Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-29

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past mistakes. tor lore affairs seem t.
be run on the same line. whether in
city. country. wilderness or camp.
II Jeanette had q preference for any
Of her lovers she did not reveal the fact
by any sign. sne idolized her father
loved her home and was devoted to her
pupils.
who will win her?' was the ques-
ton as hard to answer as the solving
OF a Chinese puzzle, while great dread
came over the settlers when it was dis
covered that the handsome young Off
GERS from Fort Range, forty miles dis
tant, were beginning to find their way
to the settlements, once they had seen
"Jordan's Angel" as Janette was
known in Pleasant Valley.
One day there came trouble. An Of
ficer from the fort rode over to report
that the Sioux were showing very
ugly spirit. and it was feared that the
Slightest act of a hostile nature would
precipitate long and bloody war. :
Put on their guard, the settlers began
to prepare for what they feared was
the inevitable.
They knew that the force at Fort
Range was too small to expect much
help, and so Judge" Jordan began to
drill the men and boys, strengthen the
defences, and arrange everything to
meet a sudden attack, while Janette
and the other girls under her leader
ship. prepared lint and bandages, or
ganized hospital corps and were ready
to lend most valuable aid when the
trouble did come.
Daily the war clouds grew blacker,
the Indians became more and more de-
termined, and the people of the settle
ment dared not venture far away for
fear of conflict with renegade redskins
looking for trouble.
The commandant of the fort wished
the settlers to go there for protection.
but this they would not do. Some few
found hope in the knowledge that old
Red Buffalo, the great head chief OF sew
eral villages, had yielded the leader
ship OF his people to his son, young Evil
Eye, whose gratitude to Jordans Angel
should alone keep him from attacking
her people.
But others argued that Evil Eye had
boldly come to the settlement, and asked
jeanette to be his wife, when again she
had been his recuer but this time from
her father. who would have had the
chiefs scalp dangling from his belt had
his daughter not struck up the rifle her
father had levelled at the Indians heart.
To his credit, be 1t said, Evil Eye had
not ftnched under his deadly danger; but
he had lost no time in striking the trail
for his village later when he saw prepara-
tons being made to deprive his people OF
his council by sending him, by means of
rope, to the Happy Hunting Grounds
All expected that the war would then
begin; but as weeks passed by and the
cloud did not burst. they began to hope
that it might pass over
One night there was council of war
in the settlement and every man was
present, as half dozen officers from the
fort had come over to have talk with
the settlers, for the scouts had reported
the Indians ready to strike
Janette sad alone in her cabin, while
her father was presiding at the council
held in her school house
She had her guitar in hand and was sing
ing All Old love song, WI en- suddenly a
form STRIDE into the room and Evil Eye
stood beft re her.
SHE Gid not faint, nj fact, she said with
calraness:
The Evil Eye is weicor. FL will get him
sGme .uod."
THE Evil Eye is welcomed will get
him loves the White Flower of the pale
faces.
He has come to ask her to let him take
her to his people as his wife," and as a
means to help his courtship he cody in
formed her that the settlement was sur
rounded by five hundred Of his warriors
and the Fort by as many more already to
strike at signal from him.
1t would be war to the knife If she re-
fused, and it would be peace if she ac-
copied his offer which he said would make
him the happiest man of the Sioux tribe.
AS white as death Janette heard his
story and she knew that the chief was not
speaking with crooked tongue, or. in
good English, lying
A surprise and massacre would follow
her refusal. BY self-sacrifice she would
avert bloody war. She tried TO postpone
the evil hour to gain time, but the chief
would have his answer then. The struggle
was fearful one. the ordeal one of hor-
ror to force upon a young and beautiful
girl. But she put all thought of self aside
and asked:
VIII Evil Eye take his warriors away
from the settlement and the fort? VIII he
bury the Ratchet with the pale faces and
become their friends?"
EVIL Eye promised, by his love for the
graves of his forefathers; and then ia
nette, white as ghost and with hand
that trembled, wrote a letter to her ia
Their telling him all; pitiful letter of
self-sacrifice and farewell
Then she gathered together the things
she wished to take along, her guitar
among them. hoping in it to find comfort.
Ten she was ready TO mount the pretty
pony Evil Eye had brought for her.
Two hours later. her father returned and
when the morning came the settlers
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