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r_. - - - - CHAPTER XVI?Continusc!. If "the band had "trolled us to this spot, it had been done through the infouence of Kir by, add he had, beyond question, informed .them as to who we were,, and the*conditions under which we haa fled from Yellow Banks, The only addition to our party since them was the rescued-hoy. They would have little fear of serious losj in an attack upon two men, and two Women, unarmed, except possibly with a pistol or two, even though barricaded behind the log walls of a cabin. And, with one of their number within, any attempt at defense would be but a farce. This same gang had already sacked the cabin, taking with them, as they believed, every weapon it eotv talned. In their haste thep had over looked the cellar below. They had no thought of Its existence, nor that we awaited them rifles in hand and with an ample supply of powder and lead. Whatever might be the final result, a surprise of no pleasant nature was awaltirg their advance. ^ Convinced, as I had become, that Black Hawk was actually with the party, although I was unable to obtain any-glimpse of him, I felt there was small chance of his departure, without making at least one effort to capture the cabin. That was his nature, his reputation?that of a bulldog to hang on, a tiger fo strike. More, even, this band of raiders must be far south of the main body of the Hawk's followers, and hence In danger themselves. They would never remain here long, facing the possibility of discovery, of having their retreat cut off. If they attacked the attempt would not be long delayed. Still there was nothing left to do but wait. We were already as completely prepared as possible with our resources. 'The main assault wpuld undoubtedly be delivered from the front, directed against the door, the only point where they could hope to break In. Here Tim and myself held our positions, as ready as we could be for any emergency, and watchful of the slightest movement without. Tim had even brought up the half-keg of coarse powder from the cellar, and rolled it into one corner out of the way. His only explanation was, a grim reply to my question, that "It mought be mighty handy ter hav' round afore the frneus wus done." There was no fear In Elolse, no shrinking, no evidence of cowardice. Not once did I feel the need of giving her word of encouragement?even as I glanced, toward her it was to perceive the gleam of a pistol gripped In her hand. She was of the old French fighting stock, which never falls. $ Against the log wall a few yards away, Kirby strained at his blanket bonds, and had at last succeeded in lifting himself up far enough so as to stare about the room. There was none of the ordinary calm of the gambler about the fellow now?all the pitiless hate, and love of revenge which belonged to his# wild Indian blood blazed in his eyes. He glared " at me In sudden, impotent rage. "You think you've got me, do you?" ' he cried, scowling across; then an ugly grin distorted his thin lips. "Not yet you haven't, you soldier dog. I've got some cards left to play in this game, you yoilng fool. What did you butt in for anyway? This was none of your affair. D? you, Knox, do you know who she Is? I mean that white-faced chit ove^ there?do you know who Rhe is? She's my wife; do you hear? ?my wife! I've got the papers, d? you! She's mine!?mine; and I am going to have her long after you're dead?yes, and the whole d? Beau/?olro i-krr?T~kort\r with h or Pv CI ? von talk about fighting?why there are fifty Indians out here. Walt till they find out what has happened to me. Oh. I'll watch you die at the stake, you sneaking white cur, and spit in your face!" "Klrby," I said sternly, but quietly, stepping directly across toward him. "You are a prisoner, and helpless, but I am going to tell you now to hold your tongue. Otherwise you will never see me at the stake, because I shall blow your brains out where you lie." "You dare not do?" "And why not? It will rid the girl of you, and that means something to me ?and her. Just try me, and see." He must have read the grim meaning in my face, for he fell back against the log, muttering incoherently, hi* dark eyes wells of hate, his face a picture of malignancy, but utterly helpless?the lurking coward in him. unable to face my threat. I left him ' and stooped above her. "We shall be busy presently; the delay cannot be much longer. I am airaiu mac ieiio\v inuy sutxeeu suuiuhow in (loin? us harm. lie is crazed enough to attempt anything. May 1 trust you to guard him?" Her eyes, absolutely fearless and direct, looked straight up into mine. "Yes. he will make no movement 1 shall not see. Tell me; do you believe there is hope?" * "God knows. We shall do our best If the worst comes?what?" "Do not fear for me; do not lot an> memory of me turn you aside from your work," she said quietly. "I know what you mean and pledge you I shall never fall into his hunds. It?It cannot be wrong, I am suret and?and 1 Wib Owit ; noaceof ffieBlcick Hawk Vaf JtauAaH " Parrhh ofCotrirahzad, Shea of fltclnili Brlfdt, MicnhVUdetnese wu KiivjT ?tcu SHurtraied bxjltarih must~lell you "that. I?I could" "not Steven, for?for I love you." My eager hands were upon hers, m.\ eyes greedily reading the message re vealed so frankly In the depths of hei i own. She only was In ray thoughts: we were there alone?alone. "They're a corain', Cap," yelled Rep nedy and his rifle cracked. "By G? they're here!" -y With one swift spring I was back ai my deserted post and firing. Nevei before had I been In an Indian battle but they had told me at Armstronc that the Sacs were fighting men. 1 knew it now. This was to be no plas at war but a grim, relentless struggle They came en masse, rushing recklessly forward across the open spuce pressing upon each other In headlong desire to be first, yelling like fiends ! guns brandished in air, or spitting fire animated by but one purpose ? the battering of a way into that cabin. 1 know not who led them?all I saw was a mass of half-naked bodies bounding toward me, long hair streaming, copper faces aglow, weapons glittering iff, the light. Yes, I saw more? the meaning of that fierce rush; th? instrument of destruction they brough with them. It wag there In the center of the maelstrom of leaping figures, protected by the grouped bodies, half hidden by gesticulating red arms?a huge log, borne irresistibly forward on the shoulders of twenty warriors, gripped by other hands, and hurled toward us as though swept on by a human sea. Again and again I fired blindly Into the yelping mob; I heard the crack of Tim's rifle echoing mine, and the chug of lead from without striking the solid logs. * Bullets ploughed crashing through the door panels and Elsie's shrill screams of fright rang out abovtf the unearthly din. A slug tore through my loophole, drawing blood, from my shoulder In Its passage, and imbedded itself In the opposite wall. In fropt of me savage* fpll Rcppomfi nf nnper and agony mingling as the astonished assailants realized the fight before them. An instant we held them, startled, and demoralized. The warriors bearing the log stumbled over a dead body and went down, the great timber crushing out another life as It fell. Again we fired, this time straight into their faces?but there was no stopping them. A red blanket flashed back beyond the big tree; a guttural voice shouted. Its hoarse note rising above the hellish uproar, and those demons were on^helr-feet again, filled with new frenzy. It was a minute?no more. With a blow that shook the cabin, propelled by twenty strong arms, the great tree butt struck, splintering the oak wood as though it were so much pine, and driving a jagged hole clear through one panel. Kennedy was there, blazing away directly into'the assailants' eyes, and I joined him. Again they struck, and again, the Jogged end of their battering ram protruded through the shattered wood. We killed, but they were too many. Once more the great butt came crashing forward, this time caving in the entire door, bursting it back upon Its hinges. In through the opening the red inob hurled itself, reckless of death or wounds, mad with the thirst for victory; a jam of naked beasts, crazed by the smill of blood?a wave of slaughter, crested with brandished guns and gleam of tomahawks. There is nothing to remember? nothing but blows, curses, yells, the crunch of steel on flesh, the horror of cruel eyes glowering into yours, the clutching of fingers at your throat, the spit of fire singeing you, the strain of combat hand to hand?the knowledge that it Is all over, except to die.' I had no sense of fear; no thought but to kill and be killed. I felt within me strength?desperate, insane strength. The rifle butt splintered in my hands, but the bent and shapeless barrel rose and fell - like u flail. I saw it crush against skulls; I jabbed it straight into red faces! I brought It down with all my force on clutching arms. For nn instant Tim was beside me. He had lost his gun and was fighting with a knife. It was only a glimpse I had of him through red mist?the next in? stunt he was gone. A huge fellow A Huge Fellow Faced Me?a Winnebago, I Knew. faced tne, a Winm-buRO, I knevr, from his shaven bond. I struck him once, his, chock to the bone; then he broke'thtbogh and gripped me. The rest is what?a 'dream; a delirium fever? I know not; it comes to me in flashes of mad memory. I was struck again and again, stabbed, and flung to the flror. Moccasined feet trod on mo, and some fiend gripped my hair, bending my hen.', back across a dead body, until I felt the neck crack. Above me were naked legs and arras, a pandemonium of dancing figures, a horrible chorus of maddened yells. I caught a glimpse of Asa Hall flung high into the air, shot dead in midflight, the whirling body dropping into the ruck below. I saw the savage, whose fingers were twined in my hair, lift a gleaming tomahawk and circle It about his head; I stared into the hate Of his eyes, and as it swept: down? there was a glare of red ard yellow flame between us. the thunder of an explosion; the roof above seemed to (lanmlpr (tnil fflll in?end dark ness, death. . , . ; , CHAPTER XVIr, 'Ti?ES|', > . -ctfsgl The Trail to Ottawa. " When my eyes again opemnl It was to,darkness and silence as profound as that of ny former unconsciousness. For the moment I felt no certainty . even that I was actually alive, yet slowly, little by little, reality conquered, and I became keenly conscious of physical pain, while memory also began to blindly reassert itself. I could nee nothing, hear nothing. Ail about was impenetrable blackness and the silence of the grave. I found myself unable to move my body ana when I desperately attempted to do so, even the slightest motion brought j pain. I became conscious also of a weight crushing down upon me, and stifling my breath. One of my arms was free; I could move it about within narrow limits, although It ached as from a serious burn. By use of It I endeavored through the black darkness to learn the nature of that heavy object lying across my chest, feeling at it cautiously. My fingers touched cold, dead flesh, from contact with which they shrank In horror, only to encounter a strand of coarse hair. The first terror of this discovery was overwhelming, yet I persevered, satisfying myself that It was the half-naked body of an Indian?a very giant of n fellow ?which lay stretched across toe, an Immovable weight. Something else, perhaps another dead man, held my. feet as though In a vise, and when t ventured to extend ray one free arm gropingly to one side, the fingers encountered a moocaslnecl foot. Scarcely, daring to breathe, I lay staring upward and, far above, looking out through what might be a Jagged, overhanging mass of timbers, although scarcely discernible, my eyes caught the silver glimmer of a star. ^ , ' I was alive?lllve'f Whatever had occurred lit that fateful second to defleet that murderous tomahawk, Its keen edge had failed to reach me. And what had occurred? Then It was that the probable truth came to me?that ' flash and roar; that last Impression Imprinted on my vbra!n before utter darkness descended upon me, must have meant an explosion, an upheaval shattering the cabin, bringing the roof down upon the struggling mob within, the heavy timbers crushing out their lives. And the cause! But one was possible?the half-keg of blasting powder Kennedy had placed In the corner as a last resort. Had Tim reached It In a final, mad effort to destroy, or had some accidental flame wrought uie terriDie aesrrucnon r remaps no one could ever answer that?but was I there alone, the sole survivor? Had those others of our little party died amid their Indian enemies, and were they lying now somewhere In this j darkness, crushed and mangled In the midst of the debris? Kennedy, Elslo Clark, the halfwitted boy Asa Hall?their faces seemed to stare at me out oil the blackness. They must be de^id! Why, I had seen Kennedy fall, the heedless feet crunching his face, and Asa Hall j tossed Into the air and shct at as he fell. Eloise! Eloise! I covered my eyes with the free hand, conscious that I was crying like a child?Eloise. My God, Eloise! I wonder If I fninted; I knew so little after that; so little, ex-j cept that I suffered helplessly. If I did not faint, then I must have been upon the verge of insanity, for there was a time?God knows liow long?i when all was blank. Some slight, scarcely distinguishablenoise aroused me. Yes, it was actually a sound, as though someone moved in the room?moved stealthily, as though j. upon hands and knees, seeking a passage in the darkness. I Imagined I could distinguish breathing. Who, what could It bo? A man; a prowling wildj. animal which had scented blood? But for my dry, parched lips I would have cried out?yet e?en with the vain., endeavor, doubt silenced me. Who1" could be there?who? Some sneaking, | cowardly thief; some despoiler of the dead? Some Indian returned through the night to take his toll of scalps, hoping to thus proclaim himself a mighty warrior? More likely enemy than friend. It was better that I lie * and suffer than appeal to such a fiend for mercy. ^ The slight Sound shifted to the right of where I lay, no longer reminding me of the slow progress of a moving body, but rather as though someone were attempting blindly to scrape together ashes In the fireplace. I pressed my one free hand beneath ray neck, and thus, by an effort, lifted myself so as to see more clearly beyond the shoulder of the dead Indian. The first tiny, flickering spark of fire had caught the dry wood, and was swiftly bursting into flame. In another moment this had illumined that stooping figure, and rested in a blaze of light upon the loworofl f.nee hrinrrinp out the features ns though they were framed against the Mack wall beyond?a woman's face, the face of Eloise! I gave vent to one startled, tnartlcu Me cry, and she sprang to her :'eetH the mantling flames girdling her na though she were a statue. In that first j frightened glance she failed to see g me; her whole posture told of fear, of g Indecision. i i, "Who was it spoke? Who called? Is t! someone alive lure?" E The trembling words sounded d strange, unn?iural. I could barely r whisper, yet I did ray best. a "It Is Steven, Elofse?come to me." "Steven! Steven Knox?alive! Oh, t my Ood; you have answered ray a prayer!" P She found me. heedless of all the. horror in between, as though guidtd 8 by some instinct, and dropped on her t knees beside me. I felt a tear fall cn 11 my cheek, aivd then the warm, eager t pressure of her lips to mine. I could r notVpenk; I could only hold her close e with mv one hand. Q "Yon are suffering," she crfe.l. s "AYhnt can I do? Is it this Indian's r body?" S "Yes," I breathed, the effort of speaking an a'gony. "He lies direct y across ray chest, a dead weight." It taxed her strength to the utmost, but, oh, the immediate relief! With the drawing of a full breath I felt a return of manhood, a revival of life. Another body pinned my limbs to the floor, but this was more easily dis- j posed of. Then I managed to lift ray- , self, but with the first attempt her \ arm was about my shoulders. "No; not alone?let me help j'ou. Do you really think you can stand? Why, you are hurt, dear; this is a knife, wound in your side. It looks ugly, tut is not deep and bleeds no longer. Are j there other Injuries?" "My head rings, and this left am appears paralyzed, from blows,' no doubt; there are spots on my body ; which feel like burns. No, I am not in < bad /drape. Now let me stand alore; ; that's better Good God, what a ? scene!" ' . ^ t j The fire, by this time binzing bright * ly, gave us n full view of the entire j dismantled interior. The cnbln was a ^ complete wreck, the roof practically < all gone and the upp<t logs of the side ' walls either fallen within or dangling In threat. Clearly enough it had been 1 the sudden plunge of heavy timbers ! and the dislougraent of those upper logs, which accounted for this havoc > of denth. There were dead there ^ pierced by bullets and brained by rifle > stocks, but the mnny had met their * fate under the avalanche of logs, and ( amid the burning glare of exploding * powder. Only between arched timbers and sections of fallen roof could we move ) at all, and beneath the network of ; this entanglement the majority of the ] bodies lny, crushed and mangled. I saw Kirby, free from his bonds, but J dead beneath a heavy beam. His face i was toward ns and the flicker of flame * revealed a dark spot on his forehend ; ?his life had never been crushed our by that plunging timber which pinned him there; it had been' ended by a bullet. My eyes sought hers, in swift memory of my last order, and she must \ have read my thought. I "No," she said, "not that, Steven. | It was the boy who shot him. Oh. please, can we not go? There is light J already In the sky overhead?see. Take j me away from here?anywhere, out- <! side." "In a moment; all these surely are dead, beyond our aid, and yet we must not depart foodless. We know j not how far it still may be to Ottawa. Wait, while I search for the things we ! need." "Not alone; I must be Where- I can touch you. Try to understand. Oh. you do hot know those hours I have -j< spent in agony?I have died a thou- V sand deaths since that sun went .jj down." |t' "You were conscious?all night { long?" !j> "Conscious? Yes, and unhurt, yet * prisoned helpless beneath those t*.vo a logs yonder, saved only by that over- $ turned bench. Elsie, poor thing, never . < knew how death came, it was so swift, but I lay there, within a foot of her i body unscratched. I could think only ! ? of you, Steven, but with never a drenmj.j. that you lived. There were groan? at X first and cries. Some Indians crept in through the door and dragged o jt a X few who lived. But with the coning * of darkness albsound ceased and such J ? silence was even more dreadful than ' !< the calls for help. Oil, I cannot tell j | X '4' And She Clung to Me, Her Voico E Breaking. you," and she clung to me, her voice s breaking. "I?I dared not move for hours, and then, when I did try, found ? I could not; that I was held fast. 2 Only for a knife in the hands of a dead 2 savage, which I managed to secure, ~ 1 could never have freed myself. And 2 oh, the unspeakable horror of creeping E In the darkness among those bodies. 2 I knew where the fireplace must he; 2 that there might he live coal:? there E still. I had to have light; I had to E know if you were (lend." "Don't think about It any more, dear s* heart," I urge d.__"Ycs, we can go now.'ffj -nothing else holds us here." We crept ont through the door, unerneath a mass of debris, Into the ray of the dawn. Beyond a little rove we found some horses browsing i the deep grass; "they were those hat had brought us from Yellow 1 tanks, and whinnied a greeting as wo rew near. Two of them were fit to Ide and the others followed, limping long behind. A half mile up the vallew we came o a beaten trail, running straight cross from bluff to bluff, and dlsapicaring Into the prairie beyond, lieudng directly toward the sunrise. We topped and looked bock for the first Ime. There on the side of the slope, inder the shade of the big tree, stood he cabin. Only for the wreck of the oof It spoke no message of the tragdy within. The sun's rays gilded It, nd the smoke from its chimney eemed a beckoning welcome. I eoched out and took her hand, and ur eyes met in understanding. What whispered need not be told, and i-Viori toA ntrain rndn fnrwnrd. It was ipon the trail to Ottawa. 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About 150 acres open land, balance in oak and pine timber.- Prop- ? ?rty of M. A? McI-nrland. 212 acres at Brattonsville?2 tenant houses etc. I will sell this plage as a whole, or in 3 tracts, to wit: 57 aOres, 05 Peres, and 90 acres. Property of , , Estate Mrs. Agnes Harris. 132 2-3 acres?3 miles South of Sharon on McConnellsvllle road. One aew 4 room residence and one 5 room old residence, 2 small barns, well of good water and small orchard. About 1-2 of place open land and balance In woods and pasture. One mile of, Rlalrsville school. Property of W. P. Youngblood. 135 Acres?Half mile of Incorporate limits of York on Lincoln road; 5-room residence, barn, 3 tenant nouses, iwo branches on p!aco, about 8. acres bottom land. About 10 acres woodland, and balance work land. 157 Acres?11 miles from York, and 6 miles from King's Creek; 8-room residence, barn, 3 tenant houses and other necessary outbuildings. About 80 acres open land, and balance In pasture and timber?something like 150,OOu feet saw timber; 3 pastures. 37 Acres?11 miles from Y6rk, 8 miles from Clover and 5 miles from King's Creek; 8-room residence, barn, well of good water, cotton house, etc. x Good orchard. About 20 acre? open land and balance in woods?about 12,000 feet saw timber. Propertv J. E. > Bigger. I 222 Acres?14 miles from York, 5 miles from King's Creek, and 6 miles from Smyrna. Good school within 1 1-2 mi\es; 4-room dwelling, spring close to house; 1 good tenant house; 2 good tenant barns, etc. About 60 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, from 250,000 to 300,000 feet pine saw timber ?will saw boards from 6 to 10 inches. 350 Acres?10 miles from York, 6 1-2 mi kg from Tircah and 8 miles from Clover, on 3 public roads, within 1 1-2 miles of sand-clay road to Clover. About 100 acres open lan1, balance in timber and pasture. About 80 acres under wire fence. Talk about your saw timber, here it is?pine, hickory, white oak, &c., but mostly pine; 7room residence, good barns, 3 good tenant houses?6, 5 and 3 rooms re spectively. uinnouso, store room, jjwx50 feet, an excellent stand. Forest H.I1 school 1-4 mile of residence; 4 churches within 4 miles. Property of R. E. IFerguson. >2 1-2 Acres?4 1-2 miles from York, nn Adair's Ferry road. 5-room resilience; 2-story barn, well of good wa- , tcr, plenty of timber for place?pine md oak. Good pasture. Right at school. I/ot in Clover?At corner of Main *nd New Brooklyn streets, 145x2.'JO [eet; 9-room residence, well of good .rater; 3-stall barn, smoke-house, ivheat house, &c. Good orchard, good jarden. ' Electric lights in house. Three sood lots could be gotten out of this place. Property of J. L. Stacy. Lot in York?At corner of Main and CVest Madison streets, fronting 75 feet in Main St., 200 feet on Madison St., md 125 feet back width; 8-room resilence, besides kitchen, pantry and lalls. Water and lights. Store room 14x74 feet. Property of J. W. Dobson. 6-room (new)?Residence, barn and irib in McConnellsville on Crawford Street. Well of good water. Property )f R. H. Lee. - f Loans arranged on farming lands. GEO. W. WILLIAMS REAL liSTTATE , [loom 204 First National Bank Bid*.