Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-01

tonight shout the man you were going
to kill when he came to town
Shickshaek glowered at his young
counselor.
me wrong to give the war-cry- Me
ought to keep still, and stab him In
the dark! But when see that man me
forget me Christian Indian!"
The whoop might pass muster
better than the stab among Christians.
suggested Lincoln
Shickshack fixed his restless eyes like
the eyes of snapptng-turtle on the
rugged and sincere face before him.
'Pedro Lorimer is bad white man.
He not one of Don Luis sons"
'tHe says he wants Cuba annexed to
the United States. Is he Cuban
planter!"
The Sac uttered contemptuous
grunt
mo! No planter. No Cuba. He is
New Orleans man; gambler"
II reckoned so," said Lincoln
me live in my tribes country, where
the chief Black Hawk has his village.
Pedro Lorimer come there and trouble
me. If my tribe take my part, ali
the people who want their land will
say. These Sacs are dangerous. Drive
them out So Black Hawk say to me.
You love white men: go to Belleville.'
Me go to Bellevflle. Think me marry
a white woman; she help. An Indian
cannot get a very good white woman.
But me see the Widow La Chance, and
Antywine, her husbands son. Me
getting old; and Antywine is young.
He can take care of the child when
me die. So year ago me marry the
Widow La Chance. The first thing she
: hurt the child. And Antywine"-
Shickshacl1 uttered the words deliber-
ately, turning his head toward the
figure at the doOr-'1he is nothing but
sQuaw!"
Antywine opened the door and went
out, closing it behind him. and sitting
down on the step.
Pedro Lorimer follow to Belleville,
and trouble me there Me come to
New Salem. The moon has not
changed four times since me come to
New Salem; and he is here to trouble
me again!"
What does he want!:' inquired Lin
coin.
He want the child's money
Has Peggy money? How much
has she?"
The Indian held his hands less than
a yard apart; the length Of a full
grown rattlesnoke.
Z, "A snakeskin full of gold"
What have you done with it?''
Me hide it from my white woman
and Pedro Lorimer. Sometimes me
. think she divide It with him, If he
could help her get it. ALI day. all
year, she want that money herself But
she take what is Antywine's, and was
his fathers, and give him nothing"
you have fed and clothed Peggy by
your own labor"
she is my adopted child. Me send
her to white mans school, too. Me
give the schoolmaster four dollars"
You are a mighty good fellow!"
said Lincoln. But Pedro Lorimer is
gone; SO what troubles you now?'
HE come back. He would steal the
child to make me give up her money
as ransom. He would take her as far
as New Orleans
Does he know what she hast"
mo. But he would rob her of the
last piece and leave her to starve. He
got much that belonged to her people" I"
Have you put Peggy's money where
he cannot hnd it,"
Its in a safe place."
Has he ever made any attempt to
carry her OFF,"
me no let him make attempt. Me
watch"
"As relative, he might prove that
he had right to guardianship If .he
were a fit person"
What a white man want he can
take from an Indian!"
mo, Shickshack, you stand your
ground and fight him. If he troubles
you again in this community count on
me for all the help I can give. Every
your part
shickshack's face relaxed from
sternness to satisfaction.
Such men as you and the young
chief Yates and the chief Lorimer make
an Indian want to live with white
men,"
The tavern directly across the street
had its windows open to let in the
soft spring night air. At intervals
chorus of bullfrogs came family across
the dark from where the Sangamon,
swelling with freshets, rose frothing
yeastily toward it's brim. AS Peggy
hoped on her crutch around the
tavern she could see a white fog float
ing over Rock creek in the valley, like
fairy linen spread to bleach by star
light. One of Rutledge's deer-hounds
loped up from the stable down the
slope to bay at her, and recognizing
the intruder, drew back at once with
a greyhounds sensitive apology.
Near the east side of the house
stood a log hand-mill, one end being
firmly planted in the ground, the other
followed by burning and scraping.
The pestle, hanging from long pole