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Inland
Sea
The Big Serpent is on the 1
out in that quarter and as he len
the station well, no doubt he
give us timely notice, should a
wish to sarcuinveat us in that dire
tion."
"'He is 'bet an Indian, after a
Pathfinder; and this is an affair th
..ails for the knowledge of a whi
:man, Lundie will be eternally ,;rat
fail to the man who shah help tit
little enterprise to conte off with ti
ing colors. To tell -the truth, n
- friend, h e i, conscious it should tie
er have ;been attempted; but he h
.too much of the old laird's eestinac
atbent hint to OW0 an error, :hough
lie as manifest as the morning star.'
'rhe Quartermaster then continue
is reason with his t 1 anion, in „r
-de to induce ung to qui: :;t tan
wit nit delay. using such artn men,
first sat, _e'.td themselves, .once
times contradicting -himself, and no
unfrequently using at one moment
m•ctive that at the next was direct]
opposed -tv another. The Pathfinder
simple ws he was, detected then
flaw, in the Lieutenant's philosophy
though he was far front suspectin
that they :proceeded from a desire to
clear the coast of +Mabel', suitor. He
did not exactly suspect the secret ob-
jects of Muir, ;but he was far from
being blind to his sophistry. The
result was that the two parted, after
a long dialogue, unconvinced, and dis-
trustful of •each other's motives,
though the distrust of the •guide, like
all that was connected with the. man,
;partook of his own upright, disinter-
ested, and ingenuous nature.
A conference that took place soon
after between Sergeant Dunham and
the ;Lieutenant led to more conse-
quences. When it was ended, secret
orders were issued to the men, the
blockhouse was taken possession of,
the huts were occupied, and ones ac-
customed to the movements of sol-
diers -might have detected that an ex-
aeedition was in the wind. In fact,
just as the sun .was setting, the Ser-
geant, who had been much occupied
at what was called the hanbaur, came
into his own hut, followed by 'Path-
finder and ;Carp; and, as he took his
seat at the neat table which Ialahel
had prepared for him. -he opened the
budget of his intelligence,
"Y'cu are likely to be of some use
here, my child," the old soldier cam-
merced, "as this tidy and well ord-
ered supper can testify: and I trust,
when the proper moment arrives,
you will show yourself to he the de-
scendant of those who know how to
fact their enemies."
sou do not expect nee to play
Joan tet Arc, and to dead tite men to
battle "
"Flay wheen child Did:eat'. ever
hear ,.f the person •'.tlabel mentions.
F ate Wrier ' •
-XatI.Sergeant; hm :chat -of
ale.. I. ant _norantrd :medicated.r1 c. reO ''c sure ,_.one
tr 'ester, ;C cr e.take t her
wenn ..,E ,t ,in r•nt i er-
srrs."
'i !know :nen'said riCcutedt
i.e s iiec a prvt.teer -.f tor-
i.:,..ir he last war: and
re .,,.r. ef :herr.
3 ala ';:blies et ?laying inadver-
tent',.-,t;,ri• an ll:t inn :hat -.vent be -
'her ri . '1a -titer's .:alit;-. to no-
thing s mels s do- na ,s i, ani.
to lle,ps a lite at the Pathfinder's
sicuri
intrenuents earnestness.: hut
nnt forbear .'ve s to smile.
a":,7,711y, `ather. ; ant no: expected to
fa,':: n with the men, and to help de-
ieivi tit: island 0"
And yet women hat often done
1 tci: things in this quarter ef the
•arid, girl, as our friend, + the Path -
'Ender, here, will eli..voe.But Test
you "shoaid be serprised at .not seem,e
u t .O.11 awake in the enornin,n,
it is ereper that Tnow tell -,e.we in
to rt to march in the .: ..arse • of the
r ght."
laVe. father! and leave me and
Je •rie et this island alone "
"No. my daughter; net 'Tette as 1111 -
military as that. 'We• chat- leave
Lieutenant t Mair, h ether Can. •Cor
look
- poral IM'Nar, and three then to cont-
ras pose the .garrison dui
rn our absence,
1
will l' Jennie nnie will remain with you in this
ny hut, and !brother Cap will occupy my
e- place,"
"And fair, Muir?" said Mabel half
Il, unconscious of what she uttered.
at though she foresaw a great deal of
to unpleasant persecution in the ar-
e- rangement,
is. "Why, he can make love to yon, if
y- you like it, girl; for he is an amorous
ty youth, and, having already. disposed
v- of -'four wives, is impatient to show
as hew much he honours their Memories
y by tacking a .fifth."
it "The Quartermaster tells ine," said
Pathfinder innocently, "that when a
d 'tan's feelings have been harassed thy
- so many losses, there is no wiser
d way to .soothe them than by ploindt-
s ing up the .soil anew, in such a man-
- tier as to leave no traces of what
t have gone over it ;before."
a "Ay, that is just the ,difference- he-
y tw•een ploughing and harrowing,' re-
, turned the ,Sergeant, .with a grins
e senile, "But let him tell Mabel his
, mind, and there wil be an end of
g suit. I very well know that my dau-
ghter will never be `the wife of''Lieu-
tenant !Muir." -
Tltis was said in a way that was
tantamount to declaring that no dau-
ghter of his ever should become the
wife of ¢he person in question. Weibel
had colored, trembled, half laughed,
and looked uneasy; but, rallying her
spirit, she said, in a voice so •cheer-
ful as completely to conceal her agi-
tation, "But, father, we 'night better
wait until Mr, Altair ;manifests a wish
that your daughter would have him,
or rather a wish to have your daugh-
ter, lest we get the fable of sour
grapes thrown into our faces,"
"`And what is that Sable, 'Mabel?"
eagerly demanded Pathfinder, who
was anything but learned in the ord-
inary lore of white 'nen, "Tell it to
us, in your own pretty way; I dare-
say the ;Sergeant .never heard it."
!Mabel repealed the well-known
fable, and, as her suitor had desired,
in her own pretty way, which was a
way to :keep his eyes riveted on her
face, and the whole of his honest
countenance covered with a smile.
"That was Ike .a'foxl" cried Path-
finder, when she had ceased: '"ay, and
like a Mingo, too, cunning and cruel;
that is the way with both the rip -
tyles. As to grapes, they are sour
enough in this part of the country,
even to .hem that can get at them,
though 'I daresay there are seasons
and times and places were they are
seurer to them that. can't. I should
jaxlge, now, my scalp is very sour in
Mingo eyes,"
The sour grapes will be the other
way,child, and it is Mr, Muir tele,
will make the complaint. You would
never marry -that man, Weibel?"
"tot she," put in Cap; "a fellow
who is only' half a soldier after all.
The tory of them there grapes is
quite a cireumsta.nce,
1 think little of marrying any one,
dear father and clear uncle, and
would rasher talk about it less. if you
please. But. .lid I think of marrying
at ail. 1 do ,believe a man whose af-
fections have already been trier! by
thr'•e or four wives would scarce;,
be my choice,"
The Sergeant nodded at the snide,
as nth as t say, You see how the
land he and then he had sufficient
consideration fer his daughter's feel-
Ings to change the subject.
"'Neither yon nor Mabel, brother
Cap," he resumed, "can have any le-
gal authority with the little garrison
I leave behind on the island; 'bat you
may craunel and influence. Strictly
speaking,!Crrporal Mf'lwh will be the
commanding officer, and I have en-
deavoured te, impress him with a
sense of his dignity, lest he might
give tat too much to the superior
rank Lieutenant Muir who, Ibcing
a volute ser, can have no right to in-
terfere with the duty. I -wish yeti to
sustain the (Corporal, ,;brother ' Cap;
for -hnuh1 the Quartermaster once
tireeak through the regulations of
tlic expedition, he ;nay-- .pretend -
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941
to command me, as well as ilerNa'b,"
"More particularly, shank! Mabel
really cwt hits adrift while you are ab-
sent. Of course, Sergeant, you'll
leave everything that is afloat under
my •care The most d-Ible confusion
has ,grown out of misunderstandings
between commanders -in -chief, ashore
and shoat,"
"In one sense, 'brother, though in a
general way, the !Corporal is com-
mander-in-chief. The (Corporal must
command; but you can counsel troth
particularly i0 all 'natters relating to
the heats, of which I shall leave one
behind to secure your retreat, should
there the occasion. I know the 'Cor-
poral well; he is a 'brave man and a
good soldier; and one that may be re-
lied on, if the Santa ;Cruz can be
;.rept :from hint. IBut then ,he is a
Scotehman, and will be liable to the
Quartermaster's influence, against
whisk I desire 'both you and Mabel
to the on your tguard," - -
"Rut why leave ,ns ;behind, dear -fa-
ther? I have conte'th•us far to be a
comfort to you, and why not go far-
ther "
'You are a good girl, ;Mabel, and
very like the Dunha•ms. But yen
must halt there, We. shall .leave the
island to -morrow, before the .day
dawns, in order not to be seen by any
prying eyes 'coining from our Dover,
and we shall take the two largest
boats, leaving you the other -and one
'bark canoe, We are about to go into
the channel used by the ,French,
where we shall lie in wait, ,perhaps a
week, to intercept their supply 'boats,
which are about to pass up on their
way 10 Frontenac, loaded, in particu-
lar, with a heavy amount of Indian
goods."
"Dave you looked well to your pa-
pers, ;brother " Cap anxiously de-
manded. 'Of course yon !snow a cap-
ture on the high seas is !piracy unless -
your boat is regularly commissioned,
either as a public ,er a private armed
cruiser,"
"'I have the honour to hold the
!Colonel's appointment as sergeant -
major of the '515th," returned the oth-
er, drawing himself up with dignity,
"and that will be sufficient even for
the French king, If not I have Ma -
jar Duncan's written orders,"
"No papers, then, for a warlike
cruiser?" -
".They 'lust suffice, brother, as I
have no other. It is ,af vast import-
ance to his Majesty's interests, in
this ,part of the world, that the (boats
in ;question should be captured and
carried into Oswego. They contain
the (blankets trinkets, rifles, ammuni-
tion, in short, all the stores with
}which the French bribe their amu-
sed savage allies to commit their en -
holy acts, setting at nought our 'holy
religion and its ,precepts, the laws of
humanity, .and all that is sacred and
dear among men. By cutting off
these supplies we shall derange their
plans, and gain time on theme; for the
articles cannot be sent across the
ocean again this autumn,"
"But father, does not his !Majesty
employ Indians also " asked ''Label,
with :some curiosity.
".Certainly, girl, and he has a right
to employ them—God ;bless shim! It's
a very •cli'fferent thing whether an
Englishman or a Frenchman em-
ploys a savage, as every body can un-
derstand,"
"But father, I cannot see that this
alters the case, di it be wrong in a
Frenchman to hire savages to fight
his enemies, it ;world seem to be
equally wrong in an hngliehman, You
will admit this, Pathfinder
t's reasonable, it's reasonable;
and 1 have never been one of theist
that has raised a cry ag'in the .Fren-
clters for doing the very thing we do
ourselves. Still it is worse to consort
with a:Mingo than to consort with a
Delaware. 1 ware. 1,
I f any tY o' that just tribe
were left I should think.. it no sin to
send them out ag'in the foe
'std yet they scalp and slay young
and old, 'women and children!"
"They have their gifts, !Mabel, and
are not to be blamed for 'following
theist; native is nater', though the dif-
ferent tribes. have different ways of
showing it For my part I am white,
and endeavour to maintain white ,feel-
ings."
"'!'his is all unintelligible to me,"
answered !label, "What is right in
one ;king ought, it would seen, to the
right in another."
As all parties,
,1�
.I bet excepted,
cepterl,
seemed 'satisfied with the course the
discussion had taken, no one appear-
ed to think it necesary to pursue the
subject. Supper was no aooiler end-
ed 'than the Sergeant dismissed his
guests, and then held a long and con-
fidential dialogue with ,his •daiighter.
He was little addicted to ,giving way
to the .gentler emotions, !but the nov-
elty of his present situation awaken-
ed feelings that he was unused to ex-
perience, The soldier or the sailor,
so long as he acts under the immedi-
ate supervision of a superior, thinks
little of the risks he nuns, but the
utntnent he feels the responsibility of
command, all the 'hazards of his un-
dertaking'begin to associate them-
selves in his nninrl with t he chances
of success or failure. While he
dwells less on his own ;personal -dan-
ger, perhaps, than when that is the
principal consideration, he has ntnre
lively general perceptions .nf all the
risks, and submits more to the in-
fluence of the feelings which 'doubt
creates, Such was now. the ease with
Sergeant Dunham who instead of
looking forward to victory as certain,
according to his usual halbits, began
to feel the passibility that he 'night
be parting -with his child .for ever,
Never ;before had Mabel struck
hint as so !beautiful as she appeared
that night. ;Possibly she never had
displayed so many engaging :qualities
to her father; for concern on his ac-
count had begun to be active in her
breast; and then ;her sympathies met
with uuusttal encouragement through
those which had been stirred sup in
the sterner bosom of the 'veteran,
She had never been entirely at her
ease with hegaparent, the great sup-
eriority of her education creating a
sort of chaste, which had been wid-
ened by the military severity of man-
ner he had acquired by dealing so
long with beings weho could only Ibe
kept in subjection iby an unremitted
discipline.
lOn the 'present occasion
however, the conversation 'between
the father and daughter tbecame
confidential than usual, until Mabel
rejoiced to find that it 'was gradually
;becoming endearing, a state of feel-
ing that the warm-hearted ,girl had
silently pined 4or in wain ever since
her arrival.
!'lien mother was about my
height " Mabel said as she held one
of hes father's hands in both her
own, looking up into his face with
humid eyes. "I had thanght her tall-
er,"
"That is the way with 'lost child-
ren who get a halbit ofthinking of
their parents with respect, until they
fancy them larger and more cotn-
ntateling than they actually are,
Your !bother, ;Mabel, was as near
yaur ;height as one woman -could be
to another."
And her eyes, .father
Her eyes were like thine, child,
too; blue and soft, and inviting like,
though hardly so laughing."
"Mine will never laugh again, dear-
est 'father, if you do not take care of
rourseld in this expedition."
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Death announced in London, Eng-
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the
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4B4_ The larger orders- were- under the
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Batrrard Dry Docks„ $117,2E13,000;
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Vice President and Director of Can-
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Three hundred Canadian nurses
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Stork •af raw silk reserved ;or war
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"Ever heard this one?" asked ore
of the group sitting around the camp-
fire, "A dog was tied to a trope 14
feet long. Twenty feet away was a
hot, juicy bone, How did the dog
get the bone?"
"Oh, that old one," answered an-
other. "You want one of us to say 'I
give up,' and then you'll say, 'That's
what the dog did'."
"No; you're wrong, for the dog got
the bone."
"Well, how did he get it?"
"The other end of the rope wasn't
tied,"
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