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The Upper towns and the Lower towns the Ottare and the Ayrate met in solemn conclave at Choté to consider the situation. Fort Loudon, hard by, maintained quiet and keen watch and strict discipline. The drums beat, the bugles sounded for the measured routine.
Such a work had the government indeed erected, on the south bank of the Tennessee River, mounted with twelve great cannon, not five miles from Choté, old town, and there, one hundred and fifty miles in advance of Anglo-American civilization, lay within it now the garrison of two hundred English soldiers! Odalie's heart gave a great bound! She felt already safe.
The painfully prosaic hypothesis of certain craniologists that such relics were only those of children is, of course, rejected by any person possessed of the resources of imagination. This name is also given in one or two instances as Dejean, and several dates both earlier and later have been assigned to the disastrous visit to Choté to which reference is here made.
Mote was no better off; the potter overworked him, making him carry water and dig earth from morn to night and for all he did he got nothing but abuse. One day the brothers, met and Mote asked Chote how he was getting on.
He came with a face of angry, puzzled excitement that surprised his brother officers, whose discrimination may have been blunted in the joy of his safe and unexpected return and the fair promises of the terms of capitulation he had secured. Never had a vanquished enemy been more considerately and cordially entreated than he at Choté.
She wondered what had become of her neighbors; where had they gone, and how had they fared, and where was she herself going in this journey to Choté, a name, a mere name, heard by chance, and repeated at haphazard, to which she had committed the future. This fresh anxiety served to renew her attention.
Two or three of the party made an incursion into Choté when they reached its neighborhood, and returned with the news that the ransom of such of the garrison as were there had taken place, and they had been delivered to the commandant of Fort Prince George, but certain others had been removed to Huwhasee Town and among them were the French squaw, the pappoose, and the Scotchman.
The landing was reached, to the relief even of the phlegmatic-seeming Stuart. "So ends so much," he said, as he stepped out of the boat. "And I go to Choté old town no more." But he was destined one day to retrace his way, and, sooth to say, with a heavier heart. The season waxed to ripeness. The opulent beauty of the early summer-tide was on this charmed land.
"Where go?" demanded the chief, suspiciously. "To Choté, old town," she averred at haphazard, naming the famous "beloved town, city of refuge," of the Cherokee nation. He nodded gravely. "I go Choté, travel with white man," he remarked, still watchful-eyed.
The shadows were deepening; the flames had revealed other dark figures, eight braves at the heels of the spokesman, all painted, all armed, all visibly mollified by the aspect that the dialogue had taken on, that of an interpreting female for a French husband. "What do Choté old town?" demanded the chief. "Buy furs," said Odalie at a venture, pointing at her husband.
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