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1 The Plains OF Abrah James Oliver v Cuwood TT1 i. ii . CHAPTER XIV Continued 24 In this way Jeems found Mi wife sad boy. Their story win destined to bp remembered bei-nim It wns marked Incident In a transition of lunil, people, nnd custom which his tory could not regard too lightly. Manuscripts and letters were to boar It on, until, almost fui gotten, It win to remain only a whisper among a thou mud others of dnys and yours whose echoes grow fainter ni time passes. Tint walls of tint old Iothlrilere home In St. I,ouls utrtM't, close to the resi dence of the bonutlftil but Infamous Mudnnie do l'neiin, witnessed the piec ing together of tlio story and might rt-ppfit It today If they could talk. For Jeems the few minutes after hi entry In the Idbliilere house, where he and Tolnette were guided by Nnnry nnd tier futher while a black servant brought up the renr with the bnhy, were nearly ni unreal as the Inst mo ment of bU consciousness on the I'lnlin of Abraham. Inside the door, Nancy placed the child In Me arum, which bad not relinquished their bold of Tolnette, and the discovery thnt be possessed a ami leapt upon him. He wna in overwhelmed by the emotion which followed thut be (lid not ice Ilepklhuh Adiinn ni be felt lil way through the wide bull to dud what the excitement nnd crying were almut. It wni llcpslbnh with bla round, sight lens fiu-e and hl Voice breaking with Joy when be found Jeemi alive under till great, fumbling hnnds which added ni Nnnry wrme In her letter to Anne fct. Hcnl Ito k "a Anal proof thnt t'.od doe answer prayer." That thll (iod Who had Keen New France sink Into ruin bnd guided their own destinies with a bt-ncflclent bund Jeems devoutly believed when Tol liette told blm whnt bnd befallen her afler the flight from t'hcnufslo. They were alone In her room. It wns the eleventh of Iccember, and the after noon mn shone from a iky filled with the milling warmth of autumn rut her thnn the chill of winter. A few hun dred ynrda away. r.ueral Murray wm holding a review of (he regiments whh h were eoon to face I.evla In bin attempt to retoke the city. The aonnd of martini mulc came to them fulntly, and with It the distinct but aofter tolling of a bell which marked nn hour of pmjer, and to thli appeal Tnlneite bowed her bend and murmured wordi of adoration taught her by the whlte rohed Sisterhood of Christ. Three year bnd changed her. Not time alone, but motherhood and the grief ,.f hopeless waiting bnd mnde her more a wonmn and ,,, a kM At ,, ,,,, bnd believed Jeems win dead, and now he bad blm again, an Indescribable benuly inlTuaed her fnce and eyes with In nidlnnce as the myitery of the yenri Win unvelleil She told of llepilbnira rupture bv the Mohawk In Forbidden valley, of bli escape. bU recapture Inter by the Seneca, and of her appenla to Shin dm and Tlnogn nnd of her fnllure to Inspire their mercy when, blinded, be win brought to Chemifslo. "duly (iod could hute directed me after that," she wild, "fr I wni an desperate thnt I acnrcely know bow event! limped tlietnaelvea ai they did. I feared whnt your action might be when you returned and found your uncle hnd been blinded and killed, and Hot until I entered Ah lo Itnh'a tepee did It itrlke tne aa nn nniwer to my prayers thnt a bunting knife ahould be dangling by Its cord In the open Ing. With this knife I freed llopsibnh and rut a bole In the ikln tent through which we crept to the canoes, after I bnd given Wood ligeon my menage to you. When we were pursued nnd overtaken my hope died, but the depth of my despair wns no grenter thnn the Joyous shock which overcame me when I beard Tluoga's voice telling us not to be afraid but to go ashore quietly nnd thnt no hnnn would bofull us. Shlndus explained whnt they were about to do, for as soon as we were ashore, Tlnogn went off alone Into the darkness. He told us Hint three days before renewing I'ltonufslo they hnd learned, through fnrts which Ilcpsl bah related, thnt their prisoner, al ready blinded, wns your uncle nnd my own dear friend. It wns too Into for them to save blm, for the wurrlors were In hnd humor and demanded the sacrifice at the stuko of the one who linil killed several of their number, rihlndtis came ahead so you would not be In tlio village when tho prisoner arrived. As Shlndus talked to us I learned thnt hearts as kind ns any In this world bent In snvngo breasts, for these three men hnd turned trultors to the Sonecns that we might live. In the light of a torch, Kl Indus disclosed a long hrnld of bulr which looked hor ridly like my own, nnd drenched Its cnlp In fresh blood which be drew from his breast. It was a , scalp Tluoga had taken from a French In dlnn be had killed, nnd I turned fulnt when I saw It glcniiilng In the II are of the pitch pine. Then llepsllmli and I went on Id the canoe. Hours Inter, am. Khludns rejoined us and said thut Tlsoga hnd danced with the scalp be fore bis people and thnt they believed we were dead. Hhludus stayed with us until we came upon French sol diers nenr Fort Frontenac, and each dny I dressed the wound In bis breast." She paused, as If rcvlalouliig what bad passed, then snld: "There were a few nioments with Tlnoga alone thnt night we stood on the shore, while Khlndns took the blood from bli wound. (Iod mint have made Tlnoga love me, Jeems, almost as be bad loved the one whose place I had taken. When I found blm, be was so cold nnd still In the dnrkneis that he might have been stone Instead of flesh. Hut be promised to make It 1 ( A Wl l .ii T ' . . i ji t,mM 11 Yt H Lovtd Me pnslh!e for you to come to me as soon ss bo could do so without arousing the suspicions of his people. And then be touched lue for the first time as he must bnve enresed Sliver Heels. He held my braid In bis baud and spoke her name In a way I had nevr beard hi in speak It before. I kissed blm. I put my arms around bis neck and kissed blm, and It leeim-d thut even my lips touched stone. Yet he loved me, and because of thnt I have won dered through all these years-why be did tint (end you to e." Jeeim could not till her U was be muse be bnd killed Thiols. As the melody of the bell bad fallen like a teiieilK tlnn over the I'lnnn of Ahruhnm, o peace and happiness f.H lowed In the footsteps of the con ipierors of New Frarnv. At the stroke of a pen, half a out lorn t changed hands, and from the pulpits of Hie Camillas ns well us from those of the Fngllsh colonies voices were ralsvd In gratitude to Cod that the cotiillet win ended. F.ven the beaten rejoiced, for during the months of Its final n;;oiiy the heart of the nation had been supped by corruption and dishonesty until faith had criiinhled In men's souls and Itrltlsh presence came to be regarded at a guarantee of liberty nnd not ns the cnlniiilly of defeat. "At Inst there Is an end to war on this continent." preached Thomns Fox croft, pastor of the Old church In ron ton, for like a million others of his countrymen he did not forsee the still greater conflict for Amerlcnn Inde pendence less than fifteen yenrs ahead. And the echo wns repeated "At Inst there Is an end to war." Agnln the inn was golden In Its promise. Men called the dnya tlwlr own. the fron tiers slumbered, the most vengeful of the snvnges retrented to their fnst nesses, women sung and children played with new visions In their eyes. These were the days of a nation's birth, when the Ilrlton mingled with those whom ho had defeated, and transformed New France Into Canada. In the Hiring of 17(11 Jeems returned to tin Itlchelleu. Mndume Tout cur, Accumulation of Ages Travelers In the Holy Innd visiting the deepest bole In the earth's surface, that occupied by the Dead sea, Into which tho Jordan empties Itself, are nlwnys struck with astonishment at tho sight of countless numbers of pnltn tree trunks, heaped by tho wa ters on Its bonks. There nre now no such numbert of palm groves In the vicinity, or on tho Imnks of tho Jordan, the Arnnn tvr other rivers Mowing Into this sen, as would nccount for o prodigious n amount of debris. Any attempt at Vslhllng a fire out of the mass of flotsam, results, after exercising much patience, In feeble, blue flames of no great Intensity. The wood l heavily Impregnated with lull from the Iend sen Uult sen, or Lake Asphultes as It mm her spirit subdued and her mnllca chastened, plnced Into his hapds and those of her daughter the broad do main of Tonteur manor, which It was her desire never to see again, TUat the home of their future was to be built amid the scenes of a tragedy which had brought thorn together, and whero they would feel the presence of loved ones who hnd found happiness there as well as death, brought to Tolnette and Jeeina a Joy which only they could understand. For the charred ruins of Tonteur manor and of Forbidden vnlley were home, even to llepslhnh Adams; and when Jeems reached the hallowed ground he bad left five yenra before, be wrote Tol nette, who waited In Quebec, telling her how the hlila smiled their, wel come, how green the abandoned mead owe were, and that everywhere flowers had come to bless the solitude and the resting places of their dead Then he set to work with the men who bad come with him, and In the golden flush of September he went for Tolnette and bis boy. A bnr.e of smoke drifted once more from the chimneys of cot tages In the valley lands, and with another summer the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep rose at eve ning time, and the old mill wheel turned again, and often Tolnette rode beside Jeems toward Forbidden val ley, aomet lines with her hair In curls. with i ribbon streaming from them. It was In this second year, when the chestnut burrs were green on the ridges, that strangers came down the trull from Tonteur hill one evening, two men and a woman and a girl. The men were Penecas, and the miller, who met them first, eyed them with bus plclon as well as wonder, for while the girl wss pretty and the woman white, the men who accompanied them were fierce and tall and marked by battle. They were also extremely proud, and passed the miller without lii-eiling bis command to ninke them selves known, stalking to the front o the big house, followed by the woman and the girl, where Tolnette saw them and gave sm-h a cry thnt the millet ran back for bis gun. In this way Tlnoga came to Tonteur manor t ahow Jeems the scar his arrow hnd made, end with blm were Wood ligeon and Sl;liila and Mary Ingh Jen. For ninny years after this, until be was killed In the frontier flghtlni whleh preceded the American war for Independence, Tlnogn returned often to the valley of the Itlchelleu. and ai time went on, the pnek of soft skin and lrli,iit feathers be brought with blm grew larger, for another boy wa given to Tolnette. nnd then a girl, sc thnt, with three children always watch Ing and hoping for his arrival, th warrior wns kept busy accumulates treasure for them. Once each year Mary and Shlndna visited Tonteui manor, and with them came their cbll dren when they grew old enough te travel through the wilderness. Wood ligeon did not return to OhcnuMo Tokiinn. her cripple! father, bad given Up bis valiant struirgle the preceding winter and bnd died. Slip lived with Tolnette and Jeems until she was nine teen, when she married a young French landowner named Ie I'oncy. From one of a sheaf of yellow let ters mny be read these lines, dated June It. 1707. written to Nancy It blnlereOngiion by Marie Antoinette I'.ulaln. "My Own Prnr Nancy: "Smlness bns fallen over us here nt Tonteur manor. Odd Is dead. I no longer have a doubt that Cod has given souls to the l.ensts, fur wherever we liwk we miss blm. and a fortnight bus passed since we hurled him close to the chapel ynrd. It Is like missing a clillil who loved us, or. more thnn thnt, one who guarded us as he loved. F.ven Inst night little Marie Ant.d nette sobbed herself to sleep because be cannot come when she calls blm. I cannot keep tenrs from my own eyes when I think of blm, and even Jeems, strong as he Is. turns from me when we pnss the chnpel yard, ashamed of what I might see In bis face. Odd wns nil we hnd left to us of other dnys be and Hcpsllmh. And It Is Ilcpsb bah for whom my heart achea most, For years dear old Odd has guided blm In his blindness, with a cord at tached to bis neck, and I believe they knew how to talk to each other. "Ilepslbnh now alts alone so much, keeping awny from others, and every evening we see him groping about the gnte to the chapel yard as If hoping to find some one there. Oh, what a terrible thing Is death, which rends us nil with Its grief In time) Hwt I must not niornllze or unburden my gloom or you will wish I had remained silent another mouth. "It Is a glorious June here, T'-e roses . . ." One wonders If the misty spots on the yellow page are tears. TUB ENH.J in Dead Sea's Flotsam has been called thnt Is. Is pickled and will Inst for centuries. The accumulations of countless ages lire represented In those plies of root nnd logs, currying the mind back to the time when the fonr kings mnde the first Incursion from Mesopotamia Into ('nn n mi, nenr Iliir.nnon Taninr, or "The Rows of Palms," the modern I'ngedl. (lenesls 14:7), captured tnt and his family, but were followed and defeated by Abraham. At the Ed of the Road Many people go through life hnnnt ed by the fear of death, only to find, when It comes, It Is ns natural and ns sntlsfylug as life itself. A merles Mngnxlne, A A Aft mm j. COULD NOT BE HELPED The hotel guest win thoroughly an ooyed. I'eople were running back ward Sioux the corridor outside hi room, milking a terrible noise, go ho took the telephone and spoke to the manager's olllt-e. "I can't get to sleep with all this noise going on." he complulned angrily. "I'm sorry, sir," said the volte of an excited clerk, "but I'm afraid we can't control the movements of the fire brl lade." Hsi One Good Point "Archibald Is a great comfort to me." "I don't see how you can say that Why, he's the most tiresome chump I ever met. That's JiiKt the point Every time I look at blm I feel that I could amount to a whole lot less." Fata Under. IF SALARY SUITED Jack 1 I hi ni we could be very con genial, don't you 1 Jill How much do you earn? Advantage In Disagreement A dlantireement cftt-n moves Toward trothrrly salvation. And an arfrtlon stronger proves llircurh reconciliation. Detail Hastus Here am a telegram from the muster In Africa stating he aw sending us some lions' tails. Circus Owners Wife Lions' tallsl Itiistus Well, rend It yourself. It soy plain, "Captured two lions, send ing details by mail." CAUSE OF BREAK mm W.XL vi iLi "How Is It you don't speak to Hess any moreV" "Sue won three of my engagement rings from me playing bridge." The Mystified Moron He rrsd the mvMt ry talc winch clnki. Th world's attention, day by day, Till him'ltid et-fined likr s kiiiu Which nny t 'twould be fun to playt Now Be Good Griggs What do I think of youi new hut J Well, If I were you I wouldn't wear It to a dog light Ills Wife Hut I was planning on wearing my other one when we visit your people, dear. Ho, Hum! "It suys here that style experts de clare a well dressed mini's wardrobe will cost $.',(HKI this year," said the missus. "Huh!" growled her husband. "I'll go right on being a mighty sick dressed man If that's what It costs to be well dressed." Depends "Are you In favor of women taking part In public affairs?" "It's all rglil If you really want the affairs public.' Ilennlngton Banner. Living In Hope The literary critic met h young and aspiring author nt his club. "I've Just read a book of yours," tie said. "My last one?" queried the author, hopefully. "I hope so," replied the critic. Consolation Myrtle Mabel's new husband may oe rich, hut lie certainly looks like an awful headache. Oert Yeh! But she'll have plenty dough to buy all the usplrln she needs. The Boyhood . of Famous , Americans rkfgersM . James A. Farrell White collar Jobs were not easy for boys to get fifty years ago. A youngser had to take what TTI was offered him and at a small wage, too. U e worked long hours and he generally did what the boys of today would consider a man's work. James A. farrell was no dif ferent from the run of Job seek ing boys of bis time. He wasn't aulte sixteen when he had to go to work. His father lost his life at sea and the lad's earnings were needed at home. He was husky for his age. Lie had no trouble getting a Job as a laborer In the plnnt of the New Hav en Wire company. He was paid $1.(55 week for twelve hours daily of back- breaking work. Such a life didn't fit in with the plans young Farrell hnd made when he wns attending grammar school in lew Haven, Omn. He was born In that city In 1S0.1, the son of s ship owner who skippered bis own craft His father was In comfortable cir cumstances. He counted on giving his son the benefit of a college educa tion. But the elder Farrell met with re verses and went down at sea with his ship before he was able to get his son started In life with the advant ages of s higher education. The youngster didn't brood over his changed circumstances. He went out and got a Job. He couldn't have found a much harder one. With his sturdy body and good health he was able to bold bis cr.d up with the grown men with whom he worked. Tired as he was when he returned home at niyht be studied and read good books. He wasn't going to be cheated of an edu cation even If be did have to work as a day laborer. He made such progress In bis work that he became a mechanic when he was seventeen years old. Here again he showed an ability to work long, hard and Intelligently. By the time he was nineteen he was a foreman over 300 workmen and earning fcJO a month. As a boy he had made sevc-al voy ages with his father. These trips aroused his Interest In geography. He poured over the maps of far away places when he studied at nlsht aft er a bard dny In the mills. He would memorize his self taught lessons and then draw the maps from memory, Oiling In the important cities, rivers mountains and seaports. In this way he cultivated a memory that was to serve him In good stend luter In life. Ills associates sny that he never forgets nn Important matter thnt he once files away In his head. Early In bis career he was able to cull off fact and figures without hav ing to refer to books or state ments. The boy found It hard at first to cultivate a good memory, but he kept doggedly nt his plan to remember the facts he thought he might need. Soon the task cuine easy to him He hnd been quite a trader when he wns a little fellow. He swapped marbles. Jack-knives nnd other treas ires of boyhood with his playmates. He seldom got the worst of a deal. He had the Instincts of a good salesman before be entered the steel business as a lad of fifteen. It wus natural enough thnt he turn to salesmanship after be learned the Iron and steel Industry from the ground up. When his chance came to sell steel products he mnde a notuhle record. He wasn't the hail fellow well met type, a mixer and a back shipper. But he knew his goods and he was later to gain the title of America's greatest International salesman. The future head of the United States Steel corporation had a long and hard row to hoe before he became a rales man and fulfill the promise of his schoolboy days us a smart trader. After nine years' work In New Haven he went to Pittsburgh. He hud made up his mind to learn all there was to know about the steel business. He was convinced that Pittsburgh, the sent of the Industry, held an oppor tunity ror hi in. Future events proved the wisdom of his change. He was soon assist ant superintendent of a mill after having worked In the white hot bent of the blast furnaces und tolled, bare to the wulut, In the rolling plunt. He as promoted to the superintendent nnd Inter was mode general mnnnger. He was learning how to make steel and not forgetting a thing he hnd learned In the past. His company dually nut him In charge of sales for the L'nlted States with headquarters In New York. He win so successful that the steel cor poration hired hliu and sent hliu to Europe In charge of sules. Here his knowledge of foreign conditions, that nad its beginning In his study of for eign geography us u boy. helped blm to establish a sales record. That success brought the hor wh started as a laborer at $I.C5 a week the presidency of the Steel, corpora tion, one of the world's greatest In dustrial positions. (.by The North American Newiraper Allunct.) Qi.L staff for r y.. pto. free off bta&lihM. faaf Tntlpt kn elr, toft, Hnuxh Bath "i.s&sivitf" Shampoo Use .Glenn's SulnhurSoan P Koalaafi Xyytte Cott ,tc Pedestrianism One of Most Healthful Sports Old-timers who recall with rem iniscent thrills the six day "htel end toe" walking matches of four or five decades ago will find Interest In a defense of that gentle pastime, which. It seems, was recently tra duced by a physician, who called It "a clowning act" A correspondent of the New ToMc Sun comes forward to assert that It Is a manly sport and much more healthful than running, which, he says, weakens the hearts and short ens the lives of Its devotees. As la stances of the healthfulness of walk ing he mentions Edward Paysoo Weston, who lived to be nearly ninety; John Ennls, who died at the age of eighty-seven about a year ago ; Dun O'Leary, who Is still living, and others whose names were as cele brated In the '80s as are the names of our present-day Olympic cham pions. This department dabbles Infre quently In sports. It Is far from the present purpose to urge a recru descence of the professional walkers of another day. However, bringing up the subject mny remind all of ns of something we have largely forgot ten In these days of motor cars and weekly street car passes. That Is that walking, whatever Its merits as a sporting attraction, is mighty healthful exercise nnd that If we were to do more of It we should probably live longer and be happier. Milwaukee Sentinel. Emergency Makes Test of One's Mental Health An emergency either good or bad tests the stamina of menial health. It Is as difficult to meet brilliant suc cess without losing one's hend as It Is to meet misfortune and failure, says E. Lj Vincent In Hygeia Mag azine. Health enbodiss not Just physical well being, but also mental well be ing, says Miss Vincent. Most persons are beginning to realize that to meet each day's program with Interest Is as Important as to meet It with physical vitality. To be cheerful, tol erant and self-controlled, she says. Is to give evidence of mental health. The gift of mental health. Miss Vincent Informs us. Is not a chance gift of personality decreed at birth by too whim of fate. It Is rather to be achieved through healthful thing. Sound health habits do much to build the necessary stamina to meet both physical and mental emergen cies. Tolerated Tom I'aggi'tt, champion rodeo rid er, was relating some of his experi ences to prove his claim that horses have human Intelligence. "A horse I had no business trying to rids, once threw nie Into the Colorado river nnd then saved my life. "Now, I had never liked the horse and the horse had made It plain he didn't like me, but be evidently drew the line ut murder. When I went Into the river, the hrrse also fell in and we were both svept downstream In the swift current. "I couldn't swim a stroke and thought I had taken my last ride. But somehow the horse seemed to ktv v.- 1 couldn't swim and came alongside so that I could grub his nmne. Then he dragged me ashore. Then, when I tried to thank hliu, be darn near bit a chunk out of my arm." Ai Usual "Is the lady of the house In?" "Yes, but she says she has no time to talk about vacuum clean ers." "That's all right. Tell her I'll do all the talking." I'ele-Mele. HEALTHY COMPLEXIONS Ileailhy complexions come from healthy systems. Free the body of poisons with Fecn-a-mlnt. Effective is smaller doses. All druggists sell this safe, scientific laxative. 1 i i in nn in ij FOR CONSTIPATION W. N. U., Portland, No. 23-1931. fae Soap
