The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-17

| the dark nohow."
/ When they reached the thick of the
/ town there was A strange stir in the
/ dusky streets. Men were slipping from
/ mousse to house. arming themselves and
Joining their neighbors Clark had sent
/ an order earlier in the evening forbid
4 ding any street demonstrate by the
/ inhabitants; but he might as well have
! ordered the wind not TO blow or the
| river 70 stand still. Oncle Jazon knew
/ every man whose outline he could see
/ or whose vo.ce he heard. He called
| each one b. name:
Here. Roger. fall ini-Come Louis
I Alphonse, Victor. Octave-venez lei
/ here's the American army. come with
/ Pe." His rapid French phrases leaped
J forth as if shot from a pistol, and his
I shFill voice, familiar to every ear in
J Vincennes, drew the creole militiamen
! 10 him, and soon BeVerley's company
/ had doubled its mum bers, while at the
} same time SITS enthusiasm and ability TO
! make a noise had increased in a far
! greater proportion. In accordance with
an order from Clark. they now took po-
I sition near the northeast corner of the
stOCkade and began firing, although in
/ the darkness there was but little op-
/ poFtunity for Workmanship.
Oncle JaZon had found Citizens Le-
/ grace and Bosseron, and through them
/ Ciark's men were supplied with ammu-
/ milton, of which they stood greatly in
} need, their powder having got wet dur
/ ing their long, watery march. BY 9
O'Clock the fort was completely SUR
/ rounded, and from every direction the
/ rihemen and musketeers were pouring
I IN volley after volley. Beverley. with
/ his men, took the cover of a fence and
some houses sixty yards from the
/ stockade. Here. to their surprise they
I found themselves below the line of
/ Hanilton'S cannon. which being
! planted on the second floor Of the fort,
/ could not be sufficiently depressed to
/ bear upon Them A well directed mus
1 ket FIRE. however, fell from the loop
J holes of the block houses. the bullets
rsttling merrily against the cover be-
/ hind which the attacking forces lay.
Beverley was thinking of Alice dur
{ ing every moment of all this stir and
tumult. He feared that she might still
( be-a prisoner in the fort, exposed to
the very bullets that his men were dis
! charging ateevery crack and Granny Of
{ those loosely constructed buildings
Should he ever see her again? Would
she care for him? What would be the
! end of all this terrible suspense? Those
/ remote. forebOdings of evils FORM ss
shadowy, ineffable, which have harried
| the lovers heart since time began n.
crowded all pleasant anticipations out
I VI MS HlinO.
! Clark, in passing hurriedIy from COM
] pany TO company around the line,
stopped for little while when he
/ found Beverley
! Have you plenty Of ammunition?'
/ was his first inquiry
/ y mighty sight more'n we kin see to
/ shoot with spoke up OncIe Jazon
IT'S right smart o. dad burn fool
ishneSs to be wastin' it on nothin':
Z t-e 70 r 4
: dasted fort afire an smoke the skunks
/ OUT
Speak when you are spoken to. my
/ man, said the colonel. -trifie hotIy.
Z and trying by a sharp scrutiny 10
J make. him out in the gloom where he
/ erOl,ched.
'Nentrebleu! I'm not askin' Won.
( Colonel Clark, nor no other man, whe~
shall speak. ! talks whenever I gifts
ready. an | shoots jes' the same way
/ 20 We d better go on bout yer business
/ like a white mani Close up yer own
! whopper jawed mouth, eff We want any
: thing shet upi"
! Ono. Is that You, Jazon? You're so
: little l didn't know youl Certainly.
/ talk your whole damned under law off
for all care" Clark replied. assuming
. Jocose tone. Then turning again to
/ Beverley: Keep up the firing and the
! noise; the fort will be ours in the
/ morning"
What's the use of waiting till
/ morning? Beverley demanded with
: impatience- We can tear that stock
I ade TO pieces with our hands in half
an hour.
/ II don't think SO. lieutenant. IT is
! better to play for the sure thing. Keen
/ M the racket, and be ready for en- if
they rush out We must not fail to
( capture the hair buyer general"
, He passed on. with something cheer
/ full to say whenever he found a squad
/ OF his devoted men He knew how to
I humoT and manage those independent
and undisciplined yet heroiCally brave
/ fellows. What to see and hear what
I to turn aside as a joke, what to insist
upon with inheXible mastery. he knew
/ 10y the tine instantaneous sense Of
1 genius. There were many men of On
I Gle Jszon's cast. true as steel. but re-
! fractOry as flint, who could not he
dominated by any person. no matter
I or what stamp or office To them an
order was an insult: but suggestion
! pleased and captured them. Strange
As il may seem. theirs was the con-
qUering spirit Of America the spirit
which has survived every turn of prog
ress and built up the great body of
our Independence.
Beverley submitted to CiariSs plan
with Wh..t patience he could. and all
] night long fired shot for shot with the
I best rifiemen in his squad. II was a
/ IA tiguug performance. with apparent
/ ly little result beyond forcing the gar
] rison now and again to close the en-
/ brssures thus periodically siiencing
? the cannon Toward the close of the
night a relaxation showed itself in the
shouting and firing all round the line.
/ Beverley's men. especially the creo1es.
I held out brsveIy in the matter of
noise: but even they tagged at
! length. their volatility simmering down
to desuItory bubbling and half sleepy
chattering and chatting.
-. Beverley leaned upon a rude fence.
( and for a time neglected TO reload his
/ hot rifle OF course he was thinking
/ OF Aiice-he really could not think in
any other direction: but il gave him d
shock and a start when he presently
/ heard her ma ne mentioned by little
: Freachuan near him on the left.
..ThereU never be another such a
girl in Post NinCennes as Alice ROus-
siilou." the fellow said in the soft
creole pstcis. and to think OF her be
ing shot like a dog,
{ And by a man who calls himself 4
/ governor. too" said another All. as
: for myself. I'm in favor of burning him
alive when we capture him. That's
me-"
/ '.Et moi aussi." chimed in third
voice. THAT poor girl must BE-
avenged. The man who shot her must
die Holy Virgin. bus IL Gaspard
I Roussillon were only herei'
/ "Rut he is here. I saw him just aft