The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-05-05

he was Iot.
As | have said. L knew him wei
enough; knew Elm Incapable of 10Y,
apart from passion. and that To hin
there ..as no ~sacredness IN lnaidei
chastity on wifaly VOWS. So he bu
gained lis end ne cared no whiJ wha'
followed after; ruin, broken hearts. los
SO as. Il man slain nov and then to keel
the scale t~ipping-an We're rs one Il
him. or to the Francis F%alconnet
knew.
And touching marriage, with Mar
gerry or any other. | feared that love
would have no word to say. Passion
there might be. and that fierce desire to
have and Wear which burns like q
miser's fever in the blood. but neve,
love as lovers measure it. Why. then
had he proposed 20 Margery?? The am
swer did not tarrS. Since he was now
bct a gentleman volunteer it was plain
that he Il squandered his estate. and
SO might brook the marriage chain ii
it We're linked up with my fathers
acres.
1t was a bait to lure such a gamester
strongly. AS matters stood with US in
that wan summer of exhaustion and
defeat. the kings cause waNed and
grew more hopeful day by day. And in
event of final victory a landless
baronet. marrying Mnrgery's dover of
Appleby Hundred. might snap his
fingers at the Jews who. haply, had
driven him forth from England.
And as for Margery" Truly, she had
told me. or as good as told me. that her
maiden love had pledged itself a pawn
for Jennifer's ~redeeniinG. But there be
other things than love to sway a wom-
ans will. This volunteer captain with
the winning way was of the haute
tloblesse, and he could make her Lady
~Falconnet. Moreover, he was With her
day by day: and you may mark this as
o Will, that a present sutton hath
ever the trump cardsFto play against
the absent lover.
So. brooding over this. l Wore out two
most dismal days-the first in many 1
morning of the third the sky was light
ened, though then the light was but a
flash and darkness followed quickly
after. She came again and brought me
a visitor; it was this same Father Mat
thieu with whom she had jestingly
compared me, and lest l should take my
punishment too lightly. stayed but to
make the good priest known to me.
Now l was born and bred an hereto.
by any papist's reckoning. but l have
eve held it witless in that man who
let's a creed obstrucs a friendship.
Moreover. this sweet-saced cleric was
the friendliest of men; friendly, and yet
the widest Jesuit of them all, since he
read me at a glance ard fell straight
way 10 praising Margery.
"A truly sweet young demoiselle.'' he
said, by way of foreword. no sooner
was the door closed behind her. and
While he preached a 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
wonan's; some such face as Leonardo
gave st. John, could that have been less
youthful. i could not tell his order.
though from his well-worn cassock
sirded at the waist with a frayed bit
of hempen cord he might have been a
Little Brother of the Poo But this l
noted; that he was not tcnsured, and
his white hair, soft and fine as Mar
geryss, was like an aureole to the finely
chiseled features. As missionary men of
any creed are apt, he looked far older
than he really was; and when he came
to tell me of his life among the Indians.
it was patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
/ listened, we'll enough content to
learn him better by his own report.
But YOU must find it thanllless
work: his gospeling in the wilderness"
1 ventured. when all was said. Ills
but a hermit's life for any man of
parts; and after all, when you have
done your utmost, Your converts are
but savases, as they We're"
At his he smiled and shook his head.
No, monsieur, not so. You are a sol
der and cannot sec beyond o point
of sword. Mails. mon ami. they have
the forest, and they are far more sinned
against "a SHINING. | n them kind
and true and faithful: and some of
them are noble. in their way.
laughed. i've read about these
noble ones" l said. Twas in a book
called 'Hakluyt's Nolages.' Truly. l
know them not as you do. for in my
youth | knew them nos in war. We
called them brave but cruel then: and
when | was a boy | could have shown
you where, within a mile of this, they
burned poor DAVE Davidson at the
stake
"Ah. yes: there has been mucn of
that he sighed. But YOU must rom
TESS, Captain Ireton, that you English
carry fire and SWORD among them. too"
From thatNhe would have told me
more about the savages. but l was in
terested nearer home. AS / nave said,
l was like any prisoner in n dungeon
fer lack of news, and so by degrees 1
fetched him round to telling me of
What was going on beyond my Window
sight of lawn and forest.
brave ueeQS were to the lore, 1t
seemed. At Ranlsour's mill. a few
miles north and west. some little hand
full of determined patriots had bested
thrice their number of the kings par
tisars. and that without a leader big
ger than a county colonel. Lord Raw
don, in of Lord Corn
wallis van. had come as far
as creek. but being
unsupported, had Withdrawn to Hang
ing Rock. Our Mr.. Rutherford was on
his way to the Forks of Yadkin to en-
gage the Tories gathering under Colo
mel Bryan. AS Yet. it seemed. we had
no force of any consequence to take
the field against CORVALLIS, though
there were flying umor of an army
marching from Virginia. with a new
appointed general at it's head.
on the whole it was the kings cause
that %prospered. and the rising wave of
invasion bade fair to %inundate the land.
So thought my kindly gossip; and. hav-
ing naught to gain or lose in the great
a or ather having naught to lose
and everything to gain, whichever way
these worldly cards might run. he was
a fair, impartial witness.
As you nay we'll suppose. this news
awoke in me the lust of battle. n l
must chat the more for having 1t.
And while my visitor talked on, and l
was listening with the outward ear,
ray brain was busy putting two and
two together. How came it that the
British outpost still remained at
OuaenShOrOuph with NV Lord Rawdop