Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-21
elan. JAM my Janl.

-Jan. Jani my Janl"
millions In that other big world beyond
| the edge OF the wilderness caught only
| q passing rumor OF what had hap
pened.
Lac Balm suffered least OF the far
northern posts. with the exception Of
Churchill. where the icy winds. down
pouring from the arctic. had sent the
Red Terror shiverfhg to the west
ward. In the late snogs word came
that Cunmins was 10 ttnke williams
place as factor. and Perez at once set
or for the Fond On Lac 70 bring back
Jean de GravOis a. .'chief man." Croia-
set gave up bis FOX hunting to Oh Mn.
KEGS place.
The changes brought new happiness
to Melisse. Croisset's wife was good
woman who had spent her girlhocd In
Montreal. and lowaka. now the mother
Of q IRE eating little Jean and q hand
some daughter. was a SOFT voiced
young venrs. who had grown sweetef
and prettier With her years. which b
1or usually the case nttih half breed
women.
hut ITS coed blood Ia her. betnfifn.
boot. yaunied Jesin proudly when
sser The opportunity came. .EIer moth
er WAS a princess and bier father q
pure Frenchman whose fs.thpr's father
wins chef de battalion What better
han that. eh! / say, whai betterrouisl
there be than thar:'
50. for the fiixl fiine III her life. Ne
isse discovered the joys Of conilmni0n
ship With .th0seof her own kind
This new coRIHiniolIshil. pleasant n
il was. did not come betweei, her and
Ian II anything they were more IL.
zach other than ever.
She no longer Looked mon Ian as \
mere playmate. being whose diver
non was to annse aud 10 love Ter
lie had become man. In hrr eyes he
was hero who had gone forth to fighi
the death OF which she still heard
word and whisper all about her. cruie
sets wife and Iowaka told her TINT llt'
bad done the brayest thing that a mar
might do on earth.
Together they resumed their studies
devoting hourssto them each day. and
through all that summer he tanghi
her to play upon his violin. The warm
months were time of idleness at Lac
Balm. and Jan made the most of them
H. tg a, 80 alt lss,ass
ed TO read the books which be- had used
mt Fort Churchill. and BY midsummer
she could read those which be had
lised at York factory At night they
wrote letters to each other and deliv-
cred them across the table In the cab
In. while cunmins looked on apd
smoked. laughing happily at what they
read aloud to him.
One night. late enough In the season
for fire to be crackling merrily in the
stove. ian was reading one or these
letters when Melissa cried:
stop. Jan-stop there"
Jan caught himself. and be biushed
nightly when he read the next lines:
~ think you have beautiful eyes.
love them"
what is it?" cried Cummins inter.
estedly. "Read on. Jan"
.DontP' commanded Melissa. spring.
Ing to her feet and running around
the table. Il didn't mean you to read
thatr'
She snatched the paper from JAMS
hand and threw It into the Ore.
JAMS blood filed with pleasure. and
at the bottom Of his next letter be
wrote back:
Il think You have beautiful hair.
love It" IT.. -
That winter Jan was appointed post
hunter. and this gave him much time
at home. for meat was plentiful along
the edge OF, the Barrens. The two con-
tinued at their books until they came
to the end Of what Jan knew in them.
After that. like searchers in strange
places. they felt their way onward.
slowly and with caution. During the
next summer they labored through all
the books. which were In the little box
ia the corner Of the cabin.
II was Melissa who now played most
on the violin. One day she looked
curiously into the F-hole Of the in
strument. and her pretty mouth puck
cred itself into round. red 20 OF
astonishment when Jan quickly snatch
ed the violin from her hands.
.Excrlse me. ms pretty Melissa" be
laughed at her iu French Il am 20
Ing TO pE,y you something new"
That SINE day he took the little
cloth covered roll frnrI the violin and
gave IL annfher hiding place.
Every fiber of his heing sang in joy