The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1902, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. : /! “Ragle Started Skirks ¥ \ d ! Gavotte.” as ay read Her Skirts TH a Sweepl Olrtsey a an-t Da a Gaveottg. - 2 = 3 From Maciver Grierson’s Famous Painting, “The Gavotte.” answered bearer hurried the American within the had water let down In buckets to relieve take him to her care. The surgeon sent corners when I am,sure he no longer the book as -oonufn.w " tle of Plstu‘burs on Yake mmth “There's way of prg\’igg miz gates. :jheir thirst, and ordered nkfinch’r%ul un- ;hen;fllo the cookhouse to brew messes saw me. , ;iDo YO:.thlnk she sent Paul?™ ;r:m. meg. beé -dm-b’;n:dm an! the and thrust it General Proctor regretted that so fine der the pickets of the stockade. TOug or him, and stripped the child, finding Thus swiftly ended Paul's ‘unaccount- 6 made no answer. octor, and my Oneida, wed a differing , and the pad- a young man as Major Croghan should this the poor wretches who were able to & bullet wound in his side. Probing able npyenrfln{:e at the fort. It was like ‘‘Madame de Ferrier does not know I interest in me, while I lay with & gap un- and. I dropped fall into the hands of savages, who were Ccrawl came in and surregdered them- brought nothing out, and I did not ask the falling of & slain bird out of the sky have the book.” der my left arm in & h Within the 1id & not to be restrained. selves and had their wounds dressed. a single question. The child should live. at my feet. The women were tender with . You haven't it,”” sald Skenedonk. First came Count ‘haumont, _his which I had copled & “When this fort is taken,” sald Cro- _ By 3 o’clock in the morning not a Brit- There could be no thought of anything his little body. They cried over him as ut you have.' - face plowed with lines; no longer the trim agle Madeleine Marie ghan on hearlng the message, “there will ish uniform glimmered red through the else. While the surgeon dressed and ban- they washed him for burial. The children If she wrote and sent a letter she ex- gentleman, youthfully easy, and in his - be nobody left in it to kill."’ dawn. The noise of retreat ended. Pis- daged that small hole like a sucked-in went outside the stockade and brought Pected it would be received.” full maturity, that he had been when I . Nature pro- British gunboats drawn up on the San- tols and muskets strewed the ground. mouth, I saw the boy sitting on saddle- green boushs and August .wild flowers. _~When I said a letter I meant what s first saw him at close range. sses by & dens- gusky River and a howitzer on the shore Even a sailboat was abandoned on the bags behind me, his arms clipping my bearing the early autumn colors of gold called a journal, the writing down of what He sat down on a camp seat by my and cannonaded all day with river, holding military stores and the waist, while we threaded bowers of horse and scarlet. With these they bedded the happens daily. Johnny Appleseed got the cot, and I asked him befors he could the the poor execution of long range artil- clothing of officers. paths. I had not known how I wanted a child in his plank coffin, unafraid of his book from an Indian. That is how it was speak— ange Jery. The northwestern angle of the fort “They thought General Harrison was boy to sit behind me! No wonder pioneer waxen sleep. sent.to me.”’ “"Where is Madame de Ferrier?” d carried to America. was their target. Croghan foresaw that coming,” laughed Croghan, as he sat men were so confident and full of jokes; - Before Croghan went to report to his _'f you read it you will want to drop ‘“She’s dead,” he answered. agle were Amerfca 1 should the enemy’s intention was to make a down to an early breakfast, having re- they had children behind them! general he asked me where we should eVerything else and go to find her. «I don’t belleve it.” t. For De C mont would know preach and enter there. When night lieved all the living In the trénch and de-. He .was burning with fever. His eyes bury the little fellow. This was the truth, for I was not under Yours young I'm going back te nk would find it o czme again his one six-pounder was talled men to bury the dead. “We have swam in it as he looked at me. He could —oin ine fort. by the southern block- Military law. ¥ France for & while. France will not be the padiock, hooked it iIn moved with much lab 1 h 1 lost ne man, and have another under v n- L ’ 2o ““Where is the book?" what it is under the empire. I'm tired of the p ¢ T m abor from that angle t o an, v o not eat when food was brought to him, house,” I answered. ‘“Let Fort Stephén- G holdl; he make the book again. into the southwest blockhouse, as noise- the surgeon's hands. Now I'm ready to but begged for water, and the surgeon son be hls monument. It will stand here . DOWD my back,” sald Skenedonik. most things, and my holdings hers e to you along?” in- lessly as possible He masked the em- appear before a court-martial for diso- allowed him what the women considered forever.. The. Weods around 1t will be i “‘5“‘.',‘,‘:?*,‘;3:3}, Ay Pleseed. re and had the piece loaded with a beying orders.” reckless quantities. Over a . .Itisn’t there, = Peare for & women?” I double charge of slugs and grape shot Yo mean you're ready for Your m- the August rustle of the forser’ Niocaing trampled by prowling savages, and later .; my front,” said Skenedonk. she is dead? are for J and half a charge of powder. Perhaps mortal page in history.” 5 bird voices succeeded to the cannom's rec ing will obiiterate the piace, Give a little _1 ran my hand over his chest, finding _“Do you know the Indian Territory e into his eyes, and e R e A e e Tellow a bed here, who died between two B e L aibie G o s et ol e hat he W ieavy artillery. dislik oor little 4 i “There 4 » - S13 ot have Dicn g ihey were busy themselves, bringing Will stick their fists in heleFen when ,,I0e, SUrESon, turmed everybody out but countriSs, and will mever be 3 CItien of cylli"wiip of boara at ths edge of the i RS 2t "rae caliad e il . ree of the ineffectual six-pounders and they have learned it at school.” ! L Froeller & fire. “I burnt it.” geon Roost settlement & o P her hia jais the howitzer, under darkness, within 20 Intense manhood ennobled his long, ani- pital of British wounded. I 'wiped the “I don't want to make & graveyard of "%y ch iiive fnished me.” White River. The Kickapoos and Win- \on lightness, YArds of the fort, giving a background of mated face. The President afterward )08 forehead and gave him his médi- the fort,” sald Croghan, But he looked y7yirned and left him sitting lke an nebagoes did it. There Wers about two e key t5 this W00ds to their battery. About dawn we made him a lleutenant colonel, and wom- . Janning him all day long. He lay at Paul, bent low oVeg him, and allowed 41 tHfeC, ST - dozen people in the settiement. gave me the key to this saw what they had been doing. They en and his superior officers praised him; N Stupor, and the surgeon said he was him to be buried nefr the southwest “f asked how you know these things."” is_written inside the Sa» What the dc : h pe pe > Sed whew Eoing comfortably and would suffer littio. angle. . “I h: me of the best Indian run- I ever tell ot B i Teplied omly Wil ket b enidr oo more ESllant than WREN Once’ in'a “while he tarmed 4 the cor: - dhere the child's banes rest to this day. Betore I lett Fort Stephenson I wrote a ners that ever trod moccasins, snd when Esbee waliting for them to storm * "My uncle, George Rogers Clark, would Rers of his mouth and smiled at me, as The town of Fremont in' the common: | REI°T Count de Chaumont, telling him 1 set them to scouting, they gemerally B real it 2, It went on all day, the gun-proof have undertaken to 'hold this fort; and ’l";s*‘fegl’:?‘;esgu’;z‘;;:“"‘:”‘,’!"?“T“‘h““fi]fl‘d‘o"_fi- D O T i oy Uparotic Nhout baul's death and asking for news of find what I want—so I know & great e T g Fonglhe i ’ blockh enduring its bombardment, by heavens, we were bound to try it!” g 4 L shou o in em. oung ren 4 '€ the De Ferriers. The answer I begged many things. e o (lotues off 1Y and smoke thickening until it filled the The other youns officers sat at mess the night if he came out of it and wanted grassy bastion may walk above his head, the e Terrore G MURE th *BRE. ““But Paul— stockade as water fills a well, and sel- with him, hilarious over the outcome, 1, talk. never guessing that a little gentleman of ‘[ &0 SSAC 10 ARG PURLL although | “It's an old custom te adopt children on’t want your money or your tied like fog betwe i ng G 1 Proctor’s state of mind ‘Let him talk,” sald the doctor b: France, who dled like a soldier of his & into the tribes. You ku our father, AR attack mas cude oo and the cnemy. Do UN O e age Of his congueror, . Unitke " the nIght before. fhi LiiV:. wound. Hes fledply cradied theve. o g e te ,,:lg";’fu“‘,“gg{ o it Chiet Williams, 18 ncenlien from o witts let me give you something in eX- gle, where the cannon was masked None of them cared a rap that Danicl night of silence. Everybody slept, but , Before throwing myself down in the 5;‘\,‘;‘? & b girl who was a prisoner. Thers were or it 4 i “‘This is nothing but a feint,” Croghan Webster was opposing the war in the the sentinels and the men whose wounds dead heaviness which results from con- SYSN .. o (1o work of the next few about two dozen people in the settlement, S X meely X Slwayy hive w5 malr to the younger officers. ' House of Representatives at Washington, Xept them awake; and I was both a sen- tnual loss of sleep, I questioned the . Ci0 500 re ifke a long debauch. men, s R e an: is is it Vhile that corner repli vi - ing that on land it was a fail- tinel and a man whose wounds i ‘wounde ou 'aul. v of the- children were agains coat, as £00d &s any man need wish f0r; ry he kept a shary lachoce to ipousket- and declaring £ s kept him Nhe of them had seen him. Straggling AWake, we were dodging betwixt hostile of the cFUCrss WESS FRSCRE, SEICHES D oy awake. g A avens feed me. And if I needed of the northwest blockhouse, . = A subaltern came {0 the messroom door, Paul's little hands were scratched, ang Dands of Indians continually joined their tribes or dealing with those inclined to {Fec: ¢ 48P 15t Survive in the hands of - pe djans cont ; hausted to could I take it for carrying & _One soldier was brought down th d aski h force. Captives were always a possibility Peace.. Asleep, I was too ex] o to Y 3 e lad- touching his cap and asking to speak there was a stone bruise on ¢ vi t le of th hite Savages. I carry good tidings of great der and carried through the murky pall with Major Croghan. pushed from cover of the blamkets s Hie in the savage camp. Paul might have SIeam. Ot No n"with the red sens of The hidden causes which ok out Je- nE, the People all the fime. This fo the surgeon, who could do nothing'for | “The ~men working outside at the small body. compact of so mueh nani. becn,taken hundreds of miles away. Justice. T wrestied with Algonquin dialects Sults never worked out a result mors fm- i L]Anglfi}‘r turned from a loophole trenches saw a boy coming up from the ness, ras fine and sweet. Though he bore m?g‘;ft Yl the whole story. Wit dee: @8 I had wrestled with Greek. Ottawas probable. . I lay silent, and De Chau- 5 ~ : 71 blood upon him, laughing at his mis- ravine, sir, and fall every few steps, so no resemblance to his mother, it 24 2 = 2 1 friendly to the mont said: d seized his wrist and his : ,’,,,vf(”f rmy“;r,,l;s,,uem,,-g and incon- they've l)')muuhl lurg' m.t h to ;nfhthalt she lay there for me zgeig:]%d ’Sf,éitem?afiffi ;h?oto}?oi‘t“gu:m;%xl:d:;z:é S-ct‘ ;r;gncghlgslenv;a%m_gngr“d“y ‘gan R “Do y;ugrzf;;re(g;b“ u:;l" 'm you dis- ; le. Yenience of a Wound are sometimes more ‘Does he carry a dispatch? and the change was no more 4 ] X rench, sy appeare ¢ Tull Food courage, white Joyble; swiftly felt than its pain. He came back _“No, sir. He lsn't more than 9 or 10 ing miracle than the change of baby go LN patlence which long self-restraint had ~tribes to agreement with Amerieens. o "W remember it detirnibuad Johany Appléseed, “The Lord presently with his years old. I think he was a prisoner.” boy. Dred hr my afm noress the piles whald that was uppermost in my mind, but with- +You Temember we dstermined nat te Countenance upon “Is he a white boy? I had him all that night for my own, paule head had laln, to rest ong instane out finding any trace of Madame de Fer. let the Marquis de Ferrier see Tapoleon. gl e phere and it IoaC o4t powder atmos. _“Yes, sir; but he's dressed like an In- putting every ‘other ' thought out of my: Dot T most-have Slspt; My hend ont. rler. e PO hought you were, luzing hist Gide of ihe Sre'and Off thar onts o ohe ig‘ndaifm?inlgm}?x L think 1t’s unlikely the British would ;i‘,‘,’;‘?,eifi"a:é’sgf:‘;'gcehlf presence. His first, and feeling. itself empty, grasped at _From the s g °°“a'““"" l‘,‘“‘"‘ bfr‘ fiflflesn‘e fola us ‘afterward you were nder the stars, and I man body was not to be confined in wrap. allow the Shawanoes to ‘burden thelr heat with the coolness of 'é‘:&’n"“;’fi‘{c‘fi e WAt g ifi‘s";o"si?fi,'e Knowledgs resuited. " ihreatened o g o B e P el NN . march with any prisoners.” blew our shaded candle, flowing "fron *Wixot s lght and searched, {hrusting my 1u spite. of the fact that many treat- You aut of the Tulleries by & private s on in the bunk as- @ ature ovoriight of war the twilight of ‘“‘Somebody had him, and I'm afrald .miles of fragrant oaks. arms between. the bunk and the log wall- ed me' as & prince, I found my- SAEWAR." o o o o the palace? b i made to Graw attnthl el feint was he's been shot either during the action or _'He awoke and looked around the cabin. ' §t was not on the fiser. or in my bicsst self an average man. I Bad no .oid It make sny st in oo peiSeet urried unsealed,. The sus. 10rce of assafiants coonniTom, & heavy In the retreat. He was hid in the ra- I tried to put his obiate into his mouth, pocker, or In my saddic-vags. - -0 military'genius. In argument, persuasive, gt Csotons honed of the Serest sncent a aled. The sus- force o llants creeping within twen. vine: T but something restrained me. I held his . The robbery was unendurable. And I graceful—even eloquent—were the adjec: pot R9PO4Y » and drew hr‘?%] l;“s;e. Ees nunA(;lrv(‘-m er of smoke, to sur- Bring h!mh le;]re,o sald Croghan. hand to my eheek. knew the Indian who had done it. He tives applied to me; not sweeping and gg{& 28 e oit cuki S was mot MEbly MmMectey wray i oo Uss; A o iEntly ond ooy opart, “T like you,” he spoke out. “Don’t you was the quictest, most stubborn Onelds Ppowerful. I should have made a JOE-Tot .oy oo whagr: t Mont Louis had they hesftated. Tdr‘]l;ecéf;?m:i?]iinn fhem: b ool anlatly eo iy oy OLherls Dretivs: Tt ever followed an adopted white man. King, no better than my uncle of Prov- “The Queen's closet.” wandered so far. charge, and himself sprang first inte the Ing up in a courageous smile, entered and sald I fousht his mother was. the Why he had taken the book I could mot ence, no worse than my uncle of Artols, .ghe was in the garden. She sald she o o e 1 ¢ most beautiful woman in the sorl " But T was Who ‘wouldstather saw wood than reign a ras, the boards In- ditch, 'We saw the fine fellows leaping stood erect before the officef. He was @ curled up his mouth corners and i i HTTHANY tamen It out 0f My hons ey | conatitational monarch, and whom ® the e T e e e 1 'waked termined to be first In e Juan de-. wall-made, LS ITe was disped wi k- & blue-eyed smile. I slept. He would not break the pad- Irench people afterward turned out to cjeverly, for she-came in on the arm of VKD They filled the diten. ” TAKINE a breach. skin huning ShTl fshion Showine the goMy father is not pretty. But he is a lock and read it but like a judicious SaW wood. My reign might have been Sumet wnd the MAtier Was not noticed: Aiitunnl s St Hor it s B i ikt o Do i gentleman of France. father he would take care of a possibly reat: it would never have been gaudily There stood my emergency facing me nafraid of war, bent had waited. He opened the poctiaflal Sow Jine of biood Was moving. Ohildren roy hore are they, Paulp: unwholesome volume himself. splendid. As an average man, I could ggain. You had deserted. What made apple of clviliza- unmasked his exactly trained eamown s of refugees, fall of pity, looked through seiciiirn® Pon me without an- I went out and found the bald-headea Well hold my own in the world. you imagine you were threatened with Nobody lage ailants, sw ; . ll-beloved wretch. He w Perry on the lakes, General Jackson n ms e ety et 4 distance ‘ot thirty’ feees Angten GO Sio "EhiD " Thia Croghan, as yo iy L %14 DIUtAly, “tell me whero Mithhis knees (0 his Ghin by the evening {he Southwest, Harrizon in the West. and *"Bicause gendarme fn court dress laid i a s, 1 P 5 ol 3 e shin, b i )slh I:)and Ind:a‘n: 5?1‘(; "l‘il'hll Eflg, \shpr(u ing fan rays of t?f bgi&taggered. But he waved the en- He was so far gome that my volce re- ’°5s§§§e50nk." 1 sald, “T t my book war towards/its close; though as lafe -: w;,h?:dcogem\%t;h%‘;:g and told me I manding surrender. .~ pounder, we saw the tincereioaded six- SlgR PACT oy man? asked the C2led him. He simply knew me as 4 “Children and books make & woman of SPring the national capital was burned by " syell, you may have drawn the secret Aot AnpriRchod the doad atd weounied. - T ovCL MlEd Twith . SN0 o * ed the voice and a presenee that he liked. your he responded.~ You had enough the British, and a gentleman whom they ponee dpin you. You had been catiing & g il g The bestegers turned. ™1 belleve,” he anmswered, “I am the gy Ath Poor old Ernestine,” "He an- of books at Longmeadow.” gayly called “Old Jimmy Madison” tem- Dretty figure. It was probably wise to rith a fiag in P'3~h”d Croghan's sweating . Marquis de Ferrier.” . swered. “] want it at once,” I repeated, porarily driven out. But the battle on the grop between walls and get out of B " ATl n the and loaded and fired, roaring ke Tanoed Tt ;i:"geg'g:"t% ?hgtk,:ra:]?gE{nes':lnflr' «Tt's sorcery,” he answered. little river Thames, in October, settied France. Do you know why you were ar- cheerful, and the men The Indians, of whom there w. 2 Iv. struck with a “It's a letter from Madame de Ferrfer, matters in the wes restear” of humor which dan. @ thousand, were not In the charge. apg He pltched forward, and I was quicker *hnauy, Sron siet toll sers >oF and may tell where she is. The next April, after Leipsic, Napoleon ' T think the groundless charge would ; ; te was banished to the island of been an attack upon Napoleon. I saw then the When retreat began they went in panic. than Ensign Shipp. I set him on my H head. Hi: 3 His fawn eyes were startled, but he con- Bonapar L g T ed in its season what We could hear calls and yells, the cliauecr knees, and the surgeon poured a little lnéah!lm?&lgmbreut we;tmfnuttoh ;3:?:11 e T cante B o rhae at Hariwe Fl!ud g -‘z"“ BT e ey Tense o B4 - o edonk, I can't quarrel Jatest refuge at Hartwell House in Eng- t I had every reason to belleve immer, because the of arms, and a thumping of the ‘earth; watered brandy down his throat. slons. o fiaor Lo te 1‘;?,}‘,‘,",’.:: 1ard, to London; where the Prince Regeat such s charge. Nould. b sworn against then advantage of the last the straln of men tugging cannon ropes; .Paull” I said to him. He shrieked and threw himself toward member. When you know I am so bounq honored him and the whole capital cheered me if I ever came to trial.” her to make raids. s:?hp{;‘\;" th;::nl;mv:‘ ‘;1;a;zleorlgd{:x;eggggce_h woffltg:ollofiaog(éd ?gg&recdmtlg:e;uxgeon.‘u me. “My prettg“Mlttle n::)(;:terl" to you, how can you deal me a deadly him; and thxe(r;ce tolPF:‘ru. wgem he was “Perhaps that silly Dauphin story y even e Sa ‘oach- L, ‘owdin; a L o 3 ror does sant February ing under Tecumseh, were turned back by the room. B e e e asut Rip Sy proclaimed King of France. We heard leaked out in Parls. The Emperor d . = -~ " % “White woman sorcery is the worst sor- of it in due course, as ships brought hate a Bourbon. But I thought you had ol beTore e remarked_as we listened to the Crasnay . 0" DM Lazarre?” asked I could have beaten myself, but the sur- cery. You thought I never saw It. But Lews. I was serving with the American {ricked me. And the old Marquis mever Croghan. d told me the chil i y ched the par- uproar, “Fort Stephenson can hardly be :‘t's Madame de Ferrier's child.” geon afterwar child was dy- T did see it. You went after her to Paris. forces. took his eyes off the main issue. He gave - z e ing when he came into the fort. About ot think of being th E The world is fluld to a boy. He can do le his arm, and was ready to s that bas- called untenable against heavy artillery.” “Not the baby I used to see at De dawn, when men's lives sink o thelf low: Lorhog tasome back e winmr 80, . 7 aye Surthing. Bub 1t Haiteos coanl o e in Th 0 e Teaty S e ended a ,eh‘;.i c;:‘aerr\i a{g:;_gfi:‘eesngg lcl:erad"d;\'l;thtite:? ,;%,. g!hef;uhrg’?:;ns”'{. What's he doing at Fort est ea\:e;v;‘cln ‘x‘flxgtin):ie ua:‘lic R:ly. I what woman sorcery does. Now you have ;mm :nd zuf‘?:l-t :h““ th:lough which “You had to tell him?” ravine and . e ? . 8MOO s hea kissed an tribes. Pre: e must cul e wall close aro e 87 " gave it was able to help ths wounded there. But The women made up my bunk for Paul hime Once. he 100Ked 1Rto. SPace. mith: Doy ora s T nd e reoaent secs T | ol W B me. “What did he say?” “zitsh flag- before the rout s3s complete, Croghan and I laid him in it. Bach wanted to blurred eyes, and. curled up his mouth o you to bewitch you! I knew she sent- In September I was wounded at the bat- “Not a word. Al the blooa seemeq