The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-27

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Conaoience-striokon aud heavy
hearted, Louis picked up tho dead
eagle aud returned 10 camp. Ho made
iull confession Of bis fault. but exc
pressed 40 hope Of pardon and offered
no excuse. The women aud old men
hoapod roproaehoa upon him. Tho
unfortunate bird, tho cause Of Is Ell,
was flung on tho Gro-a burnt Offering
TO their outraged ieoing-and Louis
might have shared ita fate If some
Of tho Aoroest could have had sheir
will OF hun.
"Ohl tho aooursed good.ior.no-
thingl" Yelled old Baptiato Charetto,
the eldest man In tho camp. ''Figuro
10 yourself, we others, with our wo-
men aud children, rendered destitute
by this pig Of Louise, who, to feed
his vanity, makes 10 run tho whole
herd that we have had so much pain
TO arrive att It's iniamousl imam
ousn
"My poor boy, said Pore Laohaise,
chow did II como that thou couldst
make q stupidity like that?'
81 know not. my father; perhaps 1t
was the devil who tempted me-" Then,
after pause, "Marie Ducharme asked
me to get her some eagles feathers,
and what would you, twas the first
eagle that / met. >"
"Ahai It was that little Marie,
with her beads, and her quilts, and
her feathers, and all her shopfull Of
nonsense; twas she who had turned
the boys head and made him good
for-nothing, iidding rascal like her
self. Aha, the little cat ]"
The storm of feminine wrath was
diverted to poor Marie, who sobbed
bitterly as it broke on her in Shrek
ing fury, for il was her fortune to be
pretty, and her sisters held her in
esteem or hate according to the de-
gree in which her good looks equaled
cr surpassed their own; and tho
majority OF them we're hopelessly
plain. Louis made a brave attempt to
defend his sweetheart, and his defiant
attitude and voice raised in anger told
heavily against him with the ex-
eeperated hunters, returning from
their proftless chase, for they mistook
his demeanor for one of truculent self.
vindication.
A court was hastily organized. The
oulprit waived examination and OF
fered no defence.
The sentence-twenty-fve lashef
and Punishment from the brigade
was carried out forthwith, amid the
tears and wailings of the women and
children, whose appeals for mercy
were in vain. Louis never finched
, beneath the lash, but when the little
! ones hocked about him with farewell
kisses, he broke down and wept like
a one Of themselves.
"Adieu, my dear little friends
adieul Pray to the good Col for me,
: And you others, only ask that you
! forget my fault. Your blessing, my
I father" He knelt a minute befor,
/ the priest, then vaulted into his sad
die and rode rapidly away.
/ The outcast shaped his course north
westward, as the crow flies, intending
to make the settlement at Edmonton
, on the North Saskatchewan. His road
. lay all before him, for the great plain
we're rs familiar to him as the street,
|, of city are to its inhabitants. Hi
! back throbbed and smarted from thu
lashes he had received, but the greater
+ smart was within. Every fiber of hi
q moral being tingled with the disgrace
= that hadIbeen put upon him, and he re
!. solved to bury himself forever in SOM
q far off corner of the north country
where, perchance, the story of hi
a shame might not penetrate.
: On the third day of his solitary rid
y he sighted the Wascana creek, and no
+ ticed three Indian lodges standing OIL
its bank. A couple of starved dog
!, howled dismally as he drew near, but n
y smoke or other sign of life was appar
y emit. He hailed in Cree; silence, cav
+ for the mournful whining of the dogs
80 that now SUNK whimpering about hi
i horses feet He advanced cautiously
h puzzled at the uncanny appearance o
N things, and became conscious of q
,f offensive odor that grew more palpa
o BILE at every step. Alarmed, and il
% tensely excited, he leaped to tn
4 ground and strobe swiftly to tho doc
:. of the nearest tepee. Horror With
;. in lay FIVE swollen corpses--a man,
% woman and three children-smallpox
n He turned to fly from the plague
" stricken place, but feeble moan, e
4 faint as to be alnost inaudible, arrests
# him. he listened intently.
y "Water."
a In an instant Louis had forgotte
q his terrors, his danger, his disgust
= everything except that fellow
creature was in dire distress. In lei
% time than it takes to record the goo
! deed, he was tenderly supporting til
~ poor, er.stricken form, while holC
II ing precious. life giving draught
4ba cruOllop l1nu