Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-08-13

to the stranger with the same air Of
entire pleasure and hospitality.
MY nephew's friend is welcome at
Roanoke house." he said, and Francois.
with his few words of English. UNDER
stood enough to be warmed to h
soul at his first contact with southern
hospitality.
ut - my uncle, Colonel Hampton"
Harry's voice was explaining.
They would not hea Of his going to
Carnifax-not for days, not for q
month: why should he go at all?--
be only a year or two in Virginia, why
trouble to set up housekeeping alone in
that big house, when Roanoke house
was here and in order, n only too
glad to keep him. So Francois for a
week or two stayed. And found him
Hampton, his boyish ambition for adj
venture and daring denied every err
sonal outlet, because Of that accident
in ~babyhood which had started him in
life hopelessly lame, was as proud Of
his salvage from he Austrian bird Of
his own. Much more frankly proud, for
he could talk about 1t, and did. Alike
had told him a great deal, and the
episode of the headlong rescue OF
Prince Louis Napoleon, the capture and
imprisonment and final theatrical es-
cape, went like wild fire, about the
countryside, and stirred all the ro-
nance of the Warm-blooded southern
ers. Every house wanted the hero to
break bread, n under young Harry's
proud wing Francois went gladly to
meet all these friends Of his friend. As
the general had said. years ago.. his
simplicity struck the finest note Of So
phisticated high breeding; moreover,
he had lived with high-bred people in
more than one country; the aristocrats
of Virginia We're delighted with his
young nobleman, as they thought him
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 uneXpectedness in the
turns of his rapidly increasing English.
Francois accepted the title of Chew
alier. which Alike had given him in
speaking to Henry Hampton, and
which Henry Hampton used in intro
ducing him to the noblesse of the
south, partly because he believed it
like French vanity in him. He had no
thought Of claiming a social position
not his own; no thought hat u social
position might count with these hos
pitable new friends. Names known in
American history were spoken at the
1lllC LdOi0 VI IllOoO odyS III VII ~
eft is the Chevalier Beaupre. Mr..
Clay" Lucy Hampton answered a ques-
ton from a tall man with a great
domed head.
She was placed lex him at a dinner
at Martins Brandon, the old home of
the Harrisons. THE young man with
the band Of white in his hair-it is the
Chevalier Beaupre-of France. He
is staying at Roanoke" And she went
on eagerly to give a quick summary
Of the history of this stranger, whose
personality attracted the interest OF
so distinguished a person. AS she
talked. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, bend
ing to listen to her sliding speech,
watched, under his deep brow, the
man across the table.
TT is a good cal Of history for a
man of g." Clay considered, and with
that his resonant assured voice lifted
across the talk Of the dinner table.
~"Chevalier Beaupre!"
Francois turned swiftly and his great
dark eyes met the piercing look of the
great statesman. 'Mais Out, Monsieur
= dropped IA into his own tongue at
a sudden touch, always.