The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-03-09
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you must not ask me that
4 cried. Hell may have noble flames.
I have known him a score of years,
and always hated, and always admired,
Il and always slavishly feared him."
Wants to See Grave.
81 appear to intrude again upon
your Secrets, said Sir William, be
lieve me, Inadvertently. Enough that
I will see the grave, and (if possible)
rescue the Indian. Upon these terms,
can you persuade your master to re-
turing to Albany"
"Sir William" said |, II will tell
you how it is. You do not see my
lord to advantage; it will seem even
strange to you that should love him:
but [ do, and | am not alone. If he
goes back to Albany, it must be by
force, and it will be the death-warrant
of his reason, and perhaps his life.
in your hands, and ready to obey, if
you will assume so much responsible
ity as to command"
81 will have no shred of RESPONSE
bility; it is my single endeavor to
avoid the same" cried Sir William.
You insist upon following this jour-
ney up, and be it SO! 1 wash my hands
of the whole matter"
With which word, he turned upon
his heel and gave the order to break
camp; and my lord. who had been
lowering near by. came instantly to
my side.
(Which is 1t to be-" said he.
You are to have your way" an
swered. you shall see the grave"
Grave Easily Described.
The situation Of the masters grave
was, between guides, easily described;
it lay, indeed, besides a chief land
mark of the wilderness, a certain
range of peaks, conspicuous by their
many brawling tributaries to that in
land sea, Lake Champlain. 1t was
therefore possible to strike for it di-
rect, instead of following back the
blood-stained trail of the fugitives, and
to cover, in some sixteen hours of
march, distance which their per-
turbed wanderings had extended over
more than sixty. Our boats we left
under a guard upon the river, it Vas.
indeed, probable we should return to
find them frozen fast; and the small
equipment with which we set forth
upon the expedition included not only
an infinity of furs to protect us from
the cold, but an arsenal of snowshoes
to render travel possible when the
inevitable snow shall fall
Considerable alarm was manifested
at our departure, the march was con-
Quoted with soldierly precaution, the
camp at night sedulously chosen and
of this sort that arrested us, the Sec
ond day, within not many hundred
yards of our destination-the night
being already imminent, the spot in
which we stood well qualified to be a
strong camp for party of our nun
bers; and Sir William, therefore, on
a sudden thought, arresting our ad-
vance.
Before us was the high range of
mountains toward which we had been
all day OBVIOUSLY drawing near From
peaks had been the goal of our adj
vance across tumbled lowland for
est, third with rough streams, and
strewn with monstrous powders; the
peaks (as | say silver, for already
at the higher attitudes the snow Tell
nightly; but the woods and the low
ground only breathed upon with frost.
All day heaven had been charged {
with ugly vapors, in the which the sun {
swan and glimmered like shilling
piece; all day the wind blew on our
left cheek. barbarous cold, but very ,
pure to breathe. With the end of the I
afternoon, however, the wind fell: the l
clouds, being no longer reinforced,
were scattered or drunk up; the sun
set behind us with some wintry splen- {
dor. and the white brow of the noun !
tains shared its dying glow. s
All in Silence.
II was dark ere we had supper;