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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.
i tardy twilight's gone;
•n sank redly In the weit
enks of haze ; now with night’s dawn
“~i glows warm, like one carest;
as all the long day through,
# and think or you,
Darling—my darling.
Darling—my darling,
long ago was It you went
my kissi
leannot count, they teem so long,
If weeks or inontos have passed since then;
But In my soul a wisttul song
Sings low an I calls you b ick again—
Sings all the night and all the day,
Softly. as unseen angels pray,
Darling—my darling.
TRAVIS.
A STORY OF THE NORTHWEST.
by THE AUTHOR OF “ DUNCAN M'lNTOMI,’
■ “LOUIS MACON,” “THORNTON,”
“IN OTHER LANDS,”
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1 Written for Nnuday Emqwlrer.
(COPY RIOUT SECURED.)
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CHAPTER I.
THU GREAT RIVER.
The groat valley of the Columbia is still
ft region of wonders, with its border* of
fraud mountains and rich stretches of
Magnificent laud, to which the attention
of the emigrant from all parts of the
j -world is turning. Forty years ago it bad
here und there a little fort where the
•gen’s of the Northwest Fur Company
lived, and the trappers, principally French
and Indians, worn the only persons who
knew aught of that land of undeveloped
. wealth, which is yet to be the dwelling
place of the richest and happiest people
$ of this great country.
t\ Why Louis Travis should have gone
into that region puzzled his friends in the
East, who knew him to be eduoated,
k handsome aud wealthy, with prospects of
greatness, such as aie promised to but
few. Those who were very intimate with
him immngined they had discovered the
cause. Iiut the more they thought it
f ovor the more difficult it became to re-
oncile his conduct with his proud spirit,
lia father’s cousin, Henry Jordan, had
one out to take charge of one of Astor’s
Jgtious on the Columbia, and he took
With him hi* family, consisting of a wife,
Julia, a daughter of nineteen, and two
tons, both younger. Owing to a law-
• anit,.involving the title to a largo estate
inherited from a deceased uncle, Henry
f Jordon, who was defeated, grew’ to hate
his cousin, the father of Louis Travis,
who was successful, and for years before
Jordan left for the far West, the families
bad not ouly been on bad terms, but an
attempt ou Air. Travis’ life was charged
to Jordan, and the proof was so strong
that he was glad to leave the East on the
promise that he should not be prosecuted.
Three years had elapsed since then, Louis’
father was dead, and he, the only child,
?f; became heir to his large estate. “Why
then should Louis go West, into the very
land of his father’s bitterest foe?” was a
Question that was often asked, but never
- truthfully answered, for it was not known
i/s that Louis had often met and never
'“v*- ceased to oominunioate with the beautiful
3 Julia Jordan, even when their fathers
were at dagger's points. This was the
loadstone, nud its power to draw him was
I Increased l>y his life-long desire to see
nature in her wildest forms, and to live
for a time as did the hunters of the far
West who had been his heroes since the
surreptitious readings of early boyhood.
Leaving his estate in the liAnds of an
\ attorney, in whom he had confidence, he
took \tilh him a negro servant named
. Hal and started over-land on what
T seemed a wild and fruitless expedition,
k When be left homo he imagined he oould
11 reach his destination on the Columbia in
rl six mouths, but more than two years bad
R&- elapsed before he reined in his horse on
w' the bunks of the blue Columbia, two hun-
| dred miles above Fort Wala, as the station
Henry Jordan had charge of was called.
It would be thrilling as a romance, were
t it not foreign to our story, to record the
adventures of Louis Travisand his faithful
WP- servant Hal from the day on which they
Bp left their homo on the Hudson till that
’ when they stood by its grander western
m counterpart, battles with warlike Indians,
I* kind acts from peaceful ones, captivity,
starvation and poverty, aid from the
Kr- mountain trappers who turned up at the
most unexpected times. Rough journies
on desert plains on foot, till at
“? last, as Hal expressed it, “it was no
/ ';?*'■ nse a goin on, for the mountains keep
»•- a gittiu higher, Ihe water saltier
. an skercer, an the game smaller
an thinuer, mu so mass Louis I reckon it
M would only be the same if we was to keep
I, , goin for a thousau million year."
Much as Hal loved bis young master, be
£ ViPfc evidently began t« doubt bis sanity, aud
at limes when their position seemed par-
“No, ye nebber had no beard till since
ye leffed home.”
“I suppose you would like to be back
Hal ?”
“Can’t say I would Mister Louis. I
kinder likes dis life, if it was not for da
scnlpin.”
“Why an Indian conld’nt soslp you ”
“Data trno, Mister Louis," chuckled
Hal, as be felt the crisp top of his baio
head, then added, “But then it ed hurt
me jest as bad, if dey was to try, as if I
had long har like you.”
“I have no doubt of it Hal, but fortu
nately there is no danger in this region,
the Indians nro all at peace with the
whites.”
“And with de blacks too I hope.”
Louis Travis laughed at this turn and
assured him that the Indians were at
peace with all men.
He bad scarcely done speaking when
his Attention was attracted by a oaune
containing three men that shot into the
stream from the wooded shore about a
mile ahead.
“Can yon make out those men Hal?”
asked Louis, as he strained his eyes to
discern the occupants of the boat.
“Dey look like two white men an a In
jun," answered Hal, as he shaded hiB eyes
from the declining sun.
“So they seem to me. They are cross
ing to the point where I had made up my
mind to camp for the night since it caroo
in sight. Well, I atn glad wo are going
to have company at our camp fire to
night. Remember onr assumed names
Hal, it might be dangerous if they got to
the ears of Mr. Jordan at the Fort.”
“Ob, I knows All dat, my name’s Jean,
jist as sure as you'r Mister Paul Cannot.”
“Very well; seethoy are watching us.”
Louis, we shall continue to use the
proper names, at once plied his paddle
and under its impetus his canoe shot
down to where the strangers were slowly
crossing, and he come up with them be
fore they had gone two-thirds of the way
over.
“Good evening gentlemen ! Is there a
good camping place near by!” asked
Louis as he quickly scanned the by no
menus prepossessing faces of the men be
fore him.
“Yes, there is one at this point, wo are
going there for the night,” answered one
of the men as he eyed Lonis keenly.”
“Would you have any objections to my
joining you?”
“Certainly not. Follow us.”
The mou in the strange canoe directed
it to the point indicated, and Louis fol
lowing in a few minutes, they landed.
“My nnmo is McGrath, “said one of
the roon, holding out his hand us Louis
advanced, “ray friend’s nnme is Brosque,
and this Injin is Chinook.”
LoniR shook hands and gave his assumed
name with that of his servant. Then
pulling the canoes out of the water, a
camping place was selected, a fire lit, and
Hal, aided by Chinook, soon busied him
self in preparing a supper, both canoes
being omply provisioned with fish and
game.
CHAPTER II.
As every new village site in the far
West is now callad a “city,” so formerly
every solitary while man's house, or tra
ding station, was called a “fort, * and
Wala whs no exception to the rule, though
it presented more advantages, natural and
artificial, for defense, than the majority
of places wiili tho same warlike name.
Situated in a beautiful valley, above tho
great Falls, which barred the passage of
canoes, it was the restiug place for (hose
moving up from thecoast aud the compa
ny’s store house for the products coming
down from the river above. A half dozen
block houses, in the form of a square, with
a huge ting staff in the centre, constituted
Wala proper, but about it, particularly
along the river, were the shnnties of ag
ricultural settlers, the wigwams of the
Indians, and here and there the cabin of a
trapper, inhibited for the most time by
his Indian wife aud her half-breed chil
dren.
Thero were fields of waving corn about
Wain, and great patches of ground devo
ted to vegetables, with hero and there a
square of yellow stubble, that showed
where the rich wheat crop had been har
vested.
Toe principal residence at Fort Wala,
at this time, whs tho homo of Henry Jor
dan, a large double-log house, with an
abundant garden behind it, and before it
ilowers that bloomed with the luxuriance of
an eastern spring, showing in their careful
borders and elevated beds, that they had
the care and culture of a feminine hand.
To the right of the house was the store,
whioh always contained a stock of gro
ceries, arms, ammunition, cloth und
othor articles of trade, whioh were always
bartered off for tho rich furs, which were
stored in the commodious structuro to
the left. Tho other bouses were the
abodes of employees aud stables for
horses aud cuttle.
Henry Jordan was not a popular man at
the Fort. He did not know how to appenr
liberal, and his gloomy, morose mauner,
could not be appreciated by the free
hearted hunters. Still he was knowu to
be a man of immense strength and un
doubted courage, which, with his position,
gave him great influence with tho rude
man be was brought in contact with, while
his fine business qualities and miserly
closeness, made him a valuable oifici
the company.
A few days before that on which Louis
Travis started down the Columbia with
his cargo of pells, Henry Jordan was en
joying a smoke und the cool evening
tioularly desperate, he debited with him-1 breeze hefore bis house. His wife
v
self the propriety of tying his master’s
bauds when he slept and then starting
back with him to the East.
During this time, however, Louis had
mastered all the secret* of the hunter und
trapper, aud become thoroughly acquain
ted with the Indian character. Ho had
been two months trapping ou the upper
Columbia, and, having socured a canoe
cargo of pelts, bo determined to take it
down to Fort Wala, where helearned from
tho companies’ trappora Henry Jordan
had charge. He knew the character of
tho man and ho decided so to disguise
himself on entering the fort as to pass for
• French Canadian. Hi* bronzed face
and dark silken beard, with bis perfect
knowledge of the language, enabling him
to do so without much fear of detection.
Leaving the animals in charge of some
friends in the mountains, they launched
out on the broad river, aud borne by its
mighty current they headed for the great
Pacific. For the l“.st aix months they bad
be:*n living in a rich and beautiful
country, and hM Hal’s respect for his mas
ter's windom aud intelligence had returned,
and very often he congratulated himself
ou never having attempted the strategy
ao often contemplated.
It was a beautiful day in September
and Louis sat in the stern, guiding the
graceful ernft as it shot through whirliog
rapids, or floated lazily over broad ex-
E arise* of lake like water. Hal, brave
earted, reclined in the bow and watched
the bronzed face of bia yonng master
vrith undisguised admiration.
“Dey woold’nt know ye if dey was to
ye ober on de Hudson now Water
•aid Hal, breaking a long d-
sitting in the door sewing, bis boy
trying their skill in arching before the
store with some young Indians aud Julia
with uncovered sunny rioglets, was bend
ing over her flowers.
“What flowers aro those ?” Asked her fa-
thor as he puffed out a volume of smoko
and pointed with his pipe to a mass of
bell-shaped variegated blossoms, that
hung from tho delicate shrubs in profu
sion.
“They are fuchias, papa."
“Fuobias! Where did they come
from ?”
“I brought the plants with mo from the
doar old Hudson. Don’t you remember
what trouble I had in saving them when
we crossed that terrible Isthmus?”
“No, I don’t,” ho growled, resuming
his pipe.
“Poor papa has too much to remem
ber,” she said with a nigh, as she turned
her large blue eyos on him, then resuming
her labor she added, “I thought if I could
Hive thorn they would remind mo of home,
and they 1hvp."
“Remind you of homo, girl!" Why,
what is there about the old home that
does not suggest a curse ! Destroy and
forget the old home, and everything
and every creatnre connected with it.
You are iu a new home and all your
thoughts should be connected with it.”
“We cannot always control our thoughts
papa.”
“But we need not express them.
is right, I did not think I could
hurt bia feelings by my words, and great
•a ia the pleasure the flowers sire me, if
' will gladly sm
ight have made, was prevented by the
sudden appearance of a short, heavy sot
man, whose garb reminded Julia as much
of the East an did her fuchias, aud who
had boon a frequent visitor to Fort Wala
of late. “Hello, Van Smith ! When did
yon arrive?" asked Henry Jordan as ho
advanced to the new comer and shook
hie hand earnestly.
“Just got in from Astoria, Mr. Jordan.
I have some matters of importance for
yon to attend to when you havo time.”
As Mr. Peter Van Smith spoke he pulled
a thick bundle of papers from tho arnplo
inside pooket of his full coat.
“Got a mail ?”
“Yes and a good oue.”
“Como into the house, whore we can
talk undisturbed.”
Van Smith followed Henry Jordan iu,
Rtopping nt tho door to salute Mrs. Jordau,
a sweet pale-faced woman who looked as
if she wore struggling to keep down a
grief that ever sought expression in her
pale, thin lips. Entering a room that
looked, with its desk and account books,
like an ofllce, Mr. Jordan motionod his
visitor to a chair, then going to a cup
board be took out a bottle of brandy and
two glasses, remarking as bo set them be
fore Van Smith:
“I will order yonr supper, in tho mean
time I presume you will not ohjoct to a
little refreshment of this kind.”
“Certainly not Mr. Jordan, for though
I am not considered a drinking man in
New York, indeed touching spirits when
home but rarely, I find the ardent most
grafoful after the long fatigueing and la
borious journies which one is forced to
make in this country, I will therefore
drink to you,” so saying Van Smith Ulled
a glass, drained it without stoppiug to
take breath, and then, pretending to
shudder at the powerful potion, he
smacked his lips and again drew out the
plethoric bundle of papers. Heury Jor
dan, as was well knowu in the East, could
drink auy man in the State drunk with
out showing it,“and his going West hud
not impaired this peculiar ability, as could
be seen by the practised ease with which
he tossed down the goblet of brandy, and
he affected no more disgust at it than if
he had been drinking milk.
“Now Van Smith I am ready to hear
you,” said Jordau, wiping bis bonded
month on bis coat sleeve and throwing
himself into a chair.
“First, then, you know what I told you
before ?” asked Vail Smith, in tho touo of
a lawyer about to cross-quest ion, and lay
ing his fat hand on tho package of let
ters ah if it were tho book ou which his
witness had just Hworn to “tell tho truth,
the wholo truth and nothing but the
truth.”
“Yes ; Robinson thiuks ho seos a de
fect in the titles to tho Travis property.
That if Lonis Travis, who started West
and has not been heard of for two years,
should turn up dead, why there will be no
contestant and I can claim tho estate,”
replied Jordau ms he eyed the man before
him in n questioning way. “Exactly, ex
actly, bat Finley Robinson, my partner
you must remomber, makes its condition
that in consideration of his services and
my labor und zoal in behalf of justice,
that you sign an agreement, whioh you
havo not done, making over to us one-
third the value of tho estate.”
I remember that; but one-third ia an
imiueuso sum. How much would that
be ?’’
A little ovur two hundred thousand
dollars, which is not neatly tho amount
that would come to you if Louis Travis
should never bo hoard from again, and
we had the proof thut he was dead.”
“If ho has not been heard from for two
years,” said Jordan, lighting the lamp on
tho table, for it was growing dark, “I
think it issafo to presume that he never
will bo hourdfrom.”
Not so safe as you think Mr. Jordan.
He has been seen within lire last two
mouths.” Mr. Van Smith pretended as
he spoke to bo very busy wi'b bis papers,
though ho did not fail to notice the
blanched face of the mail before him.
‘Seen within two months!” excluimed
Jordan as he gasped for breath.
“Yes, seen within two months; but be
fore I can pursue a subject of which I
have grown tired, sud which I havo
travelled seven thousand miles to perfect,
I must osk if you intend Kigniug this
agreement?” Vau Smith rubbed out all
the creR'CA aud handed the paper to his
companion.
Jordan’s only reply was to seiza tho pa
per, glance over it mechanically, then
huriedly sign his name at the bottom.
“We will want a witness to this Mr.
Jordan,” said Van Smith, eyeing tho pa
per with ii professional air.
“Will my daughter do?”
“Certainly.”
Henry Jordan, as if anxious to have an
unpleasant duty over, rose hurriedly and
opening tho door, culled for Julia. He
then came back and had hardly taken his
seat, when Jnlia made her appearance.
“Mis* Jordan you know your father’s
writing ?” asked Van Smith.
“I do, sir.”
“Then please to writo yonr name hero
os a witness to his signature,” Vau Smith
pointed at the proper lino.
Julia without hositating signed her
name, then being assured that that was
all required, she bowed and left tho room,
ller own chamber adj > ned this room,
and tho wooden petition presented but a
slight barrier to the sound of the voices
on the othor side, so slight indeed, that
when she entered her room, shortly after
her father left tho garden, h'io caught tho
words of the speakers, and haviug her at
tention arrested, by hearing tho name of
Louis Travi«, she listened with rapt eager
ness and bated breath, and her feelings
can better ho imagined than portrayed,
when she heard he w»»s living, perhaps
very near, and that Mr. Van Smith and
her father would be happier aud richer if
he were dead.
With a throbbing heart she returned to
her room nnd assuming her former atten
tive attitude, she listened to the further
conversation of Van Smith and her fa
ther.
ihay nuke him unhappy I
• ib.”
•ft
id whatever rtply bar fithar
ham parish.
Julia's sysfl filled with tsars as aha
CHAPTER III
PLOTTING.
The door had not well closed behind
Julia, when Mr. Jordan, examining tho
lock to sec it was well fastened, turned
and asked in a breathless tone, “Did you
say Louis Travis hud been seen alive
within the last two months?”
“I did.”
“Then he must bo in this region ?”
“Jle most assuredly is,” replied Mr.
Van Smith, who seemed to grow cooler
and more indifferent the inoro Mr, Jordan
became anxious and excited.
“For Heaven's sake tell ino all about it
at once, and do not have, iuo question
yon!” “Hark, I bear somebody at tho
door calliug supper. Wait till I havo
eaten.”
I can't! Here, swallow some brandy;
“Yes, I have met him several times.”
“Cool fellow is McGrath, but not a
steady worker I Judge ?”
“No; but tell me where he saw Louis
Travis!”
“Oh, McGrath did not see him reeent-
ly. Yon see I have had him out on the
search ever since I came, for I heard
rumors that pointed to the whereabouts of
Lonis. To shorten the matter, McGrath
came down to Astoria from the upper
Columbia about two weeks ago, and he
told me ho had learned definitely of the
whereabouts of Travis and bis servant.
It is not customery, I believo, for trappers
to havo black servants?” said Mr. Van
Smith in an inquiring tone, as he stopped
to take another aip of brandy.
“No sir, I never heard of the like.”
“1 suppose not. This fellow goes by
tho name of Paul Cannot, and his servant
answers to that of Jean. Ha la reduced
in circumstances, as he baa not been able
tocommnnicste with the East for two years
(hough ho takes uaturally to a trapper's
life, and if McGrath was rightly informed,
he was gotting a cargo of pelts to carry
down to Fort Wala."
“Coming here?” asked Henry Jordan
excitedly.
“Yes faith, I don’t think he oould come
to a hotter plaoe.”
“He shall never reach here, if I have to
go out myself and prevent him.”
“You must be the judge of that. If ho
comes, in my opinion, it will be in dis
guise and under his assumed name. Would
it not be best to let him carry out his pur
pose. They say in the East that he has
iiu affection for your beautiful daughter.
Can this bo true? if ho, it explains his
motives.” Van Smith drained his glass
and looked complacently into the ashen
faco of his companion.
“No; it is an infernal lie! They never
met since they were children, and Julia
entertains the* same hate for him that I
“Glad to hear it, she is a beautiful,
spirited girl, nnd if married to the proper
” hore Van Smith straightened him
self up und assumed a youthful society
hy she would adorn the first cir
cles of the metropolis.”
Never mind that. The more I dwell
on it, the mere convinced I am that it
would be folly, ruin, to havo him come
here."
‘How enu you prevent it ?”
Where is McGrath now !”
‘Here at Fort Wala.”
‘Then I will land for him at once.”
‘First Assert yonr hospitality by get
ting me to the table ; I am actually fam
ished." floury Jordan excused himself,
and with a bad grace led Mr. Van Smith
to the diniog room. Julia appo red noon
niter, aud taking her place at tho head of
tho table poured out Mr. Van Hmith’s
coffee, and after the first formal bow aho
never raised ber eye*, though she was
painfully conscious that his were fixed on
hor all the time.
8he answered his questions in polite
monosytables, and was heartiiy glad when
the uicnl was over and hor father led Vau
Smith back to his room.
She was as deeply m'erested in the con
versation, indeed more so, than either of
them, so that when they left she guvo n
few hurried orders to an Indian domestic,
then stepped back lightly to her room
whore »be could hear to advantage.
I remember seeing Miss Julia when
sho was a child. I whs not old mysolf
then to be sure. But she has grown
wouderfully, wonderfully beautiful. If
I were not a bachelor of thirty-five I
would think. I was getting old.” Van
Smith was ten years older, if ho was a
day, but Mr. Jordan, who did not heed
niH remarks, asked abruptly : “What do
yon Hay to sending for McGrath ?”
“It might be a good idea.”
“Tlion 1 will do so.”
Henry Jordan went to the door, called
a half-breed, and directed him to bring
McGrath thero at once, an order that
speedily complied with. In a few min
utes after McGrath, a burly, dark whis
kered man with a white film over his left
eye, ontero 1 thejroom like a dark shadow
“Have some brandy, McGrath ?" asked
Henry Jordun, pointing to the glass and
bottle.
“Don’t mind if I do, seeiu’ as how it's
you, an’ I nint had a square drink of good
stuff in many a day.” McGrath filled the
glass and draining it at a gulp, then
looked into it and around it, as if amused
at tho small quantity so big a looking
gloss held.
“Go on, take more if yoo want it,” said
Henry Jordan, divining the man's
thoughts.
“Thank you. Them glasses is more
denivon than a tin cup, an don’t givo a
feller a proper kinder allowin', if he has
only one pull ut them.”
McGrath took another glass, then re
moving for the first time his brown fur
cap, as if the brandy had given him man
ners, he took a seat.
“McGrath, you know of this man
Travis?” asked Henry Jordan.
“Ouly wbut I heard fellers up the river
say of a man corresponding with his ap
pearance, as Mr. Van Hmith thar gin it to
me.”
“You would know him if you were to
see him ?"
“Sirtin sure, more partiolar if he had
that black chap with him. I don’t faucy
fellers that goes trappin' with niggers.”
“Of course not. I understand he is
about to come down bere ?”
“That’s what they reported up the
river."
“I have my reasons for it, but that man
must uot coiuo to Fort WalA, and if you
cun prevent him I will make it worth your
while.”
“For how much ?”
“Five hundred dollars when I learn
there i* no fear of bis coining bere.”
“Can't work on sack terms. Give me
two hundred down, for I mast have a
p.miner, an' then your promise for five
hundred.” m
McGrath looked liko a man who was
sacrificing his professional services to
help n friend.
“What do you say to this, Van Smith ?”
asked Henry Jordan.
“Ob,I can havo nothing to do with spend
ing money. If Finley Robinson was hero
he would answer at once. He ia Travis'
attorney, nnd would gladly pay to send
him back home—the way ho came! But
I can advise nothing.”
Jordan, on whoso nerves the excite
ment and brandy eoemod to be working,
handed McGrath two hundred dollars,
taking therefor a receipt, or rather due
bill, which McGrath signed with a cross,
and which Vun Smith witnessed.
“Now give me the promise to pay me
an’ Bos<jua five liuudred when I send this
chap ImcIc."
.McGrath winked his good eye with a
fiendish expression.
“Give a memorandum eontraot specify
ing as a consideration certain fees, to bo
deducted.” Van Smith drew up the paper
MoGrsth rose, looked at the ornpty
brandy bottle and took • alow step to
wards the door.
“You want another drink, I nee.”
“Mr. Jordan, ye're oue of the men that
has a nat'ral born faoulty for gettin’ at the
bottom of a feller's thoughts,” said Mc
Grath, as he removed a quid of tobaoco
from his month to make room for the
anticipated drink.
“No objections to my takin' it as be
fore, I suppose,” asked McGrath, an he
held a full glass in his hand and turned
his red eye on the bottle.
“No, only be quick about it and send
Ohinook here.”
McGrath tossed off two glssse*, replaced
the tobacco he had in his hand, and then
started out on bis mission. He had been
gone but a few minutes when a light rap
was heard at the door, and in answer to
Jordan's “come in,” a tall, graceful,
young Indian made his appearance.
“Chinook, I waut yon lo go up the river
for a week or teu days with your canoe.
McGrath and Bosque will go with you,
and I will pay yon well on yonr return,
beside* furnishing you with plenty of pro
visions for the trip.”
“Whon do you wish rae to start ?”
ght to-n
it won’t take you long. I am too imps- quickly, banded it to Jordan, who, having
tient to wait.” Henry Jordau poured out read it aloud, signed it and gave it to Mc-
two glasses, and handing one to Van ! Grath.
Hmith he quaffed the other himself.
“Very well, to relieve your anxiety I
will tell you the Rtory as it was told to
me,” began Mr. Van Hmith, assuming an
attitude intended to look oosy and busi-
seas like by crowing bia legs and toying
with the glass, at which he sipped, evi
dently forgetting to make • wry face.
“You know McGrath?” he continued.
“How soon will you be ready to start ?”
asked Jordan.
“By the first streak of day, if I can get
Chinook to give me his canoe, or better
still, to go along and help ne up the rir-
er ’“I will see that be it reed/. Mow go
out and see that Boeqoa is iatownid, and
•end me Chinook.”
“By daylight to-morrow
“I will be ready,” said Chinook, turning
to denari.
“Won't you have aome brandy, Chi
nook ?"
“Fire water ?”
“Yee.”
“No, it is killing too many of my raoe
now. Good night.”
Chiuook walked out with a light, quick
step, and for a moment he stopped 'mid
the iuan*es of flowers, recognized ouly by
their odor in the darkuess. He had often
gone there at uight, in order to stand
where the beautiful white girl had stood,
aud to imagine her presence in the blos
soms, aud her voice in the gentle wiud.
“Chiuook!” he was about to hurry sway
at the sound of his name, like a robber
discovered before an altar, when he felt
a baud on his arm, and turning, ho bowed
bis bead, for Julia Jordan was before
him.
“You are my friend, Chinook ?”
“Let my life auswer, if proof be noces-
■ary.”
“You will keep my words in your heart,
nor ever speak of this meeting ?"
“Your words sIiaII be sacred beside
yonr imago.”
“You sre going up the river in the
moruiug, and you will oontinuo until you
meet a canoe coming down. In that cauoe
there will be a tall white aian and a black
man. There is danger (o them from Mo-
Grath aud Bosque, and I would warn
them, for they are good uien, and like
you, they are friends of mine. Here is a
paper; it says everything, will you see
that the white man gets it if you meet
him ?"
“I will.” Chinook hid the paper in the
pooket of his huutiug shirt, and taking
the little hand extended to him he bowed
over it and with a trombling heart hurried
away.
CHAPTER IT.
AN UN1UIEPARED FOU ATTACK.
Louis Travis was not |irepo.*sessodby the
two white men, on the coutrary he made
up his mind they were desperate charac
ters, that would beur watching, and vet
he oonld not reconcile their evideut char
acters with that of the noble looking
young Indiau, their companion. The eup-
per over be took occasion, under the plea
of seeiug that his canoe was well secured,
of conveying his impressions to Hal, and
urging on him the necessity of remaining
awake dtiring the uight, and keeping his
arms in readiness.
“Fore do Lord Mister Louis dats jest
wat dis chile’s been thinkin’. Dem coons
has beeu weighed in de baiauoe nnd foan’
short."
“We must not start with them in the
morning, if the night pn*sos peacefully.
Our canoe wants a little repairing, and we
must stay behind till it is done.”
“Jest so; sho leaks."
Master and man walked back to the
fire which, iu the charming climate of the
Columbia valley, feels pleasant every night
in the year, though there are but few days
even in mid winter when it is necessary
to comfort at noon.
Pipes were lit, and leaving out the
inoral aspeot of the group, it was oertain-
ly picturesque, as its surroundings were
grand. White man, Indian and negro
wore represented in the circle of smokers,
and the fire threw a lurid glare on the
mighty cedars above them, over the broad
river and on the white rocks, that looked,
in the uncertain light, liko the ubodea of
the river nymphs by the shore.
“This is not the fur seuson in the up
conutry ; reckon yonr stock is last year's,”
said McGrath, turning his one eye on
Louis, who was smoking opposite to him.
“All the fur ia last Spring's; but my
stock ia principally iu sk us, deor, oik,
bear and mountain lion. There is a good
demand for them, I understand, at Fort
Wala.”
“Yes ; ther jist as good aa gold. What
do ye reckon yer cargoes worth ?”
“About a thousand dollars.”
“That’s a heap of money. I suppose
you and Jean are partners?”
“Ho far as dividing the profits, we are.”
“Never been to Wala ?"
“Naver. My life West has been spent
principally on the head water* of the Mis
souri.
“Jest so, but I reckon yon corn'd, like
myself, from the East.”
“Yes, I was born there.”
“Ho was I, iu York Hi ate, on tho Hud
son. Whero inout you come from ?”
“From Canada, as my name must show
you. ’
“I was in hope you an’ me inout turn
out to be country men ; but as it is you
aud Bosque here belongs to the sauo
crowd.”
Bosque, a gaunt, cadaverous looking
man, addressed Louis in that barbarous
patois which the lower Cauudians call
“French,” and he was not a little uinazed
at being answered with wouderfully fluen
cy ia the same tongue; and being satis
fied on this point they again returned to
English.
The conversation of tho evening was not
interesting because tho parties were not
congenial, so it gradually slackened.
Blankets were spread, and to one ut a dis
tance it would seem that tho people by
the camp fire had gone to sleop ; hut not
ho, Louis and Hal were vigilant, Chinook
was watchful from bis bed in the canoe,
and on the opposite side of the fire Mc
Grath and Bosque, who lay under the
name blanket with him, talked iu whis
pers.
“It’s too heavy a eontraot to take on
equ* 1 chances,” urg* d ' fcOraib, iu answer
to a HUgges'ion of Bosque.
“Then I don’t see how yer gwiue to fix
it unless yon take Chinook in.
“Praps that would be best, though I
ain’t got much faith in him no how; but
the best way to git an Injun is to trust
bim. I’le go down an' see him.”
McGrath rose quietly and walking over
to where Chinook lay, he found him
•wake, and said ?
“Chinook, I’m aatiafied these two atran-
gern mean to attaok us either to-uight or
to-morrow. 1 beard them talkin’, an' I
know they're spies from the Hudson Bay,
who's Alina been opposed to us. 1 don’t
went ye to help me or Bosque, only de-
with • suppressed ourae,
i to the fire, though uot at all
he disposition he had made of
to Meta, she’s my wife of your tribe, an'
it will get her five hundred dollars from
Mr. Jordan, down at Wala.”
McGrath handed him the paper, whioh
Chinook hid in hia breast, saying as he
did so, “I do not think there will be
trouble, certainly not to-night, unless you
bring it on, nor in the morning, if we
leave hefore they do.”
“But they are spies!”
“Then let them he dealt with at ike
Fort."
McGrath, with a suj
walked back
regretting the disposition
the contract, for he felt sure it would he
safe in case of harm to himself, and he
had no persou to leave it to but the wo
man whom he called wife.
Tho morning's dawn found the whole
perty awake, ea would any hour of the
night McGrath seemad anxious to go on,
he and Bosque having decided to attack
the catioo at a point about twenty miles
below where the river was so narrow that
nquirrel could be ahot across it, and the
current ao swift that a party in a canoe
would need every nand to keep the craft
from dashing against the rooks.
During the preparations for the hurried
breakfast Chinook found ao opportunity
to slip the note into Hat’s hand, whisper
ing as he did so, “Hide it, and show it to
tho white man when we are gone.”
Hal did so, and he was not a little re
joiced when Chino k's canoe floated off,
the ooonpauts hoping, verbally, to see
Mr. Carmot at Fort Wala in a few days.
Wheu they had disappeared Hsl quickly
explained and handed his master the note.
It wan the contract Jor Jive hundred dol
lar e tigned by llenry Jordan.
Louis Travis was puzzled; there was
something in it he could not fathom, thero
was evident danger, though this paper
did not give a oluo. After debating the
matter till noon, he determined to carry
out his original design and push on for
Fort Wala. It was nearing sunset again,
wheu turning a bond in the broad river, it
suddenly contracted and plunged in
foaming rapid between parallel walls of
rook. Louts oould aeo to the other end,
and bracing himself for the labor, the
canoe, half covered in the seething foam,
plnnged into the oauldron of roaring
waters.
High above the dash and fnry a series
of sharp yells burst out, accompanied by
the report of rifles, and the men on the
bank saw the canoe upset, and then lost
to sight with its oocnpants, in the mad
dened waters.
[TO BB CONTINUED.]
JOSEPH P. POU,
Attorney at Law,
and Judge of County Coart*
Practice! in all other Court*.
OUlc* over store of W. U. Hobarts A Co., llrosd St.
JaXft
J. M. McNEILL,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Practice* In courts of Georgia and Alabama.
Ofllce 128 tlroad flt., (over C. A. Ho ld A Co.’a)
flpecial attention given to coliectiotiH. Jail
INGRAM * 4RAWFORBN,
AUtrssys at Law,
Will practice In the State and Federal Courts of
Georgia.
Preor, Illge* A Co.’s etoro, northwest
corner Broad and St. Clair St*. Jot
A. A. ROSIER,
Attorney and Cotin sellar at Law,
Practices Iu Stato nud Federal Courts In Georgia
and Alabama.
Office 12(1 Broad t t., Columbus, Ua.
Mark II. BLAMiiroRU. Louis F. Gahrard.
BLAND FORI) A GARRARD,
Attorneys aad Counsellor* nt law.
Office No. 87 Broad utreot, over Wittich A Klu-
sel’s Jewelry Store.
Will praotico iu the Statu and Federal Courts.
ae|>4
Jas. M. BcaasiL. OuAsJ.BwirT.
RVAHELL * SWIFT,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Will practice
in the Courts of Uoorgia (Chattahoochee Circuit)
and Alabama. Otilco over 0. A. hedd k Co.’s store,
Broad street, Columbus, Ga. jut
L. T. DOWNING,
Attorney and Mollelfssr.
U. 8. Com’r and Bugister iu Bankruptcy. Office
uov2‘)| over Brooks’ Drug 8tore, Columbus, Ua.
R. J. MOM Eli,
Attorney aud Counaellor nt Law,
ralnswa.;
wm. mow, nk.es*,
H.U. «d mgm rtmmm
Old Oflrthorp cornr, (*M MS ~
‘•'*""*"11 tlni|l«
—Niucsb waa fourteen uilea long,
tight mile. «ldo, and forlj-aii mile*
round, with a wall 100 fact high and
thick enough for three chariota abreaat.
llabylon waa fifty miles within Ihe welle,
Dentists.
W. P. TIGNKU,
Dentist,
posits Strapper's building, Ilandolph 8t.
COLEMBUM DENTAL ROOMM,
W. T. Pont., Prop’r,
Georgs Home Build lag, Oolumbns Georgia.
Builders and Architects.
J. G. OHALMERM,
Hsuae Carpenter nnd Rullder.
Jobbing doue at short notlco.
Plans and spoclflcnliona furnished for all style*
of buildings
Broad Htreet, next to G. W. Brown’s.
1a<» Cninmli
Will eontraot for Honss sRflatMMMiM
LOUIS WKLLF
(Bucosssor Wttel
Under Georgia Hi
Prompt and polits I
ALUSHI,
SB. TUST.I
Cr.wford It., mxUr I
Tobsooo, Clapp, j
i. Os.
■AIM Bl
If you wul to n}fy a |
Boots and Shoes.
WKI.Lf) A OUKTIS,
whioh were Rewonly-ftwe feet Ihiak ami • Ho. la llroad St., sign nr the lllg Moot,
100 feet high, With 100 brazen gate*. | na.i.uu, i.
The ieuiplo of Diana at Epbeu* was 420 1
feet to the support of the roof—it wm 100 B ° o11 ***** 8hw! "’ Leather and Findings,
years in building. The largest of the i
pyramids woa 481 feet in height and 8K3
feet on the sides. The base oovered I
Dealer In aad 1
mall; pay the highest market prloo for
eleven acres. The stones are about sixty
feet in length, aud the layers are 208. It
employed 350,000 men in building. The
labyrinth of Egypt eontaina SOO chambers <
sud twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, pre- j
■ents rains twenty-seven miles around, I
and contained 950,000 citizens and 400,-
ifidea.
N. B.—Plasterers’ Hair always on huud.
Jy4,
Boot and 8hoemakers
WM. MEYER,
Hoot anil Hhoemaker.
Itoulrr iu Lent har and Findings. Next to 0. A.
DAJMbR.
Dealer In Family Gi
tween Ogl
P No charge
000 slaves. The Temple of I^elphos wan ' Prompt and strict attantiou give
•nation that it was plundered |lvl '
J. H. SLAJtnSSiU
wbwiwMi* ms mrnemmm
Junction of Franklin, ^
ao rich in donation
of $60,000,<X)0, and the Emperor Nero oar-1
ried away from it 2(0 atatnea. The walls
of Rome were thirteen miles around.
—An intelligent writer in The Jiritish
Medical Journal says that an imperative
uoudition of health on the African gold
coast is that flannel Hhirts should invaria
bly be worn, and in no oaae linen or cot
ton. The moBt experienced army officers
in such climates liuve all reootnmemled
flannel, uh have also the best writers ou
the hygiene of the tropica, auoh as Obe-
vera, .Jeffreys, Moore, eto., and from ex
perience at various places ou the western
coaHt of Afriea, it is protective against
malaria. Another point, ia tho oare of
the feet. At the gIoho of every day, the
feet should be bathed, and the aoeka
washed wbeuever they are soiled ; if the
feet ohafe, the nook* should be rubbed
with common soap where they oome in
contact with the sore place*; rubbing the
feet with oil or fat of auy kind bafore
walking any great diatanco ; and, if blis
ters form on the feet, they ought not to
be opened until a halt, wheu a needle and
thread should he drawn through, and the
fluid will gradually ooze out.
—The Utah Mining Journal states that
the level of the Great Halt Lake is now 12
or 14 feet higher than in 1847, when the
valley waa first settled. From 1847 to
1852 there waa no noticeable change.
From 1852 to '50 the water rose about <»
feet. From 1850 to 1881, the level sunk
about 2 feet belew that of 1852, and the
lake contracted to three-fonrths of its
previous area. From 1801 to 1805, the
lake again rose, this time to a height of
12 foet above tho level of 1852, while its
atea increaHed one-half its original aize.
Since 1802 it has gained slowly, its alter
nate rise and fall not exoeeding 2 feet. Jf
monument has been placed near the shore
of the lake to indicate its changes.
Messrs. Bird A Go., of London, have
lately brought into notice a new and im
proved wheel, with Iodia-robber tire,
which is claimed to be capable of wearing
as long as, or longer than an iron tie, and
to have the great advantage of perfect
noiselossness and absence of iojurions
jar. The draught of the carriage is said
to be reduced by the nse of this tire near
ly one-third. It appears to be simply a
tire of solid rubber, fastened on the exte
rior of an ordinary wheel by bolts, such
as are used with iron tie*, aud it may be
thinner than the usual kind, merely serv
ing the purpose of s band
woodwork firmly together.
—A most deceptive imitation of leather
is manufactured, according to a process
discovered by Dawidowski, from parch
ment paper. It is as soft and pliabls m
leather, and resembles it perfeotly in
color aud finish, and, like it, can be glued,
pressed, stamped, gilded, oto. It, there
fore, forms a perfect substitute for fancy
leather for very many purposes. As bind
ing of books it resiats abrasion extremely
well, and ia not affected by dirt or even
water. It is also free from the objections
to leather as s lining for hats, since it is
unaffected by perspiration.
—The Troy and Boston Railroad is
nearly 5 miles long, 25 feet wide and 20
feen high in the centre. The tunnel
f iroper is finished, but the tracks are not
aid yet. The tunneling was done from
3 headings, one at eaoh end and in ths
oentre. and from 180 to 180 fast mode at
each heading. It ia not yet decided
whether the State will hasp the toanal in
itaown heads and aollart the toils, av
ftnd jemelf, end if 1 dia give this paper | Uaee it oat to railraad aoaipeniea.
__ Tailors.
G. A. KGCHNK,
Merchant Tailor and Cutter.
A full atock of Fronch and KnglUli Broadcloths
CaMluuTHi and Vostlnga.
aprlfl No. 1:14 llroad Struct.
HENRY 8ELLMAN*
Cutting, Cleaning ami Repairing
Dona in tlia bait «tylo.
J?r24J > ^^^^Corn«M>awforininin^|nnMG*
Dress-Making.
Minn M. A. UOLLI Nun WORTH,
Druurt-Maklng, Cutting and Fitting. Turin*cheap.
Be* I dun cu andidio|i In Brownsville. '
novltt
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Worker In Tin, nheet Irou, Copper.
Order* from abroad jiroinjitly attuudod to.
No. 171. Broad flt rue
Confectioners.
I. G. NTItUPPKlt,
Candy Manufacturer
cm
E ast India manioc a.
AlJonur and StBkTinMtf IU,
J'lUMlntUmfOSM,
ptuxi— Kii—nn,
Brand, P«MkMM*<
Wheat Orlta, Oal Ml
Rye Flour, Pleklaa,
Chow-Chow, Main.
All hloda of Obi
Buckwheat, I
Florida Syrup aadC
Imported and I
Win.i of Fraaaa,!
f.H
h. F.eaauei
AT THE CASH
All kinds of Confectionery and Fruits,
Stick C'audy IS cents.
Full weight guarautued Iu each box.
Hotels.
PLANTER**' HOTEL,
Nest to Columbus Bank Building.
1’orter* at all thu train*.
Jnia MKd. W. F. SNIDKB, Fropr’w.
Livery and Sale Stables.
ROBERT THOMPHON,
Livery, Male sud Exchange Nlnblea.
OuLKTHonrs, North or Iurdolfu 8t*.,
•ctao Columbus, Ga.
A. GAMMEL,
Livery and Male Nlablrs,
OoLXTUoKrc St., Columhum, Ua.
rParticular attention given to Foudiug ami 8al«
Horae* aud Mulu* boarded Iu stable* by the
month or day. ont2»
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. 10 and 18, Market House.
Freah Meat* of evury kind nud bust quality
— . Oho*<* .aw On, Bawl
at ,1 V* gallon.
Atmon’a cel.braud |
FIDO Toaa, Orta, aad ]
Extra Chute.
Trlih Oat Meal (LMiat'i).
llukon’ Pramlua (
Extra Oholea BuUar, I
Uaal, Flour aad ■m.aoOlHM.
D.ltr.rad fra. «f Mfl
Tonal oaah.
Rorr a
LAWYINS.
FERN K. W|
Attorney at
Opelika,
I. T. COOK,
Freah Maata of All Kind.,
»»pq fltalls N il, lft nud 17.
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIPLER,
Guu and LockHWith, Crawford streut, next it
Johmou’* turner, Colombo*. Ou. Jufi
WILLIAM 8CHOBER,
Gun and Locksmith and dualor in Gunuinir Ma
terial*. Ka*t of fltrupper's Confectionary.
Plano Tuning, So.
HINIfl
Attorney
W ILL practice la the 1
or any where ske.
I’UiusD. “Pay me er nm fl
W. A.
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