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'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
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a that
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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. - ,
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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
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hour in perfectly smooth water. 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.
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