Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12

1 Chaumont telling him about | Paul's death and asking for 1 news of the De Terriers. The answer | I begged him to send to Sandusky, which the British now despaired of taking But, although Skenedonk made i long journey for 1t twice during the ] half year, I got no answer. l The dangerous work of the next few l months became like long debauch. :, Awake, we were lodging betwfxt hos tile tribes. or dealing with those inclined :, to peace. Asleep. I was too exhausted to dream. It was q struggle of the ! white force of civilization with the red sense of justice. I wrestled with All gonquin dialects as I had wrestled 1 with Greek. Ottawas and Chippeways, long friendly to the French, came more readily than other tribes to agreement with Americans.
 Wherever went pushed the qutwt 1 that was uppermost in my mind, brt without finding any trace of Mime. de l Terrier.
 1 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 1t in due course, as ships brought news. I was serving with the American l forces.
 The world is fluid to boy. He can do and dare anything. But 1t hardens around man and becomes a wall through which he must cut. I felt the wall close around me.
 . Tn 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 a differing interest in me while I lay with gap under my left arm in hos- pital tent.
 I 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 asked him before he could speak:
 sWhere is Mime. de FerrierT' 1 'HShe's dead,' he answered .asash hGf1s'I don't believeatt.sf &.-zatav '.Yo1're young. Pm going back to I 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 dead2' I H.zN YSNA gAn.vvs1 well 2''
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 'sTt happened in what was called the Pigeon Roost settlement at the fork of the White river. The Kickapoos and winnebagoes did it. 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 moccaslns.s aud itwhen I set them to scouting they gen erally hnd what want; So know n great many things"
 ''But Paul'
 l ''Its an old custom to adopt children into the tribes. You know your fa- ther, Chief Williams, is descended from white girl who was a prisoner. There were about two dozen people in the settlement, men, women and chill dren. The majority of the children were dashed against trees. It has been consolation to me to think she did not 1 survive in the hands of savages.''
 The hidden causes which work out results never worked out a result l. V1NrlSo sY1hS1VapR1o TYa 1ax ciloY1+ onH T1o Chaumont said:
 s'Do you remember the night you dis appeared from the TuileriesT'
 'T remember it."
 ''You remember, we determined not I to let the Marquis de Terrier see Ma l poleon When you went down the cor ridor with Eagle I thought you were i turing him. But she told us afterward I you were threatened with arrest, and she helped you out of the Tuileries by a private stairway"
 "Dtd it make any stir in the pal ace?'
 ''No. I saw one man hurrying past us. But nobody heard of the arrest except Eagle"
 "'How did she get out?"
 "Out of whatI"
 ''The queens closet"
 "She was in the garden. She said she went down the private stairway to avoid the gendarme. She must have done it cleverly, for she came in on the arm of Junot, and the matter was not noticed. There stood my emergency, facing me again. You had deserted. What made you imagine you were 1 threa tened with arrest?'
 Because a gendarme in court dress laid his hand on my shoulder and told me was to come with him." ''Well, you may have drawn the secret police upon you.. You had been cutting pretty figure. It was proba- bly wise to drop between walls and get out of France. Do you know why you were arrestedY'
 ''I think the groundless charge would have been an attack upon Napoleon"
 ''You never attacked the emperor"
 ''No, but had every reason to be- l 1SnvA ayVNR1 O. r1x0vepA VynN1la he sv1yrNvs1A