Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-07
TIE PILOTS STORY.

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at that headland? You notice that capet
Yes Corlett's cape, we call it, and bad
place it used to be- You notice the light,
house that stands there2 Yes. Wen,
lived by that headland long before the
lighthouse was built. matter of nearly
fifty years ago hate that same Cor.
lett's cape, though | never heard tell Of
more than one wreck 1t happened after
the lighthouse was built, but the lights
were put out. and put out on purpose,
too It's well nigh forty years since, but
remember it as If it were but yesterday
There was then little bit of settle
ment down near the mouth of the creek,
which you may have noticed empties into
the river just above the cape. There
wern't many people lived there, and the
biggest and most important man in the
place was Charlie Corlett He was q
North of England man. I've heard tell,
and anyhow he owned every acre of land
and every stick of timber for miles
around Besides, at that time, Corletts
was the only grist and lumber mill within
a hundred miles in any direction Then
he owned fast little schooner-about
the only one that traded to the settle
ment, making trips up and down the
river, between Quebec and the provinces.
Although Corlett was rich man for those
days, he vas fond of sailing and had
notion to run the schooner himself.
Charlie Corlett would have passed for a
handsome man anywhere, and he was, by
long odds, the finest built man in the set
Element But Charlie had terrible tenn
per- He was so used to having his own
way that when anything or anybody
tbwarted him he was regular devil in
his fierce, unreasonable anger
When the lighthouse was built young
Prenchman from Three Rivers was put in
charge as keeper. He was fine young
follow and if he was not so handsome nor
S, rich as Charlie Corlett he was liked
good deal better by the boys.
Corlett was some ten or twelve years
older than young Hector Baptiste, but, as
luck would have it, they both fell in love
with the same woman. Indeed, that was
hardly to be wondered at seeing that
Lizzie Lenox was the only pretty, mar
riageable white woman in the settlement.
Both men loved the girl well and sincerely
and both made her an honorable offer of
marriage. OF course Lizzie couldn't
marry both of them, and strange as
everybody thought it, she chose Hector.
The captain, as we all called Corlett, was
furious with rage, and he tried in every
way he could think of to induce the girl
to change her mind. He argued with her
in vain, and then threatened to use his
influence with the government to have
Hector turned out of the lighthouse.
Then he brought costly presents from
Quebec and st Johns, which Lizzie re
fused to accept. The simple fact was
that Lizzie never liked the captain, and
the more he tried to win her love, the
closer she stuck to Baptiste.
was at that time sailing with Capt.
Corlett and knew him pretty we'll One
day he came down to the settlement, after
a three weeks trip to Halifax, and found
that Hector Baptiste and Lizzie Lenox
were married. Although the captain
didn't say very much, I could tell that he
took it badly to heart, and saw look in
his eyes that | didn't fancy very well
Two days later, towards evening, we
slipped out of the creek, bound for Mon
treal. We hadn't got more than a mile
past the point when the captain ordered
the mate to down sails and lay TO- He
said he had forgotten something and told
me to get out the yawl and run him
ashore. When we were in the boat he
says to me: Pierre" he says. Il saved
your life once, didn't Il"
Yes, cap, says land he did, he
jumped overheard for me when fell from
aloft two years before.
well, says he, "one good turn de,
serves another doesn't it2 Now va, irs+
keep to yourself whatever you may hap.
pen to see tonight. I'm goin' up to the
lighthouse to settle an old score.