Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-09

whenever he does there is heap much DO
ing in the lodges OF the palefaces, VINO
wear blue and carry the cluD. ,,-, =.
AT half past nine Professor Blnkly rs
rolled in his quilt snoring in blank
verse, and l am sitting by the nre Hst-
enlng to the frogs Mr.. Little Bear slides
into camp and sits down against tree
There is no symptoms Of hrewater.
JEFF says he after long time,
little boy came West to hunt Indians.
well. then? says l, for l WASH
thinking as he was.
And he bagged one, says John Tom
and twas net with gun, and he never
had on a velveteen suit of clothes IN MS
life And then I began 10 catch mis-
smoke. ..
his Dictures are on valentines and fool
men are his game, red aud white.
You win on the red. says John
Tom, calm. JEFF, for how many PONIES
do you think | could buy Mrs Congers z
'Scandalous talk ] replies. lis not
a paIeface custom John Tom laughs
loud and bites into cigar 80, ne
answers: tbs the savage equivalent I 'lI
the dollars of the white mans maria &c
settlement. Oh, 7 know. There's an
eternal wall between the aces. II coula
do it, JEFF. I'd put a torch to every white
college that a redman has ever set loot
inside. Why don't you leave US alone
he says, to our own ghost dances anu
dog feasts, and our dingy sQuaws 20 COOK
our grasshopper soup and darn our moe
b NAEjNs
:. Now. yon sure don't mean disrespect
to the perennial blossom entitled eduI-
ton z? SAYS |, scandaiiZed, because Wea
It in the bosom Of my own. intellectual
shirt-waist. I've had education, says /,
and never TOOK any harm from Ut.
You lasso u.s., goes on Little Bear,
not noticing my prose insertlons ahd
teach us what is beautiful in literature
and in life and how to appreciate what
is fine in mean and women. W hat ha sc
you done 10 me says ne. \ on We ma de
me n Cherokee Moses. You've taught me
TO bate the wigwams and love the Whlre
mans ways. ] can't look over into the
promised land and see Mrs. C0uyerS. but
my place is--on the reservation.
Little Rear stands IN in his chief S
dress and laughs again. 'But, white
man JEFF, he goes on the paleface pro
vides resource. It's q temporary one
but II gives n resrite ana the name OF
e is whisky And straight on he walks
Up the path Go town again. Now says
I in my mind, may the Manitou move
him to do only bailabie things this
: Is about to avail himself of the white
Maybe il was 10 80. as I sat smoking.
when I hear pit pats on the path, and
here comes Mrs. Conyers running, her
hair twisted un any way, and a look on
her face that says burglars and mice and
the hours all out rolled In one. Oh. Mr..
Peters. she calls out as they will oh,
OH! l made a quick think. and spoke
the gist of ii out loud Now, says |.
we've been brothers me and that In
dian. but. III make 2. good one of him
in two minutes f"
"'No. no. she says, wild and cracking
her knuckles. 4 haven't seen Mr.. Little
Bear. 'Tis my-husband. He's stolen my
boy. Oh, she says. just when I bad
h ne9 pssA Villain Every bitterness life
knows she says. he's made me drink
MY poor little lamb, that ought to be
warm in his bed, carried off by that
fiend''
Let's have the facts.
81 was fixing his bed she explains.
and Roy was playing on the hotel porch
and he drives up to the steps | heard
Roy scream. and ran out. My husband
had him in the buggy then. I begged
him for my child. This is what he gave
me She turns her face to the light
There is a crimson streak running across
her cheek and mouth. He did that with
his whip, she says.
"'Come back to the hoteLC says 1,
and wen see what can he done
ION the way she tells me some of the
wherefores. When he slashed her with
the whip he told her he found out she
was coming for the kid. and he was on
the same train. Mrs Conyers had been
living with her brother. and they d
watched the boy always. as her husband
had tried to steal him before. ! judge
that man was worse than a street rail
way promoter. II seems he had spent
her money and slugged her and killed
her canary bird, and told ii around that
she had cold feet
AT the hotel we found mass meet
ing of five Infatuated citizens chewing
tobacco and denouncing the outrage
Most of the town was asleep by 10
o'clock. l talks the Lady some quiet. and
tells her I viii take the 1 o'clock train