Show f pt The Romance of Q Braddock Braddocks s sA Defeat A t h r I r V 1 r t cottons 6 a J V Vr r N MYERS S t oJ Copyright by Hugh J. J r 1 THE STORY Webster Brand bond r nd scout sout and say ap SP for s 's army army valuable Information at nt l Fort Vort rt Duquesne Duquesne Du Du- quesne hut Braddock In Inn European warfare falls tb rear real Izo Ize It Its Importance Brond Broad IP Is sent s nt 1 back to o Fort p Duquesne quesne and I Is also with n a to Groghan n English n emissary ry among the Indians He Is accompanied nc ac companied d by Round Hound Paw friendly Indian scout scour On Wt th way th they f are joined by bya a back back- woodsman Cro The party comes upon a gro group p of ot settlers settlors threatening a y young ung girl taste v whom they accuse e of witchcraft Brond f rescues her herand and ind she disappears rs pe Brond der de de delivers livers his message me sage to Groghan nn Young Col Cot Geqrge Washington to rescues rescuE'S the scout from bullying English soldiers Brond proceeds proceeds pro pro- seeds on a scouting expedition to Fort Duquesne and finds ands n a French scouting party besieging an old cabin In which Elsie has 1 taken refuge In the ensuing she escapes Brand Brond takes toke his way yay to Duquesne Carrying out his plan to enter the fort rort unquestioned Brond Brand visits an Indian town which a 8 woman sachem controls There he be meets a French officer Palest who has hae tolled failed In his at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to win over to the French cause Brond finds find Elsie dressed as a 8 man under protection The girl tells him she has found the English cruel and Is going to the French Unable to dissuade dissuade dis dis- suade her Brond tells her of at his hIt I mission to Duquesne and she promises not to betray him They learn Beauvais has escaped from I and Is la on his way to DuqUEsne Duquesne Du Du- quesne Brond realizes he must mull be stopped CHAPTER VI Continued VI-Continued Continued 15 15 n With RIth a 0 squawking cry cb the the fellow tell came to a 0 1111 hull halt It and It was was voice that drawled 1 Lors Lurs taw luw l I If U It aint Brond 1 Im I'm Immortal mortal glad to see you mister ulster Bulsar I J I exclaimed In an undertone Get Into the bushes herer here here re r quick 1 I Theres There's a D man coming I have hn business with and ond you'll spoil the game garue How the rhe devil did you yn come to tobe be ahead of the the- Frenchman I proved ed to he be the better beller man mon So Su SoI I passed d him I f You saw r B U i I the Frenchman 7 I gasped I I He He was behind a Ii t thim tree ree 1 J him fair ti tight ht with empty hands und and the tried fried to shoot me ate We tired fired hout the same Lame time but bui It II wa was my illY lead that thai done the tickling I You ru fought with Beauvais You iou shot shor him him I dully n asked ked He's Hes tl feeding reeding II I the fishes ashes In the now know how the tilE nt ot the village e would take lake lakeIt It If they y Turned Id I'd d killed him lulu so I tucked souse borne rocks racks In his clothes and heaved hell hIm and the stolen gun Iun the river It wu was a nuts most fetching rule rille Hated Haled like sin bin In to IH heave II e It II t In Youve killed d B the he Fren French Frenchman Frenchman h man mun I repeated hardly able uble to tn rent real realIze Ize this sudden turn turu In und tend y yet yei 1 s selfishly glad Klud Iud that thai the disagreeable task hail not nOI fallen tallen lo tu me the to perform Hes Jn just 1 U as d dead as aN 8 n he even ElD taut can canDe De Dc But he tired first Only chain the t- t tIe he rind had Lawful life l 1 Bui But Im I'm glad n r. see you Hush I 1 h Here ere Conies comes r with n H light lIr step tep This Thin man will he ht red followed cI me the to one slur side rl he hr band some saute sugar u al trees Irle Bur Ihl us tH flu rho newcomer turned the hear bend the tilt In lu Increased cleu creased lel II light III pt permitted d III me rite to ro rellI nize hint him on first sight I II I relaxed uty ui UJ onus and whistled t Ill Hound Paw t i cu came CHille lute down rn ro 10 u walk and without an ashy hesitation S swung oil the path mm anti beheld he ht Joined us When Wilen he lie grunted a 8 soft Yo I hut but III other oilier otherwise her wise he showed no surprise Killed tilt the The Tilt hone hone breaking man Frenchman mid arid threw it him Into lulU flip river r he tIP announced Tine The Wolf roar man did not know which wu wits In the river t till III now V The hake hone breakers WH wat ver Cr very good to nt J him hurt Ping fling him mortality I exploded J Cro ro I ul emir h his hlf e eyes eves take his parole al nr ul night u and d he l the rawhide and und stole stolp the rhe gun eun un and IIno trailed him ham nigh lucked ducked out lUL Ive I've and ond day We will swing back Duck und and enter the tie village from the bouth I 1 said Did 1111 t anyone see you follow him from ruin tilt the 5 vII village hi Je 7 He chuckled und explained I I aint been In th the village 1 Id I'd trailed him hIm n Into It II I cattle came round 4 to this tills side and und waited fur for hut him to W con come out out I I ku knew w hed he'd be In u swear t lo to makE make Duquesne No village Injun i i has seen me at al all i i r relieved rJ My mind was greatly still adhered to my iny plan of ut entering t the south couch but with the village from L first tithe time tI l' l tilt the appearing for and a with liea Be hidden In ha the n r river r would know Delaware vare und urH Business nothing of me rne bloody the round IO to the fort would argil he l open t 11 11 MIH II i proposed art taking the UIt S f. f A t. t i with it n me t to act us is express while white l t remained In lu the rhe village to ro n re lay luy III my r report hack haC to the rhe 11 i rm y So II we swan s awu away due hull iii in a 11 wide I circle tl the Routing t ahead to tta I ent re y ant nut Into an J Delaware IU I hunters And US hll-US its as we tie tru tray trav traveled elect intuit rU told I r me toe toe-ot lt tito he things f he tie l h had cI heard heUl and the t conditions he hurl bud tr observed d during his Ills brief Stil at the the camp p of f the Life road i v IL lu Captain II In Jack the e wild burner launder iu er 01 oi the tile l and und tats his ru men n luau hurl offered th their Jr ser services l es to 10 iut at i 1 j Wills Will's ti creek only uny to L be e told rold rhe they t a must b bunder bunder n under dl discipline martin net nel hud hid held to his hh decision and und the truly truy formidable band d had holl returned returned to ro r the he forest lt if It ts Is Is n not aid t given ghen to any man to know how huty history read hud had tho those e bold 1011 and ond cunning rau rangers ers been received re reo cel on their lr own terms but I 1 for fur forone forone furone one will always believe helle the result would have been heen different Halket and his division dl hud had started un on the seventh of ot June Gates Gutes with hi bf his hist hisA A t 9 F 1 I f J 1 i 4 4 Y f v I i ir r J l fr frn n V Vr r 5 fri Ii And That Just About Empties M My Skull Said In Finishing His to ton Lonn no Recital division on the following day and Dunbar destined Dunbar-destined destined to he be known knO 8 as June tenth the Tardy Tardy on on The army hud had moved a at a snails snail's pace nce Five Fhe mlle mites had been a good goodday's goodday's days day's march Some days only onic hall haf thai distance had bad been covered lu Be Because Because cause Huse of the artillery and oDd the man many wagons It was necessary to tl halt hall anti and un build bridges over the many creeks j and make a 8 passable road through h ht t every very str stretch of swamp It II resulted that the rhe wagons and packhorses were strung out our lo to a most rust dangerous len length 1 h Could the French Frend V have hn led their In beyond the Little crossing it II Is 18 Ismy Isray my ray belief the army would never ne have i reached cached the Great crossing The steady stead suit stilt diet hull had brought a tJ general ll sickness to the array army I was wu specially IJ y ury s' sorry to learn butt Colonel Washington a H veteran In Western Wester U uvel el haul had been hlen III ill for I nays s 's The army had used lisen up ten len days In attu making king the Little Iii Meadows n a tI distance jf it if from twenty rity Ih five to tn thirty miles U o oud s travel vel for such cuch men meD H HS as list fIst toad and Croghan 11 r that haul cut camp lull B oi ut war wan bunot bun hao ot rn I held It hI by tJ the If commander III II e I u and u all ull II it anti lUn n ft Ulcers o II like rs AI Al tutu thai I council Colonel laid had boldly urged u rapid It forward fOI u tutu movement l with the light dl fil vision leU leaving the he hen heavy 5 v tt h nine oure up U as us he besl hest 1 they hey could iii fur innately his rank did lie not penult lint him ro fI du do more than haJJ advise although hit his pinion was sought by hy Braddock It II II was derided at 01 this council thin thai St St. r. r lair air wll with h four tutu t h hundred red men should go I to ru hurry up the rhe road h u. u t work WC with th k Burton BUfton anti mcl Sparks following ln two days duys later litter with el eight ht hundred picked men This ThIll decision gu e great offense tf to Colonel who with and others ae 8 left lefi Tim Thus we had not nol nt only ly sickness In the array army but also ulso III Ill fet feeling oral y On Un the day left left the M It he l ed he lie would r reach Kirt lii ii sue lIe nut later Inter titan than June twenty eighth t Ii HIM Bill fl although It Ii was only tulles miles to the lire Omit react 11 eros crossing this J portion Irlon of the march VP was was- I t covered lefi until June Junt twenty twenty r f tin h. h V making the live more mOle Iu lugs Truth of It wile was the rile en I Ire army WM forced to murk maik time nl IIi the Ow heels heals I of Sh St Clubs Club's tree chop lI pets pers rs U II tU ll ll ed me uric to lea learn rn that thul I small II of Hf h Indians J were already hU llIn ll In tug nig anti and that only s police po pa lice Ilee prevented presented o a rn l massacre At r r thUl point In lit the campaign II a at t tain tir luck cud and Ids would have letti W le hf nf uhle service I I i It 11 WitS was that thai the army wa 11 was Nick ask Iek urH and dit disrupted cI and that chit the pro pru Were r ft filled led with forebodings i n as us the they dally y for a 8 tight ht In Ie th the woods lI being tied d down dawn and ham 1111 hampered I pored nv hv absurd military restrictions Tills gloomy g heartH hearing on un the part pan of ol olmen I n men erica en supposed to know the ways of the Indian discouraged d the regulars re t was another li r Inexplicable hie piece if 1 fully lolly Vos failure ure to ro uW util Ize Cro s forty forts is Iroquois warriors lID Jin the rhe march h It seems scents that thur Colonel Colima r lames II nilS nil'S I In mi ties s lw governor at Fort Fori urn Cum Cumberland u m berland herland not wish to have IlOve any ony atthe ot at the sixty Indian women and children left lefi un under tinder er hIs Jils c care lre during absence assured the commander that eight In Indians fan would us scouts Cluts and ond that the rest should h he directed to take their families away awny from i he the creek Why General Braddock should have hov listened ned to such ruinous advice Is ht he hl yond any ony runners forest slon soon Up tip to 0 the time line the und and I left Wills Will's creek It had hod been the commanders commander's great greut desire to hn have I as us large u a body borly of lit Indians accompany tim JIm o as po possible He Be completely reversed reversed re reo versed its his judgment und and agreed with Inn Innes that eight would be enough It was to Captain Hoggs Hogg's camp lomp ol ot roud road builders builders slightly In advance ot of th the body under Sir John lohn St. St Clair that thai bad taken Beauvais While In Inthe inthe the rhe camp he had hod been heen Impressed bythe by bythe bythe the great fear ot of the men They considered con cun It miraculous that my companion corn com panion should succeed In bringing a French prisoner through the enemy's savages so and Into the comp camp Although he a assured them that no nu Indians were then lurking about the tile camp they were very loath louth to separate sep sen arate from from one another or to pene penetrate De- De Irate more wore than a short distance Into Inlo the woods False alarms were repeatedly repeat edly being given nil all of ot which slowed ap up p the work of ot hewing out the rhe road for Braddock While In the road cutup bud had met Christopher Gist veteran of the till Ohio country who was now acting asa a aa as asa a Seoul scout for Braddock On learning that was to report hack back to me i could he ht find me Gist had supplied him with many of ot the facts Olt relating I Ito ifo the departure of the army urmy from the creek and ond Its faring as far a as the Great crossing ro And that thai Just about empties m mj my skull said suld In finishing his hili long recital Ive ve walked stilt soft and ond easy sos so's not to Jolt anything out ot of my poor head nd And tween tweeD you and ond me ne and ond the Monongahela l that hunt Braddock will lick himself before th the FI French have e a 0 chance to tu have u tI wring with him If It he aint mighty careful If hed he'd send end six or eight hundred riflemen rifle men ahead and und turn hack all hl his big guns and wagons wed we'd have lve Duquesne flue Du quesne In n two shakes of a 8 dogs dogu tall tail No how slow th the army urmy Is in cunning cornIng It will reach the rhe furl fort I Irold told rold him The French ore are whipped nl ready remly I lie said nothing to this tits rind and fill foi Ule ranee I found the fhe grin missing from hi hili homely tact fact I explained mv nuy pit plan ii for lor him him to wait waif In vii 11 lage luge and to tn he ready night II and fill day dayto da dato to carry laIT to eta the rhe army nn any news r that the on Onondaga uga might hl bring In The rite program did Ihl ant please him hirn hut hul hit his visit to ro HII Hoggs Hogg's s 's cutup camp had hun Impressed tin lIm with a II fear that thaI all ull was WUI not no g go goIng Ing III well with our cause causa e. e and he was much nitre more amenable um to reason on than fit formerly la Ion was ns waiting wulting fur for us at tile ire t bouthern southern end of Of the lIlu village e. e To lu e relieve from possible array annoy a ance nee should he be he seen been In the Ule cult coin puny pany of an avowed veO ot of the rue French h I we agreed It was hellei heller het let forthe for fur rhe the Indian and ond me tie to 10 enter the tile vi E Ero ro together t h while lie he held heir hgr hick k for tor II nn an n hour When lIen he lie next heal saw us he wits was tutu not to tu recognize u tt tie TO BE CONTINUED U Ul i 2 l 12 22 tR f f tl u H n |