Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-03

''It will not be prudent to remain here"
was the reply.
Can you get away"
"Col. Leroy's guide, Halpah, thinks he
can pilot US through"
what direction will you take?''
'Halpah says to the west"
Edwards Bellevue"
eyes"
Eve shall take the same course. Are
you sure the people in the cave are Sc
cure?"
Eyes, SO long as the provisions last, and
they have enough for a month" replied
| Col. Leroy.
Bertram Leroy and Mike and Ned Cos
tillo called over their good-byes and best
wishes and seemed confident that all
would soon meet This conversation was
carried on in ordinary tones, for though
a profound gulf parted them, a child
could toss a stone across it. 1t was well
known that the Indians would avail them
selves of the darkness to push their de-
signs, so the instant it was dark Halpah
whispered that he was ready.
Il will go ahead"
evil you walk?" asked the colonel.
"No; l will creep, and you must be so
close behind me that you can lay your
hand on my FOOT
Securing their rifles and pistols so as
to have them within easy reach. and at
the same time to keep them from drag
ging or making a noise, the three men
went over the breastWork and dropped on
their hands and knees.
Had they seen the road over which
Halpah guided them, brave though they
were, they would have drawn back with
shudder. He crept along the giddy
edge of the chasm, at times clinging to
a ledge so narrow and sloping that only
unbounded confidence or blissful ignOr-
ance could have traversed it in safety.
A loosened stone would have betrayed
them, but the Indian, with admirable pre-
caution, removed every dangerous object
before he advanced.
1t seemed to Gen. Greyson as if they
had been creeping in this way for hours,
though in reality thirty minutes would
have covered the time, when, to his re-
lief, Halpah rose to his feet. AS he did
so, a cultural voice demanded in the
Sioux language:
"Who walks there?"
"a FRIEND" replied Halpah, unslina
ing his rifle.
Il thought I was the nearest man to
the canyon" said the Sioux.
"Why are you here?
''To keep the white men from escaping
and"
The Sioux did not finish his sentence.
Halpah's uplifted rifle fell on his head
and he dropped without a groan, and lay
there till his companions found him help
less next day.
''Now for it," whispered Halpah, 1--WE
are through the line"'
Lightly and quickly they followed him
for two hours, then he stopped on a hill
and said, as he pointed down to valley
in which fires were burning.
"There is the place you call Bellevue"
''But there are people there" said
Gen. Greyson, ''and they must be Sioux"
''Stay here and l will soon find out"
The two white men, old friends and old
comrades, sat down side by side, and
though there We're many subjects that
they avoided, there were others, besides
their present troubles, about which they
could talk. Gen. Greyson, as he always
had done, deplored the war and spoke or
the loss of his brave son fighting on the
side to which he was himself opposed.
And do you really believe that your
son is uedu dSheu COl. LeIoy.
There can be no doubt of it."
"Then you have incontrovertible
proof?"
Il have"
do you object to telling me what it
is? Mark you, it is a profound interest,
not an idle curiosity, that prompts me
to inquire
He was killed in the second day at
Chickamauga. This l learned from pris-
oners, and the report was confirmed by
the commanding officer-Bragg-on the
other side. After the war, one of my
sons men conducted me to the place
where he was buried, and | carried the
body back to Kentucky, and laid it in
the Disciples church yard at Big HILL"
said Gen. Greyson, with a sigh.
You are sure it was your sons body?
| have reasons, that | cannot give You
now for being persistent.
Il am certain-that is, as 'rtain as
a man can be that has undIsputed evil
dence outside his own experience.
MANY of the dead have come to life
since that fatal war; said the colonel.
And many of the iving-like you AMI
me-haye buried ourselves alive in these
| wilds.'
There was reason for my coming. l
can imagine none for your being here"
responded the general.
1T would be Il sad world for men and
women who feel for their Fellows if they
could look into the hearts and see the
gnawing troubles of many whom they
think happy. But bark. Was that Hal
pah?''
Both listened, but all was silent, save
the chirp of the cricket, and the signing
of the wind in the bushes near by. Again
they began to talk, and so they did not
bear the cat-like steps about them, com
ing nearer-nearer-ike shadows, and
noiseless as death.
A shout rang up from the valley:
THE Sioux! The Sioux
1t was Halpah's voice. They leaped to
their feet. They unslung their rifles; but
| before they could fell the direction from