Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-11-26

to his dictates, he turned reluctantly and
followed him down the same narrow pass
which had brought them.
"Back Snarl stay here sirrsh - said
The old hunter 10 the dog, who would have
followed them. .'And now, nv boy look
well to your tools, we have work ahead |!
Away. like bloodhounds on the trail,
they started down the rocky path. The
sun had set, and the twilight: glimmer
which was left, served only to throw
strange, dark shadows over their rugged
pathway; but with the firm and uneirng
tread Of hunters, in mountain land, they |
dashed forward at full speed. The con-
trast between the two was great. The
one, furious and half demented at the idea
that those he loved best on earth, were in
the hands of the brutal savages, grasped |
his rife with a very death grip, and with |
clenched teeth, sprang and bounded like
wild deer startled from his covert. The
other, elder and more accustomed to res
training outword emotion, went as swift
ly, but with the long measured tread of
pursuing panther, taking care as he went
to the priming of his rifle, and to loosen
his long hunting knife in its sea abbard.-
Few were the minutes, though they seem.
ed like hours to the YOUTH ere they
emerged upon the smooth level beach of
the cove. 1t was, as we have said be.
fore, little pebbly place, few yards
square, with hills coming gently down to
it upon three sides. On that side fur.
tlrerest, bat only few yards distant from
the shore, lay gigantic oak, which had
been uprooted in some long previous
storm, and which now reclined, like
fallen monarch, in stern and silent maies-
ty, with its giant arms still lifted up to-
wards heaven. Behind this natural RAM
part, the two hunters placed themselves,
with thu long barrels of their rifles sup.
ported by its trunk.
The harvest moon had now risen in all
its splendor, shedding glorious flood of
! light over the scene. The river seemed
one bed of liquid silver. The fog rising,
and the distant hills stealing out through
their hazy azure mantle, seemed like
ghostly entinels or mountains in dream
land. The nearer forest as they seemed
to Chamber up the steep hill-sides, were
, here tipped With silver, there wrapped in
, impenctrable gloom.
] A little ridge which ran out in the river
from one end of the cove giving it pc
{ culiar shape, was crowned with brist.
. ling array of young forest irees that stood
II out with strange dlstinctness against the
= clear blue sky.
II "Be still boy ~ said the old man in a
d whisper, as the youth moved uneasily in
II his place. All was still indeed. There
n was low ripping, splashing noise among
If the bushes that hung down into the water
h and an owl in q neighboring tree sent
u forth his long and melancholy hooting,
y but all else was calm and noiseless.
n "Curse that OWL" muttercd the old man,
r forgetting his own injunctions, s'it was
d just thataway he hooted this night five
e years ago"
=! The young man shuddcred, as the tale
d of horror he had listened to was thus bro
! to his mind, and made him reflect how
ID soon the same fate might fall upon his sis
10 ter and bride.
,r A moment and the low splash of oar
il was heard; another, and the boat swun,
u around the projecting point which forme,
re the upper end Of the cove. In the brigh
moonlight every figure was plainly dis
Y, cernible. In the stern sat small Indial
te steering, and occasionally speaking 10 tn
two girls in the middle of the boat, VIII
with terrified countenance, lay clasped il
each others arms as if for protection. Il
front stood tall and magnificent lookin
H. fellow in all the war fnery of an Irdia1
h. Chief, with scalp lock, feathers, paint, an
n. silver bracelets. He, too, handled an GA
it, while his rifle lay at his feet.
as As the boat came near enough for then
n, to distinguish the features of those o.
o. board, the old man started as if an adde
he had bit him.
Of "By heaven It's the Black Wolf +
ne Thank God ! the hour is come Don
le move" he whispered between his clench
Ill ed teeth, ''unti say the word; then fir
r. at the small Indian"
r. The youth felt excited also, but by
as strong effort, quelling their emotions, tn
of two lay motionless as statutes, while tn
i. polished tubes of their rifles cleaned lik
p fire, in the moonlight.
in The boat strikes the shore. The Chic
e. stepped out, and ordered the girls TO ris
%. and follow him; but insensibly with gri,
e. and fear, they neither hear nor heed hi
to command, The smaller Indian enrage
en- at their obstinacy, rises with an oath, ar
RI stepping forward. clutches Mary by I'll
f.. arm, as if 10 pull her from the seat. tt
hunter can contain himself no longer.
an quick, clear report rings out upon the al
d, and the smaller Indian with single or
e, leaps up and falls dead in the boat. II
,r, old hunter, taken by surprise, fires hurl
edly, and half smothered groan fro
y the Chief, as he sprang back into bo;
tells that he is wounded, but not morts
is- ly. He seizes an oar and pushes the bo
from the land. Quick as though, with
ne bound like that Of a tigress robbed Of b
ey young, and terrible shout Of vengeanc
ill the hunter sprang into the boat, and gra
pied with his last and most deeply el
ed envy
he But the warrior though wounded
sp. not conquered. The long, keen blade
,as an Indian scalping.knife CLEANS an
,as stan. in the moonlight-she ncxt it fin