The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-08-09

denee had ordered so strange meeting and accepte
the belief that this night epoch in his life Not
withstanding no definite plan or even desire had bee
formed; and even while he INDUCED in connecting will
his future the young being before him, he could hav
smiled at the romance the visonariness inspired By
the place and the hour
At length the sleeper aroused her ewes beanin viii
intelligence and smile wreathing her mouth so limo
cent and intantile II its expression. But instantly
sght Oh her strange watcher, her ewes flashed wildly
with cry of terror she started to her feet and woulC
have fed had she not been detained BY necessary force
The young man addressed her in her own tongue with
soothing words when she was persuaded to sit tow1
and listen though still agitated by violent emotions
How comes the pale face here, where few have eve!
been2n
"He came out from the neares. white settlement
with Others who would enjoy DAYS sport; he wan,
dered from his party aud became bewildered and they
have retaEned without him."
1.-THE prairie is wide why need yoU come to the
place where have been sleeping till my hair stepped
with rain from clouds thatare now folded away in the
holows9 And why detain me with a hand that is
stronger than woman's?"
/ Because am interested 20 know more of you 1t
is no common circumstance that child maiden is
4 found alone in wild at midnight Ny name-i3 Ran
! dolph; let me hear yours?"
"The stranger is very curious and inquistve What
will heedo If the dark maiden answers nothing save
bid him goodbye, and then so over the hills in the
way he goes not? will it to be thus"
Nay, nay, must detain you still Do not look on
me SO coldly; am friend If you are astray from
your people, will take you to them. swear by the
great spirit will harm you not
"The great spirit knoweth the BARN l would suffer
in being returned to my people Where is the maiden
among all the tribes would watch till the hour when
sleep weighs heaviest the eyelids and stealing from
her fathers lodge, flee alone into the desert aar did
she wish TO abide again with her peope2 Yet | am
alone; my mirror sister is with me wherever the
rirulet flows, or the lakeet sparkes l desire none
other"
'But who are thy father and his people, will they
not pursue and search thee out if this be thy rereatP
The maiden replied, casting anxious glance
around
II will follow, then, the direction of a dream that
was sent me tonight. fancied that, as / chanted
to my mirror sister, recumbent yonder old trees
trunk suddenly was fred upon BY one of our war
riors. felt not the ball pierce Inc, but heard the
rifles thunder, and knew that to be seized and
carried back to ornament the serpents lodge even as
his fathers and his wampum belt adorn his person.
Swfter than the flying of bird, threw myself into
the deep water far below the reach of his coward arm
who had hunted me they hunt the timorous deer.
slept, and awoke with my mirror sister in the farof
Elysium, and we were happy"
'Mirror-by this name l will call you-what you
relate was no dream. Nor was it reality in the phase
you viewed it. Hear the story from me. In the dark
ness of evening / came to this plateau above, and
there lay down and slept. knew not that any human
being near and only waited the morning to light
me the way from which had wandered. | woke,
listening music that enraptured my soul The charm
drew me to the edge of the precpce; hence saw you
reclining over the akeet, you have described. Of
what followed | only know that, bewildered with
and intense delight approached steathily, and
would have concealed myself and listened your song
STILL when accident alarmed you, occasioning, as
believed, your inadvertent fall into the water. /
plunged after, and struggled hard your
accomplished; had tnot finally been' l should now be
nm be had Of he Ike
The Indian girl silent, but her face spoke wonder
and gratitude, After moment she said as to herself
1.-THE pale face speaks but the truth. 1 see, there
no rain drops glitterng on the grass, yet NY hair
and my mantle like meadow plants when the boiling
river foods them. He has saved my life-yet, Oh my
conveyed me to thy blest home She 'Grqpe HP..bnt
love moan.
Mirror" resumed the other, who was upon one
knee before her-and his tones very earnest,
"beautiful maid love thee, there words in
thy language OR mine to tell how sincerely Come
then with among my people; let me bo thy protec
tor against whatever threatens; will make thee happy
thou wilt not wish to dieh
She looked at kim, startled but not displeased and
asked
"Have you akeet like this at our feet and do you
know if my mirror sister would meet me there?"
''You shall have what you will Do but say you will
be my mirror"
"Thou callest thyself end assuredly thou lookest
not like enemy; will prove thy words, will test thy
honor"
"Bess thee! thou shalt be my queen, my worship
my wife. Thy lite shall be draught of sweetness,
even as this ! appropriate from thy lips"
"Ah thou growest so strangely dear to me, will not
my mirror sister be jeaous?n
'Who, then, is the mirror sister, of whom you so
often speak,"
81 refuse TO answer thee nothing any more Thou
mayest thread the ways of my heart freely the hun
ter the prairie paths there shall be no coverts lofty
lowly, to hide from thy gaze
1t was the hour Of deep slumberousness which di-
vides night from the crisis in which
earth in her darkened chamber rallies against the
bance of her original chaos and looks forth prospec-
lively to light and lfewhen the Indian girl the newly
betrobed bride of Randolph Campe began her history
thus
"We believed ourselves twins-my sister and L
but since her death hardly a month ago, woman OF
tribe very old and very wise, has showed that
only was born, while she | called sister native
of the hoer sphere ! was yet infant whose age
they counted By days-so said the aged wise woman
when one beautiful spring morning that was sleeping
among the SOFT green grasses and fragrant flowers OF
gentle hioc afar out the silent prairie, whittier
my mother had rambled full of anxious fears for the
safety of my father who should have returned from
the battle at the head of his many brayes-a cherub
hoated towards us upon breeze of the sweet south
west, and alighed at my feet. Long she smiled with
her eyes bowed my face and at last lay down by my
side and with her around my neck and her cheek
to mine, slept with Scarcely were her eyes closed
IN slumber when the guardian of the cherubs came
fastening IN seeron OF w4Iuv.vI char soi a,a
looking with sorrowf dsapprobation on the little one,
took away its wings from it punishment for having
slept like to the children Of earth These the guardian
bore away with her towards the pleasant southwest,
and the cherub was left seeming only child. My
mother carried us together fl her to the lodge,
and nursed US through days aud months with equal
tenderness, My sister was named Pua-arth-co Morn
iRg) my would rather not tell thee for since it
has been SO often on the lips of one hate, love
better thou should's call me by the new name thou
hast chosen for We grew so entirely alike that
mg father, when he came home from three days hunt
of the buffalo, would often ask which Pua-arthco,
and none save ouT mother could answer him.
"Whep the flowers of ten seasons had bloomed for
her dauohtnrs Olr rnotbar diad Tho r,,ad;ena