Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-02-27


Itheir saddles, and the others in feal
of the terrible repeating rife of th'
white ranger, hastily placed them
selves, alta safe distance, whale. .'thell
war-whoops echoed far across tn
,prairie.) !. ;,i.;l; ,:.N,le! y
7: !" You have saved my. Life, sir
q IT IS is a ddty all men owe to thei.
tfellow creatures 90 do not re6er..to it
tif: you please" answered Minturn, a
he kept hia eye jon the cowardly
ssvagea,. who,- now that. they wer'
drought to bay, stood at q distance
venting their rage in piercing whoops
'"Can ] ask how You"happen to b
alone and unarmed on the prairie ?
continued Miuturn, without renov
ling his gaze from the Indians.
"Gartainly, sir. am carrying ou'
| an immigration Of my late son.in-law
who before. Ais death, started trail
fopt- West. to settle there upon hi
Hands 4 coloiy. At the request 0
This wife, who is my daughter, I an
1.going oue to arrange the lands salts
Efactorily to all, and she has accom-
|,panied me, and is now with the trail
(which l left hours ago.
/ Your train is on the 'regpla
trail, [ sappose2'
| /" Yes, cir, and is to camp to-nigh
at Wild Gorge, from which place ou
tsettlement is distant thirty miles.
| az know the Wild Gorge well, anc
I We will at once go there. As long as
we are on the prairie, can 'keel
Those red devils at bay but whei
we reach the forest they may give u
more srouble." p.
And as Minturn turned, he for th'
first time looked ip the FACE Of Mayo
Carleton the father OF Eve.
| The recognition was mutual, anc
| while>Minturn's bronzed face palec
at the sight Of the man who hae
brought years of misery upon him
Mayor GnIetolas red face grew still
| tredder as he saw tie man % whom
|.he owed his life was Minturn Burke
=" Mr.. Burke, I-how-can-I-'
Fhe commenced but Minturn inter
rupted,--
I mayor Carleton. you wrecked my
life !; I have saved yours, and would
have done 80 even had known who
you were so do not let US discuss
the matter. Yonr horse is rested, sc
come let us be off," and raising hi.
rife, Minturn sent another shot af Ell
she Indians, to prove that they must
not crowd him too closely.
The bali took effect in the head Of
IN Indians horse, and with a yell
the red warriors FASTENED to place
themselves at q safer distance.
II ,artiIy ashamed Of his former
course Mayor Carleton followed his
preserver across the prairie.
Mics were passed over in silence,
the Indians but once attempting to
diminish the distance between them
selves and the two. whites, and then
a shot from Minturns unerring rife
knocked one of their number from
his horse, they afterwar'l kept out oi
range, until the forest bordering the
Wild Gorge came ia sight, and they,
then turned to the right and left, and
dashed away to conceal thenselvesin
the woods.
Hal Mintuln been alone, he could
have thwarted them by first reaching
place of safety, but the horse which
Mayor Carleton rode had bern used
up by his hard ride, and Minturn de-
termined to still remain with and
protect the man who had proven his
worst enemy.
The Indians had disappeared in
tue forest, and a curling smoke mile
distant showed where the wagon
train had epcamped. as the two
horsemen drew near the woods, when
loud war-whoop echoed across the
prairie; and peering into the under
growth, Minturn discovered rorse'
with a woman upon his back dashing
at full speed toward the mouth of
the Gorge, while short distance be-
hind were the Indians in full pursuit.
"My daughter ! Oh, my daugh-
ter !" cried Mayor Carleton, as his
eye fell upon the flying horse woman.
Minturn exclaimed,-
/ Yonder lies the camp. Go toit
He then dashed forward like the
wind and the next moment had en-
tered tile woods and was rapidly
gaining upon the band Of flying In
dams, who were striving all in their
power to overtake their defenceless
prey: - ,
down the Gorge. Now Ante'opc'
show ycnr match less1peed. excialm-
ell Miutarn, as he urged his feet
'horse forward. by words of encoar-
agement.
The Gorge was deep rayine which
had once tic-n the bed of - small
river. From its mouth for mile!
.tnrle. was no way of leaving its
,course on account of its steep banks
tahd Minturn, who knew it well, well
I.unde,stood that the woman before
i.him, whom Mayor Carleton's elac.
ulatiou had told him was Eve, had
but one chance for her lie, and thai
4 was to keep ahead oi her pnrsuer:
until he.could comet to heruh! Should
her horse fall, or her presence ol mlnd
| forsake her, she was lost.
Down the Gorge dashed Mintnrn
| and,a quarter .ot mile before hiu
| he discovered the slender form of his
lost love sitting bravely in the saddle
| and urging her horse. forward at hi
topmost speed, while the red devils
behind her were. whooping with de
flight as they rushed on in pursuit
and in their soy unconscious of the
asenging follower npon their; track.
A shot from Minturn, fred at full