Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-08-17
CHAPTER Xx1y.-Continued,


summit. forest covered save for Its tom
sured head high in air. while that on
the right was sleeper and lower, with
a line of cliffs at the top. As we Jared
on, the valley narrowed TO mere |
chasm, with the river laundering along
the bass of the tonsured mountain, and
the Indian path hugging the cliff on
the right.
In the gloomiest depths of this detile |
block. tributary stream, issuing
from a low cavern in the right-hand
cliff. crossed the Indian path and the
ch;tsm at a bound and plunged noisily
into the flood of the larger river. ON
the hither side of this barrier stream
the trail of the powder convoy led
plainly down into the water, and, so far
as one might see, that was the end OF
it,
AS we made sure, We left no stone
unturned in the effort to solve the mNs-
terry. No horse ridden or led, could
have lived to cross the pouring torrent
of the main river, or TO wade up OF
down its bed: and ii the caNalcade mao
turned up the barrier stream Its prog
ress must have ended abruptly against
the sheer wall of the cliff at the en-
trance to the low-arched tavern whence
the tributary came into being. But if
Falconnet and his following had ridden
neither UP nor down the bed of the
barrier stream it seemed equally GER
tain that no horse of the troop had
crossed it. The Indian trace. which
held straight on UP the gorge and pres
emily came out above into high up
land valley, was unmarked by amy hoof
print. new or old
.Well, now, III be daddled if this
here amt about the beatin'est thing
ever chugged up aglnst. was
the old borderer's comment. when we
\ 1x.ifS tn
In the search for some clue to the mys-
terry. What's your mind about it, hey,
chief?''
Gncanoola shook his head. Heap
plenty slick. No go upstream, no go
down, no cross over. no go back. Meb-
be go up like snoke--wat
The hunter shook his head and would
by no means admit the alternative. Ez
/ allow that would AK for a merrcle;
and reckon eZ how when the good
/ Lord sends a chariot O fire after sech
q clanjamfrey as this o the boss cap
! tain's, it'll be .nikhty dadblame apt TO
go down stead of up.
We were standing on the brink of
I the barrier stream no more than fish
er,nan's cast from the h!sck rock
/ mouth that spewed 1T up from its UNI
derground NAV. While the hunter was
speaking the Catawba had lapsed into
\ statue-like listlessness, his gaze fixed
/
4 secret of the vanished cavalcade. sud
4 denly he came alive with a bound and
made a quick dash into the water.
What he retire we'd was only small
piece of wood, chaired at one end. But
/ Ephliam Yeates caught at it eagerly.
i Nov the Lord be praised for all HIS
narcies," he exclaimed. 1T do take
an Injun TO come a-running whenst
4 ever body else is plumb beat out. Neer
\ another one OF us had an eye sharp
enough to ketch that bit o sign a-tloat-
ing past. What say, Cap'n John?"
I | shook my head, seeing no special
I significance in the token; and Dick
asked: What will it be. Ephriam. now
that it Is caught?
The old man looked his pity for our
dullard wit, and then set moiety of
4 1t in words.
Wei. we'll, NOW; I'm fair ashamed
of We. What all dye reckon black
ened the end o this bit O pine
branch?"
why, fire." says Richard, beginning,
as did, to see some glimmerinS of
light.
I'm course. And 1t come from yon-
der didn't it?" pointing to the cav
twas cut wi a hatchet-this fresh end
4 of it-no longer ago than last night,
at the furdest the pitch that the fire
fried out'n it is all soft and gunmy, VT.
Gentlemen all; whenst we find where
this mere Creek eo.iiea out ~
aealh we re a-soii,s " a'd'u NC s.sl
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not sooner.
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