The Conshohocken Recorder, November 23, 1894

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NO. 1880. CONSHOIIOCKEN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 33, 1894. ji» 1.00 FEU FEAR
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tie rend over theft Infrequent letten ii
him; his to them had been n(ill m«r..
lnfreq..i'iit. In one there was the itatt
merit tliut "she was pro+rressinK favor
ably with her English," in auotlui
that "she was riding a good deal,'
•gain that "she appeared anxiom> to
adapt herself to her new life."
At nil these he whistled a little to
himself and smiled bitterly. Then, all
• at once, he got up and straightway
burned them all. He again tried to put
the matter behind him for the present,
knowing that he must face it one day,
\ and staving off its reality as long at
possible. He did his utmost to bo philo-sophical
and say his quid refert, but it
•was easier tried than done, for Jacques
Pontiac's words kept rankling in his
mind, and he found himself carrying
round a vague load which made him
abstracted occasionally and often a lit-tle
reckless in action and speech. In
hunting bear and moose he had proved
himself more daring than the oldest
hunter and proportionately nimiwwifiil
He paid his -i wants well, hut was
sharp with them. Ho made long, hind
expeditions, defying the weather as the
hardiest of prairie and mountain men
mostly hesitate to defy it. He bought
np much land, then, dissatisfied, Bold
it again at a loss, hut subsequently
made final arrangements for establish-ing
a very huge farm.
When he onoe became actually inter
ested in this, he shook off something of
his Bloodiness and settled himself to de-velop
the thing. Ho had good talent for
initiative and administration and at
last, in the timo when his wife was a
feature of the London season, he found
his scheme in working order, and the
necessity of going to England was Coned
upon him.
Actually he wished that the absolute
necessity had presented itself before
There was always the moral necessity,
of course—but then I Here now was it
business need, and he must go. Yet he
did not fix a day or make definite or-rongementH.
He could hardly have be-lieved
himself such a coward. With
liberal emphasis he called himself a
, sneak, and 0110 day at Fort Charles sat
down to writo to his solicitor in Mont
real to say that ho would come on at
once. Still he hesitated. As he sot there
thinking Eye-of-the-Moon, his father
in-law, opened the door quietly and en-tered.
He had avoided the chief ever
since he had come back to Fort Charles
and practically had not spoken to him
for a year. Armour flushed slightly
with annoyance. But presently, with a
touch of his old humor, he rose, held
out his hand and said ironically: "Well.
father-in-law, it's about time we had a
big talk, isn't it? We aro not very in-timate
for such close relatives."
The old Indian did not fully under
stand the meaning or the tone of Ar-mour's
speech, but ho said, "How!"
and reaching out his hand for the pipe
offered him lighted it and sat down,
smoking in silence. Armour waited;
but, seeing that the othor was not yet
moved to talk, ho turned to his lettei
again. After a time Bye-of-the-Moon
said gravely, getting to his feet,
"Brother!"
Armour looked up; then rose also.
The Indian bowed lo him courteously;
then sat down again. Armour threw a
leg over the eornor of the table and
waited.
"Brother, " said the Indian present
y, "you at ■■ of the i at race that con
quers us. You come and take our land
and our game, mid we have to beg of
you for food and shelter. Then you take
our daughters, and we know not where
they go. They are gone, like the dowil
from the thistle. We see then not, b.
you remain. And men say evil thing!
There are bad words abroad. Unit In i
what have you done with niv daugli
ter?"
Had tho Indian come and stormce.
begged money of him, sponged on hi:
or abused him he had taken it ver;
Calmly. Ho, in fact, had been superb.'
But there was dignity in the chief
manner; there was solemnity in hi
speech; his voice conveyed resolutene;-?
and earnestness, which the stoic calm
•f his face might not have suggested,
and Armour felt that he had no advan-tage
at all. Boside, Arn our had a con-science,
though he had played some rare
tricks with it of late, and it needed
more hardihood than he possessed to
face this old man down. And why face
him down? Lali was his daughter,
blood of his blood, the chieftainess of
one branch of his people, honored at
least among these poor savages, and the
old man had a right to a-k, as asked
another more famous, "Whore is my
daughter?"
His hands in his pockets, Armonr sat
silent for a minute, eying his boot as he
swung his leg to and fra Presently he
miAi "flWnf-rho-Moan. I don't think
. ,,.II ..«.* us poetically as you, even in
my own language, and I shall not try,
but I should like to ask you this, Do
yon believe any harm has come to your
daughter—to my wifeV"
The old Indian forgot to blow the to-bacco
smoke from his mouth, und as he
sat debating, lips slightly apart, it came
leaking o«l in little trailing clouds and
gave a strange appearance to his iron
featured face. He looked steadily at
Armour und said: "You are of those
who rule iu your land"—here Armour
protested—"you have much gold to buy
and sell. I am a chief"—he drew him-self
np—"I am poor. We speak with
the straight tongue. It is cowards who
lia Speak del p, as from the heart, my
brother, and tell mo where my daugh-ter
is."
Armour could not but respect the
chief for the way this request was put,
but still it ailed him to think that be
was under HOSpioiOU of having done any
bodily injury to his wife, so he quietly
persisted, "Do you think I have don •
Lali any barm?"
"Tho thing is strange," replied the
other. "You are of those who aro greu
among your people. You married
daughter of a red man. Then she w
yours for less than one moon, and yi
sent ln-r far away, and you staid I
father was as a dog in your sight. I.
men whose hearts are clear act so? 'I
have said strange things of yon. I h: .
not believed, but it is good I know
that I may say to the tale bearers, "i
havo crooked tongues.' "
Armour sat for a moment longer,
face turned to the open window-was
perfectly still, but ho had been.
A
"Brother, what hove you done with my
ilnifjltlt ri"
grave. He was about to reply to the
chief when tho trader entered the room
hurriedly with a newspaper in his hand.
He paused abruptly when he saw Eye
of-the-Moon Armour felt that the
trader had something important to com-municate.
He guessed it was in the pa
per. He mutely held out bishandforit.
The trader banded it to him he-itatin::
ly, at the same time pointing to a para
graph and saying: "It is nearly tWi
years old, as you sea I chanced upon it
by accident today. "
It was a copy of a London evening
paper containing a somewhat sins::
tioual account of Lali's accident. It said
that she was in a critical condition
This time Armour did not ask for
brandy, but the trader put it out beside
him. He shook his head. "Gordon,"
ho said presently, "I shall leave here
in tho morning. Please send my men to
me."
Tho trader whispered to him: "She
was all right, of course, long ago, Mr
Armour, or you would have heard."
Armour looked at the date of tho pa
per. He had several letters from Eng-land
of a later date, and these said noth-ing
of her illness. It bewildered him;
made him uneasy. Perhaps the first real
sense of his duty as a husband came
home to him there. For the first tim
he was anxious about the woman for
her own sake. The trader had left the
room.
"What a scoundrel I've been!" said
Armour between his teeth, oblivious for
the moment of Eye-of-the Moon's pres-ence.
Presently, bethinking himself, he
turned to the Indian. "I've been debat
ing," he said. "Eye-of-thc-Moon, my
wife is in England, at my father's home.
I am going to her. Men have lied in
thinking I would do her any injury,
but, but—never mind, the harm was ot
another kind. It isn't wise for a white
man and an Indian to marry, but when
they are married—well, they must live
as man and wife should live, and, as I
said, I am going to my wife—your
daughter."
To say all this to a common Indian
whose only property was a half dozen
ponies and a couple of tepees required
something very like moral courage, but.
then, Armour had not been exercising
moral courage during the last year or so.
and It ',. to him.
The next moJ ii; | be v. as i i I Is way to
Eye- 'the Mo HI « is the
riches) chn ; iu Rr>.tisb Noi th Amei li
at that momi nt by 0 s so.
I HAI'liMi V111.
It was 11 II i on Man]
people had left town, but l'estiwli.-
\M re still on, To ■ strangi r the
might have seemed at its height. The
Armours Were giving a large party in
Cavendish square before going baob
again to Greyhope, where, for thei
i Lali and In r child, they intended to re-main
during the rest of the rammer in
Ereference to going on tho continent or
) Scotland. The only unsatisfactory
I feature of Lali's season was the absence
of her husband Naturally there wen
those who said st range things regarding
1 Frank Armour's stay in America, but i(
was pretty generally kuowu that he WSJ
| engaged in laud speculations, and hi.-
olub friends, who perhaps took tho
pleasautest view of tho matter, said that
he was very wise indeed,if a little cow
ardly, in staving abroad until his wife
was educated and ready to take her po-sition
in society. There was one thing
on which they all agreed—Mrs. Frank
Armour either had u mind superior to
the charms of their sex or was incapa
bio of that vanity which hath many
suitors and says, "So far shalt thou go.
and"
The fact is, Mrs. Frank Armour s
niiiid was superior. She had only one
object—to triumph over her husband
grandly, as a woman righteously might
She had vanity, of course, bat it was
not ignoble. She kept one thing in
view; she lived for it, Her translation
hud been successful. There were times
when she remembered her father, tin
wild days on the prairies, the buffal)
hunt, tracking the deer, tribal battles,
the long silent hours of the winter and
the warm summer nights when she slept
ill the prairie grass OT camped with her
people in the trough Of B great land
wave Sometimes the hunger for its
freedom, and its idll ueSS, and its spoi
came to her greatly, but .-lie thought o;
her child, und sin- put it from her. She
was ambit! cs for him; she was keen to
prove her worth as a wife against her
hnsbiiud's auwarthhu -s. Tins perhaps
saved bi r. te mi 111 uave lost had be)
life been without (his motive.
The very morning oi this notable re-ception
General Armour had received :.
note from Frank Armour's solicitor say
ing that his son v.us likely to arrive i.
London from America that day or th.
next. Frank had writtiu to his people m i
word of his coming. To his wife, as v.
have said, he had not written for month . ,
and before be started back he won
not write, because he wished to ma!
what amends he could in person. 1
expected to find la r improved, of cents
but still he could only think of her H
an Indian, showing Inr common prair
origin. His knowledge of her i
their marriage had been particular
brief. She was little more in his ej
than a thousand other Indian womei
save that she w:,s better looking, «.
whiter than most and had liner featun
Ho could not vi ly clearly remember t
tones of lie voice, because after mi:.
riage and be:..;e be had sent her to Ell;
land he had seen littlo or nothing i .
her.
When General Armour received tin
news of Frank's return, he told his w:
and Marion, and they consulted togeth. i
whether it were good to let Lali kno
at once. He a ij bt arrive that evenin
If so, the pi sition would be awln
because it was Impossible to tell bow it
might affect her. If they did tell h ,
and Frank happened not to arrive, it
might unnerve her so as to make her
appearance in the evening doubtful.
Eticbard, the wiseacre, the Inexhausti
bio Richard, was oaring far his cottagi.
and cutting the leaves of new books—
his chief pleasure—at. Greyhope. The>
felt it wus a matter they ought t..
bo able to decide for themselves, but
still it was tho last evening of Lali's
stay in town, and they did not care to
take any risk. Strungo to say, they had
como to take pride in their sou's wife, for
even General and Mrs. Armour, high
minded and of serene social status as
they were, seemed not quite insensible
to the pleasure of being an axlo on
which a system of social notoriety re
volved.
At the opportune moment Captain
Vidall was announced, and because he
and Marion were soon to carry but om
name between them he was oalled into
family consultation. It is somewhat
singular that in this case the women
were quite wrong and the men were
quite right, for General Armour and
Captain Vidall were for silence until
Frank came, if ho came that day, or foi
telling her tho following morning, when
tho function was ovor. And the men
prevailed
Marion was much excited all day. She
had given orders that Frank's room
should be made ready, but for who i
she gavo no information. While Lali
was dressing for the evening, somewhat
excited and nervous, she entered hei
room. They were now the best oi
friends. Tho years had seen many shift
ing scenes in their companionship.
They had been as often at war as at
peace, hut they had respeoted each
other, each after her own fashion, an i
now they had a real and mutual regard
Lali's was a slim, lithe figure, WOfl
ing its fashionable robes with an air od
possession, and the face above it, if no)
entirely beautiful, had a strange, wai
fascination. The girl had not been a
ssueftainess for nothing. A look of
iu was mere, uui aioo .
i 'i gave a fail
look even when a ami] -
lips. The smile itself did II il
■ quickly—it grew—but al
was bair of perfect brown, most rare,
setting oil her la ■ as a plume d
helmet. She showed no surprise
Marion entered She welcomed bexwil
R smile and outstretched hand, but tn
nothing.
"Lali," said Marion somewhat ab
ruptly—she scarcely knew why she dill
It—"aro you happy'/ '
It was strange btf the Indian giri
bad taken on those little manners of so
ciety which convey so much by inflec-tion.
She lifted her eyebrows at Marion
and said presently in a soft, deliberate
voice, "Come, Marion, we will go and
see little Richard; then I shall be
happy."
She linked her arm through Marion's.
Marion drummed her fingers lightly on
the beautiful arm and then fell to won-dering
what she should say next They
passed into the room where the child
lay sleeping. They went to his little
bed, and Lali stretched out her hand
gently, touching the curls of the child.
Running a finger through one delicate-ly,
she said, with a still softer tone than
before, ''Why should not one be happy?''
Marion looked up slowly into her
evi -, let a hand fall on her shoulder
gently and replied, "Lali, do you never
wish Frank to come?"
Lali's fingers came from the child,
tho color mounted slowly to her fore-head,
and she drew the girl away again
into the other room. Then she turned
and faced Morion, a deep fire in her
eyes, and said in a whisper almost
hoarse in its intensity, "Yes, I wish he
would come tonight."
She looked harder yet at Marion.
Then, with a flash of pride and her
hands clasping before her, she drew her
self up and added: "Am I not worthy
to be his wife now? Am I not beautiful
—for a savage?"
There was no common vanity in the
BOtiOO. It had a noble kind of wistful
in-, and a serenity that entirely re-deemed
it. Marion dated her own hap
piness from the time when Lali met In I
accident, for tho evening of that disas
trons day she issued to Captain Hun..
Vidall a commission which he conic
never, wished never to, resign. Since
then she'hud been at her best—wean-all
more or le-s sellish creatures—and
had grown gentler, curbing the delicaii
impcriousin ss of her nature and frank-ly
and without the least pique taken a
secondary position of interest in the
household, occasioned by Luli's popu-larity.
She looked Lali up and down
with a glance in which many feelings
met, and then, catching her hands
warmly, she lifted them, put them on
her own shoulders and said, "My dear,
beautiful savage, you are fit and worth;
to bo queen of England, and Frank.
when he comes"
"Hush!" said the other dreamily, and
put a linger on Marion's lips. "I know
what you aro going to say, but I do m it
wish to hear it. Ho did not love me
then. He used me"— She shuddered,
put her hands to her eyes with a pained.
trembling motion, then threw her lie: il
back with a quick sigh. "But 1 will not
speak of it. Come, prepare for the
dance, Marion It is the last tonight,
Tomorrow"— She paused, looking
straight boforo hor. lost iu thouir.hr.
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