Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1923 — Page 8

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Alice of Old Vincennes By Maurice Thompson COPYRIGHT. 190 8. BY ALICE LEE THOMPSON

BEGIN HERE ALICE, foster daughter of GASPARD ROCSmgLUN. loved by LIEUT. FITZHCGH BEVERLEY. American Army officer, who. with CAPTAIN HELM surrendered Vincennes to the English general. GOVERNOR HAMILTON, during the Revolutionary War. Considerable hatred existed between the English and the rebe's and Hamilton wae particularly piqued because the American flag ho wanted as a badge of his victory over Vincennes hail been stolen. 00L. FRANCIS VIGO, an Americanized Spaniard, brought in by one of Hamilton's ■ooutuur bi .lics, was released because many Indians were loyal to the rebels, ana it was thought best not to incite their hatred. CAPTAIN FARNSWORTH. Englishman, was shot through the arm by Alice when he attempted to attack FATHER BERET after the latter denied knowing the whereabouts of the missing flag. During the incident Alice unknowingly lost a locket 6he wore bearing a ianuly crest and the name TARLETON. After dressing Farnsworth's wound she went to Hamilton and surrendered. Beverley knew what had happened and lollowed her. A ND I’ll have you shot for j /\ it, Miss, as sure as you ! £ stand there in your silly impudence, ogling me so brazenly"' He leaned toward her as he spoke and sent with the words a shock of coarse, passionate energy from which she recoiled as If expecting a blow to allow it. An Irresistible impulse swept Beverley to Alice’s side, and his attitude wan that of a protector. Helm sprang up. A lieutenant came in and respect fully, but with evident over-haste, re ported that Captain Farnsworth had been shot and was Rt Roussillon place In care of the surgeon. "Take this girl into custody. Confine her and put a strong guard over her.” In giving the order Hamilton jerked his thumb contemptuously toward Alice, and at the same time gave Beverley a look of supreme defiance and hatred. "When Helm began to speak he turned fiercely upon him and stopped him with: "None of your advice, sir. 1 have had all I want of it. Keep your place or I’ll make you.” Then to Beverley: "Retire, sir. When I wish to see you I’ll send for you. At present you are not needed here.” The English lieutenant saluted his ! rommander, bowed respectfully to Alice and said: “Come with me, Miss, please.” Helm and Beverley exchanged a look of help ; is and enquiring rage. It was as if °y had said: "What can we do? Must we bear it?” Certainly they could d' nothing. Any interference or. their part would be sure to increase Alice's danger, and at the same time add to the weight of their own humiliation. Alice silently followed the officer cut of the room. She did not even glance toward Beverley, who moved as if to interfere and was promptly motioned back by the guard. His better judgement returning held him from a rash and futile act, until Hamilton poke again, saying loudly as Alice passed through the door: "I'll see who's master of this town if I have to shoot every French lioyden in it!” “Women and children may well fear you. Colonel Hamilton,” said Beverley. "That young lady is your superior." “You say that to me, sir!” "It is the best I cou!d possibly say of you.” "I will send "you along with the wench if you do not guard your language. A prisoner on parole has no license to be a blackguard." "I return you my parole, sir, I shall 1 no longer regard it as binding," said Beverley, by a great effort, holding back a blow; "I will net keep faith with a scoundrel who does not know how to be decent in the presence of a young girl. You had better have me arrested and confined. I will,escape at the first opportunity an 1 bring a force hero to reckon with you for your villainy. And if you dare hurt Alice Roussillon I will have you hanged like a dog!" Hamilton looked at him scornfully.

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smiling as one who feels safe in his authority and means to have his own way with his victim. Naturally ho regarded Beverley's words as ths merest' vaporings of a helpless and exasperated young man. He saw very clearly that love was having a hand in the affair, and ho chuckled Inwardly, thinking what a fool Beverley was. ”1 thought I ordered you to leave this room,” he said with an air and tone of lofty superiority, "and I certainly mean to be obeyed. Go, sir, and if you attempt to escape, or in any way break your parole. I’ll have you shot." “I have already broken It. From this moment I shall not regard It. You have heard my statement. I shall not repeat It. Govern yourself accordingly.” With these words Beverley turned and strode out of the house, quite beside himself, his whole frame quivering. Hamilton laughed derisively, then looked at Helm and said: "Helm, I like you; I don’t wish to be unkind to you; but positively you must quit breaking in upon my affairs with your ready-made advice. I’ve given you and Lieutenant Beverley too much latitude, perhaps. If that young fool don’t look sharp he’ll get himself Into a beastly lot of trouble. You’d better give him a talk. He’s in a way to need it just now.” "T think so myself.” stlld Tlcba. glad to get back upon fair footing with the irascible Governor. “I’ll wait until he cools off somewhat, and then I can manage him. Leave him to me." “Well, come walk with me to see what has really happened to Farnsworth. He’s probably not much hurt and deserves what he’s got. That girl has turned his head. I think I understand the whole affair. A little love, a little wine, some foolishness, and the wench- shot him.” Helm genially asesnted; but they were delayed for some time by an officer who came in to consult with Hamilton on some pressing Indian af fairs. When they reached Roussillon place they met Beverley coming out. but he did not look at them. He was scarcely aware of them. A little way outside the gate, on going in, he had picked up Alice’s locket and broken chain, which he mechanically put Into his pocket. It was all like a dream to him and yet he had a clear purpose. He was going away from Vincennes, or at least he would try, and woe be to Hamilton on his coining back. It was so easy for an excited young mind to plan great things and ‘o expect success under apparently impossible conditions. Beverley gave Jean a note for Alice: It was this that took him to Roussillon place: and no sooner fell the night than he shouldered a gun furnished him by Madame Godere. and guided by the woodsman’s fine craft, stole away southward, thinking to swim the icy Wabash some miles below, and then strike across the plains of Illinois to Kaskaskia. It was a desperate undertaking; but In those days desperate unrFr takings were rather the rule than the exception. Moreover, love was the leader and Beverley the blind follower. Nothing could daunt him or turn him hack, until he found an army to lead against Hamilton. It seems but a romantic burst of Indignation, as we look back at It. hopelessly foolish, with no possible end but death in the wilderness, and Beverly, with his superb physique, his knowledge of the wilderness and his Indomitable self reliance, was by no means without his fighting chance for success. CHAPTER XII BEVERLEY’S absence was not noticed by Hamilton until late on the following day, and even then lie scouted Helm’s suggestion that rbe young man was possibly carrying out his threat to disregard his parole. ‘He would be quite justified in doing it: you know that very well,” said Helm with a laugh, “and he's just the man to undertake what Is impossible. Os course, however, he'll get scalped for his trouble, and that will cost you something, I'm happy to say.” "It’s a matter of small importance," Hamilton replied; "but I’ll wager you the next toddy that he’s not at the present moment a half-mile from this spot. He may be a fool, I readily grant that he Is, but even a fool is not going to set out alone in this [ kind of weather to go to where your ! rebel friends are prbably toasting their shins by a fire of green logs an i half starving over yonder on the Mississippi.” "Joking aside, you are doubtless right. Beverley is hot-headed, and if he could he’d get even with you devilish quick; but he hasn't left Vincennes, I think. Miss Roussillon would keep him here if the place were on fire!” Hamilton laughed dryly. He had thought just what Helm was saying. Beverley’s attentions to Alice had not escaped his notice. "Speaking of that girl,” he remarked .ifter a moment’s silence, “what am I to do to her? There’s no place to keep her, and Farnsworth insists that she wasn’t to blame.” He chuckled again and added: “It’s true as gospel. He’s in love with her, too. Seems to be glad she shot him. Says he’s ashamed of himself for ever suspecting her of anything but being a. genuine angel. Why, he's got as flabby as a rabbit and mumbles like a fool!” “Same as you or l ot his age,” said Helm, taking a chew of tobacco. “She is a pretty thing. Beverley don't know his foot from his shoulderblade when she's anywhere near him. Boys are boys. I’m a sort of a boy myself.” "If she'd give up that flag I'd let her go,” said Hamilton. "I hate like the devil to confine her; it looks brutal, and makes me feel like a tyrant.” / “Have voti ever happened notice the obvious fact. Governor Hamilton, that Alice Roussillon and Father Beret are not all the French in Vincennes?” “What do you mean?” “I mean that I don’t for a moment believe that either the girl or the priest knows a thing about where that flag is. They arc both as truthful and honorable as people ever get to be. I know them. Somebody else got the flag from under the priest s floor. You may depend upon that. If Ms Roussillon kne>v where it Is she’dßsay so. and then dare you to make 'her tell where it’s hidden.”

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with ’em. I had no trouble while I held the town.” Hamilton bit Ills lip and was silent. Helm was exasperatingly good tempered, and his jocularity was irresistible. While he was yet speaking a guard came up followed by Jean, the hunchback, and saluting said to Hamilton: "The lad wajats to see the lady, sir.’

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Hamilton gazed quizzically at Jean, who planted himself in his habitual attitude beforo him and stared up into his face with the grotesque expression which seems to be character istic of hunchbacks and unfledged birds—the look of an embodied ;utd hideous joke. “Well, sir, what will you have?” the Governor demanded. "I want to nee Alloa, if you please.?*

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“What for?" “I want to give her a book to read.” “Ah, indeed. Where is it? Let me see it.” Jean took from the breast of his loose jerkin a small volume, dog-eared and mildewed, and handed it to Hamilton. Meantime he stood first on one spot, then the other, gnawing his thumb-nail and blink! lg rapidly. “Well, Helm, just look hare I" “What?” I

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"Manon Lescaut.” “And what’s that?” “Haven’t you ever read it?” “Read what?” “This novel—‘Manon Lescaut.’ ” “Never read a novel in my life. Never expect to.” Hamilton laughed freely at Helm’s expense, then turned to Jean and gave him back the book. It would have been quite military, had he taken the precaution to exam.

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Ine between the pages for something hidden there, but he did not. “Go give it to her.” he said, “and tell her I send my compliments, with great admiration of her taste In literature.” He motioned the soldier to show Jean to Alice. “It’s a beastly French story,” he added, addressing Helm; "immoral enough to make a pirate blush. Tha”s the sort of girl Mademoiselle Roussiljon le!” (To Be Continued^