| Show erskine is kalil atiqi aldi by john fox jr by sou boom MY lay SONI to the Ke rucky wilderness Witia ost commanded by jerome murders in the time immediately receding l tile the rt revolution evolution comes il a white alte boy fleeing from a tribe of Shau shawneen Shawne nees ea bv whom lie had bad been captured and adopted as a son of 0 the chief nartoo iia Is given shelter and attracts the ills favorable attention of dave yandell a leader among the settlers sett lera the youngster Is snaked nakeda A breech clouted cavage ile he speaks only bastard french aj d shannee Bh sh a aunee an e 11 but h he shows a patch I 1 of 0 white re skin kin 0 and rid proudly taps his breast aft paleface bif white man CHAPTER 11 II 2 old jerome and dave land the older men en gathered in one corner ot of the lie stockade for a council of 0 war the boy had ronde londe it plain that flint the attacking ing party was at least two tuoi days behind the three indians from whom lie he bad es escaped coped so 90 that there was uns no danger that flint day and they could walt wait until night to send messengers to warn marn the settlers outside to seek safety within the fort meanwhile jerome would mould dispatch five men with dave to scout coit for the three Inal indians laus who might he be near by in the alie woods and the boy who saw them slip out the rear gate of the foit foil at once knew their purpose shook liis ills head and waved tits his hand band to say that his late friends were gone back to hurry burry ou on the big war party to tile the attack now unit too whites themselves knew their danger old jerome nodded that flint lie he understood and nodded to others ills his appreciation of the sense and keenness of the lad but he be let vie uie men go just the some game 31 mother ither sanders tipp appeared eared and cried to bud to bring tile injun to tier her cabin she had been unearthing clothes clot lies for the little heathen and bud laud helped to put them on in a few minutes the lad reappeared in fringed hunting floating shirt and trousers wriggling in them most uncomfortably for they wilde made him fth but at the same time vi hearing earing them proudly on tile the mighty wilderness the sun sank slowly and old jerome sat in the lie western tower to watch alone the silence out there was oppressive and significant for it meant that the boys theory was right the three indians had gone golle back to their iel fellows lows and ilien darl darkness ness cattle came tile the old man sent runners to the hie cabins to worn warn the inmates to take refuge within the fort foil and tile the gathering was none too soon the hunting hooting of owls started before dawn A naming flaming arrow hissed from the woods thudded into the roof of one of the cabins sputtered feebly on a dew drenched ridgepole ridge pole and vent out savage Si vige war N whoops hoops rent the air and the battle was on all day the fight went on there were feints of attack in front and rushes from the rear and here were viere rushes from froin all tides sides tiie women loaded handed rifles and cooked and cared for the wounded thrice an indian reached the wall nall of the stockade and set a cabin on tire hut but no one of the lie three got back to the woods nahe ache the stranger boy sat stoically tit in the center of the enclosure everything and making no effort to take part late in the afternoon the lie ammunition began to run low lew and the muddy discoloration of the river showed that hint the red men had begun to tunnel under the walls of the fort ali and yet a dinst silly sally was ins mide made just before sunset A body pushed against done in the tower tover and dae saw the stronger hoy boy at ills side with fits M bow ant and arrow A few minutes liter later lie benid a ell from the lid lad which rang high over the din and lie saw the feathered tip of an arrow slinking in the breast of a big bie indian who feied ind and fell behind a bush tuat just ot at that hint moment there were yells from boiu the woods behind the yells of white men that flint were nn answered sered by yells willian 1 the lc fort the virginians the Virgin virginians inns and as the hie re decuers buters ers dallied ini into f on horse small afoot dive dave saw iw the lie 1 ti leap tile die wall of if the hie stockade anti and disappear behind the fleeing Ind indians inns gone hack back to eni em lie grunted to the gates bere iere tl thiron iron open old twine jerome and ills nien rushed out and beal eged and rescuers poured nil all their fire after the ninnon indians Ind inns tome some of turned biakely to empty their rifles rides once wore olt in cit in quid yelled old jorl joi rie knew another volley come coine as 88 soon 1 T I the lie indians reli ched th III cover of thick woods and come the th volley did three men fell one the tender feader of 0 the virginians whose lilaa flopped forward ns as he entered the gate ate ond and ons bought in fit old locis joels arms not another sound bound cattle from froin the woods but again dave from the tower saw gaw the cane brush r ustle rustle at the edge of a 0 thick thicket et saw a hand thrust upward with the palm paini of pence peace toward tile lie fort and again acain tile the stranger tt ranger noy apoy emerged atil this a time tillie with n R blood tangling in tits his left hand dave spang down doin and met him at t the lie ate the boy shook ills his how bow find arrow proudly pointed to a crisscross cro s car on the scalp and dave made out from his fits explanation that one nc I 1 afore tho the lad ind had tried to kill 1111 nis MB menthor ant and that flint the scar was waa lie men in tile center of the enclose tim the wounded ded lon lay iny and rhen tit jerome tc romo stripped tile shirt from ibi in lir areat lie shook his dis head bend krusely Kru cay rely 1 I 1 lie wounded man loan opened hir big pies juat in tinie to lee KM find and lie binelli d 1 I inow enow it lie ald kintly i and clen ills ii 1 1 colic tile 11 loy boy ile hie pioneer scalp were fixed steadily and be began tin to 11 idon who Is allot aliat liat boy he be asked aske a never mind now said old joel soothingly you must keep still fl the boys eyes had begun to shift under the scrutiny arid and lie started away come back herel beret commanded the wounded man rind and still searching tile the lad lie he slid said sharply again who la IR ilat boy nor would lie he haie ills his wound dressed or even take the llie cup of witter water handed to him until old joel brielly told the story when nhen he lay bac on the ground and closed tits ills eyes darene Dar kne fell ti tl in each tower a vint A ther kept his eyes strained toward the black silent woods the dking man mail was laid on a rude bed within one cabin and old joel lay on the lie floor of it close to the door the refused te ta sleep indoors and huddled himself in a blanket on oil tile the ground in one corner of the stockade men women and children ml fell to a deep and weary sleep an hour later the boy in the corner threw aside ills his blanket and when a moment later lydia clydla noe feverish and thirsty rose from her bed to get a drink of unter mater outside tier her door she stopped short on the threshold the lid iid stark naked but for tits his breechclout and swinging its his bloody scalp over ills head bead was stamping around the fire dancing tile the scalp dance of the savage to a low fierce guttural a son the boy saw her saw her face in III the blaze stricken with sith flight and horror saw her too parn para ya to move and lie he stopped storing staring ti t tier her n moment with bainge rage arld went on again old joels body filled the next doorway lie ile called out with nith a harsh oath and again ngali the boy stopped with another oath and a threatening gesture joel motioned to the corner of the stockade and with a hare flare of defiance in tits his black ey eyes es the lad stalked slowly and proudly away front from behind him the icalee of the wounded man called and old joel turned there was a ghastly smile on oil the Virgin virginians lons pallid face 1 I saw it lie said painfully my son CHAPTER III from the sundial on the edge of the high bank straight above the brim of tile majestic icelow bellow james n noble path of thick grass as broad as a modern highway ran hundreds of bards between hedges of roses straight to the open door of the great manor house with its wide verandas V 71 Z 7 4 I 1 r J who Is that boy he asked sharply and mighty pillars set deep back from the river in a groe of ancient oaks behind tile the house spread a little kingdom into fields of gross crass allent il icat lent tobacco and corn and dotted fill malte fished cabins filled with alth sl blaes aes already the house had been hullt built a 0 hundred leers of bric brick k brought brou Blit from ea england land in the builders own ships it was slid said and the second son of tile hie reigning generation one colonel dale sat hat in tile the veranda alone lie ile was as a royalist rOyall st of officer fleer fill this second son ann but liis ills elder brother had hie lie spirit of daring and adventure that should hove have been his and he land had nien sitting there four years before when hen that elder brother come came home front from his first pioneering trip into tile the wilds ds to tell that flint ills his wife was as dead tin and their only son was a captive among the indians two years later still word fume came that the father too find met death from the savages ant and tile the little kingdom passed into colonel dales hands indentured servants as well as blacks from africa had labored on that path in front of him and up it land once stalked a deputation of tile lie great tans red tribes up flint path land had come members of tile the house of bur burgesses esses bluff Plon planters tit in silk colts coats tile hie governor find members of the council distinguished visitors irmi cOlO colonial nini gentlemen an and 1 I ladles and all wils anglish still books clothes and fors forks the liti herrli rrb ills ils llie C churtz erlb of if kinsland the lie gobernor Gocr Goer nor III UK or of the kint kins 1 ls council the Insl lh baill 1 dully nily lly cepul fur 1 ur ancient kinli nl image isaie liall that nil ill freemen should have a voice to in the elections have equal right to any who the lawmakers anil and what the law the way was waa open ns as now any man could get two thousand acres br bir tenice service ten ice to the colony could build plow reap rae buy servants and roll in tits ills own coach to sit as burgess there was but one seat of learning at williamsburg what culture they hand had they brought from england or got from parents or minister and always they land imd seemed to prefer sword ond and stump to the pen they hated bitted towns tons at every wharf a long shaky aresti e ran from a out into the aher to load biond ships with tobacco for england and to get in return all oil and luxuries and flint was enough in towns roen men jostled and ami individual freedom was lost so 90 ila ho for the grent great sweeps of land sn and the sully of a territorial carlill lord englishmen they were of shakespeare time hut but living in virginia and that Is nil all they viere silve that the lie flower floer of liberty was growing faster in tit iho new world sol soil englishmen called it the good land and found it most plentiful sweet wholesome and fruitful of nil all others down it now rame came it little girl the flower of it nil those dond dead and gone and tier lier coming ans just as though one of the flowers about tier her laid stepped from its gny gay company on one or the other oilier side of the path to make through them it chil rity triumphal ns as the fairest of them nil all at the dial ila site she paused and tier her impatient blue eyes turned to it bend of the yellow river for the first glimpse of a gay barge that flint soon must come at the wharf the song or of negroes rose rosa ns as they union unloaded ded the boat jut from site she would go and see if there was not a package for tier her mother ond and perhaps n present for herself so Y with lilt another look 1001 to the river hend bend she turned but she mofid no no farther Ine instead tend she gave A little gasp in ili feli there then uns ns no fear what site she saw mas vi oa surely startling enough to hilie made her wheel in night flight instead site she gaad steadily into a of grove grave black ebes that were owl fixed on tier her from under a green branch that overhung the footpath and steadily she search searched the figure standing there from the coonskin cap down the lie it hinged hunting shirt and fringed ined bree breeches hes to the feet all anil still the st strange figure stood arms folded motionless and silent neither the attitude nor the silence wits quite pleasing and the girls supple stipple slenderness stiffened tier her firms went rigidly to tier her sides and a haughty little snap sent tier her chin upward who ore ere you and what do yon want it ans as a new uny sj for n wornnie to speak to a min he in turn was not pleased rd and a glenin in his eyes showed it 1 I am the lie son of a she storied started to tough laugh but grew for she hod had the blood of poca liontas hontas herself licis elf you are no an indian ile he shook ills his head scorning to explain dropped ills his rifle ica to the hollow of ills his arm and reaching for its his belt where slie she saw the buck buckhorn born li handle tindle of a hunting knife came toward her but slie site did not flinch drawing Dram tIng a letter from the belt he handed it to her it was so worn and soiled that she took it daintily and saw on it her fathers fat liers name the boy waved his hand bond conrd the house far up tile the path ile he live here you to see him tile the boy grunted assent and with a shock of resentment the little lady started up the path with her head very high indeed the boy I 1 slipped noiselessly after her his face unmoved but tits bis ores eyes were darling right and left to the flowers trees and bushes to every flitting strange bird the gray streak of a scampering squirrel and what he could not see his ears took in the clanking chinking chains of 0 stork orl horses the whir of a quail tile the screech or of a peacock the songs ot of negroes from far olt off fields on oil the porch it a gentleman la in powdered lg ig and knee lir lifting ting ills eyes frow froin a copy of the spectator to give an all order to a negro servant saw two first look of beil bewilderment derment on ills his fine taco face gave way to a tolerant smile ile he asked no question for a purpose i ery cry decided mid and dt was pla tinly hiang ing the little lady on oil and lie would not have to question S swiftly slie she ran up tile steps tier lier mouth primly set find and handed him a letter the la Is the sou son of a king A what the son of a kin king she repeated all ali said tile hie gentleman humoring her ask n sk his highness to be seated ills highness uns looking from one to tile other gravely and keenly lie ile did not quite understand but he knew gentle tun fun was being poked tit at him and he dropped sullenly on the edge of the porch tin and d stared in front of 0 him ake little girl saw that ills his laoc inoc cobins were much worn and that in one mas na a hole with ith the e edge dge bloodstained and then she began to watch ilitch tier her fo fathers face which showed shoed that the contents of the letter were astounding III him in ile he rose quickly when lie he had dad finished and put out his hand to tile the stranger 1 I am glad to see you my boy he sold said with great hin kindness driess barbara fills Is it a little aln kinsman ann of ours froni from kentucky ile he was the adopted son of an indian chief but by blood lie 14 ls knur our cousin ills name Is dile dale mrs mr willoughby Willough bT nry may I 1 present by cousin frore keu ken tucky 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