Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-10-19

had got an idea. He worked at it
night and day, he thought it out, he
developed it, he perfected it, he was
ready to give it to the world. But
he was seized with illness, became
blind, and was ordered to a warm
climate for a year. He left his idea,
his invention, behind him-his COM
Plete idea. While he was gone his
bosom friend stole his perfected idea
yes, stole his perfected idea, and
sold 1t for twenty thousand dollars.
ne was called a genius, a great in
ventor. And then he married her.
You don't know her, jacques. You
never saw pretty Rose Varcoe, who.
liking two men, chose the one who
was handsome and brilliant, and whom
the world called a genius. Why didn't
Jaspar Hume expose him, Jacuues2
iFroot Is not always easy, and then he
had to think of her. One has to think
OF a woman is such a case, Jacques.
Even a dog can see that"
de was silent for a moment, and then
he said, Come, Jacques. You will
keep secret what show YOU"
lie went to a large box in the corner,
unlocked 1t and took out a model
made Of brass and copper and smooth
but unpublished wood.
After ten years Of Punishment.
Jacques, he has worked out another
ldea, you see. IL should be worth ten
times the other, and the world called
the other the work of a genius. dog"
Then he became silent, the animal
watching him the while. 1t had seen
hIm working at this model for many a
day, but had never heard him talk so
much at a time as he had done this
last ten minutes. Jaspar Hume was
generally a silent man; decisive even
TO severity, careless carriers and shirk-
ing under-officers thought. Yet none
could complain thatlhe was unjust. He
was simply straightforward, and he
a no sympathy with those who were
not the same. He had carried a
drunken Indian on his back for miles,
and from a certain death by frost. He
mad, for want of a more convenient
punishment, promptly knocked down
jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the
Fort, for apprOpriating a bundle of
lurs belonging to a French half-breed,
Gaspe IouJours. But he nursed Jeff
Hyde through an attacked pneumonia,
insisting at the same time that Gaspe
Touiours should help him. The result
Of 1t all was that jeff Hyde and Gaspe
I%oulours became constant allies. They
both formulated their oaths by Jaspar
Hume. The Indian, Cloud-in-the-Sky.
though by word never thanking his
rescuer, could not be induced to leave
the fort, except on some mission with
which Jaspar Hume was connected.
He preferred living an undignified,
an un-lndian life, and earning his food
and shelter by coarsely laboring with
his hands. He came at least twice a
a week TO Jaspar Hume's Lighthouse,
and, sitting down silent and cross
legged before the fire, watched the
Sub-factor working at his drawings
and calculations. Sitting so for per
haps an hour or more, and smoking all
the time, he would rise, and with a
grunt, which was answered by a kindly
nod, would pass u as silently as he
came.
And now as Jaspar Hume stood
looking at his "Idea," Cloud-in-the-Sky
entered, let his blanket fall by the
hearthstone and sat down upon it.
If Jaspar Hume saw him or heard him,
he at least gave no sign at first. He
said in "A low tone TO the dog, at is
finished, Jacques; it is ready for the
world"
Then he put it back, locked the box,