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As to the discovery that electricity may be made to cross the water without wire conductors, above, through, or beneath the water, the very reference by the editor to another number of the magazine, and to the experiments of Cooke, or rather Steinheil, and of Bain, shows that the editor is wholly ignorant of the nature of my experiment. I have in detail the experiments of Bain and Wheatstone.
She took the seat at the end of the table without so much as deigning to glance at the new-comer. "My dear, let me present you to Miss Bain Miss Bain, my husband's protégée, Rosamond Lee," exclaimed Mrs. Bassett. Jessie bowed wistfully, shyly; Miss Rosamond barely lifted her eyebrows in acknowledgment of the presentation.
"Because I must hunt up my friend, who's not used to such late hours." "Your friend?" Mrs. Bain had to collect her thoughts. "Oh, Mr. Winterman, you mean? But he's gone already." "Gone?" Bernald exclaimed, with an odd twinge of foreboding. Remembering Pellerin's signal across the crowd, he reproached himself for not having answered it more promptly.
His work done, McTaggart hurried on through the thickening twilight of winter night to his shack. He was highly elated. This time there could be no such thing as failure. He had sprung every trap on his way from Lac Bain. In none of those traps would Baree find anything to eat until he came to the "nest" of twelve wolf traps.
His sharp ring had scarcely died away when the footman came hurriedly to the door. "Now that I have seen you safely home, with Miss Bain beneath your mother's roof, I shall have to hurry on," declared his mother's friend. "I know your mother will forgive me, Hubert, for not stopping a few days, or at least a few hours, when you explain to her that it is a necessity for me to resume my journey.
One day early in September a lone figure came in to the post at noon, when the company people were at dinner. He carried a pack, and six dogs trailed at his heels. It was Jan Thoreau. "I have been down to civilization," was his explanation. "I have returned to spend this winter at Lac Bain." On the first snow came young Dixon from Fort Churchill. Jean de Gravois met him on the trail near Ledoq's.
"Nepeese, I have come to make you my wife," he said. She did not answer. He could see that her breath was choking her. She raised a hand to her throat. He took two more steps, and stopped. He had never seen such eyes. "I have come to make you my wife, Nepeese. Tomorrow you will go on to Nelson House with me, and then back to Lac Bain forever." He added the last word as an afterthought.
On the indulgent lips of Mrs. Beecher Bain conjecture speedily passed into affirmation; and as Bernald's companion, broad and shaggy in his visibly new evening clothes, moved down the length of the crowded rooms, he was already, to the ladies drawing aside their skirts to let him pass, the interesting Huron of the fable.
It happened in this way: One cold, frosty morning early in January, in tidying up Petie's cage, the door was accidently left open, and the little canary, who was Jessie's especial pride, slipped from his cage and flew out at the open door-way, into the bitter cold of the winter morn. With a cry of terror, Jessie Bain sprung after her pet.
"Haven't you noticed that the young architect who is drawing the plans for the new western wing of our house is in love with your protégée?" She never forgot the expression of her son's face; it was livid and white as death. This betrayed his secret. He loved Jessie Bain himself! "What makes you think the young architect is in love with Jessie Bain, mother? I think it is an absurd idea."
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