Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-11

encampcd by night in the military style. sem
tinels were set and changed, every man bad
his named duty; aud Sir William was the
spring of all There much in this that
might at times havo entertained me. but
for our misfortune, the weather was extreme
ly harsh the days were in the beginning
open, but the nights frosty from the first A
painful keen wind blew most OF the time. so
that we sat in the boat with blue flsgers. and
at night, as we scorehed our faces at the fire,
the clothes upon our back appeared 10 he Of
paper. dreadful solitude surrounded our
steps, the land was quite dispeoplel. there
was no smoke of fires, and save for single
boat of merchants on the second day, we met
no travellers The season was indeed late
but this desertion of tho watarwa Us impressed
Sir William himself, and | have heard him
more than once express sense os intimida-
ton II have come too late, fear. they must
have dug up the Ratchet" no said, and the
future proved how Justly he had reasoned
could never depict the blackness of my
soul upon this journey. have none OF those
minds that are in love with the unusual, to
see the winter coming aud to lie in the fields
80 far from any house, oppressed mo like a
nightmare; it seemed, indeed, a kind of awful
braving OF Gods power; and this thought,
which ! dare say only writes me down a
coward was greatly exaggerated by my pri.
yate knowledge of the errand we were come
upon.
was besides encumbered by my duties to
Sir William, whom it fell upon me to enter
tain, for my lord was quite sunk into state
bordering on pcrvigilium, watching the woods
with rapt eye, sleeping scarce at all, and
speaking sometimes not twenty words In a
whole day That which he said was still CO.
her ktltif ftYrnnl al, inv lss
the party for whom he kept his crazy look
out. He would tell Sir William often, and
always as IL it were n new communication,
that be had "a brother somewhere in the
woods" and beg that the Rentinels should be
directed ITO inquire for him." 81 am anxious
for news of my brother" he would say. And
sometimes when we were under way he would
fancy he spied canoe far of upon tho
water, or camp on the shore, aud ex
hibit painful agitation. 1t was impossible
but Sir William should be struck with these
singulsrities, and at last he led me aside and
hintcd his uneasiness | touched my head
and shook it, quite rejoiced to prepare little
testimony against possible disclosures.
"But In that casc,h cries Sir William, "is
it wise to let him so at Target"
sThose that know him best" said I, ''are
persuaded that he should be hulnored."
.'Wen, WE'LL" replied Sir William, "it is
none of my affairs. But II had understood,
YOU would never have been here.n
Our advance into this savaae country had
+ thus uneventfully proceeded for about a
week, when we encamped for night at a
place where the river ran among consider.
Able mountains clothed in wood. The fires
were lighted on a level space at the waters
& edre. and we supped nnd Law down to sleep
in the customary fashion. IL CHANGED the
night fell nurderouslv cold: tho strineency
or the frost seized and bit ME through nv
coverings, so that pain kept pe yakefuj;
and was afoot again before the psep of day.
crouching by the fires or trotting TO and fro
) The streams edge, to combat the aching Of
my finibs.
At last dawn began 10 break upop boar
woods and mountains. the sleepars rolled in
their robes, and tho boistefous river dashinp
among spears of ice. stood looking about
me, swaddled In my stiff coatSf n bulls fur,
and the breath smoking from my scorched
nostrils. when upon a sudden, a singular.
eager cry rang from the borders of the wood.
The septries answered il. the sleepers sprupr
to their feet; one pointed, the rest followed
< his direction with their eyes and there, upop
the edge Of the forest and betvixt two trees,
Ae4ela ~ Il man f.--iirirr fort
ment he ran forward feu an bis Lraos n, ,ho