A descendant of
hers still treasures the locket, with its broken miniature and
battered crest, which won Beverley's life from Long-Hair, the
savage. Beside it, as carefully guarded, is the Indian charm-stone
that stopped Hamilton's bullet over Alice's heart The rapiers have
somehow disappeared, and there is a tradition in the Tarleton
family that they were given by Alice to Gaspard Roussillon, who,
after Madame Roussillon's death in 1790, went to New Orleans,
where he stayed a year or two before embarking for France, whither
he took with him the beautiful pair of colechemardes and Jean the
hunchback.
Oncle Jazon lived in Vincennes many years after the war was over;
but he died at Natchez, Mississippi, when ninety-three years old.
He said, with almost his last breath, that he couldn't shoot very
well, even in his best days; but that he had, upon various
occasions, "jes' kind o' happened to hit a Injun in the lef' eye."
They used to tell a story, as late as General Harrison's stay in
Vincennes, about how Oncle Jazon buried his collection of scalps,
with great funeral solemnity, as his part of the celebration of
peace and independence about the year 1784.
Good old Father Beret died suddenly soon after Alice's marriage
and departure for Virginia. He was found lying face downward on
the floor of his cabin.
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