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diff --git a/41273-h/41273-h.htm b/41273-h/41273-h.htm index 9c0d56c..e5e8a44 100644 --- a/41273-h/41273-h.htm +++ b/41273-h/41273-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Story of Tonty, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood: A Project Gutenberg eBook. @@ -130,45 +130,7 @@ a:link.nodec { text-decoration: none; } </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's The Story of Tonty, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Story of Tonty - -Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood - -Release Date: November 2, 2012 [EBook #41273] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TONTY *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, KD Weeks and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41273 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> @@ -234,7 +196,7 @@ By A. C. McClurg and Co.<br /> <tr><td class="tdr">I.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_I"><span class="smcap">In an Eagle’s Nest</span></a></td><td class="tdr">167</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">II.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_II"><span class="smcap">The Friend and Brother</span></a></td><td class="tdr">176</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">III.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_III"><span class="smcap">Half-Silence</span></a></td><td class="tdr">188</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdr">IV.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_IV"><span class="smcap">A Fête on the Rock</span></a></td><td class="tdr">200</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdr">IV.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_IV"><span class="smcap">A Fête on the Rock</span></a></td><td class="tdr">200</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">V.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_V"><span class="smcap">The Undespairing Norman</span></a></td><td class="tdr">210</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">VI.</td><td class="pad2"><a class="nodec" href="#III_VI"><span class="smcap">To-Day</span></a></td><td class="tdr">224</td></tr> </table> @@ -334,7 +296,7 @@ tightly braided down one side, with the opposite half flowing loose.</p> <p>Montreal behind its palisades made a dim background to all this early illumination,—few domestic candles shining through windows or glancing -about the Hôtel Dieu as the nuns began their morning devotions. Mount +about the Hôtel Dieu as the nuns began their morning devotions. Mount Royal now flickered a high shadow, and now massed inertly against stars; but the river, breathing forever like some colossal creature, reflected all the camp-fires in its moving scales.</p> @@ -346,7 +308,7 @@ governor-general’s fleet was in sight.</p> <p>Montreal flocked to the wharf where already the savages were arrayed in solemn ranks. Marching out of the fortress with martial music, past the -Hôtel Dieu to the landing-place where Frontenac must step from his boat, +Hôtel Dieu to the landing-place where Frontenac must step from his boat, came<a class="pagenum" name="Page_14" title="14"></a> the remnant of the Carignan regiment. Even the Sulpitian brotherhood, whose rights as seigniors of Montreal island this governor had at one time slighted, appeared to do him honor. And gentle nuns of @@ -591,7 +553,7 @@ thumb. Tonty threw his arm across her shoulder and moved her on toward the convent. Barbe escaped from this touch, an entirely new matter filling her mind.</p> -<p>“Monsieur, even old Jonaneaux in our Hôtel Dieu hath not such a heavy +<p>“Monsieur, even old Jonaneaux in our Hôtel Dieu hath not such a heavy hand as thou hast. Many a time hath he pulled me down off the palisade when I looked over to see the coureurs<a class="pagenum" name="Page_26" title="26"></a> de bois go roaring by. But thou hast a hand like iron!”</p> @@ -641,8 +603,8 @@ eyes. She consoled him.</p> <p class="p2">“Thou art a comfort to a soldier, mademoiselle,” said Tonty, heartily.</p> <p>“But not to a priest,” observed Barbe. “For last birthday when I was -eleven my uncle Abbé stuck out his lip and said I was eleven years bad. -But my uncle La Salle kissed my cheek. There goeth François le Moyne.” +eleven my uncle Abbé stuck out his lip and said I was eleven years bad. +But my uncle La Salle kissed my cheek. There goeth François le Moyne.” Her face became suddenly distorted with grimaces of derision beside which Tonty could scarcely keep his gravity. A boy of about her own age ran past, dropping her a sneer for her pains.</p> @@ -711,7 +673,7 @@ hath interceded for me.”</p> <p>“Monsieur de Tonty will observe we have saints among the savages in New France,” said the other man.</p> -<p>He was a Récollet friar with sandalled feet, wearing a gray capote of +<p>He was a Récollet friar with sandalled feet, wearing a gray capote of coarse texture which was girt with the cord of Saint Francis. His peaked hood hung behind his shoulders leaving his shaven crown to glisten with rosy enjoyment of the sunlight. A crucifix hung at his side; but no man @@ -799,7 +761,7 @@ king, Sieur de la Salle was made seignior of Fort Frontenac and lands thereabout. This hast thou ever since bitterly chewed to the poisoning of thy immortal soul.”</p> -<p>“You churchmen all,—Jesuits, Sulpitians, or Récollets,—are over +<p>“You churchmen all,—Jesuits, Sulpitians, or Récollets,—are over zealous to domineer in this colony,” spoke Jacques le Ber, through the effort of carrying his bale.</p> @@ -1134,7 +1096,7 @@ folded the crucifix within her hands.</p> practical gaze remained on her youthful brier-crowned head. He heard a girl in front of him laugh to a courtier who was flattering her.</p> -<p>“Hé, monsieur, I have myself seen Quebec women who dressed with odious +<p>“Hé, monsieur, I have myself seen Quebec women who dressed with odious taste.”</p> <p>But Jeanne, wrapped in her own relation, continued with a tone which @@ -1238,7 +1200,7 @@ gras, castor demi-gras, et castor sec.”</p> <p>The booths were hung with finery, upon which squaws stood gazing with a stoical eye to be envied by civilized woman.</p> -<p>The cassocks of Sulpitians and gray capotes of Récollet +<p>The cassocks of Sulpitians and gray capotes of Récollet Fathers—favorites of Frontenac who hated Jesuits—penetrated in constant supervision every recess of the beaver fair. Yet in spite of this religious care rum was sold, its effects increasing as the day @@ -1283,7 +1245,7 @@ moving swarm, although she dragged his arm.</p> <p>“Thou canst here see all there is of it, Barbe. The nuns did well to oppose your looking on this roaring commerce. You should be housed -within the Hôtel Dieu all this day, had I not spoken a careless word +within the Hôtel Dieu all this day, had I not spoken a careless word yesterday. You saw the governor’s procession. To-morrow he will start on his return. And I with my men go to Fort Frontenac.”</p> @@ -1355,7 +1317,7 @@ behind with Monsieur de Tonty or my brother.”</p> credit besides,” said a priest wearing the Sulpitian dress. He stopped before them and looked sternly at Barbe.</p> -<p>The Abbé Jean Cavelier had not such robust manhood as his brother. In +<p>The Abbé Jean Cavelier had not such robust manhood as his brother. In him the Cavelier round lower lip and chin protruded, and the eyebrows hung forward.</p> @@ -1379,14 +1341,14 @@ Barbe, to his unspoken rebuke.</p> <p>“Into whose charge were your brother and yourself put when your parents died?”</p> -<p>“Into the charge of my uncle the Abbé Cavelier.”</p> +<p>“Into the charge of my uncle the Abbé Cavelier.”</p> <p>“Who brought your brother and you to this colony that he might watch over your nurture?”</p> -<p>“My uncle the Abbé Cavelier.”</p> +<p>“My uncle the Abbé Cavelier.”</p> -<p>“It is therefore your uncle the Abbé Cavelier who will decide when to +<p>“It is therefore your uncle the Abbé Cavelier who will decide when to turn you out among Indians and traders.”</p> <p>“You carry too bitter a tongue, my brother Jean,” observed La Salle. @@ -1409,7 +1371,7 @@ defend him against his enemies.”</p> <p>As soon as this regret had burst from the explorer, he rested his look again on Tonty.</p> -<p>“I do defend you,” asserted Abbé Cavelier; “and more than that I +<p>“I do defend you,” asserted Abbé Cavelier; “and more than that I impoverish myself for you. But now that you come riding back from France on a high tide of the king’s favor, I may not lay a correcting word on your haughty spirit. Neither yesterday nor to-day could I bring you to @@ -1417,11 +1379,11 @@ any reasonable state of humility. And all New France in full cry against you!”</p> <p>Extreme impatience darkened La Salle’s face; but without further reply -he drew Barbe’s hand and turned back with her toward the Hôtel Dieu. She -had watched her uncle the Abbé wrathfully during his attack upon La +he drew Barbe’s hand and turned back with her toward the Hôtel Dieu. She +had watched her uncle the Abbé wrathfully during his attack upon La Salle, but as he dropped his eyes no more to her level she was obliged to carry away her undischarged anger. This she did with a haughty -bearing so like La Salle’s that the Abbé grinned at it through his +bearing so like La Salle’s that the Abbé grinned at it through his fretfulness.</p> <p>He grew conscious of alien hair bristling against his neck as a voice @@ -1429,13 +1391,13 @@ mocked in undertone directly below his ear,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_68" tit <p>“Yonder struts a great Bashaw that will sometime be laid low!”</p> -<p>The Abbé turned severely upon a person who presumed to tickle a priest’s +<p>The Abbé turned severely upon a person who presumed to tickle a priest’s neck with his coarse mustache and astound a priest’s ear with threats.</p> <p>He recognized the man known as Jolycœur, who had been pushed against him in the throng. Jolycœur, by having his eyes fixed on the disappearing figure of La Salle, had missed the ear of the person he -intended to reach. He recoiled from encountering the Abbé, whose wrath +intended to reach. He recoiled from encountering the Abbé, whose wrath with sudden ebb ran back from a brother upon a brother’s foes.</p> <p>“You are the fellow I saw whining yesterday at Sieur de la Salle’s @@ -1550,17 +1512,17 @@ an officer who had served under La Salle.”</p> <p>The commandant made no retort, but said,—</p> <p>“Monsieur, I had almost forgotten to tell you we have another fair -demoiselle within our walls to the honor of Fort Frontenac. The Abbé<a class="pagenum" name="Page_75" title="75"></a> +demoiselle within our walls to the honor of Fort Frontenac. The Abbé<a class="pagenum" name="Page_75" title="75"></a> Cavelier with men from Lachine, arrived this morning, his young niece being with him. There are brave women in Montreal.”</p> <p>“That is right,—that is right!” exclaimed the irritable merchant. “Call all the Cavelier family hither and give up the fortress. I heard the -Abbé had ventured ahead of me.”</p> +Abbé had ventured ahead of me.”</p> <p>“Monsieur le Ber, what can they do against the king and the governor? Both king and governor have dispossessed La Salle. I admitted him as any -wayfarer. The Abbé Cavelier came with a grievance against his brother. +wayfarer. The Abbé Cavelier came with a grievance against his brother. He hath lost money by him the same as others.”</p> <p>“Thou shalt not be kept longer in the night air,” said Le Ber, with @@ -1602,7 +1564,7 @@ and cannot now return with?”</p> <p>“Mademoiselle le Ber is most welcome to my<a class="pagenum" name="Page_77" title="77"></a> own apartment, monsieur, and I will myself come downstairs.”</p> -<p>“One near mine for yourself, monsieur. But with the Abbé and his niece +<p>“One near mine for yourself, monsieur. But with the Abbé and his niece and the boy and La Salle and Father Hennepin, to say no more, can we have many empty rooms? Father Hennepin is lodged downstairs, but La Salle hath his old room overlooking the river.”</p> @@ -1696,7 +1658,7 @@ stone blind to the blessings of Heaven!”</p> <p class="p2">The lower room of the officers’ lodging was filled with the light of a fire. To the hearth was drawn a half-circle of men, their central figure -being a Récollet friar, so ragged and weather-stained that he seemed +being a Récollet friar, so ragged and weather-stained that he seemed some ecclesiastical scarecrow placed there to excite laughter and tears in his beholders.</p> @@ -1724,7 +1686,7 @@ missionary among the Sioux, and sufferer in the cause of religion.”</p> Le Ber with freedom of manner he never assumed toward any other priest.</p> <p>The merchant stood upon the hearth steaming in front of the tattered -Récollet, who from his seat regarded his half-enemy with a rebuking eye +Récollet, who from his seat regarded his half-enemy with a rebuking eye impressive to the other men.</p> <p>“Jacques le Ber, my son, while your greedy hands have been gathering @@ -1759,7 +1721,7 @@ said, with the im<a class="pagenum" name="Page_84" title="84"></a>mediate benevo reached his point of view. “When I have had supper with my daughter I will sit down here and beg you to tell me all that befell your wanderings, and what savages they were who received the faith at your -hands, and how the Sieur de la Salle hath turned even a Récollet Father +hands, and how the Sieur de la Salle hath turned even a Récollet Father against himself.”</p> <p>“Perhaps Father Hennepin will tell about his buffalo hunt,” suggested @@ -2013,7 +1975,7 @@ When Barbe had considered her astounding position as the only woman in Fort Frontenac, and felt well com<a class="pagenum" name="Page_97" title="97"></a>pacted for farther adventures, she sprung upon the bunk, and stood with her head near the roof, looking out into the fortress and its adjacent world. Among moving figures she could -not discern her uncle La Salle, or her uncle the Abbé, or even her +not discern her uncle La Salle, or her uncle the Abbé, or even her brother. These three must be yet in the officers’ house. Dull clouds were scudding. As Barbe opened the sash and put her head out the morning air met her with a chill. Fort Frontenac’s great walls half hid an @@ -2032,7 +1994,7 @@ orders. He approached the commandant who stood talking with Jacques le<a class=" Ber, the merchant of Montreal. Barbe could see Le Ber’s face darken. With shrugs and negative gestures he decided against the newcomer, and the sentinel again disappeared to refuse admission. She wondered if a -band of Iroquois waited outside. Among Abbé Cavelier’s complaints of La +band of Iroquois waited outside. Among Abbé Cavelier’s complaints of La Salle was Governor la Barre’s accusation that La Salle stirred enmity in the Iroquois by protecting the Illinois tribe they wished to exterminate.</p> @@ -2087,13 +2049,13 @@ you also to consider.”</p> <p>“It is not anything to eat, Colin—it is pressing need of my uncle La Salle!”</p> -<p>“The Abbé has pressing need of our uncle La Salle. It was great relief +<p>“The Abbé has pressing need of our uncle La Salle. It was great relief to catch him here at Frontenac. I have heard every bit of the lecture: -what amounts our uncle the Abbé has ventured in western explorations; +what amounts our uncle the Abbé has ventured in western explorations; and what a<a class="pagenum" name="Page_101" title="101"></a> fruitless journey he has made here to rescue for himself some of the stores of this fortress; and what danger all we Caveliers stand in of being poisoned on account of my uncle La Salle, so that the -Abbé can scarce trust us out of his sight, even with nuns guarding you.”</p> +Abbé can scarce trust us out of his sight, even with nuns guarding you.”</p> <p>To Barbe’s continued knocking her guardian made the curtest reply. He opened the door, looked at her sternly, saying, “Go away, mademoiselle,” @@ -2140,7 +2102,7 @@ Frontenac?” But this impulse passed into discreet silence, and the man let them out.</p> <p>They ran along the palisades southward, Barbe keeping abreast of Colin -though she made skimming dips as the swallow flies, and with a détour +though she made skimming dips as the swallow flies, and with a détour quite to the lake’s verge, avoided the foundation of an outwork.</p> <p>Father Hennepin’s cross stood up, a huge<a class="pagenum" name="Page_103" title="103"></a> white landmark between @@ -2279,7 +2241,7 @@ continued to comfort her after she was under shelter. Tonty bestowed it around her and closed the door again, leaving her in the dim place.</p> <p>Father Hennepin’s deserted chapel was of hewed logs like his dwelling. A -rude altar remained, but without any ornaments, for the Récollet had +rude altar remained, but without any ornaments, for the Récollet had carried these away to his western mission. Some unpainted benches stood in a row. The roof could be seen through rafters, and drops of rain with reiterating taps fell along the centre of the floor. A chimney of stones @@ -2486,7 +2448,7 @@ my letter of instructions, Tonty?”</p> <p>“Then, my lad, why have you abandoned the post and followed me? You should have stayed to be my representative. They have Frontenac.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_119" title="119"></a> -Crévecœur was ruined for us. If they get St. Louis of the Illinois +Crévecœur was ruined for us. If they get St. Louis of the Illinois entirely into their hands they will claim the whole of Louisiana, these precious Associates.”</p> @@ -2832,7 +2794,7 @@ back to his own world.</p> <p class="p2">Barbe ran breathless up the stairway, glad to catch sight of her uncle -the Abbé so occupied at the lower hearth that he took no heed of her +the Abbé so occupied at the lower hearth that he took no heed of her return.</p> <p>She had counted herself the only woman in Fort Frontenac, yet she found @@ -2917,11 +2879,11 @@ began to arrange the dishes with surly carelessness.</p> <p>The explorer forgot him the moment they entered, for two people occupied this room in<a class="pagenum" name="Page_142" title="142"></a> close talk. Challenging whatever ill Jacques le Ber and -the Abbé Cavelier had prepared, La Salle advanced beyond the table with +the Abbé Cavelier had prepared, La Salle advanced beyond the table with the chill and defiant bearing natural to him.</p> <p>“Monsieur le Ber and I have been discussing this alliance you are so -anxious to make with his family,” spoke the Abbé.</p> +anxious to make with his family,” spoke the Abbé.</p> <p>The explorer met Le Ber’s face full of that triumphant contempt which men strangely feel for other men who have fallen and become @@ -2934,7 +2896,7 @@ told you this morning, my brother La Salle, what madness it must seem to all sane men,—it could not be arranged. His daughter hath refused to see you.”</p> -<p>“My thanks are due to my brother the Abbé for his nice management of all +<p>“My thanks are due to my brother the Abbé for his nice management of all my affairs,” sneered La Salle. “I comprehend there is nothing which he will not endeavor to mar for me. It surely is madness which induces a man against all experience to confide in his brother.”</p> @@ -2944,7 +2906,7 @@ said, “In such coin of gratitude am I always paid.”</p> <p>“Sieur de la Salle,” volunteered Le Ber, rising and coming forward with natural candor, “it is not so long ago that your proposal would have -made me proud, and the Abbé hath not ill managed it now. Monsieur, I +made me proud, and the Abbé hath not ill managed it now. Monsieur, I wish my girl to marry. I have been ready for any marriage she would accept. She has indeed shown more liking for you than for any other man in New France. Monsieur, I would far rather have her married than bound @@ -2984,7 +2946,7 @@ might obtain a worse match for my girl.”</p> <p>“I will see her,” said La Salle, more in the manner of affirming his own wish than of accepting a concession.</p> -<p>He mounted the stairs, with Le Ber behind him, the Abbé Cavelier +<p>He mounted the stairs, with Le Ber behind him, the Abbé Cavelier following Le Ber.</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_145" title="145"></a></p> @@ -3095,7 +3057,7 @@ he strained sight for the slightest lifting of the veil before that self-restraining spirit.</p> <p>Barbe’s wailing suddenly broke all bounds in the outer room. “My uncle -the Abbé! Look at my uncle La Salle! He cannot breathe—he is going to +the Abbé! Look at my uncle La Salle! He cannot breathe—he is going to die! Somebody has poisoned or stabbed my uncle La Salle!”</p> <p>Jean Cavelier with lower outcry ran to help the explorer. But even a @@ -3142,7 +3104,7 @@ the angles of Fort Frontenac; but no sound which pierced the silence between La Salle and Jeanne le Ber.</p> <p>He turned around and cast himself through the doorway with a lofty tread -as if he were trying to mount skyward. The Abbé Cavelier extended both +as if he were trying to mount skyward. The Abbé Cavelier extended both arms and kept him from stumbling over the settle which Barbe was baptizing with her anguish. She looked up with the distorted visage of one who weeps terribly, and saw the groping explorer led to the @@ -3193,15 +3155,15 @@ errand.</p> <p>“What ails Sieur de la Salle?” inquired the cook, coming out of his bakehouse to get this news of a sentinel.</p> -<p>They both watched the Abbé Cavelier making vain efforts to get hold of +<p>They both watched the Abbé Cavelier making vain efforts to get hold of his misdirected brother.</p> <p>“Gone mad with pride,” suggested the sentinel. “The less he prospers the loftier I have always heard he bears himself. Would the governor of New France climb the wind with a tread like that?”</p> -<p>Outside the gate La Salle’s limbs failed. The laboring Abbé then dragged -him along, and it seemed an immense détour he was obliged to make to +<p>Outside the gate La Salle’s limbs failed. The laboring Abbé then dragged +him along, and it seemed an immense détour he was obliged to make to pass the extended foundation.</p> <p>“Now you will believe my words which I spoke this morning concerning the @@ -3232,7 +3194,7 @@ he had left behind him bound with hide thongs and lying in Father Hennepin’s inner room.</p> <p>“Yes, yonder comes your Monsieur de Tonty who so easily gave up your -post on the Illinois,” panted the Abbé Cavelier. “Like all your +post on the Illinois,” panted the Abbé Cavelier. “Like all your worthless followers he hath no attachment to your person.”</p> <p>“There is more love in his iron hand,” La Salle’s paralyzing mouth flung @@ -3240,7 +3202,7 @@ out, “than in any other living heart!”</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_158" title="158"></a></p> -<p>Needing no explanation from the Abbé, the commandant from Fort St. Louis +<p>Needing no explanation from the Abbé, the commandant from Fort St. Louis took strong hold of La Salle and hurried him to the mission house. They faced the wind, and Tonty’s cap blew off, his rings of black hair flaring to a fierce uprightness.</p> @@ -3290,7 +3252,7 @@ stood clear and fair, throwing its shadow across the mission house.</p> <p>Within the silent mission house warmth and redness were diffused from logs piled in the chimney.</p> -<p>The Abbé Cavelier’s cassock rose and fell with that sleep which follows +<p>The Abbé Cavelier’s cassock rose and fell with that sleep which follows great anxiety and exhaustion. He reclined against the lowest step of a broken ladder-way which once ascended from corner to loft. The men, except one who stood<a class="pagenum" name="Page_162" title="162"></a> guard outside in the shadow of the house, were @@ -3375,7 +3337,7 @@ priestly voice.</p> <p>“Joutel, what are you writing there?”</p> -<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, I was merely setting down a few words about this +<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, I was merely setting down a few words about this Fort St. Louis of the Illinois in which we are sheltered. But my candle is so nearly burned out I will put the leaves aside.”</p> @@ -3384,11 +3346,11 @@ his shoulders against the storehouse door.</p> <p>“Not a word, monsieur.”</p> -<p>The Abbé’s ragged cassock scarcely showed such wear as his face, which +<p>The Abbé’s ragged cassock scarcely showed such wear as his face, which the years that had handled him could by no means have cut into such deep grooves or moulded into such ghastly hillocks of features.</p> -<p>“I cannot sleep to-night, Joutel,” said the Abbé Cavelier.</p> +<p>“I cannot sleep to-night, Joutel,” said the Abbé Cavelier.</p> <p>“I thought you were made very comfortable in the house,” remarked Joutel.</p> @@ -3403,7 +3365,7 @@ nightly, took the complete rest he had earned by long tramping in southern woods.</p> <p>He rested his knuckles on the box and looked down. A Norman follower of -the Caveliers, he had done La Salle good service, but between the Abbé +the Caveliers, he had done La Salle good service, but between the Abbé and him lay a reason for silence.</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> @@ -3413,7 +3375,7 @@ and him lay a reason for silence.</p> <p class="caption">“Joutel, what are you writing there?”—<i>Page 169.</i></p> </div> -<p>“Tonty may reach the Rock at any time,”<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> complained the Abbé to the +<p>“Tonty may reach the Rock at any time,”<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> complained the Abbé to the floor, though his voice must reach Joutel’s ears. “There is nothing I dread more than meeting Tonty.”</p> @@ -3427,7 +3389,7 @@ without a canoe or any provision whatever for our journey!”</p> fifty Frenchmen to aid the new governor in his war against the Iroquois,” observed Joutel. “He may not come back at all.”</p> -<p>“I have thought of that,” the Abbé mused. “If Tonty be dead we are +<p>“I have thought of that,” the Abbé mused. “If Tonty be dead we are indeed wasting our time here, when we ought to be well on our<a class="pagenum" name="Page_173" title="173"></a> way to Quebec, to say naught of the voyage to France. But this fellow in charge of the Rock refuses to honor my demands without more authority.”</p> @@ -3436,7 +3398,7 @@ of the Rock refuses to honor my demands without more authority.”</p> Joutel.</p> <p>“I would be his guest no longer than this passing night if my -difficulties were solved,” said the Abbé. “For there is even Colin’s +difficulties were solved,” said the Abbé. “For there is even Colin’s sister to torment me. I know not where she is,—whether in Montreal or in the wilderness between Montreal and this fort. If I had taken her back with Colin to France, she would now be safe with my mother. There @@ -3451,23 +3413,23 @@ have a grant in this country to replace her fortune which he had used. And<a class="pagenum" name="Page_174" title="174"></a> this he only told me during his fever at St. Domingo on the voyage.”</p> -<p>Joutel folded and put away his notes. The Abbé’s often repeated +<p>Joutel folded and put away his notes. The Abbé’s often repeated complaints seldom stirred a reply from him. Though on this occasion he thought of saying,—</p> <p>“Monsieur de Tonty may bring news of her from Montreal.”</p> -<p>“You understand, Joutel,” exclaimed the Abbé, approaching the candle, +<p>“You understand, Joutel,” exclaimed the Abbé, approaching the candle, “that it is best,—that it is necessary not to tell Tonty what we know?”</p> -<p>“I have understood what you said, Monsieur the Abbé.”</p> +<p>“I have understood what you said, Monsieur the Abbé.”</p> <p>“You are the only man who gives me anxiety. All the rest are willing to keep silence. Is it not my affair? I wish you would cease writing your scraps. It irritates me to come into this storehouse and find you writing your scraps.” He looked severely at the young man, who leaned against the box making no further promise or reply. Then seizing the -candle, the Abbé stepped to a bed made of bales, where, wrapped in skins +candle, the Abbé stepped to a bed made of bales, where, wrapped in skins and blankets, young Colin Cavelier lay uttering the acknowledgement of peaceful sleep. Another boy lay similarly wrapped on the floor beside him.</p> @@ -3479,7 +3441,7 @@ man in the room, a hairy fellow, lying coiled among hides and pressed quite into a corner. The man appeared unconscious, emitting his breath in short puffs.</p> -<p>Abbé Cavelier gazed upon him with shudders.</p> +<p>Abbé Cavelier gazed upon him with shudders.</p> <p>The over-taxed candle flame stooped and expired, the scent of its funeral pile rising from a small red point in darkness.</p> @@ -3491,7 +3453,7 @@ funeral pile rising from a small red point in darkness.</p> <span class="subtitle">THE FRIEND AND BROTHER</span></h2> -<p class="p2">While Abbé Cavelier stood in the storehouse, Tonty, a few miles away, +<p class="p2">While Abbé Cavelier stood in the storehouse, Tonty, a few miles away, was setting his camp around a spring of sulphur water well known to the hunters of St. Louis. The spring boiled its white sand from unmeasured depths at the root of an oak, and spread a pool which slipped over its @@ -3535,7 +3497,7 @@ in his last enterprise. He had again convinced the king. His seigniories and forts were restored to him, and governor’s agents and associates driven out of his possessions. He had sailed from France with a fleet of ships, carrying a large colony to plant at the Mississippi’s mouth. His -brother the Abbé Cavelier, two nephews, priests, artisans, young men, +brother the Abbé Cavelier, two nephews, priests, artisans, young men, and families were in his company, which altogether numbered over four hundred people.</p> @@ -3808,28 +3770,28 @@ sheltered as a nest—was itself such a temple of security that any buildings within it seemed an impertinence. The centre, bearing its flagstaff, was left open.</p> -<p>Two priests, a Récollet and a Sulpitian, met Tonty and the girl he led +<p>Two priests, a Récollet and a Sulpitian, met Tonty and the girl he led in, the Sulpitian receiving her in his arms and bestowing a kiss on her forehead.</p> -<p>“Oh, my uncle Abbé!” Barbe gasped with surprise. “Is Colin with you? Is +<p>“Oh, my uncle Abbé!” Barbe gasped with surprise. “Is Colin with you? Is my uncle La Salle here?”</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_192" title="192"></a></p> -<p>But Tonty, swifter than the Abbé’s reply, laid hold of the Récollet -Father and drew him beside Abbé Cavelier, demanding without greeting or +<p>But Tonty, swifter than the Abbé’s reply, laid hold of the Récollet +Father and drew him beside Abbé Cavelier, demanding without greeting or pause for courteous compliment,—</p> <p>“Is Monsieur de la Salle safe and well? You both come from Monsieur de la Salle!”</p> -<p>“He was well when we parted from him,” replied the Abbé Cavelier, +<p>“He was well when we parted from him,” replied the Abbé Cavelier, looking at a bunch of maiden-hair fern which Barbe had caught from a ledge and tucked in the bosom of her gown. “We left him on the north branch of the Trinity River, Monsieur de Tonty.”</p> -<p>The Récollet said nothing, but kept his eyes fixed on his folded hands. +<p>The Récollet said nothing, but kept his eyes fixed on his folded hands. Tonty, too eager to mark well both bearers of such news, demanded again impartially,—</p> @@ -3854,7 +3816,7 @@ Bellefontaine.”</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_195" title="195"></a></p> -<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, where did Monsieur de la Salle land his colony?”</p> +<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, where did Monsieur de la Salle land his colony?”</p> <p>“On a western coast of the Gulf, monsieur. It was most unfortunate. Ever since he has been searching for the Mississippi.”</p> @@ -3878,14 +3840,14 @@ with my party to-morrow, if you will so forward my wishes.”</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_196" title="196"></a></p> -<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, it is impossible! You have yet told me nothing of +<p>“Monsieur the Abbé, it is impossible! You have yet told me nothing of all it is necessary for me to know touching Monsieur de la Salle.”</p> -<p>“To-morrow,” repeated the Abbé Cavelier, “I must set out at dawn, if you +<p>“To-morrow,” repeated the Abbé Cavelier, “I must set out at dawn, if you can honor my brother’s paper.”</p> <p>Tonty, with a gesture of his left hand, led the way to his quarters -across the esplanade. As Barbe walked behind the Récollet Father, she +across the esplanade. As Barbe walked behind the Récollet Father, she wondered why he had given no answer to any of Tonty’s questions.</p> <p>Her brother advanced to meet her, and she ran and gave him her hands and @@ -3907,8 +3869,8 @@ see concealment in your face!”</p> mottled with those red and white spots which are the blood’s protest against the will.</p> -<p>“The Récollet Father did not answer a word to Monsieur de Tonty’s -questions, Colin; and the voice of my uncle the Abbé sounded unnatural. +<p>“The Récollet Father did not answer a word to Monsieur de Tonty’s +questions, Colin; and the voice of my uncle the Abbé sounded unnatural. Is there wicked power in those countries you have visited to make you all come back like men half asleep from some drug?”</p> @@ -3925,7 +3887,7 @@ relief.</p> <p>“For myself,” she said, “I love this wild world. I shall stay here until my uncle La Salle arrives.”</p> -<p>“Our uncle the Abbé will decide that,” replied Colin. “It is unfortunate +<p>“Our uncle the Abbé will decide that,” replied Colin. “It is unfortunate that you left Montreal. Your only hope of staying here<a class="pagenum" name="Page_198" title="198"></a> rests on the hard journey before us, and the risks we run of meeting winter on the way. I wish you had been sent to France. I wish we were all in France @@ -3953,7 +3915,7 @@ some of its resounding drips on the way up. Living in Fort St. Louis was certainly like living on a cloud.</p> <p>“I will go into the officers’ house,” suggested Colin, “and see how the -Abbé’s demands are met by Monsieur de Tonty. We shall then know if we +Abbé’s demands are met by Monsieur de Tonty. We shall then know if we are to set out for Quebec to-morrow.”</p> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -3963,7 +3925,7 @@ are to set out for Quebec to-morrow.”</p> <h2><a name="III_IV" id="III_IV">IV.</a><br /> -<span class="subtitle">A FÊTE ON THE ROCK.</span><a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><span><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></span></h2> +<span class="subtitle">A FÊTE ON THE ROCK.</span><a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><span><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></span></h2> <p class="p2">Barbe did not object or assent. Youth shoves off any evil day by @@ -3982,7 +3944,7 @@ enough to be the sylvan spirit of the Rock.</p> <p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_201" title="201"></a></p> <p>Mademoiselle Cavelier’s wardrobe was by no means equal to that gorgeous -period in which she lived, being planned by her uncle the Abbé and +period in which she lived, being planned by her uncle the Abbé and executed by the frugal and exact hands of a self-denying sisterhood. But who can hide a girl’s supple slimness in a gown plain as a nun’s, or take the blossom-burnish off her face with colonial caps? Dark curls @@ -3994,7 +3956,7 @@ birthright of youth.</p> <p>While she was sorting arrow-head chips, her uncle came out of Tonty’s quarters and cast his eye about the open space in search of her. At his -approach Barbe’s playmate slipped away, and the Abbé placed himself in +approach Barbe’s playmate slipped away, and the Abbé placed himself in front of her with his hands behind him.</p> <p>Barbe gave him a scanty look, feeling sure he came to announce the next @@ -4004,7 +3966,7 @@ pro<a class="pagenum" name="Page_202" title="202"></a>truded his lower lip and l could be set aside a plunge in the river would be better than this journey.</p> -<p>“I have a proposal for you, my child,” said the Abbé. “It comes from +<p>“I have a proposal for you, my child,” said the Abbé. “It comes from Monsieur de Tonty. He tells me my brother La Salle encouraged him to hope for this alliance, and I must declare I see no other object my brother La Salle had in view when he sent you to Fort St. Louis. @@ -4015,7 +3977,7 @@ hath been well replaced by the artificer, and he comes of an Italian family of rank.”</p> <p>Barbe’s head was turned so entirely away that the mere back of a scarlet -ear was left to the Abbé. One hand clutched her lap and the other pulled +ear was left to the Abbé. One hand clutched her lap and the other pulled grass with destructive fingers.</p> <p>“Having stated Monsieur de Tonty’s case I will now state mine,” @@ -4034,7 +3996,7 @@ and you will be married this evening at vespers.”</p> said Barbe. “I will now state mine. I will not be married to any man at a day’s notice.”</p> -<p>“May I ask what it is you demand, mademoiselle?” inquired the Abbé, with +<p>“May I ask what it is you demand, mademoiselle?” inquired the Abbé, with irony, “if you propose to re-arrange any marriage your relatives make for you.”</p> @@ -4154,7 +4116,7 @@ late flowers as exploring children could find.</p> <p>Some urchins ascended the Rock with an offering of thick-lobed prickly cactus which grew plentifully in the sand. The Demoiselle Bellefontaine labored from place to place, helping her husband to make this the most -celebrated fête ever attempted in Fort St. Louis.</p> +celebrated fête ever attempted in Fort St. Louis.</p> <p>As twilight settled—and it slowly settled—on the summit, roast venison, buffalo steaks, and the odor of innumerable dishes scented the @@ -4186,14 +4148,14 @@ through half the hours of the night.</p> <p class="p2">The morning star yet shone and the river valley was drenched with half -frosty dew, and filled with silver mist when the Abbé Cavelier and his +frosty dew, and filled with silver mist when the Abbé Cavelier and his party descended to their canoes and set off up the river. They had made their farewells the night before, but Tonty and Greysolon du Lhut appeared, Tonty accompanying them down the descent. He came up with a bound before the boat was off, thundered at Bellefontaine’s door, and pulled that sleepy officer into the open air, calling at his ear,—</p> -<p>“What fellow is this in the Abbé’s party who kept out of my sight until +<p>“What fellow is this in the Abbé’s party who kept out of my sight until he carried his load but now to the canoe?”</p> <p>“You must mean Teissier, Monsieur de Tonty. He has lain ailing in the @@ -4218,7 +4180,7 @@ a pilot and his name is Teissier.”</p> <p>“Whatever his real name may be we had him here on the Rock before you came, and he was called Jolycœur.”</p> -<p>“At any rate,” said Du Lhut, “his being of Abbé Cavelier’s company +<p>“At any rate,” said Du Lhut, “his being of Abbé Cavelier’s company argues that he hath done La Salle no late harm.”</p> <p>Tonty thought about the matter while light grew in the sky, but @@ -4309,7 +4271,7 @@ protection he shall give up to justice!”</p> him out of the throng and holding him against a tree, “dost thou think nobody can feel this wrong except thee? I would go with thee anywhere if it could be revenged. But hearken to me, Henri de Tonty; if you go after -the Abbé it will appear that you wish to strip him of the goods he bore +the Abbé it will appear that you wish to strip him of the goods he bore away.”</p> <p>“He brought an order from Monsieur de la Salle,” retorted Tonty. “On @@ -4326,7 +4288,7 @@ wound of her sorrow with the brand of shame?”</p> his face. He looked at Du Lhut with piteous black eyes, like a stag brought down in full career.</p> -<p>“The Abbé Cavelier,” Bellefontaine was whispering to one of the +<p>“The Abbé Cavelier,” Bellefontaine was whispering to one of the immigrants, “carried from this fortress above four thousand livres worth of furs, besides other goods!”</p> @@ -4379,7 +4341,7 @@ out from her silent ordeal and comforted and fed.</p> <p>Tonty set his lighted candle on a table and considered how he should approach her door. The furniture of the room had been hastily carried in -that morning from its uses in the fête.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_221" title="221"></a> The apartment was a rude +that morning from its uses in the fête.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_221" title="221"></a> The apartment was a rude frontier drawing-room, having furs, deer antlers, and shining canoe paddles for its ornaments.</p> @@ -4451,7 +4413,7 @@ you!”</p> <span class="subtitle">TO-DAY.</span></h2> -<p class="p2">It is recorded that the Abbé Cavelier and his party arrived safely in +<p class="p2">It is recorded that the Abbé Cavelier and his party arrived safely in France, and that he then concealed the death of La Salle for awhile that he might get possession of property which would have been seized by La Salle’s creditors. He died “rich and very old” says the historian,<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> @@ -4459,7 +4421,7 @@ though he was unsuccessful in a petition which he made with his nephew to the king, to have all the explorer’s seigniorial propriety in America put in his possession. Like Father Hennepin—who returned to France and wrote his entertaining book to prove himself a greater man than La -Salle—the Abbé Cavelier was skilful in turning loss to profit.</p> +Salle—the Abbé Cavelier was skilful in turning loss to profit.</p> <p>It is also recorded that Henri de Tonty, at his own expense, made a long search with men, canoes, and provisions, for La Salle’s Texan @@ -4533,7 +4495,7 @@ Rock of St. Louis.<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Foo call himself their father. All other governors, English or French, were simply brothers.</p> -<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> “Henri de Tonty, surnommé Main-de-fer.” Notes Sur Nouvelle +<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> “Henri de Tonty, surnommé Main-de-fer.” Notes Sur Nouvelle France.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> The romancer here differs from the historian, who says @@ -4547,7 +4509,7 @@ Translated from note on page 138, tome 1, Garneau’s Histoire du Canada.</p <p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> The asceticism here attributed to Mademoiselle Jeanne le Ber was really practised by the wife of an early colonial noble. See -Parkman’s Old Régime, p. 355.</p> +Parkman’s Old Régime, p. 355.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Several historians identify Jolycœur with the noted coureur de bois and writer, Nicolas Perrot. But considering the deed he @@ -4560,19 +4522,19 @@ person.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Manuscript relating to early history of Canada.</p> -<p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> In reality this was Father Membré’s adventure.</p> +<p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> In reality this was Father Membré’s adventure.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> “He (La Salle) gave us a piece of ground 15 arpents in front by 20 deep, the donation being accepted by Monsieur de Frontenac, syndic of our mission.” From Le Clerc.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Relation of Henri de Tonty (cited in Margry, I). -“Comme cette rivière se divise en trois chenaux, M. de la Salle fut -descouvrér celuy de la droite, je fus à celuy du mileu et le Sieur -d’Autray à celuy de la gauche.”</p> +“Comme cette rivière se divise en trois chenaux, M. de la Salle fut +descouvrér celuy de la droite, je fus à celuy du mileu et le Sieur +d’Autray à celuy de la gauche.”</p> <p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Abridged from Francis Parkman’s version of La Salle’s -proclamation. The Procès Verbal is a long document.</p> +proclamation. The Procès Verbal is a long document.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Sanomp was suggested to the romancer by La Salle’s faithful Shawanoe follower, Nika, and an Indian friend and brother in @@ -4617,14 +4579,14 @@ and his Indian hunter Nika—which preceded and led to his death—is no mentioned in this romance.</p> <p>To this day it is not certainly known what became of La Salle’s body. -Father Anastase Douay, the Récollect priest who witnessed his death, +Father Anastase Douay, the Récollect priest who witnessed his death, told Joutel at the time that the conspirators stripped it and threw it in the bushes. But afterward he declared La Salle lived an hour, and he himself confessed the dying man, buried him when dead, and planted a cross on his grave. So excellent a historian as Garneau gives credit to this story.</p> -<p>In reality the Abbé Cavelier and his party treated Tonty with greater +<p>In reality the Abbé Cavelier and his party treated Tonty with greater cruelty than the romancer describes. They lived over winter on his hospitality, departed loaded with his favors, and told him not a word of the tragedy.</p> @@ -4676,9 +4638,9 @@ Monsieur Cavelier, the Priest, always positively opposed it, alleging that we ought to leave vengeance to God.”</p> </blockquote> -<p>The Récollet priest, who had seen La Salle’s death, answered no +<p>The Récollet priest, who had seen La Salle’s death, answered no questions at Fort St. Louis. Teissier, one of the conspirators, had -obtained the Abbé’s pardon. The others could truly say La Salle was well +obtained the Abbé’s pardon. The others could truly say La Salle was well when they last saw him.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> Parkman.</p> @@ -4699,7 +4661,7 @@ expeditions.”—John Moses’ History of Illinois.</p> <p class="titlepage">Transcriber’s Note</p> The following errors are noted. The page numbers in this table refer to those of the original. -The French 'Récollet' is spelled twice as 'Récollect'. The instance appearing in a footnote +The French 'Récollet' is spelled twice as 'Récollect'. The instance appearing in a footnote is left as is, but that in the text itself was changed to match all other occurrences. <table summary="TN" width="90%"> @@ -4709,386 +4671,10 @@ is left as is, but that in the text itself was changed to match all other occurr <tr><td class="tdr">56</td><td class="pad2">He is no stupid</td><td><i>sic.</i></td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">73</td><td class="pad2">No more than half your party, monsieur[.]</td><td>Added period.</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdr">190</td><td class="pad2">flank of rock wall</td><td><i>sic.</i></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdr">197</td><td class="pad2">The Récolle[c]t Father did not answer</td><td>Removed ‘c’ for consistency.</td></tr></table> +<tr><td class="tdr">197</td><td class="pad2">The Récolle[c]t Father did not answer</td><td>Removed ‘c’ for consistency.</td></tr></table> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of Tonty, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TONTY *** - -***** This file should be named 41273-h.htm or 41273-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/2/7/41273/ - -Produced by David Edwards, KD Weeks and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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