The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-08

wife objected but when they saw how ] |
took 1t to heart, gave me my way I
told them wished her to be regarded as |
my wife. for I should never have another;
and while it might remain impossible for
her to marry me, on my part was bound !
to her.
You are yonug. Ms'r Williams" said
Nine. Ursule. You have long life be-
fore you. A man wants comfort IN his
house. And If he makes wealth. he needs
a hand that knows how to distribute and
how to save. She could never so to your
home as she is.
II know 1t, madame
you will change your mind about
wife" -
Madame I have not changed my mind
since first wanted her. 1t Is not MIND
that changes
well. that's unusual. Young men are
often tickle. You never made proposals
for herr"
II did madame, after her husband
died"
But she was still a wife-the wife of an
old MANN the Pigeon Roost settlement:
1.-The father married her to cousin
nearly as old as himself, when she Was a
child. Her husband was reported dead
while he was in hiding. She herself
thought. and so did her friends, that he
was dead
II see. Eth! these girls married to Ola
men. Nine. Jordan told me Maueiei!e
husband was very fretful. He kept MN
| self like silk, and scarcely let the "ihu
blow upon him for fear OF 1n1urlng ms
health. When other men were out toll1ng
| at the clearings he sat In his mousse 10
| avoid getting chills and fever IN the
sun. It was we'll for her that she
| had a. faithful servant. Madeleine ana tie
servant kept the family with their garuet,
and corn field. They never tasted "lid
meat unless the other settlers brought
then, yenison. Madame Jordan said
| thew always returned a present OF herps
and vegeta bles from their garden 1t gre"
for them better than any other garoen
In the settlement. Once the old man ala
go with a hunting party ana got loss'
and found him curled up in hollow tree.
waiting to be brought In. They carried
him home on a litter and he popped his
head into the door and said: Here am
child! You can't kill mel
What did Madame de Terrier say?
Nothing. She made a child of him, as
II he were her son. He was In his second
childhood, no doubt And Madame Jor-
dan said she appeared to hold herself
accountable for the losses and crosses
that made him so fretful The ch1ldren
of the emigration were brought up to
hardship and accepted everything as thelr
elders could not do
II thought the Marquis de Terrier
courteous gentleman.
Did you ever see him?'
"Twice only.
He used to tell his wife he intended
to live a hundred years And suppose
he would have done it, II he had not been
} tomahawked and scalped. You'll never
} get De Chaumont,' he used to say to her.
''I'll see that he never gets you! l re-
member the name very we'll, because 1t
l was the name Of that pretty creature who
Fo.. in, no %
George
"De Chaumont was her father / said.
5 He would have married Madame de Fer
rier, and restored her estate, If she had
accepted him, and the marquis had not
come back
l Saints have pity" said Madame
= "And the poor old man must make every
r body and himself so uncomfortable!'
t But how could he help living?'
r "True enough. Gods times are not
. ours. But see what he has made Of
her"
? thought of my Cloud Mother walking
4 enclosed from the world upon height o.
changeless youth. She could not feel an
Il other shock. She was past both ambition
and poverty. If she had ever felt the
? sweet anguish Of love-oh! she must have
understood when she kissed me and said
| II will come to you sOmetime!'-the an
O guish-the hoping, waiting, expecting. re-
@ ceiving nothing, all were gone by. Ever
q mother cares no longer touched her. Pau
9 was grown. She could not be made any
thing that was base Unseen forces hat
e worked with her and would work with he
still.
You told me- said, to Madame Ur
: sule. 1.-The Indians were afraid of her whe1
: they burned the settlement. Was tn
e change so sudden?'
MADAME Jordan's story was like this
r. It happened in broad daylight. Two mel
The Indians caught and killed them with
=, in two miles Of the clearing-som
Of those very Winnebagoes you treate
. with for your land. 1t was sunshin
: day in September. You could hear tn
- poultry Growing, and the children playin
o. in the dooryards. Medicines little Pau
9 was never far away from her. The In
= dams rushed in with yells and finishe
! the settlement in a few minutes. Mad
. anne Jordan and her family were protecte
= but she saw children dashed against tree:
n and her neighbors struck down an
scalped before she could plead for then
'. And little good pleading would have don,
An Indian seized Paul. His father an
# the old servant lay dead across the door
=, step. His mother would not let him 81
4 The Indian dragged her on her knees an
Ia struck her on the head. Madame Jorda
Ia ran out at the risk of being scalped hel
" self, and got the poor girl into her cabil
q
ri scalp Madeleine did not see him. ST.
~ never seemed to notice anybody agail
r She stood up quivering the whole lengt
q of her body, and laughed in his face.
was dreadful to hear her above the erie
- of the children. The Indian went ava
like a scared hound. And none of tt
+ others would touch her.
~ After heard this story I was thankf
n every day that Eagle could not remembe
W that natural happiness had it's way wit
" her elastic body.
- Madame Ursule told me the fami
learned to give her liberty. She rowe
10 alone upon the river, and went where 81
pleased. The men in La Baye wou
"a step aside for her. Strangers disturbe
sr her by bringing the consciousness
T something unusual.
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