The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-05-08

| HOC Gnu our regard IOT GdCH OlHSI'
Indeed no, nor our thoughts OF
one another" was the hearty response,
accompanied by a tighter clasp OF
Lafttes slender fingers; land | trust
it may not be the last, by many, OF
| our meetings"
"Adieu, old comrade."
"Adieu, mon ami"
One final hand-clasp, and Lafitte
turned away. But, after taking few
steps, he faced about and went back
to Greloire, who stood as he had left
him.
"One thing more" said LATTE hes
itatingly; zone more question, which
you may answer or not, as you
choose"
81 will answer whatever question
you may ask" declared Greloire; land
| will answer it upon my honor"
Lafitte appeared irresolute, as if
the question were of such grave i'm
port that he dreaded an unfavorable
reply. Then, laying a hand on Gre,
loire's shoulder, he asked, What said
he-Bonaparte, when you told him
that l had departed from Toulon?"
Nothing"
you have told me all | wished to
konw, and l thank you" said Lafitte,
again holding out a hand which Gre,
loire clasped firmly.
'Adieu, and bon voyage"
"Adieu, and bonnie fortune"
With this they parted; and Laf1tte,
returning directly to the wharf, or,
dered the boats crew to row him
back to the Condor"
Jean had, up to this moment, con.
sidered himself deeply aggrieved by
Bonapartes apparent neglect; and,
looking at the matter from the stand
point Of youth his ardent, impulsive
nature and his unstinted love for the
young officer, his feelings were not
without warrant.
But, in the light of Greloire's expla-
nation, the man of thirty could we'll
been the boy of fifteen; how unthink-
ing and RASH how utterly lacking in
proper appreciation of Bonapartes
regard and of how the manifestations
of this was subject to conditions and
influences beyond the latter's power
to always control.
He thought of Margot, and her
words returned to him-when, upon
that last evening of her life, she had
said that Bonaparte was his good an
GEL and Laro his evil one
Truly had her words been proven;
for now he knew the former as he
was, and would have BEEN while the
passing years had either increased, OF
made more apparent Laro's coarseness
and cruelty.
1t was only to the boy Jean that he
had ever been otherwise; but latterly
something of change had taker
place in this respect toward the man
especially after he had refused to &C
quiesce ia the adventurers cherished
scheme, that he, Jean Lafitte, shoulc
take as his wife, Lazalie, the formers
niece.
But the young man had, all through
his wild life, held within the inner
most depths of his soul sacred
shrine, kept closed and pure, where
never the love for woman had en-
tered. Over it's altar faded and in
distinct, yet his life, fingered the
teachings of his foster-mother anC
the remembrance of sunny-faced
blue-eyed girl, who had promised the
boy to pray that he might be that
which he had SO woefully failed to he
or had even sought to attain.
The past rolled in upon him like
a smothering food, until, in a wilc
tumult of despair, he left his cabin
and went on deck. There he heard
one of the watch whistling to him
self; and presently the man broke
softly into the words of the air:
"Cest lamour. ramour, ramour.
Qui fat la monde la rounded
The song brought to mind again the
blue-eyed girls face, and also that of
her daughter, the little Island Rose
whom, late the previous May, he had
piloted through the woods, and down
the rivers, from her dead mothers
home among the Choctaws.
The long, rough journey had given
him rare opportunities for sounding
the depths of the childish soul so
close to nature that it seemed to wor
ship the mothers God through nature,
and nature through God.
He was known as Captain JEAN"
a friend of her grandfather-as Cap
tain JEAN" whom she found such a
charming companion, and whom his
escort of white men and Indians re-
spected and loved. She trusted him