The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1914-05-14

bend in the stream, and as they turned
it the large silvery green slope OF the
lawn lay before them. with its long
wharf and barges lying at the water
side. and a ship unloading its return
cargo from England.
at is the Sea Lady" called young
Hampton She is in before us-and
she sailed so long after.
He made q quick movement forward
with hts pathetic broken step-for this
only son of the Hampton family was a
cripple
There We're people gathering on the
lawn. negroes drawn up in line. the
women in ght-colored turbans. men
and women both showing white teeth
as they grlnned with the pleasure and
the excitement Of watching the ship
come in. Then a white light figure
ran down the broad greenness. and a
girl stood, golden curls on her shout
ders. straw hat with blue ribbons
/ tying down some of the golden curls,
but not all-stood and watched and
waved an eager friendly hand
1t Is ny cousin Lucy Harry
/ Hampton said. and Francois. looking
at him. saw his eyes fixed on her in
/ tently.
In few minutes more. leaving the
/ ship with his hating careful step,
i Francois saw him kiss her cousinly-
yet II seemed not altogether cousinly
and with that he was saying word
about My new friend. the Ghevalier
Beaupre," and the girls quick hand
clasp and the warm welcome in her
voice OF honey, made Francois feel as
II place in her friendship had been
waiting for him always.
Then. from back OF her. from some
where, lowered suddenly a tall man,
with large features. and first seized
/ Harry Hamptons hand and then
turned TO the stranger with the same
air OF entire pleasure and hospitality.
My nephews friend Is welcome at
Roanoke house" he said, and Francois,
i with his few words OF English. under
stood enough 10 be warmed 10 the soul
at his first contact with southern hos
/ pitality.
1t Is my uncle. Colonel Hampton.
! Harry's voice was explaining
They would not hear OF his going TO
CarnifaX-not for days. not for a
month. why should he go at ALL
/ Colonel Hampton asked. II he were to
be only year or two In Virginia, why
trouble TO set up housekeeping alone
i In that big house, when Roanoke house
was here and in order. and only too
glad to keep him. So Francois for a
week or two stayed And found him
self, shortly, a notability. Harry Hamp-
ton. his boyish ambition for adventure
and daring denied every personal out
! let, because OF that accident in baby
hood which had started him in life
hopelessly lame, was as proud OF his
salvage from tho Austrian bird OF
prey as II Francois record had been
his own. Much more frankly proud for
he could talk about It. and did Alike
had told him great deal, and the
episode OF the headlong rescue OF
Prince Louis Napoleon. the capture
and imprisonment and final theatrical
escape, went Ike wild-tire about the
! countryside. and stirred all the TO
nance OF the warm -blooded southern
| ers Every house wanted the hero 10
break bread, and under young Harry ;
proud wing Francois went gladly 10
meet all these friends OF his friend.
A. the general had said years ago.
his simplicity struck the finest note
OF sophisticated high breeding, more
over. he had lived with high bred
people in more than one country, the
aristocrats OF Virginia were delighted
/ with his young nobleman as they
thought him-with his charm Of man
ner and his stirring history. with the
| lines OF suffering still in his thin face
/ and the broad lock OF gray-the badge
OF that suffering-in his dark hair,
with the quaint foreign accent too. and
| the uuexpectedness in the turns OF
his rapidly increasing English
And now he had left Roanoke. and
Was living in the great old house on
i Pietro's land. the old house which had
| been lived in hundred years before
| Pietro's father had bought It, the old
house In which grandchildren OF Pie
tro live today.
Something In his odd broken Eng
! fish. something in his vivacity and en-
ergy. something In the warmth OF the
! heart which the poor souls felt in
/ him-none quicker than negroes 10
| feel heart-fascinated the slaves
who fell to his unsccustomed manage
ment He had met Henry Clay and
| the proud aristocrats OF Virginia as
men and women. and given them the
best of himself he met these thick
| Tipped. dim-souled black people no
otherwise. and gave them the same.
/ BY the crystal truth in him the first
/ had been vanquished and 1t happened
not differently with these other human
| beings Pietro's mishandled property
grew orderly month by month: Fran.
co.'s. in the saddle most of the time,
riding from end TO end OF the planta-
ton. found his hands full and his work
| interesting, and his health and