The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-02

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Apsdisr shs nsr. and nnpsd lewss1
the eolonel's quarters. lame and A.
most daxed after her race: but elaspsd
ID her hand was the necklet.
Can you ride with me to the res
| srvatton! asked the old fellow
watching the flushed girl face mar.
rowly. II shall need you"
i could ride anywhere now" she
/ said.
Fifteen minutes later. on fresh
morse. she rode with the colonel and
escort straight ont toward the ressr.
vation.
Whoever carries that necklet bears
power to sway the whole tribe" the
colonel told her. THAT brave you
saw at the spring must have been
Flying Fox himself, but who was the
woman The wife Of the medicine
man is over thirty-five and is fat and
already old"
oh. this girl was young, and al.
most handsome. colonel" protested
Vivien And she wore two eagle
feathers behind her ear
We will find her Whoever she
Is. size is the thief
II was almost shutdown when they
came in sight OF the tepees OF the
reservation. On small hillOck an
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the stockadc were the major and
his men, waiting the going down OF
the sun as the signal to open fire tip
and down before The tepees raced
IN" young braves on their war PONIES
nearly nude and brightly painted
yelilg wildly Tho dull ,hnd Of the
tomtoms came fatally over The plain
Not un,il they reached the main
ter,c where Broken Eow himself
held court did the colonel dismount
and Lvlp Vivian from Ter horse The
major nd salloped to meet them. his
face Stern and hageard as he realized
their nclil
"Tfr truce ends ut shutdown
colonel" he shouted.
1T is not shutdown yet my boy"
said the old man. and he led the way
into the tent where Broken Row
waited with the medicine man and
his wife and the old men of the tribe
The chief returned the colonrl's salu
tation gravcly
III is too late" he said; Il have
no power to qucll them. Flying Fox
has been acclaimed their chief, and
rides TO light the signal fires to cali
the other tribes have no power
now !"
A long high wall came from the
medicine man, and his wife looked at
Vivien. as one women stares at an
other she has never seen. Suddenly
she gave shrek and sprang at the
girl tearing at the necklet that rested
about her throat Viven threw of
the clineing hands. and held the
necklct hish above her head out Of
reach to the hands OF Isroken bow.
"Thc white sqnaw holds the bal
ancc of power in her hands" said the
old chief. Send messengers to say
we have the necklet, and the gift re-
turns to our side not Flying Fox's."
Suddenly Vivien heard a low gasp
behind her. and turned to find the
girl who had hidden the necklet ut
the spring She caught her wrist. and
held fast. as she called to the major
what she knew OF her
1T is Evening Star" said broken
Bow. sternly. my own daughter. She
had stolen the necklet for him. to
give him victory What shall her
punishment be ut the hands Of the
great white father" lie looked at
the old colonel, and the colonel
looked at vivien. standing beside the
major And vivien. reading the look
in the Indian girls eyes. gave sen
tence.
Let her be banished with Flying
Fox to the North country"
Thou hast said" replied Broken
Bow. but the girl smiled back at
Vivien as they led her forth 10 her
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