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Of all subjects, the only one which he would not discuss with his mother was the future of Jessie Bain. She had on one occasion asked him, with seeming carelessness, how long he intended to care for this girl who was an utter stranger to him, and suggested that, since she would not go to school, his responsibility ought to cease.

But how much better it was to hang in the cold wind upon the pier, to go down with Bob Bain among the roots of the staging, to be all day in a boat coiling a wet rope and shouting orders not always very wise than to be warm and dry, and dull, and dead-alive, in the most comfortable office. And Wick itself had in those days a note of originality. It may have still, but I misdoubt it much.

While lovely Nepeese was still shuddering over her thrilling experience under the rock while Pierrot still offered grateful thanks in his prayers for her deliverance and Baree was becoming more and more a fixture at the beaver pond Bush McTaggart was perfecting a little scheme of his own up at Post Lac Bain, about forty miles north and west. McTaggart had been factor at Lac Bain for seven years.

Margaret Moore turned her white face up to Heaven, and her lips moved; then she reached forward, plunged her right arm desperately down into the ice-cold water, grasped at the sinking form, and caught it; but she could not draw the body up. "Jessie Bain! Jessie Bain!" she cried; "you will slip away from me! I can not hold you! "Help! help!" she shrieked, in terror. But there was no help at hand.

It will be fun to see her big blue eyes open and hear her exclaim in dismay: 'Oh, Mr. Varrick, is it really for me? Girls at her age are enthusiastic, and their joy is genuine upon receiving any little token of esteem." Again Mrs. Varrick laughed that harsh, discordant laugh. "The ring is very pretty, Hubert," she said ironically, "but Jessie Bain would never thank you for so inexpensive a gift.

"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.

Both his "System of Logic" and his "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy" are for the most part devoted to fortifying this position, and demolishing beliefs inconsistent with it. As a systematic psychologist Mr. Mill has not done so much as either Professor Bain or Mr. Herbert Spencer.

To her it meant two long, dreary weeks that must drag slowly by before he should return again. No one knew what Miss Duncan thought when she heard the housekeeper remarking that Mr. Hubert had gone to New York. Late that afternoon she was startled by a soft little tap at her door, and in response to her "Come in," Jessie Bain entered.

"My wedding-day!" murmured the girl, slipping from her couch and gazing through the lace-draped windows on the white world without. But at that moment a maid entered and she told Jessie Bain the story of the tragedy. A thunder-bolt from a clear sky, the earth suddenly opening beneath her feet, could not have startled Jessie Bain more.

By 1859, as Mr. Shaffner tells us, there was only one line in America on which the Bain system was in use, namely, that from Boston to Montreal. Since those days of rivalry the apparatus has never become general, and it is not easy to understand why, considering its very high speed, the chemical telegraph has not become a greater favourite.