Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-10

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check them, but they were ridden down.
! Up the heights again, and the four horse
men refined in to look for the foe.
CHAPTER XIX.
AS has been said, St. Armand, with
Mon-nah, Mabel and Jennie, had gone
up the rocks to get a better view of the
| situation. While there they saw bodies
of Sioux passing on the other side, and
they did not dare to venture down.
| st. Armand, who was in the advance,
saw Guide Whitman and his friends dis
| tinctly as they were in the act of leaping
on the horses, and he was on the point
| of shouting out to them when he dis
covered that the Sioux were in pursuit
near by.
| Now there was nothing left for it but
to get back with all speed and find a
place in which they could remain secret
ed until the Indians left. or their friends
came to their rescue. They were able to
speak in hushed tones, and st. Armand
told how the horses were taken.
And you say Guide Whitman is near
| by" said Mabel, flushing with excite
ment
He can't be very far off, replied St.
Armand, though 1 must confess his
horse was getting over the ground like
an arrow when he vanished from my
sight"
WAS he followed"
Yes, faith. But he must be used to
that by this time" replied st. Armand,
with a smile that revealed his white
teeth, and proved that he was not very
nervous in this trying situation.
And you say there were other men
with him" said Jennie. forgetting her
own danger in her anxiety for her
friends.
"Bertram Leroy and the two brothers
| Costello"
| Abruptly the sound of voices above
them and near by caused all to hush.
They were not long in discovering that
the speakers were Whirlwind and Rich
mond.
"Ha"' exclaimed Whirlwind, who had
climbed up to get better view of the
| four horsemen. "They are out of the
valley! They have gone up by the only
trail at that point"
yes" said Richmond. "And now they
are off their horsesr'
And showing fight"
! Yes, curse them, they are using the
| arms they stole from my men"
| And where did your men steal them"
asked Whirlwind with a sheer.
That matters not. But see! They
have checked your men and mine"
They are fools to try the impossible.
They can only go up one abreast, and
two stout men could prevent their reach
ing the top. All! they are falling back
Your people are"
And yours are leading the retreat,
Richmond. Well. they deserve punish
ment for their madness. But Red Cloud
is to blame for all this" sair Whirlwind,
Nhrugging his shoulders and COMPRISING
his thin lips.
"Red ClOud?" repeated Richmond.
+ Eyes. He ought to have killed them
the moment they fell into his hands"
| His braves should have saved him the
trouble by not taking them prisoners"
| They will learn better as the war
goes on" said Whirlwind, emphasizing
his remark by stamping his right foot on
| the ground.
How long will that be?''
''Who can tell but the Great Spirit?'
| You will resist till you get what you
ask for?"
Yes, Richmond, we will not only re-
sist, but attack until every white man
not a sworn friends driven from our
hunting grounds"
You are right. and so far as lies in
my power I will help you"
I'VE believe that, or you would not be
| long with us now. [ only fear that other
/ of your men will betray us as did St. Ar
mand.~
"Whirlwind. you must not speak So"
| said Captain Richmond. with an affecta-
tion of feeling. 'St. Armand is French
man. or of French descent, and is as diff
| ferent from me and the rest of my men
as Sioux is from a Blackfoot. l never
| trusted him. But if he falls into my
hands, and he will as sure as you are
standing there, l will make an example
of him"
You will not keep him long a prison
err" said Whirlwind. with a cruel laugh.
Not very long" replied Richmond. IF
Red Cloud acts as promptly with the In
| dian girl Mon-nah. he will soon be rid Of
an adopted daughter
He would not kill her if she were to so
back to him." said the chief.
But he should"
''Ah, Red Cloud is brave, but he has a
woman's heart. Do you know how he
came to adopt that girl?"
Il never heard the story
You know that she is Nez Perce?'
80 l have heard"
1T is ten summers ago since Red Cloud
attacked Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces.
He destroyed one of his villages, and the
Shoshones siding with the Nez Perces,
Red Cloud was forced to retreat. Two
| children. a boy and a girl, twins, | be-
lieve, fell into Red Clouds hands. The
warriors did not wish to care for them
and would have killed them, but the chief
would not hear to it. He brought them
back to his people and adopted them.
| Mon-nah is the girl
And what became of the boy?" asked