The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-19


GOODBYE 10 NANT-Y-BRYN,
As if my very thought had been q
spell to c~oKjure up their forms, the
women. who had fed cut of the house
from the scene of the combat, now
rushed into the tall uttering wild
screams, which rose high above the
dreadful chorus, and, close upon their
heels, adding no sound to the wild tu-
mutt, but for that very thing striking
deeper note of awful terror, came the
wild, Wolfish figures of the Red Men OF
the Dusk.
Their naked feet made no sound upon
the dark flags of the floor. They glided
In, man after man, some Tapped III the
bloody wrappings covering wounds
gained on the spot from which they had
fled but a few nights before. and to
which they returned on other footing.
For they came as masters now At
first it was not a fight, but a slaughter.
The keen p~ike-heads We're driven like
s~erpent,s stings. time and again, into
the huddled, drunken mass of beWil-
dered retainers, and the terrible sword
of 1euan Gwyllt hewed down man after
man.
Even more dreadful and ruthless
than the Men o tho Dusk. their women
swarmed to the attack. Gaunt, savage
creatures, their eyes cleaning wildly
tuiOuSH loul tdlSleS OIL HiItteu LOCKS.
they drew behind the fighting line,
thrusting themselves through it,
dropped upon hands and knees. and
crept softly beneath the pixies. a long
knife held between the clenchei teeth.
WOE to the man who lost his footing in
that rude huddle Of fight! Like quest
ing dogs, the sought out the
wounded thrust down in the press, and
stabbed them again and again. with
ahripES 5nf TnrnninIIS inv Tnr.tnIiEa tIl
men, they were not silent.
This dreadful apparitfon of people
whom all had deemed utterly broken
n Va1Quished, intensified the almost
superstitious dread with which they
q ever been regarded, and for awhile
the attack seemed to shrink from meas
uring strength with them.
In numbers the men of the house still
held an advantage, but it was rapidly
being lost, as the Men of the Dusk piled
In ferocious silence their deadly
thrusts, and the women shrieked like
f1ends. as they slashed their knives
across the threats of the g%roaning fall
en-. But the very extremity of the DALI
ger drove the garrison TO stand stoutly
together. and they turned their swords
from each other to a common foe. Some
or the cooler heads formed a line across
the hall. and opposed their bucklers to
the dripping points, thus giving an OPP
poTtunfty for their slower friends to
rally. | saw this was no place for my
ioVe any longer, and / leaped up to
the stairhead and called upon her.
She ran to me and Siani followed.
GWylliafd Cochion! Y Gwylliaid
Cochion!" a score of voices were
screaming 1t. Both of them cried out.
Yes, said l. the Red Man of the
Dusk have broken in and taken those
auarrelsome fellows utterly by sur
prise, but nave no fear, dearest. I do
not think
I stopped short. for Enid uttered a
faint cry and pointed aver my shout
der. | turned. but Sir Arthur was a
doomed man when my eyes fell upon
MN. he had just raced into sight.
lying upstairs to seek q hiding place.
AND had barely set foot upon the GAL
lery when a pike whiz1sd after him
and buried Its head deep between his
shoulders. He pitched forward on his
face. and as he fell. two half naked
young fellows and a woman ran s., on
him and drove their knives home to-
gether In his body The Woman was
old Megan, her great. hollow eyes shfr-
fng with savage Joy and she pls1rlged Ini
'ner; knife again anst again. laughing
/ caught hcEi-of Eaid AMI Held her
close TO my hreasa to shut our the
reaaiu sight Sine trara7taIati a ltatIas,
and then I held her s~isgsInttars fsss, ssit
her strength falling. SI1ae hsga received
shock upon shock d9ri1llss the daY. BE-
tween grief and esxeitair1eflH size was
worn out. and she ns3N lay raiIafinv. In
my arms. I Laid Flsrs gently dawn md
hs. 10 SFarft keagia1g rrrYsele.
as ~ situation demanded, a ssser1
watch below.
The three Wild ksgrarssss, sari-srlE an
ptsa TfaHlN "a r. fho GRNhsfa,--s xxt fn-Sy xux-