Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-04-26

"There Is no use IN our taking prison
ers," said WAirlwind, ''if we let them es-
cape, as we have all these
Then" said Richmond, with glaring
eyes, 1--WE can kill them. l would have
killed those men at once, but Red Cloud
saved them"
RED Cloud turned them over to the
braves" retorted Whirlwind "and the
braves condemned them to death. The
Great Spirit sent the storm and that saw
ed them. Come, let US get down to the
valley. /, for one, need food and rest"
The white outlaws and their red COM
panions rode slowly back, and when
again they reached the valley the stars
were shining. They built camp fires,
staked their horses, and finding food in
the wagons, they proceeded to make
themselves at home.
Among the stores in the wagons, Utah
found keg of whisky. 1t was tapped,
tin cups were Forthcoming, and from the
leaders down, the white men and Indians
drank. Even Richmond and Whirlwind
joined in the orgy till they fell beside
the fire as unconscious as their men.
In the meantime st. Armand, seeing
that they were not being pursued, pre-
vailed upon his companions to slacken
the headlong speed at which they had
been riding. About an hour after dark
they rode into a valley, and as they went
down, Mabel and Jennie were struck
with strange, sulphurous smell, and the
fact that the atmosphere became sudden
ly damp and warm, as if charged with
steam. After passing through heated
stratum of air, they came out on level,
grass covered space, when st. Armand
and Mon-nah refined in their horses and
announced their purpose to remain till
morning.
But can we not press on till you take
us to our friends?" asked Jennie.
They had been told Of the wonderful
escape Of the immigrants through the
caves held sacred by the Sioux.
"It would be dangerous to go further
till daylight" replied ST. Armand.
Your friends in the caves" said Mon
nah, "are safe and will remain so while
they stay there. We must think Of join
ing them in safety, and there is no safety
IN haste"
But is this place safe?" asked Mabel.
at is the best we can find; but there
is no place safe in these mountains, when
the white soldiers are in the saddle and
the Sioux on the war path"
AS there was nothing for it but to re-
main where they were till morning, Ma
bel and Jennie made a virtue of necessity
and again lay down sido by side. Mon
nah lay near them and St. Armand went
on guard.
They slept ftfully. Strange, unearthly
dc 1,oucad than from SLIM and a
score of times during the night they
opened their eyes, expecting to see the
sky lit up with lurid glare, but they saw
only the stars above and the intense
blackness about them.
The air was filled with the sound of
monsters strangling, or breathing heav
lily. Now and then there was heard the
rush as Of mighty bolts being hurled into
the sky, followed by the downward rush
of torrents that beat on the earth with
the crashing and booming Of storm waves
on rocky shore.
The wind seemed to blow with the
maddest caprice. Now hot and blister
ing, and again laden with a scalding
spray that swept over the faces Of the
girls. They spoke liz whispers, but as
Mon-nah seemed to DO sleeping they did
not ask her to explain these aWe-lnsplr-
ing phenomena.
There is vein of superstition in every
poetical nature, and this feeling is al
ways reused in the presence, of the mex
plicable. They could easily believe that
they had left the earth and We're stand
ing on the dark shores of that river over
which they were to be ferried to the land
of eternal light and beauty-when the
hot fog lifted and the winds became 81
lent.
AS the sun rose, a sight met the gaze
Of the white girls such as it has rarely
been the privilege Of their sex to see.
They were on the edge of an immense
amphitheater that circled for miles on
either hand. Over the walls of this am
phitheater a hundred crystal streams
flashed down at different points, and the
uprising spray was transformed into
myriad rainbows by the rising sun.
Go be continuedJ