Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1923 — Page 8

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Alice of Old Vincennes By Maurice Thompson COPYRIGHT, IftOS. BY ALICE LEE THOMPSON

THE following days were cycles j of torture to Alice. She grov- j eled In the shadow of a great dread. It seemed to her that Beverley could not love her, could not help looking upon her aa a poor, wild, foolish girl, unworthy of consideration. She magnified her faults and crudities, she paraded before her Inner vision her recent improprieties. as they had been disclosed to her, until she saw herself a sort of monstrosity at which all mankind was gazing wits disgust. Life seemed ; dry and shriveled, a mere jaundiced j shadow, while her love for Beverley | took on anew growth, luxuriant, ailembracing, uncontrollable. The fer- j ment of spirit going on jn her breast j was the inevitable process of selfrecognition which follows the terrible > unfolding of the passion-flower, in a j nature almost absolutely simple and unsophisticated. Vincennes held its breath while waiting for news from Helm's expo- : ditlon. Every day had its ninibie, yet : wholly imaginary account of what had happened, skipping from mouth ! to mouth, and front cabin to cabin. The French folk ran hither and j thither in the persistent rain, indus , triously improving the dramatic in j terest of each groundless report Alice’s disturbed imagination reveled in the kaleidoscopic terrors conjured up by these swift changes of the form and color of the stories “from the • front,” all of them more or less tragic. Today the party is reported as having been surprised and mas sacred to a man—tomorrow there has , been a great fight, many killed, the result In doubt —next day the British are defeated, and so on. The volatile spirit of the creole3 fairly surpassed itself in ringing the’changes on stirring rumors. Alice scarcely left the house during the whole period of excitement and suspense. Like a wounded bird, she withdrew herself from the light and noisy chatter of her friends, seeking only solitude and crepuscular nooks in which to suffer silently. Jean brought her every picturesque bit of ghastly gossip, thus heaping coals on the fire of her torture. But she did not grow pale and thin. Not a dimple fled from cheek or chin, not a ray of saucy sweetness vanished from her eyes. Her riant health was unalterable. Indeed, the only change in her was a sudden ripening and mellowing of her beauty, by which Its colors, its lines its subtle tindercurrents of expression were spirtualized, as if by some powerful clarifying process. Tremendous is the efTect of a soul surprised by passion and brought hard up against an opposing force which dashes i* back upon itself with a flare and explosion of self-reveal-ment. Nor shall we ever be able to foretell just how small a circumstance Just how slight an exigency, will suf fice to bring on the great change. The shifting of a smile to the gloom of a frown, the snap of a string on the lute of aur imagination. Just at i the point when a rich melody is culminating: the waving of a hand, a vanishing sac eclipse of tender, joyous expectation—dashes a nameless sense of despair into the soul. And a young girl’s soul —who shall uncover its sacred depths of sensitiveness, or analyze its capacity for suf sering under euch a PARLIAMENT IS MANY ATHLETES All Forms of Sport Represented in Commons, LONDON, April IP. —Sportsmen and athletes participate actively in England’s Parliamentary t>atlles. Os the I SIS members in the House of Commons. 250 were ionce engaged ir. some form of professional or amateur athletes. It Is doubtful whether even the variegated membership of the two legislative chambers of the United State? contain so many former track, field, lowing, fencing or football stars Even Lady Astor has a place on the athletic honor list of the house. In addition to her verbal agility she is skillful in riding, hunting and skating. Among the other law makers with distingueshed athletic records are E, O. Hemmerde afld Viscount Elveden. who were winners in succes sive years of the Diamond Sculls; Lieut.-Col. H Pasre Oroft, twice winner of the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley. and Sir Montague Barlow, who stroked Cambridge to victory season after sason. Boxing claims notable representatives in Colonel C. James, ont o champion heavyweight of the British army and navy, and in Commander J. M. Kenworthy, who defeated all comers in or out of the House of Commons. In motoring and aviation the House has a pioneer in Colonel J. T. MooreBrabazon. He was one of the first Englishmen to fiv and has won many prizes as a racing motorist.

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On the fifth day of March, back came the victorious Helm, having surrounded and captured seven boats, richly loaded with provisions and goods, and Dejean's whole force. Then again the little creole town went wild with rejoicing. Alice heard the news and the noise; but somehow there was no response in her heart She dreaded to meet Beverley; indeed, she did not expect him to come to her. Why should lie? M. Roussillon, who had volunteered to accompany Helm, arrived in a mood of unlimited proportions, so far as expressing self-admiration and abounding delight was concerned. You would have been sure that he had j done the whole deed single-handed, ! and brought the flotilla and captives to town on his back. But Onele Jazon for once held his tongue, be- i ir.g too disgusted for words at not i having been permitted to fire a single j shot. What was the use of going to fight and simply meeting and escorting down the river a lot of noncombatants? There is something inscrutably do ligbtfu! about a girl’s way of thinking one thing and doing another. Per- i versiiy, thy name is maidenhood; and maidenhood, thy name is delicious in- ] consequence! When Alice heard that Beverley hiyl come back. safe, victorious. to Vie greeted as one of the heroes of an important adventure, she immediately ran to her room frightened and full of vague, shadowy dread, to hide from him, yet feeling sure that ho would not come! Moreover, she busied herself with the preposterous task for putting on her most attractive gown—the buff brocade which she wore that evening at the river house—how long ago it. seemed!—when Beverley thought her the queeniiest beauty in the world. And she was putting it on so as to look her pret iest while hiding from him! It is a toss-up where happiness will make its nest. The palace, the hut. the great lady’s garden, the wild lass's bower, —skip here, alight there, —the secret of it may never be told. And love and beauty find lodgment, by tHe same inexplicable route, in the same extremes ~f circumstances. The wind bloweth where it listeth. finding many a matchless flower and many a lavishing fragrance in the wildest nooks of the world. No sooner did Beverley land at the little wharf than, rushing * > Ids quar tors, he made a hasty exchange of water-soaked apparel for something more comfortable, and then bolted in the direction of Roussillon place. Now Alice knew l,y the beating of her heart that lie was coming. In spite of ail she could do. trying to hold on hard and fast to her doubt and gloom. : a tide of rich sweetness began to course through her heart and break : in splendid expectation from her eyes, as they looked through the little unglazed window toward the fort. Nor ha:l she long t<> wait. He came up the narrow wet street, striding like a tall actor in the height of a melodrama. his powerful figure erect as an Indian’s, and his face glowing with the joy of a genuine, impatient lover, who is proud of himself because of the image he bears in his heart. When Alice flung wide the door (which was before Beverley could cross the veranda*, she had quite for gotten how she had gowned and be decked, herself: and so, without a tra * of self-consciousness, she flashed upon him a full-blown flower —to his eye. the loveliest that ever opened under heaven. Gaspard Roussillon, still overflowing with th“ Importance of his part in th capture of Dejean, came puffing home ward just in time to see a man at tindoor holding Alice a tip-toe in hD arms. "Ziff!” he cried, aa lie pushed open the little front gate of the yard, “en voila assez, vogue la galore!” The two forms disappeared within he house, as if moved by his roaring voice. •••••*•• The letter to Beverley from his father was some-what disturbing. It. hose the tidings of his mother’s failing health. This made it easier for the I young lieutenant to accept from Clark I the assignment to duty with a party detailed for the purpose of escorting : Hamilton, Farnsworth and several | other British officers to Williamsburg. Virgina. It also gave him a most, powerful assistance in persuading Alice to marry him at once, so as to : gr with him on what proved to be ' a delightful wedding journey through J the great wilderness to the Old Dominion. Spring’s verdure burst abroad on the sunny hills as they slowly went their way: the mating birds sang in every blooming brake and grove by which they passed, and in their joyous j hearts they heard the bubbling of ! love’s eternal fountain. CHAPTER XXIII OUR story must end here, because at this point its current flows away forever from Old Vincen- . nes: and it was only of the post on the Wabash that we set out to make a record. What befell Alice and Beverley after they went to Virginia we ‘ could go on to tell: hut that would be , another story. it to say, they lived happily ever after, or at least somewhat beyond three score and fen, and left behind them a good name and ! numerous descendants. How Alice found out her family in Virginia, we are not informed; but after a lapse of some years from the date of her marriage, there appears in one of lier letters a reference t<• in estate inherited from her Tarb . ton ancestors, and her name appears in old y?curds signed in full, Alice Tarleton Beverley. A descendant of hers still treasures the locket, with its ■ broken miniature and battered crest, which won Beverley's life from LongHair. the savage. Beside it. as carefully guarded, is the Indian charm -done that stopped Hamilton’s bullet over Alice's heart. The rapiers hav< somehow disappeared, and there is a tradition in the Tsrleton family that they were given by Alice to Gaspard Roussillon, who. after Madame Roussillon's death in 1700, went to New Orleans, where he stayed a year or •wo before embarking for France, whither ho took with him the beautifi 1 pair of colechemardes and Jean the hunchback. Onele Jazon lived in Vincennes many years after the war was over; but he died at Natchez. Miss., when 03 years old. He said, with almost his last breath, that he couldn’t shoot

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found lying face downward on the door of his cabin. Near him, on a smooth part of a puncheon, wore the mildewed fragments of a letter, which iio had been arranging, as if to read Its contents. Doubtless it was the same letter brought to him by Rene de Ronviile, as recorded in an early chapter of our story. The fragments were gathered up and buried with him. His dust lies under the present Church of St. Xavier—the dust of as noble a man and as true a priest

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as over sacrificed himself for the good of humanity. In after years Simon Kenton visited Beverley and Alice in their Virginia home. To his dying day lie was fond of describing their happy and hospitable welcome and the luxuries to which they introduced him. They lived in a stately white, mansion on a hill overlooking a vast tobacco plan tation, where hundreds of negro slaves worked and sang by clay and frolicked by night. Their oldest child

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was named Kitzhugli Gaspard. Kenton died in 183(1. There remains but one little fact worth recording before we close the book. In the year 1800, on the fourth of July, a certain leading French family of Vincennes held a patriotic reunion, during which a little old flag was produced and its story told. Someone happily proposed that it lie sent to Mrs. Alice Tar let-in Beverley with a letter of explanation, and in profound recognition c-roumataiioa*

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

which made it the true Hag of the great Northwest. And so it happened that Alice's little banner went to Virginia and is still preserved in an old mansion lie. very far from Montioello; but it seems likoh that the Wabash Valley will soon again possess the precious relic. The marriage engagement of Miss Alice Beverley to a young Indiana office, distinguished for his patriotism and military ardor, ha* been announced at th* old Beverley homestead on the

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923

—By ALLMAN

—By AL POSEN

hill, and the high couti acting parties have planned that the wedding ceremony shall take place under the famous liui- llag. on Ihe anniversary of Clark's capture of Dost Vincennes. W hen the bride shall ho brought to lor new homo on th < banks of the Wabash, the Hag will come with her; ~lit Uncle .lay.on will not be on hand with his falsetto shout: '\ ive la hanniure d'Alice Roussillon! Viv* Zhorzh Vasin tori!” Tllli RNQ