The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-23
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were hollow. She did not see the In
dian, for her gaze was upon the shack.
He swung himself into the rafting
box. There lay Marylyn, still in the
grasp of the stupor that had bound
them brain and body through the
night
Before the mules brought up at the
lean-tO Dallas was over a wheel and
tottering in quest of her father. Out
Of the shack as she searched it sound
ed her platnttve cry: Daddy, daddy,
where are you? Oh, daddy, daddy,
come backr'
Squaw Charley, bringing Marylyn in,
found the elder girl kneeling behind
the partition, her arms thrown out to
grasp the vacant bunk
He put his load down gently; then,
unbidden, rushed through the door for
BrannOn.
When Captain Oliver arrived with
Fraser, a surgeon and a detachment of
mounted men Dallas was seated in the
doorway, rocking Marylyn against her
breast. She looked up dry eyed as he
hurried to her.
''What'd they do it for?" she asked
him brokenly. How could they hurt
you, dad? Oh the land wasn't worth
1t, the land wasn't worth it!'
Something to quicken life in Mary
Ign was the first thought Then food
and drink were given the girls. Mean
while the troopers were sent out I'M
der Fraser to range the bend and beat
the coulee.
Oliver stayed. But to his questions
Dallas, her reason lettering like her
steps, could only return others that
were heartrending:
He'll come back, won't he? They
wouldn't kill him? Oh, you don't think
he's dead?"
We'll find him." said the tain.
He was pitiful in his regret This trag-
edy was striking home to him as even
the Jameson failure had not His
long. sad face was more like a walrus'
than ever.
Mr.. Bond said we'd have good luck
here" she went on despairingly. But
there was danger by night, wasn't
there? There was danger
She's Knocked silly" Oliver muir
INJURED to the surgeon. The child
doesn't know what she's saying"
You're right Clean blunted," was
the answer. But I'll straighten 'em
both out by noon"
a long halloo summoned the captain
to the door A group Of men were
gathered in the swale between the
shack and Shanty Town. Fraser was
among them. Oliver signaled. and the
young officer wheeled and came gallop-
ing in
What is it,"
odd mans gun, discharged, out
there in the grass
"Yes?"
And two sets of footprints coming
and going across that bit of low
ground. One set looks about two days
old and was made by boots; other L.
newer and made by moccasins."
There's something strange abou,
these last Coming this way the marks
are SO light you can hardly see 'em,
going back they're sunk way down"
Carried a load, eh?"
1T looks like it." Oliver mounted
and they rode off to the swale.
Noon was past when the captain call
ed at the shack again. He found the
surgeon gone, but his promise full
filed. Food and medicine had gone
far 10 revive his patients physically. |
Tears had mercifully combined with
returning strength to right their minds. |
This time the elder girl met Oliver |
with no lncoherence, but with brave
quiet. All her self command had re-
turned. She asked him in and show |
ed a tender forethought for Marylyn |
by sending her out into the sunshine |
and the garden before she listened to |
what he had TO tell When he was
done she began her story with the
finding Of the pole.
(To be Continued.)