The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-19

some movement when soft voice
from the wagon called out:
sJoseph! Joseph!'' !
softer light came into the mans
face. The Texan noticed it, and,
stamping Joseph's face, he blurted out:
.sIf We amt coward yell resent
that, sure!'
boyish figure sprang from the wa
oon and stood beside the lone man.
small hand was laid on his shoulder
and a voice whispered in his ear:
.sBear the insult for my sake!
There was full minute in which no
one moved. Joseph's face looked
phostlv white in the gloom, and they
could see him tremhle. -.
"He's a coward, just as Thought!
said the Texan, as he turned away.
The others followed him some feeling
ashamed and others surprised or graft
fed, and by and by the word had
reached every wagon that Joseph ana
Joseph's brother were towards.
Next morning, when the wagon
train was ready to move, the Captain
passed near Joseph's wagon on pur-
pose to say:
eff there are any towards in this
train, they needn't travel with us no
further
It was a cruel thrust. Joseph was
Harvesting his horses, and the brother
was slowing away the cooking utensils.
The strange mans face grew white
again, and his hand went down for his
revolver, but just then voice called
out:
} Don't mind it. Joseph; we'll go on
t alone.''
The train moved off without them,
E some of the gold hunters taunting and
: Joking, and others fearful that the two
!. would be butchered by the Indians be-
t fore the day was over. When the
: white-top wagons were so far away
d that they seemed no larger than his
It hand Joseph moved along on the trail,
II his face stern and dark, and so busy
g with his thoughts that he did not hear
is the consoling words
It .Never mind Joseph we are trying
le to do right
n That night, when the wagon train
r of the gold hunters went into camp,
they conld not see the lone wagon,
though many of the men, ashamed OF
their conduct, looked long and earnest
" for it. They had seen Indians afar
/, off. and they knew that the red devils
~ ~ would pounce down upon the single
&c team as soon as they sighted it.
- Darkness came, midnight came, and
,o the sentinels heard nothing but the
. stamping of the horses and the howls
\ Of the COYOTES. At two o'clock the re-
l IT, ports of rifles and the fierce yells of
ov indians tloated up through the little
70 valley, and the camp was aroused In a
,oe moment.
vs. "The devils have jumped in on 10.
ct seph and his brother y whispered one
NJ of the men as he stood on the knoll
;+66 and bent his head to listen.
nh "Good huff towards have no bus
lat rt mess out here!'' growled the Texan.
for The first speaker wheeled, struck
or. the ruffian a sledge-hammer blow III
Foo the face, and then, running for the
md horses, cried out:
ar. "COme on come on A. dozen Of
he. us can be spared for the rescued
We, Sixteen men swept down the vale.
- like the wind. The firing and the yell
uav ing continued, proving that the maj
mo who had been called a coward wa
# making heroic fight. In ten minute
md they came upon the lone camp, mad
light as day by the burning wagon
orc Fifty feet from the bonfire, an
I ~ hemmed in bya circle ofdancing
leaping, bowling savages, was Joseph
,r,a brother. standing over Joseph's dea
C body. The gold hunters heard tn
I'd pop! pop Pop! u .no IVY lovV.s. ~.
An. as tney Dulsc lnoo slow: Gnu noNS ~
the demons, using rifle and revOlve
10 IN fUn mil
way not i've Lnulan was - sae IN, = ;,
nod empty revolver in his hand. The me
hal cheered wildly as they looked aroun'
- but the boy looked up into their fac
rcle without sign Of exultation, surpris
or gladness.
Int There were three dead Indians b
+ | side the wagon, killed where the fgl
,'lar commenced, and the corpses in fro
as Of Joseph's brother numbered mo
and than the victims of the sixteen men
his sis Joseph badly hurt!' asked Of
Of the men, as he halted his horse b
in. side the boy.
rom Hc ~ ueau, "niSPoAcu InO WIN
40 faced defender.
= 'sHe is! God forgive me for the part
nm ,, took last night
way "fon calien MN 9 cowalu. III
cir Ior tnlS. was ne coward: 10
rom tnere! ana IncIe. anu IneIc. "euro
his Inen DacA 1luM Lno "asuH-
,per. tnen cisal out neIc. ,osepn ~ oes
boy you are MS lhuIueIeIs.
,ver Every lnal was nea, enough 70 ne
rose hlS voice anu 70 note HIS action as
and plcKed UP the Ilne OF an indian
sent bullet through his own hes
at s. Win exciamatiOnS OF grleI a
kan. ALARM IremDHng on tneir Hps' J
1--WE men SpIang from Lnelr SadnIeS. 4
you DoY was dead-oead as Joseph
1on't DOH corpses were bleeding from q
en- wounds.
'ou," "We'll carry 'em up to the train a
rney have burial in the morning." 81
and one of the men. and the bodies WI