Part 12 (1/2)
”Did he sendthat this er who may never have seen her lover, she blushed deeply But she recovered herself in a moment
”Where does Monsieur coht, ”he perhaps _does_ know my beloved
Is there peace there now,” she asked, ”or is that wicked man still at his evil deeds?”
”There is not peace at Red River, my child Come in;--it is to speak to you about events at Red River that I have come all the way froood clergy to afford so of his words, or even to hear theue to fashi+on words that could convey aught of comfort She sat there, her face like a stone, her eyes tearless Yes, she read his letter and kissed his presents She would fold the letter sometimes and lay it away near to her heart Then she would open it again, spread it upon her lap, and sit half the day alternately looking at, and tenderly handling it A few days and nights were spent during which she spake no word, eat no food, nor took any sleep At the end of the fourth day they found her on a little seat beside the door where _he_ had said good-bye to her She had his letter in her hand and his ring upon her finger But she was dead
CHAPTER IX
After the return of Mr McDougall to Ottawa, and while the Governentleman's shoulders the bla of the ad taken to have an armed force sent at once to the scene of tumult, to restore the authority of the Queen Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has since earned distinction in bush and desert fighting, was the officer put in charge of the expedition
Before this step had been taken, however, the government had set the wheels of a totally different sort of force in neur Tache, to who the Ecumenical Council, when the disturbance broke out Sir John went to M George E Cartier then, and said:
”My idea is that the man who can do more to settle this matter than all the wisdoneur Tache What think you--would it not be well to represent the case to him by cable, and ask hiood” So the bishop was cabled for, and he came home ”Well, Messieurs,” he said, ”what function is it hich you would endow me? With what have I to deal?”
”The people are in open, armed rebellion They do not want to come into the confederation; and there is an extensive desire for annexation The head of the movement is Louis Riel, and he is president of the Provisional Government He has seized and invested Fort Garry, set up laws for hi his troops with the property of the Hudson's Bay Company”
[Let it be borne in mind that, at this time, the murder of Scott had not been couilty of having risen in armed revolt, and consumed much of the stores of the Hudson's Bay Company]
”Well, Messieurs, the case is made plain Nohat authority do you endow me?”
”We authorize you to say to the Rebels, on behalf of the Government, that if they will peaceably depart to their homes, and submit to the authority of the Queen, as represented by the Government of Canada, no harm will come to them We authorize you further, to assure them that the Government will stand between them and the Hudson's Bay Company, should the latter seek recompense for stores consumed, or property appropriated Finally, for the offences committed--and which we have specified --you shall, on our behalf, extend pardon to each and all”
Armed with this authority, the bishop set out Before he reached Winnipeg the blood-thirsty president had otten that Monseigneur was the saht upon Louis Riel when a child, and stroke his glossy, black hair That he was the saentleman who found for the lad a benefactress in the person of Mada for the murderer, and he knehen he heard that his personal friend and war His Lordshi+p was not nearly as badly shocked as ht suppose, when he heard that Tho upon the snow
Indeed, there is soood priest, Pere Richot, who got the bishop's ear, took a highlyserved the fellow right, Monseigneur,” [Footnote: Captain Huyshe and several other writers of high repute, are my authority for this stateood to make an exaneur's opinion did not differ very widely from that of the ”crocmitaine”
priest
”Let the people all assemble,” the bishop proclaimed: ”I have important declarations to make to them” They obeyed his mandate, and he said:
”I am authorized by the Government of Canada, to inform you that if you forthwith depart to your lawful habitations in peace, you will have nothing to fear Your rebellious deeds will be forgiven to you; the other unfortunate event will likewise be overlooked, and the Hudson Bay Company, whose provisions you have eaten and whose property you have appropriated, will be indeovernment, if they take steps to obtain restitution for the same”
One month later, years afterwards, this precious divine maintained that the authority hich he had been clothed by the Governiven that authority _substantially_--endowed hirant pardon for thethe reader, let me say that it was by means of the discussion and the perplexities which subsequently arose upon this point, that the neur had not lost his interest or affection yet for the lad for whom he had procured an education!_
The bloody Guiteau, however, did not consider the pardon a very great act of liberality On the contrary, he was inclined to regard the discussion of his guilt, the guilt of the president of an independent colony! as law-maker and law-dispenser in himself, as somewhat of an iovernment, and to live sumptuously in the house of Governor McTavish About hiathered so fenian, O'Donoghue These ate and drank to their heart's content, but fro habits the residence soon reses lie down Yet the Rebel Chief had spared no pains tothither, with other plunder, the effects of the house of Dr Schultz
When it was at first told Riel that Sir Garnet Wolseley, at the head of a large force, was ainst him, he refused to believe it It was not till he actually with his own eyes, saw the troops that he was convinced
Then with hysterical precipitation the greasy murderer scurried out of the Fort, mounted a horse, and rode away in mortal terror Later, he was reduced to the necessity of walking, and when his boots orn off his feet, there was blood in his foot-prints In this plight he met a folloho used to tremble before him in the days of his power, and to be like unto Caius Marius, he said to this man: