The Washington times., 1902-08-24
BOOK I-AwAKING-Continued.

again INTO play, my lad, SAID Dr. Cnant-
ry. l waited in uncertainty with my
feet on the floor and my hands on the
side of the couch. while he carefully
removed coat and waistcoat and turned
up his sleeves.
"Ernestine. bring the basin,'' he COM
manded
My father may have thought the doctor
was about TO infiict a vicarious puncture
on himself. Skenedonk, with respect for
civilized surgery. waited. l did not wait
The operator barred me 10 the elbow and
showed a piece of plaster already stick
ing on nv arm. The conviction of be-
ing outraged in my person came on me
nightly. and snatching the wholesome
lancet l turned its spring upon the doc
tor. He yelled. leaped through the
door like deer, and ran barefooted,
the loose robe curdling above my knees.
l had the fleetest foot among the Indian
racers, and was going 10 throw the gar
ment away for the pure joy of feeling
the air slide past my naked body, when
I saw the girl and poppet baby who had
looked at me during my first conscious
ness. They were sitting on a blanket
under the trees, OF De Chaumont's park,
which deepened into wilderness.
The baby put up a lip, and the girl
surrounded it with her arm, dividing her
sympathy with me. | must have been a
charming object. Though ravenous for
food and broken headed l forgot my
state, and turned off the road to escape
TO stare at her like a tame deer
She lowered her eyes wisely, and got
near enough without taking fright to see
a book spread open on the blanket,
showing two Illuminated pages. Some
thing parted in me. | saw my mother
as l had seen her in some past life-not
Marianne the Mohawk, wife of Thomas
Williams, but a fair oval-facei mother
with arched brows. / saw even her
pointed waist and .puffed skirts, and he
lace around her open neck. She held the
book in her hands and read to me from
il.
/ dropped on my knees and stretched
my arms above my head, crying aloud as
women cry with gasp9 and chokings in
sudden bereavement Nebulous memo
ries twisted all around me and / could
grasp nothing. ! ragged for what had
been mine-for some high estate out of
which l had fallen into degradation. 1
clawed he ground in what must have
seemed convulsions to the girl. Her pop
pet cried and she hushed it.
Give me my mothers book" I stran-
gled out of the depths OF my throat: and
repeated. as if torn by devil-"Give
me my mothers book,''
She blanched so white that her lips
looked scared. and instead of disputing
my claim, or inquiring about my mother.
or telling me to begone, she was up on
her feet. Taking her dress in her finger
tips and. settling back almost to the
ground in the most beautiful obeisahce
ever saw. she said:
"Sire!"
Neither in Iroduois nor in Iroquois-
French had such d name been given to
me before. had a long title, signify
ing Tree Gutter" which belonged 10 |
every chief of our family But that
word-'Sire, her deep reverence |
seemed to atone in some way for what /
l had lost. sat up. quieting myself. /
still moved as water heaves. She put the |
rissal on the lap o: my sin
Gle garment and drew back n
g'ep. formally standing. My SCARED |
ankles. at which the Indian children
rfcpd IN noint u.r. oxnoeaA 70 bor o.,a
for never would sit on them, after
the manner of her tribe. There was no
the tears that ran down my
face. She might have Knocked me, but
she remained white and quiet: while
sat, as dumb as a dog. and as full of un
uttered speech Looking back now. /
can see what passionate necessity /
shook me with throbs to be the equal of
her who had rec eived me as a superior.
De Chaumoni's manor house. facing p
" hiding avenue, could be seen from
v here we were. IL was Of stone, built /
to enclose a court on three sides. in the
.orm that I afterwards recognized as
that OF French palaces. There were a
great many flowers in the court. and ,
vines covered tne cHuS vi iHe wings. All {
hose misty, talf-r emembered hunting ,
.easons tina. had spent on Lake George 4,
; ere not without some knowledge. The ,
.himneys and roofs of lie Ray de Chau-
nonts manor often looked at me ,
through trees as | steered my boat
mons the islands. He was a great
having more than 30O,0O0 ,
icres of wilde-ne ess. And he was friend ,
y with both Indians and Americans. His
.gure did not mean much to me when l
Jaw II, being merely a type of wealth, j,
nd wealth extends little power into
he wilderness. q,
The poppet Of child climbed up and b,
,eld 10 the girls dress. She stopped .
.ver and Kissed it, saying. Sit down. >
'aul." The toy human being seemed
ull o: intelligence. and after the first
Irotest examined me fearlessly. with I
rchanting smiles about the mouth and l
yes. / noticed even then an upwarl b
urling OF the mouth corners and kind h
j magic in The liquid blue gaze. OF
rhich Paul might never be conscious, !
TT which would work on every be.
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