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PAGE SIX
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
"Very true; his lordship had all rhe"
lbarrels of his regiment darkened, and
• what good came Of ft? You can see
ihis'seuacheten 'hanging in the English
oharch at Albony. No, no, my worthy
friend, a soldier should be ase}1dier,
and at no tittle ought he to be .sham-
ed. or afraid. to earry about the signs
and symbols ai his honourable trade.
Had you much.disaturse with !Mahe?,
:r^athfinder, as roar came along in the
canoe?"
• "There. •w'as not emelt sepport',tnity.
Sergeant. acid then I found. myself
mtu.h ineneath her in idees. that I was
afraid to speak of nisch beyond -what
nei,.nge.I ::] sty own aiftn "
"Therein you ere tartly right an i
partly wrong, my friend. Women love
to- ha:e most .. it to themselves. Naw
vara -kno.w I'm a -man :hat do not
loo -;en my tongue at every Giddy
thought: and yet • there were days
when I .sada see that \tabes'. mother
thought rote the .corse of nie be -
cease i descended a little ereon my
enanhatett. I: is tae, ° was twenty-two
years yams -leer then than I ani `o -day
and, merec'ver, instead of .being the
,tides: sergeant in the regiment, I was
the youngest Dignity is commandant
and aleft:, and there is no g'letting an
without it. as respects the men: ,but
if you would be :horenahly esteemed
by a :roman, it is necessary to condes-
cend a little on occasion..,,
'AifB me, Ser eant, I sometimes
fear it will never do."
"'Why do you think so discoarag-
'.yof a -natter to Which I thought
hath our rat rads were made. up
1We did aaree, Mabel should
nrc,ve what you told me she was, and
:f the girl could fancy a rude hunter
and snide. that I slte.0?d quit some
i my wandering, ways, and try to
humanize n anize •nv hind down -t, wife and
children. But since 1 have seen the
girl. I will own that many misgivings
have come over me."
tdti-i" :nterrepte 1 the Ser.
genet sternly: "cd'f I not nide stand
vast to say that you were pleased? --
arid is !Mabel a young w eitan to dis-
appoint expection?"
'AI, Sergeant, it is not Mabel that
I :distrust, but myself. I am but a
poor ignorant woodeman. atter all;
and perhaps I'm not. an truth. as good
even you and I may think me,"
"If you doubt your own jnd.*ment
of yourself, Pathfinder, I beg you
will neat douro: mine. Am d not ac-
e:ned to judge men's character?
and ant 1 often -deceived? Ask :Major
Duncan sir, you desire any a=sur-
an."e. in :his ,arti{ttiar
"Set, Sergeant, we have long seen
friends; have fi't •-ide by side a dozen
bines, and hare done each other many
service: When this is the case. men
are apt to thick over kindly of each
ether; and I fear me that the daughter
may not the so likely to view a plain
ignorant bunter as favourably as rhe
father does,"
.'Tot:. tut, Pathfinder! you don't
kttoa yourself, man, and may put all
faith in my judgment. Ia. the first
solace you have experience; and. as ail
girls must want that, no prudent
young woman would overlook such a
eeali :cation• Then you are nat one of
the coxcombs that strut about when
they firejoin a regiment; !but a man
who .ha; seer, service, and 'who carriers
the narks of it on his person and
countenance. I daresay you !have .been
under fire some thirty or forty times,
counting all the skirmishes and am-
ibeshes yaa've seen."
"Al•l of that, Sergeant, all cf that;
bet what will it avail in gaining the
good-+wil•1. of a tender young female?"
"It will :gain•. the day. Experience in
die field is ae .stood in Iove as in war.
But you are as 'honest -hearted and as
ic.yai a .abject as the king c"an !beast
of --docs alrse.'bind"
.'Tltnt m v he too; haat I'm afrared
I'm too rude and -too old and too wild
like to suit the fancy of such a young
and delicate girt as 1•Iahal, tear, has
been unused eo oar ,wilderness ways.
-and ;nay think the settlements bet-
ter stiited ta'her _gifts and incline -
tions."
"Mhhese are neve Misgivings for you,
any friend; ..and I wonder •they :were
never paraded before."
"Because I never knew my own
worthlessness, perhaps, 'anti] 'I' saw
Melbel, I have travelled with some as
lair, and have guided them through
the forest, and seen them in their
perils and in their gladness; but they
were always too much above me to
stake pie think of them tis more than
so many feeble ones 1 -was ,bound ,to
trotect ani defend. The case is now
different. Mabel and I are so nearly
alike, that I feel weighed down with
s load that ie hard to bear. at finding
as so ntlike. I do wish Sergeant, that
I was ten •years younger, more .come-
ly t„ look at. and ,better suited to
,lea .e a. handsome young •wdman'.
fancy."
"Cheer up. my 'brace friend. and
trust to a father's knowledge of wom-
ankind, Mabel half locos won already,
and a fortnight''s intercourse • and
kind, •down among the islands yonder,
will oleo, rank,, with the other half.
Thr girl as much as told me this her-
self last night"
'.Can this he so Sergeant?' said the
guide, whose meek and modest nat-
ure shrank from viewing himself co)-
ours so favourable. 'Can this he truly
so? I am but a poor hunter, and 31alb-
el. I see fit to be an officer's lade. Do
you think the girl will consent to quit
all her heloved settlement usages. and
her visiting and churedt-goings, to
dwell with a plain guide and hunter up
hereaway- in the woods? Will .she not,
in the end. crave her old ways. and a
better man?"
"A better man, Pathfinder, would
be 'hard to find," returned the father.
".a, for town visages, they are soon
forgotten ie the .freedom of the forest,
and Mabel has just •spirit enough to
dwell on a frontier. I've not planned
this marriage, my friend, without
thinking it over, as a ,general .does his
campaign. At first. I thought of
bringing you into the •regiment, that
you midst succeed me when I retire.
which must be sooner or later; but on
reflection, Pathfinder, .I think you are
scarcely fitted for the office. Still, if
nut a soldier in all the .meauinga of
the -word, you are a soldier in its (best
meaning, and I •know that you have
the .good -will of every officer in the
corps. As long as I live, Waled can
dwell with pie. and you will always
have a home when you return from
your .coatings and marches,"
"This is 'very pleasant to think of,
Sergeant, if the girt ran only •come in-
to oar wishes with good -will. But al's
me! it does not seem that one like
myself can ever he agreeable in her
handsome eyes. It 1 were younger,
and more comely, now. as Jasper
Western is, for instance, there •might
be a chance—yes, then, indeed, there
might the some chance.
"That for ,Jasper Eau -douse, and
every younker of them in or about the
fart!" returned the Sergeant, snap-
ping his fingers. "Ii not actually a
younger -looking, ay, and a (better
looking man than the Scud's .mas-
ter--"
"Anan?" said Pathfinder, looking up
at -his companion with an expression
of doubt. as if he did not understand
his meaning.
"I say if not "etually younger in
days and years. you look more 'hardy.
and like whipcord than gasper, or any
of them and there wilt :be More of
you, thirty years hence, than of all of
then put together, A ,good conscience
will keep one like you a mere boy all
his life."
'ajasper has as clear a conscience as
any youth i know, Sergeant; and is as
likely to Wear on that account as any
young man in the colony,"
"Then you are my friead." squeez-
ing the othe'r's hand,—"my tried,
sworn; and constant .friend."
"Yes, twc have been friends, Ser-
geant, near twenty years before
Mabel ,was !born."
"Tree. enough; bcfnre Mabel was
berm, xe were weld -tried ;nevi'se and
the hussy would never dream of re-
Sitsing•f0 marry a man who was her
father's friend before she was ;born."
""We don't know; Sergeant, we
don't know, : Like loves like. The
young prefer the young for compan-
ions, and the old the old."
"Not for wives. Pathfinder; I knew
an old man, mow who had an object-
ien to a .young wife, Then you are re-
spected and esteemed by every officer
iu
the fort, as I have said already,
and it will please her fancy to like a
man that every_ one else likes,"
•'1 hope I have ,no enemies 'tut the
\t!nw: s' returned the guide. ,trok-
ine down his hair meekly, and speaks
ing thoughtfully. "I've tried to do
right, and that ought to make friends,
though it sometimes .fails."
"A•nd yea may the said to 'keep the
ben company; for even old Duncan
.i Lundie is glad to see you, and yon
pass hours in his society. Of all the
guides, he confides most in you."
"Ay, even greater than 11e is have
marched by my side for days, and
have conversed with me as if I were
their hrother; but. Sergeant, i have
never Been puffed up by their com-
pany, for I know that the woods of-
ten bring men to a level Who would
not be so in the settlements,"
"And you are known to be the
greatest rifle shot that ever pulled
trigger in all this region,"
"If !Mabel could fancy a ratan :for
that, I might have no great reason to
despair; and yet, Sergeant, I some-
times think that it is all as uuu!h
owing to'Kidldeer as to my .skill of my
own. IT is sartaitily a wonderful
piece, and might do as nnu:h in the
haulss of another,"
"That is your own humble opinion
of yourself, Pathfinder; abut we have
seen tori many fail with the same
w'eapan. and you succeed too often
,vit11 the rifles of other .nen, to allow
100 to agree with you. !We will get ep
a shooting match in a day or two,
ellen you can show your Ail•l, and
when Mabel will form some judgment
concerning your true character,"
"Will that be fair, Sergeant? Every-
body knows that Killdeer seldom
misSV s; and ought we to make a trial
of this sort when we all know what
melt 11e the result?"
"Tut, tut, man- I foresee I mast do
half this courting for you. Far one
who is always inside of the smoke in
a skirmish, you are the faintest -heart-
ed suitor I ever met with. Remember,
(Mabel tomes of a hold stock; and the
girl will he as likely to admire a man
as her mother was before her."
Here the Sergeant arose, and pro -
seeded on attend til. Iii. tieverceasing
duties,- wither apology; the terms oil
w'hic'h the guide stood with all in the
garrison rendering this freedom quite
a matter of course.
Tlie reader w111 Have 'gathered -from
the ,conversation just }'elated, one of
the ,plans that Sergeant Duuhasu had
in view in causing- his • laug'h•ter to he
ln'ougitt to the frontier, :\drhomelt nee-
essaril' much .weaned from the care-
esses and ,blandishments that had
rendered his child so dear to him
during the first year or two of Itis
widowerhood. lie had still a strong
bat...somewhat latent love Inc her. Aca.
ettstamcd to conxhand and to obey,
Witham being questioned 'himself or
ateestioning enters, .concerning the
reasonabdettess of the .mandates, he
was perhaps too much disposed to be-
lieve that his daughter Would marry
the man lie nigh t select, While ..he
was far from being disposed to do
violence to her 'wishes. The fact was,
few knew tite Pathfinder intimately
without secretly Ibclieviu.g !]tint to the
one of extraordinary qualities, Ever
the Same si.ntplc-minded, faithful, •ut-
terly without fear, and yet ,prudent,
foremost in all warrantable enter-
prises. or what the opinion of the day
considered as such, and never engaged
in anything to call a lalush -to his
cheek or censure on his acts. it was
not .possible to live leech with this
being add not feel a respect and ad-
miration for loin Which had no defer-
ence to his -position in life. The most
stiaprising peculiarity • dicot the than
himself was the entire - indifference
with .which he regarded 01 distinc
ions which did not depend on pereo.a-
al merit. He was: respectful to his
superiors instil habit; but lead often
been known to 'correct their niistaikes
and to reprove -vices with a fearless-
ness that proved how esseattially lie
regarded the more material points and
with a natural discrimination that ap-
peared to set education at defiance,
In short, a disbeliever in the ability
of man to distinguish ,between good
and evil without the aid of ins'trnction
w-oeld 'have been staggered by -- the
character of this extraordinary inhab-
itant of the frontier. His feelings ap-
peared to possess the freshness and
nature of the forest in which he pas-
sed so much of his time: and no cas-
uist could have made clearer decis-
ions in natters relating to right and
wrong; and yet he was not without
his prejudices, which, though few, and
eolonred by tite cliarae:lerand usages
of the individual, were deep-rooted,
and almost. ,formed a part of his nat-
ure. it:tt the most striking feature
about the moral orginization of Path-
finder was his beautiful and unerring
sense of justice. This noble thait—
and without it no man can ,he trelt'
great, with it no man other than res-
pectable—probably had its unseen in-
fluence on ail who associated with
him; for conn1tan and unprincipled.
brawler of the camp 'had !been knower
:o return from an expedition anade in
itis company rebuked by 'his senti-
ments, softened by his language, and
improved ley his example. As might
haveleen expected, with so elevated
a quality his fidelity was like the Mt -
playable rack; treachery in him was
classed among the things .which are
impossible; and as he seldom retired
before his enemies, so .was be never
known, antler any circumstances that
admitted of an alternative, to albandon
a friend. The affinities of such a :char-.
atter were, ae a master of course of
like for like. His associates and in-
timates, though more or less deter-
mined by ,chance, were generally of
the iughest order as to moral propen-
sities; for be appeared to possess a
species of instinctive discrimination,
which 'led film, insensibly to himself,
most probably, to cling closest to
those whose characters would !best
reward his friendship. In sort, it was
said of the Pathfinder, by one accust-
omed to study his fellows. that he
was a fair example of what a just-
ntincled and pause man might ,he, while
unteanptetl +hy unruly or am,hitioes
desires, and left to follow the !bias o1
his ,feelings, amid the solitary grand-
eur and ennobling influence of a sub-
lime natant neither led aside by the
inducements which influence all to do
evil amid the incentives of civilisation,
nor forgetful of the Almighty Being
whose spirit pervades the nwildernees
as well as the towns.
Snell was the man whom 'Sergeant
Dunham had selected as the husband
of !Mabel. In making this choice, be
had not ,been as much governed illy a
clear and judicious view of the merits
of the individual, 'perhaps, as by his
own likings; still no one 'knew the
Pathfinder so intimately as 'himself,
without always conceding to the lton-
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est guide a high place in .his esteem
on account of these very virtues. That
his daughter could find any serious
objections to the snatch the old sold-
ier did not apprehend; while, on .the
other hand. he saw litany, advantages
to himself in dim perspective. eon-
nested with the decline of ,bis days,
and an evening of life .passed, among
descendants who were equally dear
to 'stint through both parents, He had
first made the proposition to his
friend, who had listened. to it ,kindly,
but who, the Sergeant was now pleas-
ed to find; already (betrayed a 'willin'g-
neee to crime' into his otvn view that
was proportioned to the doubts and
nti.tivates proceeding from his hum-
ble distrust of himself,
Poetic 'Rover ,_t0 faraner)—"'Ames
el -,es this glorious setting; ,atm, mean
nothing to you?"
Partner (mopping his brow)—"I'll
say it sloes, It meads I ,c.an eventually
unhitch the horses and go ltonte.'1.