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Updated: May 4, 2025
The fair-weather commander is no great matter; it is when things go wrong that the best officer shows himself in his true colors. Charles Cap will not be likely to quit the helm because the ship is in danger. Besides, Jasper Eau-douce, he says your proposal in itself has a suspicious air about it, and sounds more like treachery than reason."
Arrowhead and his wife occupied places forward of both, the former having relinquished his post aft. Mabel was half reclining behind her uncle, while the Pathfinder and Eau-douce stood erect, the one in the bow, and the other in the stern, each using a paddle, with a long, steady, noiseless sweep.
How is it with you, Eau-douce? you face the tempests as well as Master Cap, and ought to know something of the feelings of storms." "I fear that I am too young and too inexperienced to be able to say much on such a subject," modestly answered Jasper. "But you have your feelings!" said Mabel quickly. "You cannot no one can live among such scenes without feeling how much they ought to trust in God!"
"Ay, Robert, it's very much the same thing, Jack or Bob; we use the two indifferently. I say, Bob, it's good holding ground, is it, down at this same station for which we are bound?" "Bless you, sir! I know no more about it than one of the Mohawks, or a soldier of the 55th." "Did you never anchor there?" "Never, sir. Master Eau-douce always makes fast to the shore."
The king's majesty has shot the bridge in his royal person." Eau-douce, we shall have to carry the Sergeant's brother over Niagara yet, to show him what may be done in a frontier." "The devil! Master Pathfinder, you must be joking now! Surely it is not possible for a bark canoe to go over that mighty cataract?" "You never were more mistaken, Master Cap, in your life.
Is Jasper Eau-douce to carry off the honors of the day?" "The calash is his," returned the other, shaking his head and walking quietly away from the stand. "What a creature is mortal man! never satisfied with his own gifts, but for ever craving that which Providence denies!"
The rest was like the passage of the viewless wind. Eau-douce gave the required sweep with his paddle, the canoe glanced into the channel, and for a few seconds it seemed to Cap that he was tossing in a caldron.
There isn't another boatman in all this region that can shoot the Oswego, but Eau-douce there, with any sartainty; though, now and then, one has blundered through. I can't do it myself unless by means of Providence, and it needs Jasper's hand and eye to make sure of a dry passage.
"Jasper!" interrupted Mabel, giving way to feelings that had gathered an ungovernable force by being so long pent, and falling into the young man's willing arms, weeping like a child, and almost as helpless. "Jasper! Jasper! Why have you kept this from me?" The answer of Eau-douce was not very intelligible, nor was the murmured dialogue that followed remarkable for coherency.
"I'm right glad it's not the Bay of Mexico," put in Cap, "which is a part of the world I would rather not visit in one of your inland craft. Does your cutter bear a weather helm, master Eau-douce?" "She is easy on her rudder, master Cap; but likes looking up at the breeze as well as another, when in lively motion."
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