Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-05-07

dred yards away. General Murray was
holding review OF the regiments
which were soon TO face Lewis In his
attempt to retake the city. The sound
of martial music came to them fainflv
and with II the distinct hut softer
toling Of Il bell which marked Ill hour
OF prayer, and To this appeal Tnirptte
bowed her head and mnrtnurpd words
OF alteration taught her i,y The white
robed Sisterhood of Christ. Three
years had changed her. Not time
alone. but motherhood and the grief Of
hopeless waiting had made her more
a wonlan and less girl Al last she
had believed .leems was dead, and now
she had him again. nm Understandable
beauty suffused her face and eyes with
It's radiance as the mystery Of the
years was unveiled.
She told Of lIrpsibah's capture by
the Mahawks In Forbidden valley. Of
! his escape. his recaptlrp hitter by tlle
Seneeas. and of her anpeals 10 Shin
! das and Tiaoga and uf her failure 10
inspire their mercy when. blinded, lie
was brought 10 thennfsio.
only God could have directed me
after that" she said for | was 81
desperate TINT scarcely know how
events shaped themselves rs they did.
! feared what your action might be
WHEN you returned and found your
] uncle had heeR blinded and killed. and
not until entered Ali he Bah's tenee
did II strike me MS IN answer to my
| prayers that hunting knife should
: be dangling by It's cord III the open
/ Ing. With this knife freed Hepsiball
and cut hole III the skin tent through
which we crept To the canoes. after |
had given Wood Pigeon my message
to You When we were pursued and
orertaken my hope died. but the depth
OF my dfspair was no greater than the
joyous shock Which overcame me when
1 | heard Tiaoga's Voice telling liz hot
y to he afraid hui to 20 ashore quietly
and TINT no harm would hefall MS.
Shinflns explained what they were
about 10 do. for lis soon as we were
ashore. Tia0gi Went OIL alone into the
darkness lie told lis That three days
before reaching Chennfsio they had
learned. through faets which IIepsi-
! bah related. that their prisoner. al-
/ ready blinded. WAS your uncle and my
own dear friend Ii WIS loo late for
fn II TN, III.
were III Ind hnmnr and demanded tile
sacrifice AT the stake Of the one WHO
! had Killed several of their number
] Shindas came ahead so sou would not
be in the village when the prisoner
arrived. As Shindas talked to lis
learned that hearts as kind as any In
this world beat in savage breasts, for
these three men had turned traitors to
| the Senecas that we might live. In
the light Of a torch, Shndas disclosed
long braid of hair which looked hnr-
ridy like my own and drenched its
scalp In fresh blood which he drew
from his breast. III was scalp
Tiaoga had taken from Il French In
| dian he Ind killed. and turned faint
when | saw ii cleaning in the flare
of the pitch pine. Then Hepsibah and
! went on In the canoe. Hours later.
Shindas rejoined us and said that
Tiaoga had danced with the scalp be-
fore his people and that they believed
we were dead. Shindas stayed with
us until we came upon French sol
diers near Fort Frontenac, and each
day | dressed the wound In his
breast"
She paused, as II reyisonIng What
had passed. then said.
There were a few moments with
Tiaoga-alone-th night we stood
on the shore. while Shindas took the
blood from his wound God must have
made Tiaoga love me. Jeems, almost
as lie had loved the one whose place
/ had taken When I found him, he
was so cold and still In the darkness
that he might have been stone instead
OF flesh. But he promised to make 1t
possible for you to come 10 me as soon
as he could do SO without arousing
the suspicious OF his people And then
he touched me for the first time us he
must have caressed Silver Heels. lie
held my braid in his hand and spoke
her name In way | had never heard
him speak ii before. | kissed him. I
put my arms around his neck and
kissed him and 1t seemed that even
my lips touched stone. Yet he loved
me. and because of that | have won
dered-through nll these years-why
he did not send you TO me-
Jeems could not tell her ii was be-
cause he had killed Tiaoga
AS the melody Of the bell had fallen
like bene1iction over the Plains of
Abraham, so peace and happiness fol-
lowed In the footsteps Of the con-
querors of New France. AT the stroke
of a pen, half a continent changed
hands, and from the pulpits Of the
Canadas as well as from those of the
English colonies voices were raised in
gratitude to God that the conflict was
ended Even the beaten rejoiced, for
during the months of its final agony
tho heart az the milton had hoan