Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-27
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 CHAPTER VI (Ccrt5~aec

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 pv 10 word of i.h- i.a t
 k]d do better beai#9tE taaf. #5
 haw iu the tribe. went t9 H.,
 rren Ro:taeF w]ea h. 9t85s6.d Es-
 bin on Elder ryVeE. That %a~ hy.4e
 gold fever "oa,ne5 fay tsiEc.. l4l5.
 Rodney built ffa oa5s@ t}4t l.
 Eht fish and l'lH am i5fs,rt l5 kt and why he lefl it. slH.ap 4s.4s
 sons why he wanted to forget hi>
 ntity as I white man in his play II
 ing an Indian. In the first flare ot
 nth and the icy of having come int
 womanS kingdom the halt breed
 1av was pretty. She Was proud. too
 her white man. the house he had
 i!t her and the girl papo3se witt
 be eyes. Furthermore. sha had been
 ght to serve man meekly. for ht
 Is the lord of creation.
 Rodney talked Sioux to her He had but forgotten lie was a white man
 e girl papoose ran about the cabin
 bwn and bare but for the bra tket Singing Stream had made for
 in the pride of her maternity. Sdnev called the little girl Judith" br Indian mother never guessed the knifcance of the strange name that
 could not say. but made tt least
 5 soft singing syllahieS of. in the In hn way. The little Judith greeted
 r father in strange liSpings: Warren Rlney was far from unhappy in play
 E at primitive lnan. This recessiona 10 conditions primevai endured fer |pven SHOWS" as the Indian tongue ] tn it Then the squaw began L. leak. after the manner of the women Ter fathers people. She had beSaa 'r race With time a decade ateer 'arrcn Rodney. and she had outdis heed hil! by a decade.
 And then the TuMlias can3e from Rnnessee to the Black Hills They l |me ill an OK cart. and the days of 'eir journey were more than two 'ars. They had stopped in Ohio aad lain in Illinois; they had traye!ed OH jd on across half q continent ill tie bke of vanishing sky liae. The gue westward impulse WIS l,iriug |em to California. but they waited ill Rkota that their starved stock nl.ght |tten, and While they rested them flves from the long journey Warre.. pdhey made the acquaintance of Sat l Tum.in. who rallied him oh being Il
 quaw man."
 Warren Rodney had almost forgotten: |e sorcer.es of tine women of his pco [e; he h;li lived so long with a broWH ionan, y'ha spread no silken suare:s. lilies busht.s stirred d lIlilitit,lde of Bad tu.n.r*-t..N Wiies of p;sie Wo.Hcn.
 strength iii weANness. fragile tioH. Is for te.lt,er hHA;,iiHg = the sQuaw )0 grown as w.t!lefed aS a raisiu Now. Snlly iuHli.n had no conNic- 'bns about life but that ,ne work. Eed her "a home of her OWL. Iel |otAef had forged the bolt of this &rticulal H.;,Niin at all early date. anu
 liy saw from l~ecocious ot>crNa- bn that the business of women w;ls Pme gotl.nS t0 which end they must neat and sweet and sparing of beech. After the home was for;hcom 2g then indeed might q woman take
 se i'll slippers and wrapper. and il surely d wifes privilege to speak er m.nu Sally knew that sine hated aveIing westward after tlie ci1iv ,ilS Zen. Her father and outish brother wed tle makeshifts of the wagon
 e. The cabin on Elder creek had d |ght roof: Warren Rodney had money the bank. He had had uncommon Pck at trapping. His talk to Sally fas largely of his prospects.
 |Sally knew that the world owed her B home of her own.' and why should pc let sGuaw keep her from it: elly's mother giggled when consulted. pe plainly regarded the sQuaw as q wal of her daughter. The ethics of pc case. as far as Mrs. Tumlin was oncerned. was merely a question of Ehlte skin against brown and whicA pould carry the day. Singing Stream new not one word of the talk, much Which occurred in her very pres nce, that threatened to pull her home |pout her ears, but she knew that lalE was taking her man from her me White skinned woman wore white sutlles about her neck and calico Fesses that were the color of the wild pses that grew among the willows a pe creek. Sally Tumlin's pink calico owns sowed crop of nettles in the Pihd of the squaw. It was the rain |o" things. she felt, that were rob- Pns her of her man. All her barbaric FaVlhg for glowing colors asserted it.
 q. as means toward the one great
 lu o' keeping him. Singing Stream eeah to scheme schemes. One day koohey was splitting wood at the
 u.'llh camp, though why he should P"' wood where there were two wo-
 ei, puzzled the squaw, but .he ways
 tue paiefaces were beyond her ken
 ie only knew that she must make
 lsel1 beautiful in the eyes of War.
 hodney. like this devil woman,
 'nen perhaps the papoose that
 expected with the first snowfall
 Cu,o oe a man child, and she hoped