The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-07-20
SYNOPSIS

.ders. In the time Immediately preceding
ing from a tribe OF shawnees by whom
he had been captured and adopted as q
son OF the chief. kahtoo He liz given
shelter and attracts the favorable atten-
ton OF Dave Yandeli . leader among
the settlers.
CHAPTER 1.-THE boy warns his new
friends OF the coming Of shawnee war
party. The fort is STACKED. and only
saved BY the timely appearance Of a
party Of Nirgnians The leader of these
IL fatally wounded. but In his dying mo-
ments recognizes the fugitive youth as
his son.
CHAPTER Hiatt Red Oaks planta-
ton ON the James river. Virginia, Colonel
I~ies home, the boy appears with Q
message for the colonel who after read
ing y introduces the bearer To his daugh-
Ter barhara as her cousin. Erskine Dale.
CHAPTER Iv.-Erskine meets two
Other cousins. Harry Dale and Hugh
wiiioughby.
That night the subject ~ Hugh and
Harry going back home with the two
Kentuckians was Drvsched to Colonel
Dale, and to the wondering delight
OF the two boys both fathers seemed
TO consider II favorabiy. Mr. Brock.
ton was going to England for visit.
the summer was coming on. and both
fathers thought II would he grea,
benefit To- their sons. Even Mrs. Dale.
on whom the hunter had made a most
agreeable Impression, smiled and said
she would already be willing 10 trust
her son with their new guest any
where.
II shall take good care Of him
madam" said Dave with bow.
Colonel Dale. too. was greatly taken
with the stranger and he asked many
questions Of the new land beyond the
mountains. There was dancing again
that night. aud the hunter. towering
head above them all. looked on with
smiling interest He even took part
In a square dance with Miss Jane WI
loughbs. hanallnS his great bnik with
astonishing grace and llghtness OF
foot. Then the elder gentlemen went
Into the drawing room TO their port
and pipes, and the boy Erskine slipped
after them and listened enthralled to
the talk ~ the coming war
Colonel Dale had been In Hanover
ten years before, when one Patrick
Henry voiced the first intlmation OF
Independence in Virginia; Henry.
country storekeeper - bankrupt.
farner-bpnkrupt; storekeeper again.
and bankrupt again; an idler. hunter.
fisher. and story -teller-even bar
keeper" ms Mr.. jefferson once dubbed
him. because Henry had once helped
his father-in-law to keep tavern. That
far back Colonel Dale had heard
Henry denounce the clergy. stigmatize
the king ms a tyrant who had forfeit
ed all claim 10 obedience. and had
seen the orator caught up on the
shoulders Of the crowd and amidst
shouts Of applause borne around the
courthouse green. lie had seen the
same Henry ride into Richmond two
years later on lean horse with pa
pcrs In his saddle-pockets. his ex-
preston grim. his tall figure stoop-
Ing. n peculiar twinkle In his small
blue eyes his brown wig without pow
der. his coat peach-blossom In color.
his knee-bpeches Of leather. and his
stockings Of yarn. The speaker OF
the Burgesses was on dais under
red canopy supported by glded rods.
and the clerk sat beneath with a
mace ON the table before him, but
Henry cried for liberty or death. and
the shouts OF treason failed then and
there to save Virginia for the king
The lads brain whlrled. What did
all this meanf Who was this king and
what had he done2 He had known
but the one from whom he had run
away. When he got Dave alone he
would learn and learn and learn
everything And then the young
people came quietly In and sat down
quietly. and Colonel Dale. divinlng
on stories of the wild wilderness that
was his home-the first chapter In the
Had of Kentucky-the land of dark |
forests and cane thickets that sepa-
rated Catawbas, Creeks and Chero |
KEGS on the south from Delawares. |
Wyandottes and Shawnees on the
north, who fought one another, and |
MI OF WhoHl the WHITES must ngut.
How the first fort was built and the |
first women stood on the banks OF the |
Kentucky river, He told OF the perlls |
and hardships Of the first Journeys |
tlhther-fghts with wild beasts and |
wild men. chases. hand.to-hand com |
bats. escapes aud massacres - and |
only the breathing Of his listeners
could be heard, save the sound OF his
own voice. And he came finally 10
the story Of the attack on the fort,
the raising of a small hand above the
cane. palm outward. and the swift
dash OF a slender brown body into the
fort. and then, seeing the boys face
turn scarlet. he did not tell how that
same lad had slipped back into the
woods even while the fight was going
on. and slipped back with the bloody