Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-29

OF eiRnt or ner MAZE population. Con-
necicut. New Hampshire, Rhode
Island. New York, and the others fol-
lowed her example.
Children, loyal, proud to nght-and
hating the French ferociouslyl
Then came Braddock, preceding
Wolfe. to call them worthless trash"
And New France, a glory OF sun and
land even now Quilted OF her pros
perfty by corruptions brought from
Louis and La Pompadour. sent out her
own sons to fight and kill. valiant,
glad, confdent-and hating the Eng
llsh implacably!
With them. on both sides. went In
dians from almost hundred tribes
red men who had once found honor
In fighting, but who. bow skulking and
murder0us and sengeful. found their
souls In pawn TO the great White
Fathers across the sen who had pros.
tituted them with whisky. bought them
with guns. maddened them with
hatreds. and who paid them for hui
! man hair.
OF these things Jeems was thinking
/ as winter grew Into spring and spring
! Into summer Only love held him
from leaplng to the temptations which
were drawing closer about him, love
| for his mother whose happiness
marked the beginning and the end of
all action Oh the part OF her men
| 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 his acquaint-
] ances at the Tonteur seigneurie had al
ready gone to fight Braddock, when
| the forests tremhed at the stealthy
tread OF painted savages. and when
the Frenchman who did not rise to
his country's call was no longer 4
| 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 a
host OF three thousand five hundred
men and made forever hallowed
ground OF the Tonteur seigneurie bv
camping there overnight.
When she knew they we're coming.
Catherine had said.
IF Your hearts tell YOU il Is right,
60 with them -
But they remained. For Henri 1t
was struggle greater than Dieskau
| fought, greater than that In which
| Braddock died For Teems 1t was less
torment and more the mysterious
madness OF youth to tramp to the
clash OF arms. For Catherine ii was
the gehenna Of her life. siege OF
darkness and uncertainty in her soul
which gave way suddenly before news
which swept like a whrlwind over the
land
God had been with New Francei
Braddock and his English invaders
were destroyed
No triumph OF French arms In the
New world had been 80 complete, and
Dleskau. 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.
Tonieur 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
Dieskan 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.
Even Tolnette had wanted to go
This recalled an important matter
to his mind. Tolnette had entrusted
him with letter for Jeems. Boiling
over with his own selfish Civilizations
he had forgotten II. He hoped 1t was
an invitation for Jeems to come to
the seigneurie. He had often told
his girl she should be more friendly
with the lad.
Jeems took the letter and went of
by himself 1t was the first recognl-
ton from Toinette since the day OF
the levee. He had not seen her and
had tried not to think OF her. Alone.
ne read the words she had written
him.
With pitiless coldness and breyty.
they called him a renegade and
coward.
Ito be continued)