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34
Pomp Cooper would not continue to be
his friend atter his spasiii of love for Inez
should spend itself, and devoid as the
African was of intellect, he w ikoly
lo miderstaiid that the true course of the
party who had entered upon the villainy
was to make tliorongli work of it.
'I'l c captain saw the three men still I
talking and gesticiilatiiig aiigrily when
he reached the boat. 1,
In a twinkling he had lifted Inez upon
the deck, and then he sprang after her.
lle darted into the cabin, r '
in an instant with the three loaded riih .
“Now," said he, with a s i of reliel, ,
“let them conic! I am rea , .”
ClI.tP'l‘1'21t XVI.
A S'[‘RAN(I1‘: VISl'l'UR.
But the inutiiieers took good care not
to Qiow themselves just then; and the ‘
captain, deeming such a course prudo-nt,
tugged away at the anchor until it w
]itted,when, by pressing the pole against ;
e bank, he shoved the boat away, and J
l
when it reached the middle of the atoll,
the anchor was dropped.
“ Now they won't be likely to approach
without my seeing them,“ was his eon-
elusion; “and so long as I can keep
awake, I can hold them at bay. I hate
to shoot ii iiiau, but if ever a person had
'ustitieation for (lui so, I certainly
iave. I'm rather inc ined to think that
if either Ilrazzier or Retlvi,-giioz should
wiuider into range, one of these rifles
will be likely to go off!”
Seeing no iininediate daiiger, Captain
Bergen descended into the cabin for a
few niinutes. ’oor, tired Inez had
thrown herself on the liamniock and
was smind asleep.
“Sleep, little one," mnrniurerl the
captain, as he lingered for a minute to
look at the sweet, infantile face, in the
gathering twilight. “ It is a sad fate
which orders you to witnc ‘ so niueli
violence, and sorry Iani t .I ' is so;
but where would I have been excepting
for you I t
Then he softly left the cabin and took
his position on deck.
The nioon was round and full, which
was gratefully noticed by the skipper,
for he could easily keep awake all n ght,
and thus detect the approach of his
eneiiiies.
I fact, his nerves were so unstruiig
that he would not be able tosleop for
many hours to conic.
“ lint what is to be done he after ?"
This wa ic rpivstioii tho skipper put
to hiinsclf, and which had to ho ali-
' I .
'l‘lic iiintineers kept oarefiilly out of
sight, and . I glit . led over the
scene, the raptaiii reniaiiicd wide awake
and vigilant. ,
There was aniple food for tlionght and
rtillcntioii ttiiig of the Iiose '
ipparatus. the atta, ,
niutinw the terrible tliglit and
pursuit, the iiitei'l'ui-mit-,0 of lnez ll
t It). nid iiioresurx.;crl through the hr
t It. New ElI;.(l:IIllll‘.l', as he slowlv
paced hack and forth, with eyes and (- .
wide open.
Inez still slmiihorcd, and all was si- ,
lent, excepting the hooni of the ocean
against the coriil-i-ml"; while, as tlienight
wore on, the captain maintained his llfll(‘,-
l st-Jiiiiiml the fringe of
-d ahont him, like a great
wall thrown Iiphetwi-nii the lake and
the Pan ., that steadily broke on the
itside.
But turn lils‘ l(m‘n 1-yr-s wheresoever
he eliosu.-, he could don t not the slight-
est sign of the llllll.lll4-l'l"l.
l Imiiglit it likely they would start ‘
a lire somowlierc, but no starliko point .
of light twliiklml from beueatli the paIIIi-
trces, and he was left to conjecture
where they were and what they were
doing.
“' ‘hey will probably wait till they
think I aui asloap,“ was the thoiiglit of
the skippnr, “and then they will swim 3
quietly out nid try to hoard." ,
lIe liolievcd it would he ither that
way, or they would 4-mi-4ti'iit. a raft and
paddle tlieiiiselvcs out to the seliooner.
K non ig the skipper was on tlir-,(‘..ral,
and rt,-a , how iinportalit it was that
he should not heallowod 1., run away
and cave thoni tliero, they would no. ‘
glyeet no pret-..iution to Iil‘l'.Vt',Ill. his goiiig l
ol'. .
Tliey, too, would understand what it
was he was waiting for, :uid tlil'V were
m-niiioii oiioiigli to know [Ir4‘( V’ the-
hour when he would be able to sn nd, ,
ooiiscqneiitly, precisely what they were
to do to prevent it.
‘IAJ-’(e-% G 0 LD E N DAYS s-%.
‘”l‘lmy have no way of closing the
chainiel, or they would do so, and it re-
niains- ollol
'l‘hc raptain was stainling at the prow,
lookiiw vfu l' bout him, and with
I
his .S1'lI.N'I‘S alert, and he stood thus
fully tweiuy iiiiiitites, expecting some-
thin<.r, whose 1il'<,‘L3lS() nature he had al-
l
‘K ured.
plash iiieaiit something, and I
he deep, eoine to the surface and begin
clinibin<.; up hy aid of the fore-cliaiiis.
“ I say, Jack, can‘t you give a fellow a
lift'?"
It was the mate, Abe Storins, who
'l(('(l the question, and as the captain
tended his hand, he said, in a low, ter-
‘ent voice:
“ 'l‘liau k heaveii!
you up lei’ lost I"
[To 1
I was about giving
CLINT] NI.IED.]
‘>7 - . - -
SAVED BY SKATES.
A STORY FOUNDED ON FACT.
IIY Mus. M. l’. HANDY.
A certain winter, some fifty years ago,
is still reinenibered by old people as re-
niarkable for its severity. The Delaware
was hard frozen, and heavily-loaded
wagons crossed from Pliiladelpliia to
Camden on the ice. Ice-boats took the
place ofsailiiig-vessels on the Hudson
and (‘oiinecticut rivers, while further
south a barbaeue was held, and an ex
roasted whole on the frozen James.
In those days the Northwest and most
still a wilderness.
. lroatl.-<1, liriiiuliig :ill
puitsof the countiy 'nto t-lost-, (‘I)llllllll-
ni itiuu with 1,-at-.li other, and llH'.(‘l(‘U-
tult-,;,;rapli existed only in Morse-‘s
vo was int-rely a village, and lie-
troit-tlmii the chief town of that set 'on
-little inoro than ati'adiii,g-post. . iin
Arbor. now :i tlonriuliing town of sonm
tun thousand inhalntaiits, “'2 a small
wttlt-niv-nt, in :ind around which a few
brave pioii4><>i':-4 did hatllv with tho wil-
4loi'ii4-ss and plowed with their guns
lian-.ring<m-rt l'll'Nll‘>llltlI'l‘s', ‘
l"or t,In- Indians w ll lII1Il'l‘.l'.I‘llllV
and 1-rm-l in llmsv r.iy4 than now and
Ntl‘Ill‘l( at this whites and I'iYllll’.:lllUll
“'lll'IllZ or llnry ttulllll.
It on a I'lI'1ll', cold January morn-
ing in that incinorably uohl whiter, that
a youtli. wlioni wo shal Ill Itobort
Metjuo, la-ft his fathor’s log bin to V1,,“
his ui.icle, who had taken up a “section”
of land some three miles oil’.
Nobody feared danger for the lad. The
ad was one he know well, and had
traveled often. Xo Iiidi:iiis had been
S4 aii iii the iieigliborliood for weeks-lip
deed, they were known to have gone
into camp on the lakes further north,
where tisli and game in plenty were to
be foniid.
Kohl,-rt took his rille, of course. In
those days, neither man nor boy on the
frontier stirred from the house-door
without one.
llis ganie-bag was slung over his
shoulder, and in this was a package con-
taining a pair of new skates, a present
sent him not long before by one of his
relatives in the East.
“ “'hat on earth ii
Bob 2"’ his sister had i
kcs you take them,
ked, in
“ There is no ice near Ifnele .lohn‘s, and
you are only going to stay over night.“
“ Yes, I know; but I want to show
them to Jack," replied her brother, who
took ii boy’s natural delight in his iiew-
ly-aoqiiiretl treasure.
lle trudged on bravely, or- being on
snow-slioes-it perhaps were better to
say skimmed along over the sno ,a1iL
was lialf-way on his walk when his keen
eye saw a large gray squirrel in a tree
near.
To bring his gun to his houlder and
fire, was the work of aii instant. lle
struck his mark, stooped to pick up the
game, when he lelta hand laid on his
shoulder, and turning. found liiinself in
the grasp of a tall Indian, with a dozen
or more staiiding round.
ltesistance was useless, and he was
wise enough to make none, but expect-
ing to be tomahawked instantly, he yet,
after the‘ first start of surprise, stood per-
fectly still as his captors disarined and
I
bound hiiii.
ltight-about they faced, and struck out
.s eux,i.b ciiiun ma Ilh s'l'l’.ll‘l( our
through the u'1Iml'<l‘lt ‘I pace that ill id '
. ., . -- - <r - : eit
<l1‘I(‘l'i]t].i.ilt tor ltobert to keel, up “ml
l"l‘l)lil the few worls . 1;.
Inarrrli. sonic few of w h l('ll<lll"ll5 lillv‘t,iIl1.]“.]-0
stood,l - gleam-il the la . thatlth smv‘
not on the war-patli, but
o
a'.:(‘s 2
liiiiitiiig-paity on their way to the
It was part of the Iiidi:in polie L
niake prisoners of white hovs wlicii: .
“'9-" ,""“1‘l ll" 3”. and traiiitlieiii u I?’
warriors. 'l‘ht-,ru was, therefore lilttls
r tliatonr hero would be liilledo
I s, on the rt-turn of the party 1., H ‘.1
Vlll:IL('0, he should he elaiiiied h. ,, IL"
"'“'"l""r "r “W “‘l'“‘. to he torturzd (Tum
put toduath in retaliation for sun“ and
l;l[lV-I‘..‘4l:lllI by the whites. llut1iKe(l re‘
captivity and an Indian edtic-itioi Oing
not a ilei ant fate to look for -1-‘jvcm
and Robert would gladlv ha ".v‘u.( my
his life in the attempt to egetiiftawliig
sui'pi‘ise, ,
as she saw him wrapping them up.‘
l
uowiv rur. L.-IK .
an
J nnusry 14, 1881.
there been a shadow of a chance of sue-
LOSS.
The end of the next day's journey
brought then: to Lake St. (.‘lair, and
here the party halted, inteiiding to tish
a feat aceouiplislied hycut-
i the ice, and speariiig the
'pat .
- skates had cxcitetl iimch curi-
osity tnnoiw the lndiai , ‘
had ever. ‘ll sueliatliiiig both 0, and
they regarded them evidently as some
sort of “nie:lieinc," or iiiysterv.
lle had tried in vain to 1 [Iain their
use, in his few Indian ihrases aided by
their slight knowledge of ]‘lll;.’;llSll '0 ,
liowcver, on the ice, his signs were bet-
er understood, and the chief who had
rapture-d him at once ordered him to put
them on, and so give a practical illustra-
tion of their use.
Robert obeyed, and skated for some
ininutes, to the delight of the savages,
whom at every circle he lelt lurthcr and
further away.
He had repeated this niaiioeuvre seve-
ral times, always returning to the bank,
until finally he skated out a liundrud
yards froni the shore, and then, swift as
his skates could carry him, he struck out
down the lake.
It was a iiiiiiute or two lieforo the In-
diaiis realized that he was runuingawav,
then, with a terrilic war-wlioup, tliuiy
made chase.
a s, and
running on it was not easy. A doze
shots were tired at him, but those were
not the days of long-range rifles, and the
halls fell short.
ne brave, more agile than the rest,
nearly reached him, when he turned,
suddenly cliaiigiiig his course, and his
l3“"%l10I'. trying to turn also, fell tlat on
the ice.
On. on he skated, desperatelv, with the
drcadlul war-wlioup in ‘S cat s, pI"tlVlll"
tor streii;.r;tli as he went. ii, on, until -4:1,:
last the sound died away, and still he
dared not pause. I On, on, until almost
exhausted, rounding a curve, lie saw
two men, clad in ihrs, on the ice.
. . .
in llipn, also, and his heart i'os0
“.m.e> umvh; ‘ in an agony ol doubt.
8"“, their rhvOi;ieti’ids or toes? Then he
hum, and v l‘0‘Il.li(".(l . but not copper-
“ “xi.” 1 ill l-llilylvltlllg.
Lmppmls ym H (“(.(.ll.ll'(.‘. said one of the
mum his wmis.kot iler, and the next ino-
“ps. ' )4 H-sk was at the boy's
H“ m"lV0Il qnicklv and was soon able
milcltli ly).l:iSL:".y ilm"IH-'n'.“’].V-
,.,ki,,5. 1,-.. e,1fvl::,‘;i:l:;‘zlxtl oi tliein pesky
H.” hmkv V01" . us .uIditoi's.
d-
“ W Ull,
us, or the
oiiiig karkiss
Hmypg “IT two or tlirve weeks
m mMl("‘;‘-',“"'. Who, at. the mid of
plum uuiy w[U‘lllIl to Detroit, at Wlll('.ll
0,. “mirfms min ltluclxstlilllial to dispose
on the way do “‘(“l:(’...‘$lIli;Lrl()lllIll conlhaiiy
Reach"'g "‘“‘"0y he foiuid his tauiily
ltobert
with l ‘s
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