The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-03

Raising his voice to it's fullest height so that 1t was heard even amid the dew ilish clamor around him, he poured out a psalm of David, solemn and com manding. More than once savages rushed toward the sisters; but always they paused when they saw the strange figure with hands raised above the girls, singing his loud psalm, and left the little group temporarily in peace because of their respect for the man. ner in which the white man chanted his death song. Before this brief truce was broken Magua appeared with small band of followers. They seized David and the sisters and swiftly bore them away into the, forest.
 All was still over the great grave which had. been the scene of what has passed into history as the massacre of Fort William Henry" when Colonel Munro, Duncan Heyward, Hawk Eye" and the Sagamore of the Mohicans. ac- companied by his son, the noble Uncas, made their way slowly over the field.
 The skill of the Indians was not long in deciding that Cora and Alice rested not among the mutilated dead but had been carried into captivity. On the out skirts of the forest Uncas found 0 piece of the green riding veil that had been worn by Cora. The experience scout and the abnormAlly acute Indians alvin
 
 the captors and had taken their prison- CTS toward the Great North Woods, where a body of Hurons, as we'll as a tribe of Delawares, had their encamp- ment. These Delawares, of the same race as the Mohicans, had come down from Canada with the French; but they had refused sternly to march with Montcalm on Fort William Henry.
 To organize any sort of.a military ex- petition into the Adirondacks for the purpose of rescuing the captives would have been hopeless. The only chance of rescuing the captives was for tn ese i've brave men to follow the trail into the depths of the wilderness and trust to Providence and their own valor for the result. Knowing, as they did. the GUS toms and habits of the Indians, Bumppo and his Mohican companions were con hdent that the captives were still alive and unharmed and that boldness, ad- dress and good fortune might yet be able to restore them to freedom.
 Day after day, with what seemed al- most supernatural skill and dexterity, Bumppo and thel Mohicans guided the two officers through the wilderness un- til at last the scout said: T scent the Hurons. Wonder is open sky through the treetops. We are getting too near their encampment."
 As they stole cautiously to the edge or the wood whence they could look down on a stream where a colony of beavers was disporting amid their curious huts, they saw strange figure His head was shaved according to the Indian custom, leaving only a scalp lock from which a few feathers hung dejectedly. A ragged calico mantle partially encircled his form. His neither garment consisted of a shirt; the sleeves of which were made to perform the oflce that is usually executed by more commodious garments. His legs were bare and sadly cut by thorns.
 Bumppo and the Mohicans gazed keenly at the stranger, trying to make out to what tribe he belonged. Then. as the man turned his head, even the stolid Indinas. to whom laughter is un- known. could hardly repress a smile. It was David Gamut, the singing teach CT, to whom the Hurons had given the freedom of their tribe as a natural or simpleton.
 The meeting with David Gamut was most fortunate. He informed them that Alice was a prisoner in the camp of the Hurons. about two. miles away, while Cora had been placed by MaguA in the