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^ _ \ " > TW COPYRIGHT Q v ^Acrffatrg6?oa. A . CHAPTER XV?Continued. * "'My"eyes sought "the face" 5f the lad quest ioningly. He was a loose-lipped. I awkward lout, trembling still from a fright he could not conceal. "You belonged to that squad killed out yonder?" "Yes, sell; I reckon I'se the only one what ain't ded," he stammered, so tongue-tied I could scarcely make out his words. "I wus gone after wuhter, an' when them Injuns begun fer ter yell, I never dun nuthin' but just run, an* hid In the bush." ' "I understand. "What Is your name?" "Asa Hell." "W?IJ, Asa, I suppose those wece militiamen; you belonged to the company T He nodded, his eyes dull. 1.1s Hps moving, as though it was an effort to talk. Quite evidently whatever little Intellect he had ever possessed, now refused to respond. Kennedy broke In Impatiently. "It takes thet boy 'bout an hour fer ter tell enything. Cap," be explained gruffly. "I reckon he's skeercd half ter death in the furst place, an' then Hidr's snmthln' wrong with him enyhow. Howsumever, it's whut he seed an' heerd. Cap, thet sounds mighty queer ter me. He seu thar wus inore'n fifty bucks In thet party, an' that ol' Black Hawk wus thar hisself, a leadln' "em?lie none saw nun. I turned, surprised at this statement, to stare Into the boy's face. He half grinned back at me, vacantly. "Black Hawk! He could scarcely he down here; what did he look like?" " 'Bout six feet high, I reckon, with a big hooked nose, an' the blackest , pair o' mean eyes ever ye saw. I reckon he didn't huv' 110 eyebrows, an' he wore a bunch o' eagle feathers, an' a red blanket. Gosh, mister, but the devil cudn't loofc no worse'n he did." "Wus thet him, Cap?" burst In Tim, anxiously. "It's not a bad description," I admitted, yet not convinced. "I can't believe be would be here with a raiding party. If he tvns, there must bo some Important object In view. Is that all?" nin't tho Iiav cwpnrs thnr was a white man 'long with 'em, a feller with n short mustache, nn' dressed In store clothes. He wnn't no prisoner nuther. hut lied a gun/ an' talked ter Black Hawk, most like he wusfi chief hlsself. After the killin' wus all over, he wus the one whut got 'em ter foolf v thnr to the south, the whole kit an' kaboodle." "I don't doubt that. There have always been white renegades among the Sacs and plenty of half-breeds. If Black Hawk, and this other fellow are leading this band, they are after big game somewhere, and we had bettor keep out of their way. I favor saddling up immediately, and traveling all night." "So do I." and Tim flung a half-filled hag from his shoulder to the ground. "But I vote we eat furst. 'Tain't much, only a few scraps I found out thar; but It's a way better then nutliin'. Here you, Hull, give mo a hand, an' then we'll go out, an' round up them hnsses." If the party of raiding Indians, whose foul deed we had discovered, had departed in a southerly direction, as their trail would plainly seem to indicate, then our safest course would seemingly he directed eastward up the valley. This would give us the protection of the bluffs, and take us more and more out of the territory they would he likely to cover. Within twenty minutes we were In saddle, descending the steep hillside through the darkness, Tim walking ahead with the lad, his horse trailing behind, and the long rifle across his shoulder. I do not recall feeling any special fear. In the first place I was convinced that we must already he at the extreme limit of Black Hawk's radius, and thut, traveling as we were eastward, must before morning be well beyond any possible danger of falling ' Into the hands of his warriors. The other pursuers I had practically dis? missed from thought. Shortly after midnight my horse strained a tendon, nnd fnnld tin Inncpr unhold mv weight. On foot, with the poor beast limping painfully behind me, I pressed on beside Eloise, both of us silent, too utterly wearied with the strain for any abrupt at speech. f^Fhe rising sun topped the summit ofijtbe bluff, Its red rays seeming to fcjrkige with spans of gossamer the litV tie] valley up which we tolled. I had I lost nry interest, and was walking dogK gedly on, with eyes bent upon the ground, when the girl beside me cried out suddenly, a new excitement in her oiee. "Oh, there is a cabin 1 See! Over | yonder;, just beyond that big oak, where the bluff turns." Her eager face was aglow, her outstretched hand pointing eagerly. The logs of which the little building hnd been constructed, still in their native bark, blended so perfectly with I the drab hillside beyond, that for the moment none of us caught the distant outlines. TUn possessed the keenest sight, and his voice was first to speak. I "Sure, miss, thet'sa cabin, all right," he said grimly. "One room, an' newbuilt; likely 'nough sum settler just com' in yere. I don't see no movement, ner smoke." "Fled to the nearest fort probably," I replied, able myself by this time to decipher the_ spot. "Be too. risky to levils Own* nonce of flieBIack Howie Waff JlattdaU ParrisU of Contraband, Shotxof WhcnWiitUrae** wci KirujT ?i?*. BWwird l^IfwinM^Ci* " stay" out Here nTbne.~ "We'll look 1 over; there might he food left behlm even if the people have gone." We must have heeu half an hour i covering the distance. The cabin stoo well uft above the stream, within tl: sluice of the great oak. and we wer confirmed, long before we reached ii in our former judgment that it wa unlntiflhtl A/1 V/, et?., nf 1i<V? UUII11IUU1IV.UI ilV ??i?,u ui IUC tiDi ble about the place; it bad the ai pearance of desertion, 110 smoke evei curling from out the chimney. A fain trail, evidently little used, led dowi toward the creek, and we followed thi as it wound around the base of tin big tree. Then it was that the trutl dawned suddenly upon us?there ti our right lay a dead mule, harnesset for work, but with throat cut; whih directly in front of the cabin door was a dog, an ugly, massive brute, hi: mouth open, prone on his back, witl stiffened legs pointing to the sky. j dropped my rein, and strode forward. "Wait where you are," I called back "There liave been savages here; let me sco first what has happened in. ride." . The dng had been shot, stricken bj two bullets, and I was obljged to drag his huge body to one side before I could press my way <n through the door. The open doorv ay and window afforded ample light, and a single glance was sufficient to reveal most of the story. The table had been smashed as by the blow of an ax, and pewter dishes were everywhere. The bed in one corner had been stripped of Its coverlets, many of them slashed by a knife, and the straw tick bad been ripped open in a dozen places. Coals from the fireplace lay widespread, some of them having eaten deeply into the bard wood before they ceased smoldering. I saw all this, yet my eyes rested upon something else. A man lay, bent double across an overturned b^hch, In a posture which hid his face from view. His body was there al^ne, al thnni'li n child's shoe lay on the fluor, and a woman's linscy dress dangled from a hook against the wall I crept forward, my heart poundins madly, until I could gain sight of his face. He was a hig fellow, not mors thati thirty, with sandy hair and heard and a pugnacious jaw, his coarse hiekoyy shirt slashed into ribbons, s bullet wound in the center of his fore head, and one ami broken by a vicious blow. His calloused hands yet grippec the haft of an ax, just as he had diet ?fighting. Tim's voice spoke from the door way. "Injuns, I reckon?" "Yes, they have been here; the mar Is dead. But there must have beer others, a woman and child also?sei that shoe on the floor, and the dresf hanging over there. The poor devi fought hard." "Do you think it best to stop here?' "Why not? 'Tnin't likely thorr devils will he hack agin. Thar sun must he somethin' ier us ter eat in th< T?tnee. nn' the Lord kno's we can't g? on as we are. Them gurls be might) nigh ready ter drop, an' two o' th< bosses has plum giv* out. I'm fer set tlin' down fer a few hours enyhow? say till it gits middling dark." 0 Undoubtedly this was the sensibb view. We would be in far less dangei remaining there tinder cover than ii any attempt to continue our journey bv daylight. Together we carried tin body out. and deposited it in a thicke behind the cabin, awaiting burial; aui then dragged the dead dog also out 0: sight. The disorder within was easily remedied, and, after this had been at tended to, the girls were permitted t( enter. Eloise sank back on the bench her head supported agaiust the wall the lashes of her half-closed eye: showing dark against the whitenesi of her cheeks. She looked so pitifully tired, the very heart choked in 111: throat. The rest of us found a small stocl of provisions, and Elsie, with Tim t< uid her, built a tire aud prepare! breakfast. A half-filled bottle o whisky discovered in the cupboard helped to revive all of us slightly, am gave Asa sufficient courage to seel outside for a spring. Tim, compara tively unweuried himself, and restless located a trapdoor in the floor, rathe ingeniously concealed, which disclose! the existence of a small cellar below Candle in baud he explored this, re turning with two guns, together witl a quantity of powder and ball, and In formation that there remained a hal keg of the explosive hidden below. "Must a bin aimiu' ter blow u] stumps, I reckon," he commented, ex hibiting a sample. "Coarsest I eve saw; cudu't hardly use tliet in no gun but it's powder alright." To remove the debris out of our jvaj * .... *l.? nrw 1 WiW llll'l ill^ U|l UK- dliuu liv i\ UM' slit blankets, and piled them all to nether back on the bed. Clinging b one of the blankets, caught and heh by its pin, was a peculiar emblem, am I stood for a moment with it in 111; hand, curiously examining the odd dt sign. Eloise unclosed her eyes, am started to her feet. "What is that you have?" she asked "A pin of some kind?a rathe strange design; I just found it hen entangled in this blanket." "Why," she exclaimed in surprise. *' have seen one exactly like it beforeKirby wore it in his tie." (.To Lie Continued.) ? William IY-to Howard, white, a i Federal prisoner who escaped from the t Cherokee county jail at Oaffney about two weeks apo with CJsorpo J. Kmory jand Tom Rollins voluntarily returned to the jail Tuesday nipht. Howard 1 [said that it was necessary for him to [visit his home over in the Dark Corner s ) I of Creenville county for a few days i ; J Y0RKV1LLE COTTO t | GINS COTTON?Buys Cc ' | Seed Meal and iiulis. || | Flour and Corn Mills?I 41- give host yield. We I I Flour and Meal Bags, at a Low Price. > Tw Feed at Low Prices. WE EUY CORN AND W DEALEI BRING US YOUR COT ? Your Wheat and Con If we do not give abso' our customers we want to ] YORKVILLE C0TT01 5 % Bl ;||j:p ''i [ : I ????????? T h ts num wvtM uujfc* tt.T f ; Now own : miles from ; S. C., on tb 1 * , . . /-? rri mm r* ^uuiaiixiiig acre tracts i ? / v . AT 10: l! f' j A large perce produce a bal I I located withir v ; 1 ; 11 best roads ' The terms i ;* I ; TP ' i J 8 ISiO* U 1 I f ? - i Presents G i r\' ;| i. '! M. H PINNIX 4 ; lH " ind that he broke jail to do so. H< ully Intended coming back he said. 1 ST China r.nd Japan arc pre-eminently the seaweed-eating nations of th< voHd. 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