The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-01-14

they were to sleep, and, while she held up the tallow dip, copiously shedding hot, white tears, she said:
 "Look out fer the inyans ter-night."
 "The what?" exclaimed Tommy Turner.
 "The inyans, I say. You 'uns must watch out fer 'em."
 Do you have many of lem out here?"
 "I should say so; great big fellers, too. Elf l had any other place to put ye would, but hain't got any"
 Here she dropped the dripping candle, groped around in the dark be- low and left them to retire by moon- light.
 The young men began to peer around the little, low, unceiled room, with it's mountainous feather beds and strings of dried pumpkin and huge punches of onions suspended directly from the roof, but brushing their heads as they passed around.
 ''1 tell you, Greville, I don't like the looks of this place. What did that old lady mean by warning us of Indians?"
 q can't tell," replied Greville. "Possibly we may have stumbled into a dangerous nest. This old man may be in league with those red devils of which he seems to know so much. By love, Tommy, Pll tell you what I saw as we passed through one of those little dark rooms down stairs-I saw a scalp-the glossy black curls from woman's head, too."
 "This is growing alarming" cried Tom. "Are you sure?"
 ''Certain as the world"
 "Well, old fellow, let's lie down and wait and listen for further develop ments."
 Hardly had they thrown themselves on the bed when they heard subdued voices in the kitchen below. The tympanums of the two were strained to catch the words, which were evil dently repressed in order not to arouse any one. Leaning low to the floor the young men heard voice they rec ognized as Dender's say:
 "Yes, want yer to kill 'em both tonight"
 "But they's sich fine fellers," said the voice of his wife, ill pleading tones
 'I don't keer. say want yer to kill lem both ter night, an Pm a-goin' ter have it done," said he more loudly to some one who was executing war dance among the kitchen kettles, flop ping about in manner more alarm ing to the young men than the words of the speaker.
 "What shall we do?" whispered Tommy, hoarsely.
 "Leave here instantly" replied his companion, springing up.
 They began to feel about the room, looking like hunchbacks as they stopped to avoid the punches of onions hanging above.
 My stars, Greville, the ladder is gone !' whispered Turner.
 "Well, we couldn't get down that way, anyhow. They would catch us. I have it. Here's hop vine growing in at this side of the house. We must get out at this little window and swing down on the vine."
 In a minute he was out, closely fol- | lowed by Turner. It was a difficult mode of egress, however, it being hard to loosen their hands from the hop after they had grasped it, while the great green leaves clung to them like retaining hands.
 On reaching the ground they crept l along in the shadow of the hollyhock hedge until they reached the orchard fence, which they sprang over and hurried along under the dew dripping leaves till they came to a white field, | from which the wheat had been newly shorn. This they sprang into and stopped to listen for pursuing teet | Hearing nothing save the wall of the whippoorwill, they sat down under one of the stacks of straw and began to consider what next to do.
 ''I think we had better stay here for the rest of the night" said Greville as they talked. "Atter daylight we must make an effort to get our hack and horses
 And so they threw themselves upon the warm, yellow straw, bathed in the moonlight, which seemed to wrap the full-leaved trees circling the dim and misty field in golden gown. The clouds had floated away like foam to the eastern horizon, leaving the sky clean swept and blue. The stars gilt tered like electric points in the arc above, and after while one brighter than the rest foated up from the east like crown on the brow of dawn.
 When it was full light the young men started up from their repose of tramp-like luxuriance and surveyed the surroundings. Some how the morn ing shed ludicrous light upon their adventure of the night before. They decided to go to little house across II