Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

The HORSE. .s.- = ~
Chapter One.
"Muvver, whole lots Of Indians
Is comm"
His great blue eyes bullying, I
year-old Fred toddled into the
settlers camn on the Dakota
Mains, dragging after him Hat
tie, his 5-year- old sister. From
their playground at the top of the
hill the two children had seen
war band of Sioux, hideously ar
raved in paint and feathers,
n,unging forward to where the
home seekers had pitched their
temporary camp in the wilds.
An alarm resounded through
the camp. Men and women alike
seized firearms, and, taking their
stand within the Enclosure formed
by the wagons, opened fire on the
Indians, who already were cir
cling about the improvised fort
ress. The battle was short and
bloody One more narrowing
chapter in the story of the build
ing of the West. An inexperl-
enced band of 80 men, women and
children against 100 Warllke
braves.
When the end was near, the
anguished mother, gathering up
her babies, hurriedly hid the boy
and girl in a huge tool box, and
the next instant fell with a bullet
through her breast.
The camp was sacked ana
burned. Seeking pillage, the IN
dams came across the two little
ones secreted in the box. After
the Indian custom, the girl was
bound hand and foot and rolled
over the edge Of cliff. The boy
was carried back to the Sioux vii
lage there to be brought up as a
warrior among them. With him
was Dick, the pet horse of the
settlers.
Chapter Two.
Hattie escaped the death which
had been planned for her, ana
freeing her hands and feet of the
bonds, wandered back to the scene
Of the ruined camp. There DICK,
the horse, who had stray ed away
from the Indian village, found her,
and mounting the faithful animal,
Hattie was borne to the nearest
white settlement, where she was
adopted into the family of Sherin
King.
Fred, for ten years an unwlll-
ing member of the Sioux tr1pe'
grew in the ways of the lndlans'
although always on the lookout
for some means of escape. his
opportun. came one day. Wheh
out on A hunting expedition, he
fell across some trappers from
the nearby white settlement TO
whom he told his story, and was
escorted back to the people OF MS
kind again.
And there, in the little frontier
town, he met once more the sister
who had been snatched away from
him on the tragic day ten years
before. when the red men slew the
parents.
Chapter Three.
A thirst fo~ vengeance now pos
sessed these two orphans OF the
wild, and daily they planned
means If satisfying it. Suitors
came for the hand of Hattie, but
were sadly turned away; while
Fred, straight, 1.-THE and skillful
as the Indians who had tutored
him, occupied himself as trapper
and waited an opportunity. Then
one day the Sioux again took 10
the war path. Fred immediately
enlisted as a scout. There was
Spartan parting between brother
and sister,
Il shall not return until have
paid the debt" he said.
God keep you, and make your
aim true" replied Hattie as the
Youth rode away.
But she, too, had a plan and a
purpose to share In the toll which
Vas to be exacted for the slaugh-
ter of their parents. AS Fred dis
appeared behind the hills, she
mounted the faithful Dick and ST.
emily rode down the trail.
off in the foothills Fred dis
covered a group of Indians who
we're planning sudden descent
upon the settlement. A score OF
The braves were already on the
move, and from the cover of a
powder the boy opened fire.
Hattie, riding hard, came upon
The unequal combat as it waged,
and dropping beside her brother,
tney together held the band at
pay until, deceived by the belief
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