Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-17
CHAPTER II-tcontInuedl.

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HJTTHAT have you got in your head7
w These white people have been max
ins a fool of you"
II remember better today than ever
remembered before. l am different.
was child; but today manhood mas
come. Father, what is danphin?"
The chief made no answer.
what is a temple? Is It a church'
like ours at St. Regis2'
ASK the priest"
..Do YOU know what Bourbon is, father
particularly Bourbon earE
Nothing that concerns you,
.But how could I have n Bourbon ear
II Il didn't concern meT'
f'who said you had such an ear"
Madame de Ferrier."
The chief grunted.
''At least she told De Chaumont," i
repeated exactly, 81 was the boy she saw
in London, that her father said had all
the traits OF the Bourbons. Where Is
<London?"
The chief padded without replying:
Finding him so ignorant on all points OF
conversation, or so determined to put me
down. gazed while at our shadow
gliding in the water. and then began
again.
s'Father do you happen to know who
Bonaparte is?"
This time he answered.
"Bonaparte Is a great soldier"
rs he a white man or an Indian?'
"He Is n Frenchman."
I medltated on the Frenchmen ] dlnly
remembered about st. Regis. They were
underslzed fellows, very apt to weep when
their emotions were stirred. l Gould
whip them all.
did he ever come to st. Regis2"
The chief again grunted.
''Does France come TO st. Regis7" he
retorted with an impatient question.
what Is France. father?"
"a country"
''Shall we ever go there to hunt2"
''shail We ever go the other side OF the
sunrise to hunt? France Is the other side
OF the sunrise. Talk to the squaws,"
Though rebuked. determined to do II
II any information could be got out Of
them. The desire to know things was
consuming, l had the belated feeling of
one who walked to conaciousness late In
life and found the world had run away
from him. The camp seemed strange. as
II had been gone many years, but every
object was so wonderfully distinct.
My mother Marianne fed me. and when
lay down dizzy In the bunk. covered
me. The family must have thought Il
was natural sleep. But II was faint
ing collapse, which took me more than
a
on the head, when my faculties were
most needed. Whether this was caused
by the plunge upon the rock or the dim
life from which / had emerged, I do not
know.
One moment I saw the children and
mothers from the neighboring lodges,
more Interested than my own mother;
our smoky rafters, and the fre pit in
the centre OF unhoored ground: my clothes
= fha L. a
with his nose In the kettle And then,
as II had been the night before, / walked
after many hours.
BY that time the family breathing
sawed the air within the walls, and a
fine starlight showed through the open
door, Tor We had no window. Outside the
oak trees were pattering their leaves like
rain. reminding me OF our cool spring
IN the aoods Ny bandaged head was
very hot, in that dark lair OF animals
where the log hunks stretched and deep
sned shadow.
II skenedonk had been there would
have asked him to bring me water, with
eenndenee IN his natural service. The
chiefs family was a large one, but not
one OF my brothers and Sisters seemed
as near 10 me as Skenedonk The apathy
Of fraternal attachment never caused me
any pain. The whole tribe was held dear.
] stripped on Doctor Chantry's unen-
durable bandages. and put on my clothes.
for there were hrambles along the path.
The lodges and the dogs were stiIl. and
crept Ike a hunter after game. 10
avoid waking them Our village was an
Irregular camp. each house standing
where its owner had pleased 10 build
L on the lake shore Behind It the black
ness Of wooded wilderness seemed TO
stretch to the end OF the world
The spring made a distinct finlSie In
the rush of low sound through the forest
rank night aweetness 81 minta ana
ether lush plants mixed It's spirit with tie
body Ql leaf eaflh ! felt happy In being
part q ail thla. and the woods were
e me aa safe aa the bed chamber OF 4
mother Il was ane 10 walloU. dammina
the span of escaping water with nv
leFered head. Physical relief ana az
Heiqss shuddering coolness ran through
me
Prom thai vet pillow / looked up ana
thought again of what had happened tbat
e23 ana particularly of the eiri wbon,
fe ltauncnt had called Madame AZ Fer-
r|af 1nd Eagle. Every word that 80
azd snQksn passed aE2ln before iHy mini
Easa4 4itIss that 4 had never imagined
saFol oaz lrQm my recumbent body a.
lfam the hub q vast wheel uas
Hhita' was not an Indian had 4
a7arhQr ear she believed Was a
surtin tnaf SAG g dalphin. that she
Halt sake asH azen 1IaIaanla 10
zau Ehf cHIef recommending
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