The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-30
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 At that point the old lady usually in- terrupts again, saying:
 That WAS his own fault, sir. He went from one place to another so fast they could never tell where Vallee was, and people like queens and princes can't bother themselves with looking for those who do not come and get their money'
 Here the old man, who has been puff flng at his pipe while Irelands still loy- al loyalist defends the memory of Vic toria, breaks forth again with:
 Well I should like to be paid now, with interest; it would make me rich. However, when they did not pay me, I went to the Camerons and cooked for them. They had just come from China, those Camerons, and they were heroes, and deserved Vallee.
 ''Then I came to America, and Com modore Vanderbilt sent for me, and we was in New York then-she, my wife, there-aand I met her. and--and-you | understand" -
 At that the old lady laughs and says:
 'I had just come from Ireland. I ad- mired him; but he did not know it. It was my secret, and he never found it out till long afterward. Listen to him and you will hear just how it was" | The old man, when she finishes, re- sumes
 One day while l was cooking for Commodore Vanderbilt on his yacht he told me we were going to take a voyage, and we did take it. We went to Nicaragua, and as soon as we got there they took our boat. They said we had come to aid General Walker, and would not believe us when we said we had not.
 Well it was long time before I got back to New York, and when I did they told me she had married and gone away. Then I went to Washington and cooked for President Buchanan. Then l got tired of Washington and came to New Orleans and finally went to Gal weston.
 1T arrived in Galveston about ten years after I began that eventful voy- age to Nicaragua. And what do you suppose I saw in Galveston? My wife. She was wdiow then, and I married her at last.
 "Then we moved to New Orleans, and the war broke out about that time and Mr Davis sent to me and asked how Vallee would like to cook for the presi- dent of theConfederate States. I told him that nothing would please Vallee more, and so we reached an agreement, and went to Montgomery with him, and then to Richmond when we moved the capital there.
 "The generals used to come to MT Davis then and say to him, We want something good to eat o-morrow-lend us vallee; and used to go with them and cook and fight I didn't cook any, I tell you, when the battle of the Will derness was in progress. For seven days Vallee's hands touched nothing but a musket, and Vallee's nostrils smelled nothing but powder. and Val lees ears heard nothing but the noise of battle. An! I shall not forget those seven days.
 "Well, Vallee got the smell of the sea in his nose on trip he made to Roa- noke Island with General Wise, and as he could not get 1t out he took place on a blockade runner. And then he lived, indeed Many and many time did Vallee's ship slip between the Yam kee vessels so close that he might have flung biscuit into their portholes, and many and many a day did we race away from them, laughing at the shot | they sent after us.
 However, once an accident hap | pened and Vallee was prevented from | getting back to Wilmington. He had to | go to Halifax and had to stay there. | He wrote his wife letter telling about | it and received no answer. He wrote her again, and again received no an- swer. She had given him up for dead and returned to New Orleans.
 After two years-long after the close of the war-Vallee, journeying through the south, met friend, who told him where his wife was, and he came here and found her once more.
 We moved to St. Joseph then. and lived there till the big fire, Then the good mother here gave us home af ter that-we lost everything in the 1ames-and valee and his wife will not be parted any more.
 "One thing, though. If Vallee could get a pension from his state he would De happy He doesn't care so much III the world that Vallee served the we'll and he is proud of hat service. Ash in your paper that if | here be any left who remember Valee hey mention to the pension commits 'ioner who he is Then he will get his ,ensiOn' '