Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-25

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What is the matter, sire?'
Nothing, madame, nothing"
'sWhere is PauI?"
1 did not know what to do, and looked
at her completely helpless; for If told her
Paul was dead, she might relapse; and
evasions must be temporary.
1.-THE Indian took him. she cried.
"But the Indian didn't kin him. Eagle.
How do you known.
Because Paul came to me.
"He came to you? Where2"
'At Fort Stephenson"
Where is my child?"
HE is at Fort Stephenson"
Bring him to mel
1T can't bring him, Eagle"
':Then let me go to him"
1 did not know what to say to her.
and there were Cousin Philippe and
Ernestine lying across the step. have
been thinking all night. Do you under
stand tit"
Eyes. / understand it, Eagle"
BY the time I had come into the house
her mind leaped forward in comprehen-
sion. The blanket she had held on her
shoulders fell around her feet. 1t was
striped. gray Indian blanket
You were attacked, and the settle
ment was burned"
But whose house is this?"
This is my house"
did you bring me to your houses"
II wasn't there"
"No, I remember. You were not there
saw YOU the last time at the Tuileries
when did you come to yourself, mad
amer
Il have been sick, haven't /? But 1
have been sitting by this fire nearly all
night trying to understand l knew
was alone, because Cousin Philippe and
Erpestine-I want Paul.
] looked at the floor and must have ap-
peared miserable. She passed her hands
back over her forehead many times as II
brushing something away. If he died.
tell me-"
II held MIN. Eagle"
''They didn't kill him.
"No."
"Or scalp him."
'The knife never touched him"
"But -"
my child died in battle? How long have
been ill?''
more than year, Eagle"
and he died in battle?"'
sHe had a wound In his side. He was
brought into the fort, and took care OF
him"
she burst out weeping. and laughed and
wept, the tears running down her race
and wetCng her bosom.
MY boy! My little son! You held MIMI
He Died like mani"
put her on the settle, and all the cloud
left her in that tempest of rain. AFTER
wards / wiped her face with my handker-
chief and she sat erect and still.
A noise of many birds came from the
ravine, and winged bodies darted past the
door uttering the cries of spring. Able
Fdgeworth sauntered by and she saw
him, and was startled.
WHO is that?"
"a priest"
'When did he Gomez"
HE rode here with me this morning"
Louis" she asked, leaning back, who
took care OF me?''
You have been with the Grignons since
you came to the Illinois territory"
Am 1 in the Illinois territory?'
yes, 1 found you with the Grignons."
They must be kind peopleH'
'They are: the earth's salt"
"But who brought me to the Illinois ter
ritory?"
"A family named Jordan"
The Indians didn't kill them?"
mo
why wasn't killed."
f" Indians regarded you with supersti-
ton"
''what have I said and done?"
Nothing. madame, that need give you
any uneasiness.
but what did say?" she insisted.
''You thought you were Cloud-Moth-
err"
"A Cloud Mother!'' She was astonished
and asked. what is a Cloud-Mother?"
You thought was Paul and you were
my Cloud Mother"
did say such foolish thing as that?"
Don't call8t foolish, madame"
81 hope you will forget itf'
81 don't want TO forget it."
&, v.s.fa knar
sire?"
came to find land for the Iroquois 1
intend to make state with the tribe"
But what of France?"
"Oh France is over supplied with men
who want to make state of her. Louis
XVIII has been on the throne eleven
months, and was recently chased off by
Napoleon"
Louis XVIII on the throne? Did true
loyalists suffer that?''
Evidently"
"Sire what became of Napoleon
"He was beaten by the allies and sent to
Elba. Louis XVIII was brought in with
professions. But in about eleven months
Napoleon hade dash across France"
'Tel me slowly. You say I have been
i'll more than a year. 1 know nothing of
what mas happened"
Napoleon escaped from Elba, made
dash across France. and incidentally
swept the Bourbon off the throne The
last news from Europe shows him gath
ering armies to meet the allies"
''Oh, sire, you should have been there!"
Able Edgeworth suggests that France
is we'll supplied with dauphins also. Turn
ing off dauphins has been a pastime at
court"
"Abbe Edgeworth? You do not mean the
priest you saw at Mittau?"
"Confesor and almoner to his majesty.
The same man.
els he here?"
''You saw him pass the door"
''Why has he come to American"
II have not inquired"
why is he here with you?"
Because 1t pleases him, not me-"
''He brings you some message?"
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