Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-03

Tt is an Iraquois canoe" he cried.
 "ImpossihIe..'
 Alas. your eXceIleucy, it is SO and it is the same one which passed us last night
 "Ah. then the women have escaped them."
 "I trust so. But. alas scigneur fear that there are more in the canoe 1 HOW than when they passed us.' The little group of survivors waited in brcathless anxiety while the canoe sped swiftly up the river, with line | of foam OH either side of her and a long fork cd swirl in the waters behind. | They could see that she appeared to be very crowded hut they remembered ] that the wounded of the other boat were aboard of her, On she came, and 0a. until as s,1e cane abreast of the fort she swung round. and the rowers y,ai&ed their paddles and burst into a shrill yell of derision. The stern of the canoe was turned toward them ! now, and they saw that two women were seated in it. The one was Omega and the other Adele.
 Charles de la Noue. segneur de Ste. Marie. was a hard and self contained man. but groan and bitter curse burst from hin when he saw his In dian wife i'll the hands Of her k.usmen. from whom she could hope for little mercy. Yet even HOW his old fashioned courtesy to his guest had made him l turn to be Catinat with some words of i 4l, cl tpI Inf wood. something daTkenei the light of the window. and the young soldier was gone Without a word he had lowered the ladder and was clambering down it with frantic haste. Then as his feet touched the ground, he signaled to his comrades to draw it up again, and, dashing into the river he swan toward the canoe Without arms and without a plan. he had but the one thought, that his place was by the side of his wife i'll this the hour of her danger.
 But there was another whose view of duty led him from safety into the face of danger All night the Franciscan had watched De Catinat as a miseH watches his treasure, filled with the thought that this heretic was the one little seed which might spread and spread until it choked the chosen vine yard of the church He, too clambered down at the very heels of his prisoner and rushed into the stream not ten paees behind him.
 And so the watchers at the window saw the straa-eSt of sights. There i'll mitistream lay the canoe, with it's bur den of dark warriors, and the two Wo- men crouching in the midst of th2:1. Swimming madly toward them was Be Catinat, rising to the shoulders with the strength of every stroke, and be- hind him again was the tonsured head of the friar with his dark capot and long trailing gown floating upon the surface of the water But in his zeal he had thought too little of his own powers. He was good swimmer, but he was weighed and hanpered by his unwieldy clothes Slower and slower grew his stroke and lower and lower his head until at last, with a great shriek of "In manus tuaS, Domine.' he threw up his hands and vanished In the swirl of the river. A minute later the watchers. hOarSe with screaming to him to retur: saw De Catinat pulled aboard the Iroquois canoe. which was instantly turned and continued it's course up the river.
 .sMy God" cried Amos hoarSely. s'They have taken him. He is lost.'
 "I have seen some strange things in these forty years, but never the like of that" said Du I.hut.
 The segneur took a little pinch of snuff from his gold box and flicked the wandering grains from his shirt front with his dainty lace handker chief.
 "M de Catinat has acted like a gen. tleman of France" said he.
 Du Lhut glanced round him and shook his head. We are only six now" said he. "I fear that they are up to some devltry because they are so very still.'
 'They are leaving the house" cried the censitaire, who was peeping through one of the side windows What can 1t mean: Holy Virgin, is it possible that we are saved? See HOW tueV lIlIOuS tlliOuSll tuc lIccS. They are making for the canoe."
 On the river the single Iroquois ca noe. which held the captives. was speeding south as swiftly as twenty paddles could drive it. but, save this one dark streak upon the blue stream not sign was to be seen of their en- emieS.
 "By my faith. I believe that they have gone" cried the seigneur
 "Take care that 1t is not a ruse." said Du Lhut. .Whr should they fly before six men when they have conquered sixty
 But the censitaire had looked out of the other window. and In an instant he was down upon his knees, with his hands in the air and his powder black ened face turned upward pattering out prayers and thanksgivings. His five comrades rushed across the room and burst into a shriek of joy. The lower reach of the river was covered with q