Show this is a story of pioneer days clays in JEE C A N 0 E indiana when courageous frontiersmen fought the redskins red skins and the by SAMUEL mccoy wilderness and won vast territory C copyright dreffs 1916 by co IJ CHAPTER X 6 th thal C cougar crouches an indian an mother other lying 1 a TO in tile the once e squalid q 11 d tepee a were go gien n three sons n at a birth one ol of the three died I 1 in adu 1 two 11 lad ed to become the me most famo famous u s leaders the terrible inhabit inhabitants t a of the forest wil sill tier etra leal eer or ki knew w A As one a of the two crew to dood manhood mild and ad forced hi his wnm ar to th the a head bead of his tribe trib by his d daring ring b hl fit C cunning edg his match matchless loss eloquence inq roal and in power er the red man with wit his love in chose the C cou no of I 1 imagery sm gery in names gar ear the panther the great rat cat of the forest as the fitting type of the oie 1 chaitt I whose hose il latest word rord was as I 1 law I 1 ahe be cougar it was from this demo be beast t that tile ahw shawnee chief recalled 1 it his bis name man ta tecumseh the cougar about to spring spag A yankee an surveyor yr predicted one mi any ay iy an eclipse of the ad sun trial tecum een sell s brother bro lher on an or account I 1 of his fro fre corat drunken babbling babb lings had been it dabbed idd local tile the open poor door but is a glim met mer or of shrewdness shrewd nets lighted up his rum real sodden a brain at the words of the white edite roan he returned to his tribe and idy say jug ing to nil 11 who nho would listen that re he had b been a given give at a message from tile bic great grant maintain himself prophesied that on a certain day the sky would be d darkened n ed a sign ign that ile he the open lear door w as dilice div ine so and w as luncefor tb to tind tied his people they laughed bu but tb the e daleness dai dal kness C CC came C as a he tied had for foretold egold unit and from that day lie he woo was too mi looked up 1 to by every warrior in the forest rest to as I 1 the he greatest of conjurers burces jur ces ile he was no longer called the open don door but E t ahe he loud 71 let voice and ad 11 his vin voice in council ou was the voice of authority but icara car bad now a passed parsed and it he proved 1 n secret cere t for far B not other her sign to bolster up loo his aberm wavering g strength tren aft the white in men rime cane farther and fa farther ther into the wilderness retired reared their cabins in greater and greater numbers number in the re red a man a forest tair bar bared an and it bought larger and larger torri territories tora b a from the stupid savage who readied reached out eagerly for a handful of t lisa a jug of the white lut man 3 fiers drinkard drink drin kand and gave in return the countless cres acres of his hunting ground but now new for years his do dumb b resentment grew more re and more bitter to tecumseh and ad his brother Elks kalawa the prophet the red to men looked impatient ly for a haderli leadership which chilla should restrain the cre encroaching 8 cling settler settle 1 or 2 which might a even begs regain 1 for th them 1 ili lost lands the young warriors warr iora could not wait for far co council a red here and there they struck d down as a settle sett lT took a woman captive dashed out the branot of a child and burned fork back into the forest to liar har inson in vincennes came tecumseh for cou council n ILI and promised redress then slipped au away ity to the south down tile great it aher ev to the tribes along the gulf to implore them to stand with their brothers of the tha north against the white mons mans advance the prophet iscam meanwhile lots caned remained ce it at his bis village miles cou coith th of vincennes and pent the time in incantations unit and ominous matte it and ana the little town of Xi mannes lay in anxious uncertainty on me tile brual banks elof of the wabash river IS r itol down which welt came a the r new a of t the prophet a restless plotting th the little village presented a seen scene of the most meet unusual 1 I a activity here ie and ad there in vacant t fields I 1 the sal various I 1 companies of the territorial little w ere cm drilling four companies pont of mounted men and eight of infantry B far ore of some six held hundred it me men athin aich harrlson Hirr ll 11 lson n b bad ad IS caused used r to be asi Bem sena tiled bled hastily iii women me and children stood watching the file evolutions of the x volunteers 9 ahe he french inhabitants inhabitant chattered away 1 in tremendous excitement As far as military drill and accouterment nt were siam concerned the men were ridiculously ridiculous Iv awkward and untrained they could re not loep keep step to save their souls soul and ad sly only one ot of the twelve companies pool made ad say any P pretense please r lease at a I 1 re dimin till this one a was th the 0 company commended commanded by spier Sp spencer erect of ct these thase wore vole yet yel low hunting ellita trim trimmed irod sill with eliy red feathers feather they thay were e promptly dablow I 1 alie yellow jackets and it were m larer marked lol in mm n but the rest wore whatever clothia only wele possessed posses sl I 1 ia their 1 daily life tow jeres jeans or almy vl ooley or the hunter it 1 dress 1111 ot 11 turned tanned dc acer ekin la and ad each cecil man carried the rifle of a h hi 1 choice to car of every cry make nd it rf 0 may any length of barrel on one taj ing 1 was 1 enlivened by I a shooting amich match ban someone got a whitewood hl to plunk and pacing off 60 youths propped it up firmly A circle 01 it thi inches 1 in dhora diameter I 1 cr was smeared on file I 1 er sIth wet powder and it 1 in the ili binter of this black lot a bit of white abbe P a per the size of a dollar v was enned fumed oue one niter alter another of the awk barj rj millU amen replied to the this line and fired WiLlY pausing to kirn hot a man failed to fabend ad his bullet lat to the lim while abod tile the tar alt was as moved to 80 yards donat distance ize 1 apfl to a hundred and tile the deadly acau v coutil continued lu as tile the better marks mcd took their I 1 turns and then they tossed leaned idee pieces es of n wood ad into the air these we too came down pierced by the mir kuhms bullets ills afternoons a passed 1 in the same state of suppressed ed excitement the men mca lii lolled around the slimly shady aid bide ot of alx le the t tavern lx and ad CL clew II 11 ed their lacco do you mind the time me you had a quarrel with your best beh girl 9 lood and vowed ago I 1 to 91 mear Is thai we 11 plight in which david larrence lm llund found himself hi after toinette obannon OB on had been given give n evidence irv I 1 it that he was a spy sly had asked tone him to sool explain and half had bell been rebuffed reme isme f for I 1 her apparent do doubts b is by th the proud young 0 o me man of gloomy my as a ghost beat he 11 left the he corydon settlement and went to vincennes to love live and add boon there bar comes a m lot into hr his life an event which makes the pretty lovers km quarrel seem am just less than nothing it marks mark the turning point in his existence the th hid hand of destiny la is seen an moving aident relentlessly iby in this installment ta imet D david lid youl 1 marrom remember b a had come all the way from england to tile fie I 1 frontier tr settlement of indiana territory to kill an ad enemy he makes friends friend with the americans all I 1 I 1 and I 1 it falls fall in love with dainty toinette Toor rott a among his acquaintances sell I 1 u a are a J job b cranmer C arm a who w a turns turn out to be a british it rit it spy and doctor 0 ot elliott 11 tt secretly in league hague with cranmer crammer ike I 1 blackford licis ot is a true it friend d silently tile the lous long lit hot hours III dragged aged TI ti by at sunset they the heard the bugle ili at fort knox the into stockade loid bach som three mils mil a tip lip the river sound faintly the end of the day ti acht abt came on and a group of men gradually gathered on the be benches beche che and ad the grass in front of the jefferson house as the tavern of par memis men us leese leckes bearing on its signboard I 1 a staring portrait of the statesman was grandly called they talked in low tones and daid on the edge of thin the crowd old could not distinguish their words cords ile he knew kinee hoer ho er that most of the lead leaders of the too town n ei e there wash ih johnson the old postmaster with ith ills his deep voice booming out ont at intervals interests henry hurst and henry va van der batch the judges benjamin parke more recently appointed to the bench beach old john small who aho had bad been sheriff twenty years before slid and sea scalded scalped it b his I 1 abow own head hand ma bod indians who whom bis I 1 pass had bad pursued suit and captured peter jones w ho hm had wen the error of his hi ways as aa a to tavern leepe keeper and had reformed and he be c come to a the territorial and it the custodian win dian of the infant public library lt holde virginian I 1 homes ran ilan dalp b seemed scarred w with the knife wounds ands reveled rece led in his ble row u with ith Slow sawney nry fit the defamer of harrison the two to sawbones doe doc ellas elias amee and add doc juke joke Rm kendoll and a dozen mor I 1 mabels I 1 agn lf the old spanish merchant who had seen george rogers dark clark storm vincennes 32 years before sat at davids side mile a fire fine old fellow of seventy tie the the only light visible isible was as that first in the shop of the printer E ellhu aloa stout industriously siding aiding ills hi a apprentice at tile fie tapes or wiping his inky finders to oia od line itin a proof pulled on the broad brand hard hand press the moths and insects fluttered around his candles and the SO sweat cut poured off hs his forehead but the na estere so sun was as due for publication on the morrow and he meant to see a it through david list listened it with closer attention when he overheard governor harris harrlson n address a square moore ailo jilo jawed cat yen young 9 man in a the uniform of a captain in the unit ed states briny army telling him that he tied had just written to eustis the secretary of w ar at washington and had commended to the department the work nork of the soong cap captain captell till in trans forming the little fort near Nin En cennes cermes froni fraud a place wretched rr neglected into an adequate stronghold N go wats ahe red I 1 to david th that of tile the boy bay was s capt zachary taylor fro from Ket kentucky kY who he hall had b been placed 1 in command at part fort I 1 enox ill but a few we weeks ke prIus ly 1 I trust at went on an harrison that bir r eutis eustis will be thoughtful enough to bring my letter to the attention of I 1 I 1 I 1 fg A I 1 I 1 I 1 C hr HIS voice vince in council was the V voice of authority year uncle president madison I 1 would like him to know that we or are well pleased d with ith your work 0 taylor tailor birsh alii ched d through his ton tan will pleasure 11 he would have liked to sav that he hoped limpid that harris in I 1 aili some day occupy the presidential chair I 1 but he waa as taciturn clar a aa most t of it the I 1 men a of 0 the frontier fur far less lesa would I 1 he helie haie perm permitted bitted himself I 1 to dream that the great giant office might be his bis ait oit ulinna Ulin lare ni mary hinry thurlon vincennes s was years old the man thirty eight there them tied never been anything commonplace in the existence of place or man lh each had already had a his tory w hoie telling must most move the heart more 1 on than aith ft ith a trumpet the tha fice face of the man was wa the face of the sold soldier strong res resolute olion proud indomitable but it was oto affe likewise le the face of the man of the people the man in aloon w aiom they trusted for hla his calm patience and hit his warm fril friend mill ll rees nets with what unflattering unfaltering devotion deviation had they come to rely on him and how the men and u women of till the lid ness mesa seeing that tall and line martial ibi fig ure ore peas pass paused to mark that long are arre rave fee face the ae eves diep set act under tinder abe usha busby brows on al either ther side the 1 athy humorous amorous nose noe and smiled in love loie and deep regard la in nu er to the slow smile of the fit wide and ad mildly kindly mouth I ft hot hat had bad he be rint not do done for them he mas as a warm admirer of the democratic jefferson and he us was so an aristocrat of the new territory Sleep steeped tal in the classic scholarship of the old dominion the son of a signer of the declaration of independence of at eighteen lie he had bad chosen to it I 1 leave I 1 behind cal him the culture of f tile the older states and to plunge into tile the rude but generous wil wilderness drates A at t twenty aty eight he was governor a of f I 1 the he indiana torri tory at thirty master of an empire of acres ruler rele r over a province provie ie t twice as urge large re as england ligham and ii eland larger indeed the than all of arad france I 1 athin the alie ten led years following g ills his appointment as go governor velmor the tor for absolute power por of tr ollies aluch ft inch added t to the he new nation fifty millions of acres a domain laige as england and ad scotland combined comb ired at thirty one holding in ills his I 1 and tor for live five months the destinies of a tract of 20 aloo square miles an imperial province greater than any other one mus man ever controlled strolled trolled in the history of the united state states before or since opposed to him the great laida clef of the tragic drum drama ot of tl it e sac savage ruler euler of five fi indian tribes master mind of the great indian con fede ricy of score of tribes toi chief of warriors Lr lors ringing g over OCO miles in of territory bai Ilai risen risma had policed iced the same me terri ter tory with exactly in twenty enty buck backwoods a mm twenty men to gurd guard an aa emalie they threaded their ways ya through the wilderness from st loulia to D detroit they repainted to him at it via cenales aoa on this enormous stage the curtain is about to be lifted a on tile the titanic admi of the west glimp th the group of me men telling lolling in the shadows by th the C jefferson house began beean to speak peak of the latest dispatches final dom the last hews had just come that title the aunger wellesley had dri eo an mus sea ena a F french columns oil off tile the held ol of 1 bocott centes it de lonmo ridding adding to the tall luu at ela gained it at calavera lot la lavera in and 1111 balme napoleon w as 8 to girding to w onder mader at thus this the little colpo rat nil himself was alm ilm at it the ilus idan biar bar the blote czir was mus ills dis tu g b bis commands to star starve the blade of by the P ports ILLS of the carta continent t Frig larid d di n en to de ratio el was seizing Ari afeman calim sen men on an the pretext felt that they were ocr englishmen and ad telling forcing it riita to serve f against the lue free french 1 and ad still the gov gi at ashington ashi noton kept up its attempts to bi stop ili insults b bi ids ld voids the little group of W westerners terneras on nn der the stars of it the a wilderness tilt ILI ca sly remote florn dom the v bild of 0 leaflet ship the ir affairs seemed POLL petti and ad nan art on dald lot lar times rence alone gazing silently over or the broad prairies misty allay andr the n newly iy kihen 6 moon on and ad remembering the is log cre crowded oded cities of his native as I 1 mod suddenly saw how bow gt aane the he arp dl ample lards would be to PL bir and saw haw latin a as in a vision of what hat mil imal ty allt M were these backet who h held the land for america 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