The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-08-07
CHAPTER Viii.
Dreams of the Night.


Jacuueline and I were together, the
only human beings within a score of
miles We were seated side by side
in the sleigh at which the dogs pulled
steadily.
The mystery of Jacqueline's rescue
nv CAPTAIN Dubois had been a simple
one. The young man with the mus
tache was a certain Philippe Lacroix,
we'll known to Dubois, a member of
good family but of dissOlute habits
lust such one as Leroux found it
convenient to attach to his political
fortunes by timely financial aid.
There was no doubt that he had
been In New York with Leroux, and
that they had Matched the plot to kid
nap Jacqueline after had been struck
down.
Fortunately for US, Lacroix, igno-
rant, as was Leroux himself, that the
two ships had exchanged roles and du
ties, took Jacqueline aboard the
Sainte-Vierge, where Captain Dubois,
who was watching in anticipation Of
just such a scheme, seized him and
marched him at pistol point to the
house on Paul street, in which LacrOix
was kept a prisoner by friends of Du
bois until the Sainte-Vierge had sailed.
Dubois left us at st. BOniface with
q final caution against Leroux, and
proceeded along the shore with his
bags Of mail; but first he had a salts
factory conversation with NJ. Danton
concerning us.
Danton, who of course knew Jacque-
line, took the opportunity of assuring
me that her father, though q recluse
and misanthrOpe who had not left
MS seigniory for forty years, was said
to be a man of heart and would IN
doubtedly forgive US. He was clearly
under the impression that we were
married, and since Dubois had not en-
lghtened him on this point / did not
do so.
N. Danton had his sleigh and eight
nne'looking dogs ready for us. pur-
chased these outright in order to carry
days supply Of food, a little tent,
sleeping bags and frozen fish for the
animals,
II was a strange situation. 1t might
easily have become an impossible one.
But 1t was sacred comradeship, refined
ABOVE the love Of friend for friend, of
aoVer for lover, by her faith, her help
ieSSness and need
think that she liked best to sit be-
SIDE me in the narrow sleigh and lean
against my shoulder, her physical
WEAKNESS the reflection of her spirit
uai unrest, She did not want to think,
ana She wanted me to shield her.
But even in this solitude fear drove
me on, for I knew that q relentless
enemy followed hard after us, camp
lng Where we had camped and reading
.ne miles between us by the smolder-
'ng ashes of our old fires.
AT nighJfall I would pitch the tent
LOT JacQueline and place her sleeping
0ag within, and while she slept would
NC oy the huge fire near the dogs, and
we Eept watch over her together.
30 passed three days and nights.
=, me fourth short day drew toward
'S end little after four o'clock. I
.elnember that we camped late, for
sne sun had already dipped to the level
OF'zon and was casting black. mile
'OnS shadows across the snow.
hammered in the pegs and built
Hre with dry boughs, collecting a guam
ut9 of wood sufficient to last until
"Orning. Then Jacqueline made tea
aNo we ate our supper and crept into
'ur Sleeping bags and lay down.
could not still my mind. The un-
oes'.aanty ahead of US, the knowledge
Aeroux behind tried me sorely, and
Su'S Jacqueline's need sustained my
Courage.
a. as was on the point of dropping
a~ "sp heard a lone wolf howl from
Mr. and instantly the pack took up
cry. One of the dogs. a great.