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The Seaforth News, 1941-07-31, Page 6PAGE SIX s 'Sergeant,I• 1 - we mut e Mabel fol- low It low her awn fancy; she is young and light of heart, and God forbid that any wish or" mine should lay rhe weight of a feather on a mind that is all gaiety now, or take one note cif happiness from her laughter!" "Have you conversed freely with the girl?" the Sergeant demanded quickly, and with some asperity of manner. Pathfinder was too honest to deny a truth plain as that which the answer required, and yet too honourable to betray Mabel, and expose her to the resentment of one whom he well knew to be stern in his anger. ''We have laid open our minds," he said; "and though IMabeI's is one that any man might love to look at, I find little there, Sergeant, to make one. think any better of myself." "The girl has not dared t,:, refuse you—to refuse her father's best friend:'"' turned .:is f;me ,:w, ,tiat - ti I. 'i ...'c e .ur re .. .rt, `e* ..rd d4: c•.: expect my ,...g:.ter to jump into your arms ht -Fore you esker her? She would not have been her mother's child had she done any such thing, nor do i think she would have been mint. The Durhams like plain dealing as well Z.5 the king's majesty: 'but .they are t:c jumper,, Leave me to manage this matter- for you, Pathfinder, and there shat: ,be no unnecessary delay. I':1 speak to dMa't•ei rnyeeff ele's very evening, 'iein: your Larne Le ,.r'ne pal ?.. ti— heir." I'd rather nett, I'•1 rather not, Strg'r.nt. Leave the n,: ter to Mabel and meend. I think a.1 will ome right ir. The .tri. Yt..ung C r • are :ike tim,:,r=omebi, - not. they do t ererre- t 1 being ce spoken harshly :i e . Leave ,he matter !,fat,. .,':rt are. ..-.. ..r. .. tiJ' Irornise nr _. ... ... - a that }- r I her, ... - ... .- . _. ;he (:'air a;:: se :e ask IM . ,er rr y me. ever, h: .tai e :arh .n my face of sty c, inc so. or. that condition." Sergeant t'u nhatr, gr,ve the i esieed rrr rise very ch•eerfullyt for he had cc' plettiy wrought himself up into the belief that the man he so much es- teemed himself must be e cee tab:e to bis daughter. He had married a wom- an ranch younger than himself, and he saw no it fitne«. in tie respective years id the intended coupie. Marne; was tducate. sc' mach a.,o e hit,. ice. that he •xas not aware eel the differ- ence which actually existed 'between the parer.t and child in this respect. It (chewed that Sergeant Dunham was rot altogether qualified. to i.p preciate his daughter's tastes, or to farm a• very probatble conjecture what wautd the the direction taken by those feelings which oftener depend on im- pulses and passion than on reason. -Still, the worthy soldier was not so wrong in his estimate of the Pathfin- der's chances as might at first appear. XWowing at the sterling qualities of the man, his truth, integrity of pur- pose, 'courage, self -devotion, disinter- estedness, it was far from unrcason- ahile tet ittiVPsq that qualities like ta. theS ' produce a deep imprese sion on any feinale heart; and the - father .erred principally in fancying that the daughter m cit know as ft might be thy intuition -,xhat he hinted had acquired by notes 'f intercourse and ed,enture, • As Pathfinder and his military friend descended the hill to .he chore eef the .ake,• the d,-cnurse did not flag The :atter :otit...ci to eier,eerte - col la:.t. - , . 1 er .. i.;.', 9te r r.., .:,,!...,. • THE SEAFORTH NEWS tate of the Said, 'keeping mid,ray ihe- ,t•,tevn the two shores as the (best means of commanding a broad view; and that, on his part, it would the ex- pedient to hug one coast or the other, not only to avoid a meeting, tbut as affording a chance of ,passing without detection by blending his sails and spars with o!bjeces on the land, He preferred the south (because it was the weather shore, and (because he thought it was that which the enemy would at least expect hint to take th'ou'gh it necessarily led near his set- tlements, and in front df one of the strongest posts he .'held in that part of the world, ,Of all this, however, Cap was hap- pily ignorant, and the Sergean't's mind was too much occupied with the de- tails of his military tenet to enter into these niceties, which so properly 'be- longed to another prof[sion. No op- position was made, therefore, and be- fore morning Jasper had apparently dropped quietly into all his former authority, issuing his orders :free'ly, and meeting with obedience without hesitation or cavil. . • The appearance of day [brought all on (board on deck again: and, as is usual with adventurers on the water, the opening horizon was curiously examined as objects started out of the etbscurity, and the panorama brightened under the growing light. East, west, and north nothing was [visible but water .glittering in the ris- ing sun; 'but southward stretched the endless belt of woodS that then held Ontario in a setting of forest verdure. Suddenly an opening appeared ahead, and then the anassive walls of a chat- eau -looking house, with outworks, ,bastions, (blockhouses and [palisadoes, frowned on a headline that bordered the outlet of a [broad stream. Just as the fort became ,visible a little aloud rose over it, and the white ensign of France was seen fluttering from a lofty flagstaff. Cap gave a quick ejaculation as he witnessed this un:grateful exhibition. 14e cast a quick suspicions glance at his brother-i•n-law, "The dirty tablecloth bang u: t,, ir, as, my !tante is Charles 'lap' he muttered; "and We hugging this -here as if it were our wife and child- ren met on the return from an India v'y'ce ! Hark'e, jasper. are you in seurcit of a cargo, of frogs, that you keep so near in to this Nei'," ranee: "I hug the Mand, sir, in the hope of Passing the enemy's ship without (be- ing seen. for I think she met he somewhere down here to Leeward." 'Ay, ay, this sounds well, and 1 hope it may turn out as you say. I trust there is no under -tow here? 'tt,Ve are on a weather shore, now," said Jasper, smiling; "and I think you will admit, plaster 'Cap, that strong undertow makes an easy cable; we owe all our lives to the undertow of this very lake." "French flummery !" growled 'Cap, though he did not care to the heard by Jasper. "Give me a fair, honest, Eng - lis - Yankee -American tow, above hoard, and above water too, if I must have a tow at all, and none of your sneaking drift that is tbelow the sur- face. :there one can neither see not feel. 1 daresay, if the truth could he conte at, that this lace escape of ours eves ail a contrived affair." ••1.Ve have now a ;rood opportunity. at lea—t, t'+ reconnoitre The enemy's and that he had only to persevere in order to prevail, .Pathfinder was mach too modest b d st nature,and hadbeen. Y too plainly, though so delicately, dis- couraged in the recent arguments which seemed •p'iausible, and it was so grateful to fancy that the daughter might yet be his, that the reader is not to .be surprised when he is told that this unsophis'tkated being .did not view Ma'bel's recent conduct .in precisely the light in which he may ,be inclined to view it •himself. IIe did not credit all that the Se peant told him. i; is true; [but he [began to think vir- gin coyness and ignorance of her owr, feelings might have induced Mabel to use the language she had. "The Quartermaster is no favour- ite." said Pathfinder in answer to one of his companion's remarks. "Malbel will never look on hint as more titan one who has had four or five wives already." "Which is more than his share. A ...at :ray :Harry twice without offence groc. m.,rals .:1.,; .decency, I allow!. t n aggravation." i .,l ' n-, - rt... tm.rryiaY educe I... .er circum- ' • ce n t l tufts, a .t:ng in et way, i'or ' tine his r't- 1 ad roc h c c n of their hnoy. It . 9et t friend. and a most soiernn ri cantstance too. If it w•t•rt• r..,t that :44altt1 is 1c, tine your wife. i wouid advise yoti to remain single. Put here is the :circ herself, and discretion es the word.' ":Alis me, Sergeant. 1 fear yon are mistaken!" CHAPTER XIX Mabel VMS, in waiting on the beach and the canoe was soon launched. Pathfinder carried the party out through the surf in the same skilful manner that he had brought it in: and though Illahel's colour heightened with t,xcirement, and her heart seem- ed often ready to leap out of her month again, they reached the side of the Scud without having •t'eceived a d"r.p of ep ac. Ontario '.s like a clttick-tempered sudden to be sneered. and as eased. The sera had already .:'.en: t,n,1 !hough the breakers 11.ded the s[tnre, far as the eve ea, •h. h was :here:' in fires of -ess, that appeared and vanish- ,. ...e ret•:rnittg waves pr. -41104 r .t9r•ctf had been dror,pea er•l. The cathle of the Send a t.- s.:arce:y -ten above- the ;watt -r. and Ja rete :,art eiresdy anis:ed his eailee. in readiness to depart as soon P., the expected breeze from the shore she's:d fill the canvas -It was just suns—et as the cutter's mainsail flapped anti its stem iberan to sever the water. The air was light and southerly, and the bead of the ressel was kept locking up along the fro nth snr.reit toeing the intentinn-te get to the eastward regain es fast as roeeible. The night that sacceeded was quiet: and the rest of those whc. slept *leen and tranquil. Some difficulty occurred concerning the command of the vessel, [but the Matter had been finally settled thy an amiable compromise, As the distrust of Jasper was far from [being appeased Cap retained a supervisory power, while the young man was allowed to work the craft, subject, at all tines. to the control and interference of the old seaman. To this Jasper .consented in preference to exposing Mahel any longer to the clangers of their .present situation; for, now that the violence of the elemtents had ceased, be well knew that the [Montcalm ,would he in search of them. He had the• discretion, :however, not to reveal his apprehens- ions en this head; for it happened that the very means he deemed the [best to ,Escape the enemy were those which wrt,';i1 be most likely to awaken new suspicion of his honesty in the minds of those who held the power to de- feat his intentions. In other :worde, Jasper ',helievcd - that -the gallant voter ° nen'chman, who coinmanded he ship ,-.f :he enemy, would quit -his nhell o r -!e -trider e 'ort at Niagara, nn'! s.. [, as.:.con oleo tt,t, , _..s,n; ,l•, bast at Niagara, brother, for such I take this fort to be," put in ,the Ser- geant. "Let us the all eyes in [passin'g and remember that we are almost in face of the enemy." This advice of the Sergeant needed nothing to enforce it; for the interest and novelty of [passing a spot occup- ied by human beings tve.re of them- selves sufficient to attract deep atten- tion in that scene of a vast 'bot cies- ertecl nature, The wind was now fresh enough ,to urge the Scud then the water with considerable velocity and Jasper eased her -helm as she opened the river and leiffel nearly in- to the mouth of that noble strait, or river, as it is called. 'A tall, distant, heavy roar ,came down through the opening cif the thanks, swelling on the currents of the air, alike the deeper notes of some immense organ, and oecasianatly seething to cause the earth itself to tremble, "'That • sounds like surf on some long unbroken coast-" exclaimed Cap, as a swell deeper than common came to his ears, "Ay, that is such Surf as we have in this quarter of the world," Path- finder answered. "There is no [under- tow there, Master Cap; but all the water that strikes the rocks stays there, so far as Going back again is consarned. That is old Niagara that you hear, or this noble stream tumbl- ing down a mountain." eeN•o one will Have the impcisience to tpreten'd that this fine [broad river falls over yonder hills?" "It does, Master Cap, it does; and all for the Wyant of stairs, or a road to come by. This is tattoo' as we have it up hereaway, though I daresay you heat au down an the ocean. Ah's ane, Mabel! a pleasant 'hour it would be if we could walk on the shore some ten or fifteen miles up this stream, and gaze on all that God has done there," 'You have, then seen these re- notwed falls. Pathfinder " the girl eagerly inquired. ",1 have—yes, I have; and an awful sight I witnessed at that same time, Tire Serpent and I were out scouting about the garrison there. when he :oil me that the traditions of lis people cane an account of a mighty cataract in this neighborhood and he asked me to vary from the line of march a little to loo;: at the woniier, I had heard some marvels consenting the spot from the soldiers of the (truth which is my nat'ral corps like, and not the t9iith with which I have soj- ourned of late; [but there are so many terrible Ilars in all rijiments that I hardly believed half what they had told me. Well, we went: and though we expected to the led thy our ears, and to hear some of that awful roar- ing that we hear today, ave were dis- appointed for nater' was not then speaking in thunder, as she is this morning. Thus it is in the forest, Master Can; there [being moments when God seems to [be walking abroad in pottier, and then, again, there is calm over all, as if His spirit lay in quiet along the 'arth, Well, we came suddenly upon elle stream, a short distance above the fall, and a young Delaware, who was in our company, found a hark canoe, and he would push into the current to reach an [eland that lies in the vary centre of the confusion and strife, 1'~l''e told him of his folly. we olid: and We rea- soned with hint on the wickedness of tempting Providence by seeking dan- ger that led to no in1; bee the yentth among the Delawares are n'ery much the sante as the youth among the soldeers, risky and vain, All we coned say did not change his mind, and the lad had his ,way. To ane it seems, M'a'bel, that whenever a thing is really' grand and potent, it has a quiet ma- jesty albou•t it, altogether unlike the frothy and [flustering manner of small- er matters, and so it was with then rapids, TIee canoe avas no sooner fair- ly in them, than down it went, as it might [be, as one sails [through the air on the 'arth, and no skill of rhe young Delaware could resist the stream. And yet ire struggled man- fully to the last, like the deer that is swimming to cast the hounds. At first he shot across the current so swiftly, that .re thought he would Prevail; shut he had miscalculated his distance and when the truth really struck hint he turned the head up- stream and struggled in a way that was fearful 10 look at, 11 •could have pitied hint even had he heen a Mingo, For a fete moments his efforts were so [frantic that he actually prevailed over the power of the cataract; [batt nater' has its limits and one falter- ing stroke of the paddle set 'him tback, and then he lost ground, foot by foot, inch by inch, until he got near the spot where the river looked even and green, and as if it were made of millions of threads of water. all beat over some huge rock, when he shot backwards like an arrow and disap- peared, the bow of the canoe tipping just enough to 'let us see what had 'become of him, 1 stet a (Mohawk some years later who had witnessed the whole affair from the bed of the stream ]below, and he told nue that the Delaware continiled 10 paddle in the air until he was lost in the Wrists of the falls." "And what became of the poor wretch'?" demanded Mabel, who had been strongly interested illy the nat- ural eloquence of the speaker. went to the happy hunting ground of his people, n., cionht; -••r though he was risky end vain, he tiro d , just .avd brava Yee, he cried foolishly, lett the t\Marv.:cti of tin re.: kits has cempassion on his creatnr- es well a the ii.5! I chr tian " A gun at this moment res charged front a blockhouse near to fort: and the shot. one of Ihrht waigit came whistling over the cutter's utast, an admonition to approach no nearer. Jasper was at the helm, and he kept away, smiling at the same time as if he felt ni, anger at the rudeness of the salutation. The Scud was now in the current and her out- ward set soon carried her far enough to leeward to avoid the danger of a repetition of the shot, and then the quietly continued her course along the land. As soon as the river •was fairly opened, Jasper ascertained that the Niontralm was not at anchor in it; and a man sent aloft tame down with the report that the horizon showed no sail. The hope Was now strong that the artifice of Jasper had sitc- ceeded and that the French com- mander had missed them by keeping tic middle of the 'lake as he steered towards its head. All that day the wind hung' to the soutbt erd and the cutter continued her course about a league from the land. running six or eight knots an Counter Check Books We Tire Selling Quality Books Books are We11 Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. Al] styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • ThSeaforth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 PROFESSIONAL CARDS MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC Dr. E, A., McMaster, M,B,, Graduate of University of Toronto. Paul L. 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Al- though the scene had one 'feature of monotony, the outline of unbroken forest, it was not ,without its interest and pleasures, 'Various headlands Pre- sented themselves, and the cutter in running from one 'to another, stretch- ed across bays so deep as almost to, deserve the name of gulfs. But no- where did the eye meet with •the evi- dences of civilization; ricers occasion- ally [poured their tribute into ide great reservoir of the 'lake, )hurt their banks could 'toe •traced ,inland [for eniles- by the same o'utl'ines of trees; and even ,large bays, that lay enlbosomted in t1'alads communicating with Ont- ario only by narrow outlets, appear- ed and •disappe:u^ed, 'without bringing then a single trace of 'human habita- tion. Want and For Sala. Ad, 3 weeks 50e