Show the rose hed octal 1 ea A romance of Q 10 10 6 1 4 braddock s defeat defea 44 f y hum HUGH 1 by I 1 W WM J mitiz vice copyright h ba THE STORY webster brond scout and sor py tor for braddocks braddicks Brad docks army secures secure valuable information at fort du quesne but braddock Brail doch trained 1 in n european warfare falls fails to rea realize 1 its importance brond to Is sent nt back to fort duquesne Ou quesne end and ita 1 also algo In trusted with a message to greeban Grog Greg ban english emissary among the b Ind indian lans he Is accompanied compa nied by round paw friendly indian scout on the way they are joined by a backwoodsman crofit croall the party comes come upon a group of settlers settler threatening a young girl elsie Din dinwood wold whom they accuse of witchcraft brond rescues her and tons ne disappears disappear brood broad delivers deliver his hl message to groghan young toung col george washington rescues the scout from bullying english soldiers brond pr proceeds Z on a scouting expedition to fort duquesne and finds a french scouting party besieging an old cabin to in which elsie to has taken refuge in the enquin ensuing ag fight she escapes brond takes his bis way to duquesne carrying out his plan to enter the tort fort unquestioned brond visits an indian town which a woman ear sachem bern controls there he meets a french officer palest balest who has tailed failed in ID his attempt to win over to the french cause brood brond finds elsie s a dressed as a man under protection the girl tells him she has found the english cruel and Is going to the lie french CHAPTER V continued 14 tier her thin face became cour convulsed alsed with anger and her small teeth were exposed in a fe mine line sol so then let us both talk calk to sir mr fattest its mortal strange that you a scout for L Bradi lock should he friendly alth lib the have you told him shout about the light at the hie of that uther other frenchman you threw on the floor boerl and what became of that man munt a vastly queer sy ay to make a frenchman ille ike n englishman her mad mat words recalled me to my tt ager 1 I will pay ay nothing to 0 o faleri you will hold your long tongue we about uie me I 1 am going to duquesne as a frech man inan it if you yoa see vie me there you will not know me she stared at me in silence and the anger ager vanished frum from tier her face ace 1 I 1 shall ball ool not know you the she softly assured me but if they find out you are english your life wont be worth worta a raltie pence I 1 completed dont got go she suddenly pleaded find out hand band you over to their indians start back now end and meet the army I 1 shook my bead will you take me back until we meet the army she pleaded that could not fout be for or my duty sent we me to duquesne ill gladly read fend you yon back under bate escort round paw the fononda gs a Is with me he shall be une one of 0 the indians to take you yoo back I 1 offered cut but you yon will not go good I 1 I 1 care nothing tor for the french nor the english say no more to me or ill tell balest that you yon are an english scout and she walked among the cabins in the direction had bad taken I 1 started to find balest and to arrange traveling with him and the girl to the tort fort but before I 1 could reach his cabin the onondaga glided by me his blanket over tits bis bead and in pa passing be murmured follows follow he was making for the woods I 1 shifted my course and carelessly strolled toward the mouth of the duquesne path I 1 followed the path deep into the dump damp growth until I 1 found him waiting tor for me what shadow now low falls upon fsr I 1 impatiently demanded they nave have found the huron bearer ot at belts the wolfs paw was too heavy it broke his bis head bead the me man le ie dead I 1 he considered the question to be a waste of so many words it is 1 better so 0 o I 1 said bound paws orenda wished it so and gave I 1 great strength to the flat of the axil Is better the huron Is a ghost if 11 my words gave him any comfort he did not show it it after more star at the branches over tits bis head tie be said another frenchman Is near the village my white brother has croc crossed d his bis trail once they say the man who breaks bones with his hands was asleep they say tits bla hands banda grew very week weak loidl sea Beau beauvalis vals la Is here son has a strong orenda oreada protecting him ue will be in the vil all biage lage very soon eoon I 1 seized the Onon onondagas dagas arm am and muttered he must not cot reach duquesne sly my impulsive lve gesture l coughl no lla his impassive lace face but I 1 ancel anc his eyes lighted aben I 1 sentence upon beauvais Beau vals M re com I 1 said 1 I will stay slay taut iut in the woods while my red brother scouts the village and leahti 0 from some ol of the delawarek Dela wares what beauvais Beau vals plans to do beauvais beam ills will talk with the other Fren french chinna bin n but this inevitable meeting did oot not worry we me much modi falett bid bad met we me at duquesne Is as deland beland Cr es ea prisoner bud bad never seen me file until we ought fought in the cabin he knew me only as a provincial rul but beauvais see gee we me at duquesne I 1 would become a plaything for the ottaway and other alerce children ol of the be north at all risks the man must be prevented from returning to the fort or else I 1 must cancel my promise to colonel colnnel washington and keep sway away from the forks of the oldo ohio round paw suggested that I 1 tullo folio the path fur for a tulle or two and then hide and wait for him to bring trusts fresh P 11 1 jf awo Z 9 47 it t was wa dreary waiting and yet I 1 was glad to be as a I 1 had a grave problem to solve news from the village he proposed boldly to u enter the village slid and trust ani l to tits his blanket to conceal his big identity from beauvalis Beau Deau vals this was e L good plan 1110 und and after exhort exhorting ing him to he a fox fm instead of a wolf I 1 started up the trail round paw soon rejoined me anil and I 1 asked tor fur news of beauvalis Beau Beati vals tie he Is tit at the village and starts tot tol duquesne after one sleep tomorrow morning I 1 murmured the lich woman sod and the hie other frenchman start has told the file frenchman to go she Is nn an ry because he brought milk to flip lent 1 cimmie A hunter told me this tour four brother brot lier has not been to the vil tuge luge then I 1 mail wait out here lo in the woods until beauvais Beau vals has falls taken the be duquesne Da quesne path I 1 decided 1 will be eyes and ears tor for my w white bite brother he assured me he turned from the trail find and found a snug snag hiding billing place within pistol shot of the village and said tor for me to re main there while tie ne procured food it was dreary waiting and yet I 1 was glad to be cotie alone as I 1 bad a grave problem to solve beauvais Beau vals must not betray me at duquesne therefore beauvais Beau vals must nut not reach the tort fort ro io waylay him film and shoot him from rom an am bush was not within my lay scruples it II must be a fair fight yet one to the death As it grew durk dark and the tires ores in the be village were lighted I 1 left my biding place and crept to tb the edge d or me forest to watch for tt the return I 1 bud bad oot not been there long be fore two figures figure suddenly mid denly came top to the mouth of the path and entered the be bl black ck cover within a rod of where 1 was a crouching their identity was wa established by a young voice saying gayl jon 1 I was willing to go back and try tb the english again even it they have bare been mortal cruel to we me but boi it be that say nay so ml miter ter ill try the fre french rich they lat aint silly enough to bellegie to lo witches I 1 hope no DO 00 mademoiselle once they see you property properly attired they will say you are beautiful you toil will be very lint happy py sith the french half an nour later the onondaga brought to my hiding place a kettle of meat and a gourd of witter water the kettle he be bad stolen from the cabin of a drunken warrior the witch woman and the french main are un on the path to duquesne be addesi led they A III be far on their lourney journey by morning r nou iid paw must nave cave the ears ot of a wo wolf f when the sun comes back the older frenchman must not reach dui quesne I 1 told him I 1 to hahl bab I 1 uy my bite brott brotherly bro therla lerla very j wise like the owl they say a frenchman will die very quick after afier the next s sun tin shines upon open him the wolfa pur poor will be open end and his teeth are very sharp CHAPTER VI dubious faring it was dark dak hi fill the woods when ii I 1 I 1 awoke and I 1 was weighted down by i I 1 the realization that I 1 must halt bait a brave man and kill him or be killed i j by him the onondaga Unon daga came to bis big feet and proceeded to build a fire under the kettle of cooked meat meal so that I 1 might have something hot to eat before entering upon my strange duel I 1 told him be was to have hare no part tn in the mornings grim work it required some minutes to win him over for his red mind could not cot comprehend why a man should curn beurn on an ad advantage vanta e when attacking an enemy he feared french witchcraft was at work tor for aby abandon a certainty and foolishly risk life ithel the one result desired was the death of the frenchman before he reached duquesne Duque soe and t there here were two of us ns to give him bis big quietus ile he consented to leave the issue to we me only after I 1 said that my orenda told we me in a dream I 1 must make the fight I 1 ate a little warm meat and smoked my pipe while the daga scouted the edge of the woods at last be was back on the run warning ile he teases the tillage ll it Is only half light even in the opeti lug but the tie wolf mans mains eyes are very sharp he carries a lung long pun gun like my brothers round paw of the wolf clan you must tell me you will not take part lu in this light so long as I 1 sm am alive I 1 said to him he sighed regretfully and sullenly replied this is the first light beleen beta en ule S french and english where the red wan man 12 I 1 not dot wain wanted ted uy my brother shall take lake the he scald alone the was taking his bis time and with never a thought that thai bis big adran would tie be disputed some ten militia pursed and I 1 ads flooding finding I 1 cl could uld cee ee quite distinctly as tar far as the first bend in the trail when the calm of the woods was shattered by two rifle ride shuts shots a second spart apart cursing aloud I 1 leaped to my feet and glared d down wn the path in the direction of the vil village luge the I 1 had been unable to resist his racial instincts sod and had bad cut col in ahead of me evelti in my anger I 1 was amazed that hat tie he should have done this tor for red or white while there was no noun haise word I 1 would accept ashead of the I 1 guold only ex es plain it by the file indian bad i betrayed him elt elf by cotrie bit bil of carelessness the two chols so go ellyse close 11 gether proved the Fre frenchman hold had no not been tn eo caught cau lil off tit his guard but bail which of them hall had tired ored the list last shot five ten annales lagged by and I 1 should sli have started an investigation in vest iga lion if not ant for the sound of footsteps one mati man was coming up the puth path on the lie run and any finicky notion I 1 ball bad bai about slaying the frenchman vanished on my discovering this roan man wa waa while no indian would run as did this fellow I 1 bad no time to lament over klund paws passing out fur for in another nio mo ment abe felli fellow w would be turning vie the bend bead a few rods away tits his gun would be empty I 1 believed and I 1 stood my rifle against a tree and pulled my ax then the steps reached the bend bead ond ant the next second a tall form was bear ing down upon me lifting my ax I 1 leaped into the path and fried halt monsieur this path to if closed TO BE CO I 1 |