The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-14

FORT ANfITY. BY AZ r. CULLEN Couch.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
New York. 337 pages. Price, 5s1.50. For
sale by Bell Book and Stationery Com
pany. a nj II
One picks up this book 18th a sense Of
pleasurable expectation and lays It aside
with a. feeling OF regret; that SO clever a
hand as % s" should have spent Its en-
ergfes upon 1T The work i S by no means
commonplace; did It come from a mere
obscure source It might even be read
with a high decree o q satisfa ction. But
Mr. Quillin- Couch has written better.
and will write better in the future, and
hence as a work Of his genius we give
1t but little attention. 83
The scene is laid In French Canada, all
environment not over-new, at this time
The period is that OF the French and In
dian Var The hero is j ohm ~. Clceve,t
an English1nan in the army OF Halves
and Abercron1bie, which at the penings
of the story is advan cling on = or Z Icon
deroga The dramatic deathS Of the young
Lord Howe. the idol Of his men, Is ono
Of the earliest and most striking features
of the bard. The hero Is wounded in the
fight and when he regains consci ousness
finds himself a prisoner being conveyed
TO Montreal The story is oncerned main
w with the events Of this voyage, ane,
jCleeve's arrival a t Fort Am ity, here, Sull-
der the guise Of a Frenchfna NJ he is free
to move as he will, his romance with the
daughter of the French command Ter, his
discovery and flight and his life among
the Indians. n s5 "a u;
p Perhaps the most interest ting thing IN,
this book is the glimpse 1t gives OF = the
gallant Richard ntgon1ery Of E eyol,'-
.tionaryG fame. He was A. Cleeve' 81 cousin
Il OF ha arxy39n
story makes his desperate assault; upon
.Quebes, where A. Cleeve Is serving In
the British army. The cannons 3belchcd
through a. binding snowst orm. Mont
gomerys command fell back, sea tered
and bleeding. 81 u ISL,
'A dozen bodies lay heaped by the
4 palisad FOR the Ii moment he a.
& Cleeve) could not stay to attend to
them. but, passing through, followed
this road down to he end Of Its course :
around the cliff. X Two corpses lay here u
Of men who, ,nortally wounded, had &
y run with the crowd before dropping
i {, rise no more. The ira cks III the
snow told plainly enough, that the re-
treatfhad been aistampede.
Returning to$thc palisade he Shout
4 ed up that the coast was clear and fell "
TO work searching the faces Of the III
fallen The fresh snow. In which they
lay deep. had already frozen about
them VI and his eye, as he swung the
lantern round, fell on a 4 hand and
4 arm which stand up %stiffly a boye the
white surface.
"He stepped forward !, flashing his Lam
e tern on the dead man s lee. and drop
& ed on his knees beside 1t with a sob
DO you know him, sir z" McQuar-
ter's voice was speaking close by.
II know him. answered J ohm, dull
p ", and CROPPED and found a thin blade s.
which lay besid Q the corpse.
Tile was my cousin ar d once my
II best friend Al / !ss:33. q 81 a
IS He felt the ed go Of the sword with
his gloved hand, all the while staring
at the arm. pointing upward and fixed
]. In the rigors OF dea th, frozen IN It's
last gesture as Richard Mont gomery ~
had lifted It to wave forward his men,
And ms IL the last thirty or forty
minutes had never been he found him.
self saying to M cQuarters;
1--WE have come around by strange
roads. Sergeant; and some Of us have
parted withsm much on the way"
ts 4 He looked up but his Ga re travelling t
past fcQuarters, who s topped over
the corpse, fell on the figure of
woman who had approached and halt
ed at three PAGES distance, a hooded 4
figure In the dress Of the Hospitalieres.
Something in her attitude told him
E. that she had heard. He arose, hold-@
ling the lantern high, and stared.
shaking, into face which no linen
swathing could disguise from him.
into eyes which death only would
teach him to forget,
..'sThe fatigue party lifted the corpse
So Richard Montgomery entered Que.
bee as he had promised--a General Of
Brigade. is