Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-04

claims Brewster's devotion. IV-'The society
at the fort gives hop, and Mrs. Knowles, %
married iliri from a nearby town, makes
scene with Brewster, at which Major Berricn
ana Wlniired are mystihed and indignant.
N-Betore Brewster can explain TO Ninlire9
about the hnowlcg Woman his troop is ordered
To march against the Sioux Indians in Dakota.
Major Bcrricn hears some gossip about
Brewsters relations TO Mrs. Knowles ana
bars the lover ont from parting word win
Winifred. VII and VIII The whole
Twelfth goes 10 the seat of war. captain
ROlfe sends a detective TO hunt up Sergeant
Ellis career before he joined the army. ~
Major Berren is wounded In skirmish.
Brewster and Ellis save his life.
.LBegun Tuesday, July 20-Back numbers at
the Counting Room.l
Two minutes lope brings them to the
butte Ellis has pointed ont. Leaving
their horses with the orderly. Berrien,
the sergeant and the sentinel 20 crouch
ing up the hither slope throw them
selves on the ground and crawl to the
summit. AS the yedette has said, the
whole country for miles in every direc-
tion can be seen-a country of bold con-
tours. of bare. rounded bluffs and buttes,
Of deep, shadowy ravines and gulches-
a country bare of trees save the ghostly,
leafiess cOttonwoods perched by the
banks Of many frozen stream. Miles
and miles to the north and northwest
the wild Indian land spreads before their
eyes. Close at hand, tumbling, billowy
and abrupt, the ridges follow or inter-
cept one another in rapid succession.
The face of the land is cut up into tor
tuOus breaks the deep, narrow beds
of countless little streams. all winding
tributary to the river that flows placidly
away 10 the northeast in the broad val
ley from which the column marched at
dawn. Beyond that. west of north,
clearly, sharply defined in the distance,
already alternating glaring surface and
ghostly shade under the slanting rays Of
the westering sun, tumbling mass of
Jagged, fantastic shapes, tangle of
vertical cliffs and scanned and furrowed
walls, a labyrinth Of gorges, gullies,
washed out channels, deep black crew
ices, and broad, yawning, impossible
CULTS, the STORED Bad Lands Of Dakota,
Stunned by all except the renegade and
outlaw in the past, now habitable only
by the Indian. Beyond these, faint and.
dim in the distance, the snow covered
pine crested SUBMITS in the Black Hills.
An the rest of the surface, east. west
and south, a frozen sea Of gray, glinting
here and there in the declining rays; and
there off to the southwest. perhaps five
miles away, lies the valley into which
the party of dusky warriors has gall
loped so short a time before-the valley
beyond which, long, long days march
away, stands the guarded camp Of COM
rade soldiery awaiting their return.
Berrien studies the scene long and care
fully through his glasses. intermediate
ridges are not many, but they are sharp
and clearly defined.
"Who was it reported that the adj
vance saw signal smokes south of us at
noon?" he asks.
Corporal Waite, sir; he and two OF
the men saw them plainly, and they
seemed to be answered off here And
Ellis points miles away to the west.
Berrien ponders a moment.
"Where away would you locate the
agency, sergeant, if you were going tc
take a bee line for it,
"Out off here, sir"
"And they crossed thatlin going into
the valley:'
"They certainly did, sir, and Look
major! look yonderl Another band
and from exactly the same place"
A little bevy of dark objects DART
suddenly into view from behind cur
tainlike divide and goes skimming ovei
a level stretch toward the lowlands O
the valley. Berrien's glasses seem glueC
to his eyes.
Twenty of them in that party! VIVA
do they see? What's their hurry? The.
would not expose themselves to on
view unless there were urgent need 70
haste"
"The old road comes in from that di
rection, sir, answers Ellis. eve left j
few hours out from the cantonment
as You remember. Can anything hav
been seen along that road to give rise T.
signal smokesY
Berrien turns half over and look
keenly into the sergeant's intelligen
face.
"That road has been abandoned 70
weeks past. Everybody to the cast o
us has taken refuge at the railway lon
since. Nobody would be coming froI
that direction"
II know that, sir; but would not an
detachment coming from the agency t
meet US, for instance, be apt 10 kee
the road? / understood we were t
strike for it in the morning and follo'
it in"
Again Berrien gazes long and earnest
~ through the binocular. "They al
certainly heading for that road an
riding at full speed. How many me
have you at this 'front.' he quick
asks.
"Just eight, sir, all told, but eigl
more are almost within call over O
our left faux. Yonder is the ridg
where my men are posted" And Ell
points TO their left rear where lies I'll
low crest.
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