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The Plains OF
Abrah
James
Oliver v
Cuwood
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CHAPTER XIV Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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