The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 October 1928 — Page 7

The RedJßodd Romance of Braddocks Defeat Hugh Pendexter lllus+ralioas by Irwin Myers W.Ni.U. SER-Vice Copyright bq Hugh Pervdexkor.

CHAPTER Vlll—Continued —22— I popped out from the door and pick in* up a hide slid it into place, re Draining until I had three skins in place I would have persisted longei had she not run out to upbraid vie scolding like a vixen. Then began the phase of warfare I had been dreading the sending of tire-arrows. None hit the roof; and while-they were prepar ing more tire I rushed forth and tin Islied one side ot t_he roof. The girl scolded me as if 1 had been a wayward child. Her gravity ami seriousness became her prettily The little lecture was interrupted by an other Hight ot burning arrows ibis time they had the range and we heard two strike on the roof. Before I knew what she was doing she had stepped out to observe how her scheme was working. I followed and picked her up and carried her inside. “Anyway, mister, there ain’t any ar rers on the roof.” she told me as I stood her on her feet. “Points c* Hdn t git any hold on them skins J-s’ slithered off.” Between volleys was the golden time for work. I begged tier to keep under cover and went to finish patching the south side. This time the toe was awaiting my appearance and de livered a crashing volley the moment 1 cleared the door. Some of the lead whistled unwholesomely close. A voice shouted loudly and ten Indians, selected for their fleetness of foot, came racing across the opeiAg. It was grimly significant that they were armed with axes only. They were determined to bring the tight to close ■quarters. I entered tlie cabin as the girl began firing from the rear loop hi le. ‘Here they cotue from all directi ns 1 They mean It this time!” she •er ed. The attack was persisted tn until one brave was hacking the door with ■feis ax. It is a peculiar fact that witn them at such close quarters none of their number was mortally wounded Doubtless we were nervous ami a bit confused by the attack being pressed on three sides while some ot them actually climbed on to the root and ■dislodged some of skins. I have «io clear recollection of details. I know we darted from side to side and •discharged the two rifles and the mus feels. The room was thick witUrSmoke end I recall my fear lest those on the root should make an opening and jump down upon us. It was not until they began to tall Pack that I discovered the girl had been more calm than I. for she had refused to discharge her pistol. I peered from a loophole and saw them running tor the woods and not a weapon in the cabin was loaded One ot their uumber had been hit in ttie foot and was limping along witii two men helping him. Probably he had been hit while climbing onto the roof. 4ns fool coming in range with one ot the loopholes as a musket was dis charged. I loadeu rapidly to get one ot the three men making off together, but rhe moment I opened the door a warning was shouted from the leader tn the woo<ls and the wounded man •was dropped in a' little hollow His Assistants raced off tn different di Cections. The hollow containing rhe wounded man was too slight effectually to protect him. and opening the door sufficiently to accommodate my rifle-barrel I would have stirred him up had not the girl thrust her hand over the flint* and at the same time pulled me backward. I opened my mouth to rebuke her. but she clapped a hand over my month and pointed toward rhe room. Then pulling my ear down to her lips she whispered: “They didn’t al| quit the rent, mister. 1 heard a little noise up .•.here.” I nodded and gently closed the door end barred it and cocked my ear She nudged me as the man on the roof made a faint scraping sound This was a danger I bad never count «d upon To gel at the fellow neces eitated my leaving the cabin We began talking to allay any suspicions ■oil his part, and ■ the girl said: , ‘He’s moving along to git directly «.ver the door We must fool him.” Bidding her to move about at th* tear ot the cabin and to keep on talking. I stepped to 1 the door and the notches cut in the logs, so that '.ne might climb to a crevice under the eaves and scrutinize the open'tig before opening the door, gently placed my feet and pulled myself up until my «yes were at the crevice. My head was close to the roof and as the gin ■Shattered along I heard the telltahAound of the savage working his way •town to the eaves and directly over the door As I was about to descend. I was further rewarded, for a moccasined. foot dropped down across my narrow range of vision The Indian was sit ting with one foot hanging down from Che eaves and waiting for me to leave the cabin, when he would drop down Upon me. The roof was formed of ■apling-slze poles - covered with large flections of thick bark, which In turn was* held in place by poles running lengthwise at regular Intervals. I drew my knife and gently inserted It between two of the poles, then desisted. at the mosl I would only prick the fellow and put him on his guard • i:< ■mi'iniv the floor ! moved a rough Fia/ier used for disoo<|s close to the

chimney, and gave the girl an Iron prod and directed her to stand <.n the table and pretend to be making an opening through the roof. She hesitated and asked: “You’re going out?” “He'll be watching the chimney." “There may be two of 'em." 1 shock my head and held up a finger and directed her to keep talk ing in a loud voice as she assailed the roof Then taking the short rifle and loading it I tiptoed to the dooi and noiselessly removed the bar ami waited. The girl began Jabbing the iron rod between two of the poles and calling down to me to mount the table and help tier She made much noise and yet I believed I caught a faint sound from over the door. Lifting the door so it would not sag and scrape the floor. I worked it open wide enough for me to pass out. “The rod’s through the roof!” cried the girl. At the same time a shout rose from the forest. I darted through the nar row opening and whirled about and raised the rifle. One savage was there and had been on the point ot crawling to the ridge-pole to invest! gate the several inches ot iron rod showing through the bark when the yell from the woods had warned him to be on his guard. He must have connected the outcry of his friend* with the sudden appearance of the rod. for he was on all fours and staring over his shoulder to where his friends were in hiding. When he saw me rhe rifle was at ray shoulder He made a convulsive effort to hurl his ax and roll off the roof, but he was dead before he could throw it. From the Indintfs point ot view there should have been but one thing for them to do—return at once with their guns and endeavor to shoot us through the loopholes. Luckily for us. they were not inclined to risk any more of their men. I could hear their leader shouting to them, but if fie were exhorting them to charge, they had no heart for It. They renewed the attack with fire-arrows. With loose hides. I patched the bare spots as far as I could reach while the girl looped skins together to go over the ridgepole. I had ignored their musket tire but when a small bullet whined close to my head I knew some Indian or Frenchman had arrived on the scene with a rifle, and I lost no time in tak ing cover. “That sounds like cannon,” said the girl as I closed and made fast the door. “It was a rifle. We must be more careful.” “I know a rifle when 1 hear it. That’s what I mean, mister.” I listened and heard it. it was thunder beyond any doubt. I opened rhe door a .crack and scanned the heavens. There was no storm in sight. “It’s up the Monongahela, I told her “It's so far off I fear we won’t get even the skirt ot it.” We needed much ot it; not only to drench the cabin but to cool the air inside. With the door closed and rhe stout shutter in place over the one small opening that served as a win dow It was blood-h«jt in rhe cabin The place was so insufferable from smoke and powder fumes and the heat that I risked a chance shot front the forest by removing the shutter and opening the door. The thunder rolled across the sky again and the girl sighed:

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Petroleum products were well Known to the undents, according to the youngest son of Lord Lempill. a Scottish laird. Speaking before the Royal Aeronautical society in London Letupill said. "We read in the Bible the account of the building of the Tower of Babel and learn tlfltt ‘Slime had they for mortar? Tim slime was bitumen.' He ‘further mentioned that Pliny and other ancient writers have re terred to the use ot "Sicilian oil foi illuminating purposes The head sea originally named the Lucus Asphalites provided bitumen, which was sold to the Egyptians for embalming pur poses. In the East the petroleum in dustry was a growing concern Tong before the Christian era Earlier than this the Chinese and Japanese had sunk oil wells and ventilated the shafts by means ut bellows, tfi Jap anese history It is related that “burn ing waler’’ was found in the reign ot Domestic Logic It is nothing at which to wonder i'he little Portland boy Is quite young and has not yet fallen a victim to the charm of exaggeration. Furthermore, he has a grandmother, a nice lady, but nervous. When he was asked If tie could tell the number ot feet in a rod he shook his head hut declared a belief that a rod was about as long as a short stove poker or a long lead pencil. ' It appears he bad heard his grand mother say that she jumped a rod every time the doorbell rang and han drawn his own conclusions, as a bright child would. Grandma Is. I thjjjk. considerate of a jumper at that.—D. H. Talmadge in Portland Oregonian.

“Let a wish it’s a smart one amt win come this way.” I made her drink sutue water and with a pewter dish bathed tier wrists and slim neck. She complained that 1 wus wasting it. and in the next moment was on the point ot weeping as she said no one had been kind to her. except ber crippled uncle, since her mother’s death. I brushed back her hair and bathed her forehead and washed the smoke and grime from her face and tried to be very gentle with her. I was beginning to realize what a slip of a thing she was to be participating in such grim tragedies. I also appreciated her sturdy spirit. Suddenly she drew away from me and rearranged her hair and diffidently said: “You’ve been master kind to me, mister. -I wish I was a witch, like folks in Great cove say. I’d change you into a hoss. or a bird, and you'd git clear of all this.” “Sit here, just inside the door, while 1 stand watch. I’ve never had a chance to wait on such a brave little woman before.” “Boo! That’s fooling.” she scoffed, and eyeing me in surprise. “You’ve been in big settlements. You ve sc4n wouten. mebbe. who never see a Injun. All they have to do is be brave it I had a pair of shoes like what some of them settlement women most likely wear. I’d die fighting to keep ’em.” “If we get out ot this, you ehaH have the gayest pair ot shoes to be found in Alexandria.” I promised, and I thought ot Josephine and her love of luxury and wondered how she would have endured the ordeal ot being cornered in a trailer’s cabin at the mouth of Turtle creek. “1 ain’t used to have folks give tue things,” she gravely told me. “Well have to think about that.” Then shyly: “Is that where you want me to go? To Alexandria, a real big settlement?” in truth, 1 had given no thought as to just where she should go did we escape. Yet how could I give her a pair of shoes in Alexandria if she were not there to receive them? “If 1 go back there, yes. I have no home there now Like yourself. I am homeless.” This pleased her and site snuggled against my knee and murmured: “I’m thinking it’s mighty good that you’re like that —no home. You can build a home anywhere. All you need is an ax and some trees. If you’d had a home, you’d never have coiue poking round Great cove. Lor’s love I. What would have happened to me if you hadn’t come along? At Will’s creek, too. And in that other cabin, when I run away. And now here.” “You have nothing to thank me for," I sadly told her. “At all those places you uameAyou have bad trouble because I did go to the cove. Now we ll close the' door while I take a look at the woods from the back of the cabin The Indians are too quiet to suit me.’’ I bent down to the loophide and immediately called to her to make sure the bar was firmly in place. “Another fight." she sighed. “And we was having such a talk!” ( I heard her reloading her rifle but did not remove my eye from the hole. Something was slowly approaching the cabin. For a moment I could not make it out, and then glimpsed the top of a feather showing above the strange object Simultaneously with my discovery, the Indians ne gan tiring their guns at the fron: of the cabin and yelling. I paid no heed to the gunfire and the shouting for the real menace was where rhe feather bobbed and slowly advanced She elbowed me aside and after n glance informed me: “They’ve fastened some of the skin.together and are holding them in front of them. Wonder if it’ll stop a bullet.” I fired my rifle. The moving nar ricade stopped, and then came ot> again The savage, or savages, nad difficulty in keeping it in place ane their approach was very slow Exult ing cries resounded from the woods as the hidden watchers witnesse! how ineffective had been my bullet It seemed to be a very long time that I waited, and finally noted how dark the interior of rhe cabin was growing. Had I not known the post tion of the sun, I would have said It was later than the twilight hour. “1 can’t hardly see you. mister.” said the girl uneasily. “You look all humped over like a near." ITQ.BE CONTINUED.)

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