The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-08-13

to the stranger with the same air c<
entire pleasure and hospitality.
MY nephews friend il welcome at
Roanoke house." he said, and Francois,
with his few words OF English, under
stood enough to be warmed 70 the
soul az his first contact with southern
1T is my uncle. Colonel Hampton"
Harrys voice was explaining.
They would not hear OF his going to
Carnifax-not for days, not for q
month; why should he 60 at all?--
be only year or two In Virginia, why
trouble to set UP housekeeping alone In
that big house, when Roanoke house
was here and I'm order, and only too
glad TO keep him. So francois for q
week or two stayed. And found him
Hampton. his boyish ambition for adj
venture and daring denied every per-
sonal outlet. because Of that accident
in babyhood which had started him In
life hopeIessiy lame. was as proud OF
his salvage from the Austrian bird Of
prey as II Francois record had been
his own. Much more frankly proud, for
he could talk about II. and did. Alike
had told him great deal and the
episode or 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-b looded southern
ers. Every house wanted the hero 20
break bread, and 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 were delighted with his
young nobleman, as they thought him
with his charm OF manner and his
stirring history with the lines OF
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
aIier, which Alike had given him In
speaking to Henry Hampton, and
which Henry Hampton used In intro
ducing him TO the noblesse or the
south, partly because he believed 1t
his. partly because IL pleased the child
like French vanity in him. He had no
thought OF claiming q social position
not his own. no thought that q social
position might count with these hos
pftable new friends. Names known in
American history were spoken at the
dinner table OF those days in virginia
TT is the Chevalier Beaupre, Mr.
Clay" Lucy Hampton answered q ques-
ton from q tall man with great
domed head.
She was placed next 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.
1T Is a good deal 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. MATS oui, Monsieur"
- dropped back into his own tongue at
sudden touch, always.