The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-02

The place was completely sur
priSed. the envy entering the
houses at the moment the inhab'
itantS had the first suspicion OF
their approach. The whole vii
lage was carried in about an
hour. and with very little resist
ance; one of the block houses
alone being able to hold out
against the furious onslaughts of
the savageS.
The scenes that followed the
capture of the village can best
be told by a young girl who was
one of the inmates OF the block
house that held out against the
enemy. We are sorry that we
cannot recall her name, but when
history forgetS who can remem-
ber9 Perhaps the narrative Is
more romance than history, but
who shall contradict! 1t is too
far in the past for controversy.
The young lady in question mad
been buSily engaged III spinning
all day aud had labOred far into
the night. Setting her spinning
wheel away. she covered the fire
in the room, and taking lighted
candle assembled the stairs TO her
chamber All day long. She states
that she had felt an unseen warn
ing of impending danger, which
she related to several of the vii.
layers. only to he laughed at and
rallied on for her timidity. Sew
eral times shortly after sunset she
had gone up to der bed chamber,
aud from heY little window had
directed her gaze towards a red
glow that arose from behind the
stretch of for st that lay beyond
the Deerfeld smradows, and dis
tant about one mi from the
village in a Northwestern Y direc-
ton. Was it The aftermath Of
the brilliant wifter sunset, or was
it from the camp fires of a con
cealpd foe!
Placing her candle on the table
in the room, before rotiriug she
again looked from her window
and again saw the tremulons
glare overspread the northern
sky. Long fingers OF phantom
light would suddenly reach from
the horizon to the zculth and
then as suddenly diSapl ear
Alarmed at this portent she hur
ried to take her place in bed,
Reviewing the ominouS warnings
of the evening over in her mind.
she fell into troubled sleep
from which she awoke in u short
time much oppressed.
She reviewed in her mind the
many mysterious warnings that
were said 10 have occurred in diff
ferent parts of New England.
before King Philip and his war
ri0rS rushed forth from Mt. Hope
On the eve of this war an Indian
bow and scalp had been seen
outlined upon the disk of the
moon: the town of Gloucester
was one night besieged by an
array of phantomS; at Maiden
the roar Of cannon had been
heard. the singing Of bullets and
the roll Of drum passing through
the heavens to the westward. and
the people of Plymouth had been
startled bY the hoof beats of n
large invisible troop of horse,
riding through the night at a
hard gallop.
Arising from her bed the young
girl dressed herself and throwing
around her shoulders, she sat
down in a chair and awaited the
unknown danger which she felt
was lowering near. The night
was extremely cold. but the young
girl sat thus until the clock in
one Of the rooms below struck
the hour Of three. AS the sound
of the strokes died away she
thought that she heard the sound
of the rising wind. 1t was a
long, low, wall, as of a distant
blast passing over the hard crust
of the SNOW, driving before it
broken twigs, particles of ice and
dead leaves. Az the sound died
away she arose and went to the
window. In the meantime the
sound of the wind again rose, but
nearer and with louder rush.
1t came from the northwest, but
when the girl waited to hear the
gale, as it swept against a strip
timber OH the other side of the
village, there was no sound, and
she saw that the trees were
motiouless.
1t then flashed upon her mind
that a body of men advancing
over the crust of the snow with
now and then a pause, under a
skillfull leader, might thus imi
tate the sound Of the wind and
deceive drowsy sentinel. Pom