The Forrest City times., 1898-11-25

GOT the outlines of the following
 story from De Hertle, and send it as . companion sketch to the "Ruttling Season." However, word about De Hertle. There was quite a romance about his being among the Indians, and at some future time l may be tempted to write it up, for it shows how man can sacrifice position and family itself for sublime love.
 When I first went to Mingan to as sume charge of that post, I found De Hertle, middle-aged man, with an In- dian woman for wife, and growing up family of French half breeds, most beautiful and intelligent children.
 He was at home and fluent in French, English and Latin, and, being an ob- servant man, and having read every thing he could lay his handsso was a most amusing and instructive com panion.
 K. Nj. Ballantyne mentions him in his book, "Hudson's Bay" but under an other name.
 l think it was the first or second day after my arrival that noticed a man of about 20, who was hobbling about in the most odd gait ever saw, and his moccpsins were of abnormal shortness
 said to De Hertle, who happened to be chatting with me at the time:
 What's the trouble with that fel- low? Look how he walks"
 That poor man." he replied, follow ing the Indian with his eyes, has had all his toes and fingers frozen off. He was only youth at the time, but showed wonderful bravery and endur- ance However, if you would like to hear the story, will come over after tea and tell you the facts as they hap pened."
 assured him it would give me great pleasure not only to see him but to hear the story. With this, he took his way and l turned my steps toward the cooper shop, to see how the work there was progressing, thanking the fates as poor Ballantyne had done in the years gone by for having such an agreeable person about the post as De Hertle, for this is the great drawback that pre- sents itserf to an unmarried officer in the company's service on outpost duty the want of genial and suitable com panionship.
 According to this promise, De Hertle turned up in the early part of the even ing, and after we had replenished the fire in the old-fashioned chimney and filled our pipes, we drew up our chairs to the hearthstone and De Hertle be- gan: .ft
 That poor, unfortunate young man,7 regarding whom you questioned me to- day, is a nephew of my wife, and the way he became crippled, as you noticed, happened years ago. when he was quite boy.
 "The winter when this took place his father (my wife's brother) and myself went from here to the Moisic as it was likely to be year of foxes on the coast, and there is no better place to hunt them than on the sands on each side of that great river.
 We built ourselves small log cabin to house our families in common. and oy the time all was finished snug to our satisfaction it was time to set our traps.
 "Fox-trapping, when they are plenti- fui, is very paying business, as the silver or black opes, as you know, are very valuable. The intense cold of De eember began to make itself felt, and as the fish had left the shore to deep water, and partridge. rabbits and other small game were becoming scarce. we were glad to see that the cold wave rom the far north had brought down 10 the coast innumerable fiocks of AtArmigan, and thus we were assured