Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-08-24
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BY Francis Lyndo.

:
. The hush of natures mystic hour wa
. abroad, and even the swiftly flown
river, rushing sullenly along its rock
le'! 10 more than stones cast be
Nond the iNC,ian path, seemed to pre-
, tc,ant its low thumderinss. There wa
never Il broth of air aslir in all tn
Mood. and The leaves OF the silver pop
lar that vii. twinkle and ripple in tn
lishtest zephyi hung stark and motion
less
rarrine The old borlerer. who ha,
gore upen his lsnecs, we stood rs "
weae. the Gat;ewba holding HE lj;.el
horses, and .Ieinifer and | the tire
that bore the ,haslly burdens of NOR
talit. The bodies of the slain had bee
lung across the saddles to balance a
they might. aud to the ponniel of tina
saddle Which bore he trunk of the five
feathere,! chinftain. Uncanoola ha,
knotted the :;lisiy head by it's scalp
lock TO dan.lc and rol! about Will
every restless movement of the horse
4 hideous Geathnask that seemed 1,
inor and mow and stare fearsomely a
rs With its wide open CLASSY eyes.
With this background fit for the stag
ing of a s. enc In Dante Alighieri's trag
4 ic comedy, the looming mountains. tn,
+ upper air CRAVING on to dusk and The
+ solemn forest aises full of lurllins
shadows, sou are to picture the oil.
.io3tic.sns: a ba.eheadca ard ON hi.
i Knees. pouring forth his soul in all the
/ soaorous phrase Of Holy Writ, now il
! THANKSGIVING. and Now in the mos
( terrible beseechngs that all the Walls oi
! lI.avens wrath might be poured ou1
4 lpoh oar enemies
! His face commonly :. leather masl,
! to hide the man behind it, was now
abazc with the fire Of zealo.ry; and
truly. in these his spasm- fits of sup
piication he stood for all that is most
/ awe-inspiriilg and unnerving, asking
but a little streicI, of the imagination
to figure him as one of those old iron
hard prophets of denunciation come
book To earth to be the herald of the
wrath of God
Twas close upon actual nightfall
when the old man rose from his knees
and. With the rising, pat off the beads
! nam and pat on the shrewd old Indian
fighter. Followed some hurried coun-
se,insS as to how we should proceed,
and in these the hunter set the. pace
for us as his age and vast experience in
woodcraft ;ive him leave.
His plan had all the merit of sim
picity. Now that we had the horses,
iti' hard's notion of an approach from
The head of the sunlen valley became
ut once the most hopeful of amy. So
take ourselves to the mountain top and
To The head of that ravine which tile
catawha and had discovered Here
we should leave the horses we'll hidden
and secured, make our way down the
rtvne, and. With the stream for a
guide, follow the sunllen valley to the
camp at its lower end. once on the
ground without having given the alarm.
we might hope To free the captiVes
off n
retreat up the valley would he far less
hazardous than amy open fight by way
of the UNEMPLOYED road the powder
train had used
So said the old backwoodsnan but
neither Dick nor would agree TO this
in toto. Dick argued that while we
We're killing time in the roundabout adj
vance we should lie leaving Margery
wholly at the mercy of the haronet, and
that every hour nf delay was full Of
hidcous menace TO he.. Hence he pro-
posed that three of us should carry out
the hunters plan. leaving the fourth to
take the hint given by the charred stick
and the swimming ambush crew, and
so penetrating to the valley by the
stream cavern. be at hand to strike a
blow FIR our dear ladys honor in case
of need.
9 lis thing to be done and ann
WIN you. DICK. sand L. Should there
he need Tor amy. Two blades VIII be bet
ter tllan ONE III II comes To blows and
we are killed or taken. Ye:ttes and the
chief must make the shift to do With
out our help.
rs you would guess. the old hunter
demuired to this halving of our slender
force, but we over persuaded him. If
all went Well, we We're to rendezvous
ON the scene of action to carry ont the
plan of rescue. But if our adventure
should prove disastrous, Yeates and
.l'ncanoola were to abide their time,
striking in when and how they might
Touching this contingency, drew
the old man.aside for a word i'm private.
"lf aught hefalls us, Isphraim-if we
should he nabbed as we are like to be
you are not To let amy hope of help
ing MS lessen by feathers weight the
rescue chance of the women. You'll
promise me this"
"Sartail, sure: We can rest easv mn
that. Capt John But don't We 90 far
to let that rampaging boy of our'n np
sot the fat in the fire with amy a. his
fonlishness He's love-sick. and there
ain't nothing i'm this world so ridic'lo1,s
foolish ez "A love sick boy-less'n tits a
love sick gall
promised on my part and so we
went on separate ways in the gathering
darkness: though not until the lashipes
of the packs had been cut and the now
der and lead, save such spoil of both
as IIphraim Yeates and Uncanoola
would reserve. had been spilled into the
river. AS for the bodies of the dead
Indians. the old hunter said he wo,1ld
let them ride till he should come to
some convenient chasln for a sepulcher;
but 1 mistrusted that he and the Ca
tawba would scalp and leave them once
we were safely out of sight
AT the parting we took the rivers
e.I.e for il Richard and keenins Won
under the bank and Working our waw
cautiously down the porpe ,nti, we
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