Show 1 I His H hiding place was na cunningly ly chosen chosen save ave that tat the te mire troubled truble him letting him hint down dow by bY slow degrees de s sand and threatening to t engulf him odly and he lie weak extricate I was wa now no too to himself He lifted Ufe his hi head and glared His Hs face tace was nas grimy his hs hair har matted with wih mud Alice Allce although brave enough and quite qute accustomed to start startling star ling hag experiences uttered a cry cr when she saw sw those tose snaky eyes glistening so savagely amid the shadows But Bute Jean was quick to recognize LongHair he had often ofen seen sen hima hIm a bout town a fig figure fg ure not to be u forgotten Theve been be hunting him every everywhere evey everywhere where he said sd in a a half h whisper to Alice AIce clutching the te skirt of her dross dress des SIts Its I LongHair the te Indian who stole the te brandy I know koW him I Alice Ale recoiled a pace pae or two I Lets go back and ad tell teU em Jean added still stU whispering they want Wat to t kiI ki him Oracle Orele Jason Jazon Jaon said so s Come on I He gave her dress a jerk but she did not Dot move any ay farther back she was looking booking at the blood blod oozing from a wound In the Indians IndIas leg He is shot shot he is hurt burl hurt Jean we must mut help him she presently prenty said re ne recovering r covering her yet et still pale pae We must get him out of ot that bad place i Jean caught Alices merciful spirit with wih sympathetic readiness and showed showe Immediate willingness to aid her herit herit herI it I was W a difficult thing ting to do but there thee was wa a will wi and ad of course coure a way They TeY had knives with which they te cut willows to make a standing place on the mud While they were doing doig this they spoke friendly frendly words word to Long I Hair who understood French a little and at last lat they got gt hold of his hl arms ar tugged rested t tugged again agIn and final finally finally ly managed manage to help him to a dry dr place still under the willows where he could lie He le more at ease ee Jean ean carried crIed water In his cap cp with wIt which they tey washed the wound and the stolid savage face Then Thea Alice AIce tore up her cotton apron in i which she had bad hoped to bear bea home a load of lilies lles and with wih the strips bound the wound very ver neatly neaty It I took a a long time during which the Indian remained si sl silent silent lent let and apparently quite indifferent LongHair was wan wa a man ma of ot superior physique tall tl straight Ith the mus muscles des cles ces of a Vulcan and ad while he lay stretched on the ground half hal clad cad and motionless he h would have haye been ben a grand gd model for an heroic figure In bronze brone Yet from every lineament there tere came a strange repelling Influence like that from a a snake Alice felt almost un unbearable unbearable bearable berble disgust while ile doing her merciful mer merciful task tk but she bravely per ed until it was finished It I was wa now late in the afternoon and the te sun would be setting before they could reach home home We must hurry hur back Jean Alice Aice said turning to depart depar It I will il lie be I all aU we can cn do to reach the other side ide in n daylight Im Im thinking that be b out hunting for us U too If we dont move right lively Come Come She gave the Indian another glance la lance when she had taken but a step He grunted and held up something in his something that tat shone with a dull yellow elow light It I was a a small smal oval ol Rod goOd locket which she had bad ha always worn wom wor In i her bosom bosom She sprang and ad snatched sat it from om his palm Thank you she exclaimed smiling it gratefully I 1 am so s glad you found foad lIt The chain can by which the te locket lockst had hung was broken doubtless by me movement while dragging LongHair out of the mud and the lid ld had sprung I open exposing a miniature portrait of Alice ic painted when she was wa a q n little littlechild I child probably not 2 years old It I was wasa a sweet SW t baby face fac archly bright al almost most surrounded with wih a a fluff of golden n hair har The Te neck and the upper line lne of I the plump shoulders with wIt a a trace tre of I richly delicate lace and a string sting of pearls peals gave somehow a suggestion n cf I patrician daintiness LongHair looked keenly keeny into Ito Alices eyes when she stooped to take te the te locket lug ing I train from fOI his hand ha but said noth nothing i iI She and Jean now hurried hurie away and and so vigorously did they paddle the te pi rogue rge that tat the sky sk was wa yet red rd in the te west when they the r reached reache home and duly I t I received their expected scolding from Madame Made Roussillon I I Alice Ac sealed seabed Jeans ens lips as a to their adventure for tor she had made up her mind to save LongHair if I possible and she felt sure that tat the te only way to do It would be to trust no one but Father Beret Beret It turned tuned out that tat LongHairs wound woud was neither neIter a broken bone nor a cut Martery The flesh fe of or his hs leir les les midway between the hip and the knee te hp te kee was wa pierced the bullet had bored bulet hd bre a neat i I hole clean cean through Father Fater Beret Bert took tok I Ithe I the case ce in hand band and with wit no little Ute surgical skill proceeded to set the big Indian Inda upon his feet again The affair agn had bad hd to be cleverly managed manage Food Fod medicines and clothing were surreptitiously borne bore across the river a bed bd of ot grass gs was wa kept fresh under Long Hairs HIrs back bac his wound was wa regularly dressed and finally his ad weapons a tomahawk tomahawk a a knife kie a strong bow and anda anda a a quiver of ot arrows which he had hd hid hidden hd hidden den on the night of or his bold theft were brought to him hi I Now go and sin in no more said Id good bod Father Beret but he well wel knew kew that his words were mere mere puffs of articulate wind In the te ear of the te grim gIm and silent savage vage who limped away with wih an air of stately dignity dIgIty into the te wilderness ar arof A load fell fel from Alices mind when Father Beret informed her of Long Hairs Hairs recovery recover and departure Day and ad night the tbs dread drad lest let some of ot the themen themen themen men should shoud find out his hi hiding biding hiding place and ad kill kl him hm had depressed and worried her And Ad now when It was wa all al over there tere still hovered like an elusive shadow in her j I consciousness a vague t haunting impression of ot vage the incidents j I immense significance as an influence in I t I her life To feel that she had Ufe bd saved sved a aman aman man ma from rom death deat was wa a new sensation j I i of itself but the man mn and the circum circumstances circumstances stances were picturesque they tey invited imagination they te furnished an atmos atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere phere of romance dear dea to all al young and healthy natures and somehow stirred her soul with wit a strange ap i i peal DaL LongHairs 1 I imperturbable calmness his hi stolid immobile countenance the I t mysterious reptilian gleam glea of his shifty black eyes eye and the soulless expression always lurking ng In them kept a fasci fascinating hold on the th j girls girls memory They i blended curiously with the te impressions I left lef by bY the te romances she had bad read In ft L M 1 mildewed books boks LongHair was wa not a young man ma but It would have been ben impossible imposIble to guess gess near his age age His H form tor and ad face singly sl Iy showed long long experience and immeasurable j j I I able vigor I i Alice Aice remembered with a n a L shuddering sensation the look he be gave her he when he she took the he t locket from his I hs hand It was wa of ot but a seconds dura dua tion ton yet it seemed to t search se every eve nook noah of her being heing beig with wih Its It subtle power ower I Romancers have made much of ot their theix Indian heroes here picturing them as a models of manly may beauty and ad nobility but all aU I notion fiction must mut be b taken with wIt liberal I I pinches of at salt The he plain truth tt is li i I j I that dark dk savages of the pure pu blood I I I often do possess the magnetism of per feet tet physical development and unfathomable pr I mental ment strangeness but real rl tea I I beauty buty they tey never have hae Their Innate I repulsiveness is I so great gat that tt like tin the te I snakes charm char It may fascinate yet yel i ian an Indescribable haunting disgust ds t goes goe goe 3 with wIt it it And Ad after att all aU if i Alice Alc had bat had L been asked to tell teU Just how be aked t jut she felt fell I toward the te Indian Idi she had hd labored so sc S Sha said hard ha ha d to save she would promptly pr r hay have I Isaid saidI sId I loathe late Mm h bI as s I do a toad toad I I i Nor would Father Fater Beret Bert i Put ut to the these same se test have made a substantially different confession confessIon His work work to do which his hs life Ufe went as fuel to fire fre was training the te souls sul of Indians Indin for the reception repton of ot divine grate grace g but ence had not changed his fin frt first t Impression sion Sian of savage character When be he traveled Into the wilderness he carried the Wor Word and the te Cross Cs but he was also alo armed ared with wIt a sun gun and ad two good pistols Pitol not to mention menton a dangerous knife The rumor prevailed that Fa Pa Father Father ther Beret Bert could drive dr e a nail n at sixty yards r with his rifle rUle and and at twenty pistols snuff a candle with wih either eiter one of ot his hs pistol CHAPTER CE IV IVi j i The Te First Fit ITh y of Vincennes Governor Abbott probably never neve so much as heard beard of the dame Jeanne of Qt French brandy sent to him hl by his Creole friend frend In New Orleans He had been ben gone from Yin ennes several months month when tile the te batteau batteau arrived hav Jw ing tog been recalled to Detroit by the British BrIth authorities and he be never re turned Meantime the th little post with Ih its quaint cabins and its It dilapidated blockhouse called cled Fort Sackville lay j sunning drowsily by the te river in a i blissful state of helplessness from the te military point of ot view There Tere was no garrison gron the two or three thre pieces of o artillery artier abandoned and eold gathered rust and cobwebs while the pickets picket of ot the te de decaying and loosened in the ground gound by winter freezes r zE and summer summer rains leaned In all aU directions a picture 01 at o decay dey and Inefficiency The inhabitants of the te town tonn town num bering about 60 lived very ve much as pleased them without any regular municipal government each family its It own tribe each man a law unto him himself himself self yet for mutual protection they all aU kept In touch and had certain com coin common cr mon rights which were religiously re respected r respected and defended faithfully A large pasturing ground w was s fenced In where the goats ani an little b ack ac cows of ot the villagers browsed bro ed as one herd while the patches of wheat whet corn cor and vegetables were not at at all aU A few of ot the thriftier ani an more Import Important important ant at citizens however had hd separate spate es tates of or some magnitude surrounding their residences kept up with wih care and if the time te and od place be taken ten ce into account with wih considerable show of taste tte Monsieur Gaspard Roussillon was looked upon as a the te aristocrat par ex en excellence e of ot Vincennes notwithstanding the fact act that his name bore bre no suggestIon suggestion tion of noble or titled ancestry He Hewa was wa rich and in a measure educated moreover the te successful mans patent of leadership a commanding figure and a suave manner came cane always to his assistance when a crisis crisi presented itself He Be traded shrewdly much snuck to his own profit but invariably with wih the ex cx excellent EX clent result that tat the man white or Indian with whom he did badness felt f himself especially favored in the l transaction By the exercise of firm firmness fr firmness ness n prudence vast vt assumption florid ford i eloquence and a kindly liberality he 1 I I I I I j greatly gety endeared himself to t the people eople p so that tt in the absence of a military commander he came naturally ally aly a lly to be regarded as a the te chief chi f of the te I town tw t own le Ie maire mae He returned from his l extended trad tract ing i ng expedition about the middle middie of at July J ul uly bringing as was wa his hi Invariable rule r ule a gift for re gift Alice AIce This time it was w wa a a small sma thin tin disc dic of white whiLe flint fint with witha wit a a hole in the te center through tough which a I beaded b cord of sinew was Wa looped rhe The rheed edge dge ed e of the disc was beautifully te Wa I notched n and the whole surface so s o that tat it shone like glass glas while the t I be b made made of very ver small segments segment of porcupine p quills quis were variously dyed dyed making mig a curiously gaudy show of I b right bright colors There Ther now ma ma cherle is i something I cere worth fifty times its weight in Ia wort it gold goldi i said aid sd s M H when he presented j pr the necklace to his foster te daughter with wit pardonable it is i t a sacred given me by an anold I old o ld heathen who sell sel his soul j for f or a pint of ot rum rm He solemnly in 3 omed f me that whoever wore It it could i not enemy nemy n e ot by any aY possibility be killed by an Alice kissed M iL 1 Roussillon Ruslon Its so curious and beautiful butu she i said aid sid s holding it up and drawing the te i variegated V string sL ng through trough her fingers Then Then with wi her mischievous laugh she j added a And Ad Im Im glad giad it is so 50 powerful j against a ones ones enemy Ill n wear we it when whenever whenever ever e ver I 1 go where Adrienne Adrene Bourcier Boure is issee i isee i see s ee if i I dont dontIs Is I she your enemy eney Wats up be i tween t you and ad la Ia petite pette Adrienne drenne eh eb J M M L lightly demanded You You Vou were always the te best bet of goud gaid friends frend I thought Wt s happened happed Ob mOb we are ae good friends frend said sid Alice i quickly quick very ver g od friends indeed Ind d I Iwas Iwa Iwas was but wa chaffing cang Good friends frends but enemies how it I Is with wit women os the young oung man caused cuse the te comes I 1 could guess maybe He tie laughed 1 j and ad winked knowingly May I r be so bold as a to name him at a venture I Yes if it i youl be sure sur to mention menton Monsieur Rene Hens de Ronie 1 ae ie e gayly answered Who ho but he could work Adrienne Adrenne up Into a perfect peret green mist I of jealousy mt He would woud need an accomplice I should imagine a young oung lady of some beauty and a good deal of ot heartless heartlessness ness Like Lie whom for example and she tossed tosse her bright head hed Not me I 1 Iam 1 am sure sue Poh like every eer pretty maiden in I Inthe the whole world ma petite pette coquette all al alike as peas pea cruel as a blue jays and ad as a sweet sw t as a apple blossoms He stroked her hair hall clumsily with his large hand as a a heavy hevy and roughly fond man is apt to do adding addi in an almost serious tone I But my little girl gir is better than tan most of them tem not a foolish mischief i maker I hope hope Alice was wa putting her head hed through tough the te string of oC beads bead and letting the bosom translucent white disc di fall fail fal into her hex i its ts time to change the subject I she said sid tell tel me what you have seen en while away I wish wh I could go off of and I see se |