The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-06
3 II first Albert suspected that
" Rose was certainly spread out

- somewhere on premises, but
after diligent search and no sign of
her being discovered, he felt hope
springing in his breast or stomach
or somewhere inside of his anatomy,
that Rose had had "tip" and had
escaped with the family jewels and
other articles of value and was now
awaiting him in some place Of safety.
Everything else was gone except a
large, ungainly clock that Captain
haywood had purchased of Jim
Davidson, and which nothing could
make go. Jim bought it of Carp
once when Carp was selling out some
unfortunate old settler, who had
been forced into liquidation. The
clock was one of those old timers
that looks like cheap coffin and
stands in the corner of the hall and
makes people nervous. Jim had
tried unsuccessfully to make it go,
and fnanlly sold it to haywood for
two bits, in trade.
Albert always regarded the old
clock as an abomination, but the
Captain had been proud of his pur-
chase and priced it very highly. AS
a tribute to the memory of the old
man, Albert and Wetzel piled him
into the old clock and buried him
with his beloved purchase, deep in
the earth from whence lie came.
They also deposited the balance of
the family in old mother earth.
They didn't have clocks enough to
go around, so the others were inter-
red as found.
After the ceremony, Albert swore
solemn, double jointed. oath to be
avenged or revenged or both, upon
the author of this cold blooded out
rage.
This done, the hunters began to
look for signs of Rosey Ann. Albert
remembered how he had warned his
father of the danger and how the old
man had received his warning. 1t
was a case of II told you so," and
demonstrates how much more our
children know than we do. Had
Captain haywood only needed the
advice of his son, his top-knot would
not have been dangling at the belt of
some red man, but would have been
in its usual place, where it would
have been of infinitely more service
to him. The trouble with Captain
haywood was that he had the same
erroneous idea of his own wisdom
that parents usually have, and by
not giving due Importance to the
mature advice of his son, he had
cause to regret it, as we all do.
While Albert was thus deliberat-
ing upon his fathers error, Lewis
Wetzel was seeking the trail of the
indians and Rose. He now had no
doubt that the indians had carried
Rose into captivity. 1t never occur
ed to him that Rose might have car
ried the indians into captivity. The
fact is that these were real indians
and not the kind we see on the stage,
composed of boys about town, who
go on as indians one night and SOL
diers the next, just to get in the show.
A band Of that character of aborign-
es can scarcely stand the guying of
the audience, let alone carrying off
a beautiful maiden.
whist" whispered Lewis Wetzel,
II hear foot prints! Come!" AS he
thus spoke, Wetzel started in his ac-
customed lope which has heretofore
been described.
Albert followed in q trot, AZ he had
not yet gotten onto Wetzel's gait.
He was naturally anxious to know
what Lewis had discovered, but
time was too precious to stop to ar
que little thing like that.
The trail was plain to the exper-
fenced eye of the old hunter. In
fact it was too plain. In novels the
indians always try to conceal their
tracks. These fellows evidently
were not novel indians or they were
making trail they wanted some
one to follow. This became so ap-
parent that Wetzel "took drop to
himself" and suddenly stopped.
"Cuss 'em," said the old hunter at
length, "Them tarnel varmints
might fool Weldy or some other
amateur with them ERE tactics, but
they can't play no sich tricks on
me-"
"What do you see wrong" eager
ly and breathlessly enqulred Albert.
"Why. the redskins hain't taken
no pains to hide their tracks, and |
that amt injen, unless they want to
be tracked. oplne that the cussed
critters know that you will follow
'em and they are laying scheme
to take your top-knot."
"What is to be DONE" Easked the
young man.
"Well, If yer want to keep yer top
knot the best thing to do is not to
foller that trail any longer"
"What! abandon the search
Nevah nevah nevah!"
"Who said anything about givin' /
up the search, / would like to know"