Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-19

| of going back to the homes of her fathers
to lie down by their graves. But what
! Louise said to her brother may not be
known-only, an hour later, Louis and
| Coqualla walked away down in the gar
den.
AT length the old cure, Father Languet,
made his visit to the chateau, and there
was work for him to do. GOupart and
| Louise were made one for life, and this
time the blushing girl was fastened.
| But the work ended not here. Louis
| st. Julien had spent many hours with
| Coqualla, for he had become her teacher,
and he had opened to Sher mind the
riches of the Great Book. And while
she had studied that, he had studied her.
| At first he was surprised at the Won
| drous depth of hersmind, but he was no
| less awed by its sublime purity and gran
/ deur of conception. And thus he probed
her heart to its inmost depths, and he
found it as noble and pure as it was gen.
erous and loving. Ere he knew it, he
| had loved her, and almost unconsciously
| the story of his love dropped from his
lips.
"Coqualla," he whispered, "thou didst
| love my sister for her face. Mine is like
| it. Love me, then, and be mine for life.
| l love thee for thou art all love and
| purity to me.
| And Coquaila placed one of her soft
! hands in his, and then rested her head
| upon his bosom, and as her dark tresses
| fell over his shoulders, hiding her face
| and the tears that shone there, she an
swered him:
"Coqualla can give thee all her heart,
| and be to thee a slave for life. But il
you make her your wife, o be sure you
| will never regret it; for Coquallas heart
would break if you loved her no more!'
For long time the panic caused by
| the fearful plot of the Indians lasted
among the colonists, but they gradually
! waded out t-of the danger, though their
| way was through much blood. The Nat
chez had sealed their own doom, and a
few short years suf1iced to sweep them
from the list of Indian tribes, and the
once powerful nation was known no more
on earth but in name and the history of
the past. mon Lobois joined the French
force, having received a lieutenant's COM
mission from Perier, and he fell at the
siege of one of the Natchez forts. So a
Natchez bullet found<the life of him who
had thought to barter away the life of
another through the hands of the, Nat
chez. .asssss
Troubles came now thick and fastuoon
the hardy settlers, and once the marquis
/ told his children that if they wished, he
would sell out and return to France. But
they did not wish it.. st. Denis was hap
py enough where he was, for Louise was
sufficient shield against every Ill from
within, and his own bravery and forti-
tude swept away all other fear. And
Louis found himself in possession of
treasure the intrinsic merits of which
were every day developing themselves
to his understanding; and aftersa few
short months of welded life, all doubts
vanished from Coqualla's mind, for she
was assured that a love like her hus-
bands could never grow cold while she
remained true and faithful.
''No," said St. Denis, "we will not re-
turn, for in this colony, now surrounded
by dangers and gloom, can see the germ
of a nation. A soil so productive, with
resources and natural advantages so
mighty, must one day be reclaimed to civ
ilization of the highest order. There is
no reason why this great valley of the
Father of Waters should not, at no very
distant time, become literally the Gar
den of the World. And" he added, while
his dark eye burned, and his bosom swell
ed with deep emotion, may not those
who have already subdued the wilder
ness in the East, at some time meet us.
of the West, and, as one family in the
New World, bidding adieu to the thrones
of the Old, raise the standard of united
nation, with a government commensurate
with the grandeur of the result, and with
a perpetuity of purpose worthy the mem
ory of those noble pioneers who first
grappled the dark terrors of the wilder
ness, and opened the way to the archi-
tects of new and more glorious realm ~
(The end.)