The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-04

ana wife were I'm loving embrace, "but
what is that!" An arrow with deadly
aim came whizzing thru the air fol-
lowed by another. Gen. Hodges fell
lead at the feet OF those who were
dearer TO him than life itself.
Dismayed and frightened the women
lec into the house. AS they did, there
hoated Ger the air the wild yell of the
savage Indians. On they came. Obi
what an awful minute to the four un-
protected women as they watched the
snake-like motions as they wriggled
along the grass. The women barred
the doors and grabbed FOR their guns:
nut what were four helpless women
10 hand OF savage Indians Outside
inc Hodges home were painted figures
brandishing their tomahawks and
screaming like fury. Battling the door
Town MRS. Hodges and the daughters
were coon overpowered by the cruel
orutes. Each one was bound. hand
ana loot and the cxuberant savages
| began their wild war dance. Dorothv
hodges, the youngest daughter, was a
girl of wondrous beauty, and the chief.
who was with his murderous gang.
became infatuated with Dorothy's
wonderful beauty. Going up to where
che was fast lound. he proposed to
'er that If she became his wife he
would save her life" What an awful
nour II was TO the doomed girl. Her
brain worked fast and as she looked
ABOUT the room she saw her mother
ana two sisters bound hand and foot.
sne thought that by accepting the
ch:rf's offer there might be some
cnance ior her to escape entirely. Out
SIDE the torches were being lighter
preparatory to burning the house.
what was the poor lovely creature to
do? ~
No help at hand save q painted saw
age who was demanding the holiest
and sweetest thing woman could
givc-a woman's wonderful love. Here
In the hands OF the murderers of her
father, in the presence of his lifeless
body tied with mother and sisters in a
mousse which was soon to be consumed
IN names. could one dream of anything
worse? Her only rescue from the inn.
pending doom was to swear that she
would ever love. cherish and obey and
keep In sickness and In health a ma
tural enemy and the murder of her
rather. mother and two sisters, IL only
her brothers might come. but they
were Tar away. not dreaming OF q
wrecked and ruined home. The exul-
alton OF the demoniac fields over the
srief and heart-rending ordinations
or these defcnseless and distressed
creatures was beyond description.
Is 1t any wonder that Dorothy. more
beautiful than the rest, when forced
to choice, reluctantly consented to
be tho wife of the Indian chief ana
was locSened from the cords which
bound her limbs, to be more firmly
tound, soul and body by a solemn
oath to the leader Of these vilc assas-
sins. The chief removed Dorothy from
the dwelling, whilst the torch was ap-
piled to the house in which mother
and sisters pcrished in her presence,
while the war dance and the song
kcpt UP the fieldish carnival
Lovely Dorothy Hodges was per-
haps the most unhappy and unwilling
bride upon whom the genial sunlight
of South Carolina has ever fallen.
That night when one of her brothers
returned homo, as he thought all that
met his eye was pile of ashes, which
gazed upon the ruins in spccchless
horror. His bereaved sister was
marching many miles away q captive
and the bride Of an Indian chief who
had given them SO much trouble in
times before.
The September day was drawing to
close. The last lingering rays of an
carly autumn sun fingered caressing-
ly over the mountain crest as though
loath n depart. AS evening came on
and twilight began to fall the birds
In the valley below seemed to sing in
softer, sweeter notes their goodbye
song to tho dying day. The flowers on
the mountain side closed their petals
and hung. their dropping heads as IL
weary. All nature seemed only wait
ing for tho sun to sink out of sight
and the sweet repose OF nights rest.
Nothing could exceed the varied
beauty of this wild mountain scencry