Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04

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love as lovers measure it, WHY. then.
had he proposad 10 Narreryo The an
swer did not tarry. Since he was now
but a gentleman volunteer ii was plain
| that he had souandered his estate and
so might brook the marriage chain If
il were linked mo with my fathers
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Now 1 was horn and hired an heretic
by any papist.s reckoning. hut i have
.yer held il witless in that man who
LET'S creed obstruct a friendship.
| MOREOVER this sweet faced cleric was
the friepdliest of men: friendly. and vet
the widest Jesuit of them all. since he
read me- at :. trlanca and fall strairht
way To praisinp Nargery.
"A truly sweet Young demoiselle he
said. by way of foreword no sooner
was the door closed behind her. and
while he preached n sermon on this text
l grew to know and love him
| He was a little man. as bone and
muscle go. with deep-set eyes. and fea-
lures kind and mild and fine as any
woman's: some such face as Leonardo
| gave st. John. could that have been less
| Youthful. could not tell his order.
though from his well-worn cassock
girded at the waist with a frayed bit
of hen,pen cord he might have been a
Little Brother of the Poor. But this i
noted; that he was not tonsured and
his white hair soft and fine as Mar
rery's was like an a,1raole TO the finely
chiseIed features As missionary men of
amy creed are apt. he looked far older
than he really was: and when he came
to tell me of his life among the Indians,
1T was patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
| listened we'll enough content to
learn him better by his own report.
,Rut YOU must find il thanl<less
work this gospeling in the wilderness. =
vehtured. whom all was said "'Tis
but a PERMITS life for any man of
parts; and after all. when YOU have
done your utmost your converts are
but savages. as they We're.
| At this he smiled and shook his head.
NO. monsieur. not so. You are q sol
dier ANA cannot sec beyond Your point
of sword. Mais. mon ami they have
souls to save. these poor children of
| the forest. and they are far more sinnetl
| against than shining. find them kind
and true ana faithful; and some OF
them are noble. in their way
/ laughed I've read about these
noble ones' / said Twas i'm a bool,
called 'Hlkluyt's Nolages' Truly.
know them not as You do, for in my
youth l knew them most in war. We
called them brave but cruel then; and
when ! was u boy could have shown
you where. within a mile of this they
burned poor pavie Davidson at the
stake.
"Ah. yes: there has been much of
| that" he sighed. But YOU must con-
fess, Captain lreton that you English
carry fire and sword among them. too"
From that he would have told me
more about the savagcs, but / was in
| terested nearer home AS have said
! was like amy prisoner in a dungeon
/ for lack of news, and so by degrees |
\ fetched him round To telling me of
! what was going on beyond my window
1 sight of lawn and forest
Grave deeds were TO tho fore n
4 seemed AT Ramsours mill a few
miles north and west some ,ittl,, hand
I f,,j of determined patriots had best,a
I thrice their number of the l,inp,s mar.
| ,isars. and that without a leoIar bir-
ger than q county, colonel lord Paw
| don, In command OF Lord Corn
/ Wallis, van had come as ~,
as Waxhaw rree,, but h.i,a
unsunnorind had vi,h,ran.n Ia H..
/ ing Rock our MIR. Rutherford was on,
his way to the Forks of YadlSin to en-
/ gage the Tories gathering under Colo
/ mel Bryan AS yet 1T seemed W., had
no force OF any cons61iiaiica ~ ~. :
/ the field against CornyyaIlis tbnug,,
there ware nyinx rumors of am army
marching from Virginia with = new.
| appointed general at lis hend
\ ON the who'll. il waa Tho klnp.s c,uee
that prosneral ond the rtsin.. wn,,o ~
invasion h,,o FAIR 10 in,,nd,te th, f.,,a
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ING nnnght 10 rs,in or lose n, the gre,
war. or atber bavina naupbt to lose
and everything to cain whirha,.e, W., !,
these worl.1lv ce,ds ,,,i,,ht r,,, ~. ,,,
a fair Impartial witness
/ AZ vou may wnl1 s,,n,,osa t,,i, ,a,.s
awoke in me the lust of BATH lie and md