The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-30
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f,ai. Aren't YOU coming in? I'll find
you a cake and a glass or wine.
"No, child, not now
Then goodbye, goodbye" she said,
turning from him to run into the house:
Come soon; / shall be so lonesome
on the veranda she suddenly stopped,
running her fingers about her neck
"Oh, father, Father Beret, I've lost
my locket." she cried See IL
dropped ii there"
She went back to the gate, searching
the ground with her eyes. or course,
she did not find the ioeket. IL was
miles and miles away. close 70 the
heart OF her lover. II she could hIt
have known this IL would have COM
forted her. Beverley had intended 10
leave il with Jean. but in his haste
and excitement he forgot; writing the
note distracted his attention; ana SO
he bore Aliee's picture on his breast
and in his heart while pursuing his
long and perilous journey.
-Four of Hamilton's scouts came upon
Beverley twenty miles south OF VIM
cennes. but having the advantage or
them. he killed two almost immediate
". and after a running fight the other
two attempted escape in canoe on the
Wabash. Here, firing from blum, ne
wounded a third. Both then plunged
head foremost into the water, ana by
keeping below the surface, got away.
The adventure gave Beverley new
spirit and self reliance; he felt that
he could accomplish anything necessary
to his undertaking. In the captured
! pirogue he crossed the river, and, TO
make his trail hard to find, sent the
| little craft adrift down the current.
Then alone i'm the dead of winter, he
| took his bearings and struck across the
dreary, houseiess plain toward st.
| Louis.
AS soon as Hamilton's discounted
scouts reported to him, he sent Long
Hair with twenty picked savages,
armed and supplied for continuous and
rapid marching. in pursuit of Beverley.
| There was large reward for bringing
him in alive, a smaller one for his
scalp.
| When Alice heard of ali this. her
| buoyant and happy nature seemed en-
tirely TO desert her for a time. She
| was proud TO find out that Beverley
had shown himself brave and capable;
/ it touched her love of heroism; but she
| knew too much about Indian warfare
| to hope that he could hold his OWL
against Long Hair, the widest and bold
est OF scalp hunters, and twenty of the
most experienced braves in Hamilton
forces. He would almost certainly bt
killed and scalped, or captured and
brought back to be shot or hanged il
Vincennes. The thought chilled and
curdled her blood.
Both Helm and Father Beret tried &
/ encourage and comfort her by repre-
senting the probabilities in the flares
light.
Its like hunting for a needle in |
haystaclS. going out to find a man IL
that Wilderness said Helm with op
\. I hoe n nc
Beverley is no easy dose for tWent,
! red niggers to take. I've seen hin
! tried at worse odds than that, and h
got out with a whole skin. too Don
, you fret about him. Miss Roussiilon- p"
: Little help came to her from attempt
of this sort. She might brighten up 70
while, but the dark dread, and tn
terrible gnawing at her heart, tn
/ sinking and deSpairing in her sou
could not be cured.
: What added UNNECESSARILY to her dis
( tfess was the attention of Fafnswortf
4 whose wound troubled him but a shoI
: time He seemed to have had reve
D lation and a change of spirit since tn
I unfortunate encounter and the subse
I quent nursing at Aiice's hands II
! was grave. earnest. kindly. eVidentl
striving TO play a gentle and honorabl
| part. She could feel that he carrie
I
a full price in good for the evil that b
E had done: his sturdy English hear
| was righting itself nobly. yet she bu
half understood him, until his action
and words began to betray his love
2 and then she hated him unreasonabl.
: Realizing this Farnsworth bore hin
self more like faithful dog than
4 the manner hitherto habitual to hin
: He simply Swallowed Alice and woul
r not be rebuffed.
There can be nothing more painfI
l to a finely sympathetic nature than n
I greet for having done a kindness Ali(
T experienced this to the fullest degre
4 She had nursed Farnsworth but Ii
: tie while. Yet il was a while of swe'
q influence. Her tender woman natul
> felt the blessedness of doing good
e her enemy lying helpless in her hou:
and hurt by her own hand. But now 81
e | hated the man. and with all her so
d she was sorry that she had been kir
: to him; for out of her kindness he hs
!. drawn the spell of a love under whiC
I he lived a new life, and all for he
{ Yet deep down in her consciousne
: the pity and the pathos of the thir
e lowered gloomily and would not
q driven out.
v The rain in mid-winter gave eve
:, prospect a sad. cold, sodden gray a
q pearance. The ground was soaked, il
tie rills ran in the narrow streets, q
n small streams became great rivers, q
z Wabash overfiowed its banks and ma
8 sea of all the lowlands on eth
: side. 1t was hard on the poor dweile
Is in the matched and mostly fioorle
X cabins. for the grass roofs gradual
: let the water through and puddl
y formed on the ground inside. Fuel w
Is distant and had to be hauled in I
Is pouring rain; provisions were scar
le and hunting almost impossible Ma
le people especially children, were tax
le i'll with colds and fever. Alice foul
III some relief from her trouble in goil
ID from cabin TO cabin and waiting up
the sufferers: but even here Farm
= worth could not be got rid of; he Il
! lowed her night and day. Never was
II good soldier. for he was that from he
- 10 foot. more IOvelorn and love-doci
L The maiden had completely subdu
Il the man.
About this time. deep in rainy
pitch-black night. Gaspard Roussili
came home. He tapped on the dc
again and again. Alice heard. but 5
Is hesitated TO speak or move. Was 5
growing coWardly? Her heart be
like a drum. There was but one p'
son in all the world that she col
= think Oft was net NJ RoGssill'
- An, no. she had weli-nigh forgot
IN her gigantic foster father
1T is I, ma cherie. IL is Gaspard- !
+ love, open the door came in boo
:, ing half-whisper from without -.
ice, Jean, il is your papa Roussill'
= my dears- Let me in"