The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-08

when she struck me and how it hurt
Don't tell him, Antywine. Shickshack
is so good
"She not fool me-" said Antywine.
Il think now l will give you my charm
to keep off evil"
What is it?'
He took her hand in the darkness
and laid a small image on the palm.
She knew it was something which their
religion taught them to venerate.
mo, Antywine, l will not take 1t
from you"
Keep it." he insisted. Il feel better
when am out hunting if you have that
around your neck. She bring evil into
the house. She is worse than Chase
Galerie"
What is the Chase Galerie?"
Have you never heard Of the Chase
F., Galerie that fly across the sky at
night?"
How could hear about such things
in the Sac village or at Belleville?"
Antywine proceeded at once to tell
the story of the wild huntsman and
his dogs, and their chase above the
clouds. This led on to feux toilets, or
balls of fire, into which bad spirits
turned themselves to lure sinners into
quagmires. Then loup garous, or man
wolves made darkness flame with their
eyes, to Peggy's imagination.
Are your feet or hands cold?" Anty-
wine inquired once in a while. Peggy
answered NO" forgetting she had
hands and feet, her large, excited gaze
fixed on the wonder-world of folk
story. His voice abounded in sympa-
thetic tones 1t was full and golden
reaching into distance or sinking to
monotones as he half told and half
sung his peoples legends.
So hour after hour passed; rain con-
tinued to pour down the shingles and
visit them in gusts of spray through
the broken chimney.
1t was a delicious experience to re-
member a lifetime. But as Peggy's
responses became few, Antywine
stretched out his legs and made a
pillow of his lap with a corner of the
blanket, to which her drowsy head
came readily down. He watched and
she slept until darkness faded to the
pallOr of dawn.
The noise of horses feet in the heavy
road, for which he had waited so long
could at last be heard approaching. He
withdrew carefully from the head of
the sleeper, and went out to intercept
the riders.
They were splashed with mud and
faded, moving side by side, their tired
horses snorting flakes Of foam. Thus
more than once the men of New Salem
had come back from chasing horse
thieves, less ready, perhaps, to give
the details of the exploit than were
Shickshack and his companion. Both
drew rein when they saw Antywine
and he told them directly where Peggy
was.
Shickshack asked where he found
her, He pointed to the road beyond
the cabin, and in his brief Canadian
English repeated what had happened.
Your squaw boy doesn't put up
many tiZzlegigs and fireworks, but he
seems to be worth two men," observed
Lincoln.
His lank hair dripped moisture. He
was haggard with hard riding.
you catch the man." inquired
Antywine.
NO." Shickshack answered in dis
gust
You know him."
"No. Me not care now"
"He winked out" said Lincoln.
Eve lost him this side of Beardstown.
The closest view we had was when
we nearly ran him down back here
We intended to raise a party and hunt.
| reckon you better bring the little girl
now, so we can get home to break
fast"
Shickshack's red face revealed itself
through growing daylight polished like
copper. He gave strong grunt Of sat-
| isfaction when Antywine set Peggy
behind him on the horse. The Cana
dian boy mounted lightly to a seat be-
hind Lincoln, and as they rode toward
New Salem a clear Wilderness like the
promise of fair weather appeared in
the east. Water hung beaded on the
stems of trees, but a great commotion
Of robins came out of the woods.
1t was the general opinion in the vii
lage that Don Pedro Lorimer had
done It," Why he should put him
self to the Inconvenience of trying to
carry off such poor little thing many
declared they could not understand.
All day Lincoln was visited at the
store by inquiring friends, who sat
on counters and salt barrels and inter
| rogated him about his nights ride
He joked, as any man among them
would have done about the hard serv-
ice taken out Of borrowed horses, in
stead Of dwelling on the Indians af-
fairs and the labors Of the night.
Lincoln had the strength of three ordi-
nary men
81 allow" said one Of the Carolina
settlers, that it was an ornary trick
Of one Of them Grove boys"
Il guess you are wrong there" put
In a Massachusetts man THE Grove