Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-06
opyrisht BY the BoSbs-Nsrrm Company
BOOK 1II-ARRIvINa.


LvvEN when year had passed said OF
IL my escape from the Tuiieries; IN
was dream. How could It have hap
penedf' For the adventures Of my wan
terins fell from me like a garment, leav-
ing the one changeless passion.
skenedonk and / met on the ship a
New England minister, who tssked upon
and considered US from day 70 day.
used to cit In the stern, the miles stretch
ing me a. rack stretches flesh and ten
dons. The minister regarded me as pros
trsted by the spider bite OF that wicked
Paris, out OF which he learned 1 had
come, by talking TO my Oneida.
What are you going to do now. Flea
Ear7" he inquired.
Hugging my old dream TO myself. feel
ing my heart leap toward that western
man as long as there remain any western
lands to possess. -old him intended 10
educate our Iroquois as soon as / could
prepare myself to do II. and settle them
whore they could grow into a greater
nation.
The man OF God kindled in the face.
He was a dark-eyed, square-browed, seri-
Gus man, with black hair falling below
his white band. His mouth had a sweet,
benign expression. even when he quizzed
me- about my dauphinhood. A New Eng
land pastor was fame that burned for
the enlightenment OF the nations From
that hour II was settled that / should be
his pupil. and go with him to Long
meadow to finish my education.
When we landed he helped me to sell
BY Babyionish clothes. except the white
court dress, TO which / clung with tenac-
ity displeasing TO him, and garb myself
IN more BETTING rament. By Skenedonk's s
hand / sent some Of the remaining gold
coins to my mother Marianne and the
chief. when he reioined the tribe and
went TO pass the winter at st. Regis.
And by no means did / forget to tell him
20 bring me letters from De Chaumont's 8
manor in the spring, IL any arrived there
.Jsor me.
threw myself into books as I had
done during my first months at De Chau-
mont's. before / grew TO think of Madame
de Ferrier. One of those seven years |
spent at Dartmouth. But the greater part
OF my knowledge owe to Pastor Storrs.
Greek and Hebrew he gave me to add TO
the languages ] was beginning to own;
and he unlocked all his accumulations OF
learning. IL was a monks life that /
lived; austere and without incident but
bracing as the air OF the hills. The whole
system was monastic, though abomina-
tion aiighted on that word in Longmea-
dow. took the discipline into my blood.
II will go down TO those after me.
There a man had TO walk with God
whether he wanted to or not.
The autumn that / came to Longmea-
dow Napoleon Bonaparte was beaten on
the sea by the English. but won the bat
tie Of Austerlitz. defeating the Russian
coalition and changing the map of Eu-
rope
felt sometimes puppet while this man
played hts great part. II was no COM
fort that others OF my house were nothing
10 France. Though did not see Louis
Philippe again, he wandered In America
two or three years and went back to
privacy.
skenedonk came and went. and 1 made
. lurneys TO my people with him. But
'e ere was never any letter waiting at De
Iced. the count having returned TO Cas-
7torisnd. 20 occupy HE new manor at lie
HayvilIe, the mansion had known was
lkorn down and the stone converted to
other uses skenedonk brought me word
early that Mademoiselle de chaumont had
been married to an officer of the Empire,
and would remain In France.
The door between my past and me was
sealed. Madame De Ferrier stood on the
other side OF II. and no news from her
penetrated It's dense barrier. i tried to
write letters TO her. But nothing that
could write was fit 10 send. and knew
not whether she was yet at Mont-Louls
Forever she was holding the door against
me.
skensdonk. coming and going at his
caprice stayed a month In every year at
Longmeadow. where the townspeopie,
having had a surfelt OF aboriginal names,
called him John. He raised no objection,
fer that with half dozen other Christian
titles had been bestowed on him In bap-
tism; and he entered the godly list OF
Williamses as John Williams.
49,
Europe. II ceased when / returned from
France. Its former payment was con-
hldefed apocryphal by Longmeadow
whose very maids-too white. with a pink
SPOT In each cheelk-smlled with reserved
amusement at a student who thought II
possible he could ever be q king. / spoke
10 nobody but Pastor 6torrs about INV
oun eonfictions. But local newsnaners
with their omnisclent grip on what Il In
the ar, banded with the subject back
and forth.
never attempted TO prove anything
more 70 Pastor storra II would have
-er most unfratefuI 20 persuade him 4
- an alien. Al the same time he proph-
- hts hopes Of me. and many a iudi-
.<<us person blamed him for treating me
~ something out Of the ordinary, and
cpfkerinH pp pride.
IL I-enemsadow a man could not help
D<4r<IfinE ar6ument. also practlced
1f~I>f< Ana All the time practiced the
p<4oir tongue as well a. Enslish and
2<<u<n. and began the translation of
=. o<< into the LANGUAGE Of the nation
p <+<t 20 build That Indians made nn-
>1ru't material Tor the white man 70
'"@utI< 4 would not believe skenedonk
49, u9t unstable. His faithfulness was
ID rock
tboa the time that the wisconsin
@t4rIFf rae included IN Illinois Terri
tory decided 20 write letter 10
<ia1amf Tank a. 3reen Bay and lnslsi
~ knowing ny story as she believed
Gle knew a. 1 found Afterwards that
fH<|< Vas no poaIoffIee 81 Green Bay
|@I||Ef' sent by the o1Icefn of the fort
||1 f|''k4eI@| brought mail from K lease
|4 H|H # N.II4r fII1a afI1sa
e |'sFeI.t. k1d HlT blankets ana pro-