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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH The Pfaons Late m August of the second year I CDf 1 of her absence, Toinette returned to Tonteur manor for a month. Jeems heart ached with the old yearning, but he did not go to the seigneurie. Paul Tache and his mother were also at the barons and he felt a sense of relief when he learned that all of them were on their way to Quebec, with the exception of Tonteur, who remained for the harvesting of crops. A fortnight after they had gone, Peter told him about Toinette and Paul Tache. He had acarcely recognized Toinette, he said. She had grown taller and more beautiful. Tache was a man and dressed like a young noble. One with half an eye could see that he was desperately In love with Toinette, Peter avowed. But if he were a judge of such affairs, and he considered himself to be that, ised that he would never again remain Tache was a long way from a realization of his desires, even taking away long at a time. He would return during the winter. If he failed te Toinettes tender years into consideration. She granted him no favors. come, they would know he was dead. When Henri got out of his bed to There had actually seemed to be a build the fire the next morning Hep- coolness in her attitude toward him. Peters words stirred Jeems with a sibah was gone. He had stolen off like a shadow in some still hour of satisfaction which he did not let the other see, and not until he was on his the night. More determinedly than when his way home did he pull himself from uncle had been with him, Jeems con the folly of his thoughts about Toinette. turned at his work and at the mental Even if she were not smiling on Tache efforts with which he was struggling as warmly as he had supposed, he to reach out Into the mountains and knew she was as far removed from him now as the sun was from the valleys of experience ahead of him. earth. Yet, as time went on, this fresh BuThrough the fall and winter the lain cabin was visited by wandering contact with her presence, though he Indians who had learned that food. had not seen her, gave a determined to his plans for the future. warmth, and a welcome were always Impetus were There houfs ln which he saw Jeems friendship for them there. a sp'endid was tempered by the things Hepsibah llr"self ;nem where fate had told him, anj while he brought ' had Gained that he could not be a himself closer into intimacy with these , rlend uWIth increasing maturity a deeper aad more un(er' guests, winning their confl- dence and making himself more eff- standing passion for his mother, and icient in their speech, he was also a fuller comprehension of the noble ln his father, he was harassed watching and listening for the signs qualities confliction a of emotions which he reof hidden dangers against which his by to vealed and confided only neither, uncle had repeatedly warned him, Most of the Indians were from the n Hepsibah Adams, who had reThe diffi- Canada tribes, and among them he turned from his trip. the which of solving culty problem found no cause for unrest, but when confronted Jeems was as great for an or an Onondaga occasionally Catherines brother as it would have Oneida came, he detected in their manner a quiet and sleepless caution been for Catherine herself, for as which told him these visitors from early as the spring of 1758. when the Six Nations considered themselves Jeems had passed his sixteenth year, over the dead line which marked the there was no longer a doubt in the And he minds of the people of the Colonies country of their enemies. note made that they always came and New France as to the surety of which was impending. that part of Forbidden valley the struggle through France an( England were offi- which Hepsibah had predicted would a - the forces of the two Peacec'iaPjr i a the for Mohawks, be future warpath This winter he went farther in his countries ln America were on the war and were instigatof adventurings. Cantain Pipe, the old vergethe open Indians to a strife of exing a of habit had spendCaughnawaga, termination. Everywhere along the ing several of the hardest weeks near frontiers the Indians were unprotected the Bulains, and with his two sons. killing and burning and such vast White Eyes and Big Cat, Jeems travsums were being expended by both eled to the shores of Lake Champlain sides for human hair that scores of for the first time. He was gone a uhite men had taken up the lucrative week and planned with his friends to business of hunting for scalps. make a longer expedition the followAlmost at the door to Jeems home, ing year, as far as Crown Point and war were in progress, a place called Ticonderoga, where the for preparations landed baron along the Richevery French were going to build a .fort elieu was training his vassal farmers, some day. On this excursion he exind when the wind was right the perienced the real thrill of danger, for Bulains could hear faintly the White Eyes and Big Cat, both of firing of muskets at Tonteur had who whom were young braves manor. Being free of the seignenrial won their spurs, moved with a caution rote rion and laws, Henri did not go which was eloquent in its significance. did Jeems. Yet TonWith Toinette and her peopte away fenr rode frequently to their homo from the seigneurie, Jeems had no when Hepsibah was there ecially hesitation in going to the Richelieu, He was in better spirits than usual, and made trips there with his father on snowshoes; and in March, during a and it was all bn account of Toinette. break in a spell of intense cold, he he said. She was homesick for the Richelieu. Her letters to him were went alone and remained overnight in with tilled a longing for it. and she the house of the barons overseer with declared that, In another twelve whose young people he had become acwhen her schooling would he quainted. This overseer was Peter months, she wanted to live at the finished, whom Lubeck, an old veteran for manor and not in Quebec. That was Tontewr held a warm affection, and to make him happy, and he through his son, Peter the younger, enough at the thought of danger for laughed of news Toinette. Jeems had his first She was at the Ursullue school, and womenfolk along the Richelieu- in and The fortified the English places. her parents had taken a fashionable nearer not would their get savages said Peter Louis street. St. in house Tonteur wrote in every letter to his than the lower end of Iake Chamfather that he was homesick to get plain when war came; and they would be driven from there very shortly, back to the Richelieu. and also from Lake George. But on As another spring and summer folsuch an outlying farm as the Bulain lowed those which had gone before, Jeems knew he was fighting something place, which had no protection whatthat had to be conquered, a yearning ever, there was the possible peril of for Toinette which filled him with a wandering scalp hunters and he never bitter loneliness when Its hold was tired of urging Henri and Catherine to make their home within the safety strongest. of the. seigneurie. remained In For two years Toinette He asked Jeems and Henri to come the a to visit without Quebec making to his drill, and that they did not reRichelieu. During these years, the made no difference in his friend spond was forced divided birth of his tragedy ship. He could understand how hard upon Jeems. There was no doubt that the English ln him was uppermost or It would be for Henri to prepare for his that the urge ln his blood was toward war against his wife's country, andwas for Catherine adoration secret the southern frontiers hnd the colYet he greater because of her courage and onies of Hepsibah Adams. her faith ln both peoples with the loved the place where he lived with a so near. It delighted him catastrophe Forsincere passion the Big forest. to think that his own confidence was bidden valley, all the miles of wilderness about him as far as he could a comfort to her, and the eagerness with which she accepted his opinions look to the horizons. This was New beFrance. It was his fathers country as a soldier encouraged him to go inconsidered what Hepsibah yond and not his mother's. Between his father and himself a' comradeship had telligent bounds in giving easement to her mind. He did not guess what was grown up, which nothing could break, ln Jeems heart, nor did the boys fawas a but his worship for his mother or mother. Only Hepsibah knew ther different thing, as If something be what was there. fully sides motherhood bound him to her. ln the autnmn, the trader took Early number. ln Increased had His friends on a journey to the English fort Jeems He came to know people along the on thence traveling Into Lake George, Richelieu but was always conscious the New York country, returning ln he was not entirely one of them. Toinettes words and her. hatred for November. They found a change ln Catherine. She was not less confident him persisted in his memory and kept or less contented ln the paradise she uth. . recalling Albrohco James Oliver Curwood full-grow- IHurtluUeMli bum Mt)nl tu Seek iu P?n eiCc THE STORY CHAPTER I With his English wife. son, Catherine, and Jeems, Henri Bulain, French eettler in Canada in 1749, cultivates a fertile farm, adjacent to the Tonteur As the story opens the Bulain family is on its way home from a visit to the Tonteurs. Catherines wandering brother. Hepsibah. meets them. twelve-year-ol- d seign-euri- - e. CHAPTER 11 Hepsibah. as Is his custom, has brought presents for his sister and her family. To Jeems vel-hegives a splendid pie.ce of crimson is to ret. laughingly telling the boy it be a present from Jeems to Toinette Tonteur, small daughter of the seigneur Hepsibah also gives Jeems ina pistol, bidd ng him perfect himself the marksmanship, for the inpeople ofofraids fear frontier are constantly the of war by Indian parties, allies English , i x CHAPTER ill Hepsioan fears for the safety of the Bulains., in their isolated position, but Henri laughs at the idea of danger. Jeems presents the Her cousin, Paul velvet to Toinette. Pache, a few years older than Jeems. ontrives to throw the parcel, away eems resents the action, and (attacks ,'aul. but the latter whiDS the smaller inv CHAPTER IV. Continued. . . ! . twice-a-woe- k -! i , vr Allied A; J. Dunlap "by n ! ..ate spring, men the beginning oi summer, followed Hepsibahs arrival at the Bulaiu home, and still he gave no betrayal of the restlessness which presaged his usual disappearance for another long period Into the fastnesses of the world. This season of the year was always one of torment for the forest dwellers because of the winged pests which crawled the earth and filled the air. and Jeems had come to dread It as an indescribable nightmare of discomfort and suffering. From the first of .Tune until the middle of August, such plagues of mosquitoes bred and multiplied in the swamps and lowlands and woods that beasts were half devoured alive and the pioneers literally fought for their own existence, smoking their cabins incessantly, covering their flesh with hog fat and hear grease, and resorting to every known subtlety that they might snatch a little sleep at night. Within a few days, it seemed to Jeems, a world that had been a paradise of flowers, of sweet scents, of ripening fruits and delicious air was transformed into a hell of insect life which shut out travel in all directions and which invested with poisonous torture every spot where It was nit partly subjugated by fire and smoke. The timber was heavy and dark, swamps were undrained, rivers and lakes were shadowed by dense vegetation, and in the humid, sweating mold of these places, the malevolent pestilence was bom and rose in clouds that sometimes obscured the face of the moon. During these weeks a cordon of decayed stumps and Iocs smoldered night and day about the Bulain cabin, screening It in pungent smoke, and outside this small haven, work on the farm was continued at a price of physical martyrdom, except under a burning sun, when the insects sought refuge from the glare and heat. Jeems did not go again to Tonteur manor, though occasionally he heard news from the seignenrie. Every one was In high humor there because of the activities going on in preparation for the exit of the entire family for Quebec early In September. Toinette was going to school at the convent of the Ursulines. Jeems had a feeling of loss. It was as if the fire of his dreams had not only burned Itself out, hut even the ash were being cleared away. Autumn came, and with It a great glory In the wilderness. Jeems loved these maturer days of golden ripeness, of first frosts, of painted hardwood forests, and of crisp, tangy air when all life seemed rejuvenated and his own veins danced to the thrill of unending promises and expectations. But this yeaj a heaviness of heart was in him with the charging of the seasons. Toinette and her people left for Quebec, and one evening, a week later. Hepsibah gravely announced that he could no longer delay his departure for the far frontiers of Pennsylvania and the Ohio, where his obligations as a trader called him. Catherine was silent for a while, then cried softly to herself. Jeems drew back where his uncle would not see him clearly. Henris cheerfulness died out like a lighted candle extinguished by a breath of wind. Hepsibahs face was grimly set, so hnd was he fighting to hold a grip on bis rmotion. He nrom- - rJhe, - thYouj it idol back, in the alley, jo CThe uabh. a froum, uiould say ujomen IDhen something toqs room car unuxnaited Back, boms in the Decor Old Home Tbron. The alley mas chuck. ull of Rubbish. "Presented, a slooerily siht IDas sort of a Dailey of Hinnom The forum of many a upnt; Bui still it abides in. my memory Tbs fences that Time datuiL, has-Tn- The alley, a free hooters country Ear boyhood about the Old TStun. -- J was' helping to build, blit something had come Into her life which she was accepting bravely and courageously LEWIS LONGHURST and even with pride. One evening, she spoke of the military activities along the Richelieu. Many river youths Notary Public were training with their elders, she said, and It did not seem right that LICENSED ABSTRACTOR Jeems" should not be among them. While killing was wicked and inexOf Rich County, Utah cusable, it was a God;given privilege to defend ones home and family. She A specialty of making Deeds and Titles quoted Tonteur to substantiate her belief that war would never reach them, and she knew that Jeems would not seek it any more than his father. But she thought It would do no harm for Jeems to prepare himself along with the other young men of the seigneurie. To this suggestion Hepsibahs homeyou had a diamond, would He told ly philosophy made objection. Catherine the day was coming when you keep it hidden from sight, Teems would be compelled to fight and where beauty could not be fhat he would have to choose one side r the other to champion. When thai enjoyed? Keep your head well s day arrived, sentiment would not trimmed you may have land In the way, for. with a world "n turmoil about them, one could not equivalent under your hair he English and French at the same time. No man could tell on which 'Ide they would be when forced to It and as he despised a traitor more than anything else, it was his opinion thn' eems should not. be taught the ways f war under the flag of France am' then, It might be. fight for the As a frontiersman, he maintained that the finest fighting man was 'he Long Rifle, a free wanderer of the trained to forests, a a hundred greater things than the of a musket in company with a score of others. That was what Jeems 1 should be. As a Long Rifle he could prve where honor and duty called him when the act became necessary. This discussion was the beginning of another phase in Jeems life. It olaeed before him certain definite of manhood which even his mother had to recognize, though she wanted to hold him as long as pos sible in his boyhood years. During the next year he made several trips Cuswith Hepsibah, going to Albany and o is far as the country of Pennsylvania. Each time he returned to his home iomething held him more closely to It. ln the autumn of 1754,'after four venrs at school, Toinette returned to Tonteur manor. Peace and happiness lay over the Richelieu. It had been a splendid year for France along the far frontiers. Washington had surrendered at Fort Necessity, and Villiers was triumphant at Fore Duquesne., England and France were still playing at the hypocrisy of friendship. While they played, thrusting at each other secretly and in the dark, not an English flag was left waving beyond the Alieghanies. French arms and Indian diplomacy were victorious along the Ohio and westward to the plains. 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