Show tippecanoe En AJL I 1 ILI I 1 r 0 IT by SAMUEL SAMUE L mccoy recounting the adventures and love which came into the lives of david larrence and antoinette obannon abai noni in the days when pioneers were fighting red savages in the indiana wilderness copyright 1916 by bobbs merrill co CHAPTER continued a she shrank away from his filthy hand in unutterable loathing and threw ler herself self face do downward wilward in a paroxysm ft weeping the music of the drums pad and cifes alfes had ceased outside the camp cam p buzzed with activity the prophet bent the red cup of ills his eyeless social socket over a lapful of grotesque amulets amulet si muti muttering erini incantations to himself girty passed his hand soothingly over the trembling shoulders of the girl and patted the tangled silken cloud of tier her hair 1 I kelni blame ye my dear fur not noi tl a likin to seeh sech a ugly ole critter as ibe I 1 be but ive had bed a hard life I 1 my dear a hard bard life 1 I been ornery ill gran grant fye ye I 1 been albeen ornery but I 1 been oble eged to be theys a loto lot 0 pesky mean men in this world my dear an ive bed to fight hard agin lim cm ive been waltlin fur a likely young gal like you so es ekla I 1 kin go into the settlements on the canady side find and live quiet like asking n king im askin ye quiet to go with me ye see tobnette Tol nette only sobbed aint thet fair es es 1 I put it to ye what kin be fairer nor thet L I 1 kin see thet es ea pretty es a pleter me an youa you a dettla in fronton front of the tire fire me a in the book about the blessed lamb ol 01 0 GO god d ob ye may know I 1 was es good es any on lern em when I 1 was a beetle devil I 1 bed a good old mb mother therl 1 toinetta Toi netto wondered to hear him name his mother she made no reply and he suddenly burst in a string of the foulest oaths cursing and ing but ild he offered her no violence he still hoped to find some officer in maiden Mulden who would pay a rich price for her and such a purchaser would demand tier her physically sound for tills this lie he had seen to tt it that no warrior had harmed her find and ho he meant to claim his monella mo money neyla in the end the drums had bad begun again loud defiant but instead of drawing nearer their music music passed barth farther er and farther away fainter and fainter elaska stolen stole cautiously from the tent suddenly there swept over to Tol tobnette nette the realization that girty bad lied the cifes fifes were playing arl aa air that redcoats never marched to the stirring swing of the presidents marchl march I 1 she leaped to her feet her eyes blazing fainter and fainter came the air clr to which she unconsciously fitted the triumphant words who fought and tied bled in freedoms c cause a u s e and w ahei h e r j the storm of war was past listen Liste nl 1 she cried atis als the men from homel home I 1 she faced girty and all her days of dread all her bar hours of suffering were forgotten 1 I have prayed to god andee and be has answered me for a moment girty was silent before fore the white radiance of her faith but he be threw off his hesitancy with a sneering laugh A pretty lot of good thet handful 0 0 sheep kin do he snarled by sundown tomor tomorra well bring ye ever one of their wet fur ye to io play 11 he stepped hastily outdoors and assuring himself that the troops had bad defiled from view he returned and seizing arm dragged her roughly from the tent As site eho passed out into the raw november wind tobnette Tol nette shivered lye re kin see for fer herself they halat any on yer pr precious edous brave enough ter tight fight a papoose let alone all these braves he said tauntingly the innumerable warriors of the prophet hideous in war paint stalking to and fro among the tents of the village contemptuous of the cau cautious loua tiou whites lent support talili to his boast tot tol nette looked helplessly from side to side bide seeking some avenue of escape and hope died faher in her eyes CHAP CHAPTER TEft XIV the battle soundlessly in the dark hour after midnight the great war bow of the indian was strung burthe camp of the americans slept A light rain tell fell it was nearly dawn suddenly through the block mist spat the red flame of a rifle with the flame and the er crack ack came calne the sound of a man running it was the ken tucklan tuc luc klan stephen mars of Ge geigere geigers igers company an put outpost post A dozen rifles in the hands of crawling indians rang out lie he fell in the wet and tangled brush his bis facein face in the sodden ground the night which had been soundless jess save for the soft rush of the tha rain and the gripping dripping of the ahe water from the trees suddenly became filled with the stir and uproar of the awakening camp with the whooping of the bidden foe striking in the dark david awoke from sleep and bounded to his bis feet A A hand band clutched ills his wrist and dragged him down again while a voice commanded keep low I 1 he saw that all the others in ahe the company were quickly silently looking to their rifles but that all remained crouching on thet the around the yew jells of cf the indians seemed loudest at the extreme left where geigere geigers Gel Ge gers igers horff horsemen men stood and abd at the extreme right where spencers spence riflemen lay behind behin d their kneeling horses before hla his own company which with the other militia companies of wilson norris and Wilkins was stationed in the center of the ajar re ar line tile the woods lay quiet seemingly empty of tiny indians indiana david turned about and glanced toward the center of the camp fifty yards away were the tents of the off cers lighted up by the ile he could distinguish the figures of them all they were nil all fully dressed and were buci buckling ling on their sword belts na as they talked harrlson harrison was standing impatiently waiting while an orderly struggled with hargrove divining that it was tile generals intention to ride away toward the alie points where the savages were attacking in num numbers beri struck david on the shoulder in his hurry go ask colotel colonel decker if we are to stand herel beret quick before general harrlson harrison boest goes I 1 david ran toward the officers As lie he reached them harrlson harrison succeeded in getting his foot into the stirrup and threw himself into the saddle decker was about to mount david saluted as he ran crying Is captain hargrove fa to stand where he Is harrlson harrison answered before the colonel could reply all the captains are to hold their companies as they stand I 1 you will do nothing but hold the ground until light enough to ad advance vancel 1 he gathered up the reins rains and with a bound was vas gone through the falling I 1 mist boyd owen hurst tayl talor 0 r washington johnston John stoa and daviess bavle ss urging their horses at his heels beels david ran back toward its his captain I 1 the horrid tumult at the nort northwest 11 w eq st and southeast angles grew louder david listened with an excitement that filled his ears with tile the sound of ills his own hearts throbbing two hundred yards away the rifles cracked in a ceaseless sputter the drums began the orderly drummer at the officers tents was beating the long roll the steady unvarying tattoo spread its imperious summons through the night with a sound that forced its way through till all the wilder babel of the camp david wondered why it had bad not begun sooner it did not seem possible that not sixty seconds had elapsed since the first alarm alarin had been given A cold gust made the raindrops waver ile he became conscious that ills teeth were chattering two men wriggling on the ground succeeded in scattering tile the fire so that its light died down to the embers david daiv saw the other company fires go out one by one but they had not all been extinguished soon enough As the light of the fires died out the flashing of the rifles became more plainly visible the damp air was heavy with the acrid smell of powder smoke in the swamp at the east david could see the flames of the indians rifles twinkling like fireflies the uproar at the northwest angle of the camp two hundred yards away grew louder david strained his bis eyes through the darkness but distinguished nothing suddenly from the dark angle a trumpet blared out its immemorial summons to charge on the last note arose a burst of cheering charging Chargin gl 1 ejaculated hargrove Har grovo at davids side it was the plan of the indians to wait until a girdle had been formed on three sides of the camp where a simultaneous attack might be made north east and south but before they had bad completed this detour of the wooded plateau the impatient savages stationed at the northwest corner carner had bad drawn in closer arid and closer to the american sentries in their eagerness to rush to in it was one of these whom stephen wars had heard gliding gilding through the wet underbrush and at the report of his rifle the indians threw aside concealment and be began ihn the onset on the tha north flank fann k of the little army without waiting for more of th their air nu numbers bribers to io complete the circle on the east front and so the men of geigere geigers Gel Ge gers igers kentucky keni I 1 s and those of captain bartons regular troops forming tile northwest angle awoke to find a hundred shadowy forms rushing on them with the cries of wild beasts their answering fire burnt the very breasts of the indians and lighted up tho painted hideous faces there was no time to reload the i idies became clu club bs that swung and crashed against rp ip and skull or red warrior and went down locked in the terrible embrace which the bloody knife alone rising and falling might end buethe but the angle anile held firm when harrlson and his staff reined in their I 1 horses at the spot the hand to hand conflict was over and the savages had retreated to the shelter of trees where they might have time to reload their heir guns behind them they left a score of dead and dying of their own number but some bore at their belts the dripping scalps of the newly slain it was then that the trumpeter at major wells command had placed tho ahe his lips and blown the charge barge with a cheer the men of buttons bartons company heard the order repeated by and went ahead at a run only a dozen or BO 0 of geigere geigers Gel Ge gers igers men had been able to bosc so curo their frightened horses at the trumpet call but these riding from tree to tree drove the baffled indians before them into tho the willows by the creek where the ibe horses could go fio no farther farthur from the tingle angle came tin an aide with harrisons order to sound the r recall e they camo came back it was wisdom that saved them from being cut off front from tl we e maln body of the troops for the figl t had ha ajust just begun only a little br space they had and in it they bley licked upon llio aho faces of their dead the commander and his stam stafa inspected the lines letting their horses pick their way through the trees through the darkness looe each company as they passed it pleading to be allowed alloi to go into the thick of the fight and the commander counseling each to md hold its ground until tit at last they crime caino to norris and companies tit at the lie corner of the right flank and here bare found spier spencers riflemen from corydon in the midst of a red baptism of carnage such hs as Ge geigere geigers igers and bartons companies had just gone through at this moment david heard someone calling to ills captain lie ile strained ills his eyes through the mist and us as the man mail ran up tip to hargrove david recognized litin him as georgae croghan Oro ghan captain hargrove nar grove spoke sharply the matter croghan saluted the chief surgeon has requested colonel decker to let him have some assistance we have only three surgeons mates we needmore need more help with the stretchers can you jou detail someone sir horgrove named larrence and cockrum they hurried away as cro glian gann led from company to company they ran lifting the dead and wounded on on rude utters litters and bearing them to the shelter of the wagons in tafe th e center of the camp here they left their burdens and went back for a second and a third time and each time found some new victim and then david was in the thick of tile the panting struggle which spier spencers men were enduring the horses lay on the ground tind and from over their backs the riflemen fired into the darkness peopled with the vague shapes of the howling savages but tile tho horses terrorized by the uproar and mysterious stinging things that tore thern them tried again and again to cisal rise their masters kept them down only by superhuman exertions there was a momentary lull from across the little valley where tile the rushing creek gurgled among the willows there came a strange and wild climint cli chanting tint high above the groans and the sounds of hurrying feet it rose the sonorous cadence of the aborigines prayer to the great Man manitou itou the father of all the shawnee prophet singing his own song said dubols dubois the interpreter at harrisons Harrl sons side david looked at general harrlson harrison the silent horseman seemed to have gathered in his eyes all the bremen 1 94 pl al V als the shawnee prophet singing his own song dous dolls tragedy of the despairing race of red men and then it a grim smile crossed his face as he reflected that lie he and ills his little army uncouth profane greedy for material thinks things gor sordid as all humanity was the flaming g sword of the progress of humanity y driving out the old order substituting the new the song of the prophet the loud voice went on the white men heard it and were troubled the red men heard it and grew drunk with audacity the bullets of the white inan man shall fall at af your feet my children and their powder shall be sandl sand I 1 how could they be harmed again their wild attack commenced they left the shelter of trees and fallen log and charged tho the slender line itne that held the right flaith harrlson HarrIE Har rleon ou shouted orders to his aids send robbs company here for 1 tell major floyd to place cotts company in u robbs robb position send stelling to the north west angle cook anil and baen herel here I 1 tell colonel decker rosend to scud pany to tho the northwest angle colonel bartholomew to send nd scotts company with wilsons Wll Wil sons I 1 the night was slowly giving place to io the gray dawn A faint light stole gradually through the dripping branches darld could see how yellow abo th eface faces of the wounded looked filhe in the pale break of day baen he knew was as wounded mortally bar bartholomew thol hurt As lie he the center of the camp robbs mounted rifles 70 men went by him with a rush ruh tile the galloping hoofs thudding on the wet turf here and there the smoldering embeds of the camp campfires fires blazed up again aa dald nid went on with the sickening work of the hospital corps lie he was carrying a wounded man to the shelter of the wagons when little jimmy spencer captain spencers I 1 fourteen year old son ran from all tho tents and clutched him by the sleeve begging to be told if his father was unhurt david answered the boy reassuringly ais rl 9 gly lie he had just seen the cap inin cheering on his men a bloody handkerchief tied about ills his hend bead when they went back to the right jimmy ran at davids side refusing to behind Fa father therl I 1 lie ha cried and the soldier turned at the liall hall ile he was about to warn the boy to go back when a bullet struck him in the hip and passed through both thighs he tottered tattered and tell fell got go back to the tent son he said smiling ag your mother will need you if I 1 dont go home lie he drew the boy down and kissed hissed him for a long minute be rested till ins ills faintness passed and then he began calling |