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lnteHecL ne nau ever possessed, now
refused to respond. Kennedy broke in
impatiently.
ut takes thet boy bout an hour fer
ter tell enything, Cap" he explained
gruffly. 81 reckon he's skeered half
ter death in the furst place, an then
thar's sumthin' wrong with him eny-
how. Howsumever, it's whut he seed
an heerd, Cap. thet sounds mighty
queer ter me. He sez thar wus more'n
fifty bucks in thet party, an that OIL
Black Hawk wus thar hisself leadin'
'em--he done saw him."
turned, surprised at this statement,
to stare into the boys face. He half
grinned back at me, yacantly.
'!Black Hawk! He could scarcely be
down here; what did he look like?"
"'Bout six feet high, reckon, with
big hooked nose, an the blacklist
reckon he didn't hav' no eyebrows, an
he wore bunch O. eagle feathers, an
red blanket. Gosh, mister, but the
devil cudn't look no worse'n he did"
"Wus thet him, Cap?" burst in Tim,
anxiously.
ITS not bad description" admit
ted, yet not convinced. 81 can't be-
lieve he would be here with raiding
party. If he was, there must be some
important object in view. Is that all?"
mo, faint; the boy swears thar was
white man long with 'em, feller
with a short mustache, an dressed in
store clothes. He want no prisoner
nuther. but he'd gun, an talked ter
Black Hawk, most like he wuS chief
hisself. After the KILN wus all over,
he wus the one whut got 'em ter go off
thar to the south, the whole kit an
kaboodle."
II don't doubt that. There have al
ways been white renegades among the
Sacs and plenty of half-breeds. If
Black Hawk, and this other fellow are
leading this band, they are after big
game somewhere, and we had better
| keep out of their way. I favor sad
| ding up Immediately, and travelling oil
night"
$50 do l." and Tim flung half-filled
bag from his shoulder to the ground.
but I vote we eat furst. 'Tain't much,
only few scraps l found out thar
but it's d way better then nuthin'.
Here you, Hall, give me hand, an
then wen 60 out, an round up them
hosses."
If the party of raiding Indians,
whose foul deed we had discovered,
had departed in q southerly direction,
as their trail would plainly seem to in
dicate, then our safest course would
seemingly be directed eastward up the
valley. This would give US the pro-
lection of the bluffs, and take US more
and more out of the territory they
would be likely to cover. Within
twenty minutes we were In saddle, de-
scending the steeQ hillside through the
darkness, Tim warking ahead with the
lad, his horse trailing behind, and the
long rifle across his shoulder.
/ do not recall feeling any special
fear. In the first place was convinced
that we must already be at the ex-
treme limit of Black Hawks radius,
and that, travelling as we were east
ward, must before morning be well be-
yond any possible danger Of falling
| into the hands of his warriors. The
other pursuers / had practically dis
missed from thought. Shortly after
midnight my horse strained tendon
and could no longer uphold my weight
On foot, with the poor beast limpine
| ott,T T.,11 hA
side Eloise, both of us silent, too ut
terly wearied with the stain for any
attempt at speech.
The rising sun topped the summit
Of the bluff, Its red rays seeming t.
bridge with spans Of gossamer the lit
tie valley up which we toiled. hat
lost my interest, and was walking dog
gedly on, with eyes bent upon tn
ground, when the girl beside me criet
out suddenly, a new excitement in he
voice.
"Oh, there is a cabin! See! Owe
yonder; just beyn0d that big oak
where the bluff turns"
Her eager face was aglow, her out
stretched hand pointing eagerly.
The logs of which the little buildin
had been constructed, still in their ne
tive bark, blended so perfectly wit
the drab hillside beyond, that for tn
moment none of us caught the dlstan
, outlines. Tim possessed the keenes
sight, and his voice was first to speal
"Sure, miss. thet's cabin, all right,
, he said grimly. zone room. an ne,
built; likely 'nough sum settler jus
COM in yere. don't see no move
ment. ner smoke"
"Fled to the nearest fort probably,
/ replied. able myself by this time I
decipher the spot. "Be too risky I
stay out here alone. Wen look
lover; there might be food left behinl
, even If the people have gone"
u We must have been half an hour
covering the distance. The cabin stOo
T, we'll up above the stream, within til
: shade of the great oak. and we wer
!. confirmed. long before we reached
la our former Judgment thar II wa