The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-04-13
LONG ISLAND LEGEND.

A @ n ISLAND LEGEND.
In a lonely hut. situated on the mar.
row strip oflamd which separates the
waters Of Oyster pond from the wa.
tcrs of Gardncr's bay, in what is low
the village of Marion, on a dark and
stormy night in the carly colonial
time sat an old man and o young girl.
White settlements then on Long
Island were few and far between.
Tue largest Of them all was situated
Mt tho mouth Of Sterling creek. now
known rs Grcenport A few settlers
had pushed out from the parent town
toward tho end of the island, and
there was some half-dozen cabins be-
tween Grccnport and Orient Point.
Tho Montauk tribe. whose chicftain
was a tall and muscular savage. known
MS Wynndank, and the Shinnecocks
warriors we're not ON tho best of terms
with the whites, and therefore tho
settlers fcarcd to so singly into the
sandy Wilderness.
But tho old man who had built the
lonely hut by tho pebbly beach Of
Marion harbor vas an exception to
the general rule.
Though white in color, yet at heart
lle was as savage as any red brave on
tho island.
An outlaw from tho whitc settle
mcnts. the red warriors Of tho forest
were far more like his brothers than
tho stern colOnists who pantcd to pun
ish him for his evil deeds.
William Stone the outlaw called
himself, but in the Connecticut wa
tors, when he had sailed with tho ia
nous pirate, Robert Kyd. his COM
rades had called him Spanish Will,
and under that tito the men of law
sought for him.
AftesHyd's capture by tho English
frigate, Spanish Will, who had
escaped both the slaughter and the
execution dock, sought refuge in the
wilderness at the end of Long Island.
Boldly presenting himself to the
Indians, he had claimed to be a foe to
the whites and craved their protection.
With him the outlaw carried a little
girl, a mild and handsome child.
Tue girl grew to womanhood free
and unrestrained.
The outlaw mingled but little with
the settlers at Greenport, for he pre-
ferrcd the society OF. the dusky red
men.
And the willy chieftain great Wyand-
ank, head of the Montauk tribe, saw,
s too. that the mild young girl was fair
te look upon and he proposed to the
outlaw rich lands in exchange for her.
But Mary Stone, as the girl was
called, looked askance when the dusky
chicftain came a-wooing. Not to her
mind was the wigwam Of the savage
or tho person of the dusky brave.
Then, too, another love was in the
heart Of the forest child.
Along the sandy path that Leo
from the scattered settlement o.
Marion to the parent town of Green
port she had met with one of the young
mon of the colony who had seemed t.
her free young mind to be beyond thu
/. common ace of m0rtals.
Richard Flanders lie was called. sol
to one of the leading men of the set
Element.
The outlaw; as keen q woodman q.
the best of the Montauks, soon discov
cred the secret meetings of the lover
In the forest.
1AC CAuCkloU ~ tho ~ulSSOScays AOt !
suited well with his plans. He knew
that Richard Flanders was betrothc'
to the daughter of one of the leadin;
men at Greenport. and he soon mad
known to the father Of the girl III
course of action that the young ma.
was pursuing.
Flanders. when charged with Iii
deceit, sworo that it was not SO. an
said that he had simply cncountcre
the forest maid upon his hunting CT
cursions. and knew but little OF her.
BY this willy movement the outla,
tween the two and filled the heart Z
the girl with q fierce rage against d
the white settlers.
Old Stone wished the girl to becom
the wife OF the Montauk chief. o Y
hungered after the rich lands that til
Indian had promised unto him.
And on the night when father an
daughter sat within the old cabin, OF
little month had gone by since I'll
girl had seen her false lover.
The logs burned ftfully in the ope
fireplace. and their flames castia du
and uncertain light over thereon.
Tho old man had just returned fro
the settlement: The daughter. sulle
and distracted. did NOT seem to motto
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