Show a I lis 4 d bua P I 1 a 9 S of by james cliver curwood 0 by doubleday doran co inc service THE STORY CHAPTER CHAP I 1 with his hid english wife i Cather catherine JVe und and twella your old son deenis alls ari Eul eulain aln french fionch settler in n canada in 1743 1744 cut cultivates t vaten a fertile farm faim adjacent to the lont eur As the story opens the bulala family Is on its way home front roni a visit to the Tont eurs catherines wan wandering derin 9 brother nepa ibah meets them CHAPTER 11 hepsibah ibah as la is his custom has brought presents tor for his sister bister and tier her family to jeems J earns hi he gives elves a splendid piece of crimson veli vela laughingly telling talling the boy it Is to 19 a present from jaems to tobnette Tol nette Tont eur small cl daughter aughter of the seigneur also gives jeanie abenia a pistol bidding him perfect himself in marksmanship for tile the people of the lie frontier ler are un sCantly in fear ear of raids by indian war parties part lus allies of the CHAP CHAPTER iii tears fears tor for the safety of the Lu lulaine lains in their igo IBO position lut but genrl laughs ELI at tile idea of danger jeems presents the th velvet to toinette Tol nette lier her cousin paul tache rache a few years older than jeanay contrives to to throw the parcel away jeems resents the station action and attacks attack joul out but the latter whips the smaller brav bi CHAPTER IV next day bems reel ing ni he ha wa was wrong in lav lini before tobnette rol Tol nette gois to her hei h home acme to offer his tie hears mandame re lefer r ar to him as a little english I IC but makes his apologies ani and i roti anns alria nirm of what hat he had t takes a kea hit his aai tu r lie i aie aunte urb go to que lec cc where 1 I Is to eo ija be after four our years during which jeems jeems practically teaches manno mannona oa the ton tours teura return war between britain and ana france l rance fl aines prid end r rench french dettler sett leri hasten to join dieskau Dl eskau french cc commander M lienol and teems remain benjain ut at honie home absent one day on a hunting trip jeems sees seea from a distance his home in names flames CHAPTER CHAP TEll V he finds his rattier father ana also mother dead and ant the liou titi ind and bari babii blazing A 11 hatchet of E ni lash make left on the scene convince 4 him the slaughter is the work of in diaks english allies the sound of duril lre has baa come to him from the ton ran bleur u r Belen seigne curle urle and at dawn fearing for cor toinette tobnette Tol nette lie he hastens astena li theta ton beur and hl hla streams er are aia dead A shot wounds jeems him a ar enemy Tol nUte fitkin a hiding place in the mill has tired hied on him II 11 rushes to the mill where the girl do de bounces him as an anti tries to 1111 1011 film fairi ting before shar can carry out her design CHAPTER VI con can piousness Lu Foli Kitte hiotte contil continues lues to taunt jeems jeams with th tle of isis his enill sh friends lends tr after aury burying in A i shallow grave deenis jet nib returns to his murdered pi pucala reals the girl follows hini him the sight of 0 henri lind and catherine dead convinces colv inces her she has been wrong in pitr hr suspicions of the tha bu lain family jeems buries builes his lil parent and with Tol natie goes to an abati abat dined house in thoy they the hie mohawk war party pass CHAPTER CHAP TEIl all joinette tells jeerer beem how she escaped the slaughter elau eliter her mother Is lit in quebec jeems Is convinced hepsibah Is dead he de plans plana to ti take the girl to friends on the way jaems fights with and rills itula a chiu renegade who had been with the mohawk raiders ral deis the renegade had flier firce a shot before jeems jeanis kills him and fearing the indians will hear and return the fugitives seek a hiding place they are discovered by a band of at sers sen eca indians CHAPTER VIII tiaona chief of the party spates the fugitives and agreed to allo allow w them to accompany I 1 Us his band on their journey to their d destination lesti nation it if tobnette Tol nette can endure tit tin march maich the 9 girls eirls bravery appeals tv to him and in he indian fashion lie he adopts her us his dauster dane titer C CHAPTER IX continued lie he was edgor to tn Tol tobnette nette ie anol began to for a place where he could elkint himself of tile alie colored clay plastered on oil his face and ancl body with his elot bes ile went to tile river and after it dioron ti oron ii scrubbing re fumed fully Ire prod with the eaglan feather still in 1 his hia hair ills his weapons had been oven p to him and these hu he carried boldly when he joined the in dantis TIP alre was blaz jug and as anon us as file town had fed It atif If tb alie scalp dances dancer would begin the scalps were already suspended on oil the victory polle pole in its it foht children cpr playing about them tile ono fine alark hair or ot one was so long iong thit that they could reach the tresses with their fingers and when they did tills this they Ahrie shrieked ked with ecstasy anione them was a white skinned hoy bov of seven or eight who laug laughed bed and shouted with the others seems jeems foid nn an opportunity toli to have ave a word with and learned that Tol tobnette nette and were together could not tear himself from the martial dignity which was expected of him until the warriors had told of their in the scalp dance fl itrice so teems seems went alil alid founis couii Tino Tl gals tind tile sr si siriller one wr it in bif ivere coln and tho thrush t it was lighted by a torch and ancl tie he drew lack back among the dark holes boles of the trees find and waited val ted at the end of half an hour bour tobnette Tol nette and clil came out into the illumined forest for a little while they stood und under er the gnarled limbs of the trees which cast shadows from over their heads lla he did not reveal himself until ahls form disappeared among the pools of light and darkness as sho she went toward the fires then lie he advanced calling name softly her appearance surprised him she ans not the ragged and disheveled young woman who had arrived arrive with nien men mary tile the thrush had dressed tier in the prettiest raiment left by silver heels there was something about the long yellow feather the diet of scarlet cloth and the boyish closeness of her dress which mado made seems jeams give a wondering cry it was as if they had como come to her from an obscure and distant past and had always belonged to tier her ile he had dreamed of this lovely wilderness princess through gli years of boyhood hopes find and plantings Ings he had bad built up worlds about tier lier and in those worlds lie he hall had foug fought lit for her bar rind and had oil adventured with tier her where lie he alone was her and her bar hero lie ile had carried gifts of feathers to tier her feathers and fawnskin and a piece of cloth like that which she now now wore in a crimson band about tier her forehead 1 to him film it was the precious red velvet there in the glow of the moon lie III opened ills his arms and toinette Tol To nette luette into them CHAPTER X for half hair till an hour jeems was alone with tobnette Tol nette then mary dagelen returned and with tier her came a messenger who took him back to the dances I 1 I 1 were beginning about the scalp fire ile he was not embarrassed by the eyes upon him the wildness of the night entered his blood a heat beat set blazing by the joe jo of his possession and as lie he chanted the seneca victory songs with the others tot tol nette ilette was in ills his heart and words she had whispered whisper d to him under the on oaks s repeated themselves until they dulled ills his senses find and blinded ills eyes to everything but their import As aa soon ns ils god would let them bring it about slie she would he be ills his wife she had bad sat said that sr sn ile ho danced he shouted at Tl Ti side tobnette Tol nette horrified tit at first s saw aw him in his madness then ah ahe bean apin to understand hut but not until he took his turn among the war hors I 1 till danced alone in the light of ohp x ire firo chanting chant IngAils ills story in the lan ian v vir in ir P e of his adopted people did ti translating what lie ho said lot lur lim know fully the daring of tier her ilive inver r teems astery began with ills va mirtest rf I 1 ew Vi thoughts lit aind memories menior fes of tier her fl p bold ot of flover K clr home bodei in the countr y of tho 11 of ills hig dreams and holias li oin tin HP the passing parsing of notions and the growing of ills lovo love and how death I irli had bad conie come with the mo mn hawl m arotin the flip south then lie fie came to ills of Tol tobnette nette their light flight t triumph of nf ha 1119 love hla light with ML hie wilp hunter nt cussans Lus sans place nril their rapture capture by and his hi warriors dirrim s lie ile praised these warriors warrior they awro aw ro riot not like the mohawks Mo hawks waw ivere sneaks in the hie night the seneca were clenn tin and swift and brave he MIS proud to b bf a brother find anil a son union theoli lie ile wanted tills people to ro him and he wanted them to love Tol tobnette nette whom had ho honored 11 by taking its as ills laughter daughter for 11 olnette ol notte belonged to him slie she wanted to be ti hla his wife she wanted to bear lit his children among the he Sc Se ve lie stopped nt at last ant and thanked ona that tb it fleps Iball adams till bad mado it possible for him to tn do this tiling in tile light of f the fire at A murmur of approbation stirred alik people it rippled and died out as aw other warrior took his place long after midnight the revel I 1 prided ended and Chenu falo grew quiet foi a time lie be looked nt the stara star and tb the changing shadows of the moon through the open door of Wu koos tepee lie he entered sleep elect as if going into a locq ion avenue of golden colors only bappe happiness rising like a flower from the abhors of a n torture that was gone could have ninde it like that ills mother seemed a part of it tier her voice a rk glad melody somewhere in the radiance rad linco which embraced him in the avenue of gold lie he wood pigeon smiling happily between hla his mother and tot tol nette then 14 liepack sank into deeper sleep tills this was the beginning of tho strange life of teems and tobnette Tol nette in which kolonel coquet boquet afterward major general genera and commander in chief of lits his maje forces in the southern department 0 of f america described asan as an episode of tact fact which Is difficult of bellef belief and astounding in the new viewpoint which it and others of n similar lind kind give us of ravage life to deerns and tobnette Tol nette there w was as nothing spectacular in their first lay day or in the many mahy that followed after the triumphal night the indian town fell once more into tho the routine of ite it men aren hunted women worked children played iila warriors Warr lora met in solemn councile coun cila and smoked Inces incessantly y its as the tacy w discussed the affairs of ahr commonwealth unit and planned for ifie future the dark year was upon them winter ahr threatened but there were other mutters matters to he be settled tiao a has had brought unusual news the english under a goncal ge larriva mimed braddock had li hen en defeated ani massacred the french had bad been destroyed on lake george sir wahl im johnson the white father of the sioux nations was victorious and the mohawks werf were profiting greatly this brought somber looks into the faces of the Se the eastern wilderness was bound to run red with war was sure ills warriors wre sure the long iong expected struggle I 1 between the english and tile the french wi was at hand and there would bo be no rest for the tomahawk until the land was free of one or the other tiao a and his councilors councillors counci lors in Chent if faced war and famine it if their fighting men went into the cost cast who would keep the people front from starvation it was waa decided that tlapa should take the warpath karpath again thirty men chosen by lot while thirty of ills his braves should to fight hunger and death during the winter months the drawing camp came but jeems was not included was w 1 s doomed to leave lif his sweetheart again 1 these wore were flays when misgivings assailed jeoma and tobnette Tol nette in of their holies bones and plans yet no cloud more than temporarily darkened their visions in ili the heart of c each ach was tile the prayer that a ivan wandering derIng pirla come their way sr so that eliut the ceremony could be performed which would make them husband and wife in the town were a number of f white women who had accepted indian husbands in th tho indian ways way but against this practice Tol tobnette nette revolted slie she prayed and mary dagelen prayed with tier lier for through the years since her mother had died the thrush had bad kept her faith unbroken the seneca worshiping in tier her hoti honored ored it early in november groups began to leave each with the small amount of food which remained as its share mary was to accompany tx o far rilles of eight pouolo under the of thunder shield I 1 a v valiant warrior and a splendid hunts hunter r they were swing going toward lake ontario tobnette Tol nette was given to ali ah do de enli all tho the tall ta 1 I man a rol relative itlie of hiding their teems and encouraged themselves with visions of a future which they tried to paint lit in bright colors the months would pass quickly with the earliest days of spring they taley would return to every hour they would alv llop in ench others thoughts and at night their prayers krayci s would cross in the wilderness next year there would surely bo be a way fato fati not separ sc rite them apale in their final moments together tog cHier eyes glowed with n devil depth of falth and love which it was Int impossible possible for teems jeems to measure fully in this way they parted ile he went north nud and west with was koo toward the river which emptied into dile ontarl si odd oell struggled straggled lc ills devotion for teems jeems and for Tol netto ho fie followed ills his master a If stanco then limi and turned hack back A lump hinic roso rose it IP i seems thront and lip he could riot not sin see clearly as ills his comrade commie sat in ili tin the unit trail and led until lie he flis appeared led ae the way to it a hardwood country in which he was mire would be hunting that would if it through alip winter there them win wert plew of raccoons and it die bior vm tish r ducks would corne come to the s arfi alf running headwaters to fond fend us wi as tee ice closed thel the jakes alws and lh of tile the str streams enins here they made hali lodge of saplings it was a near npr klud of home tor for wood pigeon teems dipti it with a cocking beartle find a n chimney and a tiny room set apart for worn pigeon herself tit alio childs ey ev glowed iowa with delight at this I 1 each ach day jeems tier more about ilni il tobnette Tol nette how sol run jiin ani amri c 1 for her beautiful hilr bov it ivas puri of her religion to t keep herself rawin how and why slie she did tills this thing thin tins am that until thoughts and ancl de desires groat in Wano Warion ats head and she employed emp loye the comb and the brush which hoem made for her until her sleek black hair was never untidy oly heavy snow find extreme cold line early in the season by tile the middle 0 of f december jeems was compelled to hunt or on snowshoes and so hitter bitter were the nights that the first of january found oven even tile the headwaters freezing out the mergansers sers this was the memorable winter of 1755 and fitio 1706 the story of which tile the handed down from father to son for many generations a winter in which all game 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