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Ye fuir ones attend, I've an offer to make you: In Hymen’s soft bands I am anxious to live, For better, for worse, companion I'll take me, Provided she fills the description I yive- I never expect nor can hope for perfection, Wor that never yet was a bachelor’s lot; But choosing a wife, I would make a selection Which mauy in my situation would not, I'd have—let me see—I'd not have a beauty. For beautiful women are apt to be vain; Yet with a small share, I would think it a duty To take her, be thankful, and never compluin. Her form must be good—without art to constrainit, And rather above than below middle-size ; A something (it puzzles my brain to expluin it) Like eloquent language must flow from her eyes, She must be well bred, or I cannot respect her; Good-natured and modest, but not very coy, Ifer mind well informed—'tis the principal nector That sweetens the cup of Hymenial joy. 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CHAPTER I, THE FAWN AND THE BEAR, There was quite an excitement among the ladies in Madame Pinette’s boarding- school at St, Loui number was ealled for, and the messenger who made the announcement also brought the news that her father had come to see her and to take her away.- St. Louis was comparatively a small town at that time; but it was rapidly |! growing in wealth and importance, as it} f was the emporium of the western fur trade, |? t education for a considerable section of country, an honor which it had previously | ¥ disputed with Cape Giradeau and St, Gen- evieve. Pinette was the most fashionable and se-|t model of propriety and refinement, The father of Jeanette Barteau was age among the inmates of Madame Vin- ette’s establishment; tence, and who seemed to consider Jean were not willing toown her although they | i ladies might have hesitated to associate with Jeanette, had it not been a known | t would never receive into her school any |s person concerning whose respectability there could be the slightest doubt. about the parentage of Jeanette as any ot] € young ladies, and the story was related to “very new arrival as a necessary portion | 1 of the history of the establishment. The story was simply this: Many years a very small and unpretending affair, Jea- 4 years of age, had been brought to the di-|1 rectress by a French merchant, a gentle: | ¢ man of hig! tegrity. being the daughter of a friend of his, |1 who was engaged in the fur basiness permitted him to viit St. Louis, LHe requested Madame Pinette to child into her establishinent, to educate her | ¢ of the directress a considerable sum ot |) money, assuring her that as large an am-|t ount would be paid to her yearly, as long |r us she continued to take care of the child, | 1 received into Madame Pinctte’s establish: | 1 ment, was treated as one of her own chil-|y dren, and had been with her ever since. |i There was nothing very surprising about help wondering why Jeanette's father had never come to see her, and what manner of man he was, if he really had existence, The French merehant had died a few years after placing the child at the school ; but the money for Jeanette’s maintenance was still recei ived, sometimes from one source, and sometimes trom another, Jeanette seemed to be very well satisfied with the situation of affaiys. She had grown up with sufficient senge, under the management of Madame Pinette, not to trouble herself unnecessarily about such matters. She loved the directress as a mother, and gave but little thought to a father whom she did not remember, and who did not even write to her, She found herselt well clothed, boarded and educa- ted, and supplied with every necessity and luxury that she could reasonably desire, Under the teachings of Madame Pinette, she contented herself with affairs as she Geabthptie w had ne cap, whiel. toward him was 4, When one of their] She was glad to ina chair neat for him to spe were by nom, Tt was also the center ot intelligence and | view. The boarding-sehool of Madame | I’ve come to el lect establishment of the kind in the young | you war nothin, city, and its directress was considcred a| brought you hyn of this settlement ; generally considered as a mythical person- | again, indeed, there was| lm thinkin’ that some among them who doubted his exis-| against me on t money, and did ette a sort of jilia nullius,, whose parents | gamblin’, as most supported herin good style. ‘These young | and established tact that Madame Pinette| she must say something to express her 8 a lady you are, it ever there was one on As for the directress, as Madame Pinette | airth, chose to style herself, she knew as little | you are a heap prettior than any pictur’ 1 her pupils. In fact, she had already im-|and willin’ to go with your dad now ; ain't parted tho extent ot her information to the |y ed as conveying her assent, before, when Madame Pinette’s school was | about,” continued Jean Barteau, twisting nette, who was then a child of about tour! never muh of a hand at pala h standing and undoubted in-| few words that come tome, Ile represented the child us| thatT in the far west, and whose duties seldom] faintly repeated Jeanette. take the!a motive in so doin’, and I ain't goin’ to and bring her up in the best style, and to] was spendin’ my money on you, instid of bea mother to her, ‘To secure the tulfil- throwin’ it away, L allowed that it was in- ment of this request, he placed in the hands! yestin’it, as the traders say, and IT was Under these circumstances Jeanette was| through a powerlul sight of rough work this story, but the young hudies could not /easy and comfortable for the rest of his to her studies and other duties, until she became a well-educated and accomplished young lady, If she had any wonderings, misgivings or longings, concerning the father of whom she knew only the name, she was careful to keep them to herself, or confided them only to the sympathizing Madame Dinette, It would be doing Janeatte an injustice, however, to say that she was not deeply affected when she heard the announcement that this unknown parent had at last ar- rived, and that he had come to take her from the pleasant home in which most of her life had been spent. She was anxious to see him; but there was a feeling of fear mingled with her natural desire, a paintul sense of doubt and distrust, producing a nervous timidity which she could not shake off, Her hands trembled so that she could hardly arrange her dress, and she declined the assistance of the girls who clustered around her, with a peevishness that was quite unusual with her, At last she was ready; the finishing touch was put to her toilet, and, after a last look at her pale face in the glass, she went down stairs with timid and hesitating steps, followed by the curious glances of her companions. She could not guess what sort of a man_ she was xbout to meet; for none of the girls had ventured to peep into the reception- room, the servant Who announced bim had not seen the stranger, and Madame Pinette happened to be away trom home, Again she hesitated, with her hand upon the knob, when she reached the door of the room in which he was supposed to be wailing for her, and it was with a palpita- ting heart that she at last entered and saw betore her—what? Ile was no gentleman, certainly—no gentleman, at least, in the boarding-sehool sense of the word—that man who was awkwardly sitting on an ottoman near the fire-place, Ile was a rough and weather- beaten man, somewhat past the prime of life, with long, straggling hair and griz- zled beard, and a cast of countenance that was by no means inviting to a young lady of education and refinement. Tle was clad in a blue swallow-tailed coat, striped vest, and yellow pantaleons, all of whieh titted him badly, and seemed to give him the greatest possibie discomfort. It was evi- wild mountaineer, who aver” : eee = | had d dl attire Jor this sania? y ar: a verity cy es WAST) PUBS S t l t tt Bul 1 t ery tu Wii, fe a his change of garb, He was sb EUS AVE TO ECS pce ae rely translorined, however, as he been able to induce his extremities ft to the torture of hat and boots. ere Incased in gayly-ornamented , of the Chippewa fashion, and as covered with a gray foxskin he had not thought of Ne ‘ “ether, he was a very uncouth nae areas and Jeancite’s first feeling ' Sony sone of positive repulsion, rseat her trembling form the door, where she waited nk; but ber disgust and fear jeans decreased when he ad- his head lressed her. 7 » ‘ ny © Your names ow,” said the from his seat, wh resume during t is Jeanette Barteau, T al- jountaincer, as he rose Ach he did not attempt to e remainder of the inter- imidly replied Jeanette, her eyes. remy gal, I reckon, and ‘aim you. {t's been a long sot eyes onto you, ‘cause oe but v kitten when 1 ® and I hain’t been inside 4a trom that day to this.” yauly responded Jeanette iby you, my gal, and Tyou cain’t say ao word Jhat seore, I saved my * Yes, sir,” Without raising “Then you s ime since I’ve “Yus, sit,” tail “I've done we 4jn't spend it drinkin? or f our men do; but sent ucy, fur to hey you tike a lady.” ay 0) ton hyar to St iP ised and eddicated ty, “Tam sure that I any very much obliged 0 you, sir,” replied Jeanette, thinking that sratitude. “T meant that you should be a lady,and It ain't a bit too much to say that rver sot eyesonto. I s’pose you are ready ou?’ Jeanette's answer was an unintelligible murmur, which the mountaincer interpret- "I've got a power of things to tell you and moving himself uneasily; but I was er and these 1yar settlement clothes are so cussed un- somfortable that Tecan hardly jerk out the You allow ve done the fa'r thing in havin’ you aised up like a lady?” «Tam sure 1 am much obliged to you,” © 1's only nateral that I should hey had leny that L did hey a motive. When | ropin’ to git it back alter years had gone by. ‘Lhe time fur gettin’ it back has come, my gal, or it must come alore long. ‘This hoss is gittin’ old, you see, and he has been an’hardships,to say nothin’ of Injin serapes, ill to git the money to pay for your risin’ ind schoolin’, It would suit him mighty well to settle down somewhar, and live lite.” “TL hope you will be able to do as you propose,” murmured Jeanette, wondering to What this prelade was to lead, “Glad to heat you say so, Children should love their parents, and obey ‘em, and L reckon you're the right sort. It just depends on you, my gal, to say whether your old dad shall live easy and comfort- able, You are mighty purty, as 1 said and do many things. Twill use the edu- cation that you have given me in any way but that. will work hard to sapport you comfortably, but do not ask me to marry.” ** 1 didn't raise you up like a lady to make you work like a squaw,” replicd Bartean, with a very unpleasant leer, *It's n way that gals hev got, as I've heern tell, to draw back when some ‘un tells ’em_ te marry, though they are powerlul eager when they take the notion themselves. But hyar’s what cain’t put up with such foolish- ness as that. I’ve told you what £ want, and it has p'intedly got to be so. I hev picked out the man to suit me, and he ort to suit you, as he is rich and good-lookin’, though he ain't quite so young as he mought be. His name is Jeems Musson, and I reekon you've seen him mor'n once.” Jeanette trembled with terror, tor she had secn James Musson, and he was so odious to her that she hoped she might never see him again, ** You ain't skeered of him, I hope,” said Barteau, Jeanette’s face turned a trifle whiter, and from her downeast eyes there. stole glances of defiance and determination, ** What say you, gal?” * Your judgment should be better than mine, and I nave no doubt that I ought to try and please you.” *That’s the notion, my gal! Tam glad to see you so willin’ and obedient. I don’t mean to hurry you about it, but will let you take your own time, purty nigh. I only want the matter onderstood, 1 hev jest this to say now—that 1 will come in the mornin’ to take you away from hyar, and you may go to work and git your pos- sibles packed and ready,” My what, sir?” * Your finery and fixin’s. I must go now. Gvod-bye, gal, and be ready airly in the mornin’.” And so he took his leave, Uo did not offer to kiss her, but took her little white hand in his broad palm, and held it there wu moment, looking at itas if it were some- thing very wonderful and valuable. Ag he did so, she perceived that he had been drinking, for she smelled the fume of vil- lainous whiskey, and she could hardly conceal her disgu t. Jeanette hastened up to her own room, threw herself on the bed, and burst into tenne, ty father,® was her sobbing reply to the Sympathising questions of ber roul-naitte, CHAPTER II. A DISAPPEARANCE, Jeanctte Bartean had good reason for the fear and apxicty which she manilested when her lather spoke to her concerning marriage, and when he mentioned James Musson as the person whom he had cho- sen for her husband, | S!e had not turned seventeen without receiving the homage of several young gentlemen, and she had her own notions Concerning the person whom she intended tomarry. In fact she had fixed her «f+ {ections upon Henri Labardie, clerk in atur house in St, Louis, who was both young and handsome, Although he was not Wealthy. Henri had told hey that he loved her, and had been assured t his love was returned, They had vowed eternal tidelity, and were only “* waiting a while? until circumstances should justily them in marrying. peste did not long remain bathed in tears and lying on her bed, Shy had formed her resolution while she was in the presence of dean Barteau, as soon as shu learned what his intention really was, and she was only giving temporary indulgence to her disappointment and yexation when she returned to her room. She soon arose, fireely rejecting the con- solutions of her yoom-mate,dried her tears, arranged her toilet, pub on her hap «ina shawl, and sallied forth alone Sash ame Vinette’s, ectetyatiu receivet Mad- J aS ytges a coHshMent, 2 say Went rapidly down the street to- ward the river, but walked more slowly when she came among the business honses and looked anxiously about her, Her eyes brightened as she eaugh. sight of a handsome young man with a note-book aud pencil in his hand; and he must have spied her at the same moment, for he UE RaneY his steps as he advanced toward ner, *Thave been looking for you, Henri, and am so glad to see you,” suid Jeanette, as she met her lover, ** You are more fortunate than Iam, al- ways looking for you,” replied her lover, * Something has happened, Henri, or E would not have come alone to seck you here.” ‘What is the matter? Has Madamo Pinette been scolding you, or do you wish me to furnish flowers for your May festi- vole! ‘It issomething more important than that Henri—something that concerns us both, and we must decide and act: imme- diately.” You surprise mo. what has happened.” “ My father has arrived.” Your father! 1 hardly believed) that you had a father. Where did he come irom? Why has he been so long absent from you? What sort of a man is he? Did you tell hin of our plans?” “You almost stun me with your ques- tions. Which shall [ answer first? Let me tell you what sort of 2 man he is, and you will be better able to understand me. Henri, Lean hardly believe that he is my father,” * Without doubt, then, he is not a nice man.” ‘Nice! There is nothing nice about him. [ can assure you. I never saw a rougher or more uncouth man in my life, Ile did not seem to know what to do with his hands or teet, and Lam sure that Ma- dame Pinette’s reception-room wa- the first parlor he ever saw. He looked like a dressed-up bear, in the most outlandish garments imaginable, and I suppose that Tell me at once afore, and it will be no trouble fora gal of your Jooks and eddication to marry a rich man, who will be able to take care of her and her kin. You'll be glad to hear, I reckon, that I've already picked out the right kind of a man,” anxiety on h r countenance, * Don't say that, | be piteous appeal. toynd them, and applicd herself dili,ently Jeanette raised her eyes, and looked fairly at the mountaineer tor the first time, w han expression of far and ii tense ‘ae ” was her “| will do anything else he never wore any civilized habiliments before, for he said that his clothes were a torment to him, and he had Indian moc- carias on his feet.” *T presume that he must be a trapper or trader of the far west, and he may be a very aonest and well-meaning man, I have seen many of those people, and they have their good qualities, though they are mere animals asa general Leg Honest! Let me tell you what he pro- osed to me, and then you shall judge of his honesty. Ife plainly told mw that he that you wish me to do, | can teach school