Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-07-31


''Goed night, brother 2
'"Good night, sister 20
CHAP. Nv.
80, vengeance take me all-I'm wholly
thihe!''
Toonah FASTENED home TO her father. A
fierce scowl was on his countenance when
she entered, but be uttered not word
on the morrow be started on the hunt with
party of chiefs, ana told his daughter he
would not return until the next day. This.
he did to deceive her. Ao had now begun
to discover what led his daughter TO The
Spring, and Kept her there 30 late III the
evening. He therefore told her hc would
not return home that evening, but lie did
return 81 fa 7ei ,if
When he came, be discovered That his
daughter was not there A de,noniac look
dark as niianight, instantly took posses
sion Of ms couhtenafeo. The tYnth had
flashed across his mind, and graspine his
bow and toinahawk, With the' hhnbIedtss 6f
deer he took TIC COURSE of the Spring =
Suddenly, "a nearing The SPRING, lie Slack
ened his pace, and getting down upon his
hands and knees, crept cautiously along for
some distance Presently he secs the lov.
ers sitting at the base Of the tree where It
was their wont to sit, aud his daughter en-
.s-
t$ihed'i in tle arms Of white man He
Ihad just arrived In tilne-lone minute more,
and they would have been gone Madden
ed Fish r3gf, the chef drew two arrows
froa, his tuudles and to make them more
deadly, dipped their points 10 poison of the
raitlesnake, which he had prepared for the
purpose, He drew his bow-a rush was
heard-a faint shrek, and the Indian mai
den fell back dead in the arms of her
lover q ssSat 1Hs ID u Is ig
Iusta1ital sousl y -aEother rush was heard,
and a second arrow had pierced the coat Of
the brnter. IIo sprang from his seat and
escaped 10 the thick woods. A feudish
whoor Of savage triumph teld him who had
done the bloody deed. Two mors arrows
passed him. He was ssin unIiarmed, aud
with the swiftness, almost, of an arrow itself
he made for the white settlements. He
resched them in safety. and now that bis
time fir revenge had GENE, il must b, ae-
eoplPEshed, The voices Of bis fa4cr's. and
brother's bleod, which otherwise would
have been unheeded, was now crying in bis
ears, in thunder tones, to be avenged.
But it was not their blQqa along which
now compelled our hero to lift the ayepging
hand 60 .efgu3t;e ssi.slaa.as =
Blood more precious to him bad been
she'd. blood more preciuus than, lis own
The blood of Ioouah, for whom to die
would have been to him a pleasure. Too,
nah, the only charm Of.his exiStence,-
who had fallen by the hand of her unnatu7'
raj father. Yes, blood was calling alond
for the hand of the avenger, ana it Eew
aroused In our kero's breast aiigof .ug1
S:Casar's spirit, raging forrevengs gsyois ga;4
With .Ateby his side come hot tlrln ltelI,,'
He at once raised band; ten in number
OF spirits like unto his own, aud at their
head set out on his mission Of revenge.
We hear no more Of them until presently
the crack os ten rifles is heard rntte neigh
borhood Of the Spring. Ten Indians shot
directly through the right eye, fall dead Il
Tie rest with a savage yen rush to the spot
from when ce the fire proceeded. Nothing
is to Be seen-pot the trace Of an enemy 70
be discovered. They hunt around until
anpther point arrived at, the. crack Of tbe
friaas Is again heard, and ten more Of their
uumSer. !. fall dead to the ground. Onward
the gagages rush ike 4 parcel Of feuds;, tie
terrific 4Eunaer of tue rriiHss Snce again re-
sounds in their ears, and ten more bite the
dust: They halt and gaze apon. Their dead,
ana horror stricken they behold hat in each
the hall tps epsere4i sha ts rright sys Terror
seizas ihsATthssy bqljifisss Ills iss 6 Rs TIE Hqgk
ofaMiA Wy MlavEslsale JtRQss 8f thflqq yet
alTf afs 55 5Ryiy pFsfipitatog in anYihseF hseFssi si
reetiaD,8 @ 8 ut q fhsy fsfaPe not t4s upsFTi9g
aim of the inyjisIpplg njisIplg sRlfks Rlfkspqp meets them
at every tarn, until not one remains alive.
Ap interval seIaP4fsu The : strange she9tipg
is heard IN another direction, ,Anotber Far
III qfslaasaEa i. s...ahaEinlgs LIS sane lie rs
thpse previously despaiebaJ, and IN the
saine mysterious manner. Party aafter. .rarI
| f:y Of thep are i'hps destroyed, The Inai-
iaus are frantic with tcrror.sgah G hHa lig
They know not what 10 make Of ii. The
strange, singular and mysterious manner
10 which their men fall, is 70 them source
Of Overwhelming disnay. But tbe deadly
work of the riHemen sontinues nntiF the
+ rsaaussrapss1nse
death kneli Of two lunnred AMI fifty Indi-
and has been sounded But thef work Of
those mysterious ministers of death is not
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