Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01


which was too thick for men to enter,
when they struck wellwOrn trail
Horses, cattle, men, women, even two
Children's foot tracks were marked in the
snow.
1t was trail no man expected No one
was looking for it, and, at the first, no man
could account for it.
And for Il few minutes the quiet woods
man scarcely said II word. Sargent nib
bied more gravely than ever at the silssa-
fraS stick he was chewing. Old WardrOp
himself ran back hundred PAGES to see
where they had crossed the tangled line of
the brook. Perkins hurried up the hill rs
fast as his snowshoes would let him, to
see what line it took where the opening of
the woods began.
When they gathered again Sargent said
inquiringly
IVAN Beests's ?"
Wartlrop said, decidedly, Evan Beest's,"
and Perkins nodded.
Ten redskins and Frenchman who
wore sabots, and French officer who
wore cavalry boots, had made Il raid on
Van Beest's outlying farm. They had
had with them four or five mounted men.
They had Gifted the whole establish
ment, and now, perhaps twenty. four hours
ahead of the Sargent and his party they
were carrying their plumber across, hoping
to come on the smoothly frozen Lake
Champlain before any, rumor of the raw
age reached the posts below
yesterday ?" asked Sargent, again af-
fecting to distrust his own Workmanship.
yesterday replied Wardrop, conf
IDENTIFY. And again, as was lit Tor sub
alter, Perkins nodded.
"liali past nine ? asked sargent in the
same tone.
"Nigher ten" said Warilrop. And
again Jotham l'erklns nodded.
Sargent took the two a little aside from
the group of soldiers who were still eX-
alnihlhT lne PIlntS III tne ven pe'ileh
.rtul' lheiI lalh WIS smplt, ~ was Clear
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i"l tnei' ~ w ouV - tle pu'nt, push
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fnr Which the whnln nnrty. v,'s nran,,.j
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thnn rnlilJ he nvnnctnI Mn fnnr il, tina
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| forcnd march Of thn Y,,l.,.., Iy.,. .n
much the easier But inst II. they were
nearing the lake, the gray of the sky.
which had been suspicious for am hour
resolved itself into tleecy snow. Not in
! large flakes, but in small, obdulate flakes
| it fell, as if it had came to stay. If the
| little party had not gone so far. the
! leaders would have given up their aim IT
once.
Rut in trutb thev ,vara foo t.,rto -.
treat me very thinr had r,,tcn nI,,,a
witch earh Of the thre,. ot,irars hnj il, ~.
nina thonoht Of hut hnd hon"I valid
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