The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
MISS LANGsToN SHIELDING HER FATHER.

to be sympathizers with the patriot
cause. were next dav to attack Little
Eden settlement near where her broth
cr and his little band lay in hiding. She
knew that the band was especially IN
ccnsed at her brother and that if cap
tured he aud all his band would bc
put to death. Orders or no orders she
determined to warn her brother and
the people of Little Eden settlement.
Yet how, was the question. The
slightest suspicion falling cn her IA
theirs family would bring down on
their heads the wrath of the "'Bloody
Scouts, already looking for an ex-
cuse to harry the old man and plunder
his property. She had no one to send
take with her. No, she must 20 alone
at night and on foot if she would avoid
| suspicion.
That was Journey long to be re-
memb bered. Starting late at night, af.
ter the family and servants had all
gone to bed, she walked many miles
through the woods, across marshes and
creeks, over which there were no
bridges and often no footlogs, and
finally came TO the Tiger, n stream
where the only chance Of crossing lay
the stream was swollen. Yet there was
no other way than wadIng through, and
she waded. Deeper and deeper the
water became and stronger grew the
current with each forward step. Near
the middle of the stream, in fighting to
retain her footing against the current,
with the rushing water up to her shou
ders, she fell, and, becoming bewil-
dered. "turned arcund,' as she e1-
pressed it in later years, and could not
tell for the life Of her, from which bank
she had come and toward which bank
she wanted TO 90. For some tlme-how
long she never could tell-she plunged
and struggled out in midstream, fall
ing and regaining her footing only to
fall again, until finally she dragged
herself out on the bank and lay, half
drowned and water soaked, until she
recovered. She found the path again,
decided that she was on the right side,
and after a short time she was with her
brother and his little party.
In few words she told of the com
ing attack and Of the peril Of the set
tlement and urged that no delay be
made In sending the warning to every
from long and tlresome excursion and
were worn out, wet and hungry. There
came complaint that the men were
faint for lack Of food. Though tired
wet and shivering herself, the girl at
once said;
"Build me fire and get me some
cornmeal or -four
Tt was short work to pull down a
few boards from the roof Of their hovel
and start fire, and in few minutes
a hoccake lay baking in tho cmbers
This, Drowned and broken into pieces
was thrust into the shot pouches of the
men so that they could eat as they
ran on their messages Of warning. SO
we'll did young Langston and bis party
do their work that when morning
came and the "Bloody Scouts de.
seconded upon the settlement at Little
Eden, it was as empty of human occn
patton as was that other Eden after
the angel Of the Lord had driven out
Adam and Eve, And the demure Miss
Dicey, fresh and dainty, sat with heI
family at their breakfast and made
irrelevant replies TO the conversation
until they rallied her upon her absent
mipdedness. And it was many weeks
before they knew Of that twenty and
moro mile tramp through the woods anc
morasses in the darkness OF the night
The failure of the Bloody Scouts
to find the settlers of Little Eden only
added to the enmity Of the band to
ward the few patriots in the Lauren!
district. and though they could mo-
trace the carving Of any warning u
the Langston family the growing hate
lana Suspicion IU"dlu tur oit hiut
marked him for a victim. After {
sortie which a party Of Wings o.
which his SON was a member had made
on the Tories it was decided that The
old man must die, and the band wen
to his house to kiIl him and plundiel i
firm TO escape or even attempt to hide
, and too proud to ask for mercy, faced
them boldly and denied that he wa
in any way taking part in the strug
gle.
E "You lie, you old rebel!' nngril,
. shouted the leader pointing a pistol a
= the old man g breast. The girl spran,
i, between her father and the maddene'
Tory. rr
TYou get out Of the way or II P1n
! a bullet through your heart, b.
snarlod
nHe's an old man, you coward,
| said the girl. almost beside herself wit
terror. but only clasping her father th
closer and still keeping herself betweel
! him and his would-be assassin; He
3 fearless devotion must have touched an