Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-10-26
CHAPTER XIV.

dian" Under the smooth tiger move
ment, the big laugh, he carried love or
race that in any man but an indian
would have been accounted patriotic, and
a hatred of his oppressor that was only
lost in death.
1t was he who, few years later, mar
shalled all the wandering bands against
the garrisons along the Sound, and de-
stroyed two-thirds of them, falling at
last inside Fort Clark while its 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 a boy. And after TIE wreck this
feeling, which was akin to id> 'atry, 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 he 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 Clare. 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 in"
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 ieutenant's papers, money and other
portable property and carry to Jean Ma
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 Ma. 'Germon.
From the first he was determined that
no harm should come to Colin Morton;
and he was prepared to stay the execu-
ton in the same way, had it come off Oh
the day first appointed.
The most remarkable thing about this
case, as every old army officer VIII re-
member, is that the last word that ever
passed Maj. Germon's lips, was the or
der:
Aim
II WAS NuSl lc SliculcI Ills THAT MI.
Reynolds leaped to the front, and the
major fell as if all the guns had been
emptied into his own breast.
He never spoke again, never breathed
indeed. He was dead when the men car
ried him to his quarters. DR.. Ross said
it was a case Of apoplexy and heart dis
ease; he used a more scientific term
when reporting the case to headquarters.
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
very lively time; and Mrs. Phelps took
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
divorcers- Death-interfered before pro-
ceedings 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 were
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
~,
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. Bracebrdge.
Owing to the death of his elder brother
an event that the brave fellow did not
desire-Robert 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 few months since the New
York papers announced the marriage of
Colin NJ. Bracebridge and Jennie f. Nor
ton There is no need to explain who
they were.
Jean Marat ought to be dead, but he
is not. Every year or so-and 1t Is an
easy matter now-Robert and Colin go
ont with their families to Puget Sound:
and they always go loaded with presents
for Scion, Long Lance and all the Ska
gifts. Recently, while the steamer was
touching at Victoria, little, old. dried
up man, with a face like an animated
mummy, came on board, and he looked
up into Florence's face, and, to the great
amusement of the young people, he said:
'Ah, dat is de leddie dat is true az
steel; dat is de Belle of de Kaskads."
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