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developed it, he perfected it, he was
ready to give 1t to the world But
he was seized with illness, became
blind, and was ordered to a warm
climate for year He left his idea,
his invention, behind him-his COM
plete idea While he was gone mis-
bosom friend stole his perfected idea
yes, stole his perfected idea, and
sold 1t for twenty thousand dollars.
He was called a genius, a great in
ventOT. And then he married her.
You don't know her, jacques. You
never saw pretty Rose Yarcoe, who,
liking two men, chose the one who
was handsome and brilliant and whom
the world called q genius. Why didn't
JaspaT Hume expose him, Jacques2
Proof Is not always easy, and then he
had to think Of her. One has to think
OF q woman Is such a case, Jacques.
Even a dog can see that"
he was silent for moment, and then
ne SAID, Come, Jacques. You viii
keep secret what show you.'
He went to 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but unpublished wood.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
idea, you see 1t 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 q
day. but had never heard him talk SO
much at time as he had done this
last ten minutes. JasDaT Hume was
generally silent man; decisive even
TO severity, careless carriers and shirk-
ing under-offIeers thought. Yet none
could complain that he was unjust. He
was simply straightforward, and he
had no sympathy with those who were
not the same He had carried a
drunken Indian on his back for miles.
and from certain death by frost. He
had, for want of q more convenient
punishment, promptly knocked down
JEFF Hyde, the sometime bully of the
Fort, TOR apprOpriating a bundle of
1qrs belonging to a French half-breed,
Gaspe IOulOurs. But he nursed Jeff
hyde through an attack Of pneumonia,
insisting at the same time that GasDe
1ouJours should help him. The result
OF 1t all was that Jeff Hyde and Gaspe
IouIouTs became constant allies They
both formulated their oaths BY Jaspsr
Hume. The Indian, CIoud-in-the-Skv.
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
u.
an un-Indian life, and earning his food
and shelter by eoarsely laboring with
his hands He came at least twice q
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 kindly
nod, would pass out as silently as he
came
And now as Jaspar Hume stood
looking at his Idea" CIOud-in-the-Sky
entered, let his blanket {ail by the
heaTthstone and sat down upon It.
If JaspaE Hume saw him or heard him,
he at least gave no sign at first He
said N low tone to the dog, at Is
finished, Jacques; It Is ready for the
world"
Then he put It back, locked the box.
and turned toward Cloud-in-the-Sky
and the fireplace The Indian grunted ;
the other nodded, with the debating
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