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Show Kiiivrrjft, ivAmuiyi u, THIS KHUti t'UUWTI It was lighted by a torch, and he drew back among the dark boles of the trees and waited. At the end of half an hour, Toinette and Opitchi came out into the illumined forest. For a little while they stood under the gnarled limbs of the trees which cast shadows from over their heads. s He did not reveal himself until form disappeared among the pools of light and darkness as she went toward the fires. Then he advanced, calling Toinettes name softly. Her appearance surprised him. She was not the ragged and disheveled young woman who had arrived with Tiaogas men. Mary, the Thrush, had Plains of Opit-chi- By lamss Oliver Garwood &44i4,44,44i4:,ii4,4'!b,-'i44,,M,44,'b'i,4i4,- THE STORY CHAPTER I With hta English wife. son, Catherine, and twelve-year-ol- d "Teems, Heriri Buiain, French settlei in Canada in 1749. cultivates a fertile farm, adjacent to the Tonleur seign-euriAs the story opens the Buiain family is on its way home from a visit to the Tonteurs. Catherines wandering brother, Hepsibah. meets them. e. as Is his CHAPTER 11 custom, has brought presents for his sister and her family. To Jeems he g.ves a splendid piece of crimson, velvet, laughingly telling the boy it Is to be a present from Jeems to Toinette Tonteur, small daughter of the seigneur Hepsibah also gives Jeems a pistol, bidd ng him perfect himself in marksmanship, for the people ofof the raids frontier are constantly in fear by Indian war parties, allies of the English. CHAPTER XU Hepsibah fears for the safety of the Lulains, in their isolated position, but Henri laughs at the idea of danger. Jeems presents the velvet to Toinette. Her cousin, Paul Tache,' a few years older than Jeems, contrives to throw the parcel away Jeems resents the action, and attacks Paul, but the latter whips the smaller bov loDg-expecte- d CHAPTER X For half an hour Jeems was alone with Toinette. Then Mary Daghlen returned, and with her came a messenger who took him back to the dances which were beginning about the scalp-firHe was not embarrassed by the critical eyes upon him. The wildness of the night entered his blood, a heat set blazing by the jojf of his possession, and as he chanted the Seneca victory songs with the others, Toinette was in his heart, and words she had ivhispered to him under the oaks repeated- themselves until they dulled his senses and blinded his eyes to everything but their import. As soon ns God would let them bring it abonf she would be his wife. She had said that So he danced. He shouted at Tiaogas side. Toinette, horrified at first, saw him in his madness. Then But not she began to understand. until he took his turn among the warriors and danced alone in the light of Fie fire, chanting his story in the e of his adopted people, did Opitchi translating what he said-- let her know fully the daring of her iover. Jeems story began with his earliest thoughts and memories of her tie told of their hones in the country of the r.ieheiieu, of his dreams and lie described the passing of hopes. moons and the growing of his love and how death had come with the Mohawks from the smith. Then he came to the finding of Toinette. their flight the triumph of Ills love, his fight with fiie scalp hunter at Lussans place and their capture by Tiaoga and his warriors. He praised these warriors. They were not like the Mohawks, who were sneaks in the night. The Senecas were dean and swift and brave. He was proud to be a brother and a son among them. He wanted this peoplo-trespect him, and he wanted them to love Toinette whom Tiaoga had honored by taking as his daughter. For Toinette belonged to him. She wanted to lie his wife. She wanted to bear his children among the Senecas. He stopped at last and thanked God that Hepsibah Adams had made it possible for him to do this thing in the light of the fire at Chenufsio. A murmur of approbation stirred the people. It rippled and died out as another warrior took his place. Long after midnight the revels ended, and Chenufsio grew quiet. Foi a time, he looked at the starsand the changing shadows of the moon through the open door of Wuskoos tepee. He entered sleep as if going into a long avenue of golden colors. Only happiness rising like a flower from the ashes of a torture that was gone could have made it like that. His mother seemed a part of it, her voice a glad melody somewhere in the radiance which embraced him. In the avenue of .gold, he saw Wood Pigeon smiling happily between his mother and Toinette. Then he sank into deeper sleep. This was the beginning of the strange life of Jeems and Toinette in Chenufsio which Colonel Boquet, afterward major general and commander In chief of his majestys forces in the southern department of America, described as an episode of fact which is difficult of belief and astounding in the new viewpoint which it and others of a similar kind give us of savage life. To Jeems and Toinette there was nothing spectacular in their first day or in the many that followed. After the triumphal night, the Indian town fell once more into the routine of it? existence. Men hunted, women worked, children played. Warriors met in solemn councils and smoked incessantly as the.y discussed the affairs of. thpir e. CHAPTER IV Next day Jeems, reel before Ing he was wiorig in brawling Toinette, goes to her home to offer hit apologies. Ue hears Madame Tonteui refer to h m as a little English beast, but makes his apologies and hnm what he n ng nothing - oftakes his had overheard HepsibahTonteurs go to Que-oe.pariure where Tinnetl" is to be educaiect After four years, during which Jeems practically reaches manhood, the Tonteurs return War between Britain and France flames, end French settlers hasten to join Dieskau, French commander. Henri and Jeems remain at home. Absent one day on a hunting trip, Jeems sees from a distance his home in flames. - ! , CHAPTER V He finds his father ana mother dead and the house and barn blazing. A hatchet, of English make, left on the scene, convinces him the work of Mohawk Inslaughter is the allies. The sound ot ti. ansi English gunfire has come to him from the Ton-teu- r seigneurie, and at dawn, fearing for Toinette. he hastens there. Ton teur and his servants are dead A shoi him ar wounds Jeems Believ.ng enemy, To.nelte fiom a hiding place on him. .He fired in the mill, has de rushes to the mill, where the girl anc. nounces him as an Engl.shman tries to kili him, tainting before she can carry out her design lan-cg.- conVI CHAPTER Recovering sciousness, roinette continues to taunt Jeems with the work of ins "English After burying Tonteur in a friends. shallow grave. Jeems returns to his murdered parents. The girl follows him The sight of Henri Buiain and Catherine, dead, conv.nces her she has been wrong in tier suspicions of the Buiain family. Jeerns buries his parents and, with Toinet.e, goes to an aban In hiding, they watcli doned house the Mohawk war party pass. CHAPTER VII Toinette tells Jeems how she escaped the slaughter. Her mother is in Quebec. Jeems is con-t vinced Hepsibah is dead. He plans take the girl to friends. On the way JoemB fights with and kills a whin been with the Morenegade who had hawk raiders. The renegade had flrec a shot before Jeems kills him, and will hear and refearing the Indiansseek a hiding place turn, the fugitives They are discovered by a band of Sen eca Indians. i' o CHAPTER VIII Tlaoga, chief of the the fugitives and agrees party, spaies to allow them to accompany his band on their journey to Chenufsio, their destination, if Tometts can endure the march. The girls bravery appeals to him and in the Indian fashion he adopts her as his daughter. CHAPTER IX. Continued. He was eager tn see Toinette again, and began to seek for a place where he could clean himself of the colored clay plastered on his face and body. With his clothes, he went to the river, and after a thorough scrubbing returned fully dressed with the eagle feather still tn his hair. His weapons had been given to him. and these he carried boldly when he joined the Indians. The triumphal fire was hlaz-,inand as soon as the hungry town had fed itself, the scalp dances would begin. The scalps were already suspended on the victory pole in its light. Children were placing about them. The fine t!;tk hair of one was so long that they could reach the tresses with their fingers, and when they did this they shrieked with ecstasy. Among them was a boy of seven or eight who laughed and shouted with the others. Jeems found an opportunity to have a word with Shindas and learned that Toinette and Opitchi were together. Shindas could not tear himself from the martial dignity which was expected of him nntil the warriors had told of their exploits in the scalp dance, so Jeems went alone and found Tinogas tepee and the smaller one near it in whijj'h were Toinette and the Thrush. g, white-skinne- d commonwealth and planned for the future. The Dark Year was upon them. Winter threatened. But there were other matters to be settled Tiaoga had brought unusual news The English, under a general named Braddock, had been defeated and massacred. The French had been destroyed on Lake George. Sir William Johnson, the White Father of the Siour Nations, was victorious, and the Mohawks were profiting greatly. This brought somber looks into the faces of the Senecas. The eastern wilderness was bound to run red with war. Tiaoga was sure. His warriors wre sure. The struggle between the English and the French was at hand, and there would be no rest for the tomahawk until the land was free of one or the other. Tiaoga and his councilors in Chenufsio faeed war and famine. If their fighting men went into the east, who would keep the people from starvation? It was decided that Tiaoga should take the warpath again with thirty men chosen by lot, while thirty of his braves should remain to fight hunger and death during the winter months. The drawing came, but Jeems was not included. Shindas was doomed to leave his sweetheart again. ' dressed her in the prettiest raiment left by Silver Heels. There was something about the long yellow feather, the filet of scarlet cloth, and the boyish closeness of her dres's which made Jeems give a wondering cry. It was as If they had come to her from an obscure and distant past and had always belonged to her. He had dreamed of this lovely wilderness princess ; through years of boyhood hopes and plannings he had built up worlds about her, and in those worlds he had fought for her and had adventured with her where he alone was her champion and her hero. He had carried gifts of feathers to her feathers and fawnskin and a piece of cloth like that which she now wore in a crimson band about her forehead! To him it was the precious red velvet, there in the glow of the moon. He opened his arms, and Toinette ' came into them. - by Doubleday Doran Co., Ina, WNTJ Service. uiau a time. tr These were days when misgivings assailed Jeems and Toinette in spite of their hopes and plans, yet no cloud more than temporarily darkened their visions. In the heart of each was the prayer that a wandering priestmight come their way, so that the ceremony could be performed which would make them husband and wife. In the town were a number of white women who had accepted Indian husbands in th Indian way,' but against this practice Toinette revolted. She prayed and Mary Daghlen prayed with her, for through the years since her mother had died the Thrush had kept her faith unbroken. The Seneca, worshiping her, honored it. Early in November groups began to leave, each with the small amount of food which remained as Its share. Mary was to accompany two familes of eight people under the protection of Thunder Shield, a valiant warrior and a splendid hunter. They were goToinette ing toward Lake Ontario. was given to Ah De Bah, the Tail Man, a relative of Tinocas. Hiding thc-idisappointment, Jeems and Toinette encouraged themselves with visions of a future which they tried to paint in bright colors. The months would pass quickly. With the earliest days of spring, they would return to Chenufsio. Every hour they would live in each others thoughts, and at night their prayers would cross in the wilderness. Next year there would surely be a way. Fate would not separate them again. In their final moments together, Toinettes eyes glowed with a depth of faith and love which it was impossible for Jeems to measure fully. In this way they parted. He went north and west with Wus-kotoward the . Tyanagarnme river which emptied into Lake Ontario. Odd struggled belween his devotion for Jeems and for Toinette. He followed his master a distance, then hesitated and turned back. A lump rose in Jeems throat, and he could not see clearly as his comrade sat in the trail and watched until he disappeared. Wuskoo led the way to a hardwood country in which he was sure be hunting that would le through the winter. There were pleo' of raccoons, and the nerg;r:r.ers, ( fish ducks, would come to the sw!P running headwaters to ford as son as ice closed the lakes and the mutf s of the streams. Here they made (bed lodge of saplings. It was a new id ml of home for Wood Pigeon. Jeems lr :i: it with a cooking hearth and a cldm.ey and a tiny room set apart for Wood herself. The childs ey' Pigeon glowed with delight at this possesicn. Each day Jeems told her more aoou: Toinette how Sol Yan Mr.kwun cart for her beautiful hair, how it was par of her religion to keep herself dean how and why she did this thing and that, until thoughts and desires grpv in Wanonats head, and she employed the comb and the brdsh which .Tecum made for her until her sleek black hair was never untidy. Heavy snow and extreme cold came early in the season. By the middle of December, Jeems was compelled to hunt on snowslioes, and so hitter were the nights that the first of January found even the headwaters freezing out the mergansers. This was the memorable winter of 1755 and 1756, the story of which the Senecas handed down from father to son for many generations a winter in which all game seemed to have gone from the face of the earth, and when hardship and starvation killed a tenth of the three westernmost of the Six Great Nations, the Senecas, the Cayu-gaand the Onondagas. At first Jeems was partly prepared, because he had killed a buck, and with shrewd assistance Wuskoos had marked a number of trees in which raccoons were sure to hibernate. But late In January famine drew closer about the cabin on the Little Selus, and Jeems traveled farther nri'l t2 was gone r o ther-wou- ld s, In February, he made four or these hunts and found no game. The cold was terrific. Trees cracked like rifles In the woods, fitter winds continued night and day. Wood Pigeons eyes grew larger and her body more fragile as the weeks passed. Each time Jeems came in from his hunts she blazed up like a fire in her happiness, but he could mark the steady fading of her strength. He hunted with almost insane energy. Everything was for her when famine clutched at them hardest. Torturing fears assailed Jeems. Toinette was never out of his mind, for even in his sleep he dreamed of her. She, too, was a part of this fight to hold life together. At night, when the wrind howled and trees wailed in their distress, he sweated in fear, and more than bnce the thought came to him to abandon his family and go in search of Toinette. His visions of the fate which might be overtaking her became almost unbearable, nis hunts were not long now, and seldom took him more than three or four miles from the cabin, for his own strength was ebbing, nis only hope was to kill an occasional bird, and it was in the darkest hour that an answer came to his prayers. In a blizzard against which he was working his way in be stumbled upon a doe as weak as himself and killed her. Without this stroke of fortune, Wood Pigeon and Wuskoo must have died. When the thaws came, they were alive. Raccoons began to appear and fleshy roots could be gathered out of the opening streams. Early March brought a warm break in which Jeems and his companions started for Chenufsio. Food was plentiful on the way, and each night they gathered strengthening sap from the maples. They arrived at Chenufsio. The s, there had lived frugally on their supplies, and from the first running of the maple sap had been making sugar. Only four families had preceded Jeems to the village, and of their number, which was twenty-eighfive had died. No word had been received from Tiaoga and his warriors. The maple sap ran steadily. In spite of tiiis opening grace of spring, there hung over Chenufsio a grim specter whose shadow grew darker with each day that passed. This specter was death. Scarcely a family returned which did not bring grief with it. And Ah De Bah, the mightiest hunter of them all, did not come. No one had heard of him. No one knew where he was. Fifty-sev- enty a hundred and then a hundred and fifty of those who had gone in the break-uwere accounted for by the end of March. Among them was Mary Daghlen. Of their number, thirty had died. Still Ah De Bah. the Tall Man, did not come. T.hen he appeared one day. He was a grotesque rack of fleshless bones whom Tiaoga would not have recognized. Behind him trailed his people. Jeems counted them before he conhl tell one from another. Eleven! He ran toward them, and Toinette swayed from the line at the head of which the Tall Man marched. He might not have known her at firs.t if she had not met him in this way, for those who were behind Ah De Bah walked with bowed heads and dragging steps like death figures in a weird parade. Her eyes stared at him from a face so strange and thin that it choked his joy. Her body was not heavier than a childs when he clasped her. Then she began to cry softly with her face against his breast. He carried her to the tepe.e. Her clothes were in tatters, her moccasins worn to shreds. She was so small a burden that her lightness sent horror through him and his eyes were blinded by a hot fire when she raised a cold hand to touch his face. He placed her on the soft skins in the tepee, then he was conscious of Wood Pigeon near him, in a moment Mary Daghlen came in. Jeems made way for them. He went outside, and in his path was a creature who leapt weakly against him. It was Odd, a skeleton with red and watery eyes and jaws falling apart. Jeems waited until the Thrush came out and told him she was .going for warm water and food and that Wood Pigeon was undressing Toinette. Then he sought the others. All hut Ah De Bah had disappeared and were being cared for. The Tall Man could scarcely stand as he told his story. He had brought his eleven people back alive the dog and he. Like the truly great: he gave credit to his inferior. Without the dog, he would have failed in his struggle to feed eleven mouths and Jeems knew why Odd had not been eaten. After a time, Mary Daghlen let him see Toinette again. She was in her bed of skins. The look which had him was gone from her frightened eyes, and they were bright with the joy of his presence. She held out her arms to him, and he knelt beside her. Wood Pigeon looked at the two with shining eyes, and a soft mist gathered in Mary Daghlens. After this. Jeems did not see Toinette again for an afternoon and a night. During this time she slept, and the Thrush and Wood Pigeon were never far from her side-- The next day she walked with ONE HORSfc POWER The enthusiastic motorist had been persuaded by a friend to accompany him on a horseback ride. Soon after starting the motorists horse was seen to gallop, and Its rider vas leaning forward grasping wildly at something which he seemed unable to clutch. His friend galloped alongside. What on earth are you trying to do? gasped the friend. Im trying to find the brake, came the somewhat jerky reply. Childrens Newspaper. cross-countr- y An Important Detail The First Second Very good! It is understood, then, that onr principals shall fire on signal at 30 paces. The Other Second But no! It is very well for your principal to fire on mine at 30 paces, but mine, being should be allowed to near-sighte- d, stand closer to yours when the nal Is given. sig- NOT LINDY neople t, She Who might that fellow over there be? He It might be Lindy, but thanjj goodness it isnt, cause he wants a dance, too. p Everything Else But Lets hope they neer Will get so rash That In tin cans Theyll put up hash. Then He Bought the Car Mr. Quizzer But, my dear, if I bus a . car I wont have enough money to pay my life insurance. His Wife But if you dont get the car youll not be so likely to need the life insurance right away, so you can spare the money for the car. Gigantic Structure Herodotus estimated that 100,000 men were engaged for 20 years in building the Great pyramid. him about the town. What was in Toinettes heart was also in Mary Daghlens. The young girl who had known no other life than that of her adopted people since babyhood, but whose mother had kept God and Church alive in her soul, watched with increasing anxiety for the return of Shindas, and she told Toinette that at last she was prepared to yield to her environment, and if no priest came that spring or summer she would marry Shindas In the Indian way. On the Second of These Days He Married Jeems and Toinette. To be contnued |