"
"Start-at noon-to-day?"
"In two hours."
"Who are the party?"
"Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, Late Carscallen, and Cloud-in-the-Sky."
"Who leads them, Hume? Who leads?"
"With your permission, I do."
"You? But, man, consider the danger and--your invention!"
"I have considered all. Here are three letters. If we do not come back in
three months, you will please send this one, with the box in my room, to
the address on the envelope. This is for a solicitor in Montreal, which
you will also forward as soon as possible; and this last one is for
yourself; but you will not open it until the three months have passed.
Have I your permission to lead these men? They would not go without me."
"I know that, I know that, Hume. I can't say no. Go, and good luck go
with you."
Here the manly old factor turned away his head. He knew that Hume had
done right. He knew the possible sacrifice this man was making of all his
hopes, of his very life; and his sound Scotch heart appreciated the act
to the full. But he did not know all. He did not know that Jaspar Hume
was starting to search for the man who had robbed him of youth and hope
and genius and home.
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