Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1922-08-10

AklE was gone and Damn!
ssIkNNdVai9 was inconsolable. He wan
lASHskj dered alone in the forest
WV ~"~ day after day and mournet
for the loss of his best loved compan.
ion. The boys of the village were sor-
ry for him and tried to get him to joir
in THEN sports, but he had little heart
for it now. All in the village pitieC
Ganoussi, for they knew how he al
Aholaha had clung together like bro
ther and sister, and they thought il
was too bad that they should be Sc
suddenly separated. Marie's old squaW
mother seemed to miss her very much
too, and evidently thought she hao
done wrong to sell her to the French.
man.
Meanwhile Marie was becoming ac.
customed to the circumstances of hel
life at the trading post There were
several log buildings around a quad.
rangle, enclosed by strong stockade
One of them served as the dwelling OF
the trader and his wife, a half breed
Indian woman, who received and treat.
ed Marie kindly. There were no Other
children there and both the trader and
his wife seemed ready to lavish all
their affection on the child who had
been bought from the Indians. Old
Dinah, too, could not do enough to full
fill her promise that she would take
good care of her, and the men who
were employed by the trader were al
ways ready to do all they could for the
winsome favorite of the household
With new and comfortable clothing
more suited to the cold that was in
creasing, and some little ornaments
that had been given her, she went
about the house and premises admired
and pettcd by one and all of her new
associates, and was gradually becom.
ing reconciled to the change in her cir.
cumstances.
One thing alone made her sorrowfu
at times. Dannie was not there, ant
when she thought of him the tears
would start, and she would long to &c
back to the Indian village. Nor hat
she forgotten her parents and brothers
and sisters at the old home from which
she had been carried away bv the In.
dians, and often wondered how they
mirht be faring. and whether she
would ever see them again. At sucl
tines the traders wife, who had made
he, tell the story of her capture, an,
felt verv sorry for her, would tly tt
comfort her and seek to divert her b,
taking her outside of the stockade into
the forest o. down to the bank of the
river at the foot of the hill on which
the trading-post was situated. but al
ways accompanied bv the trader him
self or one of his men with a gun
There was a canoe on the river, whicl
thew sometimes took and paddle,
ABOUT 1Of 0Wnllc lleN never ven
tured to remain long outside of tht
stockade.
Inside there were manv things t,
interest her. The trader liked to shov
her the various goods in his warehous
and to give her such little articles a!
he Thought would please her. His wifi.
taught her to make bead-work. ant
thew often sat together at the door O
the loo house working. and watchirs
tho men as thew went to and flo a
their work One of them was a Ger
man from PENNSYLVANIA. and as Ma
rios narents were Germans she coul,
talk with him in that language whicl
nle.ced hin, mipbt;lv He fold her hi
name was Johann and often took he
with him when he took the horses t,
the river TO water them, and would le