The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-23
MARIN
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much.
Lets shout for help" said Doris.
They took turns in shouting and
then finally shouted in unison, but
if any one heard their cries, there
was nothing to note the fact.
Exhausted, they sat down and
twined their arms about each other
and cried. A score Of horrible deaths
they pictured. They might be left
to starve. for no one would ever
think of looking for them here. they
thought with a shudder; or, what if
the wolves should find them and tear
them to pieces Doris remembered of
hearing once, when she was little
bit Of a girl, of a wolf being shot in
this very forest.
Again the thought of Indians be-
set both the girls. for while they
knew Indians were not generally be-
lieved to infest the Jameson
woods" no one could be certain of
this.
Marine" Doris whispered after
they had wept silently for time,
do you think the robbins do really
cover people up with strawberry
leaves, when they die in the woods
with no one to bury them?"
I'm sure I don't know" admitted
Marine miserably. And at length
she added: What does the history
say about Indians? Are they can
nibles, do you remember Doris, as
we'll as savages? I think if I were
to be killed by them-that is scalped
or however they do it, it would be
comfort to know before l died,
that they would not boil or roast
and eat me-"
II don't hardly think they eat
people, but they sometimes burn
folks at the stake, and they make
you run the gauntlet"
Whats that?" asked Marine
running the GAUNTLET"
"Why a lot Of them stand in a
row on each side and hold up clubs
and make you run through and try
to whack at you as you go by them. "
Marine shuddered.
Il heard a minister once preach
about retribution," went on Doris.
He spoke of the swift retribution
that followed everybody's wicked
deeds. 1 guess this is retribution
for our going into this wood. You
know I have been forbidden to go
into it alone"
well, but you are not alone. I'm
here"
4 know it, and that's why 1 came;
but l knew when we started that
mamma would not have allowed us
to have come, if she had been asked.
She lets me come with Marshall and
with papa and Mr.. Jones, but you
don't know any more about the
woods than I do"
At this twinge of conscience,
Doris wept afresh and Marine was
not long in joining her.
In going over the various forms
of death the children expected to
suffer, the most plausible one at one
time would seem the starvation
theory.
But no." Doris suggested. I'm
afraid we will not be allowed tc
live long enough to starve to death
Some wolf will get US before long
or the Indians will massacre us.
And then, spurred on to further
effort by the fear thus inspired, the
children would once more lift theil
pitiful, hoarse voices in a cry fol
help. But always with the same result
Nothing but the echoes of the fores
would answer them. Once or twice
they were inclined to think tina
these echoes were human voices, bu
for the most part they realized tina
such was not the case.
Once or twice they heard a move
ment in the woods near at hand anC
they were divided between Joy Of
possible rescuer and fear of thu
wolves and Indians. They were nov
so frightened that they dared no
stir from the log on which they sat
lest they confront some new danger
Doris figured that 1t must be loni
past midnight, and wondered whel
If would get daylight She &C
counted for the fact that the dark
ness was not more inky (the girl
could dimly discern each other
features) by saying the moon was a
its full. In small openings in tn
tangle of foliage above their head:
they could catch brief glimpses c
a gray sky, just as it looks when tn
moon shines broadly, lighting u