| Show HE WIFE SHIP SHIP WOMAN WOMAN THE GIRL b by canoe uno on Ite wa way to the thea ond of the II early day i oiti hr la In IJ William ot t t known to toI h a ga as a. the I and Sl n sees ee a N Natches t Indian I Whit li a declaration of or war idIas dl i pOll poet French h For hie hi own I th hI be new hulen noto 1110 to to II II os i ici t tb ci i CHAPTER PTER II II Continued Continued l 2 2 Sear de tie de I i. i your but by all the saints that you Mend After you went up the tune time 40 ot of his excel excel- last lut rarer the f deserted running away soldier kaCir And be he row vowed vo he would to 10 f ro roling f for If It h he eve ever caught you r ling nr JOu on u them away wo disturbing news I 1 could was woi Thur Labrador old companion In Joe at trill trust S a venture feature to 10 speak naught but Baay h Then I 1 beca became me angry ta ss taPin troth n Pin the will til who Is wrongfully accused I B m much lle could have UI I even have lined me tor for I might ims soldiers from their alle- alle lured his had bad id It appealed PP to me as liS being behig So I became Incensed now It charged with something tT I was I u ae so of doubly of-doubly resentful because ibid I had not had hd the wit to think of f It Labrador mistook my silence for hes- hes and earnestly said sold You ion must turn back at once before I ua any of Monsieur du p people ople see and IDd tae you I will go with you IU II f tar r w II Fort Rosalie perhaps farther I will forget my ray new nelV wife I 1 will to go beyond Chartres Bah Itah I 1 there will be women enough for all of at us Ife de Is In a temper Now I mace Frince and nd Spain have hare had a peace- peace mole moke he Is la like a bear with a sore heat bead For years he has begged to toI I l hart bave v the sent seat of government changed I to lola u la Nouvelle Orleans Orleans' II IJ lie has hns been denied toled Pardieu What will the Im I beetles la In France ranee have hare Is to toI tomate I mate Dite the Lilies LillIs grow In the valley v. v Ie a n. n la I. Is tn to send conI the thA si i a tb I-I I in to their be way as s far as ns the Missouri I ud sd the Yazoo To be he sure Bure But Dut be- be toMI Nothing but Jailbirds worn out takes riVes and women of the street have bun been sent lent over And even en these so BO fast fart be cannot have ha time to send them to 10 the plantations Thank the good God some decent women will be com corn W log along Iong now I D Is a bad m mob BUS llo to have against t one Darin Daring Labradors Labrador's outburst I had had bid time Ume to cool coot ort off I remembered the therard card rard I had to play and could not beUne believe be be- lieve Une the governor would deal harshly with me roe I was Innocent of decoying his hI soldiers owa away They had not needed need need- ed my mj urging to make them deserters And small email wonder that any were left for garrison orrison duty duly now It had become n necessary for the governor to quarter them among the In Indians lans where they dressed rather undressed and J themselves like lI savages ages and learned ways way of ot Idleness which un un- for routine work Where Is the governor I 1 asked At New If It he be has not been warned of your coming you yon on lIa have ve every dune chance to get ret away It Ms is your our lucky star liar ar that sent you ou hy by this cut off Ine In In- stead e d of down to la In Nouvelle Orleans f for tor l lie e has spoken III ill of you there and every cabin Is ready to 10 gobble gobbie you up lie He Hel is II unjust lie Ile wrongs me Ill I'll lee him No man mun on earth can send to me running to 10 cover conr when I 1 am Innot Inno- Inno t I 1 declared feeling very virtu- virtu cue OUI ni because 1 I was Innocent of ot the Crime charged lie He eyed ered me we admiringly yet pit pityingly pity pity- ing You Too know you are English he softly itly reminded me IIII Runaway English I gruffly cor cor- There II are ure re runn runaway way English h. h just JUit IS as is there are ure runaway French French- menn Iller lived he the oo on river for three ff years all r It Ii suits suite me IIII pit It If stay sillY lit Ha foil yes you'll stay 1 he lu groaned Anil Ami you rou you go back back to Or Or- I inns DS' DS He hesitated his soul struggling b be be- tl tween f n friendship f fear ir and ond hopes of ot matrimony uy Ono One of the lust two won von w tor lor l a time lime and ami He tie muttered r I return to St St. St Jean When the we ship comes in some gome of the women are to be sent Bent ut lit once to la Nouvelle Orleans MM I shod shull he be there waiting I 1 Ir shall hall marry r a n IO glod girl It If she turns out fUt fores' fores foresti forest bed bad I can Cn ul llIS B go dee deep Into the I oat DOl blame him hm for tor avoiding ely dangerous J oi puny when lily liU pres- pres elire could COrl aId me Ine none none- lIe ile was on one a f the i the J of ot und and like Ie majority 0 ty of or 1 the he Canadian Urn tarn or orbo bo had small mall liking for tor the lie 1 Ba the Ille latter laller looked With 1111 odd arId on n t the children MM ot of the new lie De Showed hl Ills native astuteness ID to avoiding the governors governor's ri displeasure by k 1 dear f of f me rae for or the time I that said WL en n It ll carne came to n a nHI pInch toe lie cheerfully f y milk make I any lay HI Lid d in- in me sacrifice to 10 for tor there was wag ft a B small moll mutter us born of ot the da Doll dangers of ot the hi him Co to 10 country ry an of my W Ml aiding bored fled he was T the stake Make And AnU he be- be tl Indebted to me that beep J JUSt t now he could rould me none 6 l hy by y I to accompanying me Mote MOIl as a's 1110 than likely such eh an anle r I ells l the le White a. as run e of of my W forest forest- IQ Asa ADO Ir I place him under r u P i to tn lastly is II were e riot not new v Wives on oA it Nouvelle Orleans and L II ce b c the 1 uld hue hive first Bret l- l w By Hugh ugh Author out Kings of UM tits Pay Grant Grard GrantA A d Virginia Scout etc r y Ruth My 11 friend he be softly called tailed as his hll light ta canoe moved off olT a few rods toward toward to to- ward the St St. Jed shore If It you IOU fit the path rough I shall aha know It It The river Is la all ears ear and Ind a great creat gossip coulp My I ear Is to fo the ground I shall hear It If the worst comes the river path to the north shall be opened and we will follow tallow It and find plenty of ot room to live e our lives Ures In the good tood Gods God's country country coun try up there You are runaway I Rug Eng ng- ng I 1 will kiss my wife good goodby hI and be ron runaway runaway wal French lion Don Jour et bon voyage had bod vision lIe He knew the Importance of a river port He lie had hud Fretted much because the government bad had Ignored his preference for New Orleans It was way the one spot on th the river In close dose proximity to the gulf that would answer for a permanent settlement I 1 think he be would have hOfe won his point If It not nut for a rise In the river the Hie little 8 settlement and was WitS again chosen Like a cock shuttlecock the seat scat of government had luid shifted buck and end forth between and ond Mobile If any anyone one could seal Real the Mississippi valley for France It would be Bleu Bleu- with his bulldog determination and his his his' commonsense I Even ven though working under the tremendous burden of trash for tor colonists and aud the company's company's com com- pany's frantic orders for the discovery of mines trines or anything else which could be Immediately reo realized upon as on an asset osset he believed he could win out If permitted to develop New Orleans and other river ports To control the destiny of ot the valley from the gulf gult was Impractical One might might- as well try to govern govern It from tram Pensacola as from tram Mobile Mobile Mobile Mo Mo- bile or Biloxi And I 1 was determined to complete my Journey and meet this headed root sagacious executive with but Laut one card to play ploy against his belief belief belief be be- lief that I 1 was something more than thana a renegade Englishman For the rest of the trip across the lake loke lakeI I saw linw no one except a Choctaw hunter after birds and end was wu opposite the mouth of the River of Pearls when two Frenchmen In a clumsy sailing Balling packet came come along and went Into the wind and gaped at me In amazement The White Indian I one ono of ot them exclaimed while the sail soil flapped napped Impatiently Impatiently Impatiently Im Im- patiently against the stub of ot a mastI mastI mastI mast I was beginning to think you had lost your tongues I replied I am bound for Eo L Can you IOU give me mea a tow t 7 They exchanged quick glances and the he theelder elder elder of the two bowed most gra graciously and insisted Better than that monsieur The pirogue will annoy you ou Make It fast for tor a tow then come aboard and take your pleasure decently The fhe byplay of ot their eyes eyel had not escaped me roe nor did I doubt they had ben been ordered to watch for my romIn coming com rom In ing lug r it It mattered nothing however so I long as 81 I wished to make The boat would be more comfortable and If they thel were secretly delighted their master m I too could rejoice at being belne relieved from tram the exertion of ot paddling the tho heavy pirogue the full tun distance So we set let Oft off contented and gay PY the two of at them singing snatches of ot chansons which Invariably reflected some timorous amorous sentiment these bits of sentiment they asked me polite questions about abut th the upper upper- river It was plain that word had hod been passed along the river to watch for and ond report report report re re- port my presen presence presence e. e Joe Labrador had bad said old the very huts tit lit New Orleans were ready to gobble me roe up The nearer I l drew to 10 the more sharp set let would I find this disposition to be What I is III he the latest news my friends i I finally to ii k as th their lr chattering queries slowed lell downA down A wife ship comes comell to We hurry home said the he younger youner mun nian with a o snicker Silence Basile sternly rebuked the other uther Monsieur tile the White In- In Ilan we are ure Jules and Mattor father and son What the boy buy says IIO'S Is true a wife ship conies omes It Is bad for tor man to live alone And Ani I he fetched a deep drep sigh The he Company of ot the Indies has hns listened lis Ila- to his excellency's advice und and will send no more aquas across the ocean babbled the young maD than man Silence child commanded the father Yes monsieur the White White- Monsieur Mattor I 1 am William I 1 broke In Monsieur I am more glad lad to Lo meet you OU than you ran can know v. A Athe As the boy SIlS this wife-ship wife will wilt be he bel filled l d with honest women Women one ont can CaD love and cherish and take pride to show to ones one friends Good cooks good good tood- tut what of the news I Inter pere perl drew a long face tace and mournfully replied d The Tile last trade trude law low goes goel bad with us UI As all nil our trade trude laws are bad To get supplies we must go to tn Mobile or Massacre Island the old name for tor l Island land DO ro called from tram the mounds mound of ot human hones bones found there For lIelI delivery r atla ut lit la 10 Nouvelle elle Orleans we must pay rive live per cent extra twice that If delivered at lies Nate-lies and 13 per cent nh cent ah monr mon won I r Jeu I How that extra premium does climb UP up-at up ut the Yazoo t 1 II suppressed t I smile to hear how bow foolishly the Company of the Indies was playing Into English hands bands It would be hard enough for them to I hold lold their trade without penalizing their customers The directors director of the company could never comprehend that thatto thatto to succeed It must encourage the colonists colonists colo colo- to work for themselves Work for tor us us was wan their motto Mattor ran rail on put that Is la not DOt the worst Mon Monsieur l ur Brumpton Brampton If It we would trade we hust send our products to la Nouvelle Orleans Or Or- leans eans Ship Island or Mobile And grade first grade tobacco con can bring only 25 the hundred rice 2 20 the hundred the best beat wheat flour 15 linea and a for a deerskin deerskin- think of III ItI It Is hard lard to be a planter here I greed No Now IV In Carolina Carolina but but I 1 can can- tot lot return there We un understand monsieur's very Try sensible emotion Monsieur cannot return return re reo turn lurn there said Jues Jules Ills expression and bearing were simplicity Itself his bis words contained a veiled threat Halo I Who cares cares cares' I cried Not I. I J i 1 have hn lived In the woods so long I am known as the White While Indian I will never be coo cooped led up In a settlement again even n If It free to come arid and go goas goas goos as os I J pleased All I wish now Is to find Sleet de do Then you will 1 go to Ship Island for tor his Ills excellency went there this morning morn morn- tag ing to await the coming of the wife- wife ship said Jules ules I rolled roiled my r robes hes In a pillow and stretched out In the bow and fell a asleep leep almost When I 1 awoke It was to see Bee the stars stare overhead I slept again and on my second awakening found we e were behind Ship Island and snaking making for the anchorage on the northsidE north northside side aide where the masts of at a 1 ship were silhouetted against the morning sky AS I surveyed the tn Bay liay of the I t t tt d y t t Never Mind Who I Am Leave the Woman Alone Islands and the main I could rould no not i blame for his Impatience with for Insisting I on a gulf gul I port Shoaling of ot the port on Dau Dau- i had driven the seat of at government government govern govern- ment from Mobile to but those thos who dwelt In la learned that the reflection front from the sand sord was WIlS evil to endure endure en en- dure and that boats left unused were soon destroyed by the worms However er It was the unloading of at th the snips cargo t that supplied the lust last won word wordIn In waste and Inefficiency Vessels from frail France must stop at Ship Island nearly nearly near near- ly Iy 15 Hi tulles milts from the settlement Th The cargoes were transferred to packet boats which were met h hy by small mall boats boat when two or or three miles from shore Nor was this the end of landing th goods for far the small bouts boats In n turn too took the sand u shot musket-shot from tram shore share end I their heir loads louds were wert- were brought In b by men idea or It by carts carte on 00 wheels All Al Mils fU fuss flies ls and bother was enough t to drive a II practical mind to frenzy When Immigrants are substituted for barrels barrel and bales bails one can an easily Imagine th the 1 and dismay of ot the newcomers newcom newcom- ers era ersI I had bad seen them together without shelter without food homesick lotions home sick starving and dying while Blen worked most desperately to tn distribute distribute dis- dis tribute them up ut and anti down the river At that time I 1 stood In high feather lIth r with the tIll governor go having accompanied him und and his bis the previous lire winter Ii to tit New Orleans But tut I hind hod ne never neler er binon bin been tin in on Ship Island when Immigrants were lerE arriving As AI U It was part of ot my Iny u busl l. l ness lIeRS to learn the kind of ot men am and women as us well wIll us SIB the number r. r th the company was sending over er I 1 was gla glathe glad the governor was W at Ht the Island as U oth er I m might Ight not have been hell allowed to go there A priest at ut had bud told m mt me meun tm un In the trip down that the reckless shipping of ot convicts and fallen women had bad been ordered stopped II and that R a more inure deal desirable class of ot homr were c coming lo to the valley Tile Tiie ware |
