The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-08-25

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"You ore right, !" answered the stranger.
And your name is-2--ln said Ka.dm,
inquiringly. y" '''' - '-
"Adolph Murtelm answered the strang.
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At the sound OF that name, the half.
breed nearly mounted to his feet, and the
hot blood tingled in his fingers ends. He
wondered that he had not previously dis
covered him, out he remembered that when
he had last seen him in st. Louis, he was
clad in the gay habliments of civilization;
that hewas in robust health, and that his
locks were then trimmed in a tasteful style;
now his beard nearly covered his face-his
hair hung in disorder-his body was cloth.
ed in buckskin, and his form and face were
gaunt with hunger and hardship. There be
was,--his rival-and in his power! The
man who had thrust himself between him
and the one he had fondly may, madly--
lovedI-the legitimate son OF his cruel faith
er--the one who had slighted his Indian
origin with q sneer was before him, a help
less wanderer, and in his power! Would
it not, he reasoned with himself, be. a, full
measure of revenge to leave his body upon
the plains for the wolves to feed upon
consign his admired form to death, where
its bones without sepulchre, would bleach
in the prairie wind--where, in that vast
solitude, the cold blast, and the beast of
prey, would together howl his requiem!--
No, no, he answered to these whispers Of
revenge, she loves him, perhaps calls him
husband, and longs for the time when he
will return and press her to his BOSOM. /
will not plunge Julia in affliction by slay-
ing him, although | hate him as do the
serpent which / crush with my heel. No,
will guard him to safety; and then bid
him tell her that far away in the wilder
ness fed and protected him--a. nobler re-
venge, by far, than consigning him to death
ard her to mourning. al5- . % ~a'. e.. r.
Adolph, also, failed to recognize the stu
dious young half-breed companion Of his
early days in, the wildly attired form of his
preserVer. -c f,,-
"You are French?" said he to Ka-am.
"'No," answered the half-breed; 'I have
only been raised among the French"
"Of st. Louis!' inquired Adolph. -
"Of Kaskaskia," replied Ka-am., ,.-s
They soon spoke of St. Louis, and A
dolph to amuse his companion began to re-
late his adventures in the town, boast OF
the admiration he had commanded when
there, and his many successes among the
maidens of the old post. He at length
mentioned half-Indian, named Ks- am, and
his love for a French maiden, named Julia.
He would have, paused, could he, through
that surrounding gloom, but have seen the
workings of his face who was now drink
ing in his words Unsuspicious of the tor
ture he was infictingss he continued, IN a
strain of levity, relating to the listening
Arapahoe how, after driving off her "Indi-
an" lover, he had compassed the ruin of
his idol, and how she had besought him to
save her from shame; but, with a heartless
jeer at her inpurity, he had cast her off,
and turned to the fond embraces of anoth-
er. He boosted, also, how cunningly he
had thrown the base act upon the absent
lover, and left the orphan Julia under a
cloud of shame; and then he laughed at the
foolish credulity of women in general, and
how readily the poor girls former compan
ions drank in and gave credence to his
slanders. zKa,am writhed where he lay,
like panther preparing TO spring. 1t need
ed but one move, and, grasping him by the
throat. he could search his body for the
foul heart which had prompted such cruel
ty; but, restraining his passion with groan
in affected calmness, he inquired what be.
came of the girl. ., ...,. .
"She gave birth to a brat," said he, "whicf
some say died, and the foolish mother is now
fretting after her half-breed lover. The old
Padre has taken both her soul and body un
der his priestly care" - .# ~.
Ka-am would have wept, if the destroyer
had not been crouching beside him; but now
rage was the master passion, reveling boti
in heart aud brain, it usurped him all, until
in his conceptions Of revenge, he became
fend. Banishing his pityrfrom his bosom
he sealedits fountains up; and SO did he, a
that moment hate, in his inmost soul, tht
whole white race, that could he have gather
ed their vitality, into the single form befor'
him, he would have tortured it to death, ont
| gloated over its dying agonies. In his hear
he swore to take terrible vengeance on tn
destroyer Of his Julia-he knew not ye
/ whatit should be, but he resolved il shoult
appease the wrathful longings of his heart
He would do it, and have him fully consciou
why and for what he suffered, that his agon,
1 might be the more poignant; and, If he beg
ged for life, he would joy in laughing at hi
fruitless supplicationss91enganl gdt IL n,
/ -Adolph consigned himself to sleep 3Ka
am lay and meditated~ the methed of his,ven
geance. The former foolishly congr;atulaa
/ ted himself with the idea that the relation 9
. his personal adventures had half requiete
1 his companion for his Kindness. " Whel
mpEnipg broke, they cooked their meal an
started onwards. The skY became cold an ~!
threatening, and soon began to pour a foo
upon Their pathway.6i Their marches nst