The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-04-25
"She is English. +"
1T is very strange.

GU are right 1t is strange"
Such were my thoughts as we walked
away. The man who seemed to live
there alone, half hunter, half farmer
stood in his cabin door and watched us
until we passed out of sight
l prevailed upon the girl to ride fol
awhile, but after an hour on horseback
she dismounted again, saying that she
preferred to walk. About the middle OF
the afternoon we met q farmer who con.
firined my belief that Morgan had pass
ed on toward the Broad river, though
he knew nothing of Tarleton. An hour
later as we were passing through thick
woods some one cried out TO us to halt.
almost sprang up in my establishment,
and the girl uttered little cry of fright,
for neither of us supposed any one to be
near having seen nothing and heard
nothing, and Old Put, / suppose, was
tired or dreaming
Stop, " said to Julia sit may be
friends -
Two men on horseback came from a
position among the dense trees They
were dressed in rough homespun gray
and looked like Americans, the two
facts together inducing the belief that
they were militia scouts of Morgan's
An American and his lady, said
the foremost to me. You are a soldier.
are you not?''
YES replied.
And on the way to Morgan, too, [
take it. Keep straight to the northwest.
and you Will overtake him. We are
good patriots too. .
THANK you, l said Morgan seems
Go keep good watch. | hope that we
will overtake him before nightfall. "
He had ridden very close to me-
81 don't think it, my fine fellow -
he said We will take good care of
both you and the lady, for we are Tarle-
toms scouts, not Morgan s. -
l saw then that the appearance and
manner Of the men had deceived me.
but no thought of surrender to them en-
tered my mind l snatched at my pistol.
The man, who was as wary as a pan
ther, saw the movement, and, drawing
his own weapon, we fired almost at the
same time l saw him reel in his sad
die, but not fall, and was conscious
of thrill of pain in my head, followed
by heavy, crushing sensation, as if l
had been struck by 4 hammer. 1 stag
gered, falling to the ground upon nv
hands and knees. Consciousness left me
entirely for few minutes and then
came back dimly, just enough for me
to dream and to create events for N.Y.
self.
In this dream l saw girl with tawny
gold hair and blue eyes raise pistol
and ire at the second man, who had
drawn cavalry saber.. The man, shout
ing with pain, dropped his saber, clap
ped his other hand to his shoulder and
galloped after his comrade, whose horse.
frightened by the shots, was running
away with him. Both disappeared in
the wood, and the girl, who stood for
a minute or two Watching, the empty
pistol in her hand, seemed to feel sure
that they would not come back, for she
rushed to the wounded man on the
ground and raised his head in her arms
est, this blond girl who had been SO
bitter Of speech and yet SO much the
master of herself. The man had risen
TO his knees once, but had fallen back
from weakness. His eyes closed almost.
DIS lace became very white, and there
was blood ON his hair. She raised his
head and kissed his face, once, twice
and more, and begged him not to die.
Llyel Live for yourself and for me.
Philip, for | love you, my herop' she
said and great bay horse stood look
ing and listening. Then she few TO a
little brook she saw flowing through the
wood, and bringing water in her can
poured 1T upon the mans face, while
the horse nodded approval. Then she
the blood out of his hair and
bound up the wound with something
white mo, Put, will never leave |
him, she said, II will never leave |
him, for he has saved me from death
and worse, and love him-I tell you 1 |
love him y whereupon the great horse.
nodded his approval with extreme yigor
came TO myself, and 1 was sorry that
ne dream was over. 1t had been Meas
mt very pleasant, and 1 was willing to
iream ON. had headache, but when
put my hand to the spot which ached
knew that the wound was not serious;
hat 1t was nothing but trifle. A bull
et' clipping under the skin, had glanced
Ilong my skull and passed on, infiicting
slight conclusion, like a heavy blow
rem mans fist, but that was all. i