Evening star. [volume], May 29, 1938, Page 4, Image 88

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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@aving re/cuedMajor
Heyward,Cora and
Alice Muwro and David
GAMUT FROM MAGUA
and his Huron/, the
Scout; Haw k eye , with
Uncas and chingachgooic,
LEAPS HIS FRIEND/ THROUGH
* THE WILDERNESS TOWARD
^FORT WILLIAM HeNQY.
THAT NIGHT THE WEARY FUGITIVE/
REST IN A RUINED BLOCKHOUSE,
WHILE T1 DELES/ OLD ChINGACHGOOK
GUARDS THEID SLUMBERS.
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RESUME 1NEIQ FLIGHT TOW/AGP*
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THEY COME IH SIGHT OF FORT
WILLIAM NeklQy, BUT TO THEIR
PISMAY PIMP IT BESIEGER BY
THE FREbJCH AMP IHPIAKIS .
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FORT WITH AN ARMY OF 10,000
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TORTIE OF A DETACHMENT OF
the Qoyal Americans amd the
FUGITIVES GAIN THE FORT UNfCATHEC?
^fiTH A FEELING OF VAST RELIEF
HeywARp SEET CORA AWP ALICE
QE5TOREP TO THE ARAA5 OF
THEfR FATHER ,COLONE-L MUNQO.
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PRESEN/E IS DISCOVERED
BY R2ENICW AND INDIAN/ WWO
CLOSE IKJ UPON THEM .
- BUT THERE 15 LITTLE MOPE OF
RE IM FOQCEME NTT ARRIVI Ki G
INI TIME »AND THE FORT SEEMS
DOOMED TO FALL. .
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A OR FIVE DAYS COLONEL
MUNRO GALLANTLY
DEFENDED FORT U/ILLIAAA
HENRY AGAINST OVERWHELMING
NuMBERf of French anF7
INDIANS' .
(he French intercept a mextage
FROM GENERAL WEBB INFORMING
MUNRO THAT NO HELP CAN BE
SENT FROM FORT EPWARP, ANP
URGING HIM TO ABANDON FORT
William Henry in a parley
Montcalm show5thecapturep
DISPATCH TO MUNRO .
With mo hope of relief, and
WITH THE FORT CRUMBLING UNDER
THE FRENCH CANNONAPE/MUNRO
sadly accept/ Montcalm*- terms
(AtJGS/l'J57)1 ANp THE GARRl/ON
MARCHE/ OUT WITH THE^HONORS
OPWAQ. ..
Against Montcalm’S ordert
HIS SAVAGE ALLIES’,THIRSTING
TOR 0LOOP SCALPS ANP PLUNDER,
SUDDENLyATTACK THE- EWGUSH,
ANP THE TRAGIC "MASSACRE OF
FORT WILLIAM HENRY "ENSUES
Wh i lb Colokjel Munro an p Major
Mevwarp are protesting to
THE FRENCH GENERAL,CoRA ANP
ALICEMUNRO ANP THE SINGING
TEACHER,DAVIP GAMUT; ARE CAUGHT
AMIPA FEARFUL SCENEOF CARNAGE.
I
Unarmed ©ut unafraid, the
ungainly David raises’ mis
MIGHTY VOICE IN A SOUL-STlRRINO
HYMN.BELIEVING HIM INSANE
AND THEREFORE UNDER THE PRO
TECTION of the Great Spirit,
THE SAVAGES SPARE DAVlP AND
THE GIRLS AND PASS ON .
MAGUA,THE WUQOKI,SATIATED
WITH BLOOD ANP SCALP/, CATCHES
SIGHT OF CORA AKiP WITH A
TRIUMPHANT WHOOP BOUND/
TOWARD THE TERRIFIED GIRLS.
AT SIGHT OF HIM ALICE FAINTS.
Instead of seizing Cora, whom
HE DB5lQBf,THE WILY HURON
carries Alice off into the
woods, knowing that Cora
WILL FOLLOW TO TRY TO SAVE
HER 0ELOVER YOUNGER SISTER.
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