Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 September 1879 — Page 6

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" Death at the next M4rfcc," sahl the j An), tptiokjy. i, ' XtHhmks, had I known thai tlihi fallow would lie the next, I would have waited uattl the te.t aftr he, for there k tHimethmir aliout him that pa my tvmpmlkwiiAM rrath'." " Yea wfll " " No, I will not. The order was given, It muat be followwl. See that 1 am not awakenl mail after the .euteace w exefutHl." A court-martial was speedily convened, ami KnuieoUi lHplati stiMnl liefore itelmrgad with haviag leen captured by the pickets far beyond IkhjimIs anl nuikinr a it were hfei intention to paw through the north woods, out upon the Hartford turnpike. I can not deny this," lm said, "but I affirm that it was my intention to return lwforo roll call and at once admit that I had d'woboyed the rules." " That is an apology easily framed after capture," nuggotKed the Judge Advocate; "but if you say what your iHiriMfcie wa in thus going leyowl tho liaes, if it seems to ua good ami consistent with your return, it may make Ike difference between life and death with you, Franco! Duplnn." "Alas! lean not tell my purpose. I can say that it w a good one ; that had it been account .-d, results of much

concern to me and to another yes, many others might have come of it. As iC is unaccomplished, my purpose would be laughed at and another made an object of ridicule." "That mu.H be a singular purpose, indeed, whndi vou would prefer to lose your life rather than part with." tA TJ St - .1 t... r.,. ,t.si.a l ..t. T koiHKl to lose rav life when I came to America, but not thus. However, what difference is it ?" They found him guilty, and sentenced him to death. lie was to be shot by six of his comrades, at the next sunrise. Yet they pitied him. He was, by all accounts, a tall, handsome, brave fellow, a soldier whose ease of manner and whose habit indicated that his early life was passed in circles with which none of hi companions were familiar. He was a stvangar to them all when he joined tliem, ami it had not escaped notice that the Count de Rochambeau, with his orer-observant eye, had marked this commou soldier, Francois, and had even once said in the heartns of the sentry wlw paced in front of the door, "I mean to find out why this gentleman serves as a common soldier and who he is.11 With all his reserve and lioursof meditation. Francois was a favorite with hi? comrades, for while they felt that he was above them in refinement, in polish ami experience, tliev knew that lie made no effort to have them feel thus, but rather endeavored to repress all trials and emotions not shared In common by a private soldier. He conkl not repress all. there was a method, a way, a mannerism of which he Was unconscious. He had nursed tlie sick, done double duty to nave some tired-out comrade, and there was gloom throughout ine canin wnen tt went forth that Comrade Duplan was to be shot at sunrise. They went by twoa and threes ami scores to the Count de Kochnmbeau to bee for mercy, and they returned lieavy-hearted, not getting what tliev sought. Dunlail himself, so it was afterward .said, was the most composed and seem' inlv least troubled soldier in the camp To his guard he sail lmt little. Once, when the guard, with the tears streamin? down his cheeks, said : " Too lad ! Too bad!" Ptiplau replied, "It is well." And then he added: "I have lived those five years in tint shadow of death. Todav. Yesterday, for a few weeks, I have seen a little ray of sunlight breaking throuch the clouds. I knew to-uay, when I stepiied over the lines, that ere I returned either tlie suu would once more shine for me, or that night would come forever." " That eems to lie the strange part of it all. There is not a soldier in camp who thinks you intended to desert." "Nor did I. Had I succeeded, I should have returned, welcomed by tho Count de Rochambeau, aad not as Francois Ihiplan." Then you are not serving under your right name-' " No, I onco had-know a servant of that name M La?r in the evening the Count de llochamlieau's Aid brought a message to the Sergeant in command. It was to ' the effect that any requests of Francois Duplan consistent with tho execution of the sentence were w m gramco. roou, writing materials, companions for the niffht, the choice of tho comrade who were to execute tlni sentence any wish e lie might nave were 10 oesirieuy carried out. Duplan at first said that im had none, but Maidenly, with an air of great earnef tnow, and yet timidly, he i , 1 t. l... .1. ....SI. ..I ,. m 1 1 1 ' il.. aKCO 11 a cuiuraiio iingm w tiviauuu i escort from the village" and home again one wlsnn he would like to see. " And who is this one?" " Mistress Prudence Strong." The Aid looked al Duplan curiously for an instant. " And why do you widi to see Mistress Prudence on such a night as this?'1 lie asked. "DM the Count do Hochambcati instruct you that I must give the reasons for any wish t might desire granted?" was Duplan1. answer. The Aid smiled significantly, but Duplan did not see that, "Ietitb then as ho wishes1 said the Aid to tli Sergeant. A soMier was iictailed to go up into the village and escort Mistrc1 Pnulenco to tlie camp, " Peradvtmturc she will not whims," he ahl to his comrades as he lHittoaed his great coat about hint; "ami yet T think she will, Have you not seen her at the oven when Duplan am! the real of us were baking bread?

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evening with and bring us cklr ami amues?" As tlie soldier imuw1 the iruard-house. Dupbta called him. A 1 pravyoti," jtaid the prisoner, " not to reveal to listiws Prudence my trouble. It is my last request to you, comrade." . Half an hintr later the soldier returned. The dicker of the lantern that he carried ruvealed, as they iassl tho fijiiitn. a tttaiuhM foiiiala forill. t!HWlai) slender female form. ped from head to foot with a cloak. She nrecetkHl her escort a few steps. I lie ' i : ..ii ...... f 1 u.. HuLim f. mum iiw ii-M or nr liair that escape" from the top oi ihu hmxl where it eneirclwl tho face. She slmwn the sniarddiouse. Duplan. standing, receiveil her, waving his hand slightly, as if to warn her against any uiidue'emotion. Tho guard, with a delicaev for which Dunlan subseouently thaiikwl him, turned his buck to them, ami paced slowly before the door. He heard voice. He did not hear nor try to. what was said. He heard sobs, also. At the end of half an hour Duplan said distinctly: " Now, go. You will come to see me in tho morning at the oven, will you not?" And then tho guard knew that ho had not told her what his sentence was, and that she did not knowthat she would never hear him speak again. As she quitted the guard-house lie put some papers that he took from Ins breast into her hand. "Will vou go with me to the War OfKce," she said to her escort, "and wait them until I have seen Mr. Trum bull? Then when we get to my fathers IsukH! my father will make for you a hot punch, I'll warrant. Yes, 1 know, the punch will 10 all ready, liecauso Mr. uuddt our minister, is in the kitchen this evening with father, and they al ways take a warm one when they are together." The snow, as they passed to tho high way, liegan to fall so thickly that even tlie" light of the lantern was dimmed, but at this Mistress Prudence laughed, and the comrade who was acting as her escort thought her an extremely fearless girl, and wonderfully handsome withal. The walk to the War Ofticc was a short one. Within ten minutes they were at the door. "Halt!" said tho sentinel, ami he was so muffled up that it was the tone rather than the articulation that checked Mistress Prudence, w1h would otherwise have opened the door and gone in unannounced. "Oh, no. It is you, is it, mistress? and what do you hereon such a night as this?" the sentinel said, after peering into the maiden's face. " I would seo Mr. Trumbull; truly I desire overmuch to speak to him. Will you admit me?" The sentinel tapped at the door. It was opened. A ruddy glow burst within, and by it two dispatch-liearers could lie seen sitting on tlie counter for before tho war the office was a country shop driving their spurs into the woodwork as their legs dangled a foot or moi e from the floor. The marks of the spurs of these ami other messengers are to be seen in the woodwork even to this day. Mistress Prudence ami her escort parsed into this room. The dispatchbearers, who were evidently in the midst of some rollicking story, and were plainly feelhur the merrier for the mulled citior lor tliev hail taKcn, cyeu wie icniaiu figure curioudy at first; but when she threw her cloak and Ivood off, ami they saw the largo gray eyes, now seeming very dark by the firelight, and that her features were exceedingly fair and her manner gracious, they thought for certain that they were in the presence of one of the "Governor's daughters, and liecame at oaco greatly courteous. One took her cloak and shook the snow from it, then put it liefore the fire. The other opened the door to tlie room in the rear where he knew the Governor was passing an hour with the Count de Kochamlieati. Tims unannounced Mistress Prudence came into tlie Governor's presence. He sat at hU oaken desk, bit seemed for the moment to lie more occupied over a certain discussion that he was having with Kochamlieau than his jmjiers. The French nobleman stood easily liefore the llre-nlaee, the flames from the iHiming log burnishing the gilt scabbard. The Governor arose and tho Count bowed. Bo'h were exceedingly tall, and Mistress Prudence seemed by contrast wofully small, but not less fearless than the 111011 she confronted. "Why, Mistress Prudence, what ha brought you here? Do you come from vour worthy father, the Ksquire?" " "Ahem!" this in the slightest and yet most suggestive of tones from the Count. "Pardon me," said the Governor. " Let me. 1 besr. present Mistress Pru dence Strong to tlu! Count de ItoehamImjhii. A worthy daughter of an exceedIll n'nilit' futliKiv sir.1' 1 n uy, inat wuum hh- s " " ' tbo 4uife.A j.t tr . mniif. i.irfi.i iiiii"". jinn tho Count with much srrace tKk - - " - 1 .T.l! - ,Ml.-j-tres Prudence's brown wit s!ia)Ciy. t t .....1 1 . ......-! ,,!!.! I .in li.ii-.. ' IIHI1I1 ailll IHJIll Jt:i il. -J'm the pleasure of leading the maid at the reel in the tavern dining-room?" he asked. "Indeed you did, sir," replied Mistress Prudence, curtseying, "But, Mr. Trumbull will you tell me what Mr. Duplan, the tall French soldier, has lone, ami what is to Ihj his muiishMieiur The Governor, who had taken advantage of tho colloquy lictweeii the maid ami tho CoHtit to draw 011 hi outer garment of plain brown homesiMm fortlie room was miltiy ami lie had removed it turned with a look of sur 4H prise. r 1'ti.rtw Hiiiliim lif H11V Kl'i'lll'll Mldier, Mistress Pnttlence, and prithee why should you visit me ion such a

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Wetfaue hefc a gMMl man aad a brare sohlkir, ami because hw liaa done nothing to merit puniihineiit." "lint why does Altoress rnulenee lieeome his intercessor, ehf L.ount, perhaiw you know .something of tins. What d(Ms the maid mean, for I see she is gnwtly exeruwed, and I know ties." The her to be not disturbed at triThe Count do Hoehttinbeau was very grave, no moKouaimu i mmi-uni.n, 1. iw ...vt wtwitiniaiiK". At l(iiurih hi! Haul: no is a uusener: imio i muui mi mvsterv about him; nut ot an uiu mysteries there is none so very strange as this that ha now come to my ears. Tell me," and ho took the girl " what reason U there that you s uaiiu, , i should thus intercede?" " I can not tell that now, sir," repliwl the mistress a little demurely, " but it Here the Count de Hoehainbeaii looked very grave, but the Governor at onco said: " I'd plight my honor, sire, the girl tells tho truth. Tell me, Mistress Prudence, how came you to know this soldier?" " I have often seen him at the oven, over there, and in passing have ehatted with him, as have the other maidens, for ho speaks tho English tongue as well as you or I." " Was that entirely seemly?" said the Count, gravely. Miss Prudence looked at the tall, gracious Frenchman wonderingly for an instant and then slowly and instinctively catching his meaning said, while her gray eyes sparkled and the blood mounted to lier cheeks : "There are none but brave and true women in iAdmnon, sir," The Count bowed low with his hand over his heart, and humbly begged the maid's forgiveness. "At the oven, you say," continued tho Governor; "surely there could be no htirni in that, for is not the oven on tho common, at tho rear of the meetinghouse?" Tint brick oven still remains on the common, saury imiKcn in ami gone to decay, but "there, nevertheless.! " I came to ask you to cause htm to tie released, on my word that ho has done nothing wrong. It is unseemly to shut such a man up as a prisoner for the space of one hour!" The Governor and the Count exchanged glances and 1lie ipiick eye of Mistress Prudence saw it. With the most dignified courtesy to the Count she turned her back upon him, and going to tho Governor, said: " Mr. Trumbull, von knew me when I was a child, before the war. Did you not see me lead the other maids to tho school-houe, when the messenger from Lexington to Norwich stopped to tell us that blood had been shed, and did I not suggest to tho maids that we even take our petticoats to make tho implements of war with? Do vou roniembor my ride to Hartford, alone through the forests, that I might carry to you the special dispatches that were waiting 3-011 here from Gen. Washington?" " In truth I remember all this, and to vour credit." " " Then have I not tho right to ask a slight favor?" " But Mistress Pnulenco, I can not do what vou would seek. My authority extern! not to the battalion of tho Count V K0ChHmleau." " But you can plead with him." " I see. Mistress Prudence, you little comprehend these matters, and in truth I wot my pleading would not avail the half yours would," The Count listened gravely to all this. Suddenly he said, but with inhiiite resjiect: "Tell me, do you love this man?" " What has that to do with it?" she answered, straightening up and her gray eye Hashed indignation. " If he deserves punishment I might love him and still suffer him to lie punished. Hut he does not. I beg you to release him, for he lias done nothing wrong." The Count de Koelmmbeau said nothing. " Will you not release him?" she pleaded tenderly, placing her hand on the Count de Kochnmbeau 's arm. He turned his face away, but shook his head. " Will you not licg for m ?" This to the Governor, who stood with one hand on his oaken desk, and looking very stem, a much as to say, " I like this not stall." " I can not, Mistress Prudence." "I know not what his punishment mav lie. It is disgrace sufficient to have t been arrested. But I have hero" ami she suddenly drew from the finds of her dress a thick packet of napens ."that which he gave me to-night, saying that were he punished I might keep them forever, were he not I might deliver flw. 111 fn I tin f'niml. do iiociruiiocau. l ' V?"' i ! I ir win urn iimv ii'ii wiiiil. i-ijiiittji l.v - l i order for his release, I will kiss you as I S the Count, " those are but other words, the meaning of which is the afllniiative. answer to tfto epiestion . . . I put to Vou. Then vou do lOVu the Sidtiler?" KTltatt.4 bnnmleiifr!. sir. I have hot said so. Mayhap in your country women can do nothing uulo the motive of loyo bo imputed. It is not so here, as i t ..11 i..n 1... .,, 1 .ur. 1 muiimii wen kiiuw s. 1 " Yon are a brave maid," said the. Count do Itnchambe.ni, " and yoil mil tho liavo ww wish papers-'1 Now lei nto Jinye

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With this Mistress Pntdenee ruslM'd from the whhi, tht Governor awl Conh( staring at each otltcr in aniaomeut, Presently she returned, looking demiuv, sly and wondrous pretty. " I have nut the iMtjiers where t law are safe, sir. iV-morrow when 1 see Mr. Duplan and ho Uils ni that lie is relieved from duress ami disgrace, 1 will place them in vour hands." The Count flushed. lie bit hi lips, and at length said : " Then Mlas Prudence lare not to trust to my honor?" "Ye, yes," she said, going to him prettily, "but methiiiks I will pumMi you for your impertiueuee, r. Vim seek the' papers greatly, and you mtM restrain your curiosity over the night as a punishment for the question you pin to mo. Nevertheless 1 will partially re. quite you," and with that she put her face up to his, so that when he knit over she kissed him on his forehead. Then

the Count sat at the Governor's desk and wrote an tinier pardoning Francois Duplan, or rather dismissing tho clmrge. of desertion us unfounded, thereby quieting bis conscience regarding the' peremptory order of death to deserters and gratifying his wishes. "Give this," he said, " to" vour escort, and charge him to deliver it to the Sergeant tin 'lib return to the car, p." When she went away neither the Governor nor tho Count proposed to make any search for the apcrs. The dispatch bearers, in resjHiiiM) to the Governor's inquiry, said that the maiden went up among the rafters. Comrade Jacques showed Mistress Pnulenco to her father's door by the light of his lantern, and nothing loth went in. The mistress herself "mixed him a punch of tremendous strength, which he drank in her honor. Then "Sqiiiro Strong insisted on another, and the minister suggested that they drink to the cause, so that by the time Comrade Jacques was ready to go 'back to the camp he must have had more than a pint oi Medford mm to warm htm. Tho cold night air from without and the heated rum from within sent his brain at once into a whirl, and an hour after the sentinel took him to his tent hi a state of tho wildest intoxication, in which he constantly sang the praise of Mistress Prudence. They found on him at noon the next day the Count de Hochamlieau's remission of the sentence of death. At sunrise the Sergeant and six weeping comrades, drawn by lot, led Dnpl-.m through the snow, across the highway, nearly opposite the old mill. He kmit in the snow on the lmnk, and lagged them to stand not more than five pace away. He calmly repeated a prayer, and then turning to his comrade said in a clear voice, "Aim for mv heart," and dropped the handkerchief. He fell over in the snow dead, and by noon wa buried where he fell. His comrades took from a stone wall a dozen or more ImjwIu and placed them in a pile over the grave. The little heap may Is; seen to this day. At noon, as the sun came out, Mistress Prudence appeared at the oven" on the green. She asked for Mr, Duplan, and the Frenchmen smiled and pointed to the earth. Even then she did not understand. IK)king acrdss the common she saw the Count do Itochamhoau entering the War Office, and to him she at once went. ."Where is Mr. Duplan?"' "In his gnive, Mistress Prudence." She paled, but did not faint. Site stood like a rock. She saw that the Count de KoehamlR'au was not jesting. The Count himself looked sadly at lier. and was about to tell her t the drunken Jacques, made drunk by the mistress's own attentions, but she stopped him. "You are a murderer," she said. " You have killed a brave and innocent man without cause. You have killcil me. You trilled with me lat night. You care for women only to play with their feelings. 1 hate you and nil your. Oh! why did yon kilt him, sir? lie was a good man and a noble, imui. Oh! you are all servants of Satan. War. 1 this war? Then I hate it. Better had there lieen 110 war. Yes, better have been slaves of the throne. But I tell vou, sir, vou w ill never know whom you miirilercd If the constant thought that you may have killed one equally gentle with yourself may be a punishment I hope thai it will ever rankle m vour breast. I have concealed the pa pers. Ho asked me to keep them foriti case he was not released, l hey am safelv hidden. You will not find them unless you pull the Governor office down. " Perhaps nol then, and it will not come down while you are alive." Then she fainted; and an hour after they carried lier homo in a delirium. In the spring, when the snow was gone, they found a flower or two planted around" the Ixiwidcrs over Duplan No one over saw any person , dant them, but everv one knew thai i - .. 11 Vl made, for the papers without i..., .1. ...... : . .... Iiua lii'nnl tlio I 11 1 1 llll'll" l Illl 1,1113 1111,, IW j 0 ' ihl ? nil ,0,h,m. . it is said that he C on t Jo J s wail suoscquemir tea " ' Duplan was, and that he was Of SmiL 1 1 1 1 t f. 1.... IUU mi" . moot I a (. W 1 V 1 a. a w n . A copper belt some two miles lon and from l(KJ to 200 feet wide hn M discovereil nlamt tho middle of no .southern part of iMftiho, 'lireotly on ' coast. Somo 20 miles to the m of this copper bolt silver has been muti'i in thtkils, nuisies mid filaments

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