The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

l lY. and by stealth upon those WhVii they wished to destroy. but boldly with noise and clash as come the storms or Ethe Great Spirit. Each one of the SIX 1 hundred was called by the natives: Iate- -Iechah, Manslayer; for each slew This warriors by tens and enslaved them by hundreds.
 Today ere the council of the Miccos was over the Spaniards were in sight of Talase.
 The Ah1chah-kah with her maidens half f-hidden In the thicket of trumpet flowered bignonia looked through the clustered blossom at the splendid col umns, marching to music that sound ed like the clashing of great thunder rode upon strange beasts to her falt- less city glittered as if cicther In all the power of the sun
 Ah-ehah- -kah, in her excitement so tshook the blooming branches that fssheltered her that the horse of Diego Guzrnan, frightened almost leaped from iunder his mailed rider.
 I The young cavalier glanced at the thicket and framed by the blossoms of rose and gold he saw Ah-chah-kah.
 A pigeon, the patchee. that had flut- tered in Ah-chah- kah's hand disturbed by the rattle of mall on horse and rider. flew from the gentle hand that l but halt stayed it's flight to Dlegos glittering armored breast, fluttered down to his ungloved jeweled hand, and out of ths light hold that he laid upon it back to the outstretched arms of the Indian girl.
 Not swifter the flight of the dove than the flight of love from the heart of the maiden to the gay cavalier
 Scarcely did Ah-chahkah note the coolness of her fathers reception of DeSoto the great White Warrior. | Scarcely did she note that swift In- | dian runners were sent unknown to tthe spaniards, hither and thither to the neighboring Miccos,-and especially were these runners dispatched fre- quentIy to the great Mlcco, chief of many Alabama tribes, Tuscaloosa. the giant; the Black Warrior. But she did note. with dismay, that the young l hostage of the Spaniards. the Micco of the Coosas. looked upon her beauty with the ardent eyes of a lover, and she saw with dread that her father and her uncIes. after the manner of her people. met to consult together over the request of the young king of l the Coosas for herself for his Queen. I But already her lips and her heart Iniurmured over and over the mama that the young cavalier had taught her. Diego! Diego!
 Rather thousand times 1lee with the l invader for whom her heart yearned than become the unloving wife of the King of tho Coosas And so it was iwhen the cavalcade started on their march from Talasse where they had been but sullenly entertained, to Maubilfa the capital city Of the mighty Tusca caloosas--D;ego Gusman rode apart from his fellow cavaliers. He sklrted the woodland that hid from view the grand square of the village where the warriors had assembled fin august arr ray to bid dlgnifed farewell to their martial visitors, Out of sight of the warriorss and of the women gazing in pride and awe at their bravery and at ltlie still more awesome splondor of the strangers. Guzman rode to the fitvorite bower of Ah-chah-kah. There were the golC and rose flowers of the trum- pet vine. the chstte puSukke of the Indians. burned like fire. there where he had first beheld her he found her awaiting him. He held a hand to her. He swung her to the saddle behind him. and away they sped over the hills of Alabama. nor Stayed until the army of spanish invaders had overtaken thom, and ali were far On their west ward way.
 After thre days Iharchng the army halted at a town where the giant
 
 of De Soto to his realms. At tho in- stant of their meeting De Soto set guard about the great native. He treated the chief with nattcring phrases, but kept him close cap tive.
 Bitterly the naughty chief resented this retrenching of his freedom. He consulted often and in secret from De Soto. with those of his warriors who were as he held hostage by the proud Spaniardsc- He sent runners, procured by stealth and often informed by signs. to his capital MauhIla
 On the evening of the march at twilight as the great chief sat look ing sadly at the brown waters of the Alabama upon whose bank the army was encamped. he beckoned to Ah-chah- kah to approach him.
 The maiden. dreading her stern countryman's reproof, was slow to obey his call. Yet when her tardy feet drew her near tO him she found in his eyes no anger, only sorrow. Drawing nearer to him. she stood be- fore him 1.-the and tall as one of the young canes stirring about them: You, oh daughter of the Lam ulgee, called Tuscaloosa, "are held here a prisoner as l am held"