Excerpt from The March of the White Guard Ask Mr. Hume to come here for a moment, Gosse, said Field, the Chief Factor, as he turned from the frosty Window of his office at Fort Providence, one of the Hudson Bay Company's posts. The servant, or more properly, orderly-sergeant Gosse, late of the Scots Guards, de parted on his errand, glancing curi ously at his master's face as he did so. The Chief Factor, as he turned round, unclasped his hands from bethe room, read carefully through a letter which he had held in the fingers of his right hand for the last ten minutes as he scanned the wastes of snow that stretched away beyond Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Circle and the Barren Grounds. He medi tated a moment, went back to the window, looked out again, shook his head negatively, and with a sigh walked over to the huge fireplace. He stood thoughtfully considering the floor until the door opened and Sub-factor Jaspar Hume entered. The Factor looked up and said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.