Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-26

shore just as Barnabas otter reached
the foot of the bluff. Thank God. ladr'
cried the old man. "a give you I'D fur
dead when you fell of the tree"
When Nathan had told his story Bar
nabas declared that Ii would be both
useless and perilous to pursue Simon
Glass. We'll settle with the rufian
another time" he said. ''To think Of
his creepin' down here 10 make sure YOU
was dead. But that's like him. An
now. if you're able Wen be gittin' back
to the party.
Nathan was all right. except for a
slight weakness, and with a li-tle as.
sistance, he made fair progress uD the
bank. AS they climbed Barnabas told
what had happened. We got under COW
err too quick for the enemy" he ex.
planned. IAN while they thought we was
hidin' in the wood we were maxim fur
the ford on a trot. Ii was round a bend
of the creek. an luckily we got across
without bein' seen. Then we circled
around TO the camp an surprised the
British from the rear as they were get
tin 10 saddle. We dropped three I'M
their tracks, an shot another on tha
bridge, an the rest cut and run fur
life. It's pity, Simon Glass wasn't
there Them
Amy CT our men killed. asked Ma
than.
cyan Jones'" Barnabas answered
soberly. HE was shot by little chan
that fired as he run
BY this time they were at the captur-
ed camp, and Nathan was warmly
greeted. He at once examined the four
dead dragons, but Godfrey was no,
among them.
what did the man look Ike who
was shot on the tree?" h. asked.
He was my age, lad, and had a
heavy mOustache," was Reuben AT.
woods satisfactory answer.
1t was considered eXpedient TO START
while the five survivors OF the enemy
were scattered, and before they could
get together Three horses had been
killed in the assaulJ-they being in de
rect range-and fourth was so badly
crippled as to be useless. The five that
remained were JUS enough for the party
now reduced by two.
While the men gather up what am
mun!ton, muskets and other stuff had
fallen into their hands, Barnabas dresA
ed Nathan's skin wound and squeezed
his clothes partly dry. Once IN tho
saddle. the lad felt quite himself again.
though he shuddered frequently to
think Of his narrow escape.
The victory was MOI without TO STING
Poor Lindsay and Jones bad answered
their last summons, and che bodies had
to be left where they had fallen. Their
comrades would gladly have buried
them, but duty TO The imparlled Sci
tiers at Wyoming forbade a moments
delay.
The sun was just opening above the
horizon when the little band mounted
the captured horses and rod away from
the scene CT death and blo9dshed. For
the first two miles they kept close watch
as the trotted along The bride road,
and then, the chance OF a surprise beine
now past, they urged their sJeed to
I|gallop.
But the country was very rugged,
and the road winding, and il was nee
essary TO walk or JrOt the horses much
| of the way. The afternoon was waning
when the party came within hali doz-
en- miles of the Susquehanna, and as
they pressed on eagerly they heard tho
ominOus sound Of distant firing. Little
was said, bur the waite, stern faces Of
the men spoke more eloQuently than
words. On an'
! last they came
! of the mount
whence the love.
spread out before
sunlight.
Here was the Sus,
in a silver loup r0m
mountain gap There
westward, the lamle,
nestled at the base of
Their east the st0ckade of
from the opposite lying
river, the flag SUI luJtu
staff.
But the demons Of war and
| were already loose I'm the bautf
Muskets were cracking incessn
the breeze waited after a fain
of hideous yslls and screams.
all the wooded part CT the vail
Forty Fort to the bend Of Che
powder smoke hung blue and hea
patches, and pillars Of flame rose l.
! many a burning cabin
(TO b Continued.