Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1855-11-15

81 dinna ken, DOUGLAS, - replied Angus
humblv, ..but maun bs1eve it was Ar
chie's face There it comes agai9ti And
fathers and Davies! Oh, brother, the
Indians !"
Shrieking out these words. the poor boy
staggered backwards and tainted. Doug
las, though good deal alarmed, had suf-
ficient presence of mind to apply natures S
remedy, fortunately near at hand and un-
der copious sprinkling of cold water,
Angus speedily revived Douglas no Ion
ger resisted his entreaties, but silently
gathered up their fishing tackle, and tax
ing up their string of trout, set out for
home, walking slowly and supporting the
trembling steps of his brother. AS they
neared the borders of the clearing, where
they were to come in sight of the harvest
fields and their home, Angus absolutely
shook, and even the cheek of the bold
douglas grew white.
The first sight which met their eyes, on
this emerging from the wood, was their
house in flames, with party of fiendish
savages dancing and bowling around it.
The boys shrank back into the wood and
crouching down together beneath a thick
growth of underbrush, lay sobbing and
shuddering in their grief and terror.
At length Angus gave start and whis-
pered joyfully. ooh, I've seen mither,
and wee Effie, and Jenny-an they're a
safe-hid ava in the bushes, like U.S.
"But do you see father, Archie, and
auld David ?"asked Douglas, believing at
last, in the sccondsight of his young
brother.
'No. no )" replied Angus, mournfully,
81 Gamma see then ony mair. They maun
be "a dead, Douglas -
'I'll no believe that" said the elder
brother, proudly, "Father, and Davy both
had their guns wi them. Davy is no ba l
fighter, and We ken Drawer soldier could
no be found in a the world than father
They lay thus, talking in fearful whis-
pers, and weeping silently. until the shouts
of the savages died away, and silence fell
with the twilight over the little valley
Then, slowly and cautiously they crept
from their hiding place, and stole thro' the
harvest-felds to the spot where they had
V.
And they were all there dead. They
appeared to have fallen together-faithful
old Davie lay across his masters knees,
which he seemed embracing in death. Little
Archie had evidently fingered longest alive
his flesh was yet soft and slightly warm
and he had crept to his fathers arms, and
lay partly across his breast.
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tomahawked Yet bathed in blood as they
were, the poor boys could not believe them
dead, but clasped their stiffened hands and
kissed their lips, felt for their heart beats,
and called them by their names in every
accent of love and sorrow At last, find
ing all their frenzied efforts vain, they aban-
doned themselves utterly to grief
The moon rose upon them, thus-weep-
ing wildly over their murdered father and
brother--stained with their blood and shud-
derlng with their death chill. Never did
the moon look on a more desolate group
Captain Lindsay's brow seemed more aw-
fully stern in its light and his unclosed
eyes shone with an icy gleam Arches
still fearful face showed most piteously sad
while the agonized faces of the two young
mourners, now bent over their dead. now
lifted despairingly toward heaven, seemed
to have grown strangely old in that time o
terror, and horror, and bitter grieving.-
Thus, the hours wore on and, at last, from
bitter exhaustion, they slept-the living
and the dead
They were awakened by the warm sun
light, and the birds who sang how strange
it seemed las gaily as ever, in the neigh
boring wood. The BOYS raised their heads
and looked, each into the others sad face
and then on the dead, in the blank speech.
less anguish of renewed grief Douglas
was the first to speak, "COme brother" he
said in a calm tone, eve maun be men moo
let us gaug back to the fort; may be we shall
find mither there, WI Jenny and the bair.
ME. gin you're sure We saw them a in your
vision.
"But we Gamma leave these here to thei,
lane said Angus.
1--WE maun leave them here, we are no
big enough to bury them, but well cover
them over wi leaves, and the branches o.
the pines, and when we get to the fort
we III ASK the SOlulefS 10 come and make
graves for them. Come wi me- Angus
dear"
Angus took Douglas hand, and rose
but soon staggard and fell, murmuring
"Oh, brother, I'm sair faint and ILL.,
think | am dying. Stay wi me little
while, and then We may cover us a. up to-
gether and gang AVA. -
"Dinna say sic sorrowfu' things, Angus
yer no dying, puir laddic; yer but faintine
wi hunger, and | the same" said Doug
las, in a tone of hopeless despondency-
Just ut the moment his eye fell on small
hand basket, in which the laborers wer,
accustomed to take their luncheon to tn,
harvestfeld. 1t was now lying where tn,
dead had left it. against pile of wheat
sheaves, and was found to contain som,
fragments of bread and meat, of which the,
partook.
Somewhat refreshed, the boys set on
about their melancholy duty. They did no
attempt to move the bodies from the posi-