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I j The Great Shadow By A. CONAN DOYLE Author ot "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Copyrighted by A. Conan Doyle CHAPTER XIV —Continued. —14— The major and I were raising his ; head in the hope that some flutter j of life might remain, when I heard "This Is my thirteenth and last," "And madame, your mother? 1 trust that you have left her very well. And monsieur, too, your father? Bear them my distinguish i-d regards." Even now, as death closed in upon him, he gave the old bow and wave as he sent his greet lng to my mother. "Surely," said I, "your wound may not be so serious as you think, , I could bring the surgeon of our regiment to you." "My dear Jack, I have not been giving and taking wounds this fif teen years without knowing when one hi'-s com® home. But it is well. V for 1 know that all is ended for my Little Man and I had rather go with my voltigeurs than remain to be an e^lle nnd a beggar. Besides. It Is ouite certain that the Allies a would have shot me, so 1 have saved mvsnlf from that humiliation." "The Allie-, sir." s-id the major, with some heat, "would be guilty j of no such barbarous action." i But De Lissac shook his head with I the same sad smile. "You do not know, major," said he. "Do you suppose that T should have fled to Scotland and changed my name if I had not more to fear • than my comrades in Parts? I wa-! , anxious to live for I was sure -hit mv Idttle Man would com« hack., Now I had rather die. for he will, never head an army again. But I a well remembered voice at my side, and there was De Lissac, leaning upon his elbow, among a litter of dead guardsmen. He had a great blue coat muffled round him, and his hat, with the high-red plume, was lying on the ground beside him. He was very pale and had dark blotches under his eyes, but other wise he was as he had ever been, with the keen, hungry nose, the wiry mustache and the close-cropped head, thinning away to baldness up on the top. His eyelids had always drooped, but now one could hardly see the glint of his eyes from be neath them. "Halloo, Jack!" he cried. "I didn't thought to have seen you here and yet I might have known it, too, when I saw friend Jim." "It is you that have brought all this trouble," said I. "Ta, ta, ta!" he cried in his old impatient fashion. "It is all ranged for us. When I was in Spain I learned to believe in fate. It is fate which has sent you here this morning." "This man's blood lies at ar your door," said I, with my hand on poor Jim's shoulder. "And mine on his, so we have paid our debts." He flung open his mantle as he spoke, and I saw with horror that a great lump of clotted blood was hanging out of his side. said he with a smile. "They say that thirteen Is an unlucky number. Could you spare me a drink from your flask?" The major had some brandy-and water. De Lissac supped it up eag erly. His eyes brightened and a little fleck of color came back Into each of his haggard checks. "It was Jim did this," said he. "1 heard some one calling my name and there he was, with his gun against my tunic. Two of my men cut him down as he fired. Well, well. Ed die was worth it all. You will be In Paris in less than a month, Jack, and you will see her. You will find her at number eleven of the Rue Mlromesnil, which Is near the Mad elaine. Break it very gently to her, Jack, for you cannot think how she love me. Tell her that all I have Is In two black trunks, and that Antoine has the keys. You will not forget?" "I will remember." 4 have done things that could not be t forgiven. D was I that led the part- that took and shot th- Due d'Er.ghlen. It was I ah mon Dl u. Edle Edle. ma. cherlc!" Ho threw out both his hands, with nil the finge-s re. ling and quivering in the air Then he let them drop heavily In front of b«m. ami h s chin tell forward upon his ehest One of our , sergeant 1 la'd him gen By down, and the other stretch d the big blue mantle ove- hi- and so we lefl those two whom fate li d so strn g ly brought together, the S"otrhm ; n and the h ienchman. > iint ik , tl<. ?,ffswtssa hillside near HouROuniont. And now I have reiv nearly come to the cud of It all. and nrectou , glad I shall be to find myself there, | , for I began this old memory with j a light heart, thinking that It j would give me some work for the I long summer evenings, but as I ! went on I wakened a thousand 1 sleeping sorrows and half-forgotten ; griefs, and now my soul Is all asj raw as the hide of an ill-sheared sheep. If I come safely out of It, 1 ; will swear never to set pen to pap- [ er again for It Is so very easy at ' first, like walking Into a shelving | stream, and then, before you can, look round, you are off your feet,^ and down in a hole and can strug-, glo out as best you can. I * We buried Jim and De Lissac ; with four hundred and thirty-one j other of the French Guard and our i own light infantry in a single trench j Ah, if you could sow a brave man j as you sov a seed, there should be j a fine crop of heroes coming up, thore-somo day! Then we left the | bloody battlefield behind us forever CHAPTER XV The End of it. and wife, our brigade we marched on over the French border on his ; way to Paris, j I had always been brought up curing all these years to look upon the French as very evil folk, and we only heard of them tton with fightings and slaughter ings by land and by sea, it was nat ural enough to think that they were vicious by nature and ill to meet with. But then, after all. they had only heard of us in just thesame fashion, and so. no doubt, they had just the same idea of us. But when we came to go through their coun try and to see their bonny little steadings, and the douce, quiet folk at work in the fields, and the men knitting by the roadside, and the old granny with a big white smutch smacking the baby to teach it manners, it was all so homelike that I could not think why It was that we had been fearing and hat ing these good people for so long. But I suppose that, in truth, it was really the man who was over them that we hated, and now that he was gone, and his great shadow cleared from the land, all brightness once more. We Jogged along happily enough through the lovlest country that ever I set my eyes on, until we came to the great city, where we thought that there would be a battle, for there are so many folk in It that if only one in twenty comes out it would make a fine army. But by that time they had seen that it a pity to spoil the whole country country just for the sake of one man, so they had told him he' must shift for himself in the future. The next we heard was that he had sur rendered to the Brlttish. and that the gates of Paris were open to us, which was very good news to me, for I could get along very well Just now on the one battle T had had. But there were plenty of folk In Paris now who loved Boney, and that was natural when you think of the glory that he had brought them, and how he had never asked his army to go where he would not go himself. They had stern enough faces, for us. I can tell you. when we marched In, and we of Adams' brigade were the very first who set foot in the city. We passed over a bridge which they call Neutlly, which is easier to write than to say, and then through a fine park, the Bois de Boulogne, and so itito the Champs d'Elysees. There we bivo uacked, and pretty soon the streets were so full of Prussians and Eng 1 lisli that It became more like a camp than a city, The yerv first time that I could get away I went with Rob Stewart, of my company—for we were only old allowed to go about In couples— to the Rue Mlromesnil. Rob waited in the hall, and I was shown up stairs, and as I put my foot over the mat there was cousin Edie, just our the same as ever, staring at me with those wild eves of hers. For a mo me nt she did not recognize me. but fif- when she did she just took three steps forward and sprang at me V vith h«r two arms around mv neck, my 'Oh, my dear old Jack!" she cried go "how fine vou look in a red coat." to "Yes. 1 am a soldier now, Edie," ga ja j ver y sttfflv, for as I looked a t her prettv face I seemed to see behind It that other face which had looked un to the morning skv on th ,» Belgian battle field, j "Fancv that!" she cried. "What i are you then. Jock? A general? a I captain?" ' "No 1 am a private." said "What! Not one of the common ppon)( , who carry guns?" "Yes I carrv a gun." fear that is not nearly so lnter wa-! , tteg " ? lid aim. and she went -hit ,, ack to , h e sofa from which she had ,,«. en it was a wonderful room, all will, Fllk . an(] - ve i V et. and shlnv things, I in our of and the up be "I too, all is this as in ccnnec WO was was ar his was say eag a Into "1 and him Ed be find Rue her, she that not end I felt inclined to go back to be t , lve mv t )00 ts another rub. As Edle the ^ dow „ a ^„) n i aaw that she was Due pn blark and ao i k new that u. Ubp had ]lP . n . d „( Dp Ussec's death. .., apl to see that you know the q jj s , |id j .. for j am the band at breaking things, ,„ at „ W „ VP to kPPp tell the )>ONPg und tlmt Antoine our , , k vu . and .. TllH „ k vou. Jock, thank you." wna like your kindness lefl bpl nMWlf , P . g- .. , wppk n ; n "„."ute mad. tl<. wp „ r mourning all my days, nl [»«a- - «** kfii a clumsv He said whatever 1 heard of I was mad I shall Ah, 1 shall nev er get over It. I shall take the veil and die In a convent. ( If you pieuse madame, ton''wtshesTo s"ae yo,î." ' , "My dear Jock" said Edte, Jump | , nR up "this ta VPry important. 1 j am ao ao , Ty to out our chat short, It j hut I am sure that you will come, the I t Q aP0 nl0 again, will you not, when I ! j a m less desolated. And would | 1 you ntlnd going out by the side door j ; instead of the main one? Thank I asj you y ou old dear Jock; you were i always such a good hoy, and did j 1 ; exactly what you were told." pap- [ ****** at ' ^nd that was the last I was ever | t,, see of cousin Edle. She stood In can, tb e sunlight with the old challenge feet,^ her eyes nnd flash of her teeth, an fi a0 I shall always remember her, I shining and unstable like a drop of ; Quicksilver. As I joined my com j rade i n the street below I saw our i bne carriage and pair at the door, j and i knew that she had asked mi man j t0 a Up out so that her grand new be j friendH m j K ht never Know what up, the | ..... . luted with in her childhood. She j a common people she had been assoc bad never asked for Jim, nor for my it a a father and mother, who had been so kind to her. Well, it was Just her way, and she could no more help it than a rabbit can help wagging Its scut and yet it made me heavy hearted to think of It. Two months later I heard that she had married this Count de Beton, and she died in child-bed a year or two later. And as for us, our work was done for the great shadow had been cleared away from Europe, and should no longer be thrown across the breajth of the lands over peace ful farms and little villages, dark ening the lives which should have been so happy. I came back to Cor riemuir after I had bought my dis charge. When my father died, I took over the sheep farm and mar ried Lucy Deane of Berwick and have brought up seven children who are all taller than their father, and take mighty good care that he shall not forget it. But in the quiet, peaceful days that pass now, each as like the other as so many Scotch tups, I can hardly get the young folks to believe that even here we have had our romance, when Jim and I went a-woolng, and the man with the cat's whiskers came up from the sea. a (THE END) FARMER OWES MUCH TO MULE Animal I* Hard and Rugged Worker and Almost Indispensable in Many Localities. The mule, like everybody else, has his place. He is considered u bad actor. Fathers caution tlielr son* about going near any animal with long ears nnd ropy tall. The sons know what the animal will do because they have been looking over the "funny paper" each Sunday and were de lighted in seeing the mule fold up nnd let loose with a kick that sent a man through the side of a barn or over the fence. But in spite of this un desirable advertising the mule is with us today on more farms than ever before. He is n hard and rugged worker and Is especially adapted to the more hilly farms of our agricul tural sections. Even through the Middle West there are some counties that have more mules than horses. In 1867, the mules of the United States numbered 822,000, with an average value of $06.94. In 1890 the number was 2,321,000, valued at $78.25. By 1914 the number had Increased to 4,123,000, with a value of $119.84 per head. On January 1, 1920, the num ber was 4,995,000 and the value per head was $147. The mule has gained rapidly In popularity, In many localities taking the pince of the horse, and has also prevented the Introduction of the trac tor in many places. There ure not a few mule ranches over the United States, the owners finding It a pay ing kind of stock to raise. The de mand is increasing and those having them for sale cannot supply the mar ket.—Thrift Magazine. CONDEMN TERM "FAIR SEX" English Women Go on Record as Op posed to Phrase "Belonging to a Bygone Age.'' It has been officially declared In Eng land that women, en bloc, are neither "week" nor "fair." At least the Wom en's Freedom league, under the lead ership of Councilor Margaret Hodge, has put a Imn on the terras "fair sex" and "weaker sex." "niotlier-ln-law on the feminine Index. Further, It Is averred, once and for all time that: Woman's judgment Is as good as man's. Women talk less than men. Women can keep a secret. "One Irritating custom," said MVss Hodge, "comes from an age when to be fair was woman's first and foremost duty. The only women who couuted were for ornament rather than for use. Women may tie the weaker sex physi cally, but certainly not morally. The name mother-in-law Is still the stand by of farces and comic literature. It Is an Iflea from some bygone age."— Loudon Chronicle. "Spinster" nnd have also been put Chine»* Art. The applicability of Chinese art for Interior decoration of any period Is ' belüg strikingly Illustrated In a recent gallery opening In New York. The 1 Men that anything Chinese Is gaudy is being gradually displaced. In the carving of gems, the working of metal and [ n tapestry designs the Chinese | are without rirais. The owner of the j I i j In of new gallery has fitted up half a score of rooms In period designs—there Is the old French und English, the j American colonial, the early Italian and the Holland rooms. Fitting snug ly Ink* the general tone of the room are marvels of Chinese craftsmanship In the form of hangings, carved wood work, tapestry and lamps. It ts a rev elation to many and has a new con ception of Chinese craftsmanship.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. a Big Task. One of the big cause* of delay In the movement of freight I* the heat ing of the journal boxes of car axles, commo nly called J'hot box**." When one Journal box In a train gets sorl I ously hot It Is necessary to stop the whole movement of traffic until the j condition can be remedied. This makes very timely a series of tests bow belli« carried on at Purdue mît- I verslty, to determine accurately the benefit to be derived by using venti lated lids instead of the solid lids now almost universally used on the axle journals. The tests consist of eight-hour runs with heavy loads at high speed, during which accurate records are kept of the temperature attained iu each class of apparatus. Parfuma Hunter*. There seems to be no good reason why In this country the gathering of sweet-smelllug herbs and Ilowers for the perfumery trade might not be found profitable. It has recently be come a considerable Industry Iu rural parts of England, a great many wom en and children having taken It up. In April the picking of cowslips be gins, those flowers being In demnnd as a cure fqr sleeplessness, and also for "potpourri" and sachets. Broom nnd elder (lowers follow. Mullein and mal low, bergamot, peony petals, rose petals nnd red poppy petals bring good prices ; likewise raspberry leaves, sage, mint, balm aud thyme,—Phila delphia Ledger. Telephone Statistic*. Telephone wires in the United States have reuehed the enormous to tal length of 22,827,188 miles, the new government census reveals. There are 11,710,520 telephones, connected through 53,284 organized systems or lines. The total number of messages In 1017 was 21,845,722,335, or 211 per capita. Just now the coal bin la clvlllz» tlon's weakest point. There is no decrease In baseball In terest in the barber shop leugne. Along with the price reductions the thermometer is slated to go lower. Though the old-fashioned dollar Is coming back it finds this a changed world. It hasn't taken a soviet to limit most of us to one suit of clothes and a pair of shoes. The wolves who array themselves In sheep's clothing refuse to worry about high costs. Consumers may not generally appre ciate It, but there Is a bumper crop Of poetry this year. Spain has established Juvenile courts. That's progress ; some day she may even abolish bull fights. Titan Tractor Back to the Old Price $ 1,000 \Y/E have reduced the price of the Titan 10-20 to its former low price of $ 1,000 f. o. b. Chicago. This is the same Titan tractor which 75,000 farmers have put into remarkably successful service — the same tractor, plus 1921 improvements and additions. A full set of removaDie extension angle lugs sold as extra equip ment under the former $ 1 ,000 price is now included without extra cost. Fenders, Platform, Angle Lugs, Throttle Governor, Friction Clutch Pulley, Wide Range Adjustable Drawbar, Water Air Cleaner—-all are included in the $1,000 price. International 8-16 and 15-30 Tractors Also Reduced in Price Farmers who want a lighter tractor, built like a high-grade automobile but with the same sturdiness and reliability of the Titan, can now get the Interna tional 8-16 at $1,000 f.o. b. Chicago. We have long restricted the sale of this model to a limited territory, but increased production enables us to re lease it to all sectionsof theUnitedStates. The International 15-30 tractor has been reduced to $1,950 f. o. b. Chicago. Bear in mind that we give unequalled service, made possible through 92 branch houses and thousands of local dealers, to every International tractor owner, no matter where located. Prices of Other Lines Reduced Price# have also been reduced on chilled plow », tractor plows, cream separators, kerosene engines, seeding machines, Inter national threshers, harvester-threshers, wagons, hay presses, and a number of other lines on which your dealer can give you full information. International Harvester Company USA «2 Brandt House* and 15.000 Dealer* in the United State* i OF AMERICA CHICAGO I Notice! THE TIRE & BATTERY SERVICE STATION Is now located across the bridge in the building adjoining the Orofino Trading Co., where we will be prepared to do a first-class job of i Vulcanizing and Tire Repairing We wish to greet all old friends and meet new ones. Several Sets of Tire Chains Per Pair $1,00 «ns anyoouy ever neon utue to ex hibit a radiator to prove that the -telephone pole got the worst of it! Rumors of nn impending revolution In Honduras indlcnte that the central American country Is buck to u normal condition. These are the days In which a man's red nose Is more an indictment of his wife's cookery than of hls own bibu lous habits. The difficulty In arranging a con sistent drop In prices lies In the num ber of selfish objections to making It unanimous. If the profiteers and not the hens that lay the dollar eggs were to get It in the neck there would be more public satisfaction. France will oppose, It Is said, the union of Oermuny and Austria. France naturally does not want its troubles next doqr doubled. About the only objection to auto mobile price reducing is that It may Increase the number of car buyer* who cannot afford the upkeep on a car. Perhaps the delightful appeal of bal loouing Is in the thrilling uncertainty as to one's destination, In which re spect It greatly resembles Immun life. A Washington health expert says that apple and potato peelings are con ducive to longevity. Here Is an other jolt handed to the high cost of living. Bolshevism Is tottering and land lords In some parts of the country are on the ruu. of the earth are rising to put down tyranny. Again the people« Somehow or other we cannot con jure up much respect for the argu ment that going In for golf makes you so enthusiastic that you forget about everything else.