The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-16

WA EFORE LETT Fort stephenson
@ wrote letter to Count de
HD Chaumont telling him about
Paups death and asking fol
news Of the De Terriers. The answer
1 begged him to send to Sandusky,
which the British now despaired OF
taking. But, although Skenedonk made
q long journey for it twice during the
half year, got no answer.
The dangerous work OF the next few
months became like q long debauch.
Awake, we were lodging betwixt hos
tile tribes or dealing with those inclined
to peace. Asleep, was too exhausted
to dream. It was struggle of tha
white force Of civilization with the red
sense Of justice. I wrestled with Al
gonquin dialects as I had wrestled
with Greek Ottawas and Chippeways,
long friendly to the French, came more
readily than other tribes to agreement
with Americans.
Wherever 1 went pushed the quest
that was uppermost in my mind, but
without finding any trace Of Nine. de
Fcrrier
The next April, after Leipsic, Napo-
leon Bonaparte was banished to the
island Of Elba, and Louis XVIII.
passed from his latest refuge at Hart
we'll House, In England, to London,
where the prince regent honored him
and the whole capital cheered him.
and thence to Paris, where be was pro-
claimed king Of France. We heard Of
it in due course, as ships brought news.
I was serving with the American
forces.
The world is fluid to boy. He can
do and dare anything. But it hardens
around a man and becomes wall
through which he must cut / felt the
wall close around me.
In September I was wounded at the
battle of Plattsburg on Lake Cham
plain. Three men, besides the general
and the doctor and my Oneida, showed
q differing interest in me while lay:
with gap under my left arm in hos.
pital tent.
First came Count de Chaumont his
face plowed with lines; no longer the
trim gentleman, youthfully easy and
in the full maturity that he had been
when I. first saw him at close range.
He sat down on a camp seat by my:
cot and I asked him before he could
speak:
"Where Is Nine. de FerrierF
"She's dead" he answered
''I don't believe It"
you're young. Pm going back to
France for awhile. France will not
be what it was under the empire. I'm
tired Of most things, however, and:my
holdings here make me Independent OF
changes there"
"What reason have you to think that
she IS dead?"
"Do you know the Indiana territory
we'll"
saThe northern part only
.It happened in what was called the
Pigeon Roost settlement at the fork Of
the White river. The Kckapoos. and
Winnebagoes did 1t. There were
about two dozen people IN the settle
ment."
T asked how you know these
things"
"I have some Of the best Indian run
ners that ever trod mcccasns. and
when | set them to scouting they gen
orally find what want; so 1 know a
great many things"
But Paul.
"1t's an old custom to adopt children
into the tribes You know your IA
thcr, Chief Williams, Is descended
from a white girl who was a prisoner.
There were about two dozen people III
the settlement, men, women and chill
drcn. The majority Of the children
were dashed against trees. 1t has been
consolation to me to think she did not
survive in the hands Of sayages."
The hidden causes which work out
results never worked out result
more improbable. I lay silent, and DE
Chaumont said:
do you remember the night you dis
appeared from the Tuileries"
II remember it,
"You remember, we determined not
to let the Marquis de Ferrier see Nd
poleon. When you went down the cor
ridor with Eagle I thought you were
Turing him. But she told us afterward
YOU were threatened with arrest, and
she helped you out Of the Tuileries by
q private stairway"
'Did it make any stir In the pal