness for ten years and the disease
kept growing on me. Then I learned
that I was suffering from locomotor
ataxia. I had terrible tremblings In
my right leg which would get rigid
and when this happened in the street
I uad to stand still until It passed
away to keep from falling. My right
arm felt as if a thousand needles were
pricking It. The sheet touching my
knee in bed would nearly cause me
to scream out with pain and both
knees were ao weak I could hardly
stand.
"I had to use a cane and be helped
about by my son. Then the pain be-
gan to settle In the calvea of my legs
and the muscles became numb and
quivered constantly. The cords un-
der my knees seemed to be drawn up
tight and the terrible shooting pains
In my legs would nearly drive me In-
sane. My toes became numb and at
times would prickle as If needles were
being thrust into them. My eyes be-
came dull and black spots floated be-
fore them. My heart was very weak.
"My attention was called to Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills and I bought eev-
eral boxes right away and soon felt
relief. I was so pleased that I kept
on taking them until they cured me
entirely, and I have had no symptom!
of the trouble for over a year."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists or sent, postpaid, on re
cfclpt of price, 50 cents per box. si*
boxes >2.50, by the Dr. Williams Med«
lcine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
A booklet, entitled "Nervous Dis-
orders," sent free on request.
Comment That Stung.
The marquis of Lansdown, leader
of unionist peers in the British parlia-
ment. speaks rarely but always with
effect. He revels In grave sarcasm.
On one ocaslon Lord Crewe, the lib-
eral leader, made a speech ol a subject
which he desired to leave a matter
for open voting among his followers.
Lord Lansdowne congratulated his
friend on his eloquent Bpeecli. "I
have followed It," he said, "with earn-
est attention not only on account of
the importance of the subject but also
on account of the noble )ord's Judicial
attitude. I admired his earnestness
and eloquence, but what Impressed me
most was his impartiality." A pause.
"Yes, until the laEt minute I did not
know on which side of the fence his
lordship was coming down."
French President's Double.
M. FalllereB was until recently be-
lleved to be the only president of the
French republic who had no double,
but his counterpart has been found.
The man who most resembles him
nhysically is a respectable merchant
of the Rue Saint Honore, who plays
his part with decorum and dignity. Hs
wears exactly the same kind of blus
butterfly necktie with white dots aa
the president, the same kind of hat
and exactly so oddly cut a beard. And
on hla promenades he Is always ao-
companled by a friend who could eas-
ily be taken for the president's private
secretary. Dignified and with meas-
ured steps the enviable double walks
through the Faubourg Saint Honors
and feels overjoyed at being saluted
on all sides.
NEVER TIREsf
Of the Food That Restored Her to
Health.
"My food was killing me and I didn't
know the cause," writes a Colo, young
lady. "For two years I was thin and
sickly, suffering from indigestion and
inflammatory rheumatism.
"1 had tried different kinds of diet,
plain living, and many of the remedies
recommended, but got no better.
"Finally, about five weeks ago,
mother suggested that I try Grape-
Nuts, and 1 began at once, eating It
with a little cream or milk. A change
for the better began at once.
"To-day I am well and am gaining
weight and strength all the time. I've
gained 10 lbs. in the last five weeks
and do not Buffer any more from indi-
gestion aud the rheumatism Is all
gone.
"I know It Is to Grape-Nuts aldne
that I owe my restored health. I still
eat the food twice a day and never tire
ef it" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
The flavor of Grare-Nuts la peculiar
to Itself. It Is neutral, not too sweet
and has aa agreeable, healthful qual-
ity that never grows tiresome.
One of the sources of rheumatism
Is from overloading the system with
acid material, the result of imperfect
digestion and assimilation.
As soon as improper food is aban*
doned and GrapeNuts Is taken regu-
larly, digestion Is made strong, the or
gans do their work of building up goo4
red blood cells and of carrying away
the excess of disease-making material
from the system.
The result Is a certain and steady
return to normal health and mental
activity. "Tbere'n a reason." Rend
the little book "The Road to Well-
▼ills" Is pkgs.
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