Show th the lu plains pa a of abraham ill in sty RU james oliver Cu curwood wm 0 by doubleday doran co ine no 10 CHAPTER XI xico co continued 14 A freeh outcry told them that it at last lie time had come ond and ab DC do hill bill ent to lie tile tepee and hold held linck back the flop he ile teolie to Tol tobnette nette colling calling her sol ion aa mak milk una un there MS uis no answer lie spoke again and entered A after after fter n brief interval his ills volt volto roe in a demand for Sh ShIn indas dos aid tho the oung ansu answered ered it ah all do de ilah as hunting like on an animal in the blackness blackn esq the tepee uns empty tobnette Tol nette and adamd were gone did lid not there was no light to hl 4 face ns as he went to the tile edge of the river and saw thai that a annoe nas as gone he lie grunted ills onder alien the tall man joined him the ronne canne had been liun hunched ched within fifty pares of them tin and they hod find not heard a sound worda of self abatement fell from ah ali de mills lips lie ile and were like two tuo children and eiery man and woman in would taunt them because of the ease ith ilitch the escape had been made nut but the missing cono could not be far distant the fugitives one of them wine could not possibly succeed in ther light flight the night would tee the like man khen to the stake and now nov hint that silver heel had find proved heisele a serpent in the tribe an ani I 1 a traitor to she bile would probably die with him ah ali N D hall made queer sounds pounds in his chest as they ran to 1 and tic tie expectant people nith him he lie was ins not as calm as shin dis when hey arrived it was lyndis uhn w ho announced the deception I 1 of aly stranger whom they lind find accepted as the true spirit of sol van von elanga ats coldly and terribly still his ills face charged before their eyes thi furrows in it grew deeper and it decime ns as hard bar as stone in the lie fields ahn 1 words came weighted with the de decision cislon of leith deith rising until they swelled smelled in a passion that was we tile a fire consuming eer MIng in its path he ile declared that his honor lionor and lie honor of his ills people lay lor in his hands he lie called on and ah ali DC de bin bill to go with him to recapture the fugitives fugi thes for this was a duty imposed on him first of nil all before the night was much ol 01 ler ter the fire stile st ile should have its tri trl he ile had forg forgotten the man fur for a man without eyes was already dead he ile would give to the lilt hames flames the white girl nho had betrayed them theta the ores burned donn until chev were ete eyes in to the n night ight hours flours passe 1 and the lie listened in the stillness still neRs as if oppressed oppress eti by fear at last they heard the chant ing of a voice coming nearer as fast as a canoe could travel it as the death song with which tiaona had grieved for his ills ter and lie savages nere viere moved by it as its leaves are moved by a wind the suspense was broken for in the song of grief was also a note of triumph which brought the message nies Fage that tiaona had been successful in his pursuit fresh fuel wai piled plied on the fires ores and the flannes leapt high ft 11 hen tiaona and his companions came from the alier they brought no pris oner with them let a 4 fierce light shone in their counte annLes as they entered tie illumination and beginning his death boig again tiaona snatched a burning brand and flun it into the midst of the pitchy material airout the torture stoke in a moment a winding sheet of flame licked its way uny up the he pole and around this tiaona d incel finishing his song to the crackling of the tile pitch lie described bow how they had overtaken the fleeing ones at the edge of the great rocks beyond which the a ter thundered in a maelstrom the blind man had fought alth nith a hatchet he lie imd bud frum from all alt de babs bah s tepee until another blade was suni in his brain 1 to quiet him lib ile vivas v za a devil in bis his blind ness 1111 und d tiaona pointed to shin dos who ho held back his buckskin shirt to show a long and bleed ing gash the tile white man was dead and his body weighted by th the z darL darkness ness of his soul as gone fo forber r ener in the th deep waters aters be jond the rocks but the unclean one who ulio had tricked them the tile girl who whose e ell eill spirit hod lied come to bring dishonor upon them hem and to desecrate the soul of bol van la kwun they bad had taken olive alive tiaona a face grew livid ills soul find gone so black when they caught her that he could see only death for he lie heard ill his 4 daughters olce wee crying to him for en gentie bo he had killed the treacherous one lie had killed her at the command of silver heels whose spirit was jas singing to him he lie had killed the white girl with his onn min hinds and had bad flung lier tier body to disappear wath that of the tile blind man Sad suddenly denly tiaona drew from its it hi hidirs lit i 2 next his ills breast a th thing ing which brought brou glit a a to the lips of those about him all rec it as beautiful braid of hair sarra ning ong from the bleeding scalp the babage held field abbie his its head tiaona became become more than ever a flen fieni I 1 in the flesh as he dince I 1 about the stake decks necks of blood from he ie red scalp struck hit face kt ill the height beight of ills 1113 mad ness id inting it into HIP heart of the lire tire sol gol lan iso ekwun nos a as avenged and the demand of lis people on an au cred CHAPTER XII abis AT T NOON of the fecondo hy of his journey jeems come to the village of None stio chase thief mas utis Matr izee or yellow hear bear he lie had tra aled CC ty mile milet in thirty hours and as determined to return ns as quickly for he lie vitis a troubled deeply by lie file hint that miia ills alone nt tit a time when the sentiment of lie tile indians was ins turning against them kiy lie ani not a tribal runner had been gent sent to yellow hear floor puzzled him and the fact that lie bore a inc stige of small importance Inci cased his ness he lie had se scarcely arcely readied reached kan non escio lien ills ft capons a knife and hatchatt tt were talca taken from him find lie vins as brought to matozel this mho was killed at lake geore come the tile following year and aho ho as a boy bay in appearance though the french held him illin the brahst fighters of the tile six nations informed J cems that lie as a prisoner ile sal said d tina oga a had find defaulted in a payment of arn that nas ills due and jeems mits to wier part of the eb matozel tersely explained the agreement be between teen the chiefs if jeams attempted to escape and wai might by his warriors he lie would be killed if it by chance he succeeded in lit getting back to then he lie would answer to tiaona ith his ills life A dead line was drawn cm ent icing ieng the tepee in nelch ho he mos to hie and he found himself under a surveillance little less strict than that accorded to a prisoner whose fate was ins to be torture or death the fourth afternoon he lie per celled an excited gathering of women momen and children some distance from front blia but bild no attention to it depressed by fears which had become unbearable he be uns as deter mined to biln his fits freedom before another dawn increasing cloudiness during the afternoon and a promise of storm with the beginning of evening added to his lils hopes for success thunder and rain came alth ath darkness and he feigned sleep at tit rn fn early hour it was vias almost midnight own he sit up and listened to the donri downpour pour lie utis ft as about to rise to his feet certain that no would mould he lying in the deluge when je ae heard the sodden rustle of the dmn lap flap to the tepee ns as it was tas drahm back and some one entered in a moment a small olce wills whis hij his name dome cold hands found him ai at he held out his arms arm s he lip felt a child s drenched form then came choking words half halt smothered in the belt heit of the storm 1 I am lood pigeon I 1 ran nay may from Clien three days ago I 1 have come to tell you sll sil ver ter heels Is dead lightning fl lashes which accorn parilea the storm that night repealed a solitary figare algi re hurrying through the wilderness toward a figure figuro bhrell sped until it was winded nad and then con at a slower pae with a persistence no beat of rain or blast of wind could coul d hall the traveler was aas deenis wood pigeon bad repeated the messine tobnette Tol nette entrusted to her tier a tiaona became more than ever a fiend in the flesh as he danced about the stake minutes preceding her night flight with adams ond and no blackness was so that it hid ind from him the tortured tort fort biccs ices of his fits rife v ife anil anti his blind uncle as na they beckoned him to vengeance fien vengeance ince seemed futile and lin loquine alope did not rise in his ills brouil he ile had hoped when he knew his mother ins dead he had hail hoped as he sought for life am among ong the ruins of manor minor lie he had nerr quite gl given yen up hope that his ills unda was aas alive hut but non nou it uns impassible f fi it n m to find and that euln grae athin ills mental reath As he bent ent on he uns as elottie re of file lie po jim er or to fn hate though eiery in his body was ins bent hent with im rego resolution lution in its nilsson nil slon of death lie load kill lie ile boull kill tit re rf would tv te anly ami and do gratification of the flesh or the lie spirit in his act A greater and more thing than he lie impulse which had tent sent him film from Matoy ces tillage began begrin to choke chole him mill a force that wits sicken ing it uns as his aloneness nio the ness of the world orld the sudden going of the one who hid re maince to male it habitable fur for him without Tol tobnette nette there ins no reason for its no rca rea son why uby it should continue to glie ghe him the warmth of life toinette Tol netto nette was 1118 lead dead it tins mas a fate tined froin from the beginning something he lie had feared ague 1 17 nothing counted now to kill tiaona and would dot not coute a rift in the hopelessness lay ahead of him film he ile advanced v nith ith a speed wa ih would have exhausted him at tiny other time As at the bouts ragged an explanation for ibis this haste gathered in his consciousness lie u as going home that in all of its utis the cabin and he had ched their borne home A thing that had not gone her body and yet was a part of her tier which 1016 lie would find ond as he lie had h a d left it nhen uben le came to the end of the trail unless tinoco had destroyed hat that too ile ie reached the place glenn til alth of water sus us logs dogs appeared to identify him but the people were ere asleep he ile found his cabin abin with the door closed as it would mould have been if tollette Tot Tol nette were asleep inside lie ile could fiel her tier presence when nhen he be en eltred entered tred but eho she was not there he lie made a light cautiously and screened it so that eyes outside could not see the floor the walls lie the room were nere faintly he ile began to put his hands on things to gather them here and there making a bundle of his ills treasures on the table her lier things allen he lie had he the bundle ne lie armed bilm himself zelf with a it knife and a hitchel and his bow how then ex the light and went out closing the door behind him ue he sought for his big plan was to lill 1111 him first then he lie bould wit tiaona shin das was ins not in his tepee the place was empty and his weapons were gone evidence that he be was away on it journey 1 I 1 or a few tew moments after disco discovery iery jeems stood in the lie shadow of an oak looking at two Tia ogis is dwelling place the tile urge to destroy detroy was not strong in him jilin the gentle ft vails ills among the trees and tie drip of water biorn their foliage in a melody of belee hutli struggled to turn him from the thought of deith it might hae we won if a tall figure had hail not come out of lie the tepee he uni as watching jeems knew it n anns as tia oa ago tile chieftain advanced to v a rd him as if an lin invisible isible fate acre i ere leiding him film to his then he lie tided ahe was nos bright it lit up ills his fei tenures tures thirty yards abay auay an ay us as he gazed into a mystery of distance aich his ea cici ej could not penetrate 11 hat fiat had brought hlin illin what he was ins think ing ahat hat the night field feld for him jeems did not asli lie strung chiq lil bow and fitted an ar or rov roi then he lie called s name in a low lou voice to let him film know that retribution had come the bov bo named twanged and a sande shaft sped through through the moonlight the whiled sound of a hum hurn ming riling bird lie heard the lie arrow strike did not cry out ills handi clutched at his fits breast as he ank to the earth and lai there a motionless tilot blot jeems nent down the hier lor for briny dias lie hid alon its shores fr body lie ile saw senecio pass and rel u ibs but as he almost almot cull cullo o ly in the water he lie was in ea ealing ahng them 1 lien he lie reached I 1 ake ale Ont irlo he turned earnard eat nard still carrying his at night he wit with 1 it close to his face breathing the precious incense of ti lings sometimes be he held to his lips the piece of red cloth she had worn around her hair no spring of action encouraged him to return to valley or tle be ItI chelleu and it was chance and not a n definite purpose nelch brought him to the place on oil lake champlain called i by the tile indians this aas as late in the tile summer of 1750 the frerich had find occupied a point of lind and etere ere fort loud audreyu audre reull and port rort carillon jeems seized upon these activities voth the avidity of one uto ft bo at c last had found to a killing hunger he lie joined lins forces and via 4 a musket and a ekle in place of his bo boi and he lie entered now an ship of digging and building hull ding in the earth billere the forts were going up llie work and its calron ment the excitement of nar anti the ei eur er increasing news of rench vic victories torfe were a relief to his broken but they did not thrill thrift him film ho lic fought fol glit against tills this apathy he lie tried to hate once more lie repeated to ALIt I 1 ninny nany times that the and I 1 bir indians were responsible for ahe tragedies lind find befallen lils loica ones I 1 ut I 1 not rise to the tile pishon for ung cince lie ile wanted to feht he lie to beo bee the lie I 1 nanh und and moir allies our Al timed but lilt emotions acre ere ns ni dull os As they were mere implacable TI ey barnd i ith it even nw acs willed tr nor decent could raise to great heights or lower to lie depths they ind hid plumbed deith could never stir liliu again ns its it ind hid stirred him film ro shoal leg could jilin and no victory brin brine to him tile ren notes gladne sl adnes qs of the bong song he hail chanted in llie the firelight at clien chen buflo lie ile mid mide ro confidants and no one knew his story an officer found he lie nas ns acquainted with the country and he was as made a lake N VP to pw Y aa it if he heard the arrow strike george scout out in tin tine e to be cap aured by rogers alli an Ms rangers on eve eye of lie ile escaped in january and was bick hick at fort carillon birly in febra ary when ullen he learned tint thit paul tache had been one of the french officers at and hat that he hid been billed jeanig fejt felt a pang of cegret I 1 niety he had been think ing of paul tache and of tol bettes mother wondering on dering what their attitude would he hen illen some adly diy he lie told them iliac had hip hir arned after titter the massacre at ton tot 1 beur eur manor libere Is no letter of interim ilan ulith ewers the in jeems 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