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fo 4 by if girth and nd largely made niti 11 they are today panes through rn log 1 ventures and 0 ther ilir tri is atie id of f lift alf in th the abam richelieu Richell fu reg reginnie ionie gild smile on the th plains of II 11 is I 1 o 0 quebec in that blataric blit bla orlo ito kich curbed the th amba idiot brench established the th NO myta of the tb english und and drw drew crude boundaries boun darle of he the ug pali stile stotts and canada 1100 CHAPTER I 1 aff tunny ranny afternoon in to may it am i a do a boy a man and ani 9 bid crossed the oak opens our or kit a hill and were troll ln IV tie e deeper wilderness wIlder neM of I 1 0 ech b frontier westward ol 01 lieu and lale lake charn iff e dog first the boy follow a next and the woman a ro trial of proper form bid bad growled as be watched A fool too a way of faring facing a ested country that had no man should anve marcani d 5 ead d of his precious column f long pa gun ready and his t ves alert the watch and guard with bi m t boy 0 y and the doe doz if it a viere a III be tolerated in f this kind nith evening on was tie one legged ir art tar from froin whose gristmill i the valley the four were me e es bad had followed follo ned the woman dued and baa ban e clearl bulato was wa a lun he had thought he lie P a little crazy o 0 might even I 1 but he was also a terl osband band to possess posses a woman e sweet face and form and nely ely chaste heart ot of cath 1 13 wife was a fortunate boy to for s r mother ic e doe doc was as a scoundrel for in i indian dog at that A good for normas doe dog A of a dog do without a coal soul to wy her petted by her settled ber er as be bad had seen her tur r waa was first of IPA be long of heroic fighting barons beti seti france ranco elong the richelieu Kichel teu I 1 I 1 the he english and their red ns is bade back he ile was door to tho the waterway that led 4 to the heart of new t if the english came w with ith scalping fiends tends the i bentas ventas ants they would bave bove over him first of ail all no could be given greater dis a than that honor wealth domain over lali he ras tet t led feurt Bul bulala atri it I 1 0 0 Is i a were growing lonier longer tos the east easl it rias as the hour birds ads were singing softly bad had heard their defiance is s and ft fearless arless challenge of red I 1 minstrelsy to all the eair of darkness but with late eunit eventa these a throated songster found A of if gratitude and of prayer f a voices ilowene in the open t cor carpets peta 1 the earth with id 4 alk pla aud blue flow a birds and peace world ith a declining sunn sun n enil kiven tn of blue blu e over the tree d th h tiem ti em a dos a boy A end and a woman ad arut 1 4 of these even the doe doz 1 I inloe ra 40 og 1 had a name which fitted incur had thought for he wreck of a dog even more thin the L splendid seigneur I 1 with jtb bla his stub of a eliot stint ob off bd A breast that hot bora sword which ich would have killed an tin rl man inan the dog grit of all 4 1011 bily ly dog dor so bopf hersly i I 1 at one could not help lov for ft eight sight ills hair was and W unken unkempt iDt ills paws dig lall thil was half gone will cl mat oly oily a stub to wap wag he lie led til a limp a t heavy never that see med to shale kil udy from end tn to end for fore ore diw ilke Tont eurs eues i missing A crooked ry lovable dog to ani the om anIn a moments mornen ts kii ft the fitness of things given a the ame of odde odds and so go wai was halt richt right la to thinking 0 of him as a wreck of it toe but la in one other avs be he wal wro ra the dog did have a soula that belonged to 10 be boy ills meter abat soul lad had a great rent car sear arn upon it by hunger and abuse in ad an inclan ramp where hu bu lal obad foi him four our yens yeam be fore and nd from which out of pity for a dying crets rc he had token taken him home to jeems it U u it deep by and birke a that never healed and tl flat at made the dog what he was waa wasa wa a and hanter hunter of and zounds in the of the four who were allne wit west ward word be verned to be he only one who watched and find listened fd for dan pir to come out of the beauty and as of the world about then them now and then he glanced up at h his it master trouble lay la athe he boy face and eyes and th the dog dg ed it after i a little and wilned in to a questioning quest lonic way in his ills thront throat daniel james bblain was the boys bo tome but from babyhood hit his brother mother bail bad colled him jeems lie ile waa twelve and twenty pounds more inore than lien his do odds and ends called odd for shot weighed sixty if the scales in ton deurs gristmill were right one hare have known the be d doff g and th tilt boy belonged belo need together even had they been in a arond for if odd was a battered old the joy on the other lw 3 every evidence of an ambition I 1 achieve a physical condition IN V hy by hes bes dressed up like ike 1 a bold bad pirate come to abduct my little girl and hold bold her for ton beur had roared down in the rally 1 y and jecki father had joined the baron in his tf then to 10 maat the thin thing worse had turned him round rond and round sl only and appraisingly with doely little marle antoinette looking on her dainty nose mose upturned in patrician disdain and alth paul tache her detectable conin coutin from the gnat griat city of quebec openly leering nod and grimacing at him froin from behind her back and ahli after be had bad pro pared himself with painstaking care for marie antoinette yes eyes should she the happen to see him I 1 that was tile tragedy of it he lie had put on his new now doeskin suit ile carrl d a gun which was two iichi longer aneer than himself A bs bl powderhorn powder boro horn swung fit at hie his waist in a hie his belt was a knife and over his boulder shoulder linns hunz the most treasured of his posses siong a flira ash asta bow end and a quiver filled with arrows he had worn hl coonskin cap of far for in spite of the warmth of the day because it looked d better than the lighter one which was striped and in this cap was a long turkey feather odd the dog was proud of his martial looking master but he be could dot unde stand the aban chaie e that bad had come over the boy bor or why he was going ham bom with such a strangely i set and solemn face fam from ber her position behind the dog the boy and the man catherine bblain looked upon her world with a joyous and pride io no boy in her opinion could equal jeems lod and no roan man her husband one conid could see and feel eel her happl ness and as secretly built up the fire am of his ea earning when he was alone so she loved to exult in her own possessions when her men folk were ahead and find could not see all that come and went in ber her face fam lee the man should have marched March tl 1 at l the th head of his HI Pre precia cova column thi this desire to hold within with in herself some small and sacred part of her rejoicing s because ehe she was ent fish eal owl not no it t k reach rench that was saby daniel james hal had tn on anae inherited from her father who had lieen heen lt kew new england schoolmaster and afterward tn an agent of the down in r it was wai on the drontle fron tip tle ta that far prince that clearl bad found and married her was anre aware possibly even more tim lienol bblain that ceth coth crivea adora adoration tion of tier men folk ani of everi that went with then even to the primitive biscom fort forts of the tile wilderness life lite which had claimed her was bollt up stal rist a it background of more than then me merely rely being the mate of i 1 roan mon and rod the mother of a son on culture and find 11 learning mizing and broadness bro adnes of vision mid thought nurtured to in her grit by a senile gentle mother aej after her death developed nd strength strengthened enod by i a schoolmaster fi ft I 1 her ther add giren to her a tried medium luto of priceless value bj which to beai we happiness because of her in fash toning beauty and find perfection out 0 of timple simple and Inex thine things and find nito also because the she was of the pann spasa ol 01 ibe the english madame hinriette had corae come to re paril her tier with much the same are art 1 ion end and dislike with ith which thich eie slie would have looked upon a cup of P olson knew this and cursed in hit his bonett heart at tho the woman who was w hi his wife lie bor bo r coldly patri clio clan face her pondered hair her Je acele and and her tier platonic plat ocic ignorance of lire live and then thanked als is god that wf marle antoinette was rowene lesa less like her with each day del tint thit passed ow over her pretty head for marie made antoinette tol nette was uns tempestuous ute like him da adf a douht but with a warm worm and ready passion to effect that cure curse and for th lM he blessed the fortune which in one vity ay had been to kind to him behind ber her bo inland and boy catherine had been thinking of and of ill his wife the ailsto cratic Henrt tUe for a long time she had known of madame ton weis hatred but it vas was not until this thi afternoon that the other ds do covery had come to her for I 1 in a spite of pf his most heroic efforts had betrayed himself when n if it the she bad had caught him looking at tier her catherine bad seen the tile shad ow w of his secret like a ghost swift ly it disappearing up oer the hill 1 she tied adud d may many twos and tm tron together until la in the sure way cf of a woman women flie she knew what montein was thinking and did dot not fear ct er him forit for it and madame hated br her whatever good might have beau aid said of catherine sit hated bated her first as a deadly enemy of her race and bated her then because ehe she dared hold her held as proudly as a barons lady and bated hated her last of all because noth ing in more than the wife of a worthless backwoodsman like bu lain ehe she was impudent enough to be the prettiest wom wonna in anywhere near tear the seigne urle and so far as it was in her power she he bad had planted ard a nir ir aured ti aln hatred to growth crowth la in tile ali heart and mind of her proud daugh ter W aric Tout eur blind to lie the feline subtlety of a oman woman in such matters wondered why it was that his girl whom he fie worshiped above all other blocs things oa on earth should so 10 openly display unfriendliness nod aliko whenever jeems came to manor of this cane same thine thing deemi ha had been thinking ai as be he walked me aj of his father laci mother ills mind at preheat as busy with the stress of fighting mentally and physical ly ill in a way he w was as a the thrill of sanguinary battle halt a dozen times since be beginning the lore long oer oter Tont eurs eues 11 1111 he had choked and beaten paul tache tactic and in every moment of these mental triumph triumphs marie antoinette lobed on with wade and horror a as he pitilessly assailed and van von squished her hao doia young cousin from the big city of quebec even in the heat beat of lift he vald imaginings jeems was ack lck nt at heart and it wax was the shelow of this sickness which odd caught when he be looked up iceo Js 13 mu eyes from the day jeedas had first seen marle antoinette when ehe she was seven and he was nine he hart haft dreamed of her and had antica paled through weeks and months the journeys which his father per routed him to make with him to manor on these rare 0 occasions c he bad with childish chIl dist adoration at the little princess pr incese of the seigne o 0 zita had made her presents of flowers and rind feathers and arid and maple sugar and queer treasures which he hp brought from the formate these tokens ot of his homage had never served to build a brid bridge e across the abyss which aich lay between them ne 14 iad lad stood this hurt and detill kept marle antoinette in bis his lb thoughts for there was as no to other child to help fill her place bat but since last autumn when madame ton heues eurs sister and her eon lion paul had come to the urle bit his dreama bad grown more clouded until on this thursday afternoon they were replaced by grim and A ind merciless visions of a future vengeance on the young man who laughed at him end humiliated him and abo ho with oot out cay any gace ace whatever that he COU could id basked warmly in the smiles and graciousness of niarie Antoin ettes favor lie ile was glad glud when hen his mother and father paused to rest on the tile edge of a peat great rock near the trail for this th Inter tal gave him olty ally it to 0 go in to alone and when he was alone he could tear ind and abrash to cociu lu la a much fuch more admiral ay oy than when vilen the I 1 he other others rde r re tramping traMP 1119 cle at hie blis heels suddenly odd topped stopped so that thet as aunt taunt body made a barrier J nis knees they at tle lie eibe of a ft flower strewn open I 1 amon inon the he chestnut trees trem it bardi ards across stross this tills w weil a hundred y ground of the wild ana in filled pinS dud on the far bide side of it cotic concealed baled la it the bashes beem I 1 anew there gas as game of isome lin kind d lie dropped to the cana and drew himself behind the decaying dec ITIC C nasa mass of i a log hat that had fallen a hundred year years before odd crouched at hia his ride ode with alln rie tie lesel lei el alth ith the tcp top of the IQ 1 tims thus it minute anil and after that vi other and wore on top of tb bliem em yet odd rare gave no an sip IB of d s courage merit nor did jettas lit II 11 watched wat clied the tile far aide of the clear leafing on a line fit as straight is 11 a die vi with ith the pointing of odd a cose pose another minute monte of ibis jostling lust linx and a magnificent tur lot key cock cok rutted strutted majest kalIr out into the tile tun sun ira th twenty pounds if it lo 10 0 ounce once jeems a proud pr oud and immaculate bird defy IV 1 61 97 10 and odds body grow stiffer with hie his movement ing log all the be world in the empty open 10 lo thil tills moment jeeni thought again of paul tache for the quebec boy wag was like this turkey rock cock always flaunting his ills clothes find dis porting himself I 1 with the tile importance of a taw man slowly beems corns withdrew llie lie lone long gun un from the top of the loi iol and tautened the tiring string of his bow he ile waited wafted until the big LI bird stood sa rl s thao than eighty yard acay atly an inch at a time re te rose on tile its II 11 and odd odds body grew stiffer with bis his movement A choking bound sound rare carre from uie vie do dogs dos s throat aa as the be long bow BBS as bent the twang tang of the sas as tile the ring el of a steel tuning rork fork and across the open aped a graah flash there fol followed lovied a mellow bound sound I 1 erent great a 9 leaping of gorgeous lorge ous color high into the air paul tache the turkey cock was down doan and dying A moment later jeems |