The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-20
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mes and given the name Of White
Arrow He is told that his mother
was captured with him but was
lat,r killed
Maltrtated by an Indian brave,
,Erksine flees to settlers stociade
.and is recognized by his nortally
wounded father.
iDAVE YANDELL. Il piotser acts as
guardian. and sends the boy To Red
Oakss, the great Dale plantation
OIL the James, occupied by
COLONEL Dale, younger brother of
Erskine's father. Erskiae is kindly
received by his cousins.
BARBARA and
sFARRY. Soon he quArrels with
Dane Grey and threatens TO stab
him. Later Ersliine is ashamed Of
his outburst and flees to the will
derness. Dave Yandell. Harry and
Hugh Willoughby, another cousin
start in pursuit.
60 On WITH THE STORY.
AT sunset Dave knew tina. they
fwere not far behind him. but when
iCarkness hid the lads cracks Dave
lstopped for the night.
D-sa laughed aloud the next fore
bnoon:
Hes seen us tracking him and
Ehe's doubled on US and is tracking
hs. ] expect he's looking at US from
somewhere around here"
He hallooed at the top of his voice
IA war-whoop answered almost in
Hheir ears that made the blood leap
I'm both the boys. Even Dave wheeled
with cooked rifle, and tbs lad stepped
from behind q bush scarssly ten feet
hshind them
"Wel, by gum shouted Dave,
l~fooled US, after all"
a faint grin OF triumph was on
she lads lips, but in his eyes was
waiting inquiry directed 1T Hurry
ssnd Hugh. They sprany forwad:
''Were sorryr'
On FREELY. Harry buclded the boy $
Dsaddle and motioned for him 10 climb
Ip
.SHes your horse. cousin" said
Harry. My father sent him 70 you
and says his home is your Whenever
you please. And Barbara sept fn'r
love.''
At almost the same hour in the
great house on the James the old
inegress was carrying to- Colonel Dale
a kingly deed that the lad had left
behind him. 1t was a rude scrzswl on
"a sheet OF paper, signed by the boys
INDIAN name and his totem mSrk--a
buffalo pierced by an arrsw.
"It make me laugh. ! have no
snse. l give hole dam plantashun
Barbara"
Thus read the scrawl!
IN.
Three days later they reached the
broad, beautiful Holston Hver passing
over the pine-crested, whitefocked
summit of Clinch mountalE. and came
ito the last outlying fort Of the west
,ern frontier. Next day they started
'on the long, long wilderness trail
toward the Cumberland range. On
The third day therefrom the gray
wall of the Cumberland gathered its
flanks into steep gray cliffs and
dipped suddenly into Cumberland Gap.
Up this they climbed. On the sum-
init they went into camp. and next
morning Dave swept q lang arm to-
ward the wild expanse 10 the west.
-Four more days" he cried, and
well be there'
Toward sunset Dave, through
sixth sense, had the uneasy feeling
that he was not only being followed
but watched from the cliffs along-
side, and ne observed that Erskme.
too, had more than once turned in
his saddle or lifted his syes search-
ingly 10 the shaggy flouks ~ the
hills.
The trail was broad enough next
morning for them to ride Two abreast
Dave and Erskine in advance. They
had scarcely gone hundred yerds
when an Indian stepped into the
path twenty yards ahead. Instinct
lively Dave threw his rifle up, but
Erskine caught his arm. The In.
dian had lifted his hand d-paln up.
ward.
"Shawneew said the lad. az two
more appeared from the bushes The
eyes OF the two tidewatee boys grew
large and both clinched their gans
ronvulstively. The Indian spokesman
paid no heed except to ErSkine-
nnd only from the lads fac., in
which surprise was succeeded by
sorrow and then deep thoughtful
ness. could they guess what ths gut.
tural speech meant, urhl Frskine
tlrned 10 them.
They were not on the way.p4th
against the whites, he explained His
ter-father-Xahtoo. tha big chief,
the king-was very i'll. and his ras-
sage, brought by them. was that
Erskine should come back 10 the
tribe and become chief, as the chiefs
pnly daughter was dead and his only
son had been killed by tn. palsfaces
They knew that In the eight vt the
FORT Erskine had killed the fhaw
nee, his tormentor, for they knew
The arrow, which ErslSipe hai not
had time TO withdraw. The dead
Shawnees brother - Crooked y.lYht.
ning--was with them. lie 10 was
who had recognized the hoy the day
before. and they had KEEP. him from
killing Erskine from the bushes
He sat on his horse like O. king and
bpoke as n. king. He thanked them
Tor holding back Crooked Lightning's
fvn hand, but-contemrtnously he
gpat toward the huge savare-he
was MOTTO die by that hand. He was
= paleface and the Indians had slain
bis white mother. He had forgiven
that, for ne loved the old chiw and
his foster mother and brother and
sister, and the tribe had s,ways been
kind to them. Then they had KILLED
his white father and he had gqne 20
visit his kindred by thc waters, and
now he loved them.
II viii comc'when the isaves fad"
ne concluded. ''but Crooked Light
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