The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-02

Copyright. 1908, by Robert Toward
Russell.)
Mr.. Erasmus Mallet seriously oppo5-
ed the marriage of his nephew IAoHa9
Mallet with Miss EIfrida Olson NOT
that Tom was yet engaged 70 Miss FL
frida. or that his Uncle Erasmus could
stop him from marrying wnoInsoeEe
he chose and whenever ne chose. But
- ne vara "a marry Miss Elfrida, ne
must give UP all expectations OF lAne'--
,irg m. fine Lake PehOngan summer
boreI and its surrounding acres
Marry anybody but a Norwegian
~ Erasmus MaIlet. Never saw
Norwegian who could keep hotel ana
@oho5y else ever did. Go into any
Nj Town in Wisconsin and nine
FRANCES 10 one, you will find the notes
o. not kept by NOrwegians. You don't
f,d Norwegians keeping hotel. can't
Ia = What am / going 10 give you
-b5e hotel for? Entirely because i IKE
vo12 No. sir. AS l grow older Shall
axnect YOU TO more and more lake the
cement of the hotel on my shoul-
5are and finally assume the entlre re-
rnoneibiIi1v assuring me an old age
free from all worry II II were not IoF
NJ # T knew l were TO die tomorrow,
T would say, Go ahead, marry your
Norwegian and take the onsequenceS
7 am out OF it But the prosperity OIL
tho hotel is likely to be OF some con-
Germ to me for many years to come.
N~orwapians are no good for running a
hotel OF course for taking guests out
ON the lake sailing, a Norwegian IS all
right. Best sailors in the world, the
Norwegians.
PUT Elfrida would neither run the
hotel nor take people u salHhs' ~
what YOU consider her race faults ana
race good qualities, have no bearing on
the question either way
$50 Won think." said Uncle Eramus
hut when you are as old as l am you
will know a thing or two more man you
know now And he would not argue
the question more.
So Tom put off any further seige OF
the hearts of his uncle ana EIIrlud7
hopefully awaiting a propltlous time
when the acquisition of Elfrida,s would
not lose him his uncle's.
The summer in which Toms matrl-
monial intentions had excited the pro-
test of his uncle, was urS
as to weather in genera and ~exceeolhs-
" prosperous as to business In parIc-
uIar at the Lake PeEonSan resort. Inc
heat and dryness that so shrunk the
water courses ever where, had little Ell
feet upon springfield Pehongan- All
through the last = June and the Wno4e
of July, the mote "a crowded.
With the frs: If August. came Chler
Pehongan fror the Lac du tlanlnedu
reservation in Re far north OF the state
Mr.. Erasmus T1alIet had never heard
of him. nor zen of the Lac de fIdLl-
beau. but H. he was. the last OF a Inc
that had gen a name TO Lake fehoh-
gan. chief OF the tribe before II had
been mOv-- from the croWheu
hills and .rassy ~intervales OF southern
Wisconsin to the interminable pine 1or-
ests of . solemn north. Mr. Erasmus
MaIIet was not alone in his ignorance
of the previous existence OF Cnle1 re
honga. From Green Lake 10 Lake
Geneya, from Ripley TO Waukesha ne
was unknown to the resorts ana the
guests at Lake PehOnSan all bore teSll-
mOry hat in their visits 10 the var
ious resorts of this charming region,
they had never seen or heard OF Cnlef
old. towering. g~rizzled and
grim. Here he was. In the vast Wilder
ness about Lac du Flambeau. some
wandering denizens of Chicago, padded
to the muskallOnge grounds by the old
chief. had spoken of the Lake Pehon-
gan resort and its great prosperity, due
to the fac that while other lakes had
been greatly affected by the drought,
developing hitherto unknown
and shoals. P~ehOngan's waters broke
almost as high upon its beach as ever
Pehongan! his name, though the men
who talked before him knew him only
as Ike Crow. P~ehOngant. seat OF ms
fatherS now in a possession OF the pale
face. Money was being made there
Some of il belonged to him by a right
higher than hat recognized by the laws
of the paleface. He wOuld go de-
mand a share. revisiting the haunts of
his anchestors-
MIR. Uranus Mallet heard the Indian
In amazement. At the close of the de-
mand, he gave him a cigar. told him TO
go around to the kitchen for 4 hand
out and that the stable keeper would
let him sleep in the loft. P~ehongan ate
the hand-out, smoked the cigar, slept
in the loft, and on the morrow again
demanded a share of the hotels income.
Being refused. he confiscated a boat
and took himself out on the lake.
Which caused Mr.. Mallet TO think OF
compromising with him, or installing
him as a boatman. An Indian would
be q novelty. But the children were
afraid of the grim old fellow. and so
were some of the mammals. Keeping
him was not TO be thought of. Nay.
more. He must ever be driven away.
Several mammals demanded il. When
the chief once more appeared before
Mr.. MalIet and was told that not only
would he receive no share of the hotels
profits. but that he must instantly evac-
uate the ancestral seats, his eyes burn
ed. s$
You give ME one quarter what You