White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-02-19

parent, still yearned for the love Of
that parent as children have wanted
love from the beginning Of time, and
were loyal to it.
So tragedy began to move, to build
out of death, out Of betrayed conf
dence, out of dishonor and fraud and
pitiless murder the American and
Canadian nations of the future.
Eighty thousand French and more
than million English in the New
world made ready for the sacrifice
Massachusetts enlisted one man out
of eight of her male population. Con.
necticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, New York. and the others fol.
lowed her example.
Children, loyal, proud to fght-and
hating the French ferociously!
Then came Braddock. preceding
Wolfe, to call them worthless trash.
And New France, glory Of sun and
land even now Quilted Of her pros.
perity by corruptions brought from
Louis and La Pompadour, sent out her
own sons to fight and kill, valiant
glad, confident-and hating the Eng
lish implacably!
With them, on both sides, went In
dams from almost hundred tribes
red men who had once found honor
in fighting, but who, now skulking and
murderous and vengeful, found their
souls in pawn to the great White
Fathers across the sea who had pros.
tituted them with whisky, bought them
with guns, maddened them with
hatreds, and who paid them for hu.
man hair. I'D
OF these things Jeems was thinking
as winter grew into spring and spring
into summer. Only love held him
from leaping to the temptations which
were drawing closer about him, love
for his mother whose happiness
marked the beginning and the end OF
all action on the part of her meU
folk And in this hour, when three
out of four of the fighting men along
the Richelieu were preparing to join
Dieskau when half Of mis- acquaint.
! ances at the Tonteur seigneurie had al.
ready gone to fight Braddock, when
the forests trembled at the stealthy
tread of painted savages, and when
the Frenchman who did not rise ia
his country's call was no longer
Frenchman, Jeems observed that the
strain upon his father was more diff
cult to bear than his own. For Henri
in spite of his worship Of Catherine.
was Of New France to the bottom OF
his soul, and now that other men
were making bulwark Of their bodies
against her enemies, his own desire to
make the same sacrifice was almost
beyond the power Of his strong will
to control. In their years of comrade
ship, Jeems and his father had never
come so near to each other as in these
weeks Of tension.
Almost as painful to them as the
sting Of wound was the day when
| Dieskau came up the Richelieu with q
host of three thousand five hundred
men and made forever hallowed
| ground Of the Tonteur seigneurie by
camping there overnight.
When she knew they were coming,
Catherine had said:
IF your hearts tell you 1t Is right
go with them!"
But they remained. For Henri II
was a struggle greater than Dieskau
fought, greater than that in which
Braddock died. For Jeems it was less
torment and more the mysterious
madness of youth to tramp to the
clash of arms. For Catherine it was
the gehenna Of her life, siege OF
darkness and uncertainty in her soul
which gave way suddenly before news
which swept like whirlwind over the
land. -o
God had been with New France!
Braddock and his English invaders
were destroyed!
No triumph Of French arms in the
New world had been so complete, and
Dieskau, the great German baron who
was fighting for France, moved south.
ward to crush Sir William Johnson
and his Colonials and Indians, plan
ming not to stop until he had driven
them to the doors Of Albany.
With him were six hundred and
eighty-four of the loyal men who were
beginning to call themselves Cana
dams.
Tonteur rode over to bring the news
to Henri Bulain. To Catherine he re-
called his prediction that the English
would never get into this paradise Of
theirs. Now the whole thing was set
tied for many years to come, for
Dieskau would sweep their last enemy
from the Champlain country as COM
pletely as a new broom swept her
home. He had sent almost every man
he had to the scene of fighting, and
only his wooden leg had kept him
from joining Dieskau.
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