Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-11

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sFsso played Rain-insheFsssasps asviy
- ths teax aaing ogAds nd p'ade ht
en- nnr IL opntag In IL sanvaA = hsasd
tbs low brsAthtnZ Of ths slsspEA he could
wan 10 longr. and afrE pssring sbout IN
camp TO - u be bad hesa discovaud, -
pulled back the lonss hankse which ssxvd =
. door. and drew forth bis knifa He wss
armsd, for h knew not what h MIGHT enr
counter in his ds<p9ate wrk, and b hAd
sworn that no power shcold chat him d
mccsA He plsced one foue within the teok
and again glanced back to make sure that al
was uncocrioas Of bis prsssnce In another
moment be vas looking On The face Of hu
whom be bad ouce bowed. bot biz gaze re>ced
not there II was momentary glaDce, but
be recognized the face In the moonlight which
streamed through the openings in the tent
He was stopping for ko<ka, when be discov-
cred that the object which hs mistooS for
the budding boy was simply . band1s Of
ciotbea lie made . careful survey a ths
interior Of the tent, but no KoskA was
there Again bad he met With sore and ter
riSls disappointment Hal the little ooe
rolled out Of his tent in his sIrep' he would
see. Fastening out, be crcpt about the tnnt
only TO intensity his disappointment he
could not understand the Absence Of KoskA,
unless the boy bad been left With plsymates
at another tent For Q moment he suspected
that be had been betrayed, but the succeo
with which he reached the tent dispel1sd this
suspicion. and be accepted the tbeory that
the boys absence was accidental Still con
fdent that he would succeed In stealing
Koska, he was happy, though d appointed
As be vas about TO leave the tent he heard
faint, startled cry. and In an instant the wife,
who bad been aroused by his prowlingS ap
peared at the door Of the tent Tho crisis bad
arrived Rain-in-the Face wns discovered
Raising his knife and springing forward. be
whispered . threat that il she swoks the
camp she woull pay the penalty. She knew
him and was silent A few hurried words
passed between the couple, and Rain-in-the-
Face demanded the restoration OF his boy.
The wife answered in lower tones than those
In which she vas wont to speak, and ns she
did 10 the knife dropped from the hand Of tie
desperate chief, his head was bowed and with
a wave Of tho hand be left the tent and re-
turned to hts pony. Reu,ountinS him, be
drove silently to the point Indicated by bis
wife. paused beneath a tree, and there In the
limpid moonlight, kissed by the saddened
winds, was Eoka lie had died On the day
previous, and In accordance with the Indian
custom, his remains, with all his worldly
Effects were placed in the limbs Of the tree.
Rain -in-ths-Face sat not;onless, gazing
into the tree. There was the bow and arrow
which he hsd made for his boy even before
the babe could walk. there was tho little
buckskin coat, tho first that koska wore, and
there the top that Face had taught
the happy child TO spin There, too, was .
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death, but the laughing eyes were closed, the
cooling voice was stilied-koska was not
there The weary. grief worn mother had
told Rain-in-the Face that koska was in the
tree, but the crushed and strrowing chief
now knew that this YES false
If EoSka il in the tree, why does he not
answer r,esr thought Hain-in-the-Face My
koska was a loving hoy. His pretty face
was round and dinpied, and wherever
found him his chubby arms were quick about
my neck" Thus uusxd the hgokep chicf.
He saw In the tree the human frame with
which hi. koska used to walk and run, be
saw the toys with which he made the mo
ments merry-hut he saw no Kuaka- His
boy would not refuse to greet him He was
not in the tree. but had gone TO the happy
hunting grounds where sorrow Is unknown,
where he could become far greater than On
earth, and where. when once they meet,
there will be 10 separation 30 thought
in-in-tbeFace
1t is not considered manly Among Indians
10 weep 1t has btsome proveTbial that In
dian men never shed teaTS Tears are woninn-
ish, and are left to the s9uaws, but when
Pain in the Face returned to Standing Rock
be did not speak He Summed his good. kind
friend for uiany dnys, AMI at last, when he
did meet him and told him Of the death Of
koslia. be turned his back and walled away
for be did not wish to he called a woman.
J. NJ. Quinn in Frank Leslie