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THE DAVIS NEWS
TIPPECANOE
By SAMUEL McCOY
(Copyright 11 by Bobbe-MerrUl Co)
CHAPTER XV— Continued
With a bound he reached the bank
®f the atream leaped down beneath
Its friendly shelter and ran on noise-
less moccasins along the shelving
edge back toward the quarter from
which the shot had come If he were
pursued It would be better to let the
chase pass him than to try to out-
distance the Indian runners At last
he stepped and Inch by Inch crawled
up to the top of the bank until he
could lift his head with Infinite cau-
tion and peer through the tufts of
weed) No sound broke the stillness
For an eternity of time he lay clutch-
ing hi rifle lu readiness but the only
sound was the querulous calling of the
little woodpecker high overhead He
waited waited waited
Fifty yards away a twig snapped
under s slow-moving foot David
scarcely breathed A head rose above
s fallen giant of the forest and a
crouching shadow flitted from tree to
tree nearer nearer David
raised his rifle ever so little
He sow the face of the dread hunter
peering with quick motions of the
head from side to side watchful as
the browa wnter-snnke Nearer he
enme the garb was that of an Indian
the face a white man's! David was
about to cry out with relief when the
glittering eyes were turned full toward
him though they failed to pierce the
sheltering covert and with s sickening
horror David recognized the face of
Simon Glrty the renegade I
On the Instant David lifted his rifle
nd fired full at the crouching figure
From Qlrty’s Ups broke the roar of
an infuriated animal he staggered
back with the Impact of the shot but
he did not fall nor yet did he lift his
weapon to his shoulder sad David
saw that his shot had struck only the
lock of Qlrty’s rifle rendering It use-
less but leaving the man unharmed
With a bellow of rage Glrty bounded
toward him swinging tho broken
weapon like a club There was no time
to reload David leaped to the top of
the bank and braced himself for the
onset As the clubbed rifle of the out-
law rose above his head David swung
his own upward to meet It They
crashed together and splintered with
a shock and in the same second fling-
ing the broken stock away the mighty
arms of Simon Glrty flung themselves
around Dnvld
With the strength of desperation
David strove to oppose the terrible
sinews Buck and forth over the
frozen grass the two men fought like
beasts heaving struggling stumbling
over roots locked In an embrace as
deadly as that of the cougar But It
could not Inst long David felt his
strength ebbing under the terrific
strain and his breatb grew short and
gasping when suddenly the earth guve
way beneath their feet and with a last
despairing effort Dnvld twisted him-
self above as they toppled over the low
bluff and the light was over Glrty
falling underneath had struck his head
upon a stone ana his arms relaxed
their hold
David stood np pnntlng
Glrty lay very still But David
knew that he must make sure that the
man was dead before he could be safe
himself He felt In hts girdle for his
They Crashed Together and Splintered
With a 8hock
knife but it hnd fallen out during the
struggle Clambering up the bank
again he saw It lying on the ground
and as dis fingers closed upon the
handle he thought he hoard a sob He
turned hlv head quickly
"Toinette I”
The nuine burnt from him in tho
completeness of his astonishment In
the revulslou of his despair In hts
mighty joy like the cry of the soul
Itself
Toinette was leaning ngnlnst the log
from behind which Glrty bad risen ex-
hausted by the effort she had made to
free herself from the thongs that
bound her feet and hands A sob had
come from lips drawn la utter weari-
ness and despair
He was beside hre
"Save yourself" she murmured faint-
ly "there are Indians coming I”
He kneeled and cut the thongs that
bo- nd her ankles and then those of her
wrists As she tried to stand she
swayed weakly and fainted There
was no time to lose he lifted her Ump
form upon his shoulders and ran stag-
geringly in the direction of ths troops
Hs could never overtake them — the
marching coluni- and the slow-moving
wagons must be a mile away by now
He stumbled on with desperate exer-
tion He reached the winding creek
again laid down his unconscious bur-
den and dashed the Icy water In Tol-
nette’s face Her great blue eyes
shadowed by dark circles of exhaus-
tion opened slowly looked at him
blunkly - "Father help me 1" she cried
He shook her by the shoulders
"Stand up I Try I" The light of con-
sciousness came back Into her eyes
she rose tremblingly and tried to walk
They found a place where the water
gurgled over a atony bar ankle-deep
crossed It and struggled up the bonk
on the farther side As they reached
the top there came to their ears the
dreadful exultant yells of the Indians
three hundred yards behind David put
his arms around the girl's shoulders
and they ran on with palsied limbs
They seemed to be struggling on lu
that nightmare where the feet are
leaden and the pursuers fleet Nearer
and nearer came the fierce yelping
At last David and Toinette stood
still and looked at each other David
drew hts knife She nodded silently
praying him to deliver her with that
swift death from the tortures of the
savuges "Oh God not yet I” he cried
and drew her on In blind haste Twice
ha shouted with all the strength of
his gasping lungs Was it an echo
or an answering shout that came
back? And then there csrne a burst
of the sweetest music in the world
the cheers of a score of Harrison's
men crashing through the woods a
hundred yards away
The chase was suddenly reversed At
the first shout of the backwoodsmen
the baffled Indians turned and fled
The rescuing party pursued them but
a little way' firing vainly at the fleeing
forms dodging among the trfee trunks
Young Georgia Crogbaa Harrison's
aid was in command of the little
squad They had heard Glrty's shot
fired at David and a little later Da-
vid’s shot and had come back from
the troops with all speed Toinette
hnd sunk to the ground laughing and
sobbing they gathered around her
with wild hurrahs a torrent of eager
questions
They bore her on their shoulders
back to the marching men How the
cheering ran along the line as the men
cn tight sight of her! General Harrison
and his staff galloped up one by one
and shouted like boys Old "Wash"
Johnston leaned over and kissed her
face stained with happy tears ‘Tin
old enough my dear” he sold
And the men cheered again
A dozen times she was obliged to
tell the story of her captivity a dozen
times the men lifted David on their
shoulders and cheered him to the echo
But through all the rejoicing and the
thanksgiving David's heart remained
heavy for the breach still seemed im-
possible to bridge She too suffered
tormented by a debt of gratitude due
one whose treason to his country must
forever bar him from her love
Treason? Why was it then that Da-
vid seemed such a hero to all his com-
rades among the militiamen? Why
had all of them received him into their
hearts like a brother? Toinette strug-
gled all through the day with the
secret which she thought so horrible
Little by little she came to the con-
clusion that David hud managed In
some way to win a pardon from Gov-
ernor Hurrlson before the trip to the
Prophet's cauip hud been begun
She went buck over the circum-
stances of that tragic meeting la Cory-
don when she and Ike had confronted
Duvld and found the proofs of treach-
ery upon him What had happened
after she hud left that scene? Per-
haps Ike had prevailed on David to re-
nounce his allegiance to England Per-
haps then he bad Interceded with
Governor Harrison In his friend’s be-
half She pictured the stern young
governor as snylng that David's life
must depend on his faithful service to
tho territory lu the future Ike had
never spoken one word to her about
David from that day on Little by lit-
tle as she went over each point In her
heart a sense that she had beeu
tricked out of her love grew on her a
sense tlmt somehow she hnd cheated
herself In the sleepless hours of the
night that followed she felt her eyes
smarting with teiftss What could she
do? What could she do? The whole
world seemed ngulnst her I
She could not bring herself to volee
her Inward trouble to auyoue least of
all to Dnvld She watched him striding
along among his comrades Jesting
with them as only men who havo
passed through death together ran
jest and her torment almost mad-
dened her What a sorry tangle she
hud got herself lutol Wliut a little fool
slie had been! But Duvld too she
told herself had been Just as unrea-
sonable She enught glimpses of him
wVn he thought himself unseeu by
and the d'nilllce set of Ills Jaws
convinced her that be was aaeadu rutile
This is a story of pioneer days in
Indiana when courageous frontiers-
men fought the redskins and the
wilderness and won vast territory
in his fixed resolve not to forget what
bad gone before Why couldn’t be be
sensible and talk to her as if nothing
had happened? As for harself she
would die before she begged his for-
giveness And so matters stood when
they reached Fort Harrison on the
homeward Journey
At Fort Harrison they found Ike
Bluckford sound and strong again
Toinette had dreaded meeting him He
came toward her his face bright with
Joy but clouded when he realized that
David and she had not yet settled
their silly quarrel Ike was misera-
ble but be kept silence He knew bet-
ter than to thrust his paw Into that
fire
The wounded were transferred to
the boats at Fort Harrison and the
journey to Vincennes was soon accom-
plished There they found the lady
mule Priscilla and whea the march to
Corydon was resumed Toinette was
ferried on the Jenny’s patient back
while Ike strode beside her
And Ike laughed striving' to make
her forget but strove in vain!
On the twenty-fifth of November
they reached Corydon Runners had
gone on before with the news of vic-
tory and the whole village came out
to meet them ns they neared the town
women ran among the men even as
they marched and flung their arras
around the necks of brothers fathers
husbands though some sought in vain
for those who would never return
or threw themselves with weeping be-
side the bodies of those who lay upon
the Utters But a hundred hearts were
happy and thanked God and happiest
of all was a little old man Patrice
O’Bnnnon who strained his daughter
to his breast and kissed her again and
again with tears mingling with his
kisses for she bad been brought back
to him as from the grave
CHAPTER XVI
Ths Petson Lingers
David stayed behind In Vincennes
going back to his work at the trading
house of Francois Vigo But he stayed
there only a week or two before his
loneliness made existence without a
sight of Toinette an existence not to
be endured He hated the sight of the
Ill-smelling store with Its heaps of
green skins Its crackling bundles of
furs hated the sight of the cheerful
Boosters and French who thronged the
streets of the old capital and loathed
the wretched Plankesbaw Indians who
slept In the doorway Suddenly one
morning be told old Vigo that he
must leave aud the next day found
him once more In Corydon where Ike
welcomed him with beaming face
Still the breach was open 1 It Is so
hard for young men and maidens to
lay down their pride I
To Toinette the days were almost
unbearable Dnvld acted like a bear
with a sore head she thought It was
just what she might have expected
she told herself It is perfectly silly
to be so big and flinty she was sure
David had never spoken tea words to
her at any one time Since the day he
had knocked everything Into a cocked
hat by telling her be loved her Peo-
ple who loved each other didn’t act as
they did she knew why whenever
they had been together she felt ns
though something tremendous some-
thing bigger than she was was In the
very air around and on the point of
exploding She didn’t approve of ex-
plosions 8 till less of things nameless
forces tlmt were bigger tlmn she was
When she had talked to Dnvld In the
old days It was like talking to the heart
of one of those terrible creatures of
steel about which Sir Livingston had
written her father — that great throb-
being caldron which they fed with logs
and which palpitated with fury and
drove a boat from Pittsburgh to New
Orleans In a month It was bigger
than she was and unmanageable und
It was not at all her Idea of love
Whenever she thought about it thut Is
to say about the atmosphere which was
Immediately and mysteriously evolved
out of common day whenever Dnvld
and she encountered her eyes filled
with tears of vexation As for being
sorry tlmt was another matter If Da-
vid wished to be flint she was perfect-
ly capable of being steel Yet she
thought ubout him every day
Her futher for the first time In her
experience fulled to be of any help to
her At home In New Orleans she
had gone to him with the story of
each boy who had danced attendance
upon her and he hud seen them as she
did and together they bad luughcd each
cavalier Into oblivion but she found It
Impossible to discuss this new problem
with him It was no use telling her
father that she was afraid of some-
thing she couldn’t nume If It was
true that she hnd trembled from head
to foot when she felt thut the sparks
which flashed buck and forth from her
steel and David's flint were (lunger-
ously near a powder mine somewhere
InsUlo her that wns her affnlr und
she would have to drown It with her
own contempt us best she might
Accordingly the little old gentleman
who wns sincerely troubled by'the evi-
dent breach between his dnughter and
David got small satisfaction from
Toinette when he stuck a cautious An-
ger into tho difficulty There wus
nothing wrong and she was perfectly
happy und If David chose to be a
hear with a sore head that was his
concern and not thelra and Mr O'Ban-
non wisely forbore further attempts to
effect a reconciliation Ike Blackford
who remained a stanch friend to each
was likewise constrained to remain In
troubled silence he had opened a well-
meaning month to each In turn and
had got no cakes to fill It at either
fair
And at last her "happiness” was so
perfect that she resolved to endure It
no longer
She waited until she found him alone
In the shop the little room which had
once meant to him the beginning of
life’s joj'ousness and life's hopes and
which was now a prison house whence
ghosts of yesterdays mocked him with
their memories
He was about to close Its doors for
the day
Toinette summoned all her strength
The tower of pride was tottering It
can be sent down in rains so easily
when a girl throws down the weapon
of her sex I
"I can't stand It any longer David”
she said breathlessly "to see you suf-
fer I know you are suffering because
I— because I— because It hurts me so 1”
What a glorious crash the tower
made!
David took a quick step toward her
His pulses throbbed ungovernubly
“Toinette what do you mean?” His
face was glorious "Have you— do you
believe In me now?"
"You have blotted out all the past
David” she said simply
The joy suddenly left his face
“Bdl the past” he said In dread of
what her answer might be "the past-
have you forgotten why you drove me
from you? Have you forgotten what
treason you charged me with?"
She waved the words aside "That
Is all past now David It Is the fu-
ture that la everything And I know
now what you mean to me"
He clenched his hands at his side
He would be patient Was It possible
that she still believed the empty Blan-
der against bis loyalty?
"No Toinette” he said as gently as
he could "I have not forgotten your
charge against me I can never for-
get It until you say that you were
wrong"
The tower of pride reared Itself up
again from Its dust Why must he
ask her to humble berself still further
when she had already said so much?
She was silent He waited for her
answer but none came and at last
he bowed gravely
“Then It Is useless to talk of — for-
getting Please let us end this foolish
play"
He moved ns though to go on with
his work
“Walt David 1” she said tremulously
Her eyes were blinded with tears Her
fingers bad been plucking nervously at
a purple ribbon wMch bung from her
bodice
"Walt I want to give you— a re-
membrance" She lifted the great
shears from the counter and clipped
the silken cord from Its fastenings A
tear ran down and stained It with a
darker color Her fingers twisted the
sorry token quickly twisted It into a
wistful emblem such as huppy lovers
laughingly give each other — a lover’s
knot She raised her face and her
blue eyes smiled wanly through the
mist thut clouded them
“Here David take this — Just to be
foolish just to be foolish for once”
He took It His band was trembliug
But bis face wns steel unforgiving
All his yearning for her burned lu his
breast a white caldron of passion
but around It closed tho unyielding
walls of hts cold passion for his honor
lie could never forget that she hud
doubted him once Until that stain
had been washed away he could not
forgive He remembered the young
Sir Philip Sidney of whom her father
old Patrice hud so often told him — of
his proud guardianship of the white
shield of manly honor he himself had
been only a wearer but here In this
new country he wus a man and his
honor must be first 1
"Toinette” he said In a low voice
"who told you that I bad acted as a
spy?”
The blood rushed to her checks
This too she would give him
"Doctor Elliott" she whispered with
bent head
"Who Is he?” cried Dnvld la a fury
"Thut young doctor who comes here
from Louisville? In God’s nume whnt
lias he against mu? I've never seen
the maul But do you believe him
still?"
"You have never — never denied —
never — ” she stopped miserably She
could not raise her eyes to face him
"Then nothing else matters Toin-
ette" "Oh David that doesn't matter ei-
ther I" she cried “Nothing matters I
1 want you In spite of that I"
But he shook his head
She became very pale again
"I have offered afl I have” she said
proudly “I huve nothing more to give”
"I can take nothing from you while
you believe me guilty My name is all
I linvo to give you”
ller unswer scarcely reached his
ear:
"Oh David let our love be enough"
The light had faded from the sky
David looked down at her bent head
und trembled
"Where la this man ElUott now)’’
be demanded suddenly 1
"I do not know” fnlterea Toiaeiu
“but oh David — "
“Good-by I" he said
She did not answer bnt held ont
her hand He paid no heed With m
sob she turned and ran fal'eringly to
ward ber father’s bouse
David set about the work be had
to do
He went directly to Blackford’s room
at the tavern Ike was not there In
a corner beneath the wooden table
where a dozen law books lay scattered
was a narrow box Ike had often ex-
hibited Its contents to him He lifted
it upon the table and threw open the
Ud Within lay two of those deadly
weapons which none but gentlemen
cherished — two dueling pistols brown-
barreled glistening long and lean aa
lightning He drew forth one of them
tried its hammer It moved swiftly
noiselessly He loaded It fitted the
flint into' the lock placed It In the
bosom of his coat and went oat silent-
ly his face white as linen
Night had fallen Far to the east
a sheet of flame flickered palely Long
after a faint roll of thunder followed
A drop of Icy rain struck his face
The Name Burat From Him Like the
Cry of the Soul Itself
He passed swiftly from house to house
inquiring from each If there the young
doctor from Louisville young Doctor
Elliott was within and though sever-
al had seen him that day none knew
where be might be found It was late
when someone be questioned recalled
that be thought be had seen Elliott
tlmt night at Conrod’s tavern outside
the village
He set out on the road that led to the
east The storm bad reached Its
height
CHAPTER XVII
The Storm Breaks
Young Doctor ElUott lying prone on
his blanket on the hewn logs of the
floor of Conrod's tavern stirred uneas-
ily In his sleep Outside the artillery
of the lust thunderstorm of the autumn
rumbled and crashed above the steady
rush of the rain A hand fell upon the
Intch and the door burst open before
the fury of the wind ElUott woke to
find the rain driving Into his face He
was about to rise to close the door
when the whole room was struck out of
durkness by the dazzling blue ot sheet
lightning It was gone as Instantly
as it came and the crash of thunder
which accompanied it drowned his cry
In that siugle moment of the blinding
flash he had seen outlined against the
shimmering sky frnnlbd In the rec-
tangle of the door the dreadful figure
of a crouching Indlun kulfe la baud
His limbs froze In horror The room
wns now ns black as midnight but bis
eyes ached with the Impress of the
lightning glare und the lmnge that had
been struck Into them Still In the
pitch darkness he could see that sick-
ening face — durk evil Its bloodshot
eyes peering malevolently into the
room
He heard the rain-soaked moccasins
of the savage take two steps Inward
before he could cry out again a sec-
on" flash of lightning Illumined the
room and showed a second man tall
pule with anger his foot on the thresh-
old With the hoarse snarl of a wild
beast the Indiun leaped at the figure
la the doorway They grappled In
the darkness Elliott heard their quick
terrible breathing as they swuyed In
a struggle for life A stool tripped
them and they fell rolling against him
Again the lightning flared and he suw
the knife dashed from the Indian's
hand lying beside him The white
mail was beneath his fuce hidden by
the straining shoulders of the savage
Blindly Elliott seized the weapon and
struck with hysterical force
The man beneath shook off the re-
laxed arms of the hideous Intruder und
rose unsteadily to his feet Tb“a be
laughed aloud In the da-koess
"I can’t see who you f-e friend" he
said "but you've cmul'-'y saved me
from a close call”
Elliott made no answer He was
sobtiiag weakly his hand stlll clutch-
ing the blood-stained knife From the
upper room came the sound of voice)
and the tavernkeeper came hurriedly
down the narrow ladder leading from
the loft followed by the awnkened
guests Someone struck s flint can-
dles were lighted
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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A stock speculator Just back from
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—Boston Transcript
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
should be given to sprains swelling
bruises rheumatism and neuralgia
Keep Mansfield's Magic Arnica Lini-
ment handy on the shelf Three slsea
— 25c 60c and 1 100— Ad v
Outfly the Birds
Marvelous was the flight ef an Ital-
ian aviator from Turin to London 660
miles without a stop No bird Itnowa
to the ornithologists could have made
such a flight In seven hours and
twelve minutes Italy is In the van
when It comes to airplanes— Brooklyn
Eagle
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP-ROOT
Thousand) upon thousands of women
havo kidney and bladder trouble and
never euspect it
Women’ oomplainta often prove to he
nothing else but kidney trouble or the
reeult of kidney or bladder dieeaae
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
dition they may cause the other organs
to become diseased
You may suffer a great deal with paia
in the back headache loee of ambition
nervousness and may be despondent and
irritable
Don’t delay etarting treatment Dr
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root a physician' pro-
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the remedy needed to overcome such con-
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However if yon wieh first to test this
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sample bottle When writing be ears
and mention thii paper Adv
Inconsistent Teachers
"And how do you find school How-
ard?" "Rather difficult sir The teacher's
Inconsistent In English composition
we are told to be original In arith-
metic we are all expected to get the
some answer”
War Declared on
Bats by U S Gov’t
The government at Washington ii pre-
paring a campaign that should be e it se-
ll ve In killing the rata that are so destruc-
tive both to lives and property A con-
servative estimate places the kwa of food-
f luff from rats at over two hundred mil-
Ion dollars annually and la the present
scarcity of food this lose must be pre-
vented The moat efflolent way to "Kill
the Rat" Is by the us of Stearns' Paste
and thousands of dollars worth have been
bought by the government Every house-
keeper troubled with rats mice roaches
or waterbugs should buy a small box ot
this reliable exterminator for thirty-five
cents and atop further loss of food la
ber home Adv
Putting It Up to Him
“I bought Liberty bonds few
months n go Now you wunt me to
buy again"
“Great Seott man you bought beef-
steak for your children a week age
tool Are you going to make them livs
the rest of tlielr lives on the memory
of thut dinner?"
Diamonds are seldom marked down
low enough to enable short people to
reach them
St Pnul In 11 years has hnd 40878
births and 26219 deaths
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The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1917, newspaper, October 25, 1917; Davis, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1712979/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.