The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-02-12

but the old Toinette, commanding
him to slavery again, and making
his blood run hot in his body.
With a group of young ladies'
from the nefghboring seigneurie,
she had come down from the big
house, and he was almost in her
path, with Peter Lubbock at his
side. 1t was Peter who advanced
a step or two toward them. Ex-
cept for his action Toinette would
not have turned, Jeems thought.
He pulled himself together and
stood with his head barred, as cold
and impressive in appearance as a
soldier at attention while his heart
beat like a hammer. Toinette had
to face him to return his COM
panion's greeting.
1t was impossible for her not to
see him when she made this move
ment. But there was sl0Wness
in her discovery, an effort to keep
from looking at him which was
more eloquent than words. It had
not been her desire to speak to
him.
Il he needed courage, it was this
enlightenment which gave it to
him. He inclined his head when
she met his gaze. Her face was
flushed, her eyes darkly aglow,
while his own cheeks bore only
the color of sun and wind. He
might never have known her, so
unmoved did he stand as she went
on her way.
She had slightly nodded, her
lips had barely formed a name.
Later, after the feast on the
green. came Tonteur's spectacular
feature of the day, military re-
view of his tenants, with wives
and children witnessing the mar
tial display. The male guests, who
had drilled in their own seign-
euries, joined Tonteur's men. Only
Henri Bulain and Jeems were not
among them. Henri, sensitive to
the fact, and to- save Catherine
from the hurt which might arise
because of it, had started with her
over the homeward trail half an
hour before. Jeems had remained
This was his answer to TOinette's
contempt-that he was not of her
people, that his world was not cir.
cumscribed by the petty boun-
daries of the seigneurie. He stood
with his long rifle in the crook OF
his arm, conscious that she was
looking at him, and the invisible
shafts from her eyes, poisoned
with their disdain, stirred hin
with the thrill of a painful tri
umph. He could almost hear hel
calling him an English beast again
A coward. One to be distrustet
and watched. He did not sense
humiliation or regret, but only 6
final widening of what had always
lain between them.
He bore this feeling home will
him. 1t grew as time went on, an(
with its growth an increasing rest
lessness came over him. News
creeping through the wilderness:
and reaching every corner, like thu
whispering winds, kept an un
quenchable heat under the ash O
these fires, tanning the embers in
to flame in spite of him. Secret,
were no longer secrets. Rumor.
had grown into facts. Fears hat
become realities. England ant
France were still playing at peac,
in their mighty courts. In tn,
sunlight they were friends, in tn,
dark they were seeking eacl
others lives like common cut
throats.
And the thirteen little Colonia
governments of the English, quar-
reling like small boys among them
selves, just beginning to wall
alone, feeling the significance 0
the new word American, cheate,
by their parent, laughed at b.
their parent. hated by their PAL
ent, still yearned for the love Q
that parent as children hav
wanted love from the beginnin
of time, and were loyal to it.
SO tragedy began to move, t
build out of death, out of betraye
confidence, out of dshonor an
fraud and pitiless murder tn
American and Canadian nations @
the future.
Eighty thousand French an
more than a million English in tn
New world made ready for tn
sacrifice. Massachusetts enliste
one man out of eight of her NAL
population. Connecticut, NeV
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Ne,
York, and the others followed he
example.
Children, loyal, proud to fight
and hating the French ferociously
Then came Braddock, precedin
Wolfe, to call them "worthles
trash"
And New France, a glory of su
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prosperity by corruptions brougt
from Louis and La Pompadou
sent out her own sons to fight an
kill, valiant, glad, confdent-an
hating the English implacablyl
With them. on both sides, wer
Indians from almost a hundre
tribes-red men who had ono
found honor in fighting, but VIII
now skulking and murderous an
vengeful, found their souls
pawn to the great White Father
across the sea who had prostitute
them with whisky, bought the
with guns, maddened them wit
hatreds, and who paid them #
human hair.
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