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Show Eli!. AMhmm By James Oliver Garwood Ce., In j ' B and at last Tlaoga was finished and stood for a moment with upraised hand amid a great hush then spoke a single word, Opltchl. A girl, the Thrust, sprang forward, and as she came Tlaoga took the slave collar from Tolnette's throat and crushed It Into the earth with his moccaslned foot A murmur ran through the circle, and Tlnoga stood with bis arms folded across his breast, and Tolnette felt the hands of the Thrush, drawing her away. They paused at the edge of the circle, and for a little whUe no one moved or spoke. Then there was a break in the ring behind the Seneca chief, and through It came Jeems escorted between Shlndas and another warrior. Tolnette gasped and almost cried out. There was an, amazing change In Jeems. He was stripped to the waist and painted In stripes of red and yellow and black. His face appeared to be cut In crimson gashes. Ills thick blond hair was tied In a warlock from which streamed a feather showing he had killed a ' man. At Tlaoga's command there advanced frpm the circle an old man with a wizened face and white hair and a younger man whose form was bent almost double because of a deformity. Behind these two came a little girl. The old man was VYuskoo, the Cloud. The younger was. his CHAPTER IX Continued Is convinced them that fortune was bound to smile on them again. They bad loved Sol Tan Makwun. With her death had come bad times. Now the spirits would give them an easy winter, and next year would see the earth flowering with good things. Chenufslo made ready for the feast. There were still plenty of earthy things and a supply of late green corn packed away In husks and kept for this occasion. The last day was long for Tolnette. Tol-nette. It had begun at dawn, and though Tinoga halted his men at Intervals In-tervals to let her rest. It had not ended with dusk. Darkness came before they reached a plain on the far side of which was a hill. Beyond Be-yond this hill was Chennfslo. They could see the glow of a great fire lighting the sky. Tolnette forgot her exhaustion at this sign of the end of their Journey. Jour-ney. She observed that some one took from Jeems the scalp of the man he had killed, which he had tried to conceal from her eyes under un-der a flap of buckskin. Then she saw all of the scalps taken by the Senecd8 fastened like dangling fish to a slender pole which was carried on the shoulders of two men, the hair of one of these scalps reaching almost to the ground. With the scalp carriers in the lead, they came to the hill at the edge of the plain and looked down on the valley of Chenufslo. j At Tioga's command the men bearing the scalp-laden pole had gone ahead, and now Tlaoga followed fol-lowed with his men in single tile. Tolnette and Jeems were midway In the line. Wide slave collars of buckskin had been placed about their necks, and Jeems was stripped of his weapons. The warriors did not huffy. Their step was slow . and stead; and not a man broke the silence with a whisper or a word. A sea of torches advanced. It rolled In and out of hollows like a flood, then came to a level place and formed two streaming lines of fire. The scalp bearers reached these a hundred yards ahead of Tlaoga and his men. Tolnette God that Hepsibah Adams had made It possible for him to do this thing In the light of the fire at Chenufslo. A murmur of approbation approba-tion stirred the people, it rippled and died out as another warrior took his place. , Long after midnight the revels ended, and Chenufslo grew quiet. For- a time, he looked at the stars and the changing shadows of tjie. moon through the open door Wuskoo's tepee. He entered sleep as If going Into a long avenue ot golden colors. Only happiness rls-lng rls-lng like a flower from the ashes ot a torture that was gone could have . made It like that His mother seemed a part of It her voice a glad melody somewhere In the radiance ra-diance which embraced him. in the avenue of gold, he saw Wood Pigeon smiling happily between bis mother and Tolnette. Then he saDk into deeper sleep. i This was the beginning of the strange life of Jeems and Tolnette In Chenufslo which Colonel Boquet, afterward major general and commander com-mander In chief of his majesty's forces In the southern department of America, described as "an episode epi-sode of fact whlcb Is difficult of belief be-lief and astounding In the new viewpoint which it and others of a similar kind give us of savage life." To Jeems and Tolnette there was nothing spectacular lu their first day or in the many that followed, After the triumphal night the Indian In-dian town fell once more Into the routine of Its existence. .Men hunted, hunt-ed, women worked, children played. Warriors met In solemn councils and smoked Incessantly as they discussed dis-cussed the affairs of their commonwealth common-wealth and planned for the future. The "Dark Year" was upon them. Winter threatened. But there were. , other matters to be settled. Tlaoga ' had brought unusual news. The English, under a general named Braddock, had been defeated and massacred. The French bad been destroyed on Lake George, Sir Wll-Ham Wll-Ham Johnson, the White Father bt the Sioux Nations, wus victorious, and the Mohawks were profiting greatly. This brought somber looks Into the faces of the Seneeas. The eastern wilderness was bound to run red with war. Tiaoga wus. sure. His warriors were sure. The . long-expected struggle between the English and the French was at hand, and there would be no rest ' . for the tomahawk until the land ' wns free of one or the other. his spirit rose with the chanting of the savages. What difference did It make that they were burled In the heart of the forests for all tlmeT He had Tolnette. She loved blm. Chenufslo would not be a sepulchre. Their love would transform trans-form It Into a paradise. He was eager to see Tolnette again, and began to seek for a place where he could clean himself him-self of the colored clay plastered oa his face and body.- With his clothes, he went to the river, and after .a thorough scrubbing returned re-turned fully dressed with the eagle feuther still in bis hair. His weapons had been given to him, and these he carried boldly when he joined the Indians. The triumphal tri-umphal fire was blazing, and as soon us the hungry town bad fed Itself, the scalp dances would begin. be-gin. The scalps were already suspended sus-pended on the victory pole in Its light. Children were playing about them.' The fine dark hair of one was so long that they could reach the tresses with their Angers, and when they did this they shrieked with ecstasy. Among them was a white-sktoned boy of seven or eight 'who laughed and shouted with the others. Jeems found an opportunity to' have a word with Shindas and learned that Tolnette and Opltchl were together. Shlndas could not tear himself - from the martial I dignity which was expected of him until . the. warriors had told of their exploits In the scalp dance, so Jeems went alone and found Tlaoga's tepee and the smaller one near it. in which were Tolnette and the. Thrush. It was lighted -by a torch, and he drew back among the dark boles of the trees and. waited. At the end of half an. hour, Tolnette and Opltchl came out Into the Illumined forest for-est For a little while they stood under -the gnarled limbs of the trees:-, which cast shadows from over their heads. He did not reveal re-veal himself until Opitchl's form disappeared among the pools of lig.iti" and. darkness as she went toward .the fires. Then he advanced, ad-vanced, " calling Tolnette's name softly. " Her appearance surprised him, she was not the rugged and disheveled di-sheveled young woman who had arrived ar-rived with ' Tiaoga's men. Mary, the Thrust, had dressed her in the prettiest raiment left by Silver Heels, There wns something about the long yellow feather, the filet of scarlet cloth, and the boyish close- could see them enter the light of the torches, nnd In these moments the voices of the savages rose to the heavens. Tlnoga paused, and not until the scalp bearers had paraded pa-raded their grisly burden the entire en-tire length rr the 'gnunflet of flame did he proceed again. Toinette felt stenlintr over her a Tiaoga and his councilors In Chenufslo faced war and famine. If their fighting men went Into the east, who would keep the people ' from starvation? It was decld&l that Tiaogo should take the warpath war-path again with thirty men chosen by lot, while thirty of his brave should remain to fight hunger kjj1, death during the winter montH. 4 The drawing cume, but Jeems wu ' not Included. Shindas was doomed to leave his sweetheart again. These were days when misglv- . Ings assailed Jeems and Toinette . In spite of their hopes and plans, ' yet no cloud more, than temporarily tempo-rarily darkened their visions. In . the hcurt of each was the prayer that a wanderinR priest might, come their way, so that the cere-n-ony could he performed which would make them husband and . wife. In the town were a number of white women who had accepted Indian husbands in the Indian wiiy, but against this practice Toi- nette revolted. She prayed nnd Mary Daghlen prayed with her, for through the yeurs since her . mother had died the Thrush had kept her faith unbroken. The Seneca, worshiping her, honored it. Early In November groups began be-gan to leave, each with the small . amount of food which remained as Its share. Mary was to accompany accom-pany two families of eight people ; under the protection of Thunder I Shield, a valiant warrior and - a splendid hunter. They were going -toward Lake Ontario. Toinette was given to Ah De Bah, the Tall Mun. a relative of Tlaoga's. Hiding their disappointment. Jeems and Toinette encouruged themselves with visions of a future fu-ture which they tried to point in bright colors. The months would pass quickly. With the earliest davs of spring, they would return to" Chenufslo. Every hour-they . would live In each others thoughts, and at night their prayers would cross In the wilderness. Next year there would surely be . a way. Fate would not separate them again. In their final mv meuts together, Tolnette's eye glowed with a depth of faith and. ..; love which It wus Impossible for Jeems to measure fully. In this way they parted.' He went uorth and west with Wuskoo toward the Tyanagarunfe , river which emptied Into Lake Ontario. On-tario. Odd strupgled between his devotion for Jeems and for Toj-nette. Toj-nette. He followed his masteri distance, then hesitated and turned back. A lump rose in Jeems' throat, and he could not ' see clearly as his comrade snt in . : ; the trail ami watched antU he dis-r. appeared. (TO BE CONTINUED.) She Found Herself Standing Alone With the Seneca Chief. son, Tokanu, or Gray Fox, n name of which he had been promMn the days before a tree fell on his tepee and crooked his back, when he was the fastest runner In the tribe." Tiaoua spoke again. He exulted Ir. the fortune which had sent another son to Wuskoo, a son .with a, white sklt and .n strong body who would care tor him and who would be n brother to Gray Fox. With his thin and quivering hands, Wuskoo' took the slave collar from .leemsj neck and stamped It Joyously Into the ground while the broken Gray" Fox raised a hand In brotherhood nnd friendship. There wus something so wistfully sweet In the big (lark eyes nf the little Indian maiden ttiut Jeems drew her to him nnd put un arm protectingly shout her. It was then Toinette left the Thrush and ran to him, so that nil saw her held In his painted arms, with Wanonnt the' Wood Pigeon, a hnppy partner In the moment when Tolnette proudly and a bit defiantly told Chenufslo and through It the whole Seneca nation that this was- the man to , whom she belonged. Like a flood burst loose from a dam, the night of feasting and rejoicing re-joicing began. It was preceded by a combat among the dogs In 1 which Odd established his right to a place among the four-footed citizens of Chenufslo. After a time he found a scent on the beaten ground that led .him to the tepee which had been prepared for Tolnette. Here he found Tolnette Tol-nette and the Thrush, whose name a long time ago hud been Mary Daghlen. - . ' It seemed to Jeems that from , the beginning his freedom among the Senecns was as great as If he had been born of their Wood. Gray Fox took him to the tepee of his falter, which whs to be his home, and food nnd drink were brought to him. Then he wus left atone, for even the delighted old man whom Tiaoga had honored by the gift of a son could not be kept away from the celebration- which was In progress. The thought came to Jeems that no impediment had been placed In his way if he,, chose to steal off into the night and disappear. The ease with which he might have set 'out. on this adventure was proof. of his helplessness. Like the others, he' wnj a captive forever. There was no escape from Chenufslo unless un-less one accepted death as the route. He did not think f escape because be-cause its desire possessed him. He was measuring his world hihI adjusting ad-justing himself to Its limitations with emotions which were far from unhappy. With Toinette, he-could he-could find here all that he wanted In life. Tlnog and Shindas kneW: thai she belonged to him, and Mie -people of Chenufsio were now aware of It. His heart exulted and ; strange fnlntness of body and limb. Stories which she had forgotten, stories she bud heard of the Indians In-dians from childhood, stories that had sent shivers through the hearts of a thousand homes along the fron tiers all crowded upon her at once. Wild tales of appalling torture and vengeance, of stake and fire and human suffering. She had listened to them from her father's lips, from passing voyageurs, had heard them In the gossip of the solgneiirle. And she remembered by name this ordeal or-deal which awaited them. It was Le Chemln de Feu the Road of Fire through which they must pass. Others had died In It. Roasted Roast-ed by pitch-filled torches. Blinded. Killed by inches. So she had been told. Tiaoga had his warriors moved slowly. They were like bronze men without flesh or emotions. Their heads were high, their bodies straight, their jaws set hard as they stalked at a death-march puce between the columns of their people. peo-ple. .Teems fell Into this rhythmic movement as the month of the torch monster began to swallow them. And then with eyes that became flame-like pools of fear and exhaustion Tolnette saw that not a hand gave a sign of raising agalnsi them. The torches coughed nnd flared, hut not a spark touched their skins In passing. No eyes gleamed hatred at them. No finger clenchpd, no hnnd wns raised. The thing she had heard In the land of her people were lies. The Indians killed in war but they did not torture. tor-ture. They did not pull out eyes and thrusr sticks through quivering ! flesh. They were men and women j and children like nil other men j and women and children. These' truths she thought she had discovered discov-ered for herself. But one thing she did not fully know. She might have learned -it had she caught the low-voiced whisperings whis-perings which followed the passing of the warrior: "She is Tlaoga's daughter she Is the spirit of Sol Van Makwun returned to us In the flesh now our good fortune will return the sun will shine light nnd laughter will come for Sol Van Mukwun Is here, out of death to, live with us again !" They crossed a field of darkness toward the fires, nnd when they came nmong them Tlnoga was marching In Jeems' place and Jeems had disappeared. She hud not sensed his going or Tlaoga's presence, and before she knew that Jeems was no longer among the warriors, she found herself standing alone with the Seneca chief, the people gathering In a circle around them. Tiaogu began to speak. His voice renewed her "mfldenee as she searched for Jeems. He was describing the success suc-cess of their gods In restoring Sil ver Heels to her people. 11 did not take long for Tiuoga to tell his story. His voice rose. Ills scarred and bitter face assumed a strange gentleness, and Toinette knew thin Jeems was safe though she could not see him. She waited, trembling. ness of her dress which mode Jeems give a wondering cry. It was as if they hud come to her from un obscure and distant past nnd had always belonged to her. He hud dreamed of this lovely wilderness wil-derness princess; through years of boyhood hopes and plnnnings he had built up worlds about her, and In those worlds he had fought for her and had adventured with her where he alone was her champion and. her .hero. He had cnrrled gifts of feathers to her feathers nnd fnwaskin nnd a piece of cloth like that which she now wore lu a crimson hand about her forehead! fore-head! " To him It was the precious red velvet, there In the glow of the moon. He opened his arms, and Tolnette Tol-nette came into them. CHAPTER X FOR half an hour Jeems was alone with Tolnette. Then Mury Daghlen returned, and with her came a messenger who took him back to the dances which were beginning be-ginning about the scalpHre. He was not embarrassed by the crlticul eyes upon. him. The wildness of the night entered his blood, a heat set blazing by the Joy of his possession posses-sion and as he chnnted the Seneca victory songs with the others, Toinette Toi-nette was In his heart, and words she hud whispered to him under the' oaks repeated themselves until they dulled his senses and blinded his eyes to everything but their import. im-port. As soon as God would let them bring it uhout she would be his wife. She had said that! So he danced. He shouted at Tlaoga's side. Tolnette, horrified at first, saw him In his madness. Then She begun to understand. But not until he took his turn among the warriors and danced alone in the light of the fire, chanting his story In the language of his adopted people, peo-ple, did Opitchl translating what he suld let her know fully the dnr-lng dnr-lng of her lover. Jeems' story be-gnn be-gnn iith his earliest thoughts ond memories of her. He told of their homes in the country of the Rich elieu, of his dreams and hopes, lie i described the passing of moons and 1 the growing of his love and how i death had come with the Mohawks from the south. Then he came to the finding of Toinette. their flight. the triumph of his love, his tight with the scalp hunter at Lnssan's place nnd their capture by Tiaoga and Ms warriors, lie praised these warriors. They were not like the Mohawks, who were sneaks In the night.- The Senecns were clean and swift and brave, lie was proud to be a brother nnd a son among Ih'em. He wanted this people to respect him, nnd he wanted them to love Tolnette whom Tlaoga had honored by taking as bis daughter For Toinette belonged to him. She wanted to be his wife. She wanted to benr him children among the Senecns. He stopped at last and thanked |