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In the present case, however, the proof of the contemporaneousness of Man and the extinct animals does not depend simply on the identity of their mineral condition. The chemical analysis of M. Delesse is only a fact in corroboration of a great mass of other evidence.
And there is a rumor, m'sieu, that the Yellow-back will be at the Lac Bain dog sale." Reese Beaudin rose slowly to his feet, and yawned in that smoke-filled cabin. "And if the Yellow-back should turn the tables, Joe Delesse, think of what a fine thing you will miss," he said. Joe Delesse also rose, with a contemptuous laugh. "That fiddler, that picture-drawer, that book-reader Pouff!
That is how much of a devil and a beast in man-shape he is." Again Reese Beaudin laughed in his low, soft voice. "And his wife, mon ami? Is she afraid of him?" He had stopped smoking. Joe Delesse saw his face. The stranger's eyes made him look twice and think twice. "You have known her sometime?" "Yes, a long time ago. We were children together. And I have heard all has not gone well with her.
And two years ago I saw Jacques Dupont's hands in that hair, and he was dragging her by it " Something snapped. It was a muscle in Reese Beaudin's arm. He had stiffened like iron. "And you let him do that!" Joe Delesse shrugged his shoulders. It was a shrug of hopelessness, of disgust.
After thirty years of study and progress, other savants, without differing from him, progressed further in the intimate knowledge of rocks; but the historian of science will not forget that Delesse was the precursor of this order of research. His studies of metamorphism will long do him honor.
His maps which follow the route of many of the great French lines of railway explain the kind of soil upon which they are laid, and are of daily use. In the pursuit of his numerous scientific works, Delesse never failed in discharging his duties in the Corps des Mines.
From that night he was ashamed to show his face ever again at Lac Bain. And no one knows where he went. No one except Elise. And her secret is in her own breast." "And after that?" questioned Reese Beaudin, in a voice that was scarcely above a whisper. "I cannot understand," said Joe Delesse. "It was strange, m'sieu, very strange.
Promoted to be Inspector-General of Mines in 1878, and charged with the division of the south east of France, he preserved to the end of his life these new duties, for which, to the regret of the School of Mines, he gave up his excellent lessons there. During the year of 1870 Delesse fulfilled his duties as a citizen, as engineer in preparation of cartridges in the department.
He finds there, indeed, a precious field to be compared with stratified deposits; for in spite of the enormous depth to which they form a part of continents, they are of analogous origin. Delesse laboriously studied the products of the innumerable soundings taken in most of the seas.
"Diantre, but I tell you it is to be the greatest sale of dogs that has ever happened at Lac Bain!" said Delesse. "To this Wakao they are coming from all the four directions. There will be a hundred dogs, huskies, and malamutes, and Mackenzie hounds, and mongrels from the south, and I should not wonder if some of the little Eskimo devils were brought from the north to be sold as breeders.
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