Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-23
crestures1 where ana I some

other creatures? Where did come
! from?"
you came to the tribe with man, and
| Chief Williams adopted you.
did you see the MANI"
mo. 1 was on the other side of the
| ocean, in France"
who saw him!"
None of our people. But 1t is very
we'll known. If you haD noticed anything
| you would have heard the story long
| ago."
What Skenedonk said was true I ask
ed him. bewildered-t'Why did a never no.
| tice anything?'
The Oneida tapped his bald head.
when 1 saw you first you were not
| the big fellow with speaking eyes that
you are today. You woui,. sit from sun
rise to sunset, looking straight ahead Of
! you and never moving except when food
was put in your hand. AS you grew older
the children dragged you among them to
! play. You learned to fish. and hunt, and
| swim; and knew US, and began to talk
| our language. Now at last you are fully
reused. and are going to learn the knowl-
| edge there is books"
f, asked Skenedonk how he himself had
! liked books, and he shook his head. smil-
! ing They were good for white men, very
| good. An Indian had little use for them.
| He could read and write and cast &C
counts. When he made his great journey
! to the far country, what interested him
most was the behavior of the people.
! We did not go into the subject OF his
! travels at that time, for l began to Won
I der who was going to teach me books.
and heard with surprise that it was Doc
/ tor Chantry.
But 1 strucK him with the little knife
| that springs out of a box
Skenedonk assured me that Doctor
| Chantry thought nothing of it, and there
was no wound but a scratch. He looked
! on me as his pupil. He knew all kinds
of books.
Evidently Doctor Chantry liked me
| from the moment / showed fight. His
| Anglo-Saxon blood was stirred. He re-
I, ceived me from Sl1eredonk, who shook
my hand and wished me well, before pad
| ding away.
, De Chaumont's house was fun as
\ hive around the three sides of its flow
cred court A ball was in preparation,
and all the guests had arrived. Avoid
/ ing these gentry we mounted stairs to-
ward the roof, and came into burst OF
/ splendor. AS far as the eye could see
| through the square east and west wind
( ows, unbroken forests stretched to the
end of the world of Lake George wound.
sown thick with islands ranging in
size from mere rocks supporting a tree,
| to wooded acres.
The room which weaned me from abor-
/ iginal life was at the top of the central
building. Doctor Chantry shuffied over
| the clean oak floor and introduced me to
/ my appointments. There were curtains
like frost work, which could be pushed
| back from the square panes. At one end
of the huge apartment was my huge bed
formidable with hangings. Near it stood
/ a table for the toilet He opened closet
door in the wall and showed a spiral
staircase going down to tunnel which
| led to the lake. For when De Chaumont
| first come into the wilderness and built
the central house without its wings, he
thought II we'll to have a secret way out
as his chateausin the old country had
1.-The tunnel is damp" said Doctor
| Chantry. II never venture into IL, thougL
| all the corner rooms below give upon this
stairway. and mine is just under yours"
1t was like returning me the lake to
1 use in my own accustomed way. For the
remainder of my furniture had study
table, a cupboard and a massive fireplace
with chimney seats at the end Of the
room opposite the bed
I asked Doctor Chantry. WAS all this
| made ready for me before l was sure
/ of coming here?".
when the count decides that thing
will be done it is usually DONE" said my
schoolmaster. Madame de Terrier was
very active in forwarding the prepara-
tons"
The Joy of youth in the unknown was
before me. My old camp life receded be-
hind me.
Madame de Terriers missal-book lay
| on the table, and when I stopped before
it tongue-tied. Doctor Chantry said I was
| to keep 1t.
''she gives II to you. 1t was treasured
in her family on account of personal at
! tachment to the giver. she is not Cath
| Ollie She was brought Up as good
| Protestant as any English gentlewoman.
IT told her it was my mothers. 1t SEEM
ed to be my mothers. But l don't know
Il can't remember
MY master looked at the missal, and
said it was a fine specimen of illumina-
ton. His manner toward me was so
changed that / found it hard to refer to
| the lancet. This, however, very natur-
ally followed his examination of my
| head. He said had healthy blood, and
the wound was closing up by the first in
tention. The pink cone at the tip of his
| nose worked in a whimsical grin as he
heard my apology.
at is not often you will make the med
icine man take his own remedy, my
lad"
We thus began our relation with the
best feeling. 1t has since appeared that
1 was a blessing to Doctor Chantry. My
| education gave him something to do. For
although he called himself physician to
Count de Chaumont, he had no real oc-
cupation in the house, and dabbled with
poetry, doing among books. De Chau-
mont was one of those large men who
! gather in the weak. His older servants
had come to America with his father. and
were as attached as kindred. A natural
parasite like Doctor Chantry took to De
| Chaumont as means of support; and 1T
! was pleasing to both of them.
My master asked me when / wanted to
begin my studies and I said: Now"
| We sat down at the table, and 1 learned
the English alphabet. some phrases of
English talk, some spelling, and traced
my first characters in a copy-book. With
| consuming desire to know, did not want
| to leave off at dusk. In that high room
day fingered. The doctor was fretful for
his supper before we rose from our task.
Servants were hurrying up and down
stairs. Doctor Chantry asked me to wait
in a lower corridor while he made some
! change in his dress.
| I sat down on a broad window sill, and
when had waited few minutes, Made
noiselle de Chaumont darted around a
corner. bare armed and bare necked. She
collapsed to the floor at sight of me, and
then began to dance away in the opposite
direction with stiff leaps, as lamb
does in the spring time.
/ saw she was in pain or trouble, need
| ing a servant. and made haste to reach
her; when she hid her face on both arms
| against the wall