Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-21

i Inc Co00c1l-And from the SHAW
nees?" The boy felt the open dis
s! At ii. the n council anci PrG toid IL. indian.
that they should be friends. no enc
mics of the Americans, and. Crooked
Lightning called me q traitor. HI
had overheard my talk with Kah.
what WIS that.' asked Dave
quickly. VI
4 told Kahtoo I would nsht With
f fns American .ad ~. afs'n na,, the s nrisis r., And =
And he turned away, and went bach
to the cabin.
.rw,hat'd I tell ye." cried Dave in.
dignantly, and he followed the boy
who had gone to his bunk, and put
one big hand on his shoulder.
They thought you'd turned .Injun
astn," he . said, 'but it's all right
II know" said the lad, and with a
muffled sound that was half the
grunt Of an Indian and half the sob
Of q white man turned his face away.
Again Dave reached for the lads
shoulder.
Don't blame EN- too much. TN
tell you now. Some fur traders came
by here, and one of 'em said you
was goin' to marry an Injun girl
named Early Morn: that you wa
soin' to stay with EN- and fight with
en- alongside the British. OF course.
I knowed better, but" as
Why" interrupted Erskine. 'they
must have been the same traders who
came to the Shawnee town and
brought whisky"
That's what the Teller said and
why folks here believed him."
Who wa he?" demanded Frs
kline. ~,
you know him-Dane Grey"
AL tried to make amends straight
way for the injustice they had done
him, but the boys heart remained
sore that their trust was 50 little.
Then, when they gathered all settlers
within the fort and made all prepare
tons and no Indians came. many
seemed again to &c ~distrustful, and
the lad was not happy. The winter
was long and hard. A blizzard had
driven the game west and south. and
the garrison was hard put to 1t for
food. Every day that the hunters
and he did far. more than his share
in the killing Of game. But when
winter was breaking. more news came
In Of the war. The nag that had been
fashioned of a soldiers white shirt,
an old blue army coat, and a red pet
ticoat was now the Stars and Stripes
Of the American cause. Burgoyne
had not cut of New England. that
head Of the rebellion" from the
other colonies. On the contrary, the
Americans had beaten him at Sara
toga and marched his army of under
those same Stars and Stripes, and for
the first time ErBkine heard Of GAL
liant Lafayette-how he had run to
Washington with the p~ortentous rows
from his king-that beautiful, pas
sionate France would stretch forth
her helping hand. And Erskine
learned what that news meant to
W~ashington's naked and starving
soldiers dying on the frozen hillsides
ers Clark had passed the fort on his
way to Williamsburg to get money
and men for his great venture in tho
northwest. and Erskine got a ready
permission to accompany him as SOL
der and guide. After, Clark was gone
the lad got restless; and n morn
ing, when the first breath Of spring
came. he mounted his horse, in spite
Of arguments and protestations, and
set forth for Virginia on the wilder
s trail. He was going to Join
and the war "a drawing him to
the outer world. What it was he
hardly knew, for he was not yet much
given to searching his heart or mind.
He did know, however, that some
strang force had long been working
within him, that was steadily grow
ing stronger, was <surging now like a
flame and swinging him between
strange moods of depression and ex-
Perhaps it was but the
spirit Of spring in his heart, but with
his minds eye he was ever seeing at
the end Of his journey the face of his
little cousin. Barbara Dale.
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