| Show P ais n s 0 r dla M u 11 1 by ames evve t raut WL mifot ca fit 4 THE STORY CHAPTER I 1 with his hia english wife catherine catherin e and twelve vear year vearold old son we jekins Je ema eins french settler nettler 1 in canada in 1749 cultivates a fertile farm adjacent adja tent to the au beurle rie As aa the story opens the bulala ra lambly m il y Is 0 on n its w way a y home from a allt t to th the e T Tont ont eurs C catherines a therine a wandering wander lne brother meets them CHAP 11 hepsibah as la 19 hla his rustom iu atom has brought presents for his aster arid and her famil family ly to jeems he gives a eplen splendid did piece of crimson velvet laughingly telling the boy it Is to lie it a present fauni jeems to Tol tobnette nette Tont eur small email daigh daughter ter of the set sel kneur also ajeo gives jeems a pistol bidding hirn perfect himself in n marksmanship for the people ot of the frontier are arc constantly in tear fear of raids a by indian war parties allies of th english in III hepsibah Hep ainan teara fears for the safety of the Bu bullins lains in their isolated position but henri laughs al the idea of dall ballger ger jeems presents the v velvet v e t to Tol 1 l olnette nette her cousin paul bac bache h e a few years yeara older than jeems to throw the parcel away e beems r resents the action and att attack ackt iau i au ams but bul 0 the 1 latter atter svalda the tha smaller dinv inv CHAPTER IV continued in a double rejoicing over homecoming and his count rys success ut at arnis planned a levee and harbe barbecue cue at the was away tit at the time which disappointed the baron who insisted that genrl and tits his family must attend the celebration or he would never call them friends again seems jeems felt a thrill growing in him film ns as the day drew near uc ile was no longer the jeems of Lus cussans sans place na as lie he set out in the company of ills fattier father and mother with odd pegging along faithfully at his side in january lie he would be eighteen the alert and sinuous graceon grace ol 01 one ot of the wild things of tha forest was lit in tits his movements move menta catherane ather Cather lne nis than ever of him and rejoiced in tile the cleanness of his lits build in alq love lie of nature and god and in fit the directness with which hi his eyes looked fit at one but slie she was not more proud than linn Fleps ibah adams adam who had seen in this pupil of his flesh and blood the qualities and courage tile the alkek lock stock tind birrel as lie he called it t of 4 a fighting man jeems wits was anxious to see sec tobnette Tol nette but with aith this desire there remained none of the old yearnings which had once ome oppressed filth she whom he was going to regard today was a stranger arranger one into whose cresenc pies pre euce he was determined not to forve fone himself again this resolution bin was not inspire in him film b by y a lack fact of bol boldness diles s or an n cinc uncertainty as to his own social fitness an immense pride upheld film the spirit and freedom of the forests were tn in tits floud and behind thes was also the spirit of hepsibah adams ue he knew that he could meet tobnette Tol nette coolly and nd without embarrassment ras should they chance to stand face ance to face no nd matter how splendid she lad had gri grown Avii and he realized th there e re must be a arfat aun change e in her she was fifteen aoi fa f A young aung lady at tills this period or ats life five years fremed lip lie thought it nas possible e he might not recognize tier her i r ta A an n V moment of shock aled wl ed him ft alast lie he siw saw her it was n of long ago had come collie into this today its as it if it picture which had been burned and mattered Matter uttered cd anti inti iiii ash had miraculously J lit ban eis resford reitor re stord d ihfe was taller of course perhaps ih fias lovelier hut but she was the tobnette Tol nette ile he could see no ian k in her except that site she had be evne tw ra moria woman if mi his own his freedom and tits bourage were dissipated like dust as lie looked lit at per PP and once more he mt himself the inferior In feitor being offer offering tug her nuts and feathers and maple ngar and praying in his childish way that site she might smile on him this vas not a new tobnette Tol nette removed another million miles away from him as lie had supposed she would be but the rad tonnette Tol Tot nette commanding him to slavery again and making his blood run I 1 lin hota hot in ills body with a group of young ladles ladies from the she had down from the big house and he was almost in tier her path with peter pater imbeck lubec ls at lifs side it was peter who a step or two toward them except for his action tobnette Tol nette would not have tur turned riel jeanis thought lie ile pulled himself to lellier and stood with ins nenn narea dared as cold cola and ana impassive lit in appearance as a soldier at attention while his heart heat beat like a hammer tobnette Tol nette had to face him to return tits ills companions greeting it was impossible for or her not to see him when she made this movement but there was a slowness in her tits J w it had not been her desire f to speak to him covery an effort to keep from looking lookin at him which was more eloquent tha than words it had not been her desire to speak to ti him if he needed courage it was this enlightenment which gave it to him he inclined his head when she met his gaze tier her face was flushed tier her eyes darkly aglow while his own cheeks bore only the color of sun and wind lie ile might never have known tier her so BO unmoved did he stand as she went on her way she had slightly nodded her lips lip had barely formed a name later after the feast on the green came Tont eurs spectacular feature 0 of the day a military review of his tenants with wives and children witnessing the martial display the male guests who had drilled in their own joined Tont eurs men only henri bblain and seems jeems were not among them henri sensitive to the fact and to save catherine from the hurt which might arise aristi because of it had d with her over the homeward trail half an hour before jeems had remained this was ills his answer to contempt that he was waa not of her people that his world was not circumscribed by the bettty boundaries of the seigne urle ile he stood with his long rifle in the crook of his hii arm conscious that she was looking lit at him and the invisible shafts from lier her eyes poisoned with their didd tin stirred him film with the thrill of a painful triumph ile he could almost hear tier her calling him an english beast again A coward one to be distrusted and watched lie ile did not sense humiliation or regret but only a final widen in ins of what had always lain between them lie eli bore this feeling home with him it grew as time wenton went on and with its growth an increasing restlessness came over him news creeping through the wilderness and reaching every corner corne r ake the whispering winds kept an unquenchable heat under the ash of these fires dres fanning the embers into flame in spite of him secrets were no longer secrets hit biad grown into fact F fears cars had become realities england and france were still playing at peace in their mighty courts in ane sunlight they were friends in the dart dark they were seeking each others ethers lives like common cutthroats cut throats and the thirteen little colonial governments ern ments of the english quarreling like small boys boy among samong themselves just beginning to walk alone feeling the sIgni fleance of the new word american cheated by their parent laughed lit by their parent hated by their still yearned for the love of that parent as children have wanted loye love unni from the beginning of time and were loyal to thi it so tragedy began to move to bulli build out of death out of betrayed conn derice out of dishonor and fraudin fra fraud and pitiless murber the american aberici n and canadian nations of the future I berien tina ana more than a million english in the new world made ready for or the sacrifice massachusetts enlisted one man out i of eight of her male laton con neet teut new hampshire rhode i island new york and the others followed tier her example children loyal proud to fight and hating bating the french ferociously 1 then came braddock preceding wolfe to call them worthless trash and new france a glory of sun eun and land even now gutted of her prosperity by corruptions corrupt ions brought from louls louis and la pompadour sent out her own sons to fight and kill valiant glad confident and hating the hug ens implacably I 1 with them on both sides went indians from almost a hundred tribes red men who had once found honor in fighting but who now skulking and murderous and vengeful found their souls in in pawn to the great white fathers across the sea who had pros them with whisky bought them with guns maddened them with hatreds hat reds and who paid them tor for human buman hair of these things seems jeems was thinking its a winter grew into spring and spring into summer only love held him from leaping to the temptations which were drawing closer about him love for his mother whose happiness marked the beginning and the end of all action on the part af her men folk and in tills this hour when three out of four of the fighting men along the richelieu chelleu were preparing to join dieskau Dl eskau when half of his acquaintances at the seigne urle had find already gone to fight braddock when the forests trembled at the stealthy tread of painted savages and wilen when the frenchman who did not rise to io his count rys call was no longer a frenchman jeems observed that the strain upon his father was more difficult to bear than his own for henri in spite of his worship of catherine CAt berine was of new france to the bottom of ills his soul and now that other men were making a bulwark of their bodies against her enemies tits his own de desire ire to make the some same sacrifice was almost beyond the power of his strong will to control in their years of comradeship seems and his hh fattier had never come collie sn an benr to pheb other as in these weeks of tension almost as aa painful to them as the sting of a wound was the day when diesman nine ame up the richelieu with a host of thousand hundred men aind made forever a hallowed ground of the by camping there overnight nhep slip knew they were coming catherine had said if your hearts tell you it Is right go with them but they remained for henri it w was as a struggle greater than linn dieskau fought greater than that in which Brad braddon Braddo dok fk diel for teems it was less a torment and more the mysterious madness of youth unith to tramp to the clash of arms for catherine etwas the ge lienna of her life a slew of darkness and uncertainty in her soul which pave gageway way suddenly before news which bach swept like a whirlwind over the w land god had been with new francel france and his english In invaders were destroyed I 1 no triumph of french arms in the IN new lew world had been so complete anti and dieskau LI eskau the areat german hanron who was fighting for france moved southward to crush sir william johnson and his Colonl colonials als and indians planning not to stop until he had driven them to the doors or of albany with him were six hundred and eighty four of the loyal men who were hn bf inning to cull call themselves canadians rode over to bring the news to henri bblain to catherine he recalled ills his predict prediction iou that the english would never ret get into this paradise of 0 theirs now the whole thing was settled for many years to come for dieskau would sweep their last enemy from the champlain country as completely as a new broom swept her home lie ile had sent almost every man he be had to the scene of fighting and only his wooden leg had kept him from joining Dl dieskau eskau even tobnette Tol nette had wanted to got gol this recalled an important m matter atter to tits mind tobnette Tol nette had entrusted him film with a letter for or jeems boiling over with his own selfish exultations exaltations he had forgotten it he hoped it was an invitation for seems jeems to come to the aarle he had often tolli toh his girl she should be more friendly with the lad seems jeems took the letter and went off by himself it was the first recognition from tobnette Tol nette since the day of the levee ile he had not seen her and had tried not to think of 0 her alone he ha read the words she had written him with pitiless coldness and brevity I 1 they called him a renegade and a coward 0 0 on a september morning some days later jeems stood watching his uncle as he disappeared into the frost tinted woods of forbidden valley it seemed to him that suspicions and or trie ne valley arta deconie grenter greater with the growing news of f french triumphs in the south which so BO positively assured their safety only yesterday had brought the latest word from Dl dieskau eskau tho the german had find been on the eve of smashing sir william johnson Jo tinson and his mob of Colonl colonials als and indians when his messenger had left by this time the event had bad probably happened jeems thought yet his uncle was going into forbidden valley with a look in his face which puzzled him restlessness possessed odd after fleps hepsibah ibah had gone passing years were beginning to leave their mark on the dog ile he was growing content to watch life with seems jeems instead of ceaselessly pursuing it ile fie was not old and yet he wits was no longer young there remained one thing which did not fall to stir in him the tense fierceness of his youth this was the indian smell ile he always told seems when one of their wilderness visitors was near sometimes many minutes before the savage appeared from the woods and he never tired of watching forbidden valley in the dawn he faced it at midday he dozed with his half closed eyes turned toward it in the evening he sniffed its scents yet he did not go down into the valley unless seems jeems or henri was with him film during the morning odds uneasiness began to reflect itself in seems jeems soon after noon he left his work and told his mother lie he was going in the direction of cussans Lus sans place catherine walked with him through the young orchard and aid up the slope never had slie site seemed moro more beautiful to deenis ills fattier father was right this abis mother of his would always be a girt girl from neove the orchard standing on a little plateau that overlooked the bblain farm they called to henri w who ho was in tits his turnip fiel field drand and waved E I 1 W F I 1 va jeems stood for a few moments with his arm about his mother at him teems seems stood tor for ft a few moments with tits hla arm aria about his mother then he kissed her a and nd catherine i watched him film until he was lost last to her tit in the nis bla forest to bo be Contin continued tied |
