Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-04-11

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the arms of Amos Green.
"Its all right" said the young hunt
er, disengaging himself with some en-
barrassment from the others embrace.
We've got him in the boat, with a
buckskin glove jammed into his gul-
let"
who, thenT'
'The man whose cloak Captain
Ephraim there has put round him.
He came on us when you were away
rousing your lady. Is the lady there2"
Here she Is"
"As quick as you can, then. for some
one may come"
Adele was helped over the side and
seated In the stern of a birch bark ca
noe. The three men unlocked the lad
der and swung themselves down by a
rope. while two Indians who held the
paddles pushed silently OF from the
ahip's side and shot swiftly up the
stream. A minute later a dim loom
behind them and the glimmer Of two
yellow lights were all that they could
see Of the st. Christophe.
Take a paddle, Amos. and I'll take
one." said Captain Savage, stripping
of his monks gown. II felt safer In
this on the deck of yon ship, but 1t
don't help In a boat"
~ hope, madame, that all Is well
with you" said Amos.
NAY, l can hardly understand what
has Happened or where we are"
"Nor "a l, Amos"
did you not expect us to come back
for you, thenT'
II did not know what to expect"
well, now, surely you could not
think that we would leave you without
a word"
81 confess that l was cut to the
heart by It,"
81 feared that you were when |
looked at you with the tail of my eye
and saw you staring so blackly over
the bulwarks at us. But IL we had
been seen talking or planning they
would have been upon our trail at
once"
And what did you dor
I'VE left the brig last night, got
ashore on the Beaupre side, arranged
for this canoe and lay dark all day,
Then tonight we got alongside and !
reused you easily, for l knew where
you slept. The friar nearly spoiled all
when you were below, but we gagged
him and passed him over the side"
"Ah, 1t is glorious to be free once
rnprnI And uyhara u-n vnin IN ~
"Ah, there you have ne. 1t is this
way or none, for we can't get down to
the sea. We must make our way over
land as best we can, and we must
leave a good stretch between Quebec
and us before the day breaks, for,
from what / hear, they would rather
have a Huguenot prisoner than an Iro,
quois sycamore. BY the eternal, |
cannot see why they should make such
a fuss over how a man chooses to save
his own soul"
All night they toiled up the great
river, straining every nerve to place
themselves beyond the reach Of pur-
suit. By keeping well into the south
ern bank and so avoiding the force of
the current they sped swiftly along,
for both Amos and De Catinat were
practiced hands with the paddle, and
the two Indians worked as though
they were wire and whipcord instead
Of flesh and blood. When at last morn
ing broke and the black shaded imper-
ceptibIy into gray they were far out
Of sight of the citadel and of all trace
Of mans handiwork. Virgin woods in
their wonderful many colored autumn
dress flowed right down to the rivers
edge on either side, and in the center
was a little island.
1--WE passed here before" said De
Catinat. II remember marking that
great maple with the blaze on it's trunk
when last / went with the governor to
Montreal. That was in Frontenac's
day, when the king was first and the
bishop second"
The redskins, who had sat like terra
Gotta figures, without a trace Of ex-
preston upon their set, hard faces,
pricked up their ears at the sound of
that name.
"My brother has spoken Of the great
Onontio," said n Of them. glancing
round, I'VE have listened to the whis-
thing Of evil birds who tell us that he
will ever come back"
"He Is with the great white father"
answered De Catinat. 81 have myself
e e him In his council. and he will as
suredly come across the great water If
his people have need of him."
The Indian shook his shaven head.
"The rutting month Is past, my broth
err" said he, speaking In broken French,
"but ere the month of the bird laying
has come there will be no white man
upon this river save only behind stone
walls"
what then? We have heard little.
Have the Iroquois broken out so fierce
ly?"
The Indian waved his hand along the
whole southern and western horizon.
where are they not? The woods are
rustling with them. They are like q
fire among dry grass, so swift and 50
terrible"
ION my iife," said De Catinat, "if
these devils are indeed unclaimed they
will need old Frontenac back IL they
are not to be swept into the river"
HE was an enemy of the church, and
the right hand of the foul fiend In this
country" said a voice from the bottom
Of the canoe.