The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-04-08


taken with them, they sought their leaiy
couch-the evening breeze gently waving
the tree tops and producing lulling muir
muir among the leaves, occasionally sway
ing the branches aside, and letting in the
rays of the rising moon on the silent and
apparently deserted spot.
CHAPTER ".
The sun was glistening on the tops of
the tallest trees ere the young man awokc
from the deep slumbcr, into Which he had
only fallen at late hour. The mission
he was on-thc anxiety he felt in the fate
of one so dear to his heart, had kept him
restless and uneasy. He hardly thought
of his own siuation--oi the dangers that
surrounded him, although the occasional
cry of some wild animal, or the sudden
cracking of the dry limbs around him,
would for a moment recall him TO sense
of his own peril. 1t was some time past
ere his pcrturbed mind was sufficiently
composed to induce sleep. Even when,
from sheer WCdElucSs, Ills SNiSSS "N''
locked in slumber, his tecming brain was
busy with images connected with the maj
dcn's captivity, plainly manifested by his
murmured ordinations, frequent shifting
Of position and sudden starts. When he
awoke he sprang upon his feet and turned
to arouse his companion, but he found he
had got the start of him. Another glance
discovered to him the Scout seated on the
messy roots of tall oak, with the pro-
visions for the morning meal in waiting
before him.
"Young limbs require more rest than
aged ones" said the old man with smile,
after saluting his companion. "Wh'le
you have been dreaming there, have
been taking look about us. One can
not pass through the woods as he would
upon the beaten highway. told you
last night" he continued, as he applied
himself to the coarse yiands before him,
''that we wanted daylight to read the
signs hereabouts, and the event has prov
ed that was right. If we had followed
on the route proposed by you last night,
James, we should have had pcsky tramp
of it and that is all for our pains. Cum
ming varmints are them red skins, but
they are no, foxy enough to cheat the old
Scout YETI
"SureIy, sir, that is their trail branch
ing off to the right over the hllIock yon-
dcr!" asked the young man in tone OF
surprise.
"Sartn true, there's no mistake about
that, boy. One with half an eye could
follow path marked as that. But see
here, Just 90 beyond that clump of BUSH
es, there by that cedar to the left, and
bring what you find"
The young man did as he was bid, and
after brief search he returned, with a
strip of calico, mere shred, which he
found attached to a thorn bush.
"Thcrc," continued the Scout, "the
threads you hold came from the poor girls
dress, either left by design or accidcnt.-
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