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"Mebbee," he said, dancing suddenly away from Clarence, "mebbee you think I'm lyin'. Mebbee you think, because you're Colonel Brant's son, yer kin run ME with this yer train. Mebbee," he continued, dancing violently back again, "ye kalkilate, because ye run off'n' stampeded a baby, ye kin tote me round too, sonny.
Of course I laughed at all this, and renewed my simple inquiry as to where was his office, and was informed that he resided and had his office at Major Brant's new house on Chouteau Avenue.
Therefore, hearing that you were still in the city, and believing this proclamation of yours to be the summons and clear command for which we waited, we have brought you Hendrik Brant's treasure. It is there upon the cart." The Prince put his hand to his forehead and reeled back a step. "You do not jest with me, Foy van Goorl?" he said. "Indeed no."
"Priceless things are not lightly won," said he, quoting Brant's words as though by some afterthought. "There he must have been talking of the treasure, Foy," she answered, her face lightening to a smile. "Ay, of the treasure, sweet, the treasure of your dear heart." "A poor thing, Foy, but I think that it rings true." "It had need, Elsa, yet the best of coin may crack with rough usage."
She said it was of some importance. There is no mystery about it, General," continued the official with a mischievous glance at Brant's handsome, perplexed face, "although it's from a very pretty woman whom we all know." "Mrs. Boompointer?" suggested Brant, with affected lightness. It was a maladroit speech. The official's face darkened.
"Ay, lad, so I believe, otherwise I would not think it important you should act as my messengers. One of our scouts brought in word that Brant's immediate followers had a white prisoner with them, and it is reasonable to suppose him to be Peter Sitz, for, since we saw those scoundrels, they have kept out of mischief because of being in camp with the British and Tory soldiers."
"Because, to be plain, we have Hendrik Brant's treasure on board, mother, and for the rest look yonder " and he pointed to what his eye had just caught sight of two or three miles away, a faint light, too low and too red for a star, that could only come from a lantern hung at the masthead of a ship. Martha nodded. "Spaniards after you, poling through the gut against the wind.
The conditions, I admit, are far from satisfactory under the present command, but Chambers is on his way with forty of the 41st, one hundred militia with Merritt, and some of Brant's braves, to put backbone into the garrison."
At full speed she turned her head and looked up at my window, and I think I never saw such radiant happiness in any woman's face as in Magdalen Brant's when she swept past with a gesture of adieu and swung her horse out into the road. A general's escort and staff checked their horses to make way for her.
Clair, writing to the President of the United States, on May 2, 1789, reported that a jealousy subsisted between the tribes that attended the treaty at Fort Harmar; that they did not consider themselves as one people and that it would not be difficult, if circumstances required it, "to set them at deadly variance." Equally pretentious was Brant's claim of a common ownership of the Indian lands.
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