The Conshohocken Recorder, October 19, 1894

              THE RECORDER.
NO. 1384. CONSHOHOCKEN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1894. JT»1.00 FER TEAR
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what ho believed was the oanae mid ad-vised
tact with oanoiliation. He also
pointed out that Lali was something
taller than Marion, and that abe might
be possessed ol that general trait of hu-manity—
vanity. Mrs. Armour had nni
yet got and to thinking of the girl in
another manner than an intrusive being
of a lower order who was thero to try
their patience, but also to do their bid-ding.
She had yet to grasp the fact that,
being her sou's wife, sho must have
therefore a position in the house, exer-cising
a certain authority over the serv-ants,
who, to Mrs. Armour, at first
seemed of superior stuff. But Richard
mid to her: "Mother, I fancy you
dou't quite grasp the situation. The
girl is a daughter of a chief and the de-scendant
of a family of chiefs, perhaps
through many generations. In her own
laud sho has been u-"<l to respect and
has been looked up to pretty 8" nerally.
Her garments are, I fancy, considered
very smart in the Hudson bay country,
and a finely decorated blank, r like hers
is expensive up then'. Vmi BOO, we have
to take the thing by comparison, so
please give the girl a chance."
And Mrs. Armour answered wearily:
"I suppose yon are right, Richard. You
generally aro in the end, though why
you should be 1 do not know, for you
never soe anything of the world any
more, and you ntOOB about among the
cottagers. I supposo ftTs you? native
sense and the books you r?r»i "
Richard laughed softly, but there was
a queer ring in the laugh, and he came
over stuniblingly and put his arm round
his mother's shoulder. "Never mind
how I get such sense as I have, mother.
I have so much time to think it would
be a wonder if I hadn't soma But I
think we had better try to study her
and coax her along and not fob her off
as a very inferior person, or we shall
have our bauds full in earnest My
opinion is she has got that which will
save her and us, too—a vory high spirit,
which only needs opportunity to devolop
into a remarkable thing, and, take my
word for it, mother, if we treat her as
a chieftainess, or princess, or whatever
she is, and not simply as a dusky person,
we shall come off better, and she will
come off better in the long ran. She is
not darker than a Spaniard anyhow."
At this point Marion entered the
room, and her mother rehearsed briefly
to her what their talk had been. Marion
had had little sleep, and she only lifted
her eyebrows at them at first Sho was
in little mood of conciliation. Sho re-membered
all at once that at supper the
evening before her sister-in-law had
said "How!" to the butler and had eat-en
the mayonnaise with a dessert spoon.
But presently, because she saw they
waited for her to speak, she said, with
a little flutter of maliciousness:
"Wouldn't it be well for Richard-he
has plenty of time, and wo aro also
likely to have it now—to put us all
through a course of instruction for the
training of chieftainesses? And when
do you think she will be ready for a
drawing room—her majesty Qneen Vic-toria's
or ours?"
"Marion!" said Mrs. Armour severe-ly,
bnt Richard came round to her, and
with his fresh, childlike humor put bis
arm round her waist anil added, "Ma-rion,
I'd be willing to bet (if I were in
the habit of betting) my shaky old pins
here against a lock of your hair that
you may present her at any drawing
room—ours ortjueeu Victoria's—in two
years if we go at it right, and it woul
serve Master Frank very well if v-turned
her out something, after all."
Mrs. Armour said almost eagerly: "l
wish it were only possible, Richan.
And whnt you say is true, 1 suppose-that
she is of rank in her own conntr;
whatever value that may have."
Richard saw his advantage. "Well.
mother," he said, "a chieftainess Is.
chieftainess, and I don't know but l
announce her as such and"
"And be proud of it, as it were,
put in Marion, "and pew.; her and mal.i
her a prize—a Pocahontas, wasn't it?—
and go on pretending world without
endl" Marion's voice was still slightly
grating, bnt there was in it, too, a faint
sound of hope. "Perhaps," she said to
herself, "Richard la ri ..' :."
At this point the do* c opened, and
Lali entered, shown in by Colvin, her
newly appoiutod maid, and followed by
Macken/.ie, ami, as \ lid, dressed
Still in her heathciish garments. She
had a strong sense of dignity, for she
Stood still and wail' u. 1\ maps nothing
Could have impressed Marion more. Had
Lali been subservient simply, an entire-ly
passive, unintelligent creature, she
would probably havi tyranniaed over
her in a soft, persistent fashion and de-spised
hor generally. But Mrs. Armour
and Marion saw that this stranger might
become very troublef0i-.o indeed if her
• were to have olay. They were
aware ol capacities tor passion in uiww
dark eyi-s, so musing, yet so active in
expression, which moved swiftly from
one object *o another and then sudden-ly
became resolute.
Both mother and daughter came for-ward
and held out their hands, wish-ing
her a pleasant good morning, and
were followed by Richard and imme-diately
by General Armour, who had
entered soon after her. She had been
keen enough to read, if a little vaguely,
behind the scenes, and her mind was
wakening slowly to the peculiarity of
the position she occupied. The place
awed her and had broken her rest by
perplexing her mind, and she sat down
to the breakfast table with a strange,
hunted look In her face. But opposite
to her was a window opening to the
ground, and beyond it were the limes
anil beeches and a wide, perfect sward
and far away a little lake, on which
swans and wild fowl fluttered.
Presently, as she sat silent, eating
little, In i- eyes lifted to the window.
They Hashed instantly, her face lighted
up with a weird kind of charm, and
suddenly she got to her feet with Indian
exclamations on her lips, and, as if un-conscious
of them all, went swiftly to
tho window and out of it, waving her
hands up and down oncoor twico to the
trees and tho sunlight.
"What did she say?" said Airs. Ar
mour, rising with the others
"She said," replied MaokeMW .-
she hurried toward the window, "thai
they were her beautiful woods, ami
there were wild birds flying and swim
niing in the water, as in her own eoniM
try."
By this time all were at the window,'
Richard arriving last, and the Indian
girl turned on them, her body all quiv-ering
with excitement, laughed a low,
birdlike laugh, and then, clapping her
hands above her head, she swung round
and ran like a deer toward the lake,
shaking her head back as an animal
does when fleeing from his pursuers.
She would scarcoly have been recogniz-ed
as the same placid, speechless wom-an
in a blanket who sat with folded
hands day after day on the Aphrodite.
The watchers turned and looked at
each other in wonder. Truly their task
of civilizing a savage would not lack
in interest The old general was better
pleased, however, at this display of ac-tivity
and excitement than at yester-day's
taciturnity. He loved spirit even
if it had to be subdued, and he thought
on tho instant that he might possibly
come to look upon tho fair savage as nu
actual and not a nominal daughter-in-law.
He hud a ke.-u appreciation ol
courage, and he thought he saw in her
face, as she turned upon them, a look
el' defiance or daring, and nothing could
have got at his nature quicker. If the
case hod not been so near to his own
hearthstone, he would have chuckled.
As it was, he said good hamoredly that
Mackenzie and Marion s,'iould go and
bring her back. But Mackenzie was al-ready
at that duty. Mr'. Armour had
had tho presence of mind to send for Col-vin,
bnt presently, when the general
spoke, she thought it better that Marion
should go and counseled returning to
breakfast and not making the matter of
too much importance. This they did,
Richurd very reluctantly, while Ma-rion,
rather pleased than not at the
spirit shown by the strange girl, ran
away over tho grass toward the lake,
where Lali had now stopped
There was a little bridge at one point
where the lake narrowed, and-Lali, evi-dently
seeing it all at ouoe, went to-ward
it and ran up on it, standing
poised above the water about the mid-dle
of it. For an instant an unpleasant
possibility came into Marion's mind—
suppose the excited girl intended sui-cide!
She shivored as she thought of it
and yet— She put that horribly cruel
and selfish thought away foin her with
an indignant word at herself. She had
passed Mackenzie and come first to the
lake. Here sho slackened and waved
her hand playfully to the girl, so as not
to frighten her, and then with a forced
langh came up panting on the bridgo
and was presently by Lali's sida Lali
eyed her a little furtively, but seeing
that Marion was mnch inclined to be
pleasant she nodded to her, said some
Indian words hastily and spread out
her hands toward the water. As she did
so Marion noticed again the beauty of
thoso hands and the graceful character
of tho gesture, so much so that she for-got
the flat hair, and the uustayed body,
and the rather broad feet, and the deli-cate
duskiness, which had so worked on
her in imagination and in fact the even-ing
before. She put her hand kindly on
that long slimhand stretched outbeside
her, and leoaoM she knew not what
else to si i ,.k and because the tongue is
very pervi e at times, saying tho oppo-site
of what is expectod, she herself
blundered UL "How. how. Lali I"
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remaps l.aii wai BS muun -...,
at the remark as Marion Herself Kit,'
certainly- »i ry much mure delight* u
The sound of thoee familiar wm-:-.
spoken byaccidi ut, as they were, openeu
(he way to a better understanding a
nothing else could possibly have done.
Marion was annoyed at herself and yet !
amused too it' her mind had been per-fectly
assured regarding Captain VI
dall, it is probable that then and there e
peculiar, a genial, comradeship would
have been formed. As il was. Marion
found this little cent more endurable
than she expected. She also found that
Lali, when she laughed in pleasant ac-knowledgment
of that "How" had re-markably
white and regular teeth. In
deed Marion Armour began to discover
some estimable points in the appearance
of her savage si-^ti r-in-law. Marion re-marked
t.i henelf that Lali might be
rather striking person if she were dre-ed,
as her mother said, in Christian gar
incuts and could speak the English lan-guage
well—and was somebody else'.-,
sister-in-law.
At this point Mackenzie came breath-lessly
to tho bridgo and called out si
sharply to Lali, rebuking her. In this
Mackenzie made a mistake, for not only
did Lali draw herself op with considi r-able
dignity, but Marion, nothing the
masterful nature of the tone, Instantlj
said: "Mackenzie, you must rememl t
that you are speaking to Mra Franci
Armour, and that her position in Gen
eral Armour's house is the same i
mine. 1 hope it is not necessary to saj
anything more, Mackenzie."
Mackenzie flushed, Sim was a sensi
ble woman, she knew that she had dom
wrong, and sho said very promptly: "1
am very sen y, miss. I was flnstl n i
and I expect I haven't got U8) d tospeo .
ing to—to Mrs. Armour as I'll be BD
to do in the future."
As she spoke two or three deer cam
trotting out of the beeches down to the
lakeside. If Lali was pleased and ex-cited
before, she was overwhelmed now
Her breath came in Quiok gaspa "; ■
laughed, sho tossed her hands, she so an
ed to become dizzy with delight, and
presently, as if this new link with and
reminder of her past had moved her RS
ono little expects a savage heart is mov-ed,
two tears gathered in her eyes, then
slid down her cheeks unheeded and dried
thero in the sunlight as she still gazed
at the deer. Marion, at first surprised,
Was now touched, as she could not have
thought it possible concerning this wild
creature, and her hand went out and
caught Lali's gently. At this genuine
act of sympathy, instinctively felt by
Lali—tho stranger in a strange land,
husbanded and yet a widow—there
came a flood of tears, and dropping oi
her knees she leaned against the le.
railing of the bridge ami wept silent1\
So passionless was her grief it seeim i
the more pathetic, and Marion dropp
on her knees beside her, put her an
round her shoulder and said: "Pox.
girl! Poor girl!"
At that Lnli caught her hand ano
held it, repeating after her the words.
'' Poor girl! Poor girl!''
She did not quite understand then:,
but she remembered that once just l»
fore she parted from her husband at tI-«
great lakes he had said those vei;
words. If the fates had apparently givi i
things into Frank Armour's hands win :
he sacrificed this girl to his rcveng'
they were evidently inclined to play
game which would eventually defeat
his purpose, wicked as it had been in
effect if not in absolute motive. What
the end of this attempt to engraft the
Indian girl upon the strictest conven-tion
of English social life would have
been had her introduction not been at
Greyhope, whore faint likenesses to her
past surrounded her, it is hard to con-jecture.
But from present appearances
it would team that Hichard Armour
was not wholly a false prophet, for the
savage had showu herself '.hut morning
to possess in their crudenUH some strik-ing
qualities of character. Given char-acter,
many things are possible, even to
those who are not of the elect
This was the beginning of better
things. Lali seemed to the Armours not
quite so impossible now. Had she been
of tho very common order of Indian,
"pure and simple, "the task had re-solved
itself into making a common
savage into a very common European.
But whatever Lali was it was abun-dantly
evident that she must be reckoned
with at all points, and that she was
more likely to become a very startling
figure in the Armour household than a
mere enoumbranoe to be blushed for,
whose eternal absence were preferable
to her company.
Years after that first morning Marion
caught herself shuddering at the
thought that came to her when she saw
Lali hovering on the bridge. Whatever
Marion's faults were, sho had a fine dis-like
of anything that seemed unfair.
She had not ridden to hounds for noth-ing.
She had at heart the sportman's
instinct It was upon this basis indeed
that Richard appealed to her in the first
trying days of Lali's life among them.
To oppose your will to Marion on the
basis of superior knowledge was only to
turn her into a rebel) and a very effect
ive rebel sho made, for she had a pretty
gift at the retort courteous, and she
could tako as much and as well as she
gave. Sho rebelled at first at assist M
in Lali's education, though by fits and
Starts she would teach her Kliglish
words and help her to form long sen-tences
and was on the whole quite pa-tient
But Lali's real instructors war
Mrs. Armour and Richard; her best.
Wnfii-"
The first few days she made but little
progress, for everything was strange to
her, and things made her giddy—the
servants, tho formal routine, tho hand-some
furnishings, Marion's music, the
great house, the many precise personal
duties set for her to bo got through at
Stated times and Mrs. Armour's rather
grand manner. But there was the relief
to this, else the girl had pined terribly
for her native woods and prairies. This
was the park, the deer, the lake, the
harei and birds. While sho sat saying
over after Mrs. Armour words and
phra* I in English or was being shown
how she must put on ami wear the
sashes which a dressmaker from Regent
street had been brought to make, her
eyes would wander dreamily to the
tn i -, and the lake, and the grass. They
soon discovered that she would pay no
attention and WM straightway difficult
to teach if she was not placed where sho
could look out on the park. Thoy had
no choice, for though her resistance was
never active it was nevertheless effect-ive.
Presently she got on very swiftly
with Richard, for he, with instinct
worthy of a woman, turned their les-sons
upon her own country and Frank.
This cost him something, but it had its
reward. There was no more listlessncss.
Previously Frank's name had scarcely
been spoken toiler. Mr.-. Armour would
have hours of hesitation and Impotent
regret before she brought herself to
speak of her son to his Indian wife.
Marion tried to do it a few times and
failed. The general did it with rather
a forced voice and manner, because ho
saw that his wife was very tender upon
the point. But Hichard, who never
knew self consciousness, spoke freely of
Frank when he spoke at all, and it was
si sing Lali -eyes brighten and her look
earnestly Axed on him when he chanced
to mention Frank's nan o that determin-ed
him on his mw method of Instruc-tion.
It had its dangers but he had oal
ciliated them all. The ( ul must be edu-cated
at all oats. Tii" sooner that i
ourreil the so. LII* wm Id she see hi rov u
position in 'I iry to i.dupt herself to hi i
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of h»r bus., m.'s nt:itv.de toward her.
He sue- ec!,d ; ds ;ml "y Strivil •
to tell him llbor.t 111 t 1 OSt life a,
ready to talk endlessly about bcrhm
band, of his prov.es. 1:1 the hu.it. of lit*
strength i.ml beauty, she also strove to
find English words tor ihe purpose, and
Richard supplied them with nucoiuinon
willingness. He humored her so far as
to learn many Indian words and phrases,
but be was chary of his use of them and
tried hard to make her appreciative ot
her now life and surroundings. He
watched her waking slowing to an un-derstanding
of the life and of all that
it involved. It gave him a kind of fear,
too, because she was sensitive, and
there was the possible danger of her
growing disheartened or desperate and
I doing some mad thing in the hour that
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