The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 May 1923 — Page 7

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SYRACUSE AND LAKE WAWASEE JOURNAL

Erskine Dale — Pioneer

By John Fox, Jr. CopyrixM W Chariaa Scribner's Son* CHAPTER XVll—Continued. —l7— Grey was cautious at first, trying out his opponent’s increase In skill: “You have made marked Improvement” “Thank you," smiled Erskine. "Your wrist is much stronger.” “Naturally.” Grey leaped backward and parried just In time a vicious thrust that was like a dart of lightning. "Ah I A Frenchman taught you that." “A Frenchman taught me all the little I know." “I wonder If he taught you how to meet this." “He did,” answered Erskine, parrying easily and with an answering thrust that turned Grey suddenly anxious. Constantly Grey maneuvered to keep his back to the moon, aud just as constantly Erskine easily kept him where the light shone fairly on both. Grey began to breathe heavily. “I think, too,” said Erskine, “that my wind is a little better than yours hl you like a* short resting spell?” ’ From the shadow Ephraim chuckled, and Grey snapped: “Make that black devil—" “Keep quiet. Ephraim!’’ broke in Erskine sternly. Again Grey maneuvered for the moon, to no avail, and Erskine gave warning: ’ Try that again and I will put that moon in your eyes and keep it there." Grey was getting angry now and was beginning to pant. “Your wind is short,” said Erskine with mock compassion. “I 'will give you a little breathing-spell presently." Grey was not wasting his precious breath now and he made no answer.

"Now!” s: Id Erskine sharply, and Grey’s blade flew from his hand and Iny like a streak o' silver on the dewy grass. Grey rushed for ’it. “D —n you!” lie raged, and wheeled furiously—patience, humor, and caution quite gone—and they fought now in deadly alienee. Ephraim saw the British officer appear in the hall and walk . unsteadily down the steps as though he were coining down the path, but he dared not open his lips. There was the sound of voices, and it was evident that the game had ended in a quarrel and the players were coming up the river bank toward them. Erskine heard, but if Grey did he at first eave nd sign—he. was too much concerned with the death that fayed him. Suddenly Erskine knew that Grey had heard, for the fear in his face gave way to a diabolic grin of triumph and he lashed suddenly into defense —if he could protect himself only a little longer! Erskine had delayed the finishing stroke too long and he must make it now. Grey gave Way step by stej — parrx ing only. The blades flashed like tiny bits of lightning. Erskine’s face, grim and inexorable, brought the sick fear back into Grey's, and Erskine saw his enemj's lips open. He lunged then, his blade went true, stink to the hilt, and Grey’s warped soul started on its way with a craven cry for help. Erskine sprang back into the shadows and snatched his pistol from Ephraim’s hand: "Get out of the way now. Tell them I did it.” Once he looked back. He saw Barbara at the hall door with old mammy behind her. With a running leap lie vaulted the hedge. ar.d. hidden in the bu«hes. Ephru’ua licci'd F i rei’.y’s hoofs beating ever more faintly the sandy road. CHAPTER XVIII Yorktown broke tl ■ ’’ sb heart, and General Dale, still weak from wounds, went home to Red Oaks. It was not long before, with gentle inquiry. he had pieced out the full story of Barbara and Erskine and Dane Grey, and wisely he waited his chance with each phase of the situation. Frankly he told her first of Grey’s dark treachery, and the girl listened with horrified silence, for she would M soon have distrusted that beloved father as the heavenly Father in her prayers. She left him when he finished the story and he let her go without another word. All day she was in her room and at sunset she gave him her answer, few she came to him dressed in white, knelt by his chair, and put her head in his lap. And there was a rose tn her hair. “I have never understood about myself and —and that man,” she said, “and I never will.” "I do,” said the general gently, “and I understand you through my sister who was so like you. Erskine’s father was as indignant as Harry is now, anti I am trying to act toward you as my father did toward her." The girl pressed her lips to one of his hands. “I think I’d better tell you the whole story now," said General Dale, and he told of Erskine’s father, his wildness and his wanderings. his marriage, and the capture of his wife and the little son by the Indians, all of which she knew, and the girl wondered why he should be telling her again. The general paused: “You know Erskine’s mother was not killed. He found her." The girl looked up amazed and incredulous. “Yes." he went on, “the white woman whom he found in the Indian village was his mother.” “Father 1” She lifted her head quickly, leaned back with hands caught tight in front of her. looked up Into his face—her own crimsoning and paling as she took in the full meaning of it aIL Her eyes dropped. “Then,” she said slowly, “that Ingirl—Early Mom —Is his halfsister. Oh, oh I” A great pity flooded her heart and eyes. “Why didn’t Erskine take them away from the Indians?” “His mother wouldn't leave them.” And Barbara understood. “Poor Erskine!” she whispered,and her tears came. Her father leaned back and for a moment closed his eyes. “There Is more.” he said finally. “Erskine's father was. the eldest brtHher—and Red Oak*—” Ste stri anautf to bar faat started.

agonized, shamed: “Belongs to Erskine,” she finished with her face in her hands. “God pity me,” she whispered, “I drove him from his own home.” “No,” said the old general with a gentle smile. He was driving the barb deep, but sooner or later It had to be done. “Look here!’’ He pulled an old piece of paper from his pocket and handed It to her. Her wide eyes fell upon a rude boyish scrawl and a rude drawing of a buffalo pierced by an arrow: “It make me laugh. I have no use. I give hole dam plantashun Barbara.” “Oh !” gasped the girl and then — “where is he?” ’’Walting at Williamsburg to get his discharge.” She rushed swiftly down the steps, calling: “Ephraim! Ephraim!” And ten minutes luter the happy, grinning Ephraim, mounted on the thoroughbred, was speeding ahead of a whirlwind of dust with a little scented note ip his buttered slouch hat: “You said you would come whenever I wanted you. I want you to come now. BARBARA.” The girl would not go to bed. and the o*i general from his window sqw her like some white spirit of the night motionless on the porch. And there through the long hours she sat. Once she rose and started down the great path toward the sundial, moving slowly through the flowers and moonlight until site v...s opposite a giant magnolia. Where the shadow of it touched the light on the grass, she had last seen Grey’s white face and scarlet breast. With a shudder she I back. The night whitened. A catbird started the morning chorus. The dawn came and with it Ephraim. The girl waited where she was. Ephraim took off his battered hat. “Marse Erskine done gone, Miss Barbary,” he said brokenly. “He done gone two days.” The girl said nothing, and there the old general found her still motionless —l.'.e tofu bits of Erskine’s scrawling deed scattered about her feet. CHAPTER XIX On the summit of Cumberland gmp Erskine Dale faced Firefly to the east and looked his last on the forests that swept unbroken back to the river James. It was all over for him hack there and he turned to the wilder depths. those endless I<■- shadowy woodlands, that he would never leave again. At Boonesborough he learned from the old ferryman that, while the war might be coming to an end in Virginia, it was raging worse than ever in Kentucky. There had been bloody

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A White Woman Emerged From a Tent and With Great Dignity Stood, Peering With Dim Eyes. Indian forays, bloody white reprisals, fierce private wars, and even then the whole border was in a tlarne. Forts had been pushed westward even l>ey<>nd L-'xinuton. and 1782. had been Kentucky’s year of blood. Erskine pushed on, and ever grew his hopelessness. The British had dra.vn all the savages of the Northwest into the war. As soon as the snow was off the ground the forays had begun. Horses were stolen, cabins burned, and women and children were carried «ft captive. The pioneers had been confined to their stockaded forts, and only small bands of riflemen sallied cut to patrol the country. Old Jerome Zanders’ fort was deserted. Old Jefbrne had been killed. Twenty-three widows were at Harrodsburg filing the cla’ms of dead husbands, and among them were Polly Conrad and Honor Sanders. The people were expecting an attack in great force from the Indians led by the British. At the BluA Licks there had been a successful ambush by the Indians and the whites had lost half their number, among them many brave men and natural leaders of the settletuents. Captain Clark was at the mouth of Licking river and about to set out on an expedition and needed men. Erskine, sure of a welcome. Joined him and again rode forth with Clark through the northern wilderness, and this time a thousand mounted riflemen followed them. Clark had been stirred at last from his lethargy by the tragedy of the Blue Licks and this expedition was one of reprisal and revenge; and It was to be the last. . The time was autumn and the corn was ripe. The triumphant savages rested in their villages unsuspecting and unafraid, and Clark fell upon them like a whlrlwiad. Taken by surprise, and startled and dismayed by such evidence of the quick rebirth of power In the beaten whites, the Indians of every village fled at' their approach, and Clark put the torch UPt only to cabin and whrwam

but to the fields of standing corn. AS winter was coming on, this would be a sad blow, as Clark Intended, to the savages. Erskine had told the big chief of his mother, and every man knew the story and was on guard that she should come to no harm. A captured* Shawnee told them that the Shawnees had got word that the whites were coming, and their women and old men had fled or-were fleeing, all, except in a village he had just left—he paused and pointed toward the east where a few wisps of smoke were rising. Erskine turned: “Do you know Kahtoo?” “He is In that village.” Erskine hesitated: “And the white woman—Gray Dove?” “She, too, is there.” “And Early Morn?” “Yes,” grunted the savage. “What does he say?” asked Clark. “There is a white woman and her daughter in a village, there,” said Erskine, pointing in the direction of the smoke. Clark’s voice was announcing the fact to his men. Hastily he selected twenty. “See that no harm comes to them,” he tried, and dashed forward. Erskine in advance saw Black Wolf and a few bucks covering the r.etreat of some fleeing women. They made a feeble resistance of a volley and they too turned to flee. A white woman emerged from a tent and with great dignity stood, peering with dim eyes. To Clark’s amazement Erskine rushed forward and took her in his arms. A moment later Erskine cried: “My sister, where is she?" ’ The white woman's trembling lips opened, but before she could answer, a harsh, angry voice broke in haughtily, and Erskine turned to see Black Wolf stalking in, a prisoner between two stalwart woodsmen. “Early Morn is Black Wolf’s squaw. She is gone—” He waved on - hand toward the forest. The insolence of the savage angered' Clark, and not understanding what he said, he asked angrily: "Who is this fellow?” “He is the husband of my half-sis-ter." answered Erskine gravely. Clark looked dazed and uncomprehending: “And that woman?” “My mother.” said Erskine gently. "Go."! God!” breathed Clark. ’ -He turned quickly and waved the openmouthed woodsmen away, and Erskine .sd bis mother were left alone. A feeble voice called from a tent near by “Old Kahtoo!” said Erskine’s mother. “He is dying and he talks of nothing but you—go to him!” And Erskine went. The old man lay trembling with palsy on a buffalorobe, but the incredible spirit in his wasted body was still burning in his eyes. “My son,” said he, “I knew your voice. I said I should not die until I had seen you again. It is well . . . it is well,” he repeated, and wearily bls eyes closed. And thus Erskine knew it would be.

CHAPTER XX That winter Erskine made his elear- | ing on the land that Dave Yandeil ; had picked out for him, and iu the j center of it threw up a rude log hut in which to hou-se his mother, for his remembrance of her made him believe ■ that she would prefer to live alone. ■ He told his plans to none. In the early spring, when he brought I his mother home, she said that Black ; Wolf had escaped and gone farther i into the wilderness —that Early Morn ; had gone with him. His mother seemed ill and unhappy. Erskine, not I knowing that Barbara was on her way ' to find him. started on a hunting-trip. In a few days Barbara arrived -and •• found his mother unable to leave her i bed, and Lydia Noe sitting beside her. ! Harry had just bwn there to say goodby before going to Virginia. Barbara was dismayed by Erskine’s absence and his m-cher's look of suffering and extreme weakness, and the touch of-her cold fingers. There was no way of reaching her son. she said —he did not know of her illness. Barbara told her of Erskine’s giving her his inheritance, and that she had come to return it. Meanwhile Erskine, haunted by bls mother’s sad face, had turned homeward. To his bewilderment, he found Barbara at his mother’s bedside. A glance at their faces told him that death was near. His mother held out lier hand to him while still holding Barbara's. As in a dream, be bent over to kiss her. and with a last effort she joined their bauds, clasping both. A great pea<e thinsformed her face as she slowly looked at Barbara and then up at Erskine. With a sigh her head sank lower, and her lovely dimming eyes passed into the final dark. Twq days later they were married. The' old friends of Erskine’s. were awed by Barbara's daintiness, and there were none e< the rude jests they usually fluqg back and forth. With hearty handshakes they said good-by and disappeared into the mighty forest. In the silence that fell. Erskine spoke of the life before them, of its hardships and dangers, and then of the safety and comfort of Virginia. Barbara smiled: “You choose the wilderness, and your choice is mine. We will leave the same choice . . .” She flushed suddenly and bent her head. “To those who come after us," fin ished Erskine. [THE END.] Greatly Interested. “The milkmaids of Jamaica are one of the wonders of the island," reported a prominent Bradford (Pa.) busl'nesa man, after a stay in Montego Bay, Jamaica. B. W. I. “They can carry large cans of milk from mountain ranges to markets on their heads, and never even move the cans as they sell and pour out the milk. They go upstairs and down, and are so adept that when they start up a flight they ean begin to fill their pitchers, measuring the amount by the number of steps •aken. I watched them many times with great interest and delight” No Eyes for Them The golfer must keep his eye on the b*n. Perhaps that Is why pretty girls don’t go in much for golf.—Boatos IranscriDt

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