Plymouth Republican, Volume 45, Number 33, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 July 1901 — Page 6

Angus Gorbly's Captivity

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BY A WRITER OF MARSHALL COUNTY. J

(Continuation) Chapter ii. THE APPRENTICESHIP And thus three awful years passed by, with scarce a ray of hope, of comfort or of sympathy, and Angus, whose health was wonderfully maintained, grew to be a strapping, handsome lad of twelve, always industrious and attentive to his duties, but wearing" an air of sadness that gave his features a curiously attractivo old and sober character. He was so accustomed to his daily jneed of abuse, and hard labor tUat it 1)6 longer wdiv üpöti bim at first and his secret grief was unsuspected, like the lifelongsilent mourning of a mother for the loss of a darling child. He grew in intelliffence,also. and ho managed to get hold of a book occasionally and thus in a measure supplied the lack of schooling. The merchant congratulated himself on having made a profitable . investment when he secured the blue-eyed, sandy-haired little Scot. Angus had come to understand that his period of service was but seven years and that at the end of that term he would be free, so he was counting the time as it sluggishly crept along, watching daily for any means of sending a letter to his home. Being older, now and strong er, the duties of the apprentice were changed and he was put in that part of the establishment where the furs and skins were received from the traders, the season having arrived for such merchandise to come in from the wilderness. TLe work of opening, counting, cleaning and pack ing away the foul and stinking skins was disagreeaole ana, at first, nauseating, but there was a recompense in the tact that it brought the lad in contact with many hardy pioneers and forest rangers whose free manners and marvelous adventures excited his imagination and gave him a new field for thought. As they departed one after another, hav ing transacted their business, and were swallowed up in that vast and mysterious solitude to the west his longing to go also be came intense and he sought their company at every opportun it'. One day there came a big, bluff , hearty, good natured fel low. a trader and trapper of much renown, who took a great faicy to the bright and eager öcoteh boy as they opened and inspected the packs together. Thus red faced, grizzly-bearded and leader .clad Sammy John, for so he was known, talked much with Angus and so friend Jv was he in wora ana manner that the boy was led, half-uncon sjiously, to give some account of his own litp. vhfrpat. ihr hier man slapped his thigh and swore roundly, angrily declaring that he would himself carry the boy away and give him deliverance. jjut to this trie uoiiest ahjtus objected, saying that though Mr. Floyd was cruel he had paid his money and was untitled to tbe apprenticeship he had bought and that it would be wrong to steal away from him. Sammy John, being honest nim self, thought there was some thing in that view and his admir ation for the boy increased; tell mg Angus to do quiet ana give no cause for suspicion he said he would consider the matter over night and see him the fol lowing day, but he swore again that justice should be done at al costs and that without delay. Here now was a happy boy again. Blithely did he go about his work, submissively did he accept the harsh corrections of Ins master, humbly did he en dure the persecution of John ivioya ana joyously no retirea to his lonely attic to dream rjof his release from hourly torture. The morning came, a sweet spring day, sunny as his own freshening heart; noon came and in . strode Sammy John and marched direct to the merchant's private office. "Master Floyd, I hae made my settlement with you and am now ready to buy goods to. take into the west. But I have come to ask if you know where I can get a good strong boy to go back with me. How about the Scotch boy in you service?"

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9 Adventure in the Territory C "5 Ohio River. ? C "Sammy John, it is now high noon. You will go to dine with me and we will talk about this then." 4,No, I have no garb or visage for a gentle table and I hear the forest calling me to make haste and return. I can have the Scotch boy?" "Sammy John, he is a good and a strong boy and very useful to me. I have it in mind to train him in the ways of merchandising and to give him many high advantages. I think I cannot spare him' Come, what will vou take for Itlw remainder of his evmf I; will pay ä fair price." "Prav. mv good menu, cio not embarrass mo in my plans for the bov's welfare. I have taken him into my house and dealt with him indulgently like a very father, making him equal with my own son, and after so long caring lor him like a parent I cannot in affection deal with him as merchandise. He is a tender and dutiful son to me." 'Master Floyd, you have curs ed, and beaten, and overworked, and falsley accused that young boy and allowed your son to lord it over him, and knowing that he was stolen frrm his family you have prevent ed him f romseeking the parental comfort he needs, l am here to demana the iaa in me name of justice and christian right, but 1 offer you recompense. Give me a price." "So, the ungrateful young rascal has been complaining, has he, and bearing false witness against a kind and generous master? He shall not go to bed unwhipped this night, I promise. You do not want with you in the lonely wilderness a person whose confidence cannot be relied upon, as you now see this varlet's cannot be." "James Floyd, Angus Corbly never told a lie in his life, as you well know. Deceit is not in him, but all that is honest and upright and noble is stamped upon his features. I say he shall not remain here. Give me your price that I may pay you, else I shall buy no goods of you and as I go back through the forests at every fort and post and camp I will say I trade no more with James Floyd and further will say why. I am believed where I inhabit and our people, though few in number, are generous and humane." "Uh, my good friend, you make too much of a small matter. True, I need the boy and want him and intend well by him, but his high spirit has led him to overdraw some matters to you and I fear his own restlessness would now interfere with ray plans for his good future. Since this is true I will show you that I can be gen erous and have no wrong intent. Take, than, Angus Corbly, freely a id in all good will, and use for his advantage whatever you regard as a reasonable sum for his release. Come you hero again at six o'clock for the young lad and his indenture." 'I will come as you say for the document but the boy, I need him now, without delay." "As you will, Sammy John. I will go with you myself and make delivery. I pray you be kind to him and I trust he will not betray your good opinion of him. Come." "Now I thank you, Master Floyd. I will take your prices tomorrow7 on the merchandise I am to buj My table may be more frugally and less regularly supplied than yours and our beds may be less soft and sometimes open to tne sky, but my apprentice shall have human com panionship and the sympathy of his fel low creatures." Chapter hi. INTO THE WILDERNESS It was but a couple of weeks after Sammy John had made his amicable bargain with Mr. Floyd for the unexpired apprenticeship of Angus thfct the trader and the boy passed out of Philadelphia toward the distant posts, Sammy John riding slouchily and Angus awkwardly and uncomfortably and both with light hearts. An gus had dispatched a long letter to his parents, and, O, the joy of writing it and kissing it and mailing it and dreaming of its

reception at the little farm! And what would the answer say, and when would it come, and how soon could the wandering son be reunited with that father and mother? A thousand new thoughts surged in the boy's mind, a thousand new emotions swelled his heart. All the happiness of which he had been deprived during the dark years of his captivity and slavery seemed to have sprung up within him at once and SammayJohn s delight was unbounded at the spectacle of the transformation. Sammy John had taken his yroung friend to a lawyer acquaintance at Philadelphia and the case was fully explained and discussed with the following conclusions: either or both of Angus's parents might be dead; they might have removed to a different part of Scotland; Angus was too young to be sent out on so long a journey with so much doubt as to its ontcome; it would require at least four to six months to get a reply to the lett r; it would be best for Angus to remain with his protector until definite news should come;

the reply should be directed to the lawyer, who shguld open it OR its receipt and take any steps , that mignt De lmmeuiaieiy required, forwarding -it, in the meantime, to Sammy John's post by the first opportunity. Angus believed that a reply would come speedily, if not his father himself, and that in less than a year he would be happily ensconced on the old Scotch farm, his sufferings but a memory to be related to the gaping chiels in then eighborhood, to whom Aberdeen was the only known place away from home. The trader and the boy were traveling, then, to the west, and they were to proceed to the edge of the hostile country and there await the little train of pack-laden hordes coming more slowly behind. Being well mounted they were able to amble along at good speed. They were on a main traveled road leading through a rolling and sometimes hilly country, well watered and, as the times were then, thickly settled; where now, on practically the same road, the houses of prosperous farmers almost touch each other for-miles, then they were frequently miles apart. The spring sun lighted up the spring verdure gloriously and a gentle zephyr whispered among the leaves, just strong enough to catch the thin columns of smoke ascending: from the farm houses and twist them into lazy spirals high in the air. Everything spoke peace and satisfaction and the hearts of our two travelers echoed the sentiment. "Huh!" laughed Sammy John, as they were riding at a walk up a gentle winding slope, 'you should have seen Old Skinflint swallow the leek when 1 threat ened his trade. He was as limp as a rippling rill the movment he caught my meaning and if I had asked him for his young cocka trice of a son I truly think the varlet would have been thrown into the bargaiu. I must say for Jim Floyd that if he is grasping he knows when to let go. There was a funny thing in that confab," continued the trader after a slight pause;"! talked English just like a school teacher. I guess you don't know that I taught school several years back in Providence colony before I went roving. Well, I had forgotten all that and the rough speech of the woods had grown into me, but when I got before that man and all my old Christianity began to bile and sizzle in me I dropped right back into decent human speech and. please uoa, l guess I'll keep on talking it. It makes me feel like washing up and put ting on Sunday clothes. It seems to me that a clean man speaking a clean toneae is more apt to keep reputable than another. Did your mother teach you to pray?" "Indeed did she, Mr John, and" "Tut tut, r.d" interupted the older rider, "Sammy John, please you. There will be no mister for you, but 1 am think ing that a respectful mister from other people would sound well to the ear later on. Don't you ev-. er forget how to pray; there's power of comtort in it some times. Listen. Twenty-two years ago now my elder brother and I set our faces to the north for a summer journey to the new settlements on the Connecticut river above Massachusetts. Leaving our home in the Provi deuce colon v we made our way prosperously and without alarm to the upper waters of theontoogook and there were we set upon by a band of hostile Indians and hurried forthwith toward the wild mountains of the north. The hope ol escape was ever wim us

but we were closely watched and, besides, were heavy laden with the baggage of our captors. Nevertheless, feeling that . ach day our captivity grew more hopeless, we resolved upon a plan and fixed a time at night to make the effort. We were widely separated in our sleeping places and he was to move first and give me the signal, which at the agreed time he did and gut away. But I in my haste stumbled against a fallen branch and aroused the Indians, some of whom seized and bound me while others went in pursuit of him. At day-break they found him in a hollow log; diagged him out, stripped him naked, beat, pricked him, and pushed him with the points of their knives to the camp. They fastened us to trees, our hands behind us, and danced horridly about roaring with joy and casting dirt and stones in our faces. We were convinced that our destruction was determined and called to each other to be biave." Augus was quivering with emotion and Sammy John paused for a moment before continuing his narration.

The savasres next brought a parcet of dry branches, broken in suitable lengths, and piled them under and about us, examining and tightening our fastenings meanwhile. They brought a blazing twig from the camp fire and kindled the heaping pile about my brother. Our heads were immovably bound so that we faced, each the other, and laughing fiends held my eyes open with their fingers while others ran about the fire and with poles heaped it up or pulled it away so as to prolong the suffering of the miserable victim. They laughed and shouted in their devilish delight and ever and anon would one run up to him and cut collops of llesh out of his naked limbs, which they threw dripping with olood into his face. 1 saw all of this and saw him die. Then, though I had not prayed tor many years, I turned my thoughts to my Maker and silently plead thatHe would open a way for my deliv erance or thatHe would take my brother's soul and mine to Him. As I prayed in the agony of my spirit my muscles swelled and with a mighty etlort 1 burst the bark withes that held me and they fell at my feet The wholehunrl nf inl'Prl .nvis had at ' band ot nakeü aages naa ai. that moment leathered closo to the burned and mutilated corpse and I lied from the horrid scene with a speed as miraculously rli that. frQfl me. I outran the yelling horde of pursuers and still ran on after I knew the last one had desisted, nor did I stop until I fell exhaust ed in the current of a little stream. Without food or arms and in an unfamiliar region far removed from any civilized habitation, my plight was sore indeed, but I pressed on and on to the south i a 1 1 c a c : auu nnauy iounu suueur. oiuuu then I have never ceased to pray and it has calmed and cleared my mind in many a sore strait and delivered me from many a 4temptation." After this recital the man remained silent for a long time nor did the bov interrupt his medita tion, for his own heart was filled with symjathy and his eyes were sull'used with tears. Continuing their ride the hunter after awhile broke the silence and, after talking pleasant commonplaces for a short time, discussed seriously his plans' for the future. He had been profoundly stirred by the inhuman treatment to which the boy had been subjected and it had exercised a sober, ing t influence upon him, deter mininff him to abandon his roving life in the Indian country and to return to tne home of his youth for the purpose of engaging in business and leading a civilized life. He was at the middle age and felt that he could be a more useful citizen than he had been, though his rugged honesty and strong common sense gave him a commanding position on the fron tier and his pious and humane disposition so moulded his views of the Indian question, as to win for him the universal friendship of all the tribes. It was his determination, then, as he unfolded to Angus, to carry through the business of the year for which he was already prepar ed, then to close out his interests in the west and remove to Provi deuce, or somejother eastern city of promise, to conclude his days. If circumstances could be so shaped as to leave Angus with him he greatly desired it to be so, but in the event that the boy could bo restored to his parents he would do all he could to reach that happy issue. Angus said sensioly and earnestly that his dearest hope was to enter his own (10 BE CONTINUED.)

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