The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-16
"Pestsi what viilainy viii not nd

La Sale? You say you left him al
this point on the river Of the Illini
after building a fort you named 'Creve.
coeur?' Why call 1t the Fort Of the
Breaking Hearth"
"Ah! mon ami, ouS commander
named 1t that, out of the depths of his
own grief and disbursement, aftei
overcoming dangers and difficulties
that would have turned back my other
nan a dozen times. Mon Dieu! now
that you have me upon the subject Of
the friend l have learned to admire
and love as my wi brother, ] can talk
all night without stopping What
think you, after the final wreck of our
little vessel and it's stores at the mouth
Of the Niagara river by our unfaithful
pilot, and the desertion Of a goodly
portion of his men. did he despair
Mordioux! no. A shrug Of the shout
der, q firm pressure of the lips, a
Strengthening and stiffening of his
body, as though to Withstand an at
tack, were all the signs of the disap-
pointment he showed. His voice was
the gayest and the load upon his back
was the heaviest of us all as we
climbed up the steep bank and through
the snowdrifts, bearing what remained
OF our supplies to a place Of safety.
T~reachery met him at every hand; this
very men whose burdens he had tried
to Tighten and whom he had watched
n tended through sickness and
starvation turned against him, thwart-
ing his plans and Gripping his re-
sources. Even now, while l sit here,
he is graphing with danger and disas-
ter. Is it any wonder that for such q
leader Pompon, Akiesko, and myself
gladly risked our lives to return to
| Quebec for aid?
with the eye Of a general he has
planned the winning of all that great
land for the king and holy church, anG
has decided upon the spot to be first
seized and held. A short distance up
the river from the point where l left
him is a giant rock, i~mpregnable II
nee securely fortified, that will serve
as the beginning Of a new empire for
France, and will preserve it against
Indian and white man alike, besides
forming the center of a vast trading
enterprise. This plan, If successfully
carried out, will give us the key to the
whole situation. All! Cielo! M. le
Gouverneur, If you do not give me aid.
and that soon, his great heart will,
break. When final disappointment
comes to natures such as his, there is
no other end"
Tonti spoke with feeling a. he leaned
toward Frontenac in his earnestness.
"Bravo!" cried the Comte, and his
huge hand came down with a clasp up
on Tonti's AS it rested on the table.
You do not %disappoint my first esti-
mate Of YOU. You are indeed a worthy
associate for the courageous La Sale.
With a score of men like you two, I
could conquer and hold the entire new
world"
Thus they talked and planned to
meet the great demands that the emer-
gency required for the successful is
Of the great enterprise until day
dawned. And rs they strove, the pa
tient heart of their comrade alone in
the wilderness with a handful of mu-
tinous men yearned for the succor SO
uCSpCidtCly uCCuCu, IN va Cy % "
held above the forest tree-tops the
breaking Of another day Of hope and
endeavor undismayed.
Meanwhile Renee wa welcomed
heartily by the nuns, who attributed
the intense nervous excitement under
which she was laboring to the dan
gers to which she had SO recently beer
exposed. She quickly sought solitude
in order to think QUE some plan of &C.
ton. She had learned from one of the
women standing by all that had oc'
Cured at the gate Of the s~eigniory aft
er she had tainted, and her heart wal
filled with rage and shame. The poi
soned lie told by Madame BLIZZARD hat
Gone it's work. Tonti. the ideal, thu
hero; Tonti, the gallant and brave;
Tonti, the fairy prince, the possible
lover the chance of meeting whom hat
rendered her exile bearable, was de
throned, and she saw in him only al
ordinary man, impure, base, deceiv
ing, an enemy to be avoided. Although
!, no words of love had passed between
them, yet the remembrance OF tn
budding passion that she had recog
nized within her breast scorched he
brain anew. AS long as he was far dis
tant she had been able to try bravel!
, to overcome her disappointment, bu
, his proximity had aroused within he
: a n of danger and a desire to flee
Banished from her home through
> peril she could not combat, she foun'
: herself surrounded by fresh ha2srds
She had fed to the convent to escap'
. the Comte de Miron, and now like
, hunted animal she sought a new refug
!, as another enemy appeared In view.
The rumored presence of the es
capped comte as leader of a band Of tn
murderous ~Iroquois rendered her un
safe except while under the direc
: protection Of Frontenac. The arriva
Of Tonti, whom her unsettled magma
ton pictured to her as having aban