The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

ETOuHuS Ok OGh people--do you not wish. oh. daughter, to return to your people? There a mighty Niece asks your hand, a gem erolis young warrior would wed you"
 You'd you tell me to wed where love is not?'
 eagle will not stoop-"
 "Rut the eagle will rise to the sun, cried Ah-chah-kah. Great warrior, do not our people call Diego and his people the children of the mighty sun2"
 Foolish child, blinded by love. Yet 1t shall be that your Father shall see you again, oh, Ah-chah- kah."
 His eyes glowed with the light of prophecy. and the girl drew nearer. awed by their supernatural luster.
 Tn the land of the Sun? In the happy hunting grounds where the spirits of our Eagle tribe journey in glory?" she questioned, but not here! No. not here"
 'Yes here.' declared the chief. 'here again shall he hold you his for the reckoning Hereafter battles are lost and won. and blood flows heavy as flows this 1oor"--his eyes lost the warriors lust for fight with his foes and these strangers that the foolish -ones of our people have called the Children of the sun-they shall have perished-"
 What! What say you. great Micco?"
 'No. It Is not fit that women shall hear the council of the wise" and the Black Warrior turned and with naughty step sought the tent of the Adelantado
 Ah-chah- -kah did not love the talk of l the Black Warrior. The yelled threats | of the chief, impotent as they seemed | to her, awed by the armor and weap- | one of the Spaniards. making these white warriors appear so invincible, yet gave to her vague fears for Diego and for his fellow soldiers. With Diego she faneied, for she had only her girls heart for her teacher. that she had | thrown in her lot for better. for worse--forever-his people were to be her people and his God her God. For 1 the legends. the laws, the rites. or the talk of her own people she cared no longer.
 for the drill and the forage, to leave those of her race held to the camp of 1 the invaders and to seel7 the good Fray Juan. Fray Juan /feund her sweet and docile to Ns teachings. Diego taught her the. words of his people for an earthly love; Fray Juan used those words to teach her of the love of the world beyond. He told her of the Christians God who loved not war. He told her of religion that taught forgiveness, not revenge. He taught her of the Christians Heaven unlike the happy hunting grounds of her people. He taught her to love and to kiss the cross, emblem of all that | the Christian held most dear and most holy.
 Many were the lessons that Ah-ehah@ kah both learned and taught in those days of marching and camping. She ! n ha @ household arts of civilization such as man and a soldier could awkwardly teach. and these with her woman's wit she translated from his unskllled les- sons to skilled performance. And her ] laughter at her winning success out of his failures was merry as the laughter of the rustling leaves of her own for ests. merry, whispering and soft 1 Him she taught the art of making tho silent weapon of forage of the for est, the .blow-gun of long cane. She l taught him to burn through the joints of the long cut canes then fringinR all water courses, and mafkipg, all swainps how to harden fine sfiih bits of the cane cut from young stalks in slow fire till they were of needle fineucSs and sharpness. then she taught h n | how to wing these rlows for the blow gun with soft fibre of weeds or With soft flores of long fur; then she taught him. the skilled, strong blow The swift, strong sending of breath through the cane. held as trucipet. that would bring down tho wild bird from its flight. Useless so light n weapon as this to q soldier who held in his hands the thunder and lightning--but vet the learning NAls sweet with go fair a teacher She taught him the virtue Of many weeds and wild growths of tho forest to cure. to heal. to support strength on the march long and lonely She showed him full many of thei arts Of the dweilers in the wilderness, arts of tracking or evadng a foe. arts O. the hunter and fcra ger. arts hf the for est householder, of him who has nature | only for his purse and prcYider. shc tanght him the skilled stroke thu; would soonest d~ew The spark from the flint ond how best to procure th" r"s'r '1rors that ynri"g Inf" r'7dsHm" hl27" at the touch oC th" 71e~est sno"k Needless arts for th,- fdvorite cqvalle, in Dc Srto's well equipped army. hut carerlv learned for inc s1ke os the plea sant task of the lc7rnnT.
 Not many more d~vs Of march and thev we've at Manh'ta. M"uhila th" rapitnl If tho doroinions of inc rrcHt Trsealnosa Na"bila. hy far the iarg- ] oct H"d p'ast i~l0ortont nativ" cit" 1 that white lrvader v'as ever to bcholG on the soil of the New World.
 Out Nr the citY gate cn 10 tl'e 0lain i heforc tre town cpme 1ndlTn ei"ls daoc- inc to ihe rrneic of Indian flutes Thov were garlanded with fowere ard they s~nsg Co welcome home the Black War rfor Tuscaloosa ard Do Soto were iel 10 a canopy urerared for them in tho public 1 square of the town.
 All sslned serene Th"re were nu sullen looks IS thcr" had been at Tal- lasa Instead every native faco wore smiles.
 Vet Ah-chah-kah feared
 Too silent. to her knowledge of na- tive cities, were the eighty houses of the town. Too eomrlete the stiffness that held sway in the towers piantec nt every fifty feet on the walls with their many northoles. Her keenoi' sense caught the wave inapdible tn the Spaniards and felt rarher than heord by the girl-the dvsto'e and dlastole of many hearts the breathing of many Ah-chan-kah crept to DieCo's side snd In the few Castilien words hC had taught her shc ureed him to mount h's stecd and flee with her from that city IS they had hed from her fath"rs- rallase.
 Diego laughed at ner warnings. but even as An -chahakah pIead with him the two cavaliers, Charmilla and Vas dues. sent before by the Adeiantado to