Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03

1 can't wait for times and seasons-to be
certain of this-to be certain of that!-I
am going to leave the house tonight-and
am going to France!"
my Godr' cried Dr. Chantry, spring
ing up. HE is going to France!-Rouse
the servantsi-Can De Chaumont" He
struck his equity foot against the chair
and sat down nursing it in both hands.
restrained him and added my sympathy
to his groans.
'Have you as much as a Spanish real
of your own, my lad?' he chatechised me,
when the foot was easy.
I acknowledged that I had not.
at costs dear to travel about the world.
II is not like coming down the trail from
st. Regis to Lake George. How are you
to travel without money!
1 laughed at the very uncertainty, and
answered that money would be found.
Found! 1t isn't found. tell you! 1t
is inherited by the idle, or gathered by
the interruptions, or sweated and toiled
for! 1t costs days and years, and comes
in drops. You might as well expect to
find a kingdom, ladr'
Maybe 1 shall find a kingdom, mas
terri
"oh. what a thing it is to be youngP'
sighed DR.. Chantry.
1 felt 1t myself, and Rugged my youth.
do you know how to reach the sea-
porte" he continued.
said anybody could follow the Hudson
to New York.
You're bitten, my poor lad! It's plain
what ails you. You might as we'll try
to swim tho Atlantic. De Chaumont in
tends her for himself. And in the unjust
distribution of this world, your rival has
the power and you have the feelings.
Stay where you are. You'll never forget
1t, but it will hurt less as the years go
by"
Master" said to him. good sense
is on your side. But if 1 knew 1 should
perish, L would have to go!'
And I added from fullness of convic-
ton
"I would rather undertake to do some
thing, and perish. than live a thousand
years as I am
DR.. Chantry struck the chair arm with
his clenched fist,
my lad, so would $50 would III
wish had been lowered with your spirit!
I'm going with your
AS soon as he had made this embar-
RAISING resolution my master blew his
nose and set his British jaws firmly to-
gether I felt my own jaw drop.
''Have you as much as a Spanish real
of your own?" I quoted.
''That 1 have, yourg sir, and some
American notes, such as they are, and
good English pounds, beside
"And do you know how to reach the
seaport?'
since I came that way 1 can return
that way. You have the youth, my lad.
but have brains and experience"
"Its plain what ails you, Doctor Chan
try. And you might as well try to swim
the Atlantic
Ny poor master dropped his head on
his breast, and 1 was ashamed of batting
him and began to argue tenderly. 1 told
HIM he could not bear hardships; he was
used to the soft life in De Chaumont' s
house; while my flesh had been made
iron in the wilderness. intended to take
q boat from those hidden at our summer
camp, to reach the head of Lake George.
But from that point to the Hudson river
where the town of Luzerne now stands
lit was necessary to follow a trail. I
could carry the light canoe over the trail,
but ne could not even walk it,
The more 1 reasoned with him the more
obstinate he became. There was a Won
derful spring called Saratoga, which he
had visited with De Chaumont few
years before they came into the wilder
would set him on foot for the rest Of the
journey.
sit is twenty-nine miles above Albany.
We could soon reach it, he urged
81 have heard of it." answered.
"Skenedonk has been there. But he says
you leave the river and go into the
woods"
81 know the way" he testify insisted.