Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-12-13
CHAPTER X

Fish Hawk was known as "a bad In.
dian.' Under the smooth tiger move
ment. the big laugh, he carried IL love OF
race that i'll any man but an Indian
would have been accounted patriotic, and
II hatred of his oppressor that was only
lost in death.
1t was he who, Il few years later. mar
slallcd all the wandering bands against
the garlisons along the Sound. and de.
stroyed two-thirds of them, falling at
last inside Fort Clark while it's struc.
lures were blazing, and its garrison fugi.
tive or dead.
In his fierce heart and in his savage
way this human tiger loved the Belle of
the Cascades, from the time she had
saved him from punishment when he
was Il boy. And after the wreck this
feeling. which was akin to idolatry, be.
came intensified. He heard of Colin
Morton's doings and hated him. not for
his bravery. but because he had Won
the beautiful girl. whom lie could not
hope to win himself.
Next to his hatred of Colin Morton.
whom, it will be remembered, he tried
to assassinate on guard, he hated the
%commandant at Fort Clark. From the
first he saw through Maj. Germon's de-
signs. and he pretended to play into the
hands of Jean Marat.
Briefly, Fish Hawk meant to kill Colin
Morton. and he was anxious not to ill.,
jure Lieut.. Reynolds in the attack on his
comp. But Colin escaped, and the gal.
liant Reynolds was wounded, though not
severely.
Then Fish Hawk told Mr.. Reynolds ex-
actly what he was instructed to do. and
it was agreed that he should take all
the lieutcnant's papers, money and other
portable property and carry to Jean MAJ
rat.
While the lieutenant was being nursed
in an Indian hut, not three miles from
the Fort, he received daily messages OF
the progress of affairs, and learned of
the ~villainy of Maj. Germon.
From the first he was determined that
no harm should come to Colin Morton;
and lie was prepared to stay the cxecu-
ton in the same way, had it come off oil
the day first appointed.
The most remarkable thing about this
ease. as every old army officer will re-
member. is that the last word that ever
passed Maj. Germon's lips, was the or
der:
"Aim"
1t was when he shouted this that Mr..
Reynolds leaped to the front, and the
major fell as if all the guns had been
emptied into his w breast.
He never spoke again. never breathel
indeed. He was dead when the men car
ried him to his quarters. DIR. Ross snid
it was n case of npoplcxy and heart dis.
ease; he used 81 more scientific term
when reporting the case to headquarters.
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Judge Loring learned from Scion and
Fish Hawk the exact state of affairs the
night before the execution. And he took
Capt. Phelps into his confidence. and
the captain took the other officers, and
the officers took the men. =
Word was sent to Colin. and he was
advised to go through the form, which
he bravely did. But Captain Ford and
the officers staid by all night and had IL
her baby on board and remained till
morning with Florence and Jennie.
Colin got the letters which Mrs. Nor
ton had written to Germon, and sent
them to his father, who had returned to
New York, but that most respectable of
Observation-Disclosures before pro-
ccedings could be begun; and the poor
baby survived its erring mother but a few
days.
Through the judge and Captain Ford.
aided by the officers at Fort Clark, Colin
Morton and Robert Bracebridge We're
discharged honorably from the service
four years before their time expired.
Captain Ford kept the Arrow at Fort
Clark, or within hailing distance as
he called Vancouver. till the young men
were released. Then, with the judge
who had become wonderfully kind and
tame-and the two girls. and Colin and
Robert. the Arrow sailed for San Fran
cisco. And the ship was not twenty-four
hours inside the Golden Gate before
Florence became Mrs. Morton and Jen-
ME was made Mrs. Br~acebridge.
Owing to the death of his elder brother
an event that the brave fellow did not
deSire-ltobert became quite wealthy; but
having formed an attachment for Amer
lea, he lives here, and his three boys, he
says, "are heirs to the presidency"
1t is only II few months since the New
York papers announced the marriage of
Colin Nj. Rracebridge and Jennie Il. Nor
ton. There is no need to explain who
they We're.
Jean Marat ought to be dead, but he
is not. Every year or so-and it is MI
easy matter now-Robcrt and Colin go
out with their families to Puget Sound;
and they always so loaded with presents
for Scion, Long Lance and all the Ska
gifts. Recently, while the steamer was
touching at Victoria, a little, old, dried
up man, with IL face like an animated
mummy, came on board. and he looked
up into Florencc's face, and, to the great
amusement of the young people. lie said:
".Ah. dat is de leddie dat is true as
steel: dat is de Belle of de Kaskads."
(The cnd.)
Prize for "Hanna's Brother-in-Law.
A prize OF 5000 marks presented to
the Berlin Academy of Science by the
Marquis de Chasseloup, a Partisan of
M rtio1 Amarioon 6ocoopt for <ho -.