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Gibault leaped up, exclaiming angrily, "Vat foolishness! a pistol! hah! ve must run." He turned at once to do so. "Stay!" cried the artist, who no longer trembled, though his countenance was still ashy pale, "I have another pistol." "Does you vish to die?" yelled the trapper, seizing his comrade by the collar.
"Well, wotiver others may hold," remarked Bounce emphatically, "I'm strong agin' settlin' down nowhar'." "So am I, out an' out," said Waller. "Dat be plain to the naked eye," observed Gibault, coming up at the moment. "Surement you have settle down here for ever. Do you s'pose, mes garcons, dat de canoe will carry hisself over de portage? Voila! vat is dat?"
"No fear, monsieur," interrupted Gibault, "dat be mine comerades Good mans an' true every von. Dey come to land here, I see." A low growl in the bushes a little distance ahead of them put an abrupt termination to the conversation. Gibault threw forward the muzzle of his gun, and glanced at his comrade. The glance did not tend to comfort him. The artist was pale as death.
A French priest, named Gibault, secured the favor of the inhabitants of Vincennes for the American interest, and the Indians of the neighborhood were conciliated by the able management of Colonel Clarke, who knew how to win the favor of the men better than any other borderer; but on the 29th of January, 1779, intelligence was received at Kaskaskia, where Clarke was then posted, that Governor Hamilton had taken possession of Vincennes, and meditated the re-capture of the other posts, preparatory to assailing the whole frontier, as far as Fort Pitt.
"I don't b'lieve," retorted Bounce, "that `whangskiver' is either English, Injun, French, or Yankee; but if it means killin', you'll do nothing o' the sort. Here's what we'll do. "Goot," ejaculated Gibault, pausing in his manipulation of the artist, "now you can do!" "Capital; thanks, I feel quite strong again."
Colonel Clark regarded the man intently. "The cause of liberty, both religious and civil, is our cause," Father Gibault continued. "Men have died for it, and will die for it, and it will prosper. Furthermore, Monsieur, my life has not known many wants. I have saved something to keep my old age, with which to buy a little house and an orchard in this peaceful place.
The young man positively refused for some time to accept of the necklace, saying, that as Gibault had tracked and discovered the bear, it certainly belonged to him; but Gibault as positively affirmed that he would not disgrace himself by wearing what belonged rightfully to another man; and as the other trappers confirmed what their comrade said, Bertram was at last fain to accept of a trophy which, to say truth, he was in his heart most anxious to possess.
Father Gibault returned to Fort Kaskaskia and a little later Captain Leonard Helm, a jovial man, but past the prime of life, arrived at Vincennes with a commission from Col. Clark authorizing him to supersede M. Roussillon as commander, and to act as Indian agent for the American Government in the Department of the Wabash.
Chief among these public-spirited patriots were Francis Vigo, and the priest Gibault, both of them already honorably mentioned. Vigo advanced nearly nine thousand dollars in specie, piastres or Spanish milled dollars, receiving in return bills on the "Agent of Virginia," which came back protested for want of funds; and neither he nor his heirs ever got a dollar of what was due them.
"Hallo! here's somethin'," exclaimed Big Waller, as the point of the stake with which he tore up the earth struck against some hard substance. "Have a care, boy," cried Bounce, stooping down and clearing away the earth with his hands. "P'r'aps it's easy broken. No why it's a keg!" "So it am," cried Gibault; "p'r'aps it am poudre."
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