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THE UNCROWNED KING.
Or God or Mammon, as he serves
Straight in his goal he cuts his way.
Perhaps (111 joule \ast continent
His hand was closed but yesterday.
"Aye. yesterday," you say. "But
Death—"
Because one died is alt life done?
The uncrowned monarch never dies.
The sun hath set—there springs the sun!
Nor shall his power he the less
If in his childhood's bygone peace
The gutter cradled him, nor may
A statelier birth his strength increase.
Sli» Is. For good or ill. lie is;
And woe to those who blindly cling
Unseeing to the ancient thrones.
And reck not of the Uncrowned King!
—Clinton Dangerfield, in the Century.
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NORMANDY
By
WILLIAM R. A. WILSON L
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CHAPTER XVII .—Cox ri n V kn.
This resolute action and brave words
changed the frightened soldiers, who
came forward and begged her to com
mand them. She accepted their serv- j
ices and ordered them 10 fire the can
non, not only to prevent the savages j
from storming the walls, but also to |
warn any outlying settlers. The In-:
dians, always loath to attack a forli- .
i'ed place and not knowing the pre
cise strength of the garrison, lingered
near the edges of the clearing. She
then quieted the women and children,
and. choosing four of the former, fur
nished them with long sticks and bade
them walk up and down just inside the
palisade with the end of the stick
showing above, to deceive the enemy
into thinking them to be sentinels.
All seemed to become enthused with
her spirit. She was everywhere, one
moment encouraging the sick, another
giving directions for the defense, an
other superintending the preparation
of food for her tiny garrison. Luck
ily one of Ihe cows, escaping the In
dians, came to the gate and lowed for
admission. This was a great acquisi
tion, as she would furnish milk for the
sick and the children, and, if the siege
were prolonged, would insure a supply
of meat sufficient to last a considerable
period.
Just at sunset a canoe appeared from
the river, containing one of the farm
ers and his family, who had eluded the
redskins. Some reinforcement must
•be sent them, but Renee could prevail
upon neither of the soldiers togo, so
after leaving them at the gate she
marched boldly down to the landing
place. The savages, thinking this to
>be some ruse intended to draw them
onto an attack, remained quiet. On
the way back the boldness with which
MARCHED BOLDLY DOWN TO THE
LANDING-PLACE,
the party marched overawed them in
to thinking the garrison must be very
strong, so they gained the gate in safe
ty. Elated with the success of her au
dacious act. Renee decided to assume
the offensive and gave orders to fire
upon the enemy whenever they showed
themselves. As night fell the sky was i
overcast and threatened rain, which i
soon appetyed. Even Renee to
lose heart; only for a moment, how
ever. Summoning her force, which
now numbered six men ami boys since
the new arrival, she addressed them j
resolutely. "Kear nothing. Ood has 1
cared for us this day and will do so '
further, it we but do our part. To j
show you that I am not afraid I am i
going to mount guard myself to-night |
on one of the bastions." Then turning j
to the two soldiers and the man who
had come with his family, "You, La
Borne and Gachet, and you, Pierre |
Fontane, goto the blockhouse with the
women and children. It is the strong- |
est place. If I am taken do not sur
render, iv n though I be cut to pieces
before your eyes. If you flght well
the enemy cannot hurt you there."
She then placed the old man and the
two boys on three of ihe bastions ami
took 1 lw* fourth herself. And through j
the ram and nu ht the answering cries
of thu eon wan h reached the ears of
the hidil u savages. The place seemed
to th'-m lull 01 soldiers aud they post
poned ihe intended attack.
Affair: went on thus for a week, Ihe
t»raw- little ,< ueia» directing ami sup
porting h< r forces, giviiiK them each
a share of sleep, but taking lit lie for
l|e| elf At list the hostile.-* bet nine
Impatient .1 being thus balked of their
prey, ami 1 rout ittelr raaewsd activity
It was evldi nt that le supreme mo
men' would hooit art.ve All day they
>uUi D Ut
dry wood and piling thorn up ready to
be placed Along the outside of tho pal
isade and then ignited.
Once more Hence was called upon to
exert all of her influence to keep alive
the waning courage of the garrison.
One counselled that they all try to
slip away in the darkness, another
suggested anew his plan of assembling
in the blockhouse and perishing to
gether by exploding the magazine. To
all of these Renee presented a scorn
ful reply. "Are you men and fear to
die when you have all the means of de
fense about you? And you," she cried
to the women, "have you no faith?
Are none of the prayers we have daily
offered to avail anything? Surely le
bon Dieu would not have allowed us
to escape the destruction the rest have
met with, only to deliver us into the
hands of the enemy at last. Have
courage, mes amis! Help will yet
come."
She had scarcely spoken when one
of the boys called out that there were
six large canoes coming rapidly down
the river and that the savages were
already retiring. "It must be that the
siegtieur has heard of our plight and
has sent us help from Montreal," cried
one. Whoever it was, they were
friends. As they landed and ap
proached the fort the garrison crowd
ed about the opened gate with glad
ness to welcome their deliverers.
Renee, proud and smiling, stood
amongst them.
As the party drew near, the leader,
a young man, stepped forward. "Grace
a Dieu! We have arrived in time.
Where is your commander?"
Imagine his surprise when the figure
of a nun, wearing a man's ha! and still
holding her gun in her hands, stepped
forward with a sparkle in her eye gave
a stiff military salute, saying, "1 am
he, mon general." Then as a feeling
of unrestrainable weariness seized her
frame, "the garrison is relieved; I re
sign my post; receive my arms." She
attempted to hold out the gun to him
as he approached, but her eyes closed,
her body swayed, and she fell.
The young man sprang forward with
a glad cry of "Renee, my beloved!"
as he caught her falling figure. But
the ears of the brave defender of the
seigniory were dulled, so that she could
not hear.
CHAPTER XVIII.
DEALS MAINLY WITH A C.A.MR OP
CHANCE IN WHICH FRONTKN'AC
SHUFFLICS THE CARDS.
Tonti was welcomed by Frontcnic
with great rejoicing. The many tales
of death and disaster, industriously
circulated by I.a Salle's enemies, had
caused many moments of anxiety to
the comte's mind, and he had come to
fear lest, after all, they might be true,
and he had lost both friend and fu
ture fortune.
Accordingly after dinner, Ihe nisht
of Tonti's arrival, they drew near ihe
table, on which was laid the only map
that Frontenac possessed of the west
ern wilds. Having spread this out
carefully before him, he turned to
Tonti, saying:
"Come, mon ami, to your narrative!
I am consumed to know each step of
your perilous journey."
Then did Tonti commence and re
late in full all that had happened to
the hapless party in its wanderings,
pointing out from time to time on the
map the course of their progress.
Frontenac interrupted him often with
eager questionings, with exclamations
of rage and alarm at moments of peril,
and with chuckles of delight and roar.?
of giant laughter as he learned how
difficulties had been overcome or ene
mies duped.
"Parbleu!" he exclaimed, "a worthy
blow! And with your iron fist. A
Mohegan chief?"
"Yes, beset in the street at Montreal
by a .half score drunken Iroquois as
La Salle and I passed by. They went
too far in their tormentings and tried
to cut his ear with a hunting knife.
I could not stand it and went to his
aid. They fled, spitting out broken
teeth as they ran, leaving the Mohe
gan brave with us. He begged permis
sion to accompany us. It. is he,
Akiesko by name, who, with Pompon,
has braved the dangers of our return
to Quebec."
"That droll Pompon! His wit and
cunning must have helped you many
times."
"Certainoment! Had it not been for
him we should never have returned.
His quick eye it was that saw some
thing was amiss on Christmas eve, as
we sailed from Fort Frontenac across
the lake, and perceived the rocks the
treacherous pilot, bought with Duches
neau's gold, was driving us straight
upon. Ho it was who, following La
Salle's tracks in the snow, found him
gazing at the great falls with the as
sassin creeping close behind him, and
who fired the shot that pierced the
brain of the wretch and sent him
tumbling into the abyss as he was
about to strike our leader his death
blow. He it was, too, when on the
banks of the river of the lllini La
Salle informed us that one must re- j
main and hold the fort with the !
men, while the other two must force
their way back to Quebec for aid, that
volunteered to accompany me. 1 can '
also witness to his cunning when, our
journey eastward half completed, we
were caught by the liurons and would
have perished miserably, both he and
I and Akiesko, hud he not had tin
lucky thought of feigning madness and
leading the whole tribe a merry dance
about the village, affording us an op
portunity to escape. Ma fol! at times
I believe he holds something more
than brains within his head; niethlnks
he lias a devil! ll<- also anointed his
face that night with phosphorus paste
so thai when thu savages followed
him Into the woods he turned upon
them, his P-aiuie* all aidnw la the
dark, and they lli-d, giving him tiniu lo
rejoiu us. Then, too, the content of
hia leather pouch afforded an anti
dote to the poison La Halle had eaten
with his food, placed there by another
of the luttnuaul'a accur&ed u£>uts
€••« .mm, JUT Ul< It."
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905.
'Peste! what villainy will not that!
rascal sloop tc in order to nain his;
< 1 niih! Put how about our nobln friend ;
La Sail'?? You say you lel't liini ai, j
this point on the river of the illini, i
after buildin;; a fort you named 'Crew
ooeur?' Why rail it the Fort of the |
Breaking lie-art?"
"Ah! ninn ami, our commander
named it that, out of the depths or his
own grief an.l discouragement, after i
overcoming dangers and difficulties i
that would have turned back any other
man a dozen times, ivlon Dieu! now
that you have me upon the subject of
the friend I have learned to admire
and love as my own brother, I can tall:
all night without stopping. What
think you, after the final wreck of our
little vessel and its stores at the mouth
of the Niagara river by our unfaithful
pilot, and the desertion of a goodly
portion of his men, did he despair?
Mordioux! no. A shrug of the shoul
der, a firm pressure of the lips, a
straightening and stiffening of his
body, as though to withstand an at
tack, were all the signs of the disap
pointment he showed. His voice was
the gayest and the load upon iiis back
was the heaviest of us all as we
climbed up the steep bank and through
the snowdrifts, bearing what remained
of our supplies to a place of safety.
Treachery met him at every hand; the
very men whose burdens he had tried
to lighten and whom he had watched
and tended through sickness and
starvation turned against him, thwart
ing h's plans and crippling his re
sources. Even now, while I sit here,
he is grappling with danger and disas
ter. Is it any wonder that for such a
leader Pompon, Akiesko, and myself
gladly risked our lives to return to
Quebec for aid?
"With the eye of a general he has
planned the winning of all that great
land for the king and holy church, and
has decided upon the spot to be first
seized and held. A short distance up
the river from the point where I left
him is a giant rock, impregnable If
once securely fortified, that will serve
as the beginning of a new empire for
France, and will preserve it against
Indian and white man alike, besides
forming the center of a vast trading
<•nterpri.se. This plan, if successfully
carried out, will give us the key to the
whole situation. Ah! Oielo! M. le
Oottverneur, if you do not give me aid.
and that soon, his great heart will
break. When final disappointment
comes to natures such as his, there is
no other end."
Tonti spoke with feeling as he leaned
toward Front:man in his earnestness.
"Bravo!" cried the Comte, and his
huge hand came down with a clasp up
on Tonti's as it rested on the table.
"You do not disappoint my first esti
mate of you. You are indeed a worthy
associate for the courageous La Salle.
With a score of men like you two, I
could conquer and hold the entire now
world."
Thus they talked and planned to
meet the great demands that the emer
gency required for the successful is
sue of the great enterprise until day
dawned. And as lliey strove, the pa
tient heart of their comrade alone in
the wilderness with a handful of mu
tinous men yearned for the succor so
desperately needed, and his eyes be
held above the forest tree-tops the
breaking of another day of hope and
endeavor undismayed.
Meanwhile Renee was welcomed
heartily by the nuns, who attributed
the intense nervous excitement under
which she was laboring to the dan
gers to which she had so recently been
exposed. She quickly sought solitude
in order to think out some plan of ac
tion. She had learned from one of the
women standing by all that had oc
curred at the gate of the seigniory aft
er she had fainted, and her heart was
filled with rage and shame. The poi
soned lie told by Madame Bizard had
done its work. Tonti, the ideal, the
hero; Tonti, the gallant and brave;
Tonti, the fairy prince, the possible
lover the chance of meeting whom had
rendered her exile bearable, was de
throned, and she saw in him only an
ordinary man, impure, base, deceiv
ing, an enemy to be avoided. Although
no words of love had passed between
them, yet the remembrance of the
budding passion that she had recog
nized within her breast scorched her
brain anew. As long as he was far dis
tant she had been able to try bravely
to overcome her disappointment, hut
his proximity had aroused within her
a sense of danger and a desire to fiee
Banished from her home through a
peril she could not combat, she found
herself surrounded by fresh hazards.
She had fled to the convent fo escape
the Comte tie Miron, and now like a
hunted animal she sought a new refuge
as another enemy appeared in view.
The rumored presence of the es
caped comte as leader of a band of the
murderous Iroquois rendered her tin- '
safe except while under the direct
protection of Frontenac. The arrival :
of Tonti, whom her unsettled imaglna- <
tion pictured to her as having aban
doned liis comrades in the wilderness,
was a menace even under the shelter- 1
ing walls of the fort.
That night Kho attended a meeting !
of all the ntinn and heard a lett«r read •
from one of tho priests at Michlli
mackinac brought by a messenger who 1
hail Joined Tonti at Fort Fronlena.;, t
in which was depicted the pitiful con
dition i* tho Indians and whites who
were suffering from an epidemic of
smallpox, and Imploring tho aid of <
two ii'ir. <. to .i • the time already j I
there. The tin -tage, frank though It ' i
wan in r> latiiig the hardship and dan- I
'er Inevitable to ono responding tu i t
this Macedonian cry for help, cttmu to i
her a the trumpet-call to duty as well ( ,
a» au avenue of escape. The superior i
announet.il that they would bf able to i
spare but one nun for the work, ami 1 i
would apptul to the domiees for a vol- i
uutior (o a< ei/mpany her. Only one ,
r» ponded. It wan Itenee, who KruM j I
and offered le r.n-lt for the st-rvle#. > •
tibu UuirKuly Mought Front'nau tho <
! n«xt morning to obtain his consent.
, She found liini busily engaged at his
i desk, biit he brushed everything aside
| as she entered and aro3e to meet
i with a smile.
"Bon jour, ma chore mademoiselle,"
| lie exclaimed. "I am relieved at. having
you back once more; undi r my eye. I
was wrong to expose you to the peril
that you have so fortunately escaped,
j 1 promise you I shall he more careful
' in the future and shall keep you safe
beneath the guns of Quebec anil allow
no more pilgrimages into the wilder
ness."
"Pardon 1110. my protector, if I seem
wilful," responded Itenee. "but I have
one boon to ask of you that you must
grant or i die," and she fell upon her
knees, stretching forth her hands ap
peal ingly.
"Ma foil my fair petitioner, it would
ill become my strength to refuse aught
tf> one in such extremity. But come,"
he continued In a kindly tone, as he
raised her, and leading her to a chair,
insisted on her being seated. "Tell me
of your troubles, for that you are in
great distress I can well see. Remem
ber I am devoted to your interest, and
you may need an older head to solve
some of your problems."
The fatherly note in his voice, his
gentle insistance, came as an infinite
relief to Renee's troubled mind. Here
was strength for her weakness, coun
sel- for her perplexity. The extreme
tension she had been under rendered
her woman's heart susceptible to these
kindly words, and she buried her face
in her hands and wept violently.
Frdntenac drew his chair near and
strove to quiet, her with compassionate
words and light stroking of her hair,
as a father would comfort an unhappy
child. Gradually the sobs ceased, and
Renee told him of her decision.
"Men Dieu!" he exclaimed in aston
ishment, "leave tlie security of the fort
for the thousand perils of the wilder
ness? Impossible! It would be the
rankest folly."
[To Be Continued. 1
Tilt* Itlfilli Thiiiji;.
"A village client of mine had been
trying through me for seven years to
collect a claim against the govern
ment," said the lawyer, "and at last
t lie claim was allowed and 1 received
aeheckfor SS,OOO. As the man was poor,
I knew that this would be a great wind
fall for him, and it was with consider
able exultation that I put, the check in
my pocket and started for the house.
Tiie man himself was away somewhere,
but as his wife answered my knock, I
showed her the check and called out:
" 'At last, Mrs. Davis —at last!'
"'What is it?' she asked.
" 'The claim has been allowed, and
hero is a check for $8,000.'
" 'Yes, I see,' she answered, 'but
please don't talk quite so loud or you
will wake the baby up!'"—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Secret ol' liit|»|»iiieitn.
The man who can drill his thoughts
so as to shut out everything that is
depressing .and discouraging and see
only the bright side even of his mis
fortunes and failures, has mastered
the secret of happiness and success.
He has made himself a magnet to draw
friends,cheer, brightness, and good for
tune to him. Every one is pleased to
meet him. His presence is like a sun
beam 011 a dull day. There is no accom
plishment, no touch of culture, no gift
which will add so much to the al
chemic power of life as the optimistic
habit —the determination to be cheer
ful and happy no matter what comes
to us. It. will smooth rough paths,
light up gloomy places, and melt away
obstacles as the sunshine melts snow
on the mountain side. —O. S. Marden,
in Success Magazine.
Wild the Kcul Dad Man.
Prof. O. L. Waller, the government's
irrigation expert, has traveled over
almost every foot of American soil,
and in this way lias gathered together
many reminiscences of odd places and
odd persons.
"A vanishing type," said Prof. Wal
ler recently, "is the bad man of the
middle west. We rarely meet with
him now. He is almost extinct
"It was some years ago that I came
upon my last bad mam He sat on a
small stone under a tree.
"Where is your house?" I said to
him.
" 'House?' the bad man snorted. 'Do
ve think I'm 0110 o' that sort? I sleep
in the prairie. I eats raw buffalo and
I drinks out of the Mississippi."—Fuel.
I'ut'M \ islor.
Seeing no other way of earning a
livelihood, Pat look to highway rob
bery. He bought a pistol, and meet
ing a traveler, stopped him with the
correct formula, "Yer money or yer
lifs."
Soring Pr.t was ereen, the traveler,
paid: "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
give you all my money for that pbitol."
"Agreed!" replied Pat, who forth
with handed over ihe pistol and re
ceived the money In exchange.
"Now," said the traveler, "hand back
that money, or I'll blow your brains
out!"
"Blaze nway, my hearty!" replied tho
Irishman, "niver a taste o' i>owder j
there's in it."—Minneapolis Journal.
Tlie Good Old Time*.
A> cording to ono of the old Fuglish
chronicle*, royalty, in 12.'!t. had notli
in>' for a bed but a sael of straw. Even
in the time of Queen Elizabeth at least
half of the population of London slapt
on boards. Bloi ka of wood served as
pillows. The hi* ping chamber of the
queen was dally strewn with fresh
rushes. Carpi '* were unknown. Hen
ry VI. Immediately on arising teasel
off a cup of wine. Tea, eoffi e, and
chocolate were, of cnurse, unheard of
at that time. Sugar wai to be had only
In drug stores, and then by the ounoa.
Tin >n wire the sgood old tluiea. —del-
eutilie American.
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