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Strange True Stories of Louisiana

Chapter 4 THE TWO SISTERS.

Word Count: 720    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

dren that I write this journey. I shall be well satisfied if I ca

nd announced that he counted on leaving us again in four or five days to go to Attakapas. He had long been speaking of going there. Papa and mamma were German, and papa loved to travel. When he first came to Louisiana it was with no expectation of

e always-always. She was the daughter next older than I. She barely missed being a boy. She was eighteen years of age, went hunting with our father, was skillful with a gun, and swam like a fish. Papa called her "my son." You must understand the two boys were respectively but two years and three months old, and papa, who greatly desired a son

with you, am

my father; "and Fra

y sister-blonde, where Suzanne was dark; timid, even cowardly, while she had the hardihood and courage of a young lioness

. I have a foolish terror of Indians, and a more reasonable one for man-eaters. But papa and Suzanne mocked at

o nothing by themselves, but must have a domestic to dress and undress them. Especially in traveling, where one had to take clothes out of trunks and put them back again, assistance became an absolute necessity. Think, then, of our

I beg of you," cried Suzanne,

e. "If you will listen in silence, I wil

he trip he had made to New Orleans; how he had there found means to put into ex

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1 Chapter 1 Gibraltar falls 3432 Chapter 2 No.23 Chapter 3 No.34 Chapter 4 THE TWO SISTERS.5 Chapter 5 MAKING UP THE EXPEDITION.6 Chapter 6 THE EMBARKATION7 Chapter 7 ALIX CARPENTIER8 Chapter 8 DOWN BAYOU PLAQUEMINE-THE FIGHT WITH WILD NATURE9 Chapter 9 THE TWICE-MARRIED COUNTESS.10 Chapter 10 ODD PARTNERS IN THE BOLERO DANCE.11 Chapter 11 A BAD STORM IN A BAD PLACE.12 Chapter 12 MAGGIE AND THE ROBBERS13 Chapter 13 ALIX PUTS AWAY THE PAST.14 Chapter 14 ALIX PLAYS FAIRY.-PARTING TEARS.15 Chapter 15 LITTLE PARIS.16 Chapter 16 THE COUNTESS MADELAINE.17 Chapter 17 POOR LITTLE ALIX! 18 Chapter 18 THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAT19 Chapter 19 THE BALL.20 Chapter 20 SALOME AND HER KINDRED.21 Chapter 21 SIX MONTHS AT ANCHOR.22 Chapter 22 FAMINE AT SEA.23 Chapter 23 SOLD INTO BONDAGE.24 Chapter 24 THE LOST ORPHANS.25 Chapter 25 CHRISTIAN ROSELIUS.26 Chapter 26 No.2627 Chapter 27 THE TRIAL.28 Chapter 28 THE EVIDENCE29 Chapter 29 THE CROWNING PROOF.30 Chapter 30 JUDGMENT.31 Chapter 31 AS IT STANDS NOW.32 Chapter 32 MADAME LALAURIE.33 Chapter 33 A TERRIBLE REVELATION.34 Chapter 34 No.3435 Chapter 35 A NEW USE.36 Chapter 36 FURNISHED ROOMS.37 Chapter 37 JOHN BULL.38 Chapter 38 DUCOUR'S MEDITATIONS.39 Chapter 39 PROXY.40 Chapter 40 THE NUNCUPATIVE WILL.41 Chapter 41 SECESSION.42 Chapter 42 THE VOLUNTEERS.-FORT SUMTER.43 Chapter 43 TRIBULATION.44 Chapter 44 A BELEAGUERED CITY.45 Chapter 45 MARRIED.46 Chapter 46 HOW IT WAS IN ARKANSAS.47 Chapter 47 THE FIGHT FOR FOOD AND CLOTHING.48 Chapter 48 DROWNED OUT AND STARVED OUT.49 Chapter 49 HOMELESS AND SHELTERLESS.50 Chapter 50 FRIGHTS AND PERILS IN STEELE'S BAYOU.51 Chapter 51 WILD TIMES IN MISSISSIPPI.52 Chapter 52 VICKSBURG.53 Chapter 53 PREPARATIONS FOR THE SIEGE.54 Chapter 54 THE SIEGE ITSELF.55 Chapter 55 GIBRALTAR FALLS.