Show elsw I 1 the e plains of abraham tty by ar antles olive oliver clywood Ci ww 6 br Doo doubleday bleday doran a co ci ino vl service CHAPTER IX continued 12 this co convinced mInced them that fortune was will bound to smile cu them again they had loved sol yan yon nith tier death had bad come bad bail imes times now the spirits would give them an cay easy ft inter and next year would see the earth cowering flowering with good things nude mide ready for the feast there were still plenty of earthy things and a supply of late green corn packed tinny an ay in husks and kept for this oc callon the lost last day was long for tol nette it hod find begun nt at dawn and hough though halted his ills men ruen at intervals to let her tier rest it had not ended with dusk darkness came before they reached a plain on he the far side of which was a hill be vond ond this hill was they could see the glow of a gapit fire fighting the file sky Tol tobnette nette forgot her exhaustion nt at this sign of the end of their jour nev she observed that some one took froia jeems the scalp of the man be he bad had killed which ho he had ried tried to conceal from her tier eyes under a flap gap of buckskin then she saw all of the tile scalps taken by the he foRt fastened ened ille dangling fish to a slender pole which was carried on the shoulders of two in m n the hair of one of these scalps almost to the ground with the scalp carriers in the lead they came to the hill nt at the edge of the tile plain and looked down on the valley lalley of at command the men bearing the scalp laden pole had gone ahead and now tiaona fol lowed with milli his ills men in single lie file tobnette Tol nette and jeems were ere midway in the line ade elave collars of buL buckskin slin had been placed about their reeks and jeems was nas stripped of his weapons the warriors did not hurry their step was slow and and not a man broke the silence with a whisper or a word A sea of torches advanced it rolled in and out of hollows llop a flood then came to a level elal and formed two streaking str ln lines of fire the scalp bearers reached these a bundred yards ahead of tiaona and his men Tol tobnette nette could see them enter the light of the torches and in these moments the voices of the savages rose to the heavens tiaona paused and not until the scalp bearers had pa roiled their grisly burden the en tire bengta of the gauntlet of flame did he proceed again tobnette Tol nette felt te allne mr ow oer her a strange faintness of body and limb stories which she had forgotten stories she hid heard of the in ians from childhood stories thit th it had sent shivers through the hearts of a thousand homes along the fron tiers all crowded upon her tier at once wild tales of appalling torture and vengeance of stile st ike and fire ere and humin suffering slie she had listened to them from her tier fattier father a lips from froin passing voyageurs hid bid heard them in the gossip of the and she remembered by name this or deil which awaited them it was le chemin de do feti the road of kire through th rousi which they must pass others had died in it roasted by pitch filled torches blinded killed by inches so she had been told tiaona hid his ills w lors moved blondy they were like bronze men without flesh or emotions their heads were high their bodies straight their jaws set bird as they stalked at a death march pace between the lie columns of their people jeems fell into this rhythmic movement As the mouth of the torch monster began to swallow them and then with tyes abit became flame like pools of fear and i exhaustion tobnette Tol nette saw that not a band gave a sign of raising acain them the torches coughed and flared but not a bpark touched touche dj their skins in passing iso no eyes gleamed hatred at them no anger finger clenched no ivind was ral raised the thing me bue had tit ird in the land of iier ter people were ere lies the indians noll ans killed in war nor hut but they did not torture they lid did not pull out eyes and thrust sticks through quivering quler ing flesh tl ey were men and women and children like all other men and women and children these truths she thought she had discovered for herself but one thing she did not fully know she might have learned it had she caught the low voiced wals perlous which fallowed the passing pass lii of the warrior bhe blie Is T tangas aboa s daughter she Is the spirit of sol 8 of yan yon returned to us in the flesh now our good fortune will return the sun will shine light and laughter will come for sol yan yon Is here out of death to live with us again V they crossed a field of darkness toward the brea and when they came come among them tiaona was marching in jeems place and jeems had bad disappeared she had not sensed his ills going or presence and before e she knew that jeems was no linger among the warriors she found herself standing alone with the seneca chief ane the people gathering in a circle around them tiaona b byan an to speak ills voice renewed her as she searched fur jeems he ile was describing the success of their gods in restoring sll sit vcr ver heels to her tier people it did not take tale long for to tell 1 story his ills voice rose his ills scarred and tatter face assumed a strange ent gentleness leness and tobnette Tol nette knew lint that beems was safe though slie site could not see hid slie she waited trembling trem byng and nt at lost tiaona was finished and stood for a moment with milli upraised liand hand amid a great husli hush then poke spoke a single word clil A girl tho the thrust sprang forward and as she came tiaona took the collar from and crushed it into the earth with mith his foot A murmur ran through the circle and alao i stood blood with his arms folded across lits life breast and toinette Tol netto nette felt the hands of hie lie thrush drawing her an ay they panted at the edge of the ciralo ant an for a little no one roofed ur spoke then there oas as a break in the ring behind the ceneca chief and through it came jeems escorted between and another warrior tollette To luette gasped and almost cried out there was nn tin utilizing change in la jekins he lie was nos stripped t to the tile waist moist and painted in stripes of red and yellow and black ills is face appeared to be cut in crimson rushes gashes ills thick blond hair was nos tied in a warlock from which streamed a feather showing he had killed a man at Ti Tia dogas command there advanced from the circle an old man with a wizened face and white hair and a younger man whose form was bent almost double because of a deformity behind these two vao came a little gi girl ra the old man was lie the cloud the younger was nos hia his 4 e to oa she found herself standing alone with the seneca chief son sorn hokana or gray I 1 ox a name tiame of which lie had been proud in the tile days before a tree fell on his ills tepee and crooked his back when he was the fastest runner in the tribe tiaona spoke again he ile exulted in the fortune which had sent another son to a son with a white skin and a strong body who vilio would care for him hira and who nho would be a brother to grai for his thin and qu liering hands eiloo ui Loo took the slave collar from jeems neck and stamped stomped it joyously into the ground while the broken oray gray rol raised r hani in brotherhood and friendship there was nos something so wistfully sweet in the big dark eyes of the little indian maiden malden that jeems drew her tier to him and put an arm about her tier it was then Tol tobnette nette left the thrush and ran to him so that all saw her held in his painted arras with adonat an the alood pigeon Il geon a happy partner in the moment when Tol tobnette nette proudly and a bit defiantly told and through it the whole seneca nation notion that this mis m is the tile man to whom she belonged like a flood lit birst loose from a dan darr the ni night lit of feasting and rejoicing began it was preceded by a combat among the do dogs in ili which odd established his right tu to u 3 ar wig aig file four footed jt of after a it time h ha found a scent on the beaten groua that led him film to the tepee n which b I 1 ch had been prepared for Tol tobnette nette here he found tol nette and the thrush whose mime a long time 2 ago 10 had been mary vary dagelen 4 0 0 it seemed to jeems that from the be lInnic his freedom among the was as great as if he bad had been born of their blood gray fo fox took hira him to the tepee of his falter after which was to be his home and food find drink were brought to him then he was left alone for even the delighted old man whom tiaona had honored by the gift of a eon son could not be kept away nay from the celebration which was nos in pro progress grebs the thought came to jeems that no impediment had been placed in his way if it he chose to steal off into the night and disappear the ease milli which he airn have set out on this adventure was uns proof of his helplessness I 1 like ike lie tl e others he was URS a captive forcier fo reer reier there was no escape from un less one accepted death as the route he ile did not think of escape because its dere possessed him lie ile was nas measuring his ills world and ad justin himself to its limitations with emotions which were far for from unhappy alth tobnette Tol nette he could find here all that flint he wanted in life and anti knew that she belonged to in him film and the people of Chen tifilo were no now aware amore of it ills heart exulted and h hi I 1 arldt rose with the chanti chanting rg of the tile wages savages hat did it make inake that they were nere burled buried in the heart of the tile forests for nil all time he lie had Tol tollette Dette she loved hlin him Cell ct wo ild not be a sepulchre their love would mould trans fonn form it into n paradise lie was eager to EM tee Tol tobnette nette again and began to sip for a where he be could titan him self of the colored cl clay R Y piastre tere 1 1 on fill face and bod body Y alth plia t 1 I 1 his ila 1 clothes ho lie went to HIP tile aler and after offer a thorough scrubbing n returned fully dressed with t lie eagle cagle feather still in his ills mir III ills 8 weapons had been rhea eh en to 0 o lilii hini and u ho lie carried boldly 1 bell he joined the indians hie tri fire was nos bl blazing azill an tin as soon us the hungry town tom hid foil fed itself tile scalp dances bould begin begill the scalps nere ft ere already EUS on the victory cje in its light children were ere phi ing about elbein the one fine dark hair of one was ling so long that they could reach the tresses alth n ath their finders finers and when they did this they shrieked with ecstasy among them nos a white skinned boy of seen or eight who laughed and with milli the others jeems found an opportunity to have hae a word with aul ant learned that tobnette Tol nette and clil nere together could not tear himself from the martial dignity which nas as expected of hlin him until the warriors haj bal boid of their exploits in the scalp dance so jeedas went nent alone and found Ti Tia ogis tepee and the sm iller one near it in which aich were mere loinette lol nette and the thrush it was nos lighted by a torch and he drew back among the tile dark boles holes of lie the trees and united nailed at the end of half halt an hour tobnette Tol nette and clil caroo came out into the illumined forest for a little whilo they stood under the gnarled limbs of the tile trees which cast shadows from over their heads ue he did not reveal himself until clil s form ills disappeared among the pools of digit and find darkness as 03 she aut cut toward the tires fires then he ad danced calling name softy her surprised him she haq a not the ragged and dl sheeler shee led young woman who ulio had ar or rive rived with Ti TIa ogas men mary ilary the thrust had dressed h r in the prettiest raiment left b bi silver heels there was mas something about the ions long yellow feather the tile filet ol 01 scarlet cloth and the bobish clow clore ness of her drees dres s which made deemi give a wondering cry try it was as if they had come to her from an obscure and distant past and hid always belonged to her he ile had dreamed of this loiczly wll dernec der ness princess through years of boa boyhood hood hopes and plantings ings he had built up worlds about mimi her and in those worlds he lie had fought for her tier and had adventured with her where he lie alone was ans her tier champion and her hero he ile had carried gifts of feathers to her feathers and fawnskin and a liate of cloth like that which she no nov v wore re in a crimson land band about her forehead 1 lo 10 him it was the precious red velvet there in the 1 I w of the won he lie opened his ills arms and tol nette came luto into them CHAPTER X OR half on an hour jeems was F FOR alone with fornette fol nette ahen ilary returned and nith her came a messenger ali ft ID took him blin back to the dances which glitch were beginning about the lie ile was not dot embar embarrassed by lie the critical I 1 eyes upon him the mildness of the night entered his ills blood a heat beat set blazing by the joy of his possession and as he lie chanted the seneca senea victory songs with the others tol tot nette was in his ills heart and words e a e rad fad 1 to lim fsr ll 11 U r the tile oaks repented repeated themselves brittl dulled his its senses and blinded his obes to eer lhIng I 1 ut their lin fill port As sjon sion as god would let them brin bring it about she would be ble hi wife she hid said tiati bo SO ho danced lie ile choute I 1 at tiaona as s side tobnette Tol nette horrified at first saw him in ili bis his madness then she began to understand but not until he took his turn among the warriors and alone in the light of the fire chanting his ills story in the language of his ills adopted people did tr inflating what he sald said lit her tier know fully the dar ing of her boier jaems story edth his earliest thoughts ami and memories of her tier he ile told of their home ii in the country of the rich elleu of his dreams and hopes he lie described the passing of moons aad and I 1 the gron growing ing of his to hue e and how death had come with rith the mohawks bawks from the south then he came to the finding of Tol tobnette nette their flight the triumph of his lole oe his fight with the scalp hunter at Lus sane place and their capture by tiaona and his warriors narrio rS he lie praised these warriors they were not like the mohawks Mo Noh hawks awls who were sneaks in abe night the u were ere clean an ani I 1 and brae he ile was to be a brother and a son among them he ile wanted thu oil peo leopa a to respect him and he wanted them to love loie Tol tobnette nette whom llanga had honored by taking as his daughter laughter for tobnette Tol nette belonged to him she wanted to be his wife she wanted to bear him children among ohp Se he ile stopped it last and thanked lod god that adam adams had made it possible for him to do this thing in the light of the fire ut at Chenu falo A murmur of app robit ion lion stirred the people it rippled and died out as another warrior took his ills place long after midnight the revel revels ended and grew q ault I 1 afi ls I 1 lor or a tinie time he lie looked at the s stara t r and find the chan changing girg shadows of the moon through tho the open door of 0 tepee ho ile entered sleep as a it if going into a long ion mentle of golden colors only happiness ris in like a lower goner from the ishm of a torture that was mas gone could hae hale made wade it like me that ills mother seemed a pirt of it her tier voice a glad melody somewhere here in the ri rl diance which MIMI embraced him in the benua of gold he lie saw wood ligeon smiling happily between his mother and tobnette Tol nette then he sank into deeper sleep this wes vies the tile beginning of the life of jeems and tobnette Tol nette in which 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