Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21


ewes, finding herself summoned by the En-
glish speaking member of the Shawnee
party. This woman then made a prompt
gesture of silence, which gave her to under
stand that the fewer words spoken the
better. The woman wakened Mary as soon
as she saw that Sarah was well awake, and
in whisper Sarah bade her be as still as
she might be. In a moment they were
upon their feet, and their guide silently led
them along the beach, on the other side of
the island from that where they had been
upset Here, in the gray morning light, to
Sarah's infinite relief, they could see a
canoe stranded. She needed no solicitation
when her guide pointed her where she
was to sit, She placed Mary on
the seat, but did not enter 1t
herself till she had helped the other
to push it down the sand, and it was atioat
in the water. The girl had herself rowed
dories through the Marblehead surf, and
would have had no trouble in padding the
canoe even had she been alone, but she was
not to be alone. Her silent guide pushed
the boat into the water, and held 1t where
the water was above her own knees and
then, when she saw Mary and Sarah both
seated in the stern, entered it herself so dex-
terously that they were hardly aware of any
roll in the light craft, and then, with her
own paddle, steered off shore. She let the
current Of the river carry her we'll by the
island, then crossed to the western or south
ern side, and, in the eddy which she found
shere, worked up to the very camp which
the girls and Cephas Titcomb had been try
ing to make when their unfortunate acci-
dent befell them. The sky began to grow
red in the east as she ran the canoe upon the
beach there, pointed to the ark which lay a
little way above and then, withoutso much as
needing Sarah's goodby, re-entered her own
canoe, as she had done before, padded
stoutly out into the current, and per-
mitted herself to drift down to her
island. She had made no attempt to
explain herself, and Sarah's eager express
sions of gratitude to her seemed to fall un-
needed; they were perhaps wholly unintelli-
gible. For herself, Sarah Paris was more
rejoiced than words could tell. With her
charge she walked along the sand to the
ark, and as she approached it saw one of
the men come out, stretching himself and
yawning, from little shelter he had made
for himself in the cottonwood. He recog-
nized her, having, indeed, often seen her
in the hospitalities of the voyage
of the feet if it may so be called,
and of course asked her story,
which was quickly told. The other in
mates of the ark were called at once, even
rather earlier, perhaps, than they had ex-
pected; fire was soon built upon the shore,
and an early breakfast made. With the
skiff which this ark Jrailed with her as q
sort of tender, the two girls were soon dis
patched to their side of the river, and car
ried with them their own account of their
adventure
$50, my dear aunt, all's we'll that ends
WE'LL This is the end of the letter which
Sarah wrote to her aunt on the morning as
they were waiting for the return of the two
bows. There was a certain anxiety lest
these boys might have fallen into the hands
of the hunting party whose weaker side had
rendered the two girls the hospitality of the
night before. As often as once in quarter
of an hour a shot was fired, in the hope that
1t might call some response from them if
they were struggling in the woods; and once
Mr.. Titcomb even loaded the little swivel
which he had upon the ark, and made it
wake the echoes of the banks on both sides.
But the balance of probabilities was in
favor of two stout boys who had been last
seen holding on by the canoe; and, in fact,
before o'clock of the same day, the boys
presented themselves. They had drifted
down the river farther than they wished be-
fore they had been able 10 make the shore;
then in the morning they had made visit,
which had taken them more time than they
liked, to what Mary insisted on calling
'the friendly island;" but they had at last
escaped from the temptations of the sirens
there, and worked their way up to the en-
campment of the party. This would have
been done much more quickly had they
known the eddies and currents as well as
did Sarah's guide.
Everything was then reftted for the
voyage down the river, and we have now
Aold he or1, odx x1-hI Inh nd
venture as Sarah wrote in her letter to her
aunt, which occurred before the party
arrived in the mouth of the Muskingum.
The Ohio river at this point sweeps down
almost parallel with the Muskingum, and
then, after a sudden, receives the addition
made by that river. The TiJcombs knew
the lay of the land well enough to be on the
lookout for the fort and the great helm of
the ark brought her up at its landing. The
current of the Muskingum that day was
very strong, and the hour was late. General
Harmar and the officers were cordial and
hospitable, and begged the travellers to
spend the night within the barracks, but
they could not bear to come so near the
journeys end without finishing it, and Mr..
Titcomb excused himself from accepting
these hospitalities. He would leave his
ark, be said, to be carried across the stream
when he should find where she was to lie,
but he borrowed one of the boats of the
garrison, and with his boys padded the
women of the party across and up to the
Marietta landing, carrying with them such
conveniences as they might need for the
night And so, Just as the sun went down,
they found themselves in their new home.
1t was a week to a day since Harry Cur
wen had landed at the same spot, and had
walked up to First street, locking after the
very people VINO, in their turn, were now
wondering at all they saw. Every one
asked first for General Rufus Putnam, that
noble leader of the people, a man who
showed himself equal TO the largest cares
and concerns, was called upon almost of
course for each smallest service, and was as
ready in the one as he was successful in the
other. At this moment he was in his own
cabin, with the members of his household
around him at supper. To Mary's amuse-
ment, the string of which she had often
heard hung out from an augur hole in the
door, and, when hearty Come in" an
swered her fathers knock, and he pulled at
this string, the wooden latch rose, and the
door swung open. At long pine table set
on trestles was a large party of men and
women AT the head was Rufus Putnam,
looking the leader which he was. He was
still in the prime of life, tall, vigorous and
handsome In moment he had sprung
from his seat and came forward cordially,
but he said at once, 81 do not know you, do
I?" The elder Titcomb laughed and said,
ST know you, General; everybody knows
you, but you have not spoken to me since
the day when you sent me with file ofmen
70 burn the bridge over Dobbin's creek in
Jersey. 1 don't know, General, but I al
WAYS thought that when you turned away
Won said to that Frenehman that the ten of
us was enough to be cut to pieces. was
Titcomb that day, of the Nine
teenth Massachusetts,; now I am plain
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