The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-06-10
CHAPTER xxII-Continued.

NV feelings at that moment
No mortal tongue could tell.
We heard the bugie sounding,
The captain gave command,
ssTo arms, to arms. my comrades,
And by your ponies standr'
we fought there full nine hours
Before the strife was DER.
Such sight Of dead and wounded
ne'er had seen before
Five hundred noble rangers
As ever saw the west
Were buried by their comrades.
May peaceful be their rest!
Dallas shivered. The song suggested
cruel end for the gay troopers who
had Just gone forth. "Marylynw she
called.
The younger paused to look back.
"Be careful, honey. Keep in sight"
Marylyn nodded. threw kiss and
strolled on.
All day Dallas tried to work away
her troublesome thoughts. When she
had known that an Indian was signal
ing from Medicine mountain she had
felt no fear. Why was she growing
mere nervousness or sadness over the
marching Of the troops. 1t was even
more. There was a haunting feeling
that something was going to happen.
There was a terrible certainty weigh
ing upon sher-a certainty of coming
harm.
Toward night she began to watch
about her-southward to the shanty Of
the Norwegian; eastward to where
the tent Of the Sioux Falls man had
been; west. where the setting sun
touched the sentinel guns on the bluffs;
along the coulee. where the darkness
always crept first.
She found herself examining the tops
Of distant rises. Medicine mountain
showed dark speck at its summit
had she ever noticed that before? 9th
er peaks looked unfamiliar-were they
the lookouts of savage spies? And
north, far beyond the "little bend"
was the smoke of campfire. In fancy
she saw the one who had lighted it
warrior with vindictive, painted
face. who peered at the squat shack
on the bend as he famed and smoth-
cred the fame
Night was al hand. The plover were
wailing. The sad voiced pewits called.
One by one the frogs began a lone
some chant. A light had sprung up in
the shack. She glanced that way.
And the window eyes of the log house
seemed to leer at her.
warm supper. Marylyn's bright
face. her fathers placid retorts-all
these did not suffice to drive away
her forebodirgs. What was there in
the coming night?
ALI her instinct spoke for caution.
The lantern was shaken out before
the table was cleared. Her father and
sister early sought their beds. She
only lay down In her clothes. The
hours passed in a strange suspense.
She listened to her fathers deep
breathing. to the mules when they
wandered into their stalls. to the snap
OF Simon's long brush as he whipped
at the mosquitoes. Her eyes kept
searching the black corners Of the room
and the pale squares Of the windows.
Her ears were alert for every sound.
She fell to thinking of Squav Char
ley. He had not come for his supper
or brought them the daily basket. Was
he growing indifferent-to them?
1t was when she could no longer
Keep awake that her thoughts assum-
ed even terrible shape. She dreamed.
ana In her dream head came through
the dirt floor close to her bed. 1t was
covered by war bonnet Of feathers.
Beside 1t, thrust up by lissome fingers
fingers white and strangely familiar
was a tomahawk.
Soon she made out a face-Mat-
NEWS. She squirmed. striving to sum-
mon her father. A fame hickered W
IN the fireplace. The face changed
rom white to red. and Charley danced
before her. She squirmed again. The
face faded
she found herself sitting bolt up
rlgnt Her hands were clinched de-
Iensiveiy. her teeth were shut so tight
mat her jaws ached. She was staring
wide eyed at the door.
Inc shack was no longer In dark
ness. Morning was come, and Its light
made everything clear. She sprang w
ana lifted the latch. then fell back. hel
sunened lips framing a cry.
before the shack. driven deep into
me nearest bit Of unpacked ground
was sapiing new cut and stripped
c'ean OF the bark. From its top, flying
pennon-like In the wind, was q scarlet
square. And at one corner Of this
uangiing to and fro in hogrid sugges
upeness. swung a shriveled patch tha'