Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-12-28
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER XLY1u.-continue,

VIC LNo OdSS MOult2 llOI De lOSJ.
Jennifer laughed. Leave the rest OF
US out, Sir Hannibal Meton, and tell
what YOU would do he said mocking
nle.
We We're at that bend in the road
where Jan Howart and his Tories had
sought to waNlay us in the cool gray
dawn of Il certain June morning whei,
we We're gallopng this same road To
Keep my appointment with Sir Fran
els Falconnet. A huge rock makes a
promontory in the stream just here,
and l pointed to 4 water-worn cavity
in it where the flood Tapped In and out
81 gurgiing eddies.
You've been sharp TO take me up on
my forgetting OF the landmarks, but
there is one I've not forgot said /.
"One day, about the time you We're get
ting yourself born, 1 MAS passing this
way with my father and company
Seven Years War, and the Cherokees
We're threatening us from the other
side. The river was in flood as it is
now; and mind my father saying that
when YOU could see that hole in the
rock, Macgowan's Ford would be no
more than armpit deep
So" said Richard; then it be-
hooves us to He stopped in mid SEN
tence, drew rein and shifted his sword
What is it?' I asked
For reply he pointed me to a canoe
half hidden in the bushes where road
side and river edge came together.
laughed. An empty plrogue Shall
We charge and run ii through.''
Hist" said he; that canoe was
ahoat minute since. Mark the paci-
ale tbs dripping yet
AS ae spoke AN Indian stood up i'm
hos ,l,,,
out his empty hands in token Of amity.
We rode up and We're presently shall-
ing hands With out old time ally, the
CataWba
How" said he: heap how. Chief
Harris glad; wah Make think have to
go to Sal bury tn ind Captain Long
knife and Captain .jennit. Heap much
glad"
chief Harris? que,ied. Who
may he be-?
The ca,aw'ba drew himself up and
drummed upon his breast
Chief liarls here" he answered
proudly. The Great Mar Chief" by
which we understood he meant Cen
eral Greene, say all Catawba take
Warpath ganst rcdcoal. make I'm
canoola headman; give um new name
Wah!"
At this We shook hands with him
s~Sossst NS'i E'iCd'Su tIlitl our Stdlltn ANY
should have recognition al the hands
OF the general. Then would ask if
ne We're on the way To raise his tribes
men to fight with us
"Bimeby; no have time NOW; big
thing over yonder," l,oin,n; across the
river. "Manitou coinwally fool Great
War Chief mebbe, hey"
How is that" said Dick and the
query ELECTED bit of news TO make
4 IN if.ls own. n
been in the British camp AT F'olley'.,
postpcing again as ii Cherokee flionelly
to the kings side. Some sudden move
ment had been determined uio.,
though What 1t WA" To be he could not
learn. At the end of his own resources.
he had crossed the river in q stolen
plrosus to find us aud warn Us
What Say You. lpi~ll"" | asked,
when we had heard the c.,,.N.p Ut
through.
The lad was ho;,iins his l;p in mis-;
hand and sceMli.lr as ONE Who lils
duty against inclination.
lis our cursed luck" lie glonlned.
Then he swore il ont hS length and
breadth, and. when the ;tir WAS cleared.
let me have what was in his mind
After all. It's like enough we Should
md App!ebI house deserted. Gilbert
Stair will cling To Lord Corvallis
Ss's
sake. AT al events. ou, bus
mess must Wait; the cnuntry.s Veal
comes first Then to ,he Indian: m
we can make the beasts take the M;ticr.
will you ferry us across Chief
The cataMpa nodded. and made the
nod good by setting us dry snod ON
the farther bank of the brown flood Ry
the time we had The horses Rubbed
down and resaddlcd twas twilight i'm
nd ,,i,, In
but we We're on our own ground and
knew every bNpath through the for
est.
So. when we had sent .he Indian back
20 carry news of us 10 General David
son at the lower ford and to advertise.
him of our purpose, we mounted To be-
gin scouting iaunt, Keeping 10 the
wood paths and bearing cautiously
northward toward the enemy's camp
at Forneys plantation.
AL times we We're close upon the Brit
ish sentries. with every nerve strained
tense for fight or flight anon we would
be making wide delo,lrs throug hog
and fen, or beneath the black network
OF wet branches with the rain-soak ed
leaf bedS under foot To make Tho. horses
readings as noiseless as ii cats
None the less, in the fullness of time
twas near about midnight as wa
> SSs''''9' VIZ lIul our Ibdllelte We'll
rewarded. Hovering on the confines of
the camp We head the lnuff1ed drum
tap of the reveille. and soon there Mas
The stir of AN army making ready for =,
Which way will IT be. north or
SOUTH" whispered Dick when We had
1ismounted to cloak the heads of the
horses
We shall know shortly said /: ana
IN t,-., Al "a
and ridden down by the fringe of light
horse deploying to pioneer the NAY.
When we had sheercd Off 10 lei this
skirmish cloud blow by. Dick struck
q spark into his tinderbox To have u
sight of his compass needle.
South and by east. he announced:
that Will mean Beauties Ford 1 take
Not unless they swim. horse and
DOT, objected Twill be Mac
more likely
Having this uncertainty to. resolve
Ne must hang upon the skt-,s of the
British advance till we could maE..
sure. and this proved to be a most
)erilous business Yet by riding abreast
IF the moving main we did resolve the I
uncertainty; heard the orders passed
rom man to man. and later saw "A !
small feintihg detachment split off 10
AXE the road for Eeattie's. whilst the
mai; body held on for Macgowan's: all |
his before We We're discovered in lh.
,loaming of the dawn by some Of Tar
etOmS men.
Then. | promise you. my dears. il (,
vas neck or nothing, with the devil to
axe the hindmost. Away we sped
oward the nearby river, spiI,ring our |
Nealled beasts as men who ride for |
life, with a dozen troopers so close
mon NJ th.it h.,,, \ al,