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Show BEAVER PRESS A Candle in the Wilderness CHAPTER X Continued 21 They looked at each other and as they looked a littla moisture came to their eyes. They breathed fast like those near exhuustion. Neither uttered a word as they turned and pushed their runners toward the moke. Nearlng the place whence It proceeded they saw back In the tim ber, now bare of foliage, the hull and mast of a large shallop. Built upon it end nround the mast was a little house with gray bark sides and small windows of Isinglass. Alongside the hull and reaching upward some three fathoms a stone chimney had been built At the steps leading to Its door they got the grateful odor of frying fish. Suddenly a white man of middle age opened the door and looked down upon them with astonishment "In the name o' God who are you?" he asked In Dutch. "Wanderers in the waste who have lived through a dozen miracles," Amos answered In the same language. "I think that you are an angel at the fate o' Paradise." "Are you the lost men that Miss Weld and her brother have been looking for?" the Dutchman asked. "The very same men," Amos answered. "This Is Mr. Heathers. My name Is Todklll." "Well, well! We scoured the lake for you and some friendly Indians were helping us. I am Nicholas Van Ilrocklln. Miss Weld left a letter here for Mr. Heathers. Come In, come In and share my food and drink and shelter. I'm as lonely as a .buck deer In the summer." "I snum I This Is splendldious I" the old pioneer exclaimed. "I'm kind o' slewed with happiness." Amos and Itobcrt sat on a rustic lounge covered with a beaver-skirobe. For a moment neither spoke. There was a grateful sense of warmth A Tale of the Beginning of New England By IRVING BAGHELLER WNU Service Copyright by Irving BacheLler ture in their conduct, but for a long time they were silent Indians gave freely to honored guests. So presently they arose and began to help themselves to the stores of the little trading house no doubt they felt entitled to its best hospitality. In spite of all the efforts of Amos to restrain them they ransacked the hold and drank all the wine and strong water they could find. They seized the meat, fish and vegetables, put them all In Van Brock lln's big brass kettle, boiled and de voured them. That evening the neat and cleanly room had become a noisome pen of prostrate, savages on the beds, lounge and the floor. Some of them were drunk but not sufficiently so to make them vio lent or quarrelsome. The storm abated next morning and there being nothing to eat In the cabin, the Indians went away on their racquets. Amos and Robert hung the bed covers on a line for the day, loved friend William had left him, for It was clear that all the brethren were convinced of his Innocence. As they ate, Amos told of Tawandoha and hU melancholy fate in the far moun tain country. "Old Tawandoha!" the Dutchman exclaimed. "Always I bowed my head to him. He would never drink fire water. He was the bravest fighter, the wisest chief In the Long House. He was humane. Many a white man owes his life to old Tawandoha. He had a noble dignity and that was hla He would have no only ornament feathers and no gewgaws on his per son." Their host lived at Fort Orange on the North river. His sons and him self traded with the savages. In Au gust the great hurricane which swept over the country drove their shallop ashore and bedded her so fast In the rising ground that they had not been able to get her back to water. They had built the little house above her to serve as a camp and headquarters on the Lake of the Iroquois, and brought timber for another shallop. The early deep snow had delayed their moving. His sons were over In the west end of the Long House more than a hun dred leagues away. If Amos and Robert would stay and guard his camp he would go home for Christmas and re turn as soon as possible with sleds and help for his moving. Then Amos and Robert could go down to the fort with the party. SIttlag by the fireside with pipes and tobacco Nicholas said that the Iroquois would be coming south In a in the room. month or so with sledloads of meat Amos blew his nose and wiped his and captives. The meat taken cnek and said presently, 'Tin made In themanyupper mountains would come o' . hard stuff, but now I reckon we're down the lake bound for the Long lila ) the boy who went off with Satan House. Unlike the nomad tribes of aw J by and by got back to his father's the north the Iroquois had learned to ha use." be a provident people but were quite Robert read the letter from Peggy as cruel as their Some of Them Were Drunk. loud to Amos. These are Its words: white men had been neighbors. Many tortured and slain "uear Kobert : We have spent a by tnem. They were now at peace washed the linen and scrubbed the month In the wilderness trying to find with the Dutch but It was like thin floors, for the house had suddenly you. I think that you may wonder Ice, liable to break any moment become a rookery. It was no light why, but I am sure that If you have Power was the only thing they rematter to be visited by a number of kept the medallion and have had the spected. White men would be secure savages. patience and the curiosity to wrest when the savages were destroyed and The white men were on short ra from its embrace the secret which It not till then. Yes, he traded strong tions of fish and wild duck two of held, you will know why I have been water for Skins. If they didn't get which Robert brought down with a glad to endure hardship and peril It from him they would get It from musket which hung In the cabin for your sake. It may be all In vain others. He knew It was bad for them, until about ten days had passed. The but I had to do my best I pray God but poisoned corn was also bad for Dutchman came with sleds and two that this may fall In your hands. If crows. They were pests, and any helpers and two unexpected guests It does It will open my heart and mind thing bad for them was good for the Mr. James Rosewell, of Boston, and to you. Whatever you may have done white man. You might as well try to his guide and protector, an officer I wish you to know that they are filled make a hog fit for the parlor as try from the fort below. He had come by with the charity of St Paul and of to civilize a savage. ship to the island of the Manhados, Jesus Christ The magistrates, the Thus he voiced the sophistries of then up the North river In a pinnace church and every one I meet in Boston the rum trader, but Amos and Robert to the Dutch Fort Orange. There Van believe you to be In hiding because of were In no mood to argue with him, Brockiin had given him news of the your guilt I do not share their opin Alter an tney naa seen they were men he sought He coldly shook ion. It has been hard to stand against quite willing to agree that savages hands with Robert and Amos, saying: them but I stand. In the present state were nearer to the beast than to men. I have come a long way to find Yet they were human, with certain ad you." mlrable virtues which had rightly "Thanks. It Is a friendly thing to given hope to the good fathers In the do," said Robert "I am glad to tell north and to the rulers In New Eng you that we do not need help." land. But there are those In Boston who The Dutchman gave them hot water need your help," Rosewell rejoined. "Who needs my help?" for a bath, ointment with which to "I reckon you know as well as I rid themselves of unpleasant company that William Heydon is suffering pun acquired In the Indian camps, and In sisted that they occupy the two beds, ishment for a crime. Most people are while he took the lounge. They had convinced that you committed It I a night of rest the like of which they have come here on my own responsi had not known since leaving the hos bility to ask you as a gentleman to tell me the truth and I rely wholly on pitable roof of Madame Hebert. In the morning, after a meal of your sense of Justice and right." "Tell we what has happened to my dried fish and potatoes and blueberry cake with a refreshing hot drink made friend William Heydon," said Robert. He Is suffering for adultery with by stewing dried leaves of spearmint one Mabel Hartley, once a servant In and raspberry, Van Brocklln washed the dishes and left his new friends. your house. At first she swore It on These were his parting words : "You William. She fell 111 and confessed to Harry Vane that she might have been win nnu meat, ana nour ana vege tables and drink In the hold. Help In error as to the man. Later she said in my presence that her mind had ; yourselves freely to anything you he gave more want. There is an abundance of fish changed that as In the lake. You have only to cut thought to the matter she was con holes In the lee and bait and set your vinced that you and not William had hooks. I shall return within ten days. been with her that night. Two duys later the woman died of a fever In I do not think that any Indians will he coming down the lake before then. her lungs. William was released from Most of my strong water Is burled In prison and put on the limits of the a snowdnrt. ir you stand firm and town pending your return, the Inhab That's the Smoothest Stuff That talk Dutch to them, they'll give you no itants and certain members of the Ever Slipped Down My Gullet." court, especially Governor Vune, be bother." lieving him to be Innocent But he of feeling you would better not come has to wear arounll his neck a noose to the colony. Take a ship for Hol CHAPTER XI of hempen rope with a tnll two feet land at New Amsterdam. Let Todklll ong. This Is a heavy burden, and It come and tell me wlmt you have done Is your duly to him and to his friends of James Rosewell The Coming and, If you wish It, I will go to you. to remove It." and Its Revelations We could meet at my father's house In It was a argument, full dear old England. They had three delightful days of of the note of sincerity. They were remained to have "We the last rest and comfort In the Interesting here on the cleaned he at the of Nicholas Van Rrocklln. standing day and must now be going. I give boat-hous- e of the lake. Robert paced up this the caress you once begged of ine Late In the third day a bitter wind edge nd down In the shoveled area. He not In vain. from the northwest with snow began stood a moment looking off at the "Yours faithfully, to whistle In the chimney am hiss snow-ladeHis face had forest "Peggy Weld." ugalnst the bark whIIs. The bare paled. Both Amos and Rosewell Robert lifted the sheet branches of beech, birch and maple watched him with Interest. Amos The frozen trees hands were sung like whips. of paper to his Hps and kissed It trembling a little. There "Well, boys, supper will be ready In creaked and groaned, and now and was a touching note of despair In Rob minute," said Vun Hrocklln, as he then a report like a postol shot rang ert's voice as he turned and said: took the fish and potatoes from the through the timbered slope when links A rope on his neck ! Every morn Are and began setting the table. He of frost were broken. Leagues of the ing he gets up to be hanjjrd again by forest roof were bending and billow descended to the hold through a hatch the neck and to be gazed at by the In the floor and brought up butter and ing in the blast It reminded Amos crowd. My God! This Is torture! of artillery fire when a great tree cotd baked beans aud bread and pump It Is burning a man up by Inches. And kin sauce and a Jug and a bottle of near them crashed down, clearing Its Vane Is governor!" wine. He gave each of his guests a way to the ground. They brought In Harry TO BK CONTINUED ) wood. store of a good dram of gin and molasses called Suddenly a band of twelve Iroquois "black strap." No Wonder It's Hard That's the smoothest stuff that ever hunters arrived, crowded Into the reason a foreigner has a hard took One Amos and of said house down my gullet," possession literally clipped at time learning our language Is because with a shake of his risht foot it They took off their racquets we ourselves ball It all up. We say Tney rent a most delightful hour the door. Their leader spoke a word we drink up a pint of milk when we of greeting. Then they shook themat the title. selves like dogs and sat down facing drink It down. We also say we drink Robert bad thrown off his depresston and was In a mood to celebrate the Are, their blankets over their a glaBS full of soda when ire drink li heads, There was no not of 111 n. J empty. Florida Tlmwj Uuiua. the loss of It His fear for bis be n (v A Breve Man' Speech Samuel H. 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