Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-26

OL LNnt 6pTONg Out uuU Du7IeU NtS hatchst tn the skull of the wdrrtor. Richelieu. The woods will not be safe, I fear. until the partridge berries are out once more. You must stay at Ste. Marie until then.
 T had rather stay there forever than expose my wife to such devils"
 Aye, devils they are if ever devils walked upon earth. And now we are on the very borders of the clearing, and the blockhouse lies wonder among the clump of naples. You did not come as near to Ste. Marie unchal- lenged, and yet De Lannes Is as old soldier as De Ia Noue. We can scarce see now, but yondeH near the river. is where he exercises his men,"
 He does 50 now," said Amos. "I see a dozen of them drawn up in line at their drill."
 "No sentinels, and all the men at drill!S cried Du Lhut in contempt Tt Is as you say, however, for I can see them myself, with their ranks open and each as stiff and straight as a pine stump. One would think. to see them stand 60 still, that there was not an Indian nearer than Orange"
 Du Lhut advanced from the bushes as he spoke, and the four men crossed the open ground in the direction of the line of men who waited silently for them in the dim twilight. They were within fifty paces, and yet none of them had raised hand or voice to chal- lenge their approach. There was some thing uncanny in the silence, and change came over Du Lhut's face as he peered in front of him.
 My God.' he screamed. Look at the fortw
 They had cleared the clump of trees. and the outline of the blockhouse should have shown up in front of them. There was no sign of 1t. It was gone.
 So unexpected was the blow that even Du Lhut, hardehed from his childhood to every shock and danger, stood shaken and dismayed. Then, with an oath. he ran at the top of his speed toward the line of figures.
 As they drew nearer they could see through the dusk that 1t was not in- deed a line. A silent and motionless onlcer stood out some twenty paces in front of his silent and motionless men.
 They were lashed to low posts with willow withes. some twenty of them. mixed all and twisted and screwed in- to every strange shape which an agon- ized body could assume. For . mo ment the four comrades stared in si- lent horror at the dreadful group. Then each acted as his nature bade him. De Catinat staggered up against . tree Trunk and leaned his head upon his arm. deafhly sick: Du Lhut fell down upon his knees and said some thing to heaven. with his two ciinched hands shaking up at the darkening sky. Ephraim Savage examined the priming of his gun. with . frightened lip and . sleaminz eye. while Amos Green. without . word. began to cast round in circles in search of trail
 But Du Lhut was on his feet again in . moment and running up and down like a s,euthhound. noting q hundred things which even .Amos would have overlooked He clTeled round the bodies again and again: then be ran . little way toward the edge of the woods and then came back to the char red ruins of the bicckhouse.
 There is 10 dN of the women and chfldrcn.- sa;d he. "Ihey are keeping the children to burn at their leisure in their villages. The women they may torture or nay adopt. ss the hunor tkes hen"
 -Ask hlrr. Anos.- szsd the seaman -vhy we are yswinz and tackins here vhen we shouSi be crackins ou aII saf1 to stand sfter them
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