The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-14

the horses, and he'll see them all right"
lhree more perfect men in point of personal
beauty never trod the earth.
Wild Bill, six feet and one inch in height
straight as an ash, broad in shoulder round and
full in chest, slender i'm the waist swelling out
IN muscular proportions at hips and thighs,
with tapering limbs, small hands and feet, his
form was "study." His face, open and clean,
had regular features, the nose slightly aquiline.
His large bright eyes, now soft and tender in ex-
pression were a blush grey in color, shaded by
lashes which often dropped over his bronzed
cheek as he looked down, somewhat confusedin
female society, to which he was unused. His
long brown hair fell in wavy masses over his
shoulders, but it was fine, soft, and glossy as
silk
The same picture will do for Buffalo Bill only
this difference noted. The eyes of the latter
were nearer n blue in color, his height one inch
less, and his hair little more wayy and shade
lighter.
Dave Tut, nearly of the same height was
equally well formed, but there the resemblance
ceased.
His eyes were black as jet, and deeply set
though his features were perfect, and, when he
chose, his expression soft and winning. His
hair, curling slightly, was black and glossy
But with all his beauty, there was sensual eX-
preston about his mouth, so utterly different
from that In the other two, and fierce passion
ate longing in his eyes, which made the
twOgirls, instructive in their purity, shrink from
him.
After supper the reunited family and their
guests were costly seated IN the Slttlng-rOOm,
when Mrs. Cody, whose face was towards the
window, screamed out in sudden terror, and
rose to her feet with face so deathy pale that
ii seemed as if she was death-stricllen.
What is it, mother Z" cried Bill, springing to
her side.
"The window-he was there" she gasped,
and then she swooned away.
He? Girls, look out for mother. I'll see
what he was at the window cried Bill, and he
sprung to the open easement.
AS he did Dullpt wliStlpu mast his
and struck the opposite wall while hundred wild
yells proclaimed that Indians had surrounded
the house.
Wild Bill cool and collected, instantly blew
out both the lights, excaiming-
darkness here and moonlight out thar!
| Wen be all right in shake. Jump for your
| tools, boys; mines handy. Gals, lay low out o
rangc wen soon let the reds know old hands
are here
The three young men, reinforced by three
negroes and one white man, the farm hands,
were ready for work in less than a minute, and
as the Indians did not seem disposed to make a
rush for the inside of the house. crept quickly to
points where from the doors and windows they
| could pick the fends out from their coycrts
among the trees around.
Meantime the twins had succeeded in restoring
| the mother to consciousness, and to the hurried
| inquiry of her son as to whom she had seen at
| the window, replied that she had recognized the
face of Jake MKandas, the murderer of her
husband, glaring in with look so full of hate
tNhu SiuClIy LuuI ohC was COulplCLCll
horror stricken.
| There's too many reds out there, or d make
| rush and settle his hash !" said her son. ''Ti
| he'll only stay till we thin em down few, I'll
| accommodate him with private entertainment
Look out for yourselves, girls-the boys are Civ
ing 'em Jessie, and it's about time my hand was
| in!"
A rapid firing had been going on from the mo-
| ment Wild Bill got to the door, the Indians
shooting at random, for all in the house was darl
except the flash of the guns, but every now anC
then yell of agony told that the attacking party
were not going unpunished.
They could only be seen as they sprang from
tree to tree for cover, but their terrible yells
| ringing through the air told that in numbers
! they were ut least ten to one of the defending
party,
that off 2? asked Wild Bill, as his mate, standing
| by his side, sent Red to eternity with sho
from his favorite long rifle.
| II expect they will. would almost sooI
lose ny hair to lose Powder Face, for thu
insect has carried me through more bad scrape
than I've time to count" said Buffalo Bill, refer
ring to his favorite horse.
"And will lose my hair afore I'll lose Blacl
Nell, for she never deserted me. She'll kick tn
head off any Red that tries to mount her. Blu
can't we get to the horses ?"
''Wait till give Dave and the boys in her
their ,rders, and then you an me will get to tn
| horsC5 and come in on EN- like as if we wer
fresh hands in the fight"
''That's the talk, Bill-that's the talk Onl
let me and Black Nell and you and Powde
Face give 'em charge in the rear and they'r
gone in -
pepper into 'em then, till tell the boys her
where we're goin', so they'll be keerful how
shoot when were q comm"
Buffalo Bill now hurredly told Dave Tut an
the men, who were firing at everything the
saw move among the trees what he and vii
Bill intended to do. The girls and his mothC
were to know nothing of it till 1t was all Owe
for the two Bills felt as sure of driving off til
/ foe by their plan as if they were already in fu
chase of them.
Dave Tut did not express any wish to 9
| along, which rather surprised Buffalo Bill, for
r | was a duty that brave men would surely cour
But there was reason for this as there
y indeed for everything, as the reader will leal
by-and-bY.
3 The two friends, carrying their arms and BEN
ing low in the shadow of the garden bushe
crept away from the house until they reached
grain-feld beyond the trees into which the
a moved swiftly. They had but little distan'
: now to go to reach the stock pasture, and thu
got to the last in the very nick of time.
Ahalf-dozen dusky figures were already ther
y and the horses, disturbed by the firing, We
o very uneasy as these advanced.
Two shrill calls, understood well by the an
= mails for which they were intended, brought tv
r noble animals, ''Black Nell" and "Powd
o Face" to the edge of the grain-feld. The ne
instant, needing neither saddle nor bride, Il
o two men were mounted and without a wor
r both dashed forward upon the Indians who we
d after the stock.
n SO suddenly and Unexpectedly were the
z overwhelmed-not shot being fired, only Il
tomahawk used-that there was no alarm in Il
q grove. Then the two men sped on, not nois
lessly now, but whooping and yelling in wi
IS I concert, and urging their steeds faster by the
pr cries, till they were upon the rear of the asto
ished redskins, pouring out shot after shot wi
o deadly effect on the enemy.
n Wheeling and clrcling here and there, nev