Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-18
chAPTER vI,,-continued.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER VIl.-continued.
Whereupon Captain Stuart began to
explain at large how the northern route
had been chosen for Its very hazards.
the better to throw the partisans off
the scent. l listened eager for every
word, but when the horses stirred
upon the oft-recurrent under thought
of how the gloom did also hide silent
figure lying prone. with the three bride
reins knotted round its wrist.
But though the unnerving under
thought would not begone. the scene
within the great room held me fast by
eye and ear. The master and his factor
sat apart. their heads together over
the knotty problem OF subsistence for
with the bottle gurgling now at one
right hand and now at another. the
three kings men drank confusion to
the rebels. and In the intervals dis
cussed the powder conveys route
across the mountains The senior plot
ter had some map or chart OF his own
making. and he was pricking out on
II for Falconnet the route agreed upon
In council with the Cherokees.
At this cool outlaying of the working
plan. some proper sense of what this
plot of savage arming meant to every
undefended cabin on the frontier seized
and thrilled me. I knew, as every Dor
der born among us knew. the dismal
horrors OF an Indian massacre. and
this these men We're planning was
| treacherOuS murder on an unwarned
people All was to be done in mid
night secrecy. Supplied with ammuni-
ton. the Cherokees. led by this Cap
tain Stuart or some other. were first
to fall upon the over-mountain settle
ments. These laid waste. the Indians
were to form junction with the army
of invasion. and to add the torch
and tomahawk and scalping knife to
British swords and musk cts.
1t was plot to make the blood run
cold In my veins, or in the veins of
my man who knew the cruel temper of
these savages; and when thought up
on the fate of my poor countrymen be-
yond the mountains, saw what lay be-
fore me.
The settlers must be warned In time
to fight or fly.
But while I listened, with every fac
ulty alert to reckon with the task OF
rescue. ] take no shame In saying that
the problem baked me Lacking the
strength to mount and ride in my own
proper person. there was nothing for
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