White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-28
Lets wish It's a smart one and viii

"Let's wish It's q smart one and viii
come this way"
made her drink some water and
with a pewter dish bathed her wrists
and slim neck. She complained that
l was wasting It, and in the next mo-
ment was on the point Of weeping as
she said no n had been kind to her.
except her crippled uncle, since her
mothers death. brushed back her
hair and bathed her forehead and
washed the smoke and CRIME from her
face and tried to be very gentle with
her. l was beginning to realize what
a slip of a thing she was to be par
ticipating In such grim tragedies. ]
also appreciated her sturdy spirit
Suddenly she drew away from me
and r%earranged her hair and diffdent-
ly said:
"You've been master kind to me,
mister. l wish I was q witch, like
folks in Great cove say. I'd change
you into a boss, OF a bird, and you'd
git clear of all this"
"Sit here, just inside the door, while
1 stand watch. I've never had q
chance to wait on such a brave little
woman before"
"Bool That's fooling," she scoffed,
and cycling me in surprise. you've
been in big settlements. You've seen
women, mebbe, who eve see q Injun.
All they have to do is be brave. II !
had a pair of shoes like what some of
them settlement women most likely
wear, I'd die fighting to keep EN-"
"lf we get out Of this, you shall have
the gayest pair Of shoes to be found
in Alexandria," l promised. and
thought of Josephine and her love of
luxury and wondered how she would
have endured the ordeal of being cor
nered In q traders cabin at the mouth
of Turtle creek.
81 amt used, to have folks give me
things" she gravely told me. well
have to think about that" Then shy
ly: as that where you want me to
go? To Alexandria, a real big settle
ment?"
In truth, l had given no thought
as to just where she should go did we
escape. Yet how could ! give her q
pair OF shoes in Alexandria II she
we're not there to receive them?
"If l go back there, yes. have no
home there now. Like yourself, l am
homeless"
This pleased her and she snuggled
against my knee and murmured:~
"Tm thinking it's mighty good that
you're like that-no home. You can
build a home anywhere. All you need
is an ak and some trees. If you'd had
a home, you'd never have come poking
round Great cove. Lor's Lowell What
would have happened to me If you
hadn't come along? At Wills creek,
too. And in that other cabin, when ]
run away. And now here"
"You have nothing to thank me for"
/ sadly told her. cat all those places
you name, you have had trouble be,
cause | did go to the Gov Now we'll
| close the door while l take a look at
the woods from the back of the cabin.
| The Indians are too quiet to suit me.
| bent down to the loophole and
Immediately called to her to make
sure the bar was firmly in place.
"Another fight" she sighed. "Ant
we was having such a talkl"
heard her reloading her rifle, bu
did not remove my eye from the hole
Something vas slowly approaching
the cabin. For q moment | could
not make It out, and then glimpseG
the top Of q feather showing above
; the strange object simultaneously
With my discovery, the Indians be
gan firing their guns at the from!
of the cabin and yelling. paid NJ
heed to the gunfre and the shouting
for the real menace was where thu
feather bobbed and slowly advanced
She elbowed me aside and after
glance informed me:
"They've fastened some of the skin
together and are holding them ir
front. of them. Wonder If it'll STOP
bullet"
fred my rifle. The moving bar
rtcade stopped, n tDen came Oh
again, The savage. or savages, ha'
difficulty in keeping it in place an
their approach vas very slow. Exult
ing cries resounded from the wood
as the hidden watchers witnesse
how ineffective had been my bulle'
1t seemed to be a very long tim
that | waited, and finally noted no,
dark the interior Of the cabin wa
growing. Had l not known the pos
ton of the sun, ! would have said
was later than the twilight hour.
81 can't hardly see you, mister" sal
the girl uneasily. "You look a
bumped over like q bear"
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