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The Magnificent Adventure | By EMERSON HOUGH. (Continued from jfiterdaj.) SYNOPSIS. An accidental meeting renews in Meri wether Lewis wrrifary to Thomas »)ef. farson, the sorrow of having come to ask lor the hand of Theodosia Hurr, only to learn that she had just become Mrs. \Uton. The despair of his young aide and of th.« Ixmisinniia Purchase make Mr. Jefferson decide to let Lewis go on bin expedition into the unexplored west, 'lean while the conspiracy to form an empire in the west is set on find, by Aaron Burr, vice-president of Ihe Lulled Slates ami father of Theodosia. He is assisted by the Spanish and English ministers, and the latter offers money for the cause on condition that he get Lewis to abandon bis explorations beyond the Mississippi and come over their side. By gilding the truth Burr plans to make Theodo*lu the weapon witli which Lewis is to lie fought. Believing sir* can help him to a high place among men. she agrees. Failing the lirst time to accomplish her mission. Burr tells her she must try again und use a woman's weapons. At Pittsburgh a boy—(icorge Shannon, joins Lewis' par ty and becomes the captain's personal aide. There, also Theodosia comes to renew her attack. At the falls of the Ohio Lewis is joined by William Clark, his close friend, and he immediately makes ('lurk an equal partner in the un dertaking. Held up by the Spanish oc cupants of the country, they are forced to camp near St. Louis until the spring, when the Ijoulslamia Purchase is duly confirmed. .lust before they are ready to proceed the Burrs come to St. Ixaiis. Alone with Theodosia Lewis loses con trol of himself and kisses her. Appalled by the sucnlege be forces himself to go on with the expedition. One day aletter from her appears mysteriously. After a night's struggle, Lewis again casts his lot, with his country. In the fall Sara jnwca an Indian woman become* their guide. At Christmas another letter from riicdosia inak«‘s its way into Ix»wis' be longings, with similar results. Finally with SatnJawM’s guidance they come to llie Shoshone williagc. CHAPTER VII.—(Continued ) There were many passes, many valleys, many trails. Which was the “ay? The men grew sullen.' They lay in camp for days, sending out parties, feeling out the way; but the explorers always came back un certain. It was Clark who led these scouting parties now, for Lewis was well-nigh broken down In health. One night, alone, the leader sat by bis little fire, thinking, thinking, as so often he did now. This was the wilderness! He had sought it all his life. All his life it had called to him aloud. What had it done for him, after all? Had it taught him to for get? Two years now had passed, and still he saw a face whieh would not go away. Still there arose before him the same questions whose debate had torn his soul, worn out his body, through these weary months. 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"Shall I | fetch your coat?” Lewis thanked him, and the man brought from his tent the captain's uniform coat, which he had forgot ten. Absently he sought to put it on, and felt something crinkling in the sleeve. It was a bit of paper, He halted, the old presentiments coming to his mind. • I Meriwether Lewis sat down again i by his little fire, his last letter in his I hand. Gently he ran a finger along the seal—stooped over, kicked to J gether the embers of the fire, and saw scratched in the wax a number. Phis was Number Three! He did not open it for a time. He looked at it— no longer in dread, but in eagerness. It seemed to him. indeed, as if the letter had come in response to the outcry of his soul—that it really had dropped from tho sky, manna for a hungry heart. It was the absence of this which had worn him thin, left him the shadow of the man he should have been. He broke the seal slow ly, with no haste, knowing that what ever the letter said it. could mean cnly more unhappiness to him. Vet he was hungry for it as one who longs for a sooting drug. He pushed together yet more closely the burn ing sticks of his little fire and bent over to read. It was very little that he saw written, but it spoke to him like a voice in the night: Come back to me—ah, come back! I need you. I implore you to return! There was no address, no dute, no signature. There was no means of telling whence or how this letter had come to him. more than any of the others. Go back to her—how could he, now? It was more than a year Rince these words had been written! What avail now', if he did return? No, he had delayed, he had gone return? The next morning Meriwether Lewis called one of his men. "Mc Neal,” said he, "get Reuben, Fields, Whitchouse and Goodrich. Make light packs. We are going into the mountains!” The four men shortly appeared, but they were silent, morose, moody. ; Those who were to remain In the i camp shared their silence. Sacajawea : alone smiled as they departed. "That way!” said Rhe, pointing: and she knew that her chief would find the path. Hours later, deep In the mountains, Lewis was sweeping the country with his spy-glass, as was his custom. He gave a sudden exclamation. "What is it, captain?" asked Hugh McNeal. "Some game?” "No, a man—an Indian! Riding a good horse, too—that means he has ‘ more horses somewhere. Come, we will call to him!" The wild rider, however, wheeled and was away at lop speed. "His people are that way,” said Lewis. "Come!” But all that day passed, and that night, and still they found none of the natives. But they began to see signs of Indians now. And finally they came upon two In dian women and a child, whom the white men surprised before they were able to escape. "This are Shoshones," said Lewis to his men. "I can speak wdth them | —I have learned some of their tongue front Sacajawea. These are her peo pie. We are safe!” Sixty warriors met them, all mounted, all gorgeously clad. The Shoshones showed no signs of hostil ity—the few words of their tongue which Lewis was able to speak gave them assurance. "McNeal,” said Lewis, "go Kick now across the range, and tell Cap tain Clark to bring up (he. men." William Clark had already ordered camp broken and had pushed on after Lewis. He m°t McNeal coming down, bearing the tidings. Sacajawea ran on ahead in glee. "My people! My people!” she cried. They were indeed safe now. Sacaja wea found her brother, the chief of this band of Shoshones, and was made welcome. She found many friends of her girlhood, who had long mourned her as dead. The girls and younger women laughed and wept in turn as they welcomed her and her baby. All were content now to lie for a few days at the Shoshone village. A brisk trade in Indian horses now j sprang up—they would be footmen no more. "Which way, Sacajawea” ' Merl- : wether Lewis once more asked the Indian girl. Rut now she shook her head. Not j know,” said she. "These my people, j They say big river that way. Not know which way." An Indian, at length admitted that there was a trail leading across the i mountains far up to the northward. “We will go north," said Lewis. They had now a hand of fifty horses Partly mounted, mostly on foot, their halfwild horses burdened, they set out once more under the guidance of an old Shoshone, who said he knew the way. Charbonneau wanted to remain with the Shoshones, and to keep with him Sacajawea, his wife, so recently reunited to her peo ple. "No!" said Sacajawea. '^1 no go back—I go with the white chief to the water that tasts salt! And It was so ordered. Mih- after mile, day after day, they stumbled through to Home point on ahead which none knew except the guide. On the 9th of September, 1 SOS, lhay stopped at the mouth of a stream coming down from the heights to the west. ThPir old guid pointed up this valley. "There Is a trail," safd he , "which comes across here. On the farther side the water runs toward ihe sunset." Laboriously, always pressing for ward, they ascended the eastern I slopes of I lie great range, crossed the summit, found the dear waters on the west side, mid so came to the CARBON COAL (Updike Coal) Is Most Economical Lump $10.50 0 The Most Heat for The Least Money We Can Fill Your Order Promptly—No Waiting LUMBER m i COAL COMPANY Telephone WA Inut 0300 w Clearwater river, leading to the h'nake. They were now among the Nez Perees. With these they smoked and eouneiled, and learned that it would be easy for boats to go all the way down to the great river which ran to the sea. The artisans fell to fashioning dugouts until at length they had transports for their scanty store of goods. By the first week of October they weie at the junction of their river with the Snake. Then they came to the Columbia river. Finally they saw many gulls. As to Columbus these birds meant land, to our discoverers they meant the sea. Far below tho last Indian village they saw it—rolling in solemn, white topped waves beyond the liar. Every paddle ceased at its work, and tho boats lay tossing on the incoming waves. There was the end of the great trail. Yonder lay ilie Pacific! Soon the largest flag left to Lewis and Clark floated by the side of a fire on the wet beach on the north shore of the Columbia. It was now December of the year 1S05. Fort Clatsop, as they called their new stockade, was soon in process of erec tion. While some worked, others hunted. More than one hundred elk and many deer were killed. And hav ing nothing better, they now set to work to tan the hides of elk and deer, and to make new clothing. Af to civilized equipment they had little left. "We must leave a record. Will.” said Lewis one day, looking up from his papers. "We must take no chances ! of the results of our exploration not reaching Washington. Should we be . lost among the tribes east of here, 1 perhaps some ship may take that ! word to Mr. Jefferson." So now. between them, they form- | ulated that famous announcement to the world, which, one year after their safe arrival home overland, the ships brought around by Cape Hron. to ad vise the world that a transcontinental j patli had been blnztd. Tills, so soon as they knew their starting date, ! they signed, and copies were made for posting here and there in such places as naturally would he - dis covered by any mariners coming in. All seemed well fed content, save one—the man on whose shoulders had rested the gravest responsibilty. Sacajawea, the Indian girl, would sometimes talk to the chief reproach fully. "Captain," she said one day, "what for you no laff? What for you no eat? What for you all time think, think, think?" ’ Why did Feriwether Lewis never laugh? Why did he always think, think, think? He was hungry— hungry for another message out of the sky—another gift of manna iri the wilderness. Who had brought those mysterious letters? Whoever lie was, why did he not bring another? Were they all done—should he never hear from her again? CHAPTER VIII. The Summons. Meriwether Lewis, alone one morn ing. sat pondering on these things, as was his wont. He did not at first hear the rap on the door, nor the footfall of the man who entered in quirlngly. "Ves. Sergeant Ordway?" said he presently, looking up. “Something for you, sir. It seems 1 to be a letter.'1 “A letur! How could that be?1’ “That is the puzzle, sir,1' said Ord 1 way, extending a folded and sealed bit of paper. "We do not know how it came. Charboneau s wife, the In dian woman, found it In the baby's hammock just now. She brought it to me, ami I saw it was addressed to you. It mieu have been overlooked by you some time." “Possibly—possibly said Lewis. His face was growing pale. “That Is all. 1 think, sergeant," he added Now alone, he turned toward the letter, which lay upon the table. He knew, without one look, that the number scratched in the wax of th<* seal would be the figure "4." lb ■ opened the letter slowly. There fell tiom it a square of stiff paper—all white. In thought, until he turned it over. Then he saw it looking up nt him—her face indeed! It w is a lit tie ailhouette in black, done in that day before the camera, when small portraiture had done his work well, impossible. The artist, skilled as were many In this curious form of portalture, had done h.s work well. And now he read the letter, which covered two closely written sheets. Meriwether Lewis. I said to you that my face should come to you. wherever you might he. This time It has been long—I cannot tell how long That is for my messenger to determine, not for you or me. But that it has been long I shall know, else long since there would have been no need of my adding tii^ letter to the others. Not one of them has served to bring you back! Since you now have this one, let it advise you that she who wrote It is grieved that you gaze upon this little portrait, and not upon the face of her whom It represents, "t'is a monstrous good likeness, they tell me but would you net rather it were myself ’ Where are you? 1 cannot tell. What adveisitles have been yours? I cannot tell that. You cannot know what grief you have caused by your long absence. You cannot know how many hearts you have made sad. You cannot know how you have de layed—destroyed—plans made for you. We are in ignorance, each of the other, now. I do not know where you are—you do not know where 1 may be. A great wall arises be tween us. A great gulf is fixed. We cannot touch hands across it. As I know, this Will not move you; hut I cannot help this reproach. I cannot help telling you that, you have made me suffer by your silence, , by your absence. Do l make you i suffer by looking at you with re : proach in my eyes—us I do now? You have forgotten your childhood friend! 1 may la- dead its you read— j would you care? 1 have been in I need—yet you have not come to coni ! fort me and to dry hiy tears. Figure to yourself wIiMt has hap pened to all my plans and dreams for j [ you. Even I cannot tell of (hat, be cause, as I write, It all lies in the, futurt—the, future which is the pres < nt for you as you sit reading this. All I know is that as you read it my appeal has failed. (Continued in The Morning Bee.) Refilling Firm Official Is Freed of Fraud Charge Indictment charging E. Heaney, former official of the Omaha Defining company, with fraudulent sale of stock, was dismissed Wednesday by J District Judge Leslie. The decision, 1 Judge Leslie said, does not affect any of the other stock fraud cases pending in district court. 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