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See also Billon, 484, for an interesting account of the adventures of Gratiot, who afterwards, under American rule, built up a great fur business, and drove a flourishing trade with Europe, as well as the towns of the American seaboard. State Department MSS., No. 48, p. 25. A petition concerning a case in point, affecting the Priest Gibault.
"It is only women who watch to catch a bear sleeping," he said. "The Big Knives do not kill women. I shall give you meat for your journey home, for women cannot hunt. If you remain here, you shall be treated as squaws. Set the women free." Tom McChesney cast off their irons. As for Clark, he began to talk immediately with Monsieur Gratiot, as though he had dismissed them from his mind.
He became a different man, though he lost none of his dignity. "I should have had more faith in my old friend Gratiot," he said; "but you will pardon me if I did not recognize at once the statesman he had sent me, Mr. Ritchie." It was my turn to laugh.
"I was about to do so when your Excellency interrupted," said Madame. "You see before you Mr. When he came to New Orleans some years ago he brought letters to Monsieur de St. Gre from Monsieur Gratiot and Colonel Chouteau of St. Louis, and he is known to Mr. Clark and to Monsieur Vigo. He is a Federalist, as you know, and has no sympathy with the Jacobins." "Eh bien, Mr.
"Avast!" cried the Colonel, as I was going out. "And why not?" "If I show that I am not afraid of them, sir, they will think that you are the less so." "There you are for strategy, Gratiot," said Colonel Clark, laughing. "Get out, you rascal." Tom was more concerned when I appeared. "Don't pester 'em, Davy," said he; "fer God's sake don't pester 'em. They're spoilin' fer a fight.
Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. One of them is ruined." A dozen men had sprung clamoring to their feet before he sat down. One, more excited than the rest, got the ear of the company.
"Davy is a Scotchman, like John Law," said the Colonel, "and he is a master at perceiving a man's character and business. "What would you call me, at a venture, Davy?" asked Monsieur Gratiot. He spoke excellent English, with only a slight accent. "A citizen of the world, like Monsieur Vigo," I answered at a hazard. "Pardieu!" said Monsieur Gratiot, "you are not far away.
Monsieur Vigo actually travelled in the state which Davy describes when he went down the river with him. Monsieur Gratiot and Colonel Auguste Chouteau and Madame Chouteau are names so well known in St. Louis that it is superfluous to say that such persons existed and were the foremost citizens of the community. Among the many to whom my apologies and thanks are due is Mr. Pierre Chouteau of St.
Were you on any other errand I should implore you to stay with us." "Is Temple at your house?" I asked faintly. "Why, no," said Monsieur Gratiot; "I thought he was with you at the ball." "Where is your master?" I demanded sternly of Benjy. "I ain't seed him, Marse Dave, sence I put him inter dem fine clothes 'at he w'ars a-cou'tin'."
"The North Wind mean no harm," he answered. "He play with the son of the Great White Chief, and his belly is very sore where the Chief's son kicked him." "The Chief of the Long Knives will consider the offence," said Monsieur Gratiot, and retired into the house with Colonel Clark. For a full five minutes the Indians waited, impassive. And then Monsieur Gratiot reappeared, alone.
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