Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 September 1896 — Page 7

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THE WELDON ESTATE.

By ALFRED B. OALBOUB.

[Copyright, 1806, by American Press Association.]

CHAPTER IV.

Ciptain Brandon and Alice Blanchard were admiring the scenery from the top of a hill overlooking their camp when Howard came up and informed them that a young mail had come into the camp who wished to see the captain. They descended the hill and made their way to the place where tlio pillars of smoke marked the sight of the camp. As they nearcd the tents and huts a young man of graceful form and strong, handsome face came out to meet them. He extended his band to the captain— the other hand held his hat—and asked:

Are you Captain Brandon?'' "I am," was the reply. "I have ridden fast to see you, sir," said the young man. "My name is Louis Kyle."

Louis Kyle released Captain Brandon's hand, and a blush of modest confusion covered his handsome face as he felt the eyes of Alice Blanchard were on him. "Kylel Did you say your name was Kyle?" asked tho captain, his hand to his ear and his head bent forward. "Yes, sir." "You look as if you might be a brother of Henry Kyle." "I am," replied Louis, and the blush on tho down covered cheeks deepened. "You live with your father far back in the heart of tho mountains?" "Yes, captain, and I have lived there since my earliest recollections."

And you say you have ridden hard' Very hard, sir." Then you must eat and rest After that you can tell me tho object of your visit In the meantime let me say that you are welcome to our camp, no matter what your object may be."

Captain Brandon turned and introduced tho doctor and liia children, Clara having joined the.m as they entered the camp.

Unaccustomed to the forms that rule tn society, bur with a courtliness that was natural and graceful, Louis Kyle shook hands with each, and if he held Alice's hand a little longer than he did the others it was because he was so magnetized by the touch, so fascinated by the beauty of her form and face, as to be wholly unconscious of the act Bowing by way of apology for what he was about to do, he said to the captain: "Could I speak with you privately?" "Certainly," replied the captain. "Come this way." "I have come to warn you of a great danger. It is one that you may be guarded against, but I doubt if the ordinary precaution will meet it Bouton's gang and fully a score of renegade Indians are in the mountains to the south, and they are hastening this way with all the speed of their horses." "How do yoji know this?" "I cannot explain it to you now," said Louis Kyle, averting his face. "But you should give me your reasons for your fears as well as the warning," urged the captain. "Do not ask me to do that I want you to believe in my integrity. To explain all might lead you to doubt all, for the honor of one's own name should be very precious." "I understand you. Here, give me yoty hand again. The captain rook the young man's hand and continued, "It is a terrible thing, a very terrible thing, for brothei*s to be arrayed one against the other." "I would die to save my brother,' 6aid Louis excitedly, "but better that he and all of the name should perish than that a great wrong should be done.' "I agree with you. Eetter that all should perish than that a wrong should be done. Better the name should be blotted out if its purity cannot be maintained. But pardon the digression. When men reach my age, they are apt to philosophize. I do not want to be considered garrulous." "Nor are you. Your thoughts, Captain Brandon, are such as 1 daily think. But you have warned me not to speak of myself when more important matters are concerned." "You mistake me," interposed the captain. But the young man waved his hand and continued: "From tho fresh trails I passed not two hours ago I am certain that we are now under the eyes of Bouton's gang.' "You could not be mistaken?" "No. His Indian allies are scouting within rifle rimge and waiting for their leader to come out "And when do you think they will be here?" "Before another sun rises. "And what would yon advise?" The captain spoke in a lower tone than usual, and, bending forward, he anxiously watched the young man's face. "If there were time, 1 would advise you to push rapidly to the west and so shake these hounds from your traiL "But do you think, if we were to break camp now and push on wttth all speed, that we could do this?" "I do not" "What then?" "I would at onco build a strong corral on the bank of the river and place within it all your wagons, stock and other property," "That is sensible." "And within the corral 1 should erect a defense commanding every foot of the inclosure and large enough to hold all your people." "Good again." "A dozen good rifles can-keep the gang at bay. "Until all our provisions are exhausted?" "Yes, if you cannot get help in the meantime." "But where can we look for help?" "I will find it," said Louis Kyle, clinching his hands, while hia eyes blazed with resolution. "But where can you find it?" asked the captain, who still maintained his quiet but deeply interested manner.

"My father will come to the rescua "He is only one man. "Aye, but he is a giant in strength and a lion at heart We have a dozen Indians and half breeds on our place, on every one of whom we c.'in count to the death. These are all armed. But I should not wholly rely on them. I should send couriers asking for aid to tho mining camps, GO miles to the northwest, and to the military posts at Keogh and on the Yellowstone." "You are a born soldier but your plans involve a long time, do they not?" "Yes, to a man starving it would be a long time, but it would not be so long to strong, well fed men battling for their lives and the honor of their women," said Louis Kyle with an increase of energy and earnestness. "When do you intend returning'"' "Not.till my horse is rested. "About dark?" and the captain looked out at the sun sloping westward. "It will be better after dark."

So expeditious were Alice and her sister that in a very short time Louis Kyle was set before the very best dinner that the camp afforded and large enough to satisfy the appetite of a starved giant Had his real purpose in coming been suspected, the women—they were nearly all young—wouia not nave stood there laughing and declaring that the Btranger was one of the handsomest men they had seen since leaving home.

The sun seemed resting in a canopy of opaline clouds on the crest of the western mountains when Louis emerged from the tent So great was the change wrought in these few hours that he could scarcly credit his eyes. The tents were down and the arbors scattered about

The corral was up in a semicircle by the river's side, and all the stock were inside of it, with the wagons chained about the central point, where the stockade was being ereoted. The people were working like beavers and with a coolness that surprised and delighted the young man. The tent in which he had been sleeping was down and removed within the stone inclosure live minutes after he had left it. "You see we are acting on your advice, "said the captain without stopping in his work of rolling and lifting the 6tones into place. 'I hope tho precaution may not be necessary," said Louis, lending a hand, "but I do not think the work will be finished too soon.'' "And you are determined to leave us tonight?" "I must." "But think of the danger!" "I do, but it is of the danger to you, not to myself. You will need help, "and it must be forthcoming." 'Help is desirable. But what if you fall into the hands of these desperadoes?'' "I must guard against that," said Louis coolly. "But is not the danger great?" "Very great, captain but it will be no greater tonight than it was when I came here in the full blaze of the sun. Those fellows know where I am. Let them get me if they can." 'You cannot travel as well by night.'' "I can travel better. My horse and 1 know every rock, stream and defile from the Yellowstone geysers to the place where Custer and his gallant fellows died on the Big Horn. Trust me for that."

As they conversed the sun went down, and it became so dark that work on the nearly completed structure had to be suspended. It is surprising how soon the moat inexperienced will perceive the necessities of such an emergency. No ono thought of starting a fire or making a light Even the children hushed their prattle as they lay on the blankets inside the defense. As soon as tho stars were out Louis Kyle shook hands with tho immigrants—Alice's was the last hand ho took—and bidding

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them be of good cheer he sprung on his horse, forced him at tho corral wall and flew over.

A dead silence fell upon the camp. Men and women bent to catch the rapid beating of the horse's hoofs along the faco of tho mountain behind them.

Ten minutes passed. To Alico it seemed an age, for to her the mo.^t prominent figure of the day was missing. "Hark!" cried one. "What was that?"

No answer was giveii. There was no need of an answer to tell them what it was. Tho honest heart stopped for an instant, then beat more rapidly wi' dread as sin-ill cries and the rotir of rifles came from the direction which Louis Kyle had taken.

CHAPTER V.

The shouting and firing along the mountain side continued for some minutes, during which time Captain Brandon and his friends listened in breathless silence. When tho sounds died out, Alice Blanchard, who was standing beside the captain, said to him: "Do you think harm can have come to our friend?" "Ho told me that if he were attacked and passed through the line of tho outlaws successfully, he would signal me from tho high mountain ten miles to the south.'' "Signal you ten miles away through tho blackness that hangs over valley and hill?"

"Yes. Wait and you can see it if he has succeeded," said the captain, realizing that a moro than common interest agitated tho girl by his side.

Tho long minutes dragged by, painfully measured by tho audible beating of Alice's lr U't. Nearly an hour had passed sinew the firing—to her it seemed an age. Her hands woro becoming cold, and she cnmpres. her lips to keep them from trembling. "Was that a light r"

It was Alice who cried out. She thought she saw a (las!:—it might have been a moteo1-—Par away to llie south. But it passed so quickly that she could scarce say suoh a thing hud been. "See! There it is. captain. Tlicre it is!" cxclaimed Howard Blanchard, and, unmindful of the danger, all roso to their feet. The light on tho distant mountain side rose and fell, at times threatening to go out, but rising to a greater height and burning with greater clearness after each threatened relapse, until at length it sent a steady, inspiring glare across the darkness. "He has gone through safely," said the captain. "Thank God!" cricd Alice.

And the others, according to temperament, expressed their delight at Louis Kyle's success.

Alice Blanchard forgot the sunounding danger in the joyous relief from the anxiety that had been weighting her heart, and a reaction set in that made her fearless for the time. "Halt! Who goes there?" demanded Captain Brandon in a ringing voice as he saw a dusky form moving swiftly between the corral and tho neighboring cliff. The figure disappeared, and no reply came back. "Watch 1" said the captain. Stand every man carefully at his post I think I hear them coming this way."

The neighing of a horse and the impatient stamping of hoofs 100 yards off attracted the captain's attention. "Why not challenge them?" asked Howard, who, though as brave as steel, was naturally very nervous in this novei situation. "We know they are there. They have no doubt as to our whereabouts. Let us leave tho initiative to them," replied Captain Brandon.

The wisdom of this suggestion was soon manifest. From the cliff above tho spring a voice—it was Bouton's—called out: "Hello, down there!" "Well, what do you want?" asked the cantain. "I want to know whose camp that is." "I am known as Captain Brandon, and you arc known as the murderer and desperado Boutou," replied the captain. "If I como as a foe, you will soon know it. There are men enough with me to sweep over your work as a buffalo herd would over a bank of reeds. But we want no fight." "Ah, now you are getting nearer to the truth than is your habit 1 You like best to'rob and plunder where the gain is great and the danger small." "There is not enough plunder in your outfit to tempt us." "Then why do you come?"

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"We come this time as the friends of law and justice." "Indeed!" "Wo do, sir. You have with your party a man named Dr. Blanchard." "•What of that?" "He and his family aro fugitives from justice, and we come to demand them. We are working for tho reward. Now, give these people up and we will go away and leave you in peace." "The man that says I or any of my family are criminals or fugitives from justice," broke in Dr. Blanchard, who up to this time had been a model of coolness, "lies in his throat!"

Now, it so happened that Tom Bliss was standing beside Bouton during the parley and it was he who prompted the desperado to put tho following questions: "Are you Dr. Blanchard?" "I am," replied the indignant doctor. 'Do you know of any murder in your family?" "I do not,." "You are sure?" "I am cciMain. "You married John Weldon's granddaughter, Ziiary?'' "I did." "Who killed Frederick Weldon?" "I do not know that he was killed." "What has become of Valen\ine Wcldoy. and his wife and two sons?" "I do not know." "Now, let me toll you.. Dr. Blanc-h-ard, that, sinco you left West Virginia your wife's body has been exhumed, and it has been discovered that she died from the effects of poison supposed to have been administered by you"— "Who brings such news?" asked the doctor, shocked at the horrible charge and astounded at the man's knowledge of his relations. "Two young lawyers," replied Bouton. "Their names?" "I do not care to give them, but they are with full authority to take you back." "You say they aro lawyers?" interposed Captain Brandon. "I do." "Tell them to bring their authority to me, and if it is authentic I will aid them in their efforts.''t

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Afire had been started and about it the outlaws .and renegade Indians were reclining and smoking as calmly as if the night's work were an ordinary occurrence. Close by, the horses and pack mules were staked in tho long bunch grass, many of them lying down, fatigued by their long drive. Henry Kyle, with a cloud on his handsome face, sat back in the shadows talking to Font Itobb. "I did not think I could do it, Font, but he ran his liorso at me and I had to fire. I fired, though I knew the man on that xiorso was my own ,brother. But, so help mo God, I did not want to hurt him," said Henry Kyle, evidently much excited by his own words. 'But didn't Louis fire at you?" asked Font Robb. "He could not distinguish me-in tho

darkness. Ho m-ou at tlio crowd that" leaped out to tear him from his horse. There is not another man in the mountains could have stuck to his saddlo and plunged through as Louis did. I almost felt proud that he was mv brother when he hurled me to the ground and shot down a Sioux by my side "Don't let tho boys hear vou talk that way," urged Font Robb. 'I am not afraid of the boys, curse it! Can't a man admire address and courage—particularly in his own broth-er—without-fellows getting mad at him?" "But your brother has come out against us strong.'' "He was always against us, but as we had never harmed him he did not bother. Now he'll give us trouble." 'And you and h:r.i is at outs forever?"

At outs forever, Font. From my earliest years he was my playmate, my bedfellow, my other self. Together wo said our prayers by the same mother's knee—little good the prayers did me, but it doesn't hurt to remember them. Now Louis and I aro foes."

CHAPTER VI.

Before Louis Kyle lit the signal fire that was to convey the news of liis safe arrival to his friends he made sure that none of Bouton's gang was within reach. At his elevation the air was raw and cold, and tho young man drew near to tho flames with his hands extended to catch tho grateful heat

Though he had just passed through a danger that for many an hour afterward would have occupied the thoughts of an ordinary man and been repeated for many a night in his dreams, Louis Kyle's mind was filled with another and to him a greater subject-. "I wish my mother and father could see her," ho mused. "Nora, I am sure, would love her. Who could help loving her? How can I tell her my feelings? What reply would she make if she knew them?"

Louis Kyle was thinking aloud, and he was so absorbed that he did. not hear a soft step behind him nor know that another was near till he heard the words: "Better warm the blood by riding than by a fire at such a time."

Louis Kyle leaped back with his hand to his pistol—the riflo was fastened to his saddle—but he smiled at his own alarm as he recognizcd the familiar fig-ure-before him. It was tall and gaunt, clad in skins and with a wild tanglo ol red hair and beard masking the face. The eyes were black and piercing, and a heavy yellow chain, from which a cross was suspended, hung about hia neck. An old fashioned powder horn and bullet pouch'were fastened to his rawhide belt, and he carried, like a staff, along muzzle loading rifle, such as was once so popular writh tho hunters of the west. There was no guessing the man's age, but the erect form, the broad breast and the expression of the hairy, muscular hands told that he had not yet passed the prime of life. He was known to mauy by the nomo which he gave himself, Daniel the Prophet, but very few 'mew him personally, and no one but himself knew how ho lived or where was his dwelling place. There was a tradition'that Daniel the Prophet had suffered great wrongs at the hands of the Mormons to the south and that he had started an opposition religion, tho chief tenet of which was that life should bo devoted to celibacy and soli tude. If such were his belief, he certainly acted on it, for he was but sel dom seen, and his maimer of coming and going was so mysterious that tho hunters, trappers and prospector of that land held him in awo if not in veneration. "Why, Prophet, I am glad to see you, as I am surprised at your coming, sa^d Louis Kyle, adviuicing and taking the extended hand.

Daniel—or tlio Prophet, as we shall call hiir.—always used the Biblical maimer in speaking, and there was a dignity in lus expression that precluded the thought of burlesque. Even when his statements were absurd, they carricd force from the earnestness with which they were uttered. "There is as yet no blood upon thy band that tlio physical eye can see. Woe be to him that .wareth on his brother!" said tho Prophet gloomily. "Then woe will not come to me. But what if I should resist the brother who raises his hand against me?" asked Louis Kyle. ''Resistance to wrong is a right, noi a sin. But when "brothers war, heaven averts it4s face and -heeds'not the caure. A curse has .fallen upon oar mountains. Tlio outlaw.has xnado.it his hemoane the gold.serirc-r stains the purify, of our waters. Tarry not, Louis Kyle, 'but carry to thy fif'ii the story that will bring IUTU grief. Go, tuid I \viii hold the patibctwecu the? and thy pursr-rrs," Kaii: the Prophet, motioning back with hit-.-x tended baud.

In childhood Louis Kyle had looked on this man with a dread that manhood did not entirely obliterate. Under a»y circumstances he would not have thought of invoking his aid. But now tho necessities of his situation drove him to seize upon every means that held out the slightest p-ospect of help to his beleaguered friends. It flashed upon his mind that this man might be made available. "Prophet," lie said, "you have often told mo that your heart bled fort he distressed and that 3-011 loved these solitudes because tliey shut you out from the misery you could ally." "And I told thee the truth."

With earnest, clear cut, Saxon phrase Louis Kyle told his story, and then asked the Prophet if he would go to the mining camp to tho south or to the forts to the east to get assistance.

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