| Show loam h A 6 r 4 h a I 1 a a ft by JAMES OR erobb CUR obb 9 0 by doubleday doran cow colnai inc noi service 1 al 1 THE RV wath ath his wife cather in and ton eon henry lulli french in canada hi 1749 cultivates cultivate ailara a tarm adjacent t to the As th the tory story 1 tr bulging P ulm are re tu Illint from i to othe the T ton n eurso catherines catherine wandering brother hiter them w with th present or the alliy to he arl it aepli a bidding him perfect pe in marksman alp CHAPTER III belill and his wife bat up late with adams Ada iiii for this time tint 0 llop iad had c ome come with a set and determined tinaa ter mined seto i to his alst sisters Ts T s home the traders countenance lied had grown atcon and catherines cheeks were like ike 1 those of a pale pun lit in the iii candle 1 light ight in henri Bulat ns face were fitall tha cheer and good humor ind and unruffled ail 01 0 C confidence rice and filth falth hepsibah with the darkest pictures lie he had pointed painted had been unable M to disturb i they were talking about war As aa earl early Y as ik this spring of 0 1749 the american fid wilderness w erness had begun to stir with WIN I 1 of tile the impending conflagration which w was destined soon goon to turn the eastern part 0 the continent into i a seething po boj poj ot bif twy fury and death while gorie george the second OiE ngian d ind and louis tile the fifteenth of nf france atre here playing at friendship after thi the peace ce of alx la chapelle Chap eUe france gasp ins tor for breath with will tile the flower of her a armies ballf I 1 burled on european battlefields and 11 england klind with tali her g forces reduced on land to eighteen thousand men and coless to less than seventeen thousand on ori the sea the vast ast colonies of the two countries working or lilg 4 out their ow own n salvations salvat ions were vere steadily atonally a nud id surely surel yand and with 6 encroaching crouching cro aching upon each other tile the stage was set ket tor for the writing of jbf the bloodiest find and most picturesque 1 fresqu pages in american amerle history southward from the richelieu were the bitterest of all the white mens enemies en emles the warriors ii of the six nations and northward sweeping east and west through the canada Cann das were the forty scattered tribes who bore boie allegiance to new I 1 france Fri tuce behind these savage vassals on ofies one ade de were eleven elleven hundred thousand english Eri glish colonists holding the seacoast sea sen coast lands from maine to georgia and on the other less than eighty thousand souls counting women and children as well as men to defend and boldthen bold the illimitable domains of new fran france e which reached from tile upper u canadas to the gulf of me hex aco vid the alac io afi the irocky mount mountains nini ax thi alarming disparity in power awer of fighting lafin men and of the scourge which he swore would some adny ILY sweep Bwee lF all the country of lali e champlain Champl aln and aid the richelieu hepsibah fadama had spoken at im but bilt with smaill eff ecton on henri B bulala n let war collie if f it must sald said genrl the heart libart of new france Is N ket set behind an in impenetrable wall of i pelt aldfo and forest est and with these ram arts in ouy our favor thousand ill be a match for the million eng come thaw way As for or ire should i fighting chance to ome come I 1 hall be it ai friend filand to boboth boch ald ca and nd strike at a neither net flier forlina matter what cause should sho uld biln g about aboud tile strife arife I 1 could not at 61 the 1 people asp 16 of f my catherines blood nor would ilie have me turn against my own so why iby move from here it to Is neutral ground andi wt being neutral are oily fitly placed here and mo itlo hawks have eaten under abr roof as pell ell as I 1 durons and alg itald aarti chea deadly such as these abet th chils adoff on ff round what cause hove have we for feard fear A light ot il pride r glowed I 1 in n 1 coth erIneS erane s 1 i eyes a as s site she I 1 listened to fl her e r hus husi i and added hanri 1116 loves uie indians J ba h aye grown to loofe them fab 66 they are all our ouri friends I 1 friends I 1 sniffed henri 1 alls Is be because calise of catherine and ana Teeing levins that I 1 pull call you a fool trice take then where this danier does aei no cot thang hung day ah and along I 1 the 04 edea of the fia frontiers tei g T take ii Ct them hemi f to tb alie SZ st lawrence reha tf bod will or bi rini them 06 saud sut 1 into col country lutry nut but do one or tl alother other for gods sake or the dh adny Y will come when n christ himself cannot cave bave you and its ills rolce shook with learnes earnestness tn ss there win ail bi be no no war war insisted Lid gland and Fra france ilice have bed iiii an continental battlefields and the pence which was kas signed only Octo october will surely not be broken broker fagal again n you and I 1 are living for or hanover and austria have had theli their fill us as wal am the others mad and are like two dead men on theli their backs acks 11 that Is i right nodded catherine with a shudder u daei 1 I all lighth if Is ov oter e r f for r many years years F fois ilai innocents 11 her brother gr growled Rivica 1 I tell you neither geqrge louis will hive have a tc to do with tile the ra running of this ivar war until every mile between betwee nOur our colonies andybur and nd your city ok of quebec Is red with fai e arid 11 d god lov mo if i m has already begun I 1 krench french and erig traders are fighting wherever theli ajl shraders se g tog elfei along the 1 i frontiers aha abid ithe i he hired ludt Miia of one are taki taking figI scalp s tor nit even white iuen ed ln wn pretty ni e for massachusetts las sent out ut lovewell Lq vewell Mtv nien dh heads of Ind indians lans i igind and X i rench french it makes no art ference which though tile the order sibil says redskin fed skins only ita ata price i or live flie ifill day elds rf it faai foed ear eryl 1 y lacall calp thit si taff filk li iid and doi yown n in new nevi yo york rk country sir william counti ot money tor for hum rafn 1 I 1 hair while the french and you kaoi it henri I 1 are paying a dundr hundred ik pc cro rons vak apiece for white scalps na as w avii e alj 1 as io r red are brini biln ing in instead ol 01 0 fur and hero here you jou sit s like a couple le of foolish doves aith ith i d a joulia y omitt one inthe in the nest nat your sc scalps mcallis allis worth atty fiat v pounds a piece your endows dowa irav r door unlocked your goffne I 1 1 catherine rose fl from ont her seat find anda cincie i to or lir brother so eliat reihe stood behind him with a about his shoulders hepsibah wei we know flits tle you have told she saad pressing her cheek against t ills his face ace there Is terrible murd murder i i I 1 along the frontiers froni from which you houi have come and that Is why henrt henri iiii has s brought Jeems and me into this coffi tr try y where are only peace and and no I 1 of the liia hid and ad u I 1 u n jcak speak about you have argued agali tit yo yourself strother for or it Is you who sh moie move out of strife and danger and andlee come me to lire lh e us na 1 together we iye will have a paradise ls hefe re ll 11 ui urged ad lre il earl rl and I 1 will wil findy find ippu qu aflfe ni wife added catherine A A wife who will love yo you greatly and until you have children childr en ot your own we will you lal ila it or of jeems dball i iose rose gently out of her artris MS for jems you should change cliance your home dome to a place blace where there Is a 2 sell be ool master ind and more for him to learn 1 he said catching a desperately e spera tely i a at t a last argument where all others had tailed in till all of new france arid and cheeng colonnesi colon lesi no better teacher our catherine t answered henr proudly in english and french sh has given to seems jems more than he be could ever have learned in n your town of albany or or our college in quebec for there in oae one place lie would have in the other french walle while biere he be Is both like his father and mother mothe r and will never strike at either of tile the two bloods that are in his big ving veins 11 of 1 am sure catli W I 1 I 1 erl erane tie 1 I erny god my teems wilf will never dever lie he a n bawo man wco when wat went lo 10 nis hid ca cot iri the loftie loft he be stood for a moment with his bli lighted candle beside jehial teems bedl where the boy lay iny sleeping with the cloth of 4 net close to 0 o ills his hands al a balle on ills his lips looking down on him thought of genrl bulala S plaat words and lils ills slaters prayer and jh IN lips moved whisperingly to him self they cant keep it from you lad hope bope i n nor or prayer player norl norald all their falth its coming and when it comes strike and strike hard and abid its then couii on it be what yaure youre bound bogad vile jkems a fighting ng man 1 catherines breakfast was on tile the table with tile the break of f sunrise and jenis aai was een jhc ad of that helping 1 tits his father with the chores the ox was fed and the cart ready for a daysi days rough travel before his vacle uncle cepil bah came came down from his sleep talk of war and massacre and death had bad left no shadow in catherines heart and could hear her singing the sound of her volpe voice made him pause ind and eface the llie south his wide iad shoulders twitched and lie he marked the swelling and dine of the timbered 1 solitude of forbidden valley and saw where tile the mohawks would enter it X K bmw anywhere and where they would come but litif if his hid prediction and ills his fears cania cams true with the ai shiver still in hi bis blood ht he fumed fid ind found dd ciesel close behind wd niini binl also fating the stillness and mystery of the valley MS it life air I 1 if his cigis fas f aethel I 1 the roans mans abdil veth been aa moni fent before 6 1 filled with ta steadiness and ien tenseness Belless oft of look i which had in it 4 somber and foreboding at the touch 0 of tt lepsi hand band thel s ee ida lecha odda body bear catching day an and I 1 V in hat in thai th at hour bup st M cotter josf before ne crack all 0 dawn not kot now now but scold 11 I 1 4 dpn when jeems went ahead of lilt father and uncle to Lus cussans sans place hel ho did d d not burden him himself seit with i sari sary of e either idi T peace or war var he wore his 0 ld suit ot brown 1 16 coth cokens and leggings ot doeskin 1 an and d oni on hai its lead gaa 4 atna abl i a cap eagle it brott un dee lei cap mis blond hair fell with its iti enos ends touching hla shoulders and w with ith only finly his bobor bow for w a weapon his bejm 7 young auni body y was free fre 1 e a ana i nd buoyant itald handsomer iolati alian if it hid bad bieh been thin previous day with 16 CA carefully chosen raiment and warlike ac coutre ments ft ae was wilfid elfed nih min filed with a ila he inc pe he would fight if paul tacha was at cussans LuB Lus nna sans place I 1 and what was going to happen in that fight was a definitely fix fixed edin in iiii his mind fai lie wa was on oil big miry way 6 to elevate ievin if asu io supreme are m 91 heights in the opinion ot Marla antoinette after ll 11 rie had bid cli erf her the piece of bf velvet 1 15 oh one i wa as s aheady af him when he be arrived at cussans Lus sans place lowas was niria nine oe 0 cock ock and tho the sale wild was not until eleven halt half of a young or arwas was spitted oi on i a long iron aarand bar and slowly roasting 1 g ove 0 a iid mass ai of hickory coach the he out iside dutch av oven aih was waa R alth i ali a adge hating of breaf and 1 benches were I 1 set et with pe pewter te and snow white I 1 t 0 d dishes ta hes of poplar wood Lus lussan sall vas tag a famous maker ofa of whisky hisky find and flip alp and beer and three barrels were ready foisted bolsted on chunks of hillh ih 6 air stir spigots goti down waiting for the alie willing hands handi of tits friends and neighbors to turn tern them jeems janis hu hunted i sut sail tile the plow and ea dottle 9 and io loom 1 cirii which his father wanted 0 o bu abny while occupied in in this way he came edtha dupond upon a table piled with a botch hotchpot pot of articles and tits his heart gaya a pump when he saw a number of in 14 english ills his blind I 1 was filled with mth the thought though t of hla his to others jy if he co could uld take th these treasuries ies home to 6 her there were five ot bf t the 11 bobki 31 mahern alvern dale ni elolia eloiza and i jo seph ceph andrews An diews a thrilling list it seemed to him and as quickly all ITA could it lie e approached upon subject of their wor worth th find and purchase leeng agno no merl merit in ll 11 printed nied english Englis hn and i n d email ell chancelor chan cedor or their bale and b eing being al as well a ree hearted nitin dinn and at ali ready warmed by lila its own on excellent RUMS gave them theia to seems Jeems overjoyed by this unexpected wind fial of fortune tine Jeems began to watch 1 a anxiously for the coining of tits his father an and uncle and for tile the up ap bearance pe arance ance of f llie seigneur and whoever whoever might be with him ile he placed hint himself heff bere anere he could see d own alie road that chain from tw T V I 1 To Tonte tir seln urle curle and when at last I 1 he heard the auctioneers voice bellowing forth his announcement that the sale was about to begin helfat he felt a somber bomber sinking of its his hopes they I 1 laened 1 e ned instantly alien ft hen three figuir figurea eil ion on horse horseback b ack appi appeared it at t jhb end 0 the half mile of road the foremost rader frfd rfd er ahi was Tont taur eur the second paul adhe and tn in the third siddle saddle rode a slim wide little person who 46 ivas va none other than marle antoinette Antol 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