Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1877 — Page 6

THE MAIL

Ai iiR FOR THE PEOPLE^.

dLSASOHAB: NEW YORK, 1877

Where was last wwk? the Skinners' It's

really

ft nlc* piac« to dhe.

The m»» gtv«« capital dlnn»w, And Uratbera good Judge of wine. h. Tbe daughters are -tyllsn and prettv— 9lceg.rU, eh? Don't know them, you say? Xnd»e I That 1* really a pltty I'll take yon th re Willi me some day. YouH be pleased witty the eldest—Miss a rrie jj Maodf'- rather more In my style. By George! If a fellow oould marry, l&era's a giri who woald make it worth while! w, ®it It cost* snch a lot when yon re doubled. Ton maittlive In som» style therestherub. jfow a single mau isn't so troubled, Jt's always goo 1 form at the club. JU to Maude, she'd say ye* In a minute, Jf I asked for her hand I dare say •oft. white hand,—U a fortune were in it, Td ask her to have me to-day. Fatb«r rich Well, yoa know there no knowing .... Wow a man will cutut till bes dead. Bave looked at his tax-lln I'm going 1o do It, ol boy, that's well said! But even rich fathers aren't willing Alwavs t» comedown with the pelf! They'll say they began wl'h a shilling, A"d think you can do It yourself. What*# ihat paper, Just there? The name

Journal

TVhU'* the news In society, ch? F'» vutml

Now,

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by all the Infernal—

CC cau't fra, pass it over thU way. Hm! ''Reception"—"Club Ureakfast"— "Grand dinner." "We cam that tho charming Ml«s Maude, You agent daughter of Thomas O. Hicinner, f*enKagud to ueorge Jones"— He'aa fraud— ••Of th« firm of Jones, Skinner & Baker. The marrlaae will take place In May. Hang the girl for a flirt—the deuce take her! •Well, what are yoa laughing at, eli rs M. P. anly. lu Hcrlbner.

SARATOGA.

—AN—

SSI) I AN TALE OF FRONTIER LIFE.

A TRUE STORY.

Hsrotoga was commenced in The ?ntwtlay Kventng

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CHAPTER XVII. HANDY

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As the evoning was fresh, Brigham caused a fire of pino knots to be lighted •in a large open stono firoplace within the hut, to dispel tho damps, occasioned hy recent storm*. while its blazi shed a •mddv, though flickering and uncertain Ughtthrougn the room. The inmates of Ibe cfrbln wore now all gathered there

tho secure, quie\ and home appear •nee of the place, «as grateful to thetn, after tho agitations and alarms tbey bad fast experienced. Through the small eastern windows, tho pale moonlight aboue, and mlngl'd with the red reflection of the fire. The s^und of the swollen and rushing brook culd still be plainlv hear.1, as It poured its unaccustomed volume of water away through tho darkness. 'Uow long is it, Brigham,' asked ColoBel Helden, as all sat pensively within ttie light, listening to the echoes which resounded from the neighboring fore-t— liow long is it since you took up your •bode in this place?' 'I've been

here

only since last year,'

answered Brigham. 'Arter the war, firings didn't flourish as usual, down fchera in Stillwater and so, as Gid Mor oati had goi tired of this place, and gave mm a good chance, I thought I'd come np and try it. I like It all the better too fcecause General Schuyler is hore, more «i (ess, every summer, and we can now and then-talk over old tlmos.' 'But,' said Colonel Belden, 'a man like jou ought to have had some position, or «tn(i notice by Congress before this time and it seems to me, if tho case had fceon proporly represented, something •would luve been done.' •Likely enough, colonel.' said Briglams'but there's so many chaps arter the io&vep and fishes, that i'vo never thought enough of my desarts to jine with 'em, and make the trial.' •How so?' asked tho colonel 'that one affair near Fort Edward, in visiting Burgoyne't camp, was enough to have got you a thousand acresof land, at tho least I mention land, because Congress Is so poor that it can pay in nothing better.' 'I have often,' said Walcott, Interpos itig, 'heard a ruiuor of that circumstance and should mueh like to hear thepartic-

•Brigham, daresay, will have no object loo-to giving you an account of it,' answered Colonel Belden. •Mono at all,' said Brigham 'and il you'd like to hoar how it was done,why, ihis was the way of it. Arter General ttohuvler gave up command old Gates, —axcuw me, colonel that's the way we called him, quite familiar, in those days -old Gates, I say, a* a new hand at the bellows, was quite put to it to know What the British General was going to «Io next. At that time, as you must know, the inomy's army lay in camp, instbevowl Fort Edward, where they was trying to recruit and refresh a little, arter QfOising the swamp from Skenesfoorough, and arter the cooling their •ourag* got at Bennington. Well, as I was wiving, Gates was regularly uonplushed. lie lav down her© away toward Stillwater, and didn't dare to stir for fear of goHi' wrong, In a caw where mistake* wouldn't answer. But the blood ©f the owilry was up, on account of that sffUIr of poor Jinny MYren, as you •©collect, colonel?' •You iimnm) the young girl who was murdered by the Indtsus, while she was on hvr way to Burgovne's cauip to meet lenov^f. I suppose? answered Colonel

•'Kxtbtly, her I mean,' said Brigham. "Well/the people thought that it was alt •Winf to the scalp rewards offered by the British and so, they was all detar .wined on revenge and, If I might be al lew jit to express toy opinion, it w»» that fas much as anything else, that gained Hhe battle of Saratoga. But, not to get fabead of my story. old Gates sends to «je|ommlue of samty of Stillwater, and wants a man to go Into the British camp and 4nd ont what was In the wind. It happened Just about them days, that

CWailteeping a place some five miles or aolhis^ide of Waterford, on the North Sirtr, UXn't you remember stoppin* tbero aobnt that time, on the winter afore, one cold snowy night, colonel?* •I remember It well,' answered ColoneT Belden 'for you had to haul me In through aback window, in order to avoid the attention of some of those •English spies who were In tfce public

"^•Your memory aln*t none the worse tor wear, anyhow, colonel,' answered Krigbam. •Well, who should IseeoneflaemornIbs, riding up to my door bat a sort of arOerly, who gets down and iuquiresfor Mr. Bridgeman. «•That ain't quite my name, mend,' Mays I, 'hut may bolt's me you want, Jkall.'

'Do you keep this here tavern?' says be. •Yes,* says I, *but It ain't a tavern. It's a hotel. I thought I'd come a little of the French on him. "'Well,' says he,dismounting in a cool way, 'tavern or hotel, it's all the same to me, if so be yon're the man. have a dispatch from the Comity of Safe ty at 8ti!lwater for you.' 'ho he hands me a letter in which they wanted me to go at once and see Glneral Gates without delay, on public sarvlce. To make a long story short, I started for the army the same night, and when went in to the old Gineral's tent: 'Is your name Brigham?' says he.

Yes,' says I. 'Can you go to Burgoyne's camp, across the river at Fort Edward, and bring me word what's a goln' on?' sayrf he.

Yes,' says I, 'and glad of the job.' 'When can you start?' says he. 'Now,' says I. 'And when can you get back?' says he. 'That's more than I can say,' says I, thinking to myself, I might be made tassel at, the end of a hemp cord, or targel for a file of men, before I should have the pleasure proposed. 'Then you know the risk?' contin ued he. 'Sirtainly,' says I 'but in times like these, every man "must do hi* best and, without braggin', I've a notion I can do this job better than most, if it most be done.' 'It must be done,' he answered. At this time, if any accident happens, the whole country to New York will be open to pillage. Remember the affair of Miss M'C'ren.' 'Gineral,' says I, 'yoa needn't men tion that poor gal, to stir me up. I'd go if it was to serve the country and talkin' "f the cussed Injuns only riles mo so I ain't fit for the job.' "'Well,' says the general, walking about very oneasy, and looking thought ful, 'I hate to risk a man like you, but somebody must go, who is acquainted with the business. I must trust entirely to your discretion. If the English army breaks through my lines, our poor country is lost. Spare no panis, my good sir,' he went on very earnest like 'remember, everything depends upon committing no blunder. I can not give you any papers, and you must pass both lines as best you can and there is about as much danger fronv the one as from the other.' •Ilere an orderly comes in, and says the Green Mountain Boys would be down.two thousand strong,in four days. 'Very well,' says old Gates and giving me a look, I took it as a hint to leave.

It was no light job, in them days, to go through the first part of the task before me. Lines of sentinels had been posted on all the common ways between the two armies. So I had to make a wide circuit and I came into the British camp as a fugitive, having managed to get pursued by a lot of chaps, who took mo as a scout of the inimy. So my indorsements was good in my new quarters. Some of the officers knew me and alter no great trouble, I was introduced to the gineral himself. "'Eh! sir,'says he, 'I am told, my good man, that you have been driven out the country on account of your attachment to the king's cause.' 'Something like that, your honor,' says I. 'In fact,' says I, 'the varmints chafed mo clean to the very pickets.' "'I perceive,'?aid the general, 'that you aro a native of this region, and as such, may be very useful to his majesty.

Yes.' "says I, 'no doubt your honor is right. I might be so.' "Well,' says he, 'you are willing to trv?' '"Whatever I undertake,' says I, 'I try to do my host in, and so your honor will find it in the end.' "'Does nnybodv know this man?' says Burgoyne, suddenly looking 'round the assemblage of officers collected in the marquee. 'I know him.' says ono, "lie keeps a house of entertainment near the Mohawk Fords.' 'I know him,' says another, 'he hid me one night from a gang of rebels who were in chase.' 'And I know him,' rays a third, 'he gave hie a haunch of venison throe or four weeks ago, when we liked to have starved in the marsh, this side of Skenesborougb.' "And so betwixt 'em all. I got a first rate recommend and the General being satisfied on Hint head, goes to cross ex amine me as to what I knowod, and could do, useful to him. 'Bridgeman,' says he, 'for I think that, is your name?' 'No,' says I, 'your honor, that is not my name, but Brigham, if you please.' thinking that if it was worth knowing atal'.it was worth knowing correctly. 'Well then, Brigham,' says he, 'since you will have it so, how many men have these rebels got together?' '"Five thousand four hundred and fif-ty-one,* says I. *How do you know?' says he. 'I counted 'em,' says I. "'And wheteare they,' says he. 'At Bemis Heights,' savs I. ••'Where's that?'he asks. 'Down the river twelvo miles or there away,' says T. 'On which side?' 'On the west.' '"And what are they going to do next?' asked he after a moment's panse. 'They're a going to wait till they've got together enough to drive yon (excuse me) out of the country,' says 'and then they'll be a movin' on these here lines.' "'How many do you suppose that will take?' he asked. "'About seven thousand,' says I, 'reckoning In the shsrpshooters.' 'When I made this answer. 1 noticed him smiling at the other officers, and so I knowed be must have bad more than that number of men. 'Well, my good man.' says he, again taking up the talk where we stopt, 'can vou tell me how long It will be before the*o seven thousand men get together?' 'Sartainly,' said I, reckoning on my fingers and speaking slow. 'As many on 'em has prone to Fort Stanwix, and won't l« back for some time, and as the principal help Is expected from Vermont it will take nigh onto a month before they're all in working order.' "Here I noticed him smiling again to the officers around him and thinks I to myself, 'Old feller, though you're mighty close, I'll get the better on you yet aJbre we're through.' "'How long,'says be,'would it take for them to reach u»?' 'Here be gives another knowing look about him. I thought to myself, it would take no longor for him to reach them, than for them to reach him so I says:

Perhaps two days, with the

TiTWa It UH^ WW »"v wmj* count of the Mate of the country. Then the went bank is the rouU»?' aays he. 'Sat tain.' says I. "Yon know, colonel, that If be had kept to the east side of the river be would have bad almost a dean sweep through the settlement*, to opposite Al­

bany, with no large si reams to cross like the outlets of the Mohawk, and no kood ground on which a stand could be made against him.' •'Arter axin'these questions, the gin* era! walked about for a while, and then says, suddenly stopping: 'Do you know the country well?' 'As well as'you know what's in this tent,' I answered, 'And who,' says he, after a moment's panse, 'who requested you to get the information which you have given me about the rebel army?' 'Captain Grade,'says I, 'of his MBjesty's 31st regiment of infantry.' '"Is Captain Grade present?'asked the general, lookin' round. '"Yes, sir,'said the captain himself, stepping forward 'and I can vouch for the truth of much this man says, having

Eis

assed over the ground he mentions. Of fidelity I have no doubt, as he once hid me from a pursuing party at his own house.' 'This speaks well for your loyalty, my good man,' then said the general 'and for the services you have rendered, and the risk you have run, I hope to reward yon. Let some one look to bis accommodation.' 'Here I was dismissed, and, though after that I seemed to be moving about quite free in the ©imp, yet I noticed that under the pretense of providing for me, I was more or less watched tho whole time. 'The next morning I was again called up for re-examination, and though many knew me, as I said, yet it was clear I was looked on by the gineral as a rather doubtful character. Still he couldn't resist the evidence I got on every side, and finally was induced, from my acquaintance with tho surrounding country, to give mo little places and commissions of some consequence and trust. •I'll say to. you, colonel, and to Mr. Walcott, what I wouldn't like to say abroad, that, on the whole, I'm rather ashamed of the part I acted at that time, and though you and others, who are knowin' to tho facts and to my motives may make great account of it, yet I never could bring my mind to ask of tho government any reward for being a spy. So, colonel, there you have the true reason of my silence on the sub ject.' •Why, sir. ycu area noble fellow, and I am proud to know you,' exclaimed young Walcott. 'I am much ob'eeged to you, captain,' answered Brigham, much gratified at this evidence of esteem 'but still I can't feel proud when am a tellin' what I then did. The fact is, I went through the British camp under favor of tho confidence they had in me, and found out all its strength and weakness and from several interviews *vith the commander in-chief, I got a pretty correct notiou of what was agoin' to be done. Hows'ever time pressed, and as I already knowed the intention was to pass down the right bank of the river, through Stillwater, and pretty soon I began to think on the means of getting away agin. This was troublesome, at anv time. At night it was even more difficult than by day and, though I was still treated w»iil, and seemed to boon a good footin,' I knowed well that I was watched and any blunder in the dark, or even stirrin' about after nightfall, was risky business. 'The arrnv wrs to start on the 16th of September," and this was the night of the 14th. There was just time for me, and I made up my mind, by hook or by crook, to get away the next morning. So I sauntered through the camp, till meeting mv old acquaintance, Captain Gracie, I said to him, knowin' he would be busy as a beaver: "'Captain, wouldn't you like to take a small snoot to tncrrow morning? There's some capital patriuges in the fly, a few rvtltoQ honlf "'I'd like it well enough,' said he, 'but we're in such a devil of a hubbub, now that I suspect we are about moving forward, and so I've no time.' •"Well now,' says I, 'that's a'tarnal pity, for I saw some of the finest birds vo ever laid eyes on—90 fat and plump. Dare say the general would be delighted to see a half dozen on 'em on his own table.' '"Don't talk that way, Brigham,' he says, 'or you'll make me run away, and violate orders, for the sake of a blaza or so at them.' "'Well,' savs I.'if you can't go, you can't, that's al'i. But that's no reason why I shouldn't. And so I'd be obleeged to you to get me leave to go out arlv tomorrow and I'll make sure of as fine a game dinner as ym ever sat down to.' '"It's easy enough, I date say,'said he, 'to get what you ask but I'm damned if I stir a peg in your cause, unless I am to get a brace, at least, of the birds, as my share of the plunder.' •"Two on 'em, captain,' says I, 'if you like and I'll give you my word that if you don't get none, the general himself won't.' 'So npon that, he goes over to the big marquee, and soon comes back with a slip of paper, with the order written on it, as I supposed. 'Yon may bo sure I was up early enough next morning. The daybreak

fun

best

hadn't yet rolled off its smoke afore was ready. To turn aside suspicion, I detar mined as I hinted, to take the back track, and leave the camp on the north side toward Skenesborough. I found no JitBculty in getting away, though I noticed the sentinel I gave the paper to, arter hesitating a little, and eyetng me pretty sharp, called another chap to him, and sent him off. Then be falls to studying tho paper again, and arter a few minutes, looking up to where he had sent tho chap, he signified that I could go.

Slinging thfl gun over my shoulder. I took the north road boldly, and moved off. When about a quarter of a mile away, on looking around, which I did pretty often. I can tell you, I noticed two men on horseback leaving the camp by the same road which I was followin They did not come very fast but I should have liked it better If they had not come at all. They kept me within sight, and even (rained upon me a little. It looked onpleasant. I took it cool, hows'ever, till I come to a little piece of woods, beyond which the road made a sudden turn. Here I quickened my step but whew! no sooner did I do so, than I sees tbem fellows put to, whip and spur, ss if for life. I had nothing to do now but to cut a way ogt of it for myself.

I rather oonsatea something had gone wrong lately to give me a bad name in the camp. Perhaps, oountin'the men or takin' too much notioeof tbeeannon, had been disagreeable to'em. Anyhow away I ran, but saw tbey was gaining on me test. Something must be dona, thinks In a few seconds I got to the turn in the road. Just there, a email creek eroeeed it, and was bridged over with rough logs. Tbe banks of it was lined with a few alder bnsbea. I formed my plans at onoo. 'It wassartaln I couldn't keep tbe road mueh longer and tbe woods was fer too open to Be a good hidie' place. So that no sooner wasl fairly round the bend, where lor a minute or so I would

just as their horses' hoofs came thunderand crawled under the low log bridge, in' down on it and I could hoar them shout and strike away to get up a little more speed. Their goiug ahead that way was a sore sign they had not seen my trick. I could hear the clattering of their horses' feet for a minute or so, as thoy swept round the Iwnd in the road and then, seem ng to haul up a little, one on 'em shouts: 'I say, Tom, where toe devil has be gone to?' 'Eh?' says the other. 'Among the trees on the right, I suppose. Do you ride forward, so as to be sure he ain't hid along tbe road behind some stump or stone, while I beat this little grove. He couldn't have gone to the other side for we saw him plain enough go round tbe turn here.' 'So saying, one rides forward, and the other turned in among tbe trees, and soon scoured tho little thicket through snd through, for it was noi much larger than an acre in size. I c-Jnld see all that went on. At the same time, I was not quite comfortable. They would soon be doubling on me. When I wasn't found ahead, they'd be sure I was behind. So what they had said gave me a sudden idoa. Couldn't I creep entirely through the hole formed by tbe log way, and I come out t'othor side, and so get into the woods in that direction, where tbey wouldn't think of looking for me. No sooner thought on than tried. After a little squetss n', an 1 a great deal of mud and water, I got through and crawling up the little brook for a rod or so, I soon got off far enough to venture on rising avain, to trust to my heels. Lucky enough, I did so for afore I was fairly out of sight, I saw them, like bloodhounds, making for the bridge itself.

The dodge was discovered but I didn't stop to obsarve 'em any longer, making offas fast as two tolerable legs could carry me. 'Well,the l«ng and the short on it was, that arter being chased pretty sharp for half the dav, I finally managed to throw them out. "Then I had to get across the river, which I did just below Glen's,and travelled through a thick woods for near twenty miles, before reaching the American outposts. There again, I had some trouble in gating admitted and d^ntly treated. But when, at last, I got into the old gineral's quarters, and had a chance to talk with him alone, you ought to have seen how tickled the old chap was. Glad to see me safe, he was, that was something but then the news I brought seemed to completely settle all his doubts, and he capered about like a boy. 'I don't know how it was but, although before that I had felt like a sneak in vhe job I was at yet when I saw how the ginoral took it, and how much account he made of it, I began to think I

might

have desarved something for my pains, arter all. And so, colonel, there's the whole story. There's no use in s|jeak in'of the fight which took piace a few days arter. Everybody knows about that, and none better than yourself'

Here

Brigham paused in his narrative

during which some time had elapsed. The bout had waxed late, and tbe small fire in the cabin had smouldered down to embers. The two girls had long before retired to the inner room, and were now locked in the deep and dreamless slumber with which fatigue ever blesses youthful frames. I I] ,!!'«

CHAPTER XVIII.

JOE'S SECOND ATTEMPT AT VEiWEANCB.

The uight flowed quietly on. The storm had passed away, and left but few marks of its violence behind. The fallen troo, tho scattered branches, tho shaken fruit and flower bushes were still visible tokens of its passage. The swollen brook had subsided, and a low rip plo had taken tbe place of the loud gurgle of its late full flood. The moon still shone, wet and watery though its beams now came in long silvery pencils from the western sky.

All within the cabin, at length were at rest. But not so without. There the wilderness was full of creatures broad awake for plunder or for prey. There too, strangely enough, were human passions, more unappeasable than animal appetite*, and unregulated human mind, more cunning, more incalculable, and more to be feared than the fiercest beast of prey.

Indian Joo had not forgotten the injurious language of Walcott, and conceiving himself to have rendered service, he felt a violent resentment at the ungrateful return it met with. The act which had called forth hia rebuke, he could only look upon as a meritorious one. So when he had lea Walcott's presence, he had brooded ovor his imaginary irju ries. The thirst for revenge was strong within him, and could be quenched only by blood. Before the morrow's sun should arise, ho was eager to impress upon his contemplated victim some signal marks of his vengeance. For this cause be had arisen in the darkness from the couch where he lay in his own cabin, and made preparations to go forth on his fatal errand.

Slowly and moodily, tbtough tbe bushes and the tre^s still dripping with the waters of the late storm, did he find his way back to the log house of Brigham. 'He prowled around the hut until long after all tbe lights were extinguished. The silence that prevailed seemed only to arouse and augment his ferocity. He thought of the peaceful, self satisfied sleep which now rested upon the spirit of Walcott, and then he thought of the severity and contempt with which be himself had been treated. And why should a paleface, be thought, thus abuse a native of the woods? What right had a being who ate and slept, who walked and ran, who lived and thought like himself, to be abusive and insolent when awake, and yet to be tranquil as infancy and innooence when asleep, while he himself was restless with passion, and thirsting madlv for revenge?

None but those who have bad some opportunity of witnessing it, can fully believe in the much enduring patience with which an American savage will wait for an occasion to retaliate an in-

"*a*&r hours, did poor Joe lie sullenly concealed in the bushes near at hand, so situated as to be able to command a view of almost everything which took place within the cabin. He saw when tb6 two girls, overcome by witrinwi bad withdrawn from tbe outer room and watched where they disposed themselves in tbe further apartment. He already pondered upon the means of reaching them, should they become neoeasary to the attainment of his paramount object.

In uncultivated nsturea, one strong passion almost always has snch a preponderance, that when aronaed It overbalances and bears down all others and in snch cases no motives can be administered to guide tbe oonduct or attain an end, nnleas addressed to this one absorbing feeling. In Indian Joe, such was now tbe ew6»

All respect for Oolonel Belden impulse of forbearance which macy with, and friendship for and M'Carty might have awake every feeling of sion which the sex, tbe

intiham and

and compaser age and

great beauty of the two girls might have inspired, and which are usually felt to some degree by all men, however stolid from barbarity, or hardened by vice, were utterly forgotten, or if not forgotten, utterly unheeded.

It was long before he saw the last of the lingerers fling himself down upon a pile of skins, and compose himself as if for sleep. Tbe embers of the fire yet gave forth sufficient light to enable him to disoern through the window the relative situations of tho inmates of the cabin.

The door had been dosed and fastened by rude wooden bar drawn across it on the inside but the precaution taken in thus cloaing it and the security it afforded were enough to deter the unskilled savage fr un any plan which might require him to gain access to the interior through it. The windows, also were too high and too narrow to afford any means of getting through, even if the operation could be performed without noise. There seemed to be difficulty in every plan.

At ono moment he thought of setting fire to the hut it9elf, and thus sacrificing all. But more stealthy and more individual revenge accorded better with his savage nature. In a conflagration, moreover, some might escape, and why not Walcott, the youngest and most active? There was still another method which had first occurred to him and which, next to the pleasure of imbruing his bands in blood, and giving to his very muscles their share of the luxury of murder, be preferred over all others but which, nevertheless, he hesitated to adopt, on account of the noise by whioh it would bi accompanied and also, on account ol the great^likelihood of detection and punishment. His method was none other than shooting his victim where he lay, by firiflg through the window.

The thing was quito practicable. A deliberate aim could be taken and death would be almost a certain result. Still, for a long while the murderer hesitated. Like a panther in view of its prey, he still moved many times around the cabin. In the consciousness of possessing the power of complete revenge, and tn the contemplation of tbe object of it, there is a species of fascination as intense and painful as the fascination of fear.

The thoughts of the savage, meanwhile, were all intent upon his purpose. At length he made up bis mind to risk all, and adopt the only method of complete retribution which bad seemed to him feasible. He placed himself again by the window which commanded a view of the position where Walcott lay. The carefully loaded gun was very slowly and gently brought to the required position.

Inside of tbe building, all was silent save tbe loud breathing of the sleepers. Could they even have droamed of the danger which lurked so near them, and threatened so soon to burst upon them, how suddenly would sleep havo left

their eyelids, and clamor and al*rm have taken the place of quietude and repose

The Indian had brought his weapon full to its range, and was feasting bis cruel eyes, for a moment, with the sight of his enemy, so completely in his power, when he felt his arm lightly touched, and turning his head qui jkly, he saw Jacob standing close behind hint. Tho gun dropped from his hold. A superstitious fear went through him, shaip and painful, like an electrical shock and though his limbs were almost powerless from terror, instinct induced him to make a suddeu leap on one side, to escape from the gripe which Jacob seemed inclined to fasten on him.

The effoit wa3 vain, for barely had he stirred ere he felt himself wrapped around by the brawny arms of tho maniac. He was as helpless as a deer when caught in the slimy folds of a boa constrictor and he heard the low chuckle of his captor as he felt himself borne rapidly away.

Jacob, as well as the savage, bad felt an interest in one of the occupants of the but. He had not forgotten the beautiful young prisoner who had beenVescued from him in the caverm. With a confused, but pertinacious notion that she had, in some way, become his property, or was to be his wife and the companion of his solitary haunts, he had not for a single instant abandoned his purpose in respect to her, even when driven away from it.

At a distance he had followed the departing intruders and had marked all their subsequent movements. He bad even closely observed where Lucile was bestowed for the night, with»some notion of attempting a recapture. It was while engaged in bis reconnoissances that be bad been fired at and Bllgbtly wounded by Joe, as tbe reader is already advised. It was also during this prowling at night that, tnore Wary than tbe Indian, he had discovered that more than himself were seeking same purpose there. In his mental confusion he conceived that whoever it was he must bo in pursuit of the same object as himself. In thwarting him, therefore, he would be defeating a rival and in destroying him he would only be gratifying one of the instincts of bis peculiar type of mental aberration.

From the moment when these ideas occurred to him bis attention bo «me fixed upon tbe oonduct and actions of hia supposed competitor. He followed him like a shadow, as silent and as Inseparable. Up to the very instant when Joo was about to fire, he bad refrained from touching him, and he might not have done so even then, but for the vague idea that tbe shot was designed against, or might injure Lucile. Even after he had made the other sensible of his presenoe, and bad caught him in his arras, be bad still, with almost unaccountable forbearance and prudence, re fralned from making any noise which might disturb tbe inmates of tb® cabin. As for tbe Indian, be was in such agony of superstitious apprehension, that he could not think of any devices to escape and it was not in bis nature to cry out or call for be?p. So tbe seizure took place almost in silence.

Those within tbe building slept on. as if nothing but tbe summer night wind moved around tbem and as If the moonbeams lighted up nothing but the vast, green, slumberiug and deserted wildernear. No thought of danger disturbed their rest, and tbey reaped the grateful reward of exertion and fatigue. A11 the operations of nature seem to be accompanied or followed by tbeir appropriate reactions or compensations. So a great danger to one of those sleepers bad come and gone without bis knowledge. How often in life must the sam* thins happen tons all! Who can know the In visible perils which hover in tbe air, and threaten to fall upon us at every step we take through tbe world! How many thousands are tbe causea which may either utterly destroy

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for what are called the ordinary, but what are in reality the inestimable blessings of life! In the vast machinery of organization and law by which we are surrounded in tbe world, tbe least derangement of one of its complicated p&rts, may crush ourselves or our hopes may, by removing onr friends, leave us alone and without sympathy on earth, or hasten us prematurely from it. Sickness may possess our bodies, povers ty and disaster reign in our affairs, dls-^ grace and misconstruction attach to our... name*, and dwell upon our memories yet, when none of these things happon,, we take the exemption as a part of out due,we give no thought to our unworthiness, and we render up no grateful tribute for the unearned happiness we en~»E joy. On the contrary, all,even tho most favored, are disposed to murmur at their let. Some unsatisfied ambition, some unfulfilled hope, some unratified dosire, is still the cause or tbe pretext, of oomplaints against fortune or against providence. «***,.. [TO BR CONTINUED.]

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