Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-04-13

is little something like William. Aud
there is one thing on my mind | will
mention. Doesn't she look a little like
my mothcr-a very lit,le. but little =
Two or three times thought she did, and
so.'
She has some likeness to your ther.
l guess, but it is very slight. The fore
head has most resemblance. Blu, this
thing of likeness is mostly nonsense, any
how--that is Of likeness among siran-
gers. See Mary, the moon S up. Ii is
touching the top Of the old elm by the
door. How very black the shady side of
the tree is
'Yes. all the dogs are barking a. the
moon. The owls think it is going to rain
and say SO to each other: and the fool
ish whipporwils keep up their lament
about nothing
About nothing, Mary-how do we
know bu: they are scattered from their
friends as we are, and sing to keep their
hearts from breaking
But they don't sing. They ,nerely hal
10. halo all the time
Richard is done moulding bullets, and
is thinking abou. the fire from the way
he looks into it. And guess that size
is asleep. But may be not. Who'd q
thought there were such people in the
world If we had not seen them3'
And what would have become Of us If
it had not been for them? What could
we do alone with the Injuns?'
Its queer too, that we are here whole
family of white folks living in an Injun
town together. What if they would
murder us all, burn us up some night?'
What if the hunters from Kentucky
would come and burn the Injuns and US
our own folks helping TO kill us?'
! That is too dreadful. God would no,
let them DO that don't believe
| At this there was pause. Presently
The White Panther came from the corner
and stood erect outside the door. The
moon was then giving a bright side to
every ything-even to the world half Of
which glistened in the soft splendor. He
walked twice round the hut. and :hen
standing near the girls. asked abruptly
Would you like to go homer
There was no spoken answer. There
was tremulous gasp. BY each listener,
and upturned faces with eyes strained So
licitously upon the questioner; replied.
He then told :he m in hasty words that
the Indians were dissatisfied with the
state Of affairs rega riding them. and being
no longer in fear of Sallie, whose wild
ness had lapsed suddenly into stupidity,
ii had been determined to hold grand
council soon. and decide whether they
should be married. and if so. TO whom. or
be sent 10 Canada for ransom; and there
was an alternative which he did not na me
it would have terrified them.
He proposed no, to wait for the action
of the council. but attempt an escape the
next dark night. II they could walk as
far in day homeward. as they had when
dragged from the station. and going the
other way, he had no doubt he could save
them. He had desire TO live with the
long knives himself, and would stay with
them--w whereupon Patsy blushed very
little. which he did not observe. and
would not have appreciated if he had
He thought that Sallie would go along.
and if she wouldn't the did not know
what then.
The White Hag lifted her head, and her
great eyes shone with new light as she
listened
CHAPTER TX.
The sight of her young sister had stir
red the long, almost dormant reason of
poor Sallie Grey. AS person at night.
or when partially blind. cam see the form
of a window, but not that which is be-
yond; for time she saw that Mary was
her sister. But her shattered mind could
not compass the score of years she had
passed in the woods in a halfwaking
state. and the new circumstances which
surrounded her. Yet she became con-
scious of shame. Her desire TO rove about
;he woods of nights. and TO make long
mysterious journeys. was no more. Her
wild courage and giddy prophetic bear
ing were gone. To the Indians the spell
uf weird power was broken. Her son
deemed her sick. She had, through the
years of his childhood. whenever alone
with him. talked much in the language
OF her youth; and much knowledge, bro
ken and dim though it was. he had gath
ed from her words, but now she was ST.
lent. And all the while the light at the
darkened windows of the ruined temple
of her intellect. was frightening.
That which she had told Richard Of
cities, of palaces. of ships and towers.
and cultivated fields. and the wonders Of
civilization. had given him vague de-
sire TO know more of them. She had
told him too. of beautiful women in robes
of brightness; such that he might not
imagine their fineness and beauty, and Of
music bewi:chingly sweet. that stole
away the hours and senses, bathing the
soul in rapture. But she told him also
of darkness and deceit. Of treachery more
villainous than the Redman's, and infa-
my whose blackness he could not con-
ceive; and she called the world of the
woods her home and consolation. Her
crazed eloqunce at times, was awful in
its pathos and earnestness; and he believ-
ed in her. as she told him to believe in
the Heaven. which she pointed toward.
as pillared above the stars.
/ The heautiful caDtiyes of whom he h