A Little Girl in Old Detroit

with soft, dark eyes. "I looked for you. I should have asked you formally," laughing and showing her pearly

nglish proverb," b

her name and n

worse and no

names beg

ded Lisa, brightly. "The pre

to drink. Now there will be business enough, and he is handy and expert at boat building, while the Ganeaus are thrifty people.

other occasionally. To tell the truth, I do not enjoy t

Lisa, with a mischievo

enough to trace their ancestry back to French or English or even Italian rank, they taboo titles except such as are won by merit. And i

itary colonization that should emanate from a distant throne. It is true she gave a larger liberty, a religious liberty, and exploited the theory of homes instead of mere trading posts. The American has improved on all this. It is as if he said, 'I will conquer the new world by force of i

much to do, and time alone can tell wh

lowing his prejudices to soften; there are the Dutch, about the towns on the Hudso

he West, up and down the mighty river, who will never forget La Salle,

indling. "With such men as your brave, conciliatory Genera

m more friendly. In many respects they are children, in others almost giants where they con

onquests all over Europe? And the Spaniard here, who has been driven out for his cruelty and rapacity. The world question is a great tree at which many nations ha

erty?" said Laurent, rather mischievously. He had been chaff

laves, as these Pawnee people. Depend upon it they will never take kindly to civilization. A few have intermarried, and though there is muc

w has been lounging round for the past three months, lying in the sun outside the stockade, flirting and making love alike to Indian and French maids, and haunting J

grace to the nation," sai

ompliment his little friend had paid him,-"to inquire if you know anything about a child who li

ith a little curl of the lip as S

nd was charmed with her eyes and her ign

yself in this subject of education. It is sinful to allow so many y

c," exclaimed Madame Fleury. "The English have governesses. And ther

ertainly. "Angelot, Angelot," he r

Rameau might know. Are t

only one l

think I can recall an event. Husband, you

member," sha

dame Bellestre, who was a lovely woman, deferred to her husband until she was dying, when Father Rameau was sent for and she acknowledged that she died in the holy fa

find this F

tful old man is the father, though I could wish at times he would exercise a little more auth

suffered for his faith. He was a liberal now, studying up religion from ma

it had been broached in the afternoon. Marie the maid, quite a superior woman, was often intrusted wit

the sweetbrier, that gave out a fragrant incense on the night air. Even here they could catch sounds

self-indulgent side of my nature. But I want to see

red her voice almost to a whisper,-"and that Madame Bellestre, who was very much of the haute noblesse, should be so ready to take in a strange child, and that M. Bellestr

about the child that should interest one so much, recalling her prett

ons; the ruffled shirt front, the high stock, the lace cuffs about the hand, the silken small clothes and stockings. And when he was dressed in furs with fri

n. The smells of furs and skins lingered in the atmosphere, and a few days of good strong wind was a godsend. The doorways were full, women caressing their babies and

k gown, bowed her head as she answered his question. Th

the fashion of a Greek lamp, the wick floating on top, the priest glanced up at his

ener at once. "I have come to talk over a matter that has a curious interest for me, and I am told you hav

ible. I am not a politician, Monsieur, and have been trai

et and calm, and the brown eyes were soft, entreating. Clean shaven, the chin showed narrow, but the mouth redeemed it. He w

k, come hither. There may be

yself," said St.

bacco. I bethink me sometimes that it is not a habit of self-sacr

g confessions had been breathed there. An escritoire with some shelves above, curiously carved, that bespoke its journey across the sea, took a great wall space and seemed almost to divide the room. The window in the front end was quite wide, and the shutters were

light? Marcel,

inclined to talk, though I think I have heard a most excellent reaso

sat thinking. The sun has been so brilliant for days that

York to Michilimackinac several times, to Montreal, Quebec, to France

n approving incli

have a conglomerate, Père Rameau.

last as long as the English reign. We cannot pr

eritage that has slipped from her hands, for which her own discoverers and priests gave up their li

churchman

ns we have been on the other side. But I am

au bowed

girl," St. Armand began, after a pause.

ething about her, then?" re

't tell just why she interests me. She is bright, vivacious, but curio

her lap by a young Indian woman. Touchas, the woman she was staying with, corroborates the story. The child was two years or more old, and talked French; cried at first for her 'maman.' Madame Bellestre insisted that Pani should bring the child to her. She had lost a little one by death about the same age. She supposed at first that some one would claim it, but no one ever did. Then she brought the child to me and had it christened by the name on the card, Jeanne Angelot. Madame had a longing f

suspicion?" St.

ittle warmth and the slim

child to New Orleans, but Mademoiselle, who was about fourteen, objected strenuously. She was jealous of her father's love for the child. M. Bellestre was a large, fair man with auburn hair and hazel eyes, generous, kindly, good-tempered. The child is dark, and has a passionate nature, beats her playmates if

her to have a better home and different training? Does

was disastrous. She set our classes in an uproar. The sister put her in a room by herself and she jumped out of the window and threatened to run away to the woods if

ger mind and now we are learning that a broa

not worldly arrogance, obedience and not caviling; first as a daughter, then as a wife. To guide the house, prepare the meals, teach her children the holy truths of the Church, and this is

ut he was too courteous even to smile. Jeanne Angelot would need a wide

Bellestre me

much unrest and uncertainty all over the countr

ed softly, thin

the clothes an

curious. Indeed, for that matter, they have been mostly fo

ire. Unlocking a drawer he took out

shoes of deerskin. There is nothing special about the

at the little stockings were fine and bore th

ill had the scent of snuff about it. On it wa

he paper with her name. Madame Bellestre place

very diminutive, and both of them young. One would hardly be able to identify a middl

ication," St. Armand said. "This and the stockings

who have been restored to their families. It is my dream to gather them in one

trusty guar

them," smiling. "It cannot be that the good Father above will allow any of his examples to be of none effect. Pani watches over her closely and loves her with untiring devotion. She firmly upholds M. Bellestre's right and believes he will return. The money to su

hed and began foldi

. There have been many deep-rooted prejudices. My nation cannot forgive the English for numberless wrongs. We could always have been friends with the Indians when they understood that we meant to deal fairly by them. And we were to blame for supplying them with fire water, justly so called. The fathers saw this and fought against it a century ago. Even the Sieur Cadillac tried to restrict them, though he did not approve the Jesui

to the cold, inhospitable north, which would soon be the only hunti

n many fierce peoples on our earth that have

w generations." Then he rose. "I thank you sincerely for your kindness, father, an

not to

y treaty points to define and settle. I go to Washington; I may go

riest

do your best f

m allowed to

gious matters. The English laxity had le

cordial adieu, with h

rested in the child," St. Armand muse