Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-22
1ER|!SjK.INE DALE, PIONEER
BY JOHN FOX, j.
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BY JOHN FOX, j..
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foSa Kentucky wilderness outpost I'M
q mNdiately preceding the Revolution
comes . white boy fleeing from Shawnee
ndtan by whom he q been adopted
% . son of the chief, Kahtoo. He IL
tssen Up BY Dave Yandel'' a leader Hs OF
The boy Is recognized by the dying
leader Of a Band of V~irginians as his
scn: Journeying to Red Oaks, q Vir.
Bale sdts sho insrodu ess Rig & to his d dssss.
Dale. The boy meets Harry Dale and
Hugh Willoughby. also his cousins;
youth named Dane Grey. and the two
Il Immediately antagonize each other. Be
cause Of an incident that reveals his
eecretly gives Red Cakes which Is right
fully his rs the son Of Col. Dale's older
brother; to Barbara.
formed that his foster father, Kahtoo.
IL dying n wants him to return to be-
come chief Of the tribe. At the Indian
half breed daughter, EARLY Morn, and
y the woman's life. He tells
Hahtoo he is with the Americans against
the British: Kahtoo sends Erskine to 4
meets and quarrels with Grey. Erskine
is denounced as a friend Of the Ameri-
cans and escapes death by flight.
Reaching his tribe. Erskine fnds his
held as q prisoner. waiting only for tho
arrival of Crooked Lightning, to be burn
ed at the stake Early Morn releases
him and 10 reaches jerome ISLANDERS
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The Revolution spreads: George
Rogers Clark visits the fort. Erskine
resolves to join Clark's expedition to the
Northwest. Later he is drawn back to
Red Oaks. xA
A striking figure the lad made rid
ing into the old capital one after
noon just before the sun san be-
hind the western woods. Students no
longer wandered through the campus
Of William and Mary college. Only
an occasional maid in silk and lace
tripped. along the street in high
heeled shoes and clockedk stockings,
and no coach and four was in sight.
The governors palace. in it's great
yard amid linden trees. was closed
and deserted. My Lord Dunmore vas
long in sad fight, as Erskine later
learned. but not in his coach with its
sfx milk-wihite horses. But there was
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Raleigh tavern, and there he drew
up. before the steps where he was
once nigh to taking Dane Grey's life.
A negro servant came forward to
care for his horse, but a coal-black
young giant leaped around the or-
nor and seized the bride with a well
coming cry:
"Marse Erskine! But I knowed
F1refy fust." 1t was Ephraim, the
~H~n- uyh0 'hol hRoYSDhf o,,f Dor-
bara's ponies, who nae turned the
horee over to him for the race at
the fair.
Il come frum de plantation fer ole
naarse," the boy explained. The host
Of the tavern heard and came down
to give his welcome, for IN Dale,
no matter what his garb, could al
ways have the best in that tavern.
More than that, a bewigsled solicit
cor, learning his name. presented
himself with the cheerful news that
that had been confded to his keep
ing by Colonel Dale for his nephew.
Erskine. A strange difference seemed
to be paid him by everybody, which
w4s q grateful change from the sus-
picion he had left among his pioneer
friends. The little tavern was throns-
Cd and the air charged with the spirit
Of war. Indeed, nothing else was
talked. Ny Lord Dunmore had come
had stayed afar from the battlefield
OF Point Pleasant and had left stall
wart General Lewis to fight Cornstalk
and his braves alone. Later My Lady
Dunmore and her sprightly daugh-
ters took refuge on a man-of-war-
whittier my lord soon followed them.
His fleet ravaged the banks Of tho
rivers and committed every outrage.
Hie marines set fire to Norfolk, which
and sailed away to more depredations.
When he entrenched himself On
Gwynn's island. that same stalwart
Lewis opened a heavy cannonade on
fieet and island, and sent a ball
through the indignant nobleman's
flagship. Next day he saw a force
making for the island in boats, and
my lord snread all sail; and so back
to merry England, and to Virginia no
more. Meanwhile. Mr.. Washington
had reached Boston and started his
duties under the Cambridge elm.
eeveral times during the talk Erskine
had heard mentioned the name of
Dane Grey. Young Grey had been
with Dunmore and not with Lewis at
Point Pleasant, and had been on
sptcuous at the palace through much
Oh inc s~uCCceolHS tuTHoiI-tHe Mint
being his. devotion to n of the
daughters, since he was now an I'M
questioned loyafst.
Next morning Erskine rode f"~+',
along a sandy, road. amidst the sing
ing Of birds and through a forest Of
tiny upshooting leaves, for Red Oaks
on the James. He had forsworn
Colonel Dale to secrecy as to the note
he had left behind giving his birth
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and he knew the confidence would
be kept inviolate. At the boat land
ing he hitched his horse to the low
swung branch of An oak and took
the path through tangled rose bushes
and underground along the bank Of
the river, hating where it would give
him forth on the great, broad. grassy
way that led to the house among the
oaks. There was the sundial that
had marked every sunny hour since
he had been away. For a moment
he stood there, and when he stepped
xsto the open he shrank back hastily
- girl was coming through the
opening Of the lockwood from the
houGD-coming slowly, bare-headed.
her hands clasped behind her, her
eyeo downward. His heart throbbed
= he waited, throbbed the more when
HI eArs caught even h soft tread Of
nSr littls feet, and seemed to stop
W3hom ahe paused at the sdndial, and
- before searched the river with her
seyes. And as before the song Of
negro oarsmen came over the yellow
aAoor, growing stronger n they
IA. Soon the E{rl duttered q hand
skGTchiek q from b single passen.'
In the stern came an answering.
natter Of white and q glad cry. At
sthe bend Of the river the boat dis
from Erskin's sight under