The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-24
Copyright, 1902, by The Hobart Company.
CHAPTER XXIv.-coSr1SuEp

A woeful time, it seems, they had
had with poor Nanette when at last
it became necessary to take her
away from her dead brave. She
ragged and raved at even her pleading
aunt. Defiant of them all, from the
general down, and reckless of law or
fact, she vowed it was all a con-
spiracy to murder Moreau in cold
blood. They gave him the knife, she
declared, although it later developed
that she had tossed it through the
open window. They had given him
the chance to escape-the sight of
Kennedy, "who had striven to kill him
twice before and then of the black
smiths, with their degrading shackles
all just to tempt him to make a
dash for freedom-just as they had
lured and murdered Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse, his brave kinsman, not
ten years before-then had placed
dead shot on the path to life and
iberty-a man who killed him in
cold blood, as deliberately planned.
story took strong hold in certain
circles IN the far east.
Nanette SAID many other things
before her final breakdown; and Hay
and his Borrowing wife found their
load of care far heaviest, for the
strain of Indian blood, now known
to all, had steeled the soul of the
gal against the people at Fort
Frayne, men and women both,
against none SO vehemently as those
who would have shown her sym
pathy, none SO Indignantly as those
who had suffered for her sake.
This was especially true of Field.
In the mad hope of getting JUS
tice," as she termed it, for the dead,
she had demanded speech of the gen.
eral, and, in presence of "Blacl1 Bill"
and the surgeon, he had given her
hearing. 1t proved fatal to her cause,
for in her fury at what she termed
1.-THE triumph of his foes" she lost
all sense of right or reason, and de-
clared that it was Field who had
warned Stabber's band and sent them
fleeing to unite with Lame Wolf
Field who took the traders horses
and rode by night with Kennedy to
warn them it was Webb's intention
to surround the village at dawn and
make prisoners of the men. 1t was
Field, she said, who furnished the
money Moreau needed to establish
his claim to gold mine in the Black
Hills, the ownership of which would
make them rich and repay Field
dozen times over. 1t was Field who
sought to protect her kindred among
the Sioux in hopes, she said it boldly,
of winning her. But the general had
heard enough. The door was opened
and Ray and Blake were ushered in.
The former briefly told of the find
ing of her note in Fields room the
night the adjutant was so mysteri-
ously missing. The note itself was
held forth by the inspector general
and she was asked if she cared to
have it opened and read aloud. Her
answer was that Field was q coward,
a bastard to betray woman who
had trusted him.
ooh, he didn't" said Blake dryly.
Twas just the other way. He
couldn't be induced to open his head,
so his friends took q hand. You got
word of the outbreak through your
Indian followers. You wrote to
Field and sent the note by Pete, bid
ding him join you at that goddess
hour, telling him that you would pro-
vide the horses and that you must
ride to Stabber's camp to see Moreau
for the last time. q he Was going at