New Britain herald., 1922-02-17
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were not far behind him. but vhe
 darkness hid the lads tracks Dav
 stopped for the night,
 Dave laughed aloud the next fore
 noon,
 Hes seen us tracking him and he
 doubled on us and Is tracking us.
 expect he's looking at us from some where around here"
 He hallooed at the top of hs voice A war-whoop answered almost Il their ears that made the blood leal in both the boys. Even Dave wheele, with cooked rife. and the lad steppet from behind 8 bush scarcely ten fee behind them.
 Well, by gum" shouted Dave fooled us, after all
 A faint grin of triumph was 0, the lads lips. but in his eyes was 1, waiting inquiry directed at Harry an, Hugh They sprang forward:
 We're sorry"
 On Firefy. Harry buckled tn, boys saddle and motioned for hin to climb up.
 He's your horse. cousin" ssit Harry. My father sent him to yor and says his home Is yours vheneve, you please. And Barbara sent he, love"
 At almost the same hour in the great house on the James the old negress was carrying to Colonel Dale kingly deed that the lad had left behind him. It was a rude shawl on sheet of paper. signed by the boys Indian name and his totem mark--s buffalo pierced by an arrow,
 Tt make me laugh. have no use. I give hole dam plantashun Barbara.
 Thus read the ecrawl,
 Three days later they reached the broad, beautiful Holston River, passing over the pine-crested. white rocked summit of Clinch Mountain, and came to the last outlying fort of the western frontier. Next day they started on the long, long wilder ness trail toward the Cumberland range On the third day therefrom the gray wall of the Cumberland gathered its Hanks into steep gray cliffs and dipped suddenly into Cum berland Gap Up this they climbed On the summit they went into camp, and next morning Dave swept long arm toward the wild expanse to the west
 Four more days" he cried. and we'll 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 he observed that Erskine, too, had more than once turned in his saddle or lifted his eyes search ingly to the shaggy Hanks of the hills.
 The trial was broad enough next for them to ride two abreast Dave and Erskine in advance. They had scarcely gone hundred yards when an Indian stepped into the path twenty yards ahead Instinct ively Dave threw his rifle up, but Erskine caught his arm, The Indian had lifted his hsnd-palm upward.
 "shawneer' said the lad. as two more appeared from the bushes. The eyes of the two tidevater boys grew
  The Indian spokesman paid no heed except to Erskine-and only from the lads face. in which surprise was succeeded by sorrow and then deep thoughttulness, could they guess what the guttural speech meant, until Erskine turned to them.
 They were not on the war-path 1, l,o q foster father-Kahtoo. the big chief, the king g-wss very ill and his mes sa ge. brought by them. was that Er skine should come back to the tribe and become chief, as the chiefs only daughter was dead and his only son had been killed by the palefaces,
 They knew that in the fight at the fort Erskine had killed the Shaw nee. his tormentor. for they knew the arrow. which Erskine had not had lime to withdraw The dead Shaw ,ee's brother-Crooked Lightning vas with them. He it was who had the boy the day before, md they had kept him from killing t,rskine from the bushes
 He sat on hts horse like a king and | .noke as king He thanked them 1 or holding back Crooked Lightning's ,vjl hand. -contemptuousy he ,pat toward the huge savage--he was not to die by that hand He was a ,sleface and the Indians had slain | 7is white mother. He had forgiven hat. for he loved the old chief and | lis foster mother and brother and | lister. and the tribe had always been ,ind to him Then they had killed lis white father and he had gone 10 -isit his kindred by the big waters, nd now he loved them
 "I will come when the leaves fall, ,e concluded. "but Crooked Lightning must pitch his lodge in the wilder ess and be an outcast from the tribe ntil he can show that his heart is ood" And then with an imperious esture he waved his hand the west Now go," It was hard even for Dave to req ze that the lad, to all purposes, was ctually then the chief of powerful -ibe. and even he was little Awed V the instant obedience of the saw ges. who, without a word melted ito the bushes and disappeared.
 It was nearing sunset and from tile hill Dave pointed to thin blue lisp of smoke rising far ahead rom ne green expanse,
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