Show tippecanoe TIPPIE CANO by SAMUEL mccoy recounting the adventures and love which canic came into the lives of david larrence and antoinette obannon in the days when pioneers were fighting red savages in the ind indiana ana wilderness O copyright ast 1916 by co CHAPTER she gas slavok shrunk anay ft from on his filthy 11 Y hard hand 1 in unutterable and it threw herself fco face downnard down dow evald ID 1 a par ajesm of we weeping ping the ra ic of the drums drum and ad fit cifes fifes had bill ceased used at side the camp buzzed buzz ed with th activity the prophet bent the red up cup of liia his eyeless socket ceet over am a laidal of grotesque rwjr nuuuli ta is muttering amt cwg to himself girta G dinv inv passed his hard hand soothingly thingly over alie it a trembling shoulders should ot of the sul girl and patted the tangled silken adlen land cloud ot f her he heir hair ea 1 I k kain j t him blame 3 e my dear deal fur far not at taki taken a lim holn to sech h ft ugly ole Is 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bear him name his in a mother she made ade no and lie he suddenly burst bert in a string of 0 the fou foulest 1 ct oaths battle cursing coming and bia blai phem ing rut but he offered her no violence ila he still hoped to find some officer lu in AIR maiden I 1 den who would pay a rich price tor for her and well such a purchaser would cold d dr maud amud her physically ph sound for this he had seen to it that no war nor cut had bad harmed her it r aud and he be meant t to 0 I 1 claim I 1 his men money y I 1 in the rod end the th druma 4 A hid begun again get loud land affiant A fiall but instead I 1 st ad of drawing nc nearer all their lit at music pa passed ased farther and farther anav wv fainter few t er and ad fowler fainter elk ran tawa a tale etoie cautiously A thusly from the tent bud suddenly CAN there swept oer met toinette the diree liza tiou that girty had bad red lied the hie fifes cifes were plating an air that red coats calls rover never marellen inai marel ched led to b the stirling mint BW A log ing ot of the president a she leaped to her feet her eyes ill blaz ing U w fainter rain t er and fainter came the air to watch w aich she ehe unconsciously ly fitted the triumphant words who fought rod ana bled in 1 freedoms cause and 4 when the or of war was wag past listen L 1 slow I 1 she he croal cried the men amm hmel she faced girta and ad all her dabs of dread dr L all her hours ot f g were forgotten 1 I have prayed played to god and he has haa answered me a e for fo r a moment girty was wait silent III t before the the white radial radiance I 1 of her faith but he throw threw oft it his ab hellny with a ane sneering armi laugh A pretty lot let ot of good thet that handful A 0 sheep hp h p kin do lie he snarled burled by sun down d tomorra we 11 bring ye ever one a of oe their met flet fur Y ys to ploy play 1 I ee be tepid hastily outdoors and it assuring art ill elf that the troops Is had bad d filed cd gioia mr view he returned a and n d seizing toilette Tom ettea a or arm dygd her or roughly from I 1 the it a tent ICA aa A late bhe roughly passed 0 out into the a raw november wind wild toluene toinette shivered Is ie kin we see ler far herself they baina any on Y yer ex prec precious a soars brave enough ough ter fight s a papoose papoose let alone all 11 these braves beetles be said the innumerable warr tora ol of the pre prophet hideous in war paint stall stalk ing to and ato 10 among the tents of 0 the village III age contemptuous of the canal cautious out whites lilies lent leer salient to hla his boast tot tol nette ette looked helplessly hilp lessly frown from side bide to side aide 19 wine some aenne of an escape and ad hope died la in her heir eyes CHAPTER XIV th the battle soundlessly in the dark he hour after 16 are great A war or bow of the th in at dlan was strung g but at the camp of the americans slept A light rain tell fell it was 1 nearly early items dawn suddenly MOM through b the black blach mist ili spot spat the red flame of f a rifle ride at M the flame bud and the clack ciack came the sound ad of a man running it us was the me I 1 hen ta tucklan eld stephen all mars of gie 8 ve company up pady an outpost A dozen rifles cities in the hands hand of ci el luling aw ling indiana indian rang out it he tell iso 1 in the wet act end ad t tangled angled brush bried his in face e a in the bodde 91 ground d the right which had been abound d less leas save f for arthe the soft rush of the raw ram and the tripping rf of the A water ter jr from tit the tree shadow suddenly y became filled with th the stir and uproar of the awakening camp with the whooping ot of the hid den foe striking in the darl dark david make awoke fr from am ale bleed bleep and bound ed ad to vis me feet A hand lilb his wrist and dragged id lilua do down onto again while commanded keip kap lowa 1 he saw u that at oil all tit the others other in the tc camp company were q ekiss silently fiew look lack ing to their ri but that fill r remained A tte food C crouching ii oa the ground 1 T the h a yell of the indiana see seemed ad loudest deal at the extreme left wit where a r e gelger geiger 6 hori anun stood blood and ad at the ext extreme rara right where spencers rf riflemen lemen lav b behind t their heir kneeling horses before it hit own Illo company nv which with the other muo militia clin companies of fillson norris and Ml kins was s stationed MU red 1 in the cen CAR ter ot of the rear ear vac I 1 I 1 ne the woods lay quiet empty ot of any indians indian did dald tinned mined halt about and ad at glanced d toward the center ot of the camp fifty yards awa wre the tenta real of tit the ad a eri r rallied lighted A up p ni by Y the me camp campfires fires he could distinguish the semes of thou thim nil all chev were all fully dres ed and ad were buckling on their sword award belts belt as they talked himon As was standing dih impatiently waiting while sn an 0 r at snuggled ogled with his bia he horse flag groc divining g that it was the general a intention to ride away any the points abele the savage were attacking in nam numbers ars track struck david on an the should shoulder 1 la ills his hurry hurl go ask colonel decker it if vz we are to stand here bare I 1 quick before general 11 harkloo goes david avid ran toward the officers As he reached them 11 finison 1 succeeded in getting his foot fall into the and chiew himself into the saddle deker decker ma waa beat about to mount at did dald saluted eluded As aa he ran elmir 1 I la cellist captain har a glove giove to stand where he is isa harrison lIar riso answered before the colonel el could reply all the captains are ale to hold their companies us as they am stand it lou will ili do nothing but hold bold the ground no until in light enough to ad advance A ile he gathered it it up the he ce reins and ad with tb a bound was gone through the falia falling mist blvd oven ow en hurst davir Wa washington alington johnston Juh aul matea bud dagless urging their horses homes at his heels dold daid ran back toward hla his captain ati the horrid tumult at the northwest and ad southeast ang angles es grew III louder er da D tit listened with ith an a excitement t that h t filled his hia sees ears with the wood bound of lit his ov heart hearts throbbing two hundred aundre 0 yards an anav the rifles rifle cracked 1 la a ceaseless sputter the drum began the orderly drummer at the officers ficera of t tents is A as b btag beating tag the long roll call th the steady I 1 un varying bg tattoo ratio spread plead it its A imperious burnam summons through the right night with th a sound that forced its way tit gh nil the wilder babel of the camp david wondered why it had not begun sooner A it did not seem ImA possible sible that not at sixty seconds had elapsed since the first star alarm had hem been given A cold gust made the raindrops barer or III he became conscious jan that his teeth were chattering to 0 men on wriggling on al the ground succeeded cited I 1 in gri scattering the 1 or fire BO that hat its light tit died ad down to the embers dald saw the other company fires a go out not one me by one but they had not all been a ex won soon enough As the light ot of the tire fires died out at the flashing fialla 9 of the rifles rifle bar became more silly plainly the dump damp me air we was h hy heay y with tit th acrid smell all of f powder ita smoke 1 in the up at the east cast D da vid could see the flames of the ich mis ins title rifles twinkling ili like fi reffie the uproar at the northwest angle of the map amp two CAR hunched handled avav grew briw louder david strained his eyes through the darkness but bet diati gulshen nothing suddenly from the dark dorir anglo angle a trumpet blared out its immemorial summons to charge on the last note to arose area a burst beret of cheer I 1 ing charging ejaculated hargrove at david david s aid side B it was the plan of the twit indians to wait mail until a girdle had been flamed on three sides aides of the camp where a simultaneous attack might be made north east and south month but bame they had completed tills this detour of the flooded plateau the imp impatient bield sav agea age stationed a at the northwest cor car ner at had drawn in closer and closer close to the american america ojea to in their ea an gerness to rush in it we was a one of if these uan whom stephen 11 mars a had bad heard beard oiling gliding through the wet at ud underbrush brub and at the report of Ms his rifle ride the in ia dials threw aside concealment and ad beg begin t e onset zet on the north flank of the little army w without 1 phout waiting tor far mora mom of their air corb worb numbers e rs to complete the circle on the eat front arout and BO a M the men C of gelger geiger s ken be talky rifle and those ot of captain barton a 3 beular troops forming the northwest angle awoke to find a has bun dred dmd shadowy bado y forms on them with the ill aripa es of 0 wild beasts their answering file burnt burat the tha very cry breasts of the in indians was AM it lighted 9 lit ta it up the e painted hideous faces there was no to time to to reload ad t the he rifles to became beame clu clubs s that wag and ad c crashed bool against C rib and it allula or red warrior and white whit u went ear down locked in the terrible em am brnca brace which the bloody knife rhine alone rising and failing might end but the angle h held aid fir firm in when he har thele rison and his taft staff reined to in their horses horse at the spot the hand to hand conflict what u vias a over and ad the savages had colmar retreated d to the shelter or of fr trees where the they might have time to I reload an I 1 their go guna saida behind it them they left a 4 score core of d dead C d and ad dying of their own oun cju number let but some bore at their belts bell the e lipping dripping scalps ot of the newly slain lain I 1 it was then that mat the trumpeter at I 1 major maji wells command had placed I 1 the trumpet to ills his lips and blown tha charge with a cheer the it men I 1 of barts barti barton company heard the krilor ardc re heated by their own captain bud aud went ahead at a run ran only a dozen or BO of 1 1 r men had been 1111 able A to in ae A cure their facht lightened d horses horse at the atie trumpet trampe t call but these rhill from flat tree to ta tree de d e the built baffled it liall Indi before them into the mill willows by the creek where abere the horas lor could go 96 no farther from the anie amle came an aide with harrison Harri older to a bound d the recall 11 th they Y came back it we haq wisdom that tk at el saved ed them from being cut it off it fr rom tim the main AMI body of the tipa rat for th he fight had just benun begun only a little breathing bie bething athing apace the had and in it ft they the looked upon up the faces of their dead the commander and bit bis staff in specter the lines letting their horses pick their may w ay through the trees through the darkness darl ineis loose lo reined each company play na as I 1 they h CY passed it plead pleading As to be allowed to go into t the lie holcli of the fight ficht and the commander com mandir co counseling each to held hoi A Us its grovine until lot at last at they came me to norris and NN arrick s 8 companies at the corner of the he right flank and here hem found spier spencer claence rs a riflemen leatch rif from corydon in the miller midst of a red baptism of orange carnage such each as geiger and ad zaitona core com landes had just gone through at this moment alid heard some one calling to his captain ile he strained his hia eves through the mist milt and as the man ran up to hargrove dolid david me him as georgie croatian cup cap tain rain hargrove Ba gilie s inoke oke sharply P V hats bat s the matter Cr ollum stated saluted th the chief surgeon he ha requested colonel decker to let him b have ave some ahma sh ma IN tte he hae a only three mates we iva need more help with the can you detail someone sir hilger named L coca and ad cockrum they hurried away as cro glam led from Clau company mul to company they ran lifting the dead and ad wound mound ed cd on rude mile utters litters and bearing them to the shelter of the wagons all 1 in the center ot of the camp here her they left their burdens and s went cut back tor for a see sec ond and and a third time and each time found some new victim and then the dald was I 1 in the thick of the panting struggle Bt which spier spencers men were mere enduring the ims im s lay on the ground and from over their backs the riflemen lemeD rif fired into the daik dail nesa meas peopled with the vague shapes of the howling hauling savages but the horses terrorized by the uproar and ad mysterious stinging things thing that tore 1 TO tried again gal and ad agnan get to Is arx their masters naters in kept them down only by superhuman lupei supe human thuman exertions there was a momentary lull fiona film across A the little valley uy where the rushing as creek guigley among the will willows there came am a st ge and ad wild chanting high above the groans and the sounds awards of hurrying feet it rose th the sonorous ambous I 1 cadence a it on a of the aborigine lanigir s or prater to the great manitou Man itou the father ther ot of ill all tia the shawnee prophet singing his own song a said dubols dubois the interpreter int at harrison Harrl sona side david looked at general harrlson harris the th want silent horseman h calm seemed to have seemed gathered in hla his eyes all 1 1 the he tre 1 6 I 1 I 1 A ata tr the sh shawnee sha A prophet grohot singing his own song S ongo doua done tragedy of 0 the despairing race of red me men and thea taca grina grim mile crossed er d his b I 1 face as A he that I 1 he and ad lit his little army th ma profane greedy tor for mat material crial things so sor did ss A all 11 humanity ans oa the floating sword of the pi fl ogress of humanity out the old brain |