Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-11-14
But some thieving villains toLo :,

Norglo, the craytish seller-as big a
villain as is unhung, pardoned bv tbe
PRESIDENT And do you think he will
trouble himself to step off the ban.
quette when gentlemen come by. when
ne knows that half of Louisiana has
come to think of Jean Lafitte as more
patriot than pirate?
Hum-hum," unused the placid
mayor; "some maintain that he
saved the city in 1915. Eth, my dear
consul but we are very good friends
noW' are we not? Hum-hum-and
mere comes Monsieur Dominique. who
ought to know something about this
idle gossip of LATTE"
Nudge, the banker, bowed stifly TO
the portly alderman; Langhorne. with
froWn-there were some fastidious
gentry who did not care for equality
with the pardoned and Falstaffian
ouccaneer. The mayor turned slyly
to him.
An, Monsieur Dominiquei The
gentlemen ask of a matter upon which
you might enlighten us. Laftte's re-
puted return ~
The councillor raised a fat hand.
And If 1t were true, rue Royale
would be ribboned to welcome him.
do believes"
Inc respectable banker shrugged.
Enough! Mr.. Langhorne, we shall
take our business to the customs!
Inc city Is trif1er's town. And this
other Jest-the sailing of the Napo-
leon ship. Mr.. Mayor, the folly leaps
and grows Sober decent merchants
entering the coffee houses are bad
gered by young roisterers to sub
scribe to the plot Napoleon! Anything
for a fanfaronade, even If it brought
England and the United States to
war!"
Langhorne, the consul, raised a
hand laughingly. "The Seraphine.
good sirs, will be well watched once
these crackbrains put her nose out the
passes His majesty is not atrembla
at this frolic!"
And with bow the two gentlemen
departed. Half square distant, the
consul turned to the banker.
Colonel Carr, sir-has me distract
ed. He brings credentials from Que
bee that l cannot ignore, and yet l
mistrust him. Styled as commits
sioner to the rebellious subjects of the
Spanish king in New Granada, he has
seemed overbusied up the Mississippi
on his way overland"
"You fear CarTs honesty? Faith,
the fellow has been too drunken to be
dangerous. And you know his brawl
with this Captain Sazarac? / should
say they are both men of mystery out
of the Northwest. The old talk of
Aaron Burr's rival republic in the Mis-
sissippi valley is revived again; but
if England is in it"
"Perdition, sir It is not so! He
who comes to Louisiana thinking to
find friction between the Yankees and
the CreoleS must be a better diplomat
than Colonel Carr, sir-if that is what
you meant"
The merchant took snuff gravely.
1--WE trust that he represents nothing
but some malicious fur-traders, sir.
Last night, l am informed, he had
Madame Pages pension in an uproar.
Starting to beat a black girl, he
wound up by striking his wife; and
then having a set-to with some I'M
known guest or caller. And the lady
who is his wife, sir-is not of mettle
to brook outrage"
'Mrs. Carr is of an old Tory family
that fed from New York IN the first
war-bitter against the American gov.
ernrnent-far more than the British
themselves. Then there is Carr's
ward"
81 had heard famous beauty, sir"
"The young gallants already are
agog for peep at her when she Is
driven on the Esplanade. But the
inflated utterly at Colonel Carr's
conduct"
"The girl is Of value to Cars
schemes, you think?"
Langhorne took his snuff absently.
"That is the question. She was of a
family that had great estates in the
islands. She Is loyal to the Carrs
through gratitude to those who saved
her life"
The merchant glanced at the clock
in the cathedral facade.
"Well, enough of this. The coffee
houses have already forgotten the at
fair of Carr and this Jadventurer Sa-
zarac."
"This week the sensation Is choos-
ing the crew under Bossiere to man
the Napoleon ship. Nothing has so
tickled the popular fancy of the
Creolesi' p
81 trust your government does not
take 1t seriously?"
The consul laughed shortly. "We
watch it, sirl The clipper may take
twoscore ATLANTIS out of the city, 70,
If the ming is made fashionablJ
enough, the Seraphine would sail with
her decks crammed by ambitious adj
mirals, commodores, captains and lieu
tnnantSi Ronanarto himself would