The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-04-18

| "Squaws angry at Misty Dawn. Agent nc
| help her."
No the Agent could not help her. She
knew that.
She raised her head proudly.
II will go away"
Misty Dawn starve. Indians know Mis-.
| ty Dawn sixteenth, annuity stop; no money
| for Misty Dawn any more from Beffel's
will"
She had not thought of that.
The Indian half-breed looked her over
coolly
Misty Dawn become Running Bulls
| squaw, Indians never know; traders never
know; Agent never know Misty Dawn six
| teenth"
She looked upon him scornfully.
misty Dawn say no, Running Bull will
tell. Misty Dawn then must go. She starve.
White man no like sixteenth. Misty Dawn
then marry black man
She remembered now what the Indian
told her had been told to her before by the
Agent. Was she scorning an advantage
Gus offer?
The Indian saw the change.
Misty Dawn pretty" ne said taking her
hand which she yielded
oh, the agony of her soul then, Must
she take this savage for her husband?
She took her hand away. She knew of
suicide. That before him.
Running Bull she said. agent would
not know that l was not your sister and
would not allow our marriage"
Running Bull keep quiet
"You could not keep it secret long. NO.
Running Bull. I shall not marry you or
any man. Go now and leave me-
"One sleep and I tell-Running Bull teu-''
81 do not care"
Annuity gone
81 do not care"
misty Dawn driven away"
81 do not care
misty Dawn starve."
at is welcome"
white man despise Misty Dawn"
He had struck her shield where It was
weak.
Again the broad Indian smiIe spread
across his face.
She turned to the Indian imploringiy.
Running Bull" she cried in Indian:
''Let me be your sister still. Let me re-
main here. I will be good sister to you.
L will be kind to you
He kept on smiling
"One sleep" he said. Running Bull
tell"
This was his refusal.
Go" she said.
He stalkeG out
She sank down in chair her breast
heaving, her black hair disheveled, her
cheeks wet with tears
A negro! How great the Indians seemed
m hpr I'm fY,
proud they were! The negro had been the
white mans slave, the Indian had been his
enemy-was still his ward, not his slave
She CROPPED in the past She had read
Uncle Toms Cabin. Was her life pictured
there? she asked.
She dressed herself carefully; tied an
extra dress in shawl, went to a trunk
and took from it three hundred silver dol
lars she had laid by. These she placed in
the shawl
She stepped back into the he'll. There
was Running Bull stretched out on blan-
ket in a stupor the liquor had brought He
had not put out the light. She picked up
his blanket and saw the scalp with the
long hair lying on the foor She picked It
up and looked at it. A woman's scalp.
Running Bull heap bravei'' What history
was there?
She looked again at the Indian. She had
never been off the reservation. The mys-
terious white mans world waited for her
-Caliban's sister.
No, she could not so. She would wake
him and accept.
She did not know that she might have re-
fused and Running Bull would not have
exposed her; that the annuity which came
10 her would have sealed his lips. He would
have surrendered her before that
Should she wake him? Yes. She bent to
touch him.
She touched him and he moved uneasily,
She turned away and crept out OF the
house with Indian stealth.
Out of the house and under the great
sky she crept, still stealthily. Up the little
gTass-grown street she passed and stood
before the Agents house. And she raised
her hands 10 the white mans God ard the
Milky Way which is the pathway OF the
spirits of the Indians 10 heaven and prayed
that the Agent might never know the truth
and despise her.
Then she went out across The prairie IN
the dark alone with q long graceful stride. |
her shawl OF silver and apparel thrown
over her shoulder-into the great white /
mans mysterious realm
BY noon the next day K came 70 the |
Agents ears that Misty Dawn had disap- !
peared- Running Bull was in a rage and !
wss hunting for her everywhere He had 1
not meant his threat The traders heard Of !
Il and rejoiced. only fearful that she would .
turn up by sunset The squaws began TO /
slip the corn husks back between their I
girl babies heels and the school girls col 4
lapsed comfortably as OF yore II their 4
seats
A night passed and the Agent was fran
&c. He sent out horsemen in all directions. /
But they came back with no tid.ngs Ho5- /
ing himself rode to the railroad station 20 4
the west. outside the reservation. and left !
word with the authorities 10 be on the look
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But it was Of no avail. Misty Dawn was
gone forever
Running Bull al the next annuity pay /
nsnt saw the fzanily's share decreased one
aalf. the Agent cutting OF Waving Hairs
allowance and Withholding Misty Dawn's.
But Running Bull. Indian that Re was.
rever told the secret of Misty Dawn.
Il saw q man today who had ro hands
play The piano" That's nothing, We've
sot g.-i down IN cur fat Wno has 70