The Lexington advertiser. [volume], January 07, 1904, Image 5

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(M M NEIGHB ORS
Around Oregon and Bethany.
Dear old Advertiser:
I hope you have had a happy
Christmas
The last Sabbath of the old year
was a nice day.
We were glad to see Mr. Porter
Navels back araongj'us Sunday. He
looked as happy .as a big Sunflower.
We all knew why. Come again,
Porter.
Pro. McBroadway, preached at
Oregon the fourty Sunday,
Brn. Dave 11a!ley war, at church
Sunday looking as happy as a June
bug in peatime.
J. W. Whittington and family had
a bid to eat turkey Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. R S. Wilkes.
Miss SallieEakin is spending' X'mus
holidays at home.
Miss Annie Whittington and Mary
-pent Sunday evening
with Misses Nannie and Neci« Ren
ville.
Ella Sharp
ivl r- Bert Whittington spent a few
days at home 1 lust week.
Mr Earl Shepherd and family
spent Christmas with Mr. Tom Boyd's
family.
The widows all spent Christmas
else-where to the sorrow of oar old
friend, J, W T . Whittington.
The Methodist and Baptist com
muned from the same jug X'mas.
Mrs, Dora Fonville is staying with
her brother, Bete Ingold, who has a
very sick child.
A loose Lyon passed through here
on the 28th but did no damage save
consuming some grub for M. .J.
Fonville.
Our friend R. P. Novels is still im-!
proving.
Mrs. E. A. Walker and 8. A. Long,
spent several days with their brother
J. W. Whittington,
Happy New Year to the
standby and its readers.
c!d
W. W J.
Purina,* the best feed at T. W.
.Smith & Sons ( :*o.
J. S. Hord, an influential citizen
and large planter of Roseneath visit
ed our town one day/luring the holi
days.
Mr. J. D. Walton, of Acona, while
in town Monday made us a pleasant
call
Mr. M- W. Parish, of Coxburg,
called in Monday to assure us of his
appreciation of the Advertisers visits,
Mr. W. H. Lunsford of Coxburg
made on? office an appreciated visit
Monday, We are shd to lea -'i Mr
Lunsford ami his father will shortly
be citizens of Lexington.
Gov. Longino's last message to the
Legislature of Mississippi was road
in both houses at noon Wednesday.
It is a clear business document and
its reference to the sale of state
bonds to raise funds, is particularly
happy at this time while the legisla
ture is in session.
We are glad to state that in the
election for speaker of the House of
Representatives, last years eh.-ti >n
for Governor didn't cut any figure.
For some reasons best known to the
several candidates, of which there
were seven, the five who brought up
all voted for Thomas of
!h
e rear,
Washington and against Smith of
Holmes.
Prickly AshBitters euros the kidneys,
regulates the liver and purifies the
bpwels. A valuable system tonic. For
sale by Swinney & Stigler.
Irregular bowel movements lead to
chronic constipation. Prickly Ash Bit
ters.is a reliable « system regulator;
cures permanently. For Sale by Swin
ney & Stigler.
A system regulator is a medicine that
strengthens and stimulates the liver,
^ kidneys, stomach und bowels. Prickly
Ash Bitters is a superior system reg
ulator; It drives out all unhealthy con
ditions, promotes activity of body and
brain, restores good appetite, sound
sle«p and cheerful spirits. For sale by
Swinney & Stigler.
Strayed.
Red roan mare, hell on when last
seen, about 15 hands high, blaze face,
collar marks on smoulder. Any in
formation will be rewarded, notify
J, M. Powers, Franklin Miss.
Notice to City T ax Payers
The city- tax books are at the
Bank of Commerce all parties in
debted for tax will please call and
settle same. J. A. Brown, Tax Col.
i
You Want the News.
The doings of the legislature which
■assembled in Jackson on Jan. 5th will
be of great interest to the people of the
sta'e of Mississippi.
You wish to know what your repre
sentatives are doing, and to keep in
touch with the making of the laws of
your .State.
The Clarirm-Ledger, Jackson, Miss,,
will publish the most accurate and by
far the most complete report of the pro
ceedings of the legislature, and can
reach you earlier than any other paper
printed.
A special rate has been made for leg
islative subscribers. The session will
continue for at least three months, pos
sibly longer.
The Daily Clarion-Ledger will be sent
you from beginning to e a d of the ses
sion for $1.25, or DO cents per month.
The Weekly for 35 cents, or $1.00 per
j
|
I year.
Those de iring the benefit of the spe
eial rate must pay in advance.
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mi s .
We see complaint entered against
the acoustic of the hall occupied by
the representatives of the legisla
ture A five thousand dollar Turkish
vplvet carpet laid gently upon its
floor will stop the reverberation of
sound and correct the architectural
mistake.
New Barber Shop.
Chalmers Hammond has opened up
a first class barber shop in the new
Bank of Commerce building, new fur
niture throughout, only first class
workmen employed- Your patronage
solicited.
T. A. .Sharp, of the Oregon neigh
borhood in his selection of literary!
matter for the year included the-!
I/xington Advertiser.
For Sale.
Two good milk cows for sale apply
Mi.-. C. Rosenthal. 4t 12 31
to
Lost.
On Satui day nigh t ,Defc. 26th, a
pear! stick pin. Reward, return to
this office. '
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT,
f State of Mississippi
To J w Loily
You are lien by commanded to appear before
the chancery c nirt of the county of Holmes in
said sit ate t
1901 to defend .he petilion K II Hewitt in
said court to b- 1 disoharued as surety on the
Pond tiled by '
lie 2nd .Monday in January: A li
as guardian to the estate of
se No V 01 .
docket of the said court. This the 9th day of
December, A. D. 1903.
gerurnl
Patti.' It Lor g in c>
J B Cunningham, Chancery Cleric.
! State of Mississippi,
To Georg© Larkins, whose postoftice Is un
known, defendant:
You are commanded to appear before Chan
Joui'tofihe county ol' Holmes in said
slate, on the first Monday of'March A. I). 190i
to defend the suit in said Court of Dora
Larkins, wherMn you are defendant.
This tin* 2lat day of December, 1903.
J. 11 Cunnfnglmm, Chancery Clerk.
Hooker A* McBee, solicitors for'complnlnarjt.
Notice to'Creditors.
Estate ot Richard Davis, Deceased,
j \>■ .,. G0 , tvsumrntary
By S. D. (Twin, ExGcutor.
In Chancery o
■t of Holmes county. Mips
vere erauted.
the
1903, ns cxecuror
Davis, di' , 'iiS"!(l, not cels berabv irive
i> rs mo iuivina claims asr-dnsc said, estate that
si me must bo probated and rojrlstpred by the
Chancery Clerk of Holmes county,Mississippi,
within one year lrom date hereof, or the same
will be forever barrel.
Wit oofs my signature this the SSBtli day of
Decemli r, 1903.
idersiyned on the 29th day of DeooinbeC
estate of Riclnml
to all
tin
8. D. 0win. Executor.
12-81-03
Bankrupt Sale.
In the District Court of the United States
for tbo Southern District of Mississippi
In re Wm. Henry Hoover, bankrupt, In bank
ruptcy, the trustre of the above estate
a! public auction for cash to the highest bid
der, on the 9th dey of Jan. 1904, within legal
hours, the following
nipt'& estate; the stock of goods* safe and fix
tures, live stock, and the following lands in
Madison county, Miss., being a tract of
about eighty acres to-wit.;' NE quarter. N
E quarter Section 20, and Northwest quarter,
Northwest quarter Section 2i T H, R 4 east,
and Southeast quarter of Section 22. T 12, litf
east, containing 100 acres more or loss; lands
and personality to be sold separately m front
of the. building formerly occopied by w. H.
Hoover, Pickens, Holmes county. Miss., as a
place of business. The right is reserved to re
fuse any and all bids;
Signed this 29th fiay of December, 1903.
J B Stirling, Referee.
•ill sel
tts of the said bank
A Daughter of the Sioux
(Continued from page 8.)
Schreiber had just come slid
four.
ing, stumbling down from Winsor's
perch to say that they could hear
faint sound of sharp volleying far out
to the eastward, where the warriors,
evidently, were trying to "stand off"
Webb's skirmish line unlil the travois
with the wounded and the escort of
Hie possible prisoners should succeed
in getting hack out of harm's way and
taking surer and higher trail into the
thick of the wiid-prr.i ss hack of Bear
Cliff. "Some of V::i must, come ill
sight here in a minute, sir," panted
the veteran sergeant. "We (ft>ulU see
1hem plainly up there—a mule litter
und four travois, and there must be
a dozen in saddle."
A dozen there were, for along the
line of crouching men went sudden
ill rill of excitement. Shoulders be
-an to heave; nervous thumbs bore
down on the heavy carbine hammer.'
and there was sound/of irrepressible
stir und murmur. Out among the
pines, 500 yards away two mounted
Indians popped suddenly into view,
two others speedily followed, their
well-nigh exhausted ponies feebly
shaking their shaggy, protesting
heads as their riders plied the sting
ing quirt or jabbed with cruel lance;
only in a painful jog trot could they
zig xag through the trees. Then
came two warriors, leading the pony
of a crippled comrade. "Don't tire—
don t harm them tall back from the
trail there and let ti.em in. They'll
Imlt the moment they see our tracks!
i'Ct em alive, if |* . - ! ' were
Blake's rapid orders,for h;s eves were
bling mules, lashed fore and aft be
tween long, spliced saplings and hear
ing thus the rude litter -Huy's
wheelers turned to hospital use.
Indian hoy,mounted,led the form
mule; another
eagerly fixed on other objects beyond
these dejected leaders—upon stum
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'
1
1"
Ail
atclieu tli« st*
each side of the occupant
of the Sioux palanquin, jogged
blanketed rider on jaded pony. Her
was a personage of consequence
luckier much 1han these oil ■ r f »
ie .
while, on
lowing-, drugged along on . iavo ls
whose trailing poles came jolting over
stone or hummock along the ringed
path. It was on these that 111.;he's
glittering eye* were fn-b-n-.L
"Pounce on the leaders, you tl ire
nearest!" he ordered, in low, telling
tones, the men at his left; then
turned to Schreiber, crouching close
beside him, the fringe of his buck
skin hunting shirt quivering over lm
bounding heart. "There's the prize
I want," he muttered low. "Whatever
you do, let no shot reach tha. litter,
Charge with nte.the.moment the lead
ers yell. You men to the right, he
added, slightly raising iiis voice, "bo
leady to .jump with jne. Don't shoot
. now fight- Xau
mountain m t. .e \\ tdkm rang, to
•" •' 1 !| ' ' VVJirn ' ■ 1 ' o;,i • ' ' 1 '* "
leading Sioux. All in a a.i they
whirl.-,I their po-mv at, ml. am! darted
Lark. All in ... l . 1 ' ■ 1 m:
l *
|
anybf'dy Iliat doos
everything in sight.
-oimiI" All in a kccoti;] the
i
led
I'iirmos
find
straight for the startled convoy
\ain the few warriors braidy j
about their foremost wounded,
unwieldy litter could
the frantic mules, e
strut
flung
then.'
■allied
The
bout;
ie ! n '
ot tn
shot*—' tin? onward rush of
pr
J: "
diarging
men—the uw/ui
of squaws, broke fl
ing refns;
ter against, the
the luckless occupant to earth,
drove the unhit warriors before the
serea
Ut
erus! tod
vif 1]
j>;w'k
, burling*
dash of the cheering*.line,
first one pony, then a second, in his
bloody tracks. One after another, lit
ter, travois, wounded and prisoner,
was clutched and seized by stalwart
hands, and Rlalce, panting not a lit
tie, found himself bending staring
over the prostrate form flung from
the splintered wreck of the litter, a
form writhing in pain that forced no
sound whatever from between
clinching teeth, yet that bailed .V • i*i,
almost superb, to rise and battle
still—a form magnificent in it 1 -' pro
portions, 3 r et helpless thr'»sigh -
wounds and weakness. Not the form i
Blake thought to see, of shrinking, !
delicate, dainty woman, lint that of |
the furious warrior m
1lirice- had
flic on
dared !.im
brave well-known by si
within the moon now
a rung
■
only within the day gone by, revealed !
to him as the renegade Hal pi
of the
Ogallala
Winu
reatt—
Sioux;
Where then was Nanette?
[
"Look out for this man, corporal!
he called, to a shouting young troop- [
'See that no harm coni!
er.
Then quickly he ran on to the huddle j
of travois. .Something assured him
she could not be far away. The stout j
drag litter held another young war- i
rior. sullen and speechless likc
foremost. The next bore a deeper- i
ntelv wounded brave whose bloodless I
lips were compressed in agony and :
dumb ns those of the dead. About!
these cowered, shivering, and whim- i
■-stricken
squaws, one of them with a round- I
eyed papoose staving at her back. I
A. pony lay struggling in the snow i
Half a dozen rough soldier j
hands were dragging a stricken rider -
from underneath. Half a dozen more j
were striving to control the wild j
phmgings of another mettlesome j
beast, whose ridei-, Sitting firmly
astride, lashed first at his quivering |
flank and then at the fur gnmill-ted |
hands—even at the laughing, beard- !
oil faces sure sign of another squaw,, j
and a game one. Far out to the front |
the crackle of carbine and rifle told [
that Webb was driving the scattered j
braves before him— 1 : et the comrade S
squadron was comin.; their way—that j
Bear Cliff had been sought by the
Sioux in vain—that Indian wiles and
strategy. Indian p) •!. and staying
power, all had more than met their
match. Whatever 1he fate of Lame
Wolf's fighting- force, now pressed by
Henry's column, far in the southward
hills, here in sight of the broad Big
Horn valley, the white chief had
struck a vital blow. Village, villagers,
wounded and prisoners were all the
spoil of the hated soldiery. Here at
Ihe scene of Blake's minor affair
there appeared still iri saddle just one
undaunted, , unconquered amazon
whose black eyes flashed through the
woplen hood that, hid the rest of
oer face, whoso lips had ulteied us
yet no sound, but'from - whom two
soldiers recoiled at tin- cry oi a third.
'Look at the hand of her, fellers!
it's wititcr than mine] "
"That's all right,
swered the jovial voice ot iiie finder
they loved and laughed with. "Hold
that pony Steady. Now, by your la;
dysliip's leave," and two long sinewy;
arms went circling about riu: shrink
ing rider's waist, and a struggling
form was lifted straightway out of
the saddle and deposited, not too
gracefully, on its mbceusinod feet.
"We will remove this ope impediment
to your speech," continued . lUake,
whereat the muffling worsted was
swiftly unwound, "and 1 hen we will
listen to our meed of tin siks. Ah, no
wonder you did not need a side-sad
dle that night al Fraync. You ride
admirably it cnlifourchon -My com
plimants, Mademoiselle l.uFleur—or
should J say- .Madame Moreau."
For all answer Blake received one
quick, stinging slap in the face from
that mittenless little right hand.
ne*, two or three t-err
1 >*'
lose hy.
i. n
CHARTER XXI.
Thanksgiving day at Frayne! Much
of the garrison was still nil eld, bring
ing back to their lines, und, let us
hope, to thijir sefises, the remnants
of Stahber's hand, chased far into the
Sweetwater Kills before they would
stop, while Henry'* column kept I
| flame Wolf in such active movement !
j the misnamed chieftain rifchly won I
j hla later sobriquet "The Skipper." !
'Ihe general had come whirling back -
from Beecher in his ( oncord wagon,
i to meet Mr. Ilay a 3 they bore that j
i invalid homeward from the Big Horn.
; Between the fever-weakened trader j
and the famous frontier soldier there :
had been brief conference—all that I
j the doctors felt they could allow_|
'■ | end then the former hud bei-n put to ;
' | bed tinder the care of hi. ted
1 wife, while Hie latter, without so
much as
forth arain out 8
eamm.ijji. This time he j
pht of a
ill!
v, had et i
j wind njS the
to
went in sat
u. jus own team
the Medicine How
to carry a convalescent subaltern to I
the side
over the
ran:
of i
t triekra father;
the
, ., , ld( ,, . noraBt , poc , ly, of the post |
| comnn.ndorh prohibition; ignoring it,
jf lls nrohuble it
q
j, ... the grateful i a d and sent a
. ; ,
M rs . Bade und her devoted allies
.
as .nown to ium. !
roocf old doctor himself iiad
up
row l ad filled with goodies a
I ,, , . n as j ,
| Mrs , Hay scn t glor. s' of wine for
I thp y , t . ot u . t i, ; u i( | s au<1 lla d
j ,. onie U own herself to the start,
£or< without a word il; ,Hca1ive of re
j proof, the general had bidden Mint
remo ve the blockade. . rnply saying
j ie wo „j d assume all -sponsibility,
br , th for M ,s. Hay ami ..<■ vomiaUn
j c j] an <r j r ] < , r | vri , r ^i, e
; friuier's roof until the . oniing of her |
I own people still out v, ih Slabber's
| band. Flint could not i. thorn it. lie
i plynlcl only ofco\, *
And now- with the general gone and
Beverlj- Field away, vv, , Jlay home
j .,, K| . fu ,i by orile^, ,,m all qties
louing or other extra - uus worry. II
: witli tiie womaded so
1 trundled into hospital, rrison inter- I
n* the time |
j mainly in that little O: lilaia maid—
i 1 lint's sole Sioux coptiye, who was
said the milcii interrogated I
i.\ ia Mrs. Hay'. - wn room in !
i' .Miss blower's, w aile t he latly
f th<». house, when sli
coupled a sofa near 1; *r Iiusband's I
mcil to tenter
j
|
I
dome!
loused.
!
xlv at all,
;••* IK 1 tkiiiu that Ulakc.
willj the jmisoners fr<
j ( rei'lc and Jicar CUfT
everybody 1
;'or Ike con-.* .
•ie of tea
Wood I
hand.
wi tii
■i the
• line ward
"that big* I lie ge of the
•apt Ives,
e Of the ;
j ... no .
i,
j c,ioi
j V l)i ,
I fornu r.
; wiiA . :d
I n
,
j 0 f| e Blower, I
listing:!
tldl .. id unwounde
u!. chief Eagle j
ne f the latter
■•(•onslit-tited n,uirl .*, since s'
.livial re uint \a
WHS 1111 v.
ing e
•-1: 4 * that sullei. J .still tie*
it ter b<
-
i
!
|
hose side s
r j*. fused to
jf imtil
vne; not until tin
lation,
the
died
Fort
r«
•goon, a;
In red there
['ful exami;
loreau into
no reason \vl y he should
not be confined m the p;
an ro
they able to
the silent, ulnm l desperat.
er ann 1. Not until
u.'H'dh'iii
■ girl to return 1
! Nanette
her
w:i r i* i '
within wooden
i be e luded, con'd
rails
ns to be house,
.hence she
last, per
ie- 1 lie's
to rci
the dress of
worsted
ie like a chief
;..w beaded and
SVIili
[ room and to
aliou.
[ e
I a
i hut
j ta
j t
i .
i floor front, :
I from out: id
: could be permitted to receive visits
from the cupti.'o Sioo . and this the
i major, flinUly, fort-hade. It was
nightfall when the Httes-bear;-rs
I reached the post,
I mules braying um
i sight of their . .h : It wa dark
j when the woim.fi I oh: f was borne
- into the guard-horn o, i ! taring not
j sound, and Nanette w.;s led within
j the trader's door, yet some one had
j managed to see her b'i -. for the story
went all over the wondering post that !
| very night—-women 'lil ting with it
| from door to door—tha: .-very vestige
! of lier beauty was gon -she looked
j at least a dozen years older. Blake,
| when questioned, nftei the first rn ■
[ tore of the him: co fi.ng had sub
j sided, would neither irm nor deny,
S she would neither j- : k to me nor
harken," said he. whhosically. "The
ni'culry , i
)d
l-ecap
Once
•■( r, she had shut
Blake's
by
her old
refusing to see anybody
unless she
rejoi. ing
e
E
only thing she showed was teeth and
—temper. *
i wo day8 after the safe lodgment
'•f I agje Wing behind the bars, the
teiegra rris
were coming by dozens,
week after <|:;n deserved in
r-ration, Fort Fraync heard with
um iliienueiit
carei
tmn
majors or
1 a i-i s ' i a li.-. i r to the Ims
dei- for Ait
t'iial. By that time fi r. -rs, too, were
beginning to come,
after this removal to the little room
and, two nights
v occupied by l.ieut. Field—
this very Thanksgiving night, in fact
intry at ihe door stood
attention to the comn ;i tiding officer
>. ushered in a womanly
ded cloak, and
ho well lu'ad Nanette Flower
u ibe giK.rdcd portal,
bi i( d be):ii ii iicr and left
faded brave.
out
the single
t.
who in pei-si
form enveloped iu \
with
* then
i-cr tUbt), with her
Jin t u.- tatu.o w;
n
> siiujiding on the
E.-.liter Bade sat. reud
Jniry iriut tic- children s
quarters of Sergeant
latiier's company,
err had n u Thank giving (linn.-r
•Ah. Mrs. Bay, an Amazonian least
nee all thru
n service till'd
t: itie ill 11 i
- ter, of 'her
ere still uv.ay
Sandy Bay and Hilly,
ups too young to count.
■ i* by eight o'oiock,
file some merry games, the
youngsters' eyes were showing ■■ y
toms oi tiie simt.i,it's coining, v.
eu.il meter, IT i q
'.ay's long-tru'd troop, r now lu:u.-d
major Homo, a ::>• : m ;! at the door-
way of tfic.uiUe army parlor.
-ad beiti bid ,-jr of lot of good Vs
oi ihe euifi-r. n among the quart, rs
if the i- iinli-ii soldiers, and now,
vjoe.u Afiv-, jiaue pit-use speak
Mrs. j osier, w n had come over vviiti
nip
urn
nit
But there was no need of
explanation. They all *km-vv. ,Th*ey j
had laid so-recently their wreaths 1
, ywere pei
'••nner was ail
mid, de.
privili-g'-u
mat
He
nim, und Mrs. lJauo departed for ibe
kiU-ir. n forthwith. Presently she .re
turned; "Fin going back awhile with
Mrs. Foster," said she. "She's sitting
up tonight with poor Mr§n Wing,
who
*~
h*.
a!T
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!JUST ECEIVED 53
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A full line of new goods consisting of Fancy
Cut Glass, Plaques, Cups and Saucers, Choclate
Sets, Plates, Glassware Tea Pots, Besques Fig
ures, Celery Dishes, handsome Buggy Robes,
Fancy Buggy Harness, Saddles, Bridles, and,
Buggys, Toilet Sets, Lamps, Dinner Sets,Crock
ery, Jardners Flowers Pots. In fact everything
kept in a first class Hardware store.
•'y
V
Implements
Of All
Kinds
'
•3*
(9**^
-ie-riate Stoves Heating and Cooking.
Prices are right. Gall and see us
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LIFE
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SAVINGS
SOCIETY
PROVIDENT
ASSURANCE
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New York
President
346 and 348 Broadway,
EDWARD W. SCOTT,
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** Organized *• «•
1875
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SIX YEcAVtS' ADDITIONS b^OM OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
J ' THE COMPANY HAS DOUBLE ITS INCOME [J
6 TREBLED ITS ASSETS QUADRUPLED ITS RE- 9
9 SERVE TEN-FOLD 1NCREASEC ITS EXCESS OF IN- o
6 COME OVER DISBURSEMENTS ** j* 2
Policies issued to meet • the wants of all amounts $100 to $50,000
AGENTS WANTED *** ,
]AS. H. FUQUA, JR., General Agent,
HOLMES COUNTY BANK BUILDING, LEXINGTON, MISS.
For Information as to
Rates Apply to....,.
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one ami all tin 1 ;
hud been widowed
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: those \t*ry hills
oi from
i* i in no
i.iTe now
same old foe. In the
if army life we are, indeed,
in death, and the -thanksgiving of
s auout the fireside for
midst
s tints far shown, is mingled
men
ever witiu the dread of what the inor
tiiifoid.
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bile you and Mrs.
her li.iT
there."
Foeti r are
Arid >v> vh Hogan, lantern bear
. xi daughter had fol
lowed the sei*geanl's wife across the
•red parade;
passed \.ii . comment, though
[ , ' ig of the new inmate,
tne brigf tiy -1 . lited hospital building
t -i hi the plateau, and de
,u.'U 1W wuuling pathway to the
s of tin* married sol
broad.
on tt-.e
in the sheltered lints
r and the
close bordered
rushing; stream. And here at
1 lu*
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bold hiuiVs ii■ a I ng
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• tor's doorway iv tiier purt
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od i:',iiii t;.c (-filet's, and was
by shrieks of joy Crom three'
... ICC i: . i ! - ■ : .l-Tubs - tilt' St Ig -Hill'S
oiin- : ranetfs, and litre, as tin- last
went echoing away
ruler the and spangled sl.y, one
her e .ai ires closed i '
lied and dropped to sleep
gentle friend und
reader to her own reflections.
There was a soldier tiancii
if tail
n ur
:* ir
uy
one
•.rouping
and lin their
night in I re nf the
vacant
mew
Flint's two companies were
rooms.
makiiu; . e best of their isolation,
rod fiio-.i.l, :is is nt.t utterly uncom
mon, quite a few maids mid matrons
.among tne I. ntseholds of the absent
soldiery quite willing to be consoled
and comforted. There were bright
lights, i :,i i-iflore, further along the
edge of the steep, beyond those of
the fir.: jflial. and the squeak of fiddle
und drone of 'cello, mingled with the
plaintive piping of the flute, were
heard at. intervals through the si
lenre of tin- wintry night. No tramp
-it sentry broke the hush about the
little rift between the heights—the
major holding that, none was neces
sary where there weye so many dogs
most of the soldiers' families had
gone to the dance; all of the younger
children were asleep; even the dogs
were still, and so, when at ten o'clock
-r tiptoed from the children's
j and sfSbd under the star
1 ugiit, the murmur of the Platte was
the only sou|id that reached her ears
away over at the southwest
j gate the niglit guards began the
long-drawn heralding of the hour,
j "Xen o'clock and all's well" it went
i roin post to post along the west and
i northward front, but when Number j
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8iau at the quartermaster's store
house near the southeast oorner, j
should have taken up the cry where !
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i it vv._.s dropped by Number live, afar j
over near the flagstaff, there was
! unaccountable silence. Six did not
utter a sound.
Looking up from the level of "Suds
! town," as it had earlier been named,
I .. . ' ,, ,, , , , ,,
i Esther could see the black hulk of
the storehouse close to the edge of
| the plateau. Between its westward
j gable end and the porch of the his- I
| pital lay some 50 yards of open space, |
| and through this gap now gleamed a j
! spauglfd section of the western
| heavens. Along the bluff, just under
i the crest, ran a pathway that circled
' the southeastward corner and led
away to the trader's store, south of
the post. Tradition bad it that the
track was worn by night raiders,
bearing contraband fluids from store
to barracks in the days before such
traffic was killed by that common
sense promoter of temperance—so
berness and chastity—the post
change. Along that bluff line, from
the storehouse toward the hospital,
invisible, doubtless, from either build
ing or from the bluff itself,
thrown in sharp relief against that
rectangular inlet of starry sky, two
black figures, crouching and bearing
some long, flat object between them,
swift and noiseless were speeding
toward the hospital. The next in
stant they were lost in the black
background of that building. Then,
as suddenly and a moment later, one
of them reappeared, just for a mo
ment, against the brightly lighted
window—the southernmost window
on the eastward side—the window of
the room that had been Beverly
Field's—the. window of the room now
given over to Eagle Wing, the Sioux
—the captWe for whose safe keeping
a special sentry within the building,
and this strangely silent Number Six
without, were jointly responsible.
Then that silhouetted figure was
blotted fro-m her sight in general
darkness, for the lights within as
suddenly went out.
And at that very moment a sound
Mnote upon the ear, unaccountable
at that hour and at that side of the
ex
but
garrison—hoofbeats swiftly coming
down in the hollow from the east
ward bluff—hoofbeats and low, ex
cited voices. Foster's little house was
soutliernmont of the settlement. The
ground wan open between it and the
heights, and despite the low, cautious
tones, Esther heard the foremost
rider's muttered angering words.
"Dam fooH Crazy! Heap Crazy!
Too much hurry. Ought t' let him call
iff first!"
tcral Sioux.
And then in an instant it dawned
upon the girl that h<Ve was new
crime, new bloodshed, perhaps, and
a plot to free a villainftus captive.
Her first thought was to scream for
rid, but wlmt aid could she summon?
Not a man was will In hail except
these, the merciless haters of her
ruce and name. To s'-oream would be
to invite their ready knives to her
lienrt—to the heart of any woman
who might rush to her succor. The
cry died in her throat, and, .trem
bling with dread and excitement, she
clung to the door post and crouched
and listened, for stifled mutterings
could be heard, a curse or two in
vigorous English, a stamping of im
patient ponies, a warning in ,a wo
man's tone. Then, thank God! Up
'.''ben an answer in gut
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"BLACK FORMS OF MOUNTS AND
RIDERS SPED DESPERATELY
AWAY."
at the storehouse corner a light came
dancing into view. In honest soldier
tones boomed out the query "What's
the matter, Six?" and then, followed
by a scurry of hoofs, a mad lashing
of quirts and scramble and rush of
frightened steeds, a cursing of fu
rious tongues, her own brave young
voice rang out on the night,
way, sergeant! Help—Quick!"
Black forms of mounts and riders
sped desperately away, and then with
all the wiry, sinewy strength of
her lithe and slender form, Esther
hurled herself upon another slender
figure, speeding after these, afoot.
Desperately she clung to it in spite
of savage blows and strainings. And
so they found her, as forth they came
—a rush of shrieking, startled, can
dle-bearing women—of bewildered
und unconsciously blasphemous men
of the guard—her arms locked firmly
about a gi^l in semi-savage garb. The
villain of the drama had been whisked
away, leaving the woman who sought
to save him to the mercy of the foe.
This
CHAPTER XXII.
In the whirl antf excitement fol
lowing the startling outcry from the
flats, all Fort Frayne was speedily
involved. The guard came rushing
through the night. Corporal Shannon
.tumbling over a prostrate form—
the sentry on Number SLx, gagged
and bound. The steward shouted
from the hospital porch that Eagle
Wing, the prisoner patient, had
escaped through the rear window,
despite its height above the sloping
ground. A little laddeff, borrowed
from the quartermaster's corral,
was found a moment later. An In
dian pony, saddled Sioux fashion,
was caught running, riderless, to
ward the trader's back gate his
horsehair bridle torn half way from
his shaggy head. Sergeant Crabb,
waiting for no orders from the ma
jor, no sooner heard that Moreau
was gone than he rushed his stable
guard to the saddleroom, and in 15
minutes had, not only his own squad,
but half a dozen "casual" troopers
circling the post in search of the
trail, and in less than half an hour
was hot in chase of two fleeing
horsemen, dimly seen ahead through
the starlight, across the snowy
wastes. That snowfall was the
Sioux's •undoing,
trail would have been invisible at
night. With it, the pursued were
well-nigh hopeless from the start.
(Continued on page 5.)
Without it the