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HAPPY HARRY,

THE WILD BOY 01‘ THE WOODS.

BY OLL COOMES,

amen or “man HURRICANE” “ OLD sou-
nnr,” “LITTLE mus,” ‘EAGLE
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CHAPTER 1'.
HAPPY HARRY.

Ixthe de ths of the trackless forest border-
lng upon ke St. Clair, over half a century
ago, a. score of birds held a concert or merry-
making one July afternoon. At least so it
would have seemed to a casual observer, for
never sung birds merrier than those assembled
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plumage, birds of somber win , birds of
sweetest song, and birds that cou d only twit-
ter, were assembled there—hopping, flutterin ,
and frolicking among the branches as thou
the happiest creatures on earth. And at t e
same time, each one kept its eyes turned
downward as if watching some thing or some
person. And so it was. They were watching
a human being—a boy who was seated u n
a fallen tree-trunk regarding them wit a
glow of admiration in his blue eyes.

A gim lay across his lap, and a large dog
crouc ed at his feet. He was amusing him-
self with the feathered assembly above. When
one sung, he whistled in exact imitation. He
mimicked them all. He sung, twittered, and
chirped as they did. He had called each one
there by its own peculiar song, and it had come
as if to reet a long-lost mate.

Birds ave almost a human sociability, and
love the society of man more than any of the
animal kind. There seems to be a mutual
and sympathetic attraction existing between
mankind and the birds of the air. And of
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courted the society of his winged associates.
He had been reared with them, as it were.
0fttimes, when alone, he called them around
him, through medium of his' wonderful powers
of imitation, and sung and whistled with them
as though the were a band of rollicking boys.

This youth ul personage could not have been
over sixteen years of age. His form was lithe
and slender, yet it was easily seen that he was
as strong, wiry, and supple as a youn panther.
There was a fresh, healthful glow on ' smooth
brown face, and a twinkle of boyish mischief
combined with a spirit of adventure in his soft
blue eyes. And although he would scarcely
draw a hundred pounds of avoirdu is, there
was nothing eifeminate about his signs or
features; and stripped of that a 0 which
radiated from the boy, he would not have been
considered handsome. It was the expression of
the face and the light of the eye that one would
have admired. There was nothing deep or hid-
den in his looks. His was one of those good,
honest, spirited souls that lay revealed upon the
surface. Love of adventure was one of tho
mast predominant traits of his character, con-

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bined with the many elements that go to make
up one of those odd, humorous, and jovial fel—
lows often met with on the border and in the
wilderness. A dimple lurked at each corner of

.‘ his mouth that seemed ready, at the least )ro-
vocation, to give way to a hearty laugh. is—
chief cropped out on every feature, and the
whole was sli tly tinged with an expression
bordering on t e comical, to which a prominent
Roman nose gave additional strength.

The outh was dressed in buckskin pants and
overshirt, which were ornamented around the ,
knees, up the seams, and around the shoulders
with a fringe of the same material. His feet
were incased in leather moccasins, and his head
covered with a threecornered hat, which he
wore cocked back jauntin upon his head.

He was armed with a rifle, a brace of pistols,
andahunting-knife. A powder-horn and bullet-~
pouch hung at his side by means of a strap

, ssing over his shoulder and across his breast.
pen the breech of his rifle was cut in rude
characters the name—

“ HAPPY HARRY."

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.. The dog crouched at the youth’s feet was a
hu mastifl of the St. Bernard breed, consider—
: ab ' larger in ever respect than his master,
an possessed of pro igious strength.

For fully an hour the youth sat amusing hi m-
self with the birds that sported around him;
but, growing tired of this, he arose and saun—
tered away cisurely through the woods, his dog

I following at his heels. 5 he advanced the
forest seemed to deepen around him, and the
gloom to thicken.

“Great hornits, Belshazzar,” the lad sud-

.denly exolaimed, addressing his dumb com-
panion, “this here woods are gittin’ to be a
regler black wilderness; it is, for a sublime
fact. Sin wouldn’t breed here worth a cent,

- so we needn’t look for sinners. Don’t s’ ose
there’s a red skin within ten miles of us. at, i

, - . keep up spirits, ’Shazzar; we’ll soon reach St. l
Clair’s oomin’ shores, where the bilge leviathan i

1'. Embols not and the green—headed frog warbles ,‘
r dulcet lay to the luglubrious mud-tortle. i
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~. than, as we’re eternally and always on the g0,

» wharfore’s the diaerence? But come, Bolshaz- .
m: let’s amble along, my heart , and mebby“
.we’ll find somethin’ yet to take t e melancholy
out of your downcast spirits.”

 ', So saying, Happy Harry turned and resumed
’ ' his journey through the woods, whistling a
,’::‘ , sprightly air—apparently totally oblivious to
w t 6 terrible fact that death and danger stalked
, - abroad in all the dark woods bordermg on the
Northern lakes—that the l‘ed~man prowlcd upon
every hand in search of enemies, with a inur—
derous intent in his heart—a murderous look
upon hisdusky brow. He glided swiftly through
the undergrowth and along the tangled mazes
of the dense dark thicket with the ease and
,, familiarity of one whose life had been spent
; , in threading the byways of the wilderness. At
1,, , the same time, however, be manifested none of
J ' that habitual precaution of the horn frontiers-
 man in his movements. Indifference to un-
';1 known dangers was one of the youth’s modes 3
of guarding against that danger. His careless
5; movements were not, however, unprcmeditated;
nothin within range escaped his keen, hawk-like
eyes. e searched every bush and thicket as
:9: ' be advanced, and allowed nothing to give him
undue excitement. He was thoroughly learned
in the lore of the woods. He knew every voice
of the wilderness, and could interpret the mean-
.lng of every sound, even to the rustle of a
as He was a natural student of nature;
nothing esca ed his eyes and ears; and from the
most insigni cant thing he could always pick a
grain of knowledge. ,
As the lad moved on his attention was sud—
, denly attracted by a low growl of his canine
, friend. He ceased whistling, but never slack-
.ened his ace in the least. For all he knew
' the deg ad warned him of danger; it was a
- gift of his tactics to avert it by a seeming
., ‘ regard of things around him. But, as he
continued to advance, Belshazzar manifested
greater uneasiness, and he finally concluded it
was best not to be too ineautious.
. “What is it, Bell? what do you see’i—hear?
smell?” he said, sto ping and turning to his dog.
‘ The dog. utters a low bark, and plunging
: 0n ahead, disappeared from sight. In a few
,moments, however, he came bounding back to
, his master’s side in no little excitement.
~~ “Hoppin’ hornitsl what’s u , Belshazzar?
And munifleent Moses! thar’s load on your
2 moule, tbar is, for an awful fact.”
To be certain, however, the boy examined
the dog’s nose more closeli, and, true enough,
found a slight stain of lood ,upon it. As
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blood could have oozed, the lad was satis-
it had been put there during the momen-

tary absence of the animal.

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sent the dog on ahead. The animal led him
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weighted down with some green boughs cut
from a neighboring bush.

Happy Harry uttered a low whistle of sur—
prise as be scrutinized the pile of dry leaves,
that resembled a newly-made grave in its pro-

ortions. Then he glanced carefully around

‘m, through the thicket, into the tree—tops, as
though he felt sure some one was watching
him. But not a sign of life was visible any-
where.

The dog continued his snifiing around the
mound of leaves, now and then jumping back
as ii with affright, and uttering a low whining
bar .

“Hoppin’ hornits, ’Shazzar! what do you
mean!- What you treed thar, )up? a serpent?
a sick beam or a red-skin? Vhich are it?
Speak right out.”

“Bow—wow!” barked the dog, scratching at
the h. :11).

“Great hoppin’ hornits!” burst from his
lips, as a human groan broke suddenly upon
hls ears. Then he gazed around him as if to
see from whence came the sound. But all
was silence and shadows. The presence of
death could not have thrown more gloom
around the youth than that strange cry. His
eyes finally became fixed upon the heap of
leaves before him. He spoke to his dog.
The sagaoious animal seemed to comprehend
his Very thoughts, and bounding forward, he
thrust his muzzle into the brown heap. In an
instant he withdrew it, and from the depths
of the frail covering he drew forth a human
hand .’ It was a small brown band with taper—
in fingers and a wrist encircled bya hoop of
go d—a woman’s hand beyond a doubt—a hand
that was still warm and aquiver with lifel

'CHAPTER II.
WHAT HARRY FOUND UNDER run LEAVES.
HAPPY HARRY was completer dumfounded,

, and it was fully a. minute before he could get

his thoughts to work. And then, but for the

, presence of blood on the little dusky hand, lying

so limp and yet so graceful on the )ile of leaves
that there
was some movement on foot to entrap him.
But a. low mean of agony, which could not have
been otherwise than the true expression of pain,
dispelled all feelings from his breast save deep-
est sympathy and kindness, and advancing to
the leafy mound, be bent over it, and began
carefully raking the leaves away. He soon
came to the form to which the hand belonged.
It was that of an Indian girl. She was wrap—
ped in a blanket, and, to all outward appeal-v
ances was dead.

‘Hcre, Bell,” the lad said to his dog. “ take
hold and carry this gal out of these graveyard
shudders. ”

I’Ie gathered the four corners of the blanket
together and placed them in the mouth of his
dog. The powerful mastiff lifted the form of
the maiden as easily as though she were a child.
He carried her out of the thicket and some dis-
tance through the. woods, when a grassy plot
was pointed out to him by his master whoreon
to deposit his burden, which he did with almost
human tenderness.

Harr saw that the maiden was still bleeding

refuse y from an ugly wound upon the head.

.‘he was totally insensible, but her wild, inco—
hercnt mutterings gave evidence of returning
consciousness.

“ Hoppin’ hornits!” exclaimed the boy, in
apparent perplexity, “here I am in a con-
founded predickamint. I’ve got an elephantee
on my hands, 1 have for a mortal fact. And
what the horned gallinippers am I goin’ to do
with the kritter? And, what’s more, how came
she here in this banged~up condition? She’s an
Ottawa, and ’s got a ’tarnal ugl jolt on the
cerrebellum; but switched it’ s we ar’n’t the
prettiest little Ingin squaw I ever seen. She’s a
royal diadem of a beauty. She’s jist exquisite,
and I’m goin’ to do the fair thing by her, I am
for a generous fact.”

The maiden could not have been over sixteen
years of age, and for an Indian was decidedly

retty, her face wearing a childlike simplicity.
filer neck and arms were loaded with costy
jewelry and a wreath of flowers girded her
brow. But these, as was also her black hair,
were covered with blood that oozed from the
doc gash on her head.

arry examined the nature and extent of her
injuries, which he decided must have been in-
flicted by the blow of a club or some heavy,
blunt weapon. But who could be so heartless
and cowardly as to strike a helpless girl down,
he could not conceive, unless it was some resent—
ful wretch of her own tribe whose love she had
doubtless spurned, and ,who had resolved she
should not favor another.
The ioun borderman took the blanket from
about or em, and running back to- a little
stream he had recently crossed, dipped it into
the water and returned to the maiden. He
wrung some of the cool liquid from the blanket
upon her head and temples. He bathed her
brow and washed the blood from her face and
hands with all care and. tenderness. Then he
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Under these kind ministrations she appeared
to recover rapid}, . She finally opened her
eyes, gazed aroun her, uttered a startled cry,
and again appeared to sink into unconscious-
ness. Harry saw, however, that she had fully
recovered her senses and was only affecting
insensibility, doubtless through fear of him.

“See here now,” he burst out, in an expos-
tulating manner, “you needn’t pla that on .
me, Beck ——I mean Lily-of—the-va Icy. 1’ve 5.
done the air thing by you—~me and the pa n
has—and now, if you could up reciate it, an
condescend to open them blac eyes and ad,
dress us kindly, we’d be superny tickled. Oh,l
git out now! you needn’t try to look through'
yer half-open pecpers. We’re not fools, and
by the horned gallinippers, we’ll up and leave
you here if you dont recognize as as friends.
Confound it! you’re jest ike all the girls.~'
You’d die rather than do what I want ye to.‘{
That’s feminine erversity out and out; it is,’
for a scandalous act. ”

The maiden did not understand a word he
said, or else was determined not to stir from;
her simulated insensible state; and after wait [
ing a sufficient time for her to make up her
mind in re ard to the matter, he turned, calledf
his dog an“ started away. It was not his in-
tention to desert her entirely, for, as soon as
he was out of si rht, he slipped back and took
iiposition behin a tree where he could watch
icr.

No sooner was the sly, terrified young girl
assured that she was alone, than her eyes
opened and glanced quickly around. Then she
arose to a sitting posture and felt of her head
and the bandage upon it; then she attempted to
rise to her feet, but failed.

“You’re urty weak yit, Lily-of-the-val-
ley,” sudden y broke upon her ears, and Ha <
py Harry stopped from his covert, with a mis-
chievous smile upon his face; “ you’d better rest
%uiet an hour or so and you ll git stronger.

bar’s a monstrous big leak on your head, and
the best part of the gal’s leaked away.”

The maiden’s eyes sought the ground, and a
look of petulanc over-spread her face. She
made no reply to arry’s remarks.

“Girl, have you gotatonguef” the lad asked,
a little curtly. “ It’d be a sublime satisfaction
for me to know, it would, for an honest fact.”
He repeated the question in the Ottawa dia-
lect. ‘

The maiden looked up. She touched her
head and in a feeble tone, said:

“7’he young pale-face has saved Eeleelah’s
life ’

“l’m slightly conscious of havin’ done a lit-
tle for you by way of keepin’ you from the land
of your forefathers; but how did you git hurt,
Ecleelah ?” V

She shook her head, which act Hurry accepted
as a refusal to answer him.

“Wal, it’s all right,” he moralized; “them
as has their sekrets can stick to ’em. It makes
no odds to me. It’s a monstrous queer world
this is, for an embellished fact.”

Alow growl from his dog started him, and
turning, he saw a man approaching at a lei—
surely pace. He was an entire stranger to the
boy; moreover, he was dressed and painted as
an Indian; but Harry was too well velsed in
the movements 01' an Indian not to me that the
new-comer was a white man in disguise. He
was a youn
face. a. rakis air, and a dark—gray eye, that
was not altogether pleasing to the critical mind
of the young border-boy. But, concealing his
dislike, he exclaimed, in a frank, open tone:

“ Hullo, here! Howdy, stranger?”

“No reason to complain, sir,” res ended the
stranger, glancing at the youth, tien at his
dog; “ but how’s this—that ornery-lookin’ big
cur bite?”

“Softly, gently, respectfully, stranger, speak
of that dog,” replied Harry, waving the man
back. “That pup is sagacious—he’s sensitive,
and all creation couldn’t stop him if he took a
notion to masticate you. Hoppin’ hornitsl that
little critter has fainted away ag’in; she has, for
a bitter fact. 7’

It was the girl of whom he now spoke. She
had fallen prostrate in a swoon, and now lay
like one dead. . ' _ '

“ Hullol what you got there? A _SICk Inglny
ar’n’t it?“ asked the stranger, as his eye fell
upon the maiden’s form. ,

‘fSick? why sick’s no name for it. Some
cowardly devil has nigh about bu’sted her head
ope . stranger. Thar’s an awful _gash._on it
an I’m afeard the poor fyou.ng thing W111 no
see her way throu h. I ound her out here in
a thicket, covers with old leaves. But I’m
goin’ to do my best for her, for she’s the urti-
est Inginl ,ever sot my eyes on. But, agky
here, stranger, why are you tugged out 1 e a
bloody Ottawa?” .

“I find it convenient to one’s scalp m this
outlandish country,” responded the man.

,i “ Well, .who be you?”
' “ Abel Doyle; and you?”

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“Don’t you know there’s a price on your
head?”

“ Of course I do for a clear fact.”

“And do you know what for?” _Doer con-
tinned.

“ To be sure I do,” responded Harry, seating
himself on the ground. ‘

“ I dare say you do not know.”

“ Well, set down and I’ll tell you all ’bout it,

'Abel. You see, I used to live and fly a kite up

in northern Injianny, at a place called Gomor-
rah. Thar was a on schoolhouse thar; with
long log benches that d carry a dozen thinish—
like boys. I war goin’ to school thar when the
thing appcned. I war a real likely scholar,
Abel, and could jist rattle off ‘ incomprehensi—
biliousness ’ without takin’ breath or battin7 my
eyes once cl'ar through. I’d ’a’ bin aspankin’
good scholar if I’d kept on, and by this time I
might ’a’ bin a preacher or a dancin’anaster.
But that little affair player] the douce. You
see. Peggy Long war as sweet on me as a bee on
clover, and I jist‘despised the donged old thing.
She was only ten years older’n me, and uglier
than a bullfrog on a mud fence. She war al-
ways stickin’ her ole nose in atwixt me and
Sally Beems, and that made me hornit mad.
And one day she up and slipped her gum, that
she’d been wallerin’ atweeii her jaws for six
months, into my hand, and said, with an ex-
irin’ smile, that I might use it till recess.
hizl it made me mad as a hoppin’ hornit;
and so, when ole Peg went to recite her lesson,
I basted her gum on the bench whar she sot,
and when she come back, down she dabbed her-
self on it, and she had on her flx-u dress, too.
But, things run along awhile, an nearly all
the boys on my bench got to lafiin’ and titter’n
’bout Peg’s m; then ole Bilkins, the teacher,

' see’d us, an you ort to ’a’ hearn his long dog-

wood stick rattle down off the joist. Whew!
he swung the p’isenl thing on high, and, oh,
hornitsl how ten coat-tails, all strung along
nicely on the same seat, did flip up as that ole
dogwood warped down upon us. Some of the
boys were studyin’ away like old philosophers,
and wasn’t expecting the ad, but they got it,
and I tell ye it li’isted ’em eliciously.

“When one boy on a bench that way its to
cuttin’ up, the rest might as well pitc n and
have their little fun, too, for they’re sure to
git their sheer 0f the dogwood. 1 never keered

if I war in the middle or next to the teacher; '

but, Lord, Abell was it ever your ghastl mis-
fortune to sit on t’other end of the benc and
have a loose end of the switch huor right up till
it’d h’ist a blister every warp!I It? you haven’t,
I have, and I’ll be hung if it don’t smart till a
teller can see little rings floutin’ out of his
eyes. Aside from the dogwood, Abel, a school—
house is a dull place for me. I tillers could
sleep soundly in one, and even now the sight of
one makes me drowsy. Somethin’ queer 7bout
that ar’n’t it, stranger?”

“ ’ll admit it is, in your case at least,” ro-
plied Doyle, somewhat interested in the lads
story; “but you have lost the main thread of
your story. You commenced to tell about the
reward.”

“ Well, yes, I war coinin’ to that,” continued
Hurry. “ After ole Bilkins had given us boys
11 good bastin’, and regulated his system, he re—
turned to his class. Elevating his spectacles on
his forehead, he bawled out:

“‘Can any one tell me how the decstrict
township of Gomorrah is boundch

“ ‘On the north by Polo—cat crick, south by
Muskeetcr swamp,’ squeaked Peg Long, bounc-
in’ to her feet, when rip went liei"1li‘ess. The
gum had stuck it, and snatched out a strip the
hull len th of the skirt. The boys beg-an to
giggle, t e girls to tittcr behind their books,
Peg to cry, an’ ole Bilkins to champ his bits.
Down rushed the old dogwood switch with a
rash-ee-tee-swash, and then, in tones of thun-
der, the culprit was called for. I had a notion
to lay it to Dicky Howes, but then I thought
of Georgie Washiu ton and his hatchet, and I
riz to my feet an told the hull truth like a
little man, tlimkin’ it would induce ole Bilky
to ease u on me. But, hoppin’ hornits! you’d
ort to ’a seen the old tiger pant! He fairly
danced, he war so.mad. ‘Ill l’arn ye,’ he
whistled, as he let his glasses fall to the floor,
and before he could pick ’em _up one of the
boys brushed ’em aSIde With his foot, another

icked ’em up and passed ’em to the next, and
111 two seconds they were on t’other side of the
house on Billy Trotter’s face; but, you bet,
Billy kept his big geogra by spread out well
before his face and wink at us be s around
the corners. but the loss of his g asses give
ole Bilkinsa mad flt. ‘Veneration, he yelled,
like an Ojibway squaw, f you, Harry Wilde,
will provoke me to your destruction. My
blood’s b’ilin’ hot,‘ and I b’lieved him, stran-,
Er, for I thou ht I could hear it blubberin’

his veins; an so I concluded to make my-
self rare in that place, and so out I , jum d at a.
winder and awayI went. And out unced
ole Bilky, and away he started after me. I
tell gnu it war fun alive for the other boys to
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Wal, I took to’rds the creek whnr I lmowed
thar war a deep hole, and jist as I reached the
bank I dodged ahind a big tree. In a minute
the ole pesttygog came teuriii7 up like a whirl—
wind and sweatin’ like a Turkn He thought
I’d dodged down into the water, or under the
bank, and so he walked up and was loanin’ over
lookin’ for me, when I slipped u behind him
and (him ed him into the water. It was mean
in me, 1 now, but I done it to ‘cool his blood.
It’d ’a’mado a wooden man lafl" to'see him
spout water. Oh, it war de—liglitful, stranger,
and I nearly killed myself lail’in’. But ole
Bilk got out and—so did 1. He swore out a
sore ~Warrant, or some law thing, to have me
arrested for murder, and so I jist come off out
here to look around St. Clair awhile. And I
understand Bilkins Offers live dollars reward
for my arrest.”

“Just so,” responded Doyle, with atinge of
sarcasm which Harry did not fail to detect.
He had also noticed that, while he was relating
his story-which was told more to throw
Doyle off his guard than any other object-—
Doyle had kept a continual watch 11 n the
motionless form of the Indian girl wit 1 mani-
fest uneasiness. Harry also stole a glance
now and then at the face of the maiden, and
being situated so that he could see il(‘1‘ features
distinctly, he was not a little surprised to 500
that she was only feioning unconsciousness,
and Watching Doyle through her half~opcii
eyes. This led Harry to believe that the two
were not strangers to each other, and in order
to bring the matter to a point, he said:

“ Stran er, I s’ ose you know who that gal
is, seein’ s e’s an ttawa and you a Huron.”

“I know nothing of the girl. The village
of the Ottawas is far from that of the Hurons."

“ n"’p0se, then, you‘re hunting down this
way?’

“ Well, yes,” responded the man, with some
hesitation.

“That’s what we’re doin’—-that’s me and
Belshazzar. I tell you, Abel, that dog makes
a strong old fight. You’d ort to see him handle
the jugular of an Ottawa or——"

“ Huron, I presume,” interrupted Doyle.

“No, stranger; me and the Hurons are
friends.”

“You were, but are not now.”

“And why not?” ,

“You haven’t heard that the United States
has declared war against Great Britain, and
hostilities have opened, and that the Hurons
have taken sides with the latterl”

“Great hoppin’ homits! No! I never heard
it hinted before. But, muniiicent Moses! won’t
it make times brisk? Of course you side
with us, don’t you stranger?

“ Do on mean the American Republic?”

“Wei, es, seein’ we’re a fraction of the
republic— merican citizens.”

“ What organization do you represent?”

“Why, stranger, you puzzle me. I don’t
know that I represent any other than the ana—
tomical or ranization of Happy Harry.”

“My lur , I am inclined to doubt your word.
Don’t you know something about an Oi'raniza-
tion of doubtful character called the ‘ fisher—
men’s Union’!’ ” v

“ VVliv, great lioi'nits! how
That ‘ li‘ishermen’s Union ’ is nothin’ but a band
of lake pirates that come over into the United

States to steal, and then seek refuge under the 1

English flag in Canada.”

“ Admitting that to be true. you haven’t an-
swered my question, sir,” Doyle persisted.

“ I would be a fool to answer it if it were so,”
was Harry’s swift rejoinder.

“Look here, my boy; you know more than
you pretend. It’s not a schoolmaster's reward
that is on your head,” and Doyle lanced fur—
tivcly at the youth, then at the inanimate form
of Eeleelah.

“Stranger you mustn’t insinuate; you do
me injustice, ’ and Harry's face assumed a look
of dee earnestness.

Wit a contemptuous smile upon his painted
face, Doyle rose to his feet, and turning. walked
slowly and with massive tread away into the
woods.

Scarcely was his back turned ere Eeleclah
sprung to her feet, and, hurrying to Harry’s
Side, said in the Ottawa dialect:

“Paleface flee! He is a bad, wicked man.
He will kill you, as he thought he had done me.”

As the last word fell from her lips, she turned
and hurried away as fast as her feeble strength
would permit.

Happy Harry was astounded by this turn of
affairs and startling revelation. He lancod
first after the girl, then after the renega 9. He
saw the latter suddenly stop. turn toward him
and raise his right hand. He saw a ufl of
smoke, and nothing more. Something lurred
his vision; his brain reeled, and, tottering, the
Wild Boy of the Woods sunk heavily to earth.

With a mournful howl his dumb companion
sprung forward, and crouching b his side
sent forth a lamentotion of grief at seemed
almost human in its sad, sorrowful intona-

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CHAPTER III.
SURPRISES.

THE shadows of night hung low and dark
over the forest bordering on the western shore
of Lake St. Clair. The sky was overcast with
a dull, hazy mist. A damp, heavy wind stirred - ,
the great oaks and pines into an ominous mur-
mur, Not far away the surge of the heavy .
waves could be heard breaking upon the rock~
bound shore with a sullen boon). From afar
ofl.’ came the long howl of a wolf, alternatin
with the to-whit-to-who of an owL The dufi
droning of nocturnal wings and the chirp of
insects pervaded the ni ht. Nature was enjoy— a
ing a sweet repose. .ho mysterious voices
in the wilderness were but the gentle breathings-
of her great night-ensln'oudml bosom.

Through the murky gloom came the twinkle
of a light that burned almost under the falling
spray of St. Cluir’s breakers. It was a dim~ "
red light, appearing and disappearing at inter-
vals as though it come from a building whose
door was being opened and closed. This was,
in amensure, the case. The buildinfi, though
was one of canvas. It was a smu , conical
tent. The light was reflected from u. lantern
that hung inside the structure, which was built .v
upon a little sand—bar projecting out into the
waters of a narrow ba '. ' '

Two persons occu ied the tent. Both who
white men. The el( est, a man of fifty years, .1
was dressed in the suit of a borderman, which
contrasted well with his uncouth appearance.
He was a low, heavy-set man, with cold, ray
eyes and a bearded face that would not our
the closest scrutiny. He was a jovial com-
panion, however, and was admired lay his com-
fiinion for his whimsical humor an odd talk.

e was armed with a rifle, pistols and knife.

This man answered to the name of Bill Muck-
lewee. , .

The other person was a young man of about - ;
three and twenty years, and bore evidence of 3
mental culture and refinement in both feature
and language. Oi’ rather pre ossessing general : ,
appearance, he was a litte above medium .
higlit, with a military bearing in his move— 
ments, but nothing arrogant or haughty, for x“,
his countenance was open and pleasant. HO' '7
wore a long cloak, beneath which was the '«
ungorm of a coitain of the United States 
or y. A sword lung at his side while a. pair .
of polished pistol-butts pooped from theirre- ’
ce tacle in his girdle. 

‘his man was Captain Robert Rankin. }

In the bay just back of their encampment 0' .
little sail-bout lay at rest on the waves. This ,3
was the property of the young captain. All 
that day but hound his companion traveled ,,
upon the lake, going ashore only when dark- 
ncss set in, feeling entirely disposed to run the 7
risks of the dangers of land rather than those i. i
of a night on rough waters. ‘ ‘ ’

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pcr, was acting in the capacity of guide to him. '

Although the old borderinan had been first,
to advocate the idea of spending the night.
ashore, he could not rest easy after they be
goon into camp. He seemed apprehens ve‘o‘!
danger and kept up a continual ( edging in and
, out of the tent to watch and listen. I

“ Friend guide,” said Rankin, “are on not
giving; yourself undue trouble regarding our
Sltlllll‘iulii” \

“You can’t be too koorful, cap’n, ‘in thim,
dashed Ingin country,” the trapper uide re. 
spondcd. “Thor’s been red-skins, as ’ve said
before, ii. this vicinity within the last twenty
four hours, and they may 'be around yet
somewhar. ” ,

“But I should think you were nearly ex-~
haustod with the day’s journey." \'

“Exhosstedl Old Bil Mucklewee exhosstedl
Why, dash it to thunder, ca ’n, do you take,
me for an old woman? less my eyes,
hardly ’ve got warmed up. I’m like an Old
5 avined stage-hoss' the longerI go the him-1
berer I git. It ta 'es at least twenty hours
hard drivni’ to warm the j’int grease in my
corporosity. But on ’n, I never did take ’
water like aduck. t’s too confining. At '
ler can’t git exercise enough. Now, we’ve not
traveled over fifty miles to-dgy and I could ’I"
beat that afoot, dashed if I co n’t." v '.

“I dare sa you could, friend guide; but I
am no trave er. Moreover I Was confident
that the enem was watchin me, and would
attempt to fol ow, so I thong t I would take
the way that would leave no trail, and bring
me soonest to the destination I am so auxin
to reach.” .

“Yes, cap’n,” replied Mucklewee, a. eui'lofl\
smile playing over his bearded face; “ I see 1)“
are very summit; to get to ,Laketown. I reckon;
gar ,i’nust be some purty gal drawin’you n]!

or. ‘

" Not at all, Bill. I am heart—free. The line
of the settlers is the object of my journey h.

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“Friend guide, you live mest of your time
in the forest. You know little of what is going
on in the busy world, consequently you can
have no idea of the important dispute ics I am
bani-er of to the good 1190pr of Lnl<ct0\vn,ns
u- “.1 as all other points along the shores of St.
Clair.”

“ Indeed, cap’ii?"

“ Yes, indeed; though I should not have said
so much, even to my guide. But then I in-
trust this much of my secret to you in con-
:fldence.”

“It’s tliar, cap’ii buried deep” replied the
guide, layin his hand upon iis breast. “I
never go bac on a friend, dashed if I do—but
there—whist I”

Somethin like the crack of adry stick started
them. Muc lewee rose to his feet, took up his
rifle, and glided out into the ni ht.

In a. few minutes he returne .

“Any discover i” asked Rankin. I

“Not a dashe thing could I hear, see, or
smell.”

' “ I’m glad of it. I wouldn’t have an enemy
hear What I told ou for a fortune.”

“No danger bert, of an enemy hangin’
around here listenin’. If thar’s any about,

. they’ll not hesitate to bulge right in onto us
' like and dash of! our hairin two twinks of a
lightnin’-bolt.”

“. I‘m afraid we’re getting a little nervous,
Bill, for want of refreshments,” said Captain
Rankin, “so we may as well take our rations
new as any time.”

‘ He opened a small provision bag, from which
he took some biscuits, cold meat, and a flask of
brandy. -Both fell to and made a hearty meal
upon the cold viands, in the mean time dis-
cussing the events of the day in a low tone.

They had about concluded their repast when
a soft step was heard without, and the next in-

' shut the flap door was thrust aside, and a
head, in which was set a pair of gleaming
eyes and a double row of white glittering
teeth, was protruded within the ten .

It was the head of a great, shaggy beast. Its
jaws were 0 n, its red tongue protruding from

v i the mouth om which the hot saliva was al-

' most streamin . It was panting as though ex-
hausted from 3 car exertions.

“ What in thunder is it, cap’n‘l” questioned
the borderman, drawing back as if with af-

fright. _ .
“You tell,” responded Rankin, grasping his
- revolver. _
i' “Bow-wow-wowl” barked the animal in a
. n ’ deep and thunderous tone that fairly shook the
i,’ ound. It seemed to have comprehended the
‘ ' go men’s want of information.
H
 ' Rank 11. i
“ " “ It is. I’ll be dashed to atoms; and what an
"I , waul big kritter it is. But, cap 11, I’ll sw’ar I
" . ‘ telieveitsrantin’mad.” i
' , “Bow-wow!” barked the mastifl? again, and
he withdrew his head and disappeared in the
gloom of night.
Rankin and the old borderman rose and went
- out. All was silence, but in a moment they
'. “heard the patter of the dog’s feet coming back.
‘ They waited his approach. He came running
Etta them, in a friendly et excited manner.
9 barked softly. He rub d around their feet
and whined uneasil ; then he bounded away
,, again into the woods. In a few moments he
i 4 came back and went throu h the same maneu-
‘ were and disappeared as be ore. He went in the
same direction every time—going entirely be-
yond their hearing.
, “ W ell, what the mystery does it mean, any-
how?" Rankin asked, somewhat uzzled.
 . “ I’ll be dashed to thunder if can tell ye,”
' ' 1 ‘M‘quleWee answered, not a little surpriscd him-

self.
“ I’d like to understand it.”
,. As if in answor to Rankin’s remarks, 8. sound
 resembling a cry of distress came to their ears.
‘ I “ Dash it, cap’nl sumthin’s up, sure as death
 i—somebody is in trouble! That do ’5 got a
1 night of human iiimpshun, Rankin. e wants
“ ‘ help—help for is master. Here he comes
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u ~True enough; the pattering footsteps of the
dog were heard approaching again, and.in a
‘- moment he was fon ling around them, whining
with an eager, kind impatience. _ _
. When he started off 3 am, Rankin said:
' r , ' “Let’s try and follow in up, Bill. He don’t
‘ far.”
. “ ’Nufl said—here goes.”
v The set off after the animal, and had gone
 a ittle way when that cry of distress was
again heard, a s ort distance before them. .
‘ “ 0b, hoppin’ hornitsl her-nits! h’ntsl” walled
' the unknown suflerer. .
x . “ Hullo, “tagger; what’s the matter?”
- Hucklewee call out in a partially subdued

tone. .
' . “G10 glory!” was the glad response.

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want help?” demanded Mucklcwee, and the
two men advanced to the side of the pros
trute sufferer, whose voice denoted his youth-
fulneSS

“ Well, I don’t know as help will do me much
good, strangers, unless you help me out of this
plagued unlucky world," was the responsm

‘l’ve been shot by a ’tnrnal villain that l‘ll
l'oller to purgatory that I may haunt him, I
will for a burning fact. Yes, strangers, I’m
down flat on my back. The vampire brought
me flat, and if it hadn’t been for Belshiizzar,
my noble ole dog, the wolves’d had me send
Wiched long afore this.”

“Who are you!I and what are you doing
here 3” queried Ca tain Rankin.

“I’m Happy arry, the Wild Boy of the
Woods, stranger; but if ever there was an un-
happy young devil, it’s me. The varlet’s shot
was a bunglin’ thing—it only carried away
one side of my head. How much nicer I’d feel
if it had been plum-center—took my hull sum—
mit off, smack and smooth.”

“My lad, let us help you to our tent, and
we’ll see what can be done to alleviate your
suffering,” said Rankin.

“Do so, strangers, and if thar is sich a thing
as speakin’ a good word for another in heaven,
I’ll not forgit you fellers, if I go that way. I
know a feller can’t live long with one side of
his head off.”

Mucklewee advanced, and stooping over the
youth took hold of his shoulder to raise him up,
when Belshazzar uttered a grow], and mani-
fested a disposition to object to the guide’s lib-
erty with his young master.

“See here, boy, make that ole grizzl growler
subside, or I’ll let you drap,” said Muc lewee.

“It’s all right, Belshazzar,” the youth said,
addressing his dog. “Don’t take on, ole pard,
and mebby we’ll git patched up so’s We can

rate a while longer. Stranger ’-—addressin

ucklewee—“jist git me up onto my feet an

let me lean on you, and then I guess I can walk.
I’m lop ed-sided as thunder, on account of
t’other alf of me bein’ one. Yes, strangers,
the hull section of my hea war blown to atoms.
0h, homitsl it war a miserable, bunglin’ shot
friends. I could ’a’ done better with my hull
head blown off, I could for a fact—ouch! here
we gig—steady, stran ers.”

“ har ar’n’t morcn enufl of ye to make a
good wolf-bait, boy,” Mucklewee said, as he
started toward the tent, half-carrying, half-
dragiging the young borderman along.

" an no great shakes, stranger, for heft,”
Harry replied; “ I never war, even when I had
t’other half of my head and ten gallons~of
blood that’s leaked away.’

“ Dashed if on mustn't be about dry then, if
you’ve lost sic a power of claret.”

“ Dry? why thar isn’t a drop of blood in me.
Every grains been pumped out, and I’m as
good as dead, I am for a fact."

Mucklewee laughed a dry sort of laugh,
which was evidence of his disbelief of the
youth being seriously hurt. It was so dark
that they could not ascertain the extent of his
injuries, althou b they were satisfied that his
suffering great magnified the fact. How-
ever; they move slowly on and finally reached
the tent. The lad was laid upon a blanket
and the light brought down and held so as to
fall upon his head. There was blood upon his
face and neck and upon his hands and in his
hair, but to their happy sur rise they found
that he had mere] sustaine a flesh«wound
across the skull. t was sufficient, however,
to cause great pain and loss of blood, and there
was no doubt 1n the minds of the men but that
the boy believed one side of his head was gone.

Captain Rankin made the examination and
reported the nature of the wound. Harry
seemed wonderfully cheered and strengthened
by the good news.

“Hoppin’ hornitsl” he exclaimed, rising
easily to a. sitting posture. “I thought I was
killed, stranger. I was sure the hull Side of my
head was blown off by that bunglin’, 'ackass
shot. It’s queer how one’s feelin’s will e set the
ima ination, ar’n’t it?” .

“ t seems to be the case with you, at least;
but was it an Indian or white man that at-
tem ted your life?” '

“ t war awhite red-skin, stranger, and a
ornery thief be war. Aman that couldn’t make
a better shot than that is no business in this
countr . But I tell ye, I see’d stars and little
rings a ut the time the bullet waltzed through
my hair, and over I keeled as superbly as ou
please. And I expect if it hadn’t been for el-
shauar the fool ’d ’a’ scalped me. I’ve laid out
thar ever since four o’clock, or thereabouts and
that valiant old dog has stood OVer me. (5h, I
tell ye, he’s a. noble brute, and sich strength——
whew 1’

“He’s a dashed ugly old brute,” said Muck-
lewee, inclined to jest with the boy.

“Ugl l Great hop in’ homits, stranger!
goeu’d ink be war ugly if he war to sock his

' th into your breat in’ arrangemints. He
filers feels with a ivengeance for a red-skin’s
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lieve I’ll escort myself out to the water and di
in. Once cleaned up, you can see what l 100
like. I’m no great shakes for beauty, but I am
pni-ty good “ith arillc. Icnli bring a deer,
wing a biid, or bark a squirrel furder’n any
other man on old St. Clair‘s liowlin’ shores.”

“ You can’t do it, friend Harry,” replied
Itltliuflglewce, “and I‘ll stake my moccasins on

If] .

“Shake on that Mucklewee,"said the youth,
extending his ham ; “ and soon as morniii’ comes
we’ll test the matter.”

“Cap’n Rankin, you hear that?” cried the
guide.

u I do'n'

The youth turned and walked out of the tent,
followed by his faithful canine companion.

“ Rankin,” said Mucklewee, and his voice
fell to a husky whis er, “ that boy’s been fool-
in’ us. He knows he wer’n’t hurt bed, and
'ist like as any way hurt himself on urpose.

e’s a spy on our movements. dashed i I won’t
bet on it. He’ll bear watchin’. H ’s gone out,
mebbe to run off with our boat. Dashed if he
ar’n’t a sharper if he is a brat of a boy. But
he’s older and knows more’n one’d think. And
that dog—dashed if he isn’t a trained brute, I
never—’

“Great hoppin’ hornitsl” exclaimed the boy,
dashing suddenly into the tent; “friends, do
you know you're in an all-fired pre< icnment?”

Both men started to their feet, for they saw
that Happy Harry was excited.

k “What’s the matter, lad?” questioned Ran-
in.

“Why, great hornits, man, you’re in a trapl
You’re afloat on Lake St. Clair with a dozen
bloody savages 1”

CHAPTER IV.
LONG (BEARD.

“ ANOTHER sell by that ’tarnal little imp ” ex.
claimed Mucklewee, as he started toward the
door of the tent; but. Rankin was convinced
that there was something wron , else the boy
was the most perfect actor he he ever met.

The captain followed the guide out, and to
his horror found that the youth had told the
truth. The little sand-bar upon which they
had itchcd their tent had actually detached
itsel from the shore and was floating out into
the cry .’ To add still more to the horrors and
peril of the situation, our friends saw half a
dozen savages scrambling out of the water up
on the floating raft.

In an instant it flashed throu h the mind of
Happy Harry that Rankin and llS guide had,
by some means or other, got themselves into a.
well-concealed trap. He saw that the sup-
posed sand-har was nothing more than a raft
covered with sand and gravel, and joined to
the main shore so artfully that one less skillful
than Bill Mucklewee was supposed to be would
never have detected the cunning arrangement.
Moreover, it was dark when the landed, else
they might have discovered that t e little sand-
bar was not a natural one- and, as there was
no action of the water in the bay, the raft lay
perfectly motionless, doubtless held by props
under it in the water.

The trap was, in all probability. set for these
two persons, but it was a mystery to Harry
how the savages had anticipated the intended
camping spot of the travelers so well; for the
men knew not where they would camp ten
minutes before they pitched their tent on the
bar. There was something certainly remark-
able about it; but there was no time for con-
jectures or idle words new. A cmiflict was at
hand—a bloody hand-to-hand encounter.

Hap y Harry gave utterance to a cry so
much like that of a terrified eagle that Rankin
involuntarily turned to him with a sudden
start. The next instant the youth drew his

istols, and, boundm forward, opened the
Battle. The ~report 0‘ his weapons followed
each other in quick succession. Belshazzer
was close at his master’s side, and in an instant
was at a red-skin’s throat. .

.Vg‘ild now rose the tumult of battle upon the
n1 .

he cunning red-skins, seven in number, had,
by this time, all gained the top of the raft.
But they had evident] met one not calculated
upon—in fact, two 0 them—Harry and his

dog.

The raft had, by] this time, drifted out into
the misty moonli t, thereby enabling the foe
{.3 see where an upon whom to direct their

ows.

Mucklewee and Rankin became engaged with
four brawn warriors on the 9pp031te side of
the tent. The savages were entirely nude, with
the exception of their lain—cloths. China were

 

their only weapons, which was further evidence-

that they had calculated upon an easy victory.
They ap ared to concentrate their main force
against nkin, as though his uniform was in-
centive to the deadbeat ven eance. But the
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lively upon the tufted skulls of the warriors.
By a flank movement the captain was finally
brought down, and two of the warriors seemed
intent upon taking him alive, and would, doubt-
less, have succeeded, had it not been for the
quick blows of Harry's club and therending
teeth of Belshazzar.

While engaged in liberating Rankin, a figure
rushed suddenly upon our hero with a horrible
imprecation upon his lips, but theyouth greeted
him with a blow that sent him reeling over-
board into the water. But it was not until it
was too late that he, discovered he had commit»
ted an irreparable blunder—~that it was Muck—
lewee, the guide, he had struck. He regretted
the act, but felt justified, for the reason that in
the excitement. of the moment Muckleweo was
rushing upon him with deadly intent, no doubt
mistaking him for an enemy. -

By this time but three savages were left to
contend with, and one of these Harry soon
knocked overboard. Another was struggling
hand-to-hand with the young soldier, while the
third, seeingr the havoc made in their ranks by
Harry’s club. rushed upon the youth and grap—
pled him. Together they rolled on the raft in
deadly conflict.

The savage was far the heavier and stouter,
but Harry was the more skillful, and proved
as difficult to handle as an eel. The youth’s
club beiugof no further use to him now, he
dropped it and endeavored to draw his knife.
But this he was unable to do, for the savage’s
arms in a measure pinioned his. His move-
ments were also somewhat hampered by his
rifle, which was hung at his back, but, despite
these disadvantages, he fought like a young
tiger, giving the red-skin all he wanted to do in
the hand<to~hand grapple.

Finally the lad saw that the red-skin’s weight
was an advantage he could not overcome, and
that he must endeavor to free himself, while
strength remained, from the powerful arms of
the sava re. He threw all his strength into a
single e ort, but without success. The limbs
of the too were like welded bands of steel.
They whirled to and fro across the raft in
rapid evolutions. Harry squirmed and wrig-
gled like a Serpent, at the same time shouting
defiance in the ear of his antagonist. .

At length they struggled to their feet and
went spinning away across the raft and fell
overboard. Both sunk from view, but they
soon appeared at the surface again, struggling

‘ all the humor now that the water was contend-

ing for the victory over both. They fought; in
silence—that is, no word escaped their lips, for
they found it prudent to keep their mouths
shut and the water from their: lungs. Their
flying limbs beat and churned the water into a
foam.

Suddenly a loud, deep bnrk rang out, and
was succeeded by a plunge. Ituns the dog,
Belshazznr, who, seeming to comprehend the
perilous situation oi’ his master, hounded to his
assistance. Nor was the faithful animal a
moment too soon. Happy Harry was almost
exhausted when the do}: swam up and seized
the red-skin by the throat, ending the conflict
in a short time.

Keepinfi himself above water as well as he
could in is almost breathless condition, until
Belshazzar had dispatched the warrior, he
then grasped the dog by the tail and was towed
ashore.

Both dog and master were quite exhausted
when they reached the bank, and crawling out
of the water they threw themselvos upon the
beach for a. moment’s rest.

Harry now glanced out over the boy. He
could see the raft and the two forms strug-
gling in their death-throes upon it. The water
n the be was still, but at the same time there
was a na ural inclination of the current lake-
ward and the raft gradually drifted down the
bay until it reached the lake, when it soon was
whirled by the current out on the bosom of
the watery expanse.

“Great bald-faced homits, ’Shazzarl” ex-
claimed young Harry, “there oes thht bor

oung captain to destruction, an we unab e to

1]: him. But we’ve done our duty, Bell; we
done all we could until we war teetotauy
discombobarated. We're tired and wet as mops.
.It’s a damper on us, old friend, and all because
we’re so unfortunate as to be boys. It always
did seem to me that boys war I; 8 most perse-
cuted set of critters that ever war inflicted on
the world. And yet one can’t jump out or bo -
hood into manhood; thingshev at to ta e
their natural course. Now, If we’ been gals,
Bell, we’d not be here to- night, but tucked away
aomewhar in a quiet nest of feathers and quilts.
But what’s the use to lament} a boy’s a boy,
:an (ye can’t make anything else out of him.

i as we enjoy all this as only boys can enjoy
fun. But poor Rankin! hope he’ll get
through all right with that red-skin. .I want to
tell him sumthin’——suuithin' that he’d never
have suspected, old dog. They ea boys have
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but they didn’t hel him to a knowledge of one
thing—that is, of t 0 border and its characters.
If they only had, he’d not been tramch by (L
traitor!”

Bclshazzur raised his eyes and gazed at the
face of his young master as though he fully
comprehended his words.

“ Tcs, Bell,” continued the lad, “lhat mnn
Mucklcwee war a condemned traitor to Rankin,
he, was, for a cruel fact. It war him that had
the trap arranged for the captain’s reception.
But, hoppin’ hornits, ’Shaz, l givethelow»browcd
wretch a jolt, across the organum that sent him
to water. I don’t know whether he. got out or
not—nor 1 don‘t care; but 1 do know lie is a
black-hearted trai— Ah! now, Bolshuzznr,
what is it, old part1?"

The dog started up with a low growl toward
the woods.

The massive trend of a foot sounded near, and
a. moment later Happy Harry saw the giant

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figure of a white man appear from the dense ,

shadows of the undergrmvth.

“Great l1(u,)pin’li01-nits and glory!” shouted
the youth, springing to his feet and advancing
toward the intruder, “ it is my big friend—my
dear friend, Long Beard; it is, for a living
fact!” __

CHAPTER V.
THE LAKE SCUD.

THE man that stood before our young friend
was full seven feet in hight, and in the night
appeared taller. He was built in proportion to
his stature, Vl ith great muscular arms, swelling
chest and massive form, to which a tremendous
beard, reachin for down upon his breast,
gave additiona strength. But it was snow-
white.

He was dressed in a suit half—civilized and
halt-save , which gave his powerful form a
formidab e appearance. Fifty years had de-
tracted nothing from his physical manhood,
while his venerable beard and air gave to him
an air of wisdom and mental ripeners. ‘

He was armed with a long “Kentucky”
rifle, a brace of pistols and a huntin —knif0'
and as he appeared upon the beach he ropped
the butt of his rifle to the ground, and, crossing
his hands over the muzzle, azed around him
and at Harry and his dog in silent aslrmish-
ment. He knew the Wild Boy of the Woods,
and was astonished to see him there. in the,

light he was in: They had met before and
ind spent days together, but always in the
forest. But neither One knew augit of the
other‘s habitation. nor of his lilo beyond their
first meeting ii the wild-wood. It is true,
llarr had been something of a reputed giant,
culle Long Beard, that frequented the forest
bordering on St. Clair, but as there are always
so many stories prevalent on the border, of
mysterious giants, avengers and spirits, he gave
no credence to the report until he actually met
the long bearded man himself.

Bclshazzar growled fiercely and seemed in-
clined to arrest the man’s further advance, but
his master bade him be quiet, and he again laid
down. 0

Seeing the giant did not reply to his greeting,
Harry said: _

“Long Beard, I am monsterously happy to
meet you. 1 am for a golden l'act."

“ Why. Harry, my little fellow, are you lost?
are you in trouble?Y the giant asked, in a deep,
measured tone.

"Me lost! hoppin’hornits, no, gincral. But
I’m wet—soakin’ wet—me and Bell are.
We’ve had the gol-awi'ulest, bloodiest, wick—
cdcst fight that ever took place on St. Cluir’s
shores.” .

“ lndecdl I thought I heard a fearful racket
off hereaways,” Long Beard said, with that
same deep, measured tone; “but are you hurt,
my boy?’ _

“Wuss than that, Big eard, I'm tetotally
tuckered out, demoralize . I was never so
tired in all my life. I’m soakin’ wet, and
never felt so ornery in my life. But Jewhiz
we had a magnificent fight—me and Bell and
the boys. It was superb, the way we reeled
the red-skins ofl.’ onto the not black skein of
etc nity. I tell ye, them partan tellers we
re d about doin’ such big fightin’ at—at Trigo~
nonietrv couldn’t hold a candle to us. But,
Long Whiskers,” and his voice fell to a Serious
tone, “ I’m afraid one of the b0 8 went under,
while the other ort to ’a.’ died a ore his mother
war born.”

“Why, Harry?”

“ He war a usillanimous, unrectifled traitor,
and betrayed his friend—a splendid young man
with sojer clothes on.’7

“Harry, come with me; I‘want to know
more about this affair. My boat lies of! north of
here. I will makea fire in the cabin, and while
you are drying your clothes you can tell me of
your day’s adventure.”

“That’s fair, dogged if it am’t Big Beard
and I ess I’ll accept of your hospitality; for
don’t eel any too much like laying around loose

Times are revivinl...gin,eral; I guess

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“Why, hoppin’ hornits, general, haven’t on
heard of the war ’twixt this country and 3-
land!”

“ l have not. Harry.”

“Well, neither have I, giueral: but I guess
they‘ll arrange things for a high old squabble“
n wnr, if they can agree on it."

A faint smile stirred the placid calmness. of
the giant’s face, and he said:

" Come on, Harry, you will take cold in those
Wet clothes.”

The youth and his dog: followed him some dies
tnnce along the, shore, \\ hen the) collie to where
the liltlo schooner, rigged with sails, was tied
up in a cove or buy. They \unt nbonrd. Il-c
boat “as unl'nslcned, snil hoislcd. when the litr‘ 
tlo craft glided out ol’ the buy into the lake and I
sped away oVer ils bosom. ‘

The craft was about twenty feet in length by 
eight in width. ll‘oru nrd was a little cabin Ix. . 
lending from the hatchwny to about three fcct '{
above thedcck. From the cabin to the rear :
extremity of the boat extended a 1011 pole, or ' ~
beam, parallel with the (lock, and u )out we "
feet above it. it was attached to on u right ‘ .
post. aft, but of what use it could be any a
could not imagine. "'

Long Beard conducted Harry and his (leg -- V
down into the cabin, when he at once struck: “\i’
fire on the elevated stone hearth in the apart "'3"
ment. The smoke and heat escaped through an 4 .f
openinp in thereof.  ’3

The ad removed his outer garments and hung ~
them around the fire to dry, substitutint: a
blanket furnished by the giant in their place.
He next turned his attention to his fire-ants.
He drew the charge from his rifle and mi 11’
the barrel dry. The contents of his pow er— I .r
horn were perfectly dry, butthose of his bullct- .1
pouch were thoroughly soaked, but‘not malo-
rially damaged.

Meanwhile an animated conversation had been
carried on between the man and boy. ,

“ I’ve been in many I.»rcdicumcnis,Bl r Bea rd," 7‘
the youth finally said, when they touc ed u] on
the subject, “ but this one to-night was the '
nastiest one I ever not into. I'm afraid Bel-I
shnzznr thar will have a spell of the croup."

“ How many savages boarded the raft?”

“Seven; and they fit like screech-owly.
But come down to the fine thing of it, we hml'.
eight enemies to contend with. As 1 said he .
fore, the feller Mucklcwcc was a traitor. Her
had arranged the bull-trap, of course, waving”
he was t’other man’s guide. But when I su’d
the light from their lent, 1 concluded whim-fig}- L“
who they were and sot to work thinkin’ In?
some capcl'io play ’em to git inside theirii'nh'i '
I soon "ot it. 1 let on lhnt I was dead, and); ..
sent Be shnzzur after help to their tent. Hu. '4
understood a thingortwo, gineral. He’s a van-"i 
derrul knowin‘ dog, he is, for a square for! ’
and when I‘m hurt he'll cut right out for Mr
or if I‘ll let him, he’ll just lick inc right up n‘vd‘
carry me anywhere. Hc s stout as a lion,
governor, he is for a loud fact. Irode onb‘
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tent, and after repeated trials, brought tmm '5 ,»
up to where I laid, all covered with blood new
that cut across my head, “bar a. blundmi
fool grazed me with a bullet awhile befmel
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up and went out to wash my face and humour :1"
and slick up a little, and it was then that 1 other. ‘ .
kivercd the dilllculty ,the hull caboodle ot'm‘ 5?;
was in. If it’d ’a’ bin you or me instead of it" ‘3 3
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It’s natural for us ole rats of the woods to.
cautious and keep out of danger; but 801‘
don’t know anything aboutlngins.”  i

“What kim of union was this soldiér‘rl. .
whom you speak?" - fl ,5? ; v

“A dog-gonad fine youn folle'r with "wit v
uniform of a captain on. e belongs actor; .
whar South, and war on his way to Inketcu‘mix ‘
and-I’ll bet anything he’s a bearer of govr‘r’ . ff"
meat dis tches to Major Van'Horne, twig
that old uoklewee knowed it, and wante‘tl't‘c‘ 'r.
gig lliold of his papers to sell them to the B!
is .
" Very likely, Harry,” replied Long Bet.
reflectively. 0 .

“And great hoppin’ hornitsl wouldn't, A;
thou d: be proper glad to know how he come-t“, ’
of th fl ht. ’m ul‘eard he went under‘pc‘ 
fellerl at then it’s some consolation to line.
we’ve all 0!: to die. What puzzles me is l v
I have es aped so 1 ng. I’m a reg’lar we! ,I.
misfortun. My rst misfortune‘w? Itc‘gj’.
born at all, and the Lord onlv him 5 l3th
I’ve had it up hill, ever since. That‘s not?“
enou h in me to stand hard knocks. I’d ,' '
anyt in if I had asbbomin" big anatcm . '
you: an homits! don’t I wish Ihad a fist i '
foot like you? They’d stand me many-ac
turns., they would for n solidified. fl» '
wouldn’t have to plant .the foot on ' ’
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can’t die happy till he wagon-whips me.
Reckon you never heard of him, did you, Big
Beard?”
“ I think not,” replied Long Beard.
“Well, be war a caution to all that’s mean
, md stingy—why, stingy is no name for it. He
was so awful, owdacious hoggish that he’d divo
,l‘othe bottom of St. Clair to take a chaw to-
' baccor, for fear some one’d ask him for u chow.
He‘s been known to try to jug up sunshine to
use at night to save candles, and u lot other
sich menu things. lint the meanest he ever
done was at Deer Creek school-house, ()ll(' Sun-
A day. There was meeting there, and old Phin
Blumo went down. Al'tnr t'ic preacher had got
through, Deacon I’odgo \i'entzuon'rl union» in-
, con ,regation, takin’ subscription [or the l . nelit
f oft eminister. Everybody give a lift , sun:-
thin’ if it wasn‘t morc’n u chaw tobm-cor, but
‘ old Blame. He didn’t give a mite; however,
" the deacon said nothin’ and handed over his
fihefin’s to the preacher, who sorted out the
‘ erent things and put ’em in his pockets, took
afresh quid of tobaccor, and then said. ‘ The
Lord loves a cheerful giver, but despises the
stingy miser.’ \tht should old Blumo do jist
l . as soon as he got out but swear that the preach—
! er meant him when he spoke 7bout the miser?
U “He went off home a—rantin and irravin’,
and cussin’ and swearin’. He declared he’d
, break up the next meetin’ they had there or
overturn the brlmstone diggin’s: but nobody
believed him. and so the thing dropped there.
. But the very next meeting at Deer Creek,
, " Phineas Blame actually combed his hair, washed
his face, and changed his moccasins, and come
‘ to meetin’, and took a seat in a back corner 1)
hisself. I see'd somethin’ mean lurkin’ in his
eyes, and knowed he meant business. I sce’d
he had somethin’ kivered under his wamus-
tail, and s‘pOsed it war his old moccasins he
9. war goin’ to donate to the )reacher when the
,.". hat was passed around. ell, the preacher
mug his song, prayed his prayer, and give out
., his text, which I’ll never forgit. lt war:
 lAbove all, taking the shield of faith, where—
, with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery
darts of the wicked.’ .
“I see’d ole Blumo smile when he read this
oil, and give his wamus-tnil a hitch. But the
V Escher went into it, and just raked it down.
hornitsl how he pitched into the wicked;
and I guess old Blume war the only mean sin-
n nerin the house. It made him squirm, I tell
it, ‘ Ru, fast as thou h a fiery dart was rankling in
I‘, o (1 heart. ut all the time I kept one eye
] . on his face, and I could see forty devils Were
T .2, lurkin’ in that satanic smile, which he tried to
v )nake folks believe war piety. Wal, things run
‘  dong smoothly for awhile, and the minister
 ,1 " war mntin’ ’bout the fiery darts of the wicked,
-’. when, all of a sudden, he clapped his hands to
,  , hirnose, and uttered a word that came mighty
 nigh bein’ a. cuss word. B’isness was suspended
'i ' tor awhile, and everybody became clamoreus to
' know what the matter war—every body but ole
Blame. He jist reclined there in the corner,
unflin’ away as calm and placid as an antral.
,But things soon got setlled when the prone er
.16 it Wa’n’t nothin’ but a stray yaller jacket
flint had come in through the open winder and
r. _.st1mg him on the nose. So he went into it
‘ f Ignln on the ‘darls of the wicked’ with re-
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n, and sister Trott’s ills inquired after.
, 6 said sumthin’ had prodded her on the
"head with a. sharp instrument, and while she
f was fuming about it, brother Sharp let slip,
’ uthoughtedly, the plumpest little oath you
nostever heard a good man use, and it. come
out kind 0’ natural, too. He said sumthin’ had
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t a thrust in the ear that bounced him

- i 0 his seat. Then it wa’n’t but a little
\  ‘while till Mirandy Brookover got a drive on the
it  left cheek that made the old maid’s tongue flut-

'; ter like an ague chill. Next follered aunt Jane
‘7 Ann Stump, an awful old termagant, who got
an owdacious po above the eye that knocked
her a-flukin’, bees over head ofl the bench.
lénd yet no one knew from where all this
viltry came from; but when ole Blame smil—
hga‘suggested that it might be the ‘fiery darts
,0! e wicked,’ I suspected something, and kept
9 es on that ole galvanized sinner—I did for
,a . And now what do you suppose I dis-
fiver-ed, Long Beard ’9”
. , “ Couldn’t imagine, Harry,” replied the giant,
his bearded face aglow with a smile.
 “I’ll tell you: I diskivered that that ornery
l » ole sneak had a. homit’s nest under hiswamus!
 1896 now why he’d sot down in a dark corner;
it was 50‘s that the insects would poll out for
light assoon as they got out, and wouldn’t
. im. It beat me, it did, for a fact: and
 I could tell on him, things got quiet. and
he, preacher went on with his darts of the
; .‘Ic ed.’ But I kept a 31 watch on ole Blu e,
laden at once I, see’d 'm raise his wam s,
Wont popped three big hornits, and, away
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seein’ ole Squire Fipps sinkin’ into a gentle
doze, descended on gauzv wing and slipped its
javelin into his under lip. Lord! it made the
old fcllcr fairly ‘sizz.’ lint things got quiet
once more, and the preacher begun to bring
things to a close. When they all riz to '
the dockology, you’d ort to sce’d ’ern loll. ,
had been stung. I had to snicker right out,
and that old hulk of a Blume kept his head
down, and his eyes closed. while be sung: away
as though he war the most innocent lamb in l‘ln~
flock. ’l‘hc prcucher’s nose was all swelled up,
till it glistv-nerl like the top of his bald howl.
He had to tip-toe to see over It.- pl'oln scis. Uro-
ther Sharps upper lip had n'\\'LllL;il '
'jvctcd like a water-shed, \'. hilr: Tl.“ i'ndwr lip or
Squire Fipps poutcd out like the lips of a mo-
thcrloss colt. erundy Broolcover’s cheek
pnlt‘vd out like a stulfed toad, and shoved the
corner of her mouth away do.in to her chin.
Jane Ann Stuinp’s eye had swelled shet, but the
other ’n’ done business for both, but it looked
lonely over at the men’s Side. Jerry Finch’s
ear was so big that it made him lopsided, it did,
for a fact. Altogether, govc’nor, it was the
sorriest and most lafl'able sight ever see’d. And
you’d ort to ’a’ hearn them martyrs singl Great
hornitsl they roared as if for all that was out.
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war, for a sober fact: but there comes that
dogged pole back. It’s huntin’ for more red-
skins, it  sure as you’re born.‘7

“As the bout gets square with the wind
that pole takes its former position,”explained
Long Beard. “ You see, this boat, is a contri-
Vance of my own. By means of these ropes
and pulleys that you can see here. I am en-
abled to steer the craft, hoist or lower sail,
or by a sudden pull on this rope, change the
course of the boat almost instantly: and, as it
swings around, the beam sweeps around, and

‘ all that stands in its way is raked off, as you
1 have seen.”

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tion unis! A rock-r ll};[did—machine. it don’t

3 like dogs, does it, ginerulé"

“ lt is. no rcsperter of persons. It would
serw friend and fee alike, it acted upon. I
have used it several times in Sweeping the
deck rl‘ savages, and never made a bad job of
it ct."

“ Wal, it’s a mighty convenient thing, Big

, Beard, it is, for a downright fact. But, dog»
ged if it didn’t knock me and Bulsliazzar out
, or a fight; but then, it’s all right. We’re not.

overly anxious .for a battle—we have had
enough to-night. But strikes me your gig is

‘ trotting along purty lively, gineral. ’

ward scale that she like to never got her breath ;

again. lint, Big Beard, right in the middle of
that dockology, what did that p’izcn ole Binnie
do but jerk out that whole hornitrnest and
throw it over in the middle of the house! Yes,
it’s a burnin’ fact, he did do that very thing,
and you may bet nobody waited for the ‘amen,’
but husselod out of that house like sixty. I got
one awful sting. The gosh-oned thing.r launched
its harpoon right slap into my face, and, oh, but I
swore vengeance on that demon, Blume! 1 war
detnrmined to be even with him, and, Big
Beard, you may bet Idid; and now I’ll tell you
how I done it—noW, now, Belshazzar! Dream.
in’ of Ingins’l” '

The dog started up, with a low growl, and
turned toward the door of the cabin.

Harry arose, opened the door and gazed out.
A cry burst from his lips.

“ Great hoppin’ hormts, Big Beard! The Old
Scratch is to pay l—a (Iowan piratieal demons
have boarded our schooner !”

CHAPTER VI.
LONG BEARD'S SWEEPSTAKE.

THE reply that Long Beard made to Happy
Harr ’s startling announcement was calm and
indi erent. He rose to his feet, and with the
soft tread of a lion, advanced to the door of the
cabin, and gazed out. True enough, he (lis-
covered a dozen forms, most of which he saw
were savages, ' standing aft. Alongside the
schooner lay their canoes. ‘

“The shadowy imps! they must think I’m
aslee . They have come to their death, or—”

“ rto ours, one’rt’other,” interrupted Harry.
“ It jist seems as though the varmints war do-
termmed on exterminatln’ me.”

“ You must be a thorn in their sides, Harry,”
the giant quietly remarked.

“ A thorn? greht hoppin’ hornitsl if I ever git
through this night, I’m goin’ to turn to a con-
tagion and spread through the Ingin country
and smite the red vagrants hip and thigh. l
will for a bloody fact.”

“ on need have no fear of getting into
trouble on this craft, Harry. Those savages
meant to trap us, but they’ll be trapped. There,
one of them is comin this way to reconnoiter,
no doubt. As soon asie finds the door is closed
they’ll makean attack. But the moment they
start this way, I propose to sweep the deck.
Now, you keep an 'eye on that one crawling
this way.”

Harry was not a little surprised at the giant’s
calm self-assurance, and wondered wherein he
possessed the power to sweeg the deck, as he
declared he would. ‘The yout kept his eyes on
the advancing savage through an opening in
the door. The wily red-man crept softly to-
ward the cabin and aused at the head of the
steps, and gazed at t 9 door a moment, then
turned and crept softly back to his comrades.

They held a momentary consultation, then all
together started toward the cabin. _

‘ Now look out, Harry !” cried the giant. ,

The boat was gliding along steadily her sails
drawn taut and full: but scarcely had the giant’s
words of caution fallen from his lips, are the
boat seemed to reel like a drunken man—turn
almost at a right angle, and so suddenly, it
came nigh upsetting. Simultaneous With this
change of course, the long beam hitherto men-
tioned swept sudden and violently around,
like a mighty arm, a d knocked every savage,
heels over head, into the lake.

“ Gemently hornitsl” exclaimed Happy
Harry, completely astonished. “Big Beard,-
every savage isgone a-flukin’ overboard. Gra-
cious! what’s it mean?”

A low laugh escaped the giant’s lips.

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“ Yes, we are movm along at a sharp
now, and are gomg rig t down the coast.

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andwstronger the arm out there sweeps the
air.

“And so the stronger a queer pain strikes
the Indians about the bul e of the bread-basket,
causing them to bow gm ‘1;er and retire quick.
ly, to be embraced in t. Clulr’s placid deep."

" Exactly,” replied the great, white-bearded
man, with a grim smile, as he led the way out
upon the deck.

They glanced far back over the misty waters,
but no sign of the struggling enemy conld be
seen; but their boats, attached to the schooner,
were dragging in its frothy wake behind.

“ That crew ’11 never trouble us again,” said
the Iriant. '

“ o, no, gineral, they’re gone. What a
ghostly, ghastly world this is. But then,
everybody has his notions, everybody his
ways.”-

“Let’s see,” said Long Beard, reflectively;
“you were Just going to tell me about how

ou repaid ole Blume for his hornets when the

ndiaus boarded us. Now, as we are moving
along with a good wind and fair prospect, you
might kill time by narrating the story.”

"It’s a short story this time, govenir; but
I’ll tell it anyhow. It war jist this way:
Blume got to be rich as Croesus. He fell heir to
five hundred dollars back in New Ham
shire, and then you’d ort to seen that 00.

plcb’ian come down with his style. He actually ,\

got a full suit of store clothes, washed and.
shaved, and went to slashin’ on airs that ’d’a’
beat anything in Boston town, And the fuel;
thing we knowed he got to crossin’ the river
to spark ole ’Squire Fipps’s daughter, Susan, 8.
sweet-scented gal of thirty—five, who jist
puckered up her mouth to all the other gals,
and wouldn’t ’sociate with anybody but rich
Phineas Blume. Oh, yes, Blume war every-
thing to her; but people knowed old Tood
Fipps, they did, for a scandalous fact. It war
Mister Blume and Oapting Blume with her;
and the reason they called him captain was
because he commanded a mud-scow once on
which thar wasn’t but one other ni ger besides
hisself. But, oh me! how old Too did gush;
and everybody knowed it wasn’t his personal
beauty she war after, but his fortune—his five
hundred dollars. It’s awiul queer, Long
Beard, what difference clothes made at the
store and a little money will make with fe-
male woman; but then, if that’s love, no gal
will ever'set her claws on in head; she won’t,
for a sacred fact. But, as war sayiu’, ole
Squire Fipps had ort to ’a’ shot Blame when he
went there, for he war one o’ the congregation
that g t so thunderin’ly hornited that Sunda
at m tin’. But the feller’s style and c
done it to the old man, and all they’d say war:
“Cap Blume war a jolly dog—~always playin’
his pranks with somebody,’ and he said that
that hornit affair was the most capital joke or
the season, illustratin’ the text about the ‘ darts
of the wicked’ so forcible. But that's all the
sense some people has got. , One Sunday, how-
ever, I knowed Blunie were going to see his
maple-sugar, and I concluded now was In
time to be even with him for that hornit job
got. I knowed he hadto cross the river in the
canoe used at the ferry, so down 1 goes to whar
the craft war tied up, and right under the seat,
where he couldn’t see, I cut a big, round hole,
and. plug ed it up with a plug driven in from
the outsige. To this plug I tied a great. long,
stout string, t’other end of which tied to a.
bush that hung in the water, so the string was
I hid in the bushes to
wait, and d’rectly here came old Blame. whist-

"‘Cleared the deck? Why, that’s .no name i lin’, ‘I won’}; gp home till mornin’, till mornin’,’

for it.
mule’s heel, and

pop them over into the
slipket‘n digitizing???

reqt hornitsl it er.

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That le 'ust swun around like a ‘ guy as a lark and with a kind ol.’ 3 u bten »
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where his sweet-cider, old Tood Fipps, stood
waitin’ for him, a—wuvni’ of a big yallcr licnker-
chief and shoutin’ ditties to him, like an Ottawa
[n in.

EHa! hal hal Long Beard, it didn‘t iakclong
to run out the full lcngth of that string, when
out popped the plug and in i‘uslit'd thc water
like, all sixty. Up Jillllllf‘d Captain l’hin lilunie
with a yoo , and then you'd ort to ’a’ scold him
tip—toe it, ip and iiirt.

“‘Hornits! hornits!7 ycllcd I, runnin’ down
to the river bank, really to split with laifability.
‘Damnationl’ was all I. could hear from the
captain’s lips, the wiclml olc sinner; but the
next instant he raised his wings, and out he.
sailed into the Wntci', and nowlwgan the fun.
The sp’ilin’ of his clothes wa‘n’t newbor—it
wa’n’t‘, for a fact. He couldn‘t swim a lick, and
of all the iloundcrin‘ and flninniixin’ about I
ever see’d, he done it. \Vliy, he kicle water
forty feet high, and the river war all afoani.
But he couldn’t keep that up long; be war
growin’ feebler and ionblcr all the time, and I
seo’d be war goin’ under, and so I sent Bel-
shazzar, here, out after him. The ole pup pad-
dled up to him, and takin’ him by the collar,
yanked him across the river and laid him gently
at the feet of his sweet pumpkin pie. (ii-cat
ho )pin‘ hornits, but if he wasn’t in a )light!
It’( ’a’ made a dog lafi’ to ’a' seen him—dogged
if Belshazzar didn’t laugh his way when he
swam over to me. I never see’d adog tickled
like be war. He’d jist wag his head sometimes,
thinkin’ it war his tail, be war so full of dog-luff
and besides himself.
to- resume his buckskin and homespun for
awhile. It ruinated his store clothes, and then

the best of it was that naughty ole duck of ‘

hissen went square hack on him—sacked him on

the spot, and called him ole Blume, and ’cuscd i
and .

him of bein’ drunk. Broken-hearted
ruinated, he become despcrit. Ho swore venge-
ance against me, took up his old blundci‘buss,
and struck boldly out in search of mc. The
last I hearn of him he war tryin’ to climb the
North Pole to look ovcr the country for a small
l)on and a bi:r dog.”
ong Beard could not repress an outburst of
free. hearty laughter. The look of the boy‘s
face, the mischievous sparkle of his big, blue
eyes, his whimsical expressions, and the comic
gestures that accompanied them, were sullicicnt
to have provoked any one to laughter.
At length, however, the attention of the

giant borderman was attractcil by a moving i h

light off toward the west. - Ho ki
along the shore.
tention to it, and after defining heir geographi-
cal location, asked:

“Have you ever seen anything suspicious
alon this )art of the coast, Harr ?

“ aven t, Big Beard; in fact, I haven’t been
this fur south along the lake for over a year;
I haven’t, for a historical fact. But I’ve been
easin’ myself down. this way for several days.
But, Big Beard, if that is anythin you’d like
to look into, Belshazzsir and me can ggcr it out
to a demonstration; we can, for a. gospel fact.
But there the light’s gone.”

" Yes, I see it is; nevertheless, I believe I will
at ashore and reconnoiter a little alon there.
’ll touch the coast a mile below where t 9 light

disa ppeared. "

Descending to the cabin, the giant at once
changed the course of the boat toward the
shore and in less than an hour they had of-
fected asafe landing. They
faces northward, and, preceded by Belshazzar.
followed along the coast for some distance.
Further progress was finally disputed b a long,
narrow bay cutting out abruptlv into the woods.
This bay was skirted by a w l of rock rising

low it was

He called Ha py Harry’s at- i

now turned their.

But, you bet, Blumo had ‘

. through a black, dismal cloud.

there was a cavern leading back into that hill:
and if so, rest assured it is used for no good
purpose. It’ I find nothing, or no one, I will
charter the canoe and cut straight across to
you. But, while I am gone, Harry, [ want you
to stand right here and kecp a close \i'iii,i'li~«sec
if any one boards that canOc while I am going
around. If such a thing should happen, don‘t
fire, cvcii if the occupant is a, savage, but watch
him closcly and make out all you can coiicci'n-
iiig him."

“If it's an Ingin, govenir, I’d like to make
him out apass for the brimstone diggiu's, I
would. fora vcritablc fact.”

“ Do not raise an alarm, Harry, unless it is
absolutely necessary. And I will tcll you
why I am so anxious to find out the meaning of
that light: you, of course have heard that a
band 01' lukc pirates h:ch icon operating along
the coast in both the United Staics and Can-
; ada. Thcir liciiil-_qiini'toi's have defied thc vigi-
lance of the shrewdcst dotcctivcs, and now :1
‘licayy reward is oil'ci'cd by the country for

infm'mation that will bad to the caphn'c of the
, l'recl)::ol«-rs. I have no (lcsll‘c to obtain that
l reward, but I am anxious to have tlic band
1 broken u i; and I’ll tell you why: for the past

week, ol'i‘l and on, a strange, pirationl—liinking

l little sailboat has becn dogging me about over
the lake in a rather suspicious manner. It has
also been seen ofl’ the Islands, and I htch fears
for the safety of my friends there. Should
they find out what trcasures I havothcrc my
home would be desolatcd. Now you know,
Harry, why Iain so interested in this move-
ment.”

“Yrs, ycs gineral,” replied the youth, “and
when one 'nows what he wants he can go
ahead with half the trouble, he can for a square
fact. Go ahcnd, Big Board, and I’ll kccpa close
Waich on that boat from licrc.”

The giant turned and moved away with
noiselcss footstcps, while Happy Harry sat
down undcr thc wide, branching bougbs of an
oak to await and watch. Bclsliazzar took his
usual position at the feet of his young master.
Alone, and wiili the strictest silence imposed
upon him, Harry Very naturally fell into ‘a
train of rcllcctions. from which he started at
length, cxclaiming half indignantly to himself:

“ Blast it, it’s a nuisance to huvc to be a boy,
for thur nevcrwur a boy but what war undcr<
rated. Ever body thinks he can do anything
better than Yuan, and it’s jist because I’m a
oy. Now, why didn‘t helot inc and Bell go
round thar? But then Long icard is u capi-
tel l'ellcr. And, gracious hornits, how soberl
Asmile on his face is like a burst of sunshine
But I‘m afraid
he’ll it hissclf into trouble jist bccause he
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almost perpendicular from the water’s edge, i

and ranging from five to a ‘hundred feet in
hight. Its facade was covered with small
bushes that grew out of holes and fissures, and
a festoonery of vines that trailed their graceful
leiwth in the water.

The moon was now in the zenith. The (lull,
hazy mist that hung over lake and woodland at
the beginning of night had disappeared. The
two scouts were can )led to see all the northern
side of the bay quite distinctly, and while they
stood regarding the rocky shore now rendered
grandly picturesque in the mellow moonlight,
they made a discovery that caused them no lit.

tle curiosity. Midway between the lake and ‘

the other extremit of the be was a narrow
rift or passage in t e rocky wa l sloping down
to the water’s edge, and a ittle to the right of
this passage was moored a canoe, half of whose
length was concealed under the overhanging
vines.

Long Beard turned to Harr and said:

u  This is about the point w ere we saw that
g1 . l '

“Yes. I believe it is, govenlr,” replied the
youth, “and I should not wonder if the man or
Eptthat owns that canoe knows all about the

"Ipropose to know something more about
the matter, Harry. I am gain topnss around
to the other side and approac that canoe b
on can see near it; then
a lots the immediate vicinit for some

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Thus he passed some ten or fifteen minutes
When he plainly saw Long Beard emerge from
the narrow defile and pause at the water’s
edge.

For full 3. minute the giant stood and scru-
tinized the surrounding rocks and bay. Io
listened intently. He saw and he heard noth-
ing, and feeling satisfied that no enemy was
near, he stepped into the canoe that lay at his
feet, and, seating himself, took up the paddle.
But scarcely had he done so when Harry, who
was watching on the o posite side of the hav,
saw a light under the ank flash through the
vines that artially concealed the prow of the
boat, and tie next instant the canoe, with Long
Board in it was drawn suddenly under the
bank, and disappeared entirely from view.

“Oh, great hornits! he’s caught, he is. b
heavens!” cried anp Harry, starting to his
foot as the stunning 'c ash of a pistol, mingled
with a cry of agony and the sound of a deadly
struggle, rolch out in clearly-heard intonations
from the depths of the great cavern!

CHAPTER VII.
IN THE FREEDOOTERS' DEN.

IN making the circuit of the bay, Long Beard
had seen no signs of the presence ol’encmics,
nor was be aware of the presence of danger
until he had seated himself in the canoe. 'lhe
flush of a light, and the suddennc’ss with which
the boat was drawn through the screen of Vines
and foliage, were the very first intimations he
had of the trap he was in. He was thrown
almost from the seat by the violent start 01‘ the
craft, but recovering himself he endeavored to
escape: but his enemies, seeing the intention,
gavo the canoe a sudden firk that again threw
him off his balance.

The boat was dragged and pushed through
shallow backwater along a narrow cavern until
it rcached dry ground.

Here again Long Beard essaych to eflect his
escape. He had drawn one of his pistols, which
ho fired at a cloaked figure rushing upon him
with a lantern in 0110 hand and an upraised
club in the other. The fee whirled half round
and staggering, fell with a groan: but the next
moment a dozrn men surrounued the bearded
giant and demanded  surrender.

One voice directed the movements of the men
and sent a shudder to the heart of the border-
man, yet it steeled his nerves, and he fought
with the desperation of a madman. ,llisl'ace
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within him; his iceth bccuiiio set, his eyes glared
with a (lcadl y fire; the cords stood out u on his
brow and nook, and his breast rose at) fellas .
though by the palpitations of an internal vol- .
('lllli).

The foo closed in around him. He clinched
his huge list and boat them down. They ral-
licd and i‘cncwed tho attack, rendered furious
by his terrible blows. The sound of the
slti‘ugglo brought others to the scene of con-
! let.

A doznn wcro now u won him, but he fought
them all. His strength seemed superhuman.
Iii-1 majcstic form t’owcrcd yranvllynbrvo hll'_
nilvcrsnrics. In the dim wnvcrii‘ig‘ light 0 ,'
two lanterns, his vonrrnblc beard i'eiidcred'h'
an OlJ‘IK'Cl} that should have appealed to the ‘
wickei cst heart. , .

To and fro across the cavern the combatantn‘
surged. Tho giant kcpt a space. clear around
him for awhilc, but his cnenncs. "rowing more
desperate llll(l('l' his smurting blows, crowded f
closcr upon him; they finally made a cliarge— "
rrnp )ling him around the waist, by the arms ,
)y t e legs, until he was completely loaded
down and unable to move. Then a cowardly
wri-tch seized him by his white board and jerked .
him to the around. This ended the strugm
Before he could regain his feet the u ‘
strength of a dozen nicn was concentrated u 1
him and madc him a prisoner. He'wna t en ’
securely bound, and conductcd through the
narrow windings ol’ the cavern into a commo- L
dious apartment. Ilci'c he was seated u on B 5
stone chair that had been hcwn out of 0. ug- 
mitc. ‘

The prisoner now had an o portunity to look ;;
arouni bin The room was lighted with three w
or four lantcrns suspended from the ja ged,
ceiling. The place bore stron evidence of lav-1i
ing been occupied by man or a number 015i
years. This satisfied the captive that Le was in r!
the den of the lake pirates. aft

Not less than forty or fifty men were passing?"
to and fro across the cavern before and ai'nun ';,i
the prisoner. All of them were heavily armed; ‘;
and the iiost singular thing of all was, their.
weapons Jcro of English patterns and of recent;
manufacture. "

The giant studied considerably over this mate
tcr. It gave rise to a sudden thou rht—i! thud. '
men into whose power he had fizl en weir?“

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lako pirates, they had been armed and ui '5
by, and were in the employ of the Briti ,
ernnicnt. Taking into consideration the rumoqu
of war with En;:ln11d,lie thought it poesiblb’.
and altogether )robnble that he was right uni? “
that the party ind been placed there to aecom '
plish some particular work of destruction“.
moment the order was given. ‘  3
There was a military hearing about all t“ _‘
men and but for the absence of uniforms, «j'.
would have sworn it was a party of my ;»
troops. Some of them were breeches of bucks
skin, made after the style of the border; othofig
we're them made of woolen and cotton mute-Z?
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The leader of the band—he whose voice
sent a shudder. to Long Beard's soul—w“,;d'~
man of nearly {if t years. He had a. fine maxi
tial figure and tea llres regular in contour, i r v 5*
not handsome. A heavy grizzled heard u‘ 
cred a face marked Wit a life of disalpafl it.
His eyes were of a dark-grog color, sharp : : - V,
keen, but cold and cruel. ternness of c i 3,
actor was written upon evory feature of » r;
man’s face. He was dressed in a citizen’s suit,
but wore a sword at his side. His movement!
were as easy, his step as elastic as those of
youth of twenty. Time had made little 1
upon the hysical man. '1: .
Long card knew the man, and feared him. 3;
Of all others in the wide world, he was the 2
Benson the giant bordermau expected to m H
at, concealing his inward emotions, 110‘
pearcd not to know him. ‘.‘ ‘ - z,
“ You are doubtless surprised, big strong!‘ 
at the existence of such a place, or else ' ,
would have becn more careful in your recon-‘-
noissancc,” this enemy finally said approachin
Long Beard. But, singular as i may .= i
this man did not recognize the giant, 8 2'-
;yas aso ail’ecting ignorance of the rec I 3-
ion. ' ‘i ~~ -
“No one knows when he will step into ~- in
ant-hill,” was Long Board’s response, spoken 
a tone of bitter sarcasm. if:
“Nor of the stings of the ants,”repliod ' “
commandant. "
“ You threaten me;wel], you can aflord‘
do so now that I am powerless.” , .
“ es, you are powerless as a. spy.” . _ 
“ Upon whom T ‘ '
“Know you not that our countr has n-
war on En vland?” the man asked, w the
glance at t e prisoner. . .
“You mean to say youu country has -- n
war ii on mine,” was Long Board’s answer. ,
“ o are not British subjects.” \ '
“Nor American.” -
“ No: we are Neutrals.” ., f
“ Ready to pick up the spoils of war.” ._
“ As you 1110850.”
“ 1 am no partisan.
“W y, ii in, were:
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“ Which has got you into trouble.”

“Why has it if you are Neutrals, and not
outlaws?”

“ We have a right to the benefit of our doubts,
and will be compelled to hold you in custody
until we have some assurance of your purpose
. ‘ in coming here.”

> ' “Till you find out my home, inhuman
wretch,” thought Long Board, as a look of bit-

r anguish swept OVPl' his face. He made
ho reply to the man’s words, but became silent.

The commandant turned and walked away
to where a man was seated upon a couch of
(by leaves, his head swathed in a bandage, his
lace bruised and swollen.
~' “It is he, Bill, by heavens!” ,the command

out said in an undertone.

" ‘ “I thought it war,” mumbled the man of the

. A bandage and swollen face.

. ! Lon Beard overheard the remark, and

‘ v  thong he sickened with terror, the power of a

t," lion gathered Within him. His breast swelled

 and is eyes glowed.

, - Evil designs were evident in in the very tones

v W and movements of the man, Kirby Kale, as he

was addressed by his companions, and the

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Outward]y, however, Long Beard yielded
Iubmissively to his fate. He regarded Captain
' it Kirby Kale with the greatest indifference.

 Few living persons had the least idea of the
‘ . relationship, of the deadly hatred, of the dark
"‘ ' mete existing between these two men. Years
' 3. ofse ration had failed to eradicate one tithe
_ of this awful bitterness—so terrible that each
,1. " one was afraid to declare his recognition of the
4'" other, although one was captor and the other
captive. Bitter and strange indeed must have
been the antagonism between these two men.

In the course of an hour Captain Kirb Kale
came around. and in a tone of feigne indif-
ference, said: i

“Gray. Beard, I have talked with my men
and all suggest that you be kept a captive until
- we m'assured of your real character and of

' ouvliwe of residence.”
“ hat is that to you, if you are Neutrals, as
{4 you claim i" asked Long Beard.
1 “We are partial to our own safety.”

‘tlThen you fear a single man?”
.~ "- “ Only his tongue."
“ You have reason for fear, then. Your con
ence must be guilty.”
“1 ‘* "‘ One word might bring a regiment of
N‘Aln‘ericans down upon us.”
“ Then you favor the English?”
Ca tain Kale betrayed a slight emotion. Hc
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leverer .
“And‘ I, too,” replied Long Beard, indiffer—

- , ‘lt’WVe’ll see,” and the captain turned and
.Walked'away. He was soon at the furthcl'xex—
hemityiof t e cavern, in a whispered conversa-
0 With a few of his men.

inghis head against the wall behind him,

3869p silence now fell upon the place. Most of
"file men had sought their couches. The lanterns
.fin‘ned steadily and brightly, but their light
,, Med to reach the extremities of the cavern.
' - ;L'Where the light ended and darkness began was
‘ '3 wall of purple gloom.
The cavern was a natural one, hollowed out
. the hand of the. Creator. Stalactites, tipped
 the silver light of the lanterns, studded the
‘- dome overhead like stain, and huge stalag-
mites rose up here and there, grim and ghostly.
1M0 prisoner noted everything closely, for he
, ‘resolved to make an attempt at escape
the proper time came, and e wanted to
' ' himself with the place ahd get the
:2' course leading out.
I‘ 0 night stole on. The captain had retired,
“mono y one the others dropped off leaving
" u prisoner and his guards a one. The lights
' -  - to burn dimly. Only the hean7 respira-
‘tions of the sleepers, or an occasions question
‘ldruwled out by one of the guards broke the
fdlenoo of the cplace, when, sudden y, a deep,
'Mrtling soun came crashing through the
Vern mm the main entrance. It started the
‘ - > and aroused the sleepers]
was the dee bay of a. dog, and the old
man’s min at once reverted to Happy
and his faithful companion, Belshazzar.
fies , g of hope took possession of his, breast,
as he saw the men hurr ing from their
ohee all vanished again. hat meant the
I . ,1 ' Was Happy Harry coming to his as-
,mnce? Had the youth seen him drawn into
I trap of the enemy?
The boy of the animal again echoed through
‘ hollow chambers of the great vault.
fThis‘way,’ this way, some of you!” called
thereon who stood guard near the entrance

 
    
  
   
   
 
    
  
  
   
       
     
  
   
     
     
   
    
       
 
 
   

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The man held his lantern high above his i his foot and moved on, muttering profanelyts

head. The light streamed out upon the water.
He saw that the water was agitated—little
waves were chafing the walls of. the cavern.
Something dark was in the water—something
possessed of life—struggling slowly and labori—
ousl y toward them.

“ Well, what is it, anyhow?"

All stood speechless with wonderment. No i

one could answer, for no one knew. All saw
a. black mass struggling in the channel, but
the faint gleam of the lantcrii’s light was not
strong enough to r'i-Vi-ul its outlines.

“ It’s a hear!” one of the men finally ventured
to assert.

The whole party rec-oiled with an involuir
tary start.

The object came nearer and assumed a more
tangible form.

“By heavens, it’s a big dog!” exclaimed the
man with the lantern.

“ It is, for a fact,” affirmed the others.

“lint what’s he got in his mouth? “'hnl’s
that he’s (li'nggin’ this way through the “uteri”

“Merciful Moses! it’s a porsonl—a human——
dead !-—drowncd I”

The men sow aright. The black object was
a dog—it was Belshazzar. And he was drug—
ging a human body through the shallow water
toward them! It was the body of his young
mmter, Happy Harryl

With bated brea'h, and wonder written upon
evcr fen ture, the Neutrals watched the animal.
Hci 'aggcd the body along, making desphrate
efforts to keep it out of the water. He soon
came within reach of where the men stood, then
one of them stooped down and pulled the body
ashore.

“ Hold the lantern here, Victor.”

,Victor hold the lantern close to the face of
the dead.

“I declare, it’s a boy, and he’s dead as a
door-nail.”

Harry’s eyes were closed, his teeth set, his
hair wet and draggled. A death-like pallor
was upon his young, boyish face. in one hand
was clasped, in ayvisedike grip, a broken bough.
One of the men attempted to remove it, but
failed.

“It’s fast,” he said, “in the icy grip of
death. And that’s what’s killed the little feller.
He’s been climbing along the rocks, and that
bough has broke and let him fall.”

Beishazzar came out of the water, shook the
Wet from his shaggy form, then advanCed~to
the side of his young master and gazed down
into his face with an almost human intelli-
gence. Then be seated himself upon his
haunchcs, and looking back into the block,
dismal cavern, howled at the black, sullen
waves. o

CHAPTER VIII.
HARRY 0N nIs WITS.

“ E must have been a friend of that big
White Board,” said one of the men, as they
ithood mutcly around the motionless form of the

.oy.
And this was the conclusion that they all
came to.

“ is be dead?” asked Captain Kale. coming up
at this juncture.

“ Deinlcr‘n the Prophets.”

Kale stooped and felt his pulse.

“He is not dead,” he exclaimed: “ he has a
strong pulse. Carry him up to the room and
we’ll pump the water out of him and give him
a strong stimulant.” '

Two men stooped to lift the youth in their
arms, when the dog disputed their right to the
body; but, after some coaxing, they 3110000006.
in convincing the animal of their friendly in-
tentions, and Were permitted to move the body,
though the faithful inastiif followed close behind
the two men.

They placed the youth on a. couch, not far
from where Long Beard sat in bonds.

“Do you know him?” Captain Kale asked,
pointing to the youth.

 

Long Beard shook his head involuntarilya

His fgreat heart grew sick when he recognized
the ace of the motionless form. The broken
branch .still clutched in his hand told him that

the boy had doubtless met his fate in trying to ‘te

assist him.

Belshazzar crept ‘3) and crouched down by
his master‘s side, an watched the administra-
tionslof the men with an eager, anxious look.

The captain ordered some brandy, which
being furnished was poured quite freely down
the outh. Then three or four men set to work
cha ng his limbs to assist in starting the cir-
culation. Thus for some minutes they worked
faithfully to bring back the failing spark, but
with no a parent success. >
“I’m a raid he’s too far gone to be sav ,”
said the captain, hopelessly.

Lon Beard heard the words.
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Long Beard kept his eyes upon the boy’s face.
i Some invisible power bade him watCh; and, m
i his joyful delight, as well as surprise, he saw
1 Happy Harry open his eyes and flash awry
‘ face at the retreating form of the man of the
l bandage. Then he glanced toward him, winked
[significantly closed his cycs, and to all up-
, pcarancvs was dead again.

x In an instant all flash-<1 through the mind of
 tho captive—Happy Harry was feigning uncon-
{Foimlmu‘ssl lly the help of his trained and
,‘ powerful dog. the daring boy had deceived the
, enemy and gained admittance to their strong—
,hold. lie played his part well. lie was a.
skillful actor. will) courage and rl-vklcssm'ss
l. enough to carry out any cunning design.
1 For Some time our hero lay perfectly motion—
1 loss upon the ground. His dog crouched by
‘ his side. Now and then :. mun walked past
1 him, regarding him only with a. passing glance.
I Again the men sought their rout-hes, and si-
, lcnce once more pervaded the cavern. Some of
the lights burned out, lea-wing a dusky r“ flight.
I Suddenly the figure of Happy l-lniry stirred.
1t rolled over—roiled toward Long Biard.
It rolled over once, then stopped. After a few
minutes” pause it rolled over again. This was
repented until the prisoner was reached, unob-
served. ln a. moment it rolled back to its
former position.

Then a groan escaped the boy’s lips.

The guards started up and glarced toward him.

Long Beard apparently was sound asleep?

“ By St. Peter! that boy must be comin‘ to,”
said one of the men.

“ The little sprig was about played out,” re-
sponded the other.

“Sui-h a tender infant shouldn’t be turned
loose so early. in this unhealthy latiti’ldo.”

“ He must be‘that Big Beard’s boy.”

A cry of surprise and an oath was the reply.

The man had looked up from his cards just in

time to see Long Beard rise from his seat
and dash away toward the entrance of the
cavern. No bonds hampered his movements.
They lay upon the cavern floor, where he had
sat.
The whole band was aroused, and in a mo-
ment all were hurrying through the cavern.
Captain Kirby Kale ,brgght up the rear.
Curses fell from his lips m .l rage darkened his
brow. V '

“Take it easy, gov’nir; it’s the best way:
it is, hya. sacred fact,” said a pleasant voice
near him.

Kale turned, and to his surprise saw Ilvppv
Harry reclining on his elbow on the z'l'ulzl'il.
A mischievous. comic smile—the natural ex~
Eros-ion of the boy’s (ountennncc—nns upon

is face. He manifested no alarm nor Clll'lOSEi.y
concerning his whereabouts, but seem-.d’ per-
fectly indifferent to his situaiion.

And so skillfully, boldly and shrewdly had
he played his art in liberating Long hem-ll,
that the captain mistrusu-d nothing- of life
truth. He turned short upon the boy. and in a
tone expressing his surprisc, exclaimed:

“thy, lad, I thought. you wuro dle 1"

“De-nil!" reiterated Hurry: "' well, s’pose I
had been; a dead l'iiggc-r couldn't i'csl in this
place for the C(meLllile-(l no}: e. What nilsthcm
tuttcriiemuilions rushin‘ down there like mad?
Where am I. gov’niri" ,

“Do you remember where you were last?”
asked Kale. ,

“Eve a faint s n'inkliu’ of an idea.” rcplicd
the youth, scrutc iing his head rvlh-i-Lively.
“I think I was scrumbliu’ilong n luge over-
lookin’ a bay of Like St. Clair, tryin’ to git to
a bank‘s nest, when my foot slipped and I
'cnreemd handsomely over into the water.
And about this tinic-—wliile l.wur I‘nllin’ and
while mussin’ around in the Water—l ll'iud to
think of so many things at onci: leut my brain
couldn’t hold ’cm, and so I didn‘t think of any-
thing. As to where I am, I can’t say whether
I’m on earth, or in the regions of darkness re-
sided over by Satan. Strikes me them fe era
rushin’ down thur are a legion of imps the Way
they beller. And—” he sniffed the air like a
hound—“strikes me I smell hrimstone.”

Kirby Kale indulged in an outburst of laugh-

r.
“ Who are you, boy?” he asked. _

“ I used to be called Hap y Harry, the Wild
Boy, whenI lived on cart , and made a b’is—
ness of huntin’ squirrels and robbm’ birds’ nests.
I fis’pose this is the hunter’s corner of perdition,
e .9 .

At this juncture a man‘ came up with the
information that long Beard had escaped.

Kale swore with mpoteut rage, and even
threatened the guards with Violence.
Happy Harry suddenly can ht a lim so of
the man with the band go on is hea . t was
the traitor,  Muc. ewee—he who had be-
trayed 0211;431anan into the bands of the
savages. I
as if to keep his identity cOncealed. ‘ -

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home among the strangers and enemies. in a
short time all the men with the exception of
Mucklewee became greatly attached to the
young mail and his huge canine friend. His
flushed, 'oyous face and sparkling eyes, and
his rolhckin spirit, broke like a iood of sun-
light into t eir dark retreat and its dismal,
monotonous life.

Captain Kale questioned Harry Closely about
the rumored war with England, Lon Beard,
and many other things, all of which i e youth
evaded in suchacareful manner that he left
the captain no wiser. and without having his
sus icions aroused.

arry and his dog were given the liberty of
the cavern. Thgagoum could have escaped,
but he was not 1' y yet. He was anxious to
know what the band was doing there. He
could not believe they were the lake pirates of
whom Long Beard had spoken, and yet he was
fully convmoed that it was a party whose
movements were made under cover of night,
as it were. And of this he satisfied himself
fully. During the dayhe sauntered about the
cavern, looking boldly into the niches and cor-
ners of the lace with a listless, boyish curi-
osxty not caculated to provoke mistrust. To
his surprise he caught the glimpse of several
suits of clothing lai avgg in one place and an-
other which he recogni as the uniforms of
British infantry. This discovery left no doubt
in his mind as to who and what the band was—
a company of His Majest ’s troops that had
stolen across the line from nada and ambush-
ed themselves in the cavern. But, what their
object could have been in so doing, and in con-
cealing their military insignia beneath the arb
of civ1|ians, was beyond our hero’s compre ien-
sion. But he mentally resolved to know, now
that he was in their midst.

The following ni ht found the young spy
still in the camp of t e enemy, and as they all
gathered in the great subterranean chamber
after supper, Kale turned to him and said:

“Harry, can’t you sing us a song to pass the
hours?"

"I never could sing, govenir for. shacks;
for all I love music. But, boys, I’ll tell you:
Belshazzar can sing better than I can. He can
sing like a lurk, he can, for a joyous fact.
Hes got a good voice for music, boys, strange
as it may seem, and I‘ll bet any man here that
he can sing u thundering good lick for a. big

7)

“I’ll take that bet.” said one of the men,

~“ and I’ll put up my rifle against the old dog.”

“It‘s a whack, bv the ho] pokcl‘sl" ex-
claimed Harry. “It’s not 0 ten 1 bet, but
when a man comes up that way and names ti 0
terms, I can’t crawfish. Yes, stranger, it’s
rifle against dog."

A dim twilight pervaded the cavern, and the
faces of the men could be but indistiuctly seen.
Some of them were sitting, others lying) about
in attitudes of ease and repose. Harry imself
sat leaning against a huge stalagmite on the
shadowy side. His dog lay curled up, a rod or
two away.

“You have all heard the bet, have you,
be S?” asked the lad’s opponent, who felt cer-

of some fun at Harry's expense.

“ Yes, es,” responded his companions.
“ I’ve n wantin' a good gun some time,"
said Ha

“And 've been wanting a good do -skin,”
answered the man, and his companions ughed
at his remark.

“ Tb‘wh'it-to-who I" suddenly rung through
the cavern. It was the startling cry of an owl.
It wasso distinct and harsh in its intonations
that the men held their breath and listened—
many looking completely frightened.

A moment is silence ensued. The men lis-
tened intently for the repetition of the sound.

Belshazzar rose upon his haunches and barked,
his deep bass voice sounding through the cham-
bers of the cavern like the boom of a musket.

Then a stran sound floated through the
place; it was t a sound of far-03 music—of
some one sin ‘n a plaintive song. ‘

The men 00 ed from one to the other in
blank astonishment.

The music gigw louder came nearer. 0c-
casionally the toners could distinguish sword
or two

“ B heavens. it’s the dog! You have lost
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Talbot,” said Kirby Kale. .

The sound seemed to issue from the very ii
of the dog, true enough. Every one won d
have sworn that it did.

The singing lasted for full two minutes, then
it ceased and the dog lair.I down.

“ I’ll take the rifle,” 5 Id 2110 

Talbot could make no lo ly. e was speech-
less. and so were his fi-ien . But soon all re-
covered. They saw through the mystery—
Harry was a ventrlloquistl .

“Ha! ha!” laughed Captain Kale; u well
done. my lad' well done i”

“ Bravo] Hravol” responded his men.

, . CHAPTER IX.

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for any other purpose. 'l‘he more he amused

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my bonds oil in n jiily, then I set the other
thrm captives free. SI far thingn'd wo ked
; the hree

became toward him. Fully satisfied that ‘ captives were so weak they coul n‘t hardl
Long Beard was safe, he reso ved to be in no . stand up, and I didn’t knew what to do wit

particular hurry about getting away, at least,
not until he had found the object of Kirby
Kale in lying in concealment them.

The youth could imitate the crv of any bird
or animal. He started his an"'tors mvre
than once with the buzzing of b~es and the
hissing of serpents. He seemed to have been
endowed with an es ecial gift from nature,
which his wildwoo associations and daily
practice had fully developed.

“You are ossesscd of a wonderful gift,
Harry," said ale. “I have seen persons be-
fore now who could imitate birds and beasts
and throw their voices away in difierent direc-
tions,’ but have seen none to be compared with

on

“That’s good praise, ea in,” replied Har-
ry: “I know I’ve a fine t ng out of it, bntI
never boast of what I can do. I find it real
handy to be able to mock things and to plant
my voice around here and there. It’s hc‘ped
me out of more'n one difliculty, it has, for a
fact. And then, I made a big thing of it
onct, and I’ll tell you how it was. You’ve
heard of Red Satan, the Swamp Thief, I
reckon? Well, at any rate, be war the most
0wdacious cut—throat that walked the foot—
stool, them days. He infested the big Black
Swamp ’bout a hundred and fifty miles below
here, and made abusiness of steahn’ liLtle chil-
dren and big girls, and hidin’ 'em in the swamp
and holdin’ em for ransom. Great, hoppin’
homits, but he was a sly one—wusscr than an
Italian brigand. All the powers on earth
Couldn’t ca ture him. The settlers finally got
some bloo bounds and tried to hunt him
down, but one day they f und them dead on
the outlaw’s trail. They tried to tra him in
every way possible. They scare ed the
Swamps through and through, from Mdumco
to Sandusky. They hunted the woods over
and over, but the couldn’t find Red Satan.
I allers believed, oys, that he had lots of
friends among his many enemies, else he
couldn’t have got away so slick every time.

“Finally, people got tired of payin’ him
ransoms, although be war always honest
enough to give up the child or gel, all ri;~‘,tt,
seen as the cash war deposited in a certain

lace. But he kept on with his deviltry till

rst this we knowed, two cl.lldrcn aid (1
young ir war misin’ from the settlement,
and notice found domandin’ ever so much ran-
som for their safe return. O.’ course, all
knowed that Red Satan war at t‘.o bottom of
it, thou h there was no name to the notice.
People, owevcr, concluded to pay the reward,
for im instead of the children, and so a big
thing war offered to the man or men that
would take the swamp-devil alive. In course
the wanted him taken alive and then they
con (1 make him tell where the children were
concealed;but if be war killed outrir'ht they
might never find them. Vial, I wasn’ a man,
but I concluded to take a. hand in the hu'i‘,
and so struck out for the big swamp. For
two weeks I waded and lunged ‘and crashed
through the awful wll erness, like a mud
alligator, and what should I do but find the
den of the old tiger, 'Red Satan. It war in a
part of the swamp wuere the settlers declared
no human bein’ could penetrate, let alone live.
But I found that the old Satan, was not alone
-—that he had a partner, and that partner war
none other than Arlow Varducq, an Indian
trader, who was well respected at the settle-
ment.

“Red Satan war big enough to eat me teto«
tally up, and when 1 bolted ri rht into his di-n
onto him, I thought I’d follere my last trail.
He jist got upaud catterpillared. H01 okers,
how he champod his bits and cavorted e and
his pard jist almost snatched me bald-headed,
th- did, fora painful fact. They bound me
an chucked me oil! into the loft, chucklin’
over the idea of another child for ransom. Bu t,
great hoppin’ hormtsl they didn’t know thur
wasn’t a soul in the north that’d pay a dollar
for the Wild Boy, as old 13.. hers said would come
to some bad ‘eend.’ But up in the loft, whar
the confined me, war the two missin’ children
an the oung woman belongin’ to the settle-
ment. n course, Belshazzar was with me but
they didn’t chuck him off for a ransom. hey

ist went sweet on him and concluded to adopt
im, and keep him at the cabin. I war glad of
this, for I war mortal afraid they'd kill him.

“Well they kept me in that place nearlya

week an almost starved the dayli hts out of
my bod . Them little children and §he big gal
fared 10 better because they wasn’t boys' but

they took on awfully. I told ’em to take it
easy as possible and mebby all’d turn out right
et. But itrun along about eight dgys belore
Satan and his conspirator, Va , left

the cabin. When I war sure they war one, I
called to Belshamr, whom the d left ockod
in the room below. The old em answered
with u bark, and.an several attempts, he sue-
oooded in. - w ’ up” into- the loft..th

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them: but do somethin‘ I must. I couldn’t get
them out of the swamp before danger waslikely
to come upon us, so w iat was I to do? At last
l concluded to hide ’em and play shenanigan on
ole Satan and his imp. So I id 'em in his bed--
a big pile of reeds and swamp rass covered with
blankets in a dark comer. on see, I removed
some of the ‘ feathers ‘ and substituted the cap-
tives’ bndips, so’s the bed wasn’t no bigger.
This done, I deliberately set down and waited
till ole Satan and his left-bower come home. \
Great hoppin’ homitsl then you’d ort to so.
that brimstone-pitian bowl and swear. 4H9
frothcd and foamed and blubbered. He asked
me what I was doin’ there, and where the other!
war. I told him that the big gal had at loan
and had freed the rest of us, and had ed with
the twoiittle children. He actually ot mad
and cussed me for not oin’ too. I thhim
scru les of honesty for id my dcsertin’ him.
t' ld rim Ikind >’ wanted to stay with him ml
ado t him as my father, for I was a poor' Ion! .
orp um. I sobbed and snuil‘led and slobbeud I
little to give my words an airof truth. in
tears ust boiled out of my eyes to show how I i
wasa ectcd. but I come do -gone near ovar-
doin' the thing and gittin’ much tobacco
dust in my e '03. But, blessed if ole Satan and
Ms tulip di n’t melt to’rd me. too-
brmr‘ht them; it did. for a tender fact. ’
“Then father Satan wanted to know, ‘you
little idiot, l‘ow long’s them other brats be.
gene?’ I told i"o gentle ole tiger that th ’I
just left, and t' ~. way they’d gone, and an!
id help him hunt them, and away we wed'
li kety-tobrindle out into the swamp. W0,
lzunted and hunted for their trail, but can»
lzcw or other we couldn’t find it. Ole Seton
just swore a blue streuk' he did. for a hard?
(not. But, all at once, we heard acry oflbeforo.
us; it was tl.e cry of a child—a sad, pitiful onyx.
“‘Thar they are ’roared the gentle-lunng
Satan, and great homitsl how he wont '
smashln’ythrough them rcedsl I tell ye, ‘
sounded as though a. hurricane was sweepls
through the swam . Ole Satan fell down 
and ni~hly bu’stm hisself; but he jumped up,
give hisscif aspitcful jerk and launched lwu '
again. I follered close be 'nd—me and Del .
Vnrdocq pulled on half a mile behind. But,
somehow or other we couldn't overtake
fugitives to save us. Finalfy ole Baton the
to istcn, and bloat if we didn‘t hear that d i
cry again off some distance to the left. With
a snort the swamp anch plunged. away ~-
tliat direction; me and Dclsharz'ar followed
ready to burst with laugh‘cr. Great hornib
how ole Sate did smack his big foot on N
earth, and sweat and swearl—whewl it '
awful to hear the old galvanized monster.
Every time he stopod to listen he oouldh '4
that child’s cry, and so be kept on and camp
more’n five miles. At length we came to  .
edge of asloo, and had to crossan ope 1
several rods before reaching the timber boy  w‘
A creek separated the swam s and wood film
On the ad of the marsh o d Purgato  -
pod and listened, and dogged if we didn .
it cry over in the timber. Away wall:ch 
father of sin. He come to the creek and" u 3”.
alea , but his foot slip d and he fell . . . 
into be water. Great ehovah,bo [I  
n’t help it—I lafied right out! Bu ole -‘~ 
stone didn’t know it war me that -- ‘
guess he thought it war the big 1 that - 5'
seen him tumble in the water. 16:9 old ‘ ~-'
scrambled out the crick, cussin’ till the n
around him trembled. He rushed into ; v ,
woods like mad and what do you s’poso - ' "
his satanic ears " ‘
“Another child-cry," replied Ca tain  '
“Nary cry. It war, ‘stand, vi aiul’ "
dozen men with leveled rifles emerged - -‘ ‘i
the thick undergrowth and surrounded n ~
Not until that moment did the deluded i~ if“
suspect me of having led him into a m _ -"
turned and looked toward me, and I ta .' ->
that look was ole saltsr. I’ll never fox-git! 
never. He drew his knife and made one -
to’rds me. but he was so furious that be ' '
reached hisself and fell—fell onto his own  f?
which let the daylight out of him. 3' "5‘
Vardocq put in an a rance and was be ~ I
Then I led the men ck to the cabin and 
the ca tives. Poor thingsl they war - 4%".
gene w n we rescued them. But you see, - i 'f
my 1gift done the world some good «bu-flu
for was the child that done the cryin' u 
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‘ ,t at was to an adventure ‘3'
boy :said Eirby Keg; f ‘ 
.‘ was, oraginuno so on ln'v'fi
beeninlotswomsorspesthzb um.“ '.‘
Thus, for some time. He y I j:
the band, with thrilling at» on of m' i
ventures, but finally, growing fired, he‘ ni‘
imself in a blanket and went to sleep, u~ ’

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“Have everything in readiness, he s, and
ifthe messenger from General Brock oes not
. arrive b midnight, we will embark for the
Seven Is ands.”
Happy Harry heard the order, for all he was
up rently asleep.
nd long before midnight came, the Wild B0
was missing. Search was at once made throng

the cavern, but neither boy nor dog could be
found; both had made their escape!

CHAPTER X.
“ HARRY AT ms OLD TRICKS.
‘ HAPPY HARRY had made his escape from the
. cavern a few minutes after the last man had re-
-‘ tired to his couch. He saw that he had eil’ect—
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. sufllcient information to establish the true char-
", actor of the men, he concluded now was the
3: ' time to escape This be effected by swimming
,\ out of the mouth of the cavern and across to
:‘fithe opposite side of the bay. Here he secured
' his weapons, which he had concealed before
*J‘Venturing into the cavern, and beat a hasty re—
wfh'eat northward along the bay. He pushed
“rapidly on until assured that the distance be-
. ..,.tWEen him and the cavern placed him beyond
'>‘- danger, when he came to a halt.
 Being somewhat tired and worn, he sought a
L, good pace for rest, and lying down soon fell
‘1 asleep. He sle t soundly till morning. He did
lk~j,not.wake till t e sun was up. Then he arose to
,‘HQ sitting posture and rubbed his eyes. A bird
imaging in he tree«t0p above. He imitated its
ll gong. It chi ed as ifcalling to a mate; Harry
fa ‘finsw'ered, an the bird came nearer.
13’,  Thus for some time he amused himself imitat—
‘4 ingthe cry and son of birds, and his answers
“were to the ears of t e feathered songsters what
1,.the :yes of the serpent are. It seemed mag-
.“ tied —to draw them toward him. There seemed
A .jo be a fascination in his voice that they could
‘., not resist, for they gathered around in evidence
" ‘ ' the fact. The alighth in the tree-to over-
, 'ead, and in the ushes. They sung an twit-
.. ten-ed, and flew from bough to bough, peeping
"down at him with their diamond-bright eyes.
r they appeared as if desirous of approaching
-‘ne‘arer, and yet afraid. ,
ii, A pair of meek-(zed doves sat on a limb
lz' nearest the youth. blue—jay took a osition
1 on the tip of a swaying bush. A fris (y little
- robin swayed among the verdant foliage. A
l: ' pheasant drummed on a log. A sly old wood-
: pecker eered over a dead limb on which he oc-
l‘flfifleasion ly rattled his beak. A speckled tom—tit
if minced awkwardly around a tree—trunk, and a
if. hook of blackbirds, with red and gold upon their
«wings, chattered above all. In answer to
.,;',Harry’s call a squirrel fl‘isked out of a hole in a
.""’,‘tree hard by, curled its tail upon its back, reared
)3“ upon its hind feet, and regarded the surround-
";QJngs with a critical eye. -
, 1“? And lying upon his back, Harry Igazed upon
 with an eye of admiration. Io was su-
’ .premelv happ . He felt that his society was
i.5',QOH1'ted by t ese innocent inhabitants of the
 1.,wfldwood. He loved them, and the greatest
1‘, ’”%of his life was to be surrounded by them.
'3}; on he was lonesome—when a vague feeling
’~  unrest took possession of him—he called the
‘birds.- They would always come at his call,
,g’fhnd heir rescncc filled the unknown void. in
“:' ung eart. They seemed to have, of hnn,
'none of that instinctive fear which causes the
{‘birds or the air and the beasts of the field to
1!. fibrin]: from the presence of man. There 211»
’pdared to be a mutual and sympathetic con-
rd of love between Harry and the birds.
are must have been some visible resemblance
“in their instinct and existence. It is true,
Han- possessed a human heart susceptible of
go tyenderest emotions, a mind Capable ’of
, hi: and reason of unusual intelligence.
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’haturall partook of their nature. He never
killeda ird, nor did he slay an animal unless
",hb'solutely necessary for the maintenance of
M. He had learned to re ard them as fellow.
Wgs. But Harr knew is enemies, both hu-
‘ 5mm and beast. his knowledge in most cases,
"was instinctive. He often met strangers whom
ho'felt at a glance were enemies, and he was
seldom wrong. His education combined both
human reason and animal instinct. The latter
Wu ,led him into doing things without the
111’s volition. _
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.to some extent, for the birds and animals
H a have a la age. He knew by its cfiy
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{lapped their wings of scarlet and yellow in the
bright morning sun; the pheasant ruffled her
feathers, shook the dew from her wings and ar-
ranged her morning toilet with all the vanity of
a fastidious belle. The red head of the comic
old woodpecker was thrust shyly above or un-
der the (lead limb, now and then, like a bashful
boy peering around a corner; the squirrel
frisked in an out of its home, up and down the
tree, and sprung from bough to bough, as
though conscious of Master Harry’s admiration.

Suddenly, however, the doves craned their
necks and flew rapidly away. The blackbirds
rose in the air and circled "‘om sight. The
woodpecker dropped from his porch as if shot,
flupped his wings and staggered oil’ through
the air as no other bird ever flies. The squir-
rel darted into his hole, and Harry was alone.
He rose quickly to his feet. Belshnzzar snill'cd
the air. ‘he clatter of hoofs broke upon the
silent-v. A man on horseback emerged from
the woods and drew rein within twenty feet
of our here. In one hand he held a cocked is-
to], which he leveled at Harry‘s head and ca led
out:

“ Surrender, or I’ll blow your ’ead off I”

The man were a military cloak and a mili-
ting air. Under the one was the uniform of
a ritish officer, under the other a murderous
intent.

“ Great ht-ppin hornits, stranger!” exclaimed
the boy, seeing the predicament he was in,
“ you needn’t repeat that demand. It you want
to be encumbered with trundle-bed trash, just
take me a prisoner and let me ride behind on,
for I’m awful tired. Besides, it don’t ma e a
tinker’s darn who I’m with, or where I am, so’s
I have plenty to eat and sknds of fun.”

“ Hoxactly; but you don’t look as though
you’d been very well fed of late.”

“ No, I haven’t, for a lean, straight fact.”

“ \Vhat’s your name, little Yankee: and where
do you live?” demanded the officer, drop ing his
hand to the mmel of his saddle, thourr keep-
ing the piste still turned upon the youth.

‘ l hain’t got any name—never had—no home
either. I’m one of the babes of the woods; I
are for a fact.”

“You hare a young Yankee Doodle and I’ll
call you such,” replied the insolent En ishman.
“My desire now is, sir, that you ’an me that
rifle of yours.”

“ All munificcnt, major,” and Harry handed
him his rifle.

“ Hi! how do you know I’m a major?”

“You look so dogged much like ole Deacon
Hobb’s big bulldog what they called Major.”

“ Hi’ll teach you manners, you hinsolent brat
hof a Yankeel” and the officer released his foot
from the stirrup and kicked at the youth, but
failed in reaching him.

“ What is your lordship’s further pleasure?”

'asked Harry, with mock politeness.

“In the name of his Majesty, King of
Hengland, I command you to march on before
me as my prisoner. H believe you are a Yan-
kce spy. ’

‘f 'y how!” whistled Happy Harry, in appa-
rent surprisc, “arn’t you oiu’ to let me ride?”

“No words, Yankee oodle. I have no
time to spare in dullying With you. Moreover,

it is not for prisoners to make conditions.
Right haboutl—face l—march, 1 say.”

Hurry turned coolly upon his heel, and
striking a military attitude and step, marched
awa before the oliicer, whistling Yankee
Doot is in tones almost as shrill and musical as
the flfe.

The Englishman rode close behind him with
his pistol in his hand; and as fast as the youth
C'Ollld walk, they hurried on through the forest.
Belshazzar followed at the horse’s heels.

Meanwhile the young borderman’s thoughts
were busy. He knew his captor was what his
uniform reclaimed him to be—an English of—
ficer; an there was no doubt in his mind but
that the man was on his way to the cavern
from which he had so recently escaped, and
that he was the messenger expected there from
the English province with orders that would
set the band in motion. If so, this man’s cap-
ture would be of' incalculable service to the
Americans on the northern frontier. At least
this was the conclusion Harry came to as he
moved on, whistling merrily, to the eminent

i delight of his ompous captor.

At len th heir journeying brought them
into a ade or opening in the woods across
which t eir course ran, and when near the cen-
ter of this clearing, a voice in the woods to
their right suddenly shouted:

“Halt!” ,- .

Harry stopped, and the officer drew rem—
both acting involuntarily.

“Dismount there, nglisherl” shouted a.
voice in the timber’before them.

“Surrender!” demanded a voice behind,
when the word was taken up and repeated at a
dozen diflerent points around the glade.

“Dismount and surrender!” cned that same
creaky voice behind hem, “or, b heavens,
we’ll pepper you throu h and throng .1 Down,

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yet a dozen different, strange voices had de-
mended his surrender, and he felt positive that
a dozen American rifles covered his breast.
Former experience had taught British soldiers
how Americans fought—that they made no
unnecessar dis lay and exposure of their
persons. mine to Indian-fighting, the her-
der militiamen and scouts fought from behind
trees, rocks, and whatever else afforded a cov-
er; and this Harry’s captor knew, hence his
speechless horror.

“Stranger,” said Harry turning to the of-
ficer, “you’re in a slashed ugly pickle, you are,
for a clear fact. You’re surrounded by 016‘
Wheezy Jack’s band of border scouts! and‘
now if you’d like to save our bacon from be—
in’ peppered down with bullets, you’d better
give up. I know who you are, and where
you’re goin’. I just come from them—that’s
the cave where Captain Kirby Kale is conceal-,
ed. You’re the messenger they’ve been ex-E

cctin’ for two days, I know you are, major. i

hey sent me out to watch for you and con—l
duct you to the right place.” ‘

“Why didn’t you say so before?” replied
tthe lmajor, “and I might have averted thisF
ra

“p1 thought it would be such a good joke on'

on, major. I’m fond of a joke, and then it’d ‘
a’ tickled the boys to death to see you come
marching a friend into camp a prisoner.”

“£0 those scouts know you are their ene-
my. v

“Great bal’headed homitsl no; and I hope
you won’t let on. You havin’ me a prisoner
’ll keep suspicion down, don’t you see, major?” '

“Look here, then,” said he ofllcer, dis-
mounting and wrenchingr a large brass button
from his cloak, and placing it in Herr ’5: hand, .
“ if you esca )8 give that to Captain ale. Tell
him what he el me.” . .

“I’ll do it, major, with the greatest haste,”
replkieg Harry, slipping the button into his
poc e . *

Then the officer gave u Harry’s rifle.

Harry turned aside to epart.

“ Do-you surrender?” demanded that squeaky
voice in the bush, south of the glade.

“I would not were I surrounded by men
who were not afraid to come out and fight,"
re lied the Englishman.

appy Harry, with a mischievous smile upon
his face, walked rapidly across the opening and
entered the great woods. Belshazzar trudged
along at his heels.

There was no reply to the Englishman’s lent
retort. He stood ready to surrender, but no
one advanced, and he was afraid to move for
fear the concealed fee would make the least
motion an excuse to fire upon him.

Five minutes passed. ‘~

“Cowards! knavesl poltroonsl why do you
not show yourselves?” demanded the humili-
ated officer. “Do you want an excuse to as-
sassinate a prisoner?”

There was no response. Not a soul stirred
from the woods. Birds twittered in the tree
tops, and a huge fox-mLuirrel rched upon a
limb, chattercd and bar ed as iixi‘h derision.

Again the oflicer called to his enemies, but
there was still no response.

“ I wonder if that boy has betrayed me?" he
mused, “and is holding a council with those
scouts?”

He waited half an hour—~an hour, but with
the same result. Nobody appeared to take
char e of him. He was puzzled; he was
ldum ounded. He stood there waiting like a
fool, and at length be resolved to move across
the glade, cost him what it might. He started
off slowly, leading his horse. No one halted
him—no one appeared to meet him on the mar-

in of the woods—he could see nor hear no
ivin'! soul near. He grew more courageous;
still 1e was in a quandary. if anyone was
watching him, he resolved to know it; so he
raised his foot and placed it in the stirrup, but
no one bade him (115 lace it. Then he threw
himself into the sadd e, and putting spurs, gal-
loped away through the weeds, at a wild, break-
neck speed. _

Still no voxce halted him, for none was near.
Happy Harry was the only living soul within
miles of them when these voices bade the oili-
cer surrender. They were Harry’s voices!

Brave little Harryl he had outwitted the
haughty English major, and accomphshed his
heart’s desire. He had got the ofliqer’ssecret
message into his possession, and With it had
made good his escape. _

And what historian has recorded this daring
act of the noble boy? an act which ultimately
led to the most decisive blow which England
received in the memorable War of 1812, especi—
ally in the North-west.

CHAPTER XI.

' CAPTAIN mmxm’s mm.

W]: will now go back in our narrative, and
look after Ca taiu Robert Rankin, whom,”
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In the commencement of the battle, Rankin
had received a flcsh wound on the arm, that
blcd profusely, and from loss of blood he grad-
ually grew weaker. But he fought on' he
grappled with his adversary and together they
went down. Neither one could get at his won-

on. Rankin had a knife, the savage a toma-
iawk; both were in their girdlcs.

The young officer saw that he must soon end
the conflict, or the tide of victory would turn
against him. His strength was fast failing
but by a mighty effort tho captain succeeded
in throwing his adversary )m‘tially loose from
him. It libcratcd his right and, and, quick as
aflash, he drcw his kni 0. But the change in
their position gavo the savage the sonic ad-
ivantage, and he drew his tomahawk and raised
t

The hand of the white man was the quickcr,
and he ilunged his knife into the warrior‘s
breast. t partial] broke the force of the dc-
sccndinrr tomahaw , of: the weapon fell heavy
enough 'to strike Rankin senseless on the deck.
The savage at full length, fell back in his death
throes; a few convulsive quivers, and the form
became motionless.

The raft floated on. The moon came up and
shone upon the two still bodies drifting further
and further away into the great expanse.

Now and thou a night-bird screamed along
the bosom of the deep and flopped his somber
wings above the dead. All 0150 was silent.

The long hours of darkness wore away. The
sun, rising, shot; his quivering beams of light
across St. Clair. They fell upon the raft with
its white tent and ghostly faces still drifting on
over the waves.

One face was lifeless, staring with stony (‘ycs
into the heavens. The other possessed a faint
spark of life—Robert Rankin was not dcud;
but, all through the long night he had lain to-
tally unconscious, and not until the bars of
morning light had diffused sonic of thcir
warmth into his body was he able to move.
Little by little he gained strength until he was
able to raise his head and glance around liin.
He saw tho boundless sea bencath and the sky
above—nothing more. ’Ayl he did see some—
thing else—tho stark form of his late adversary,
and the white tout which he and Mucklcwco had
erected.

Gradually ho collectcrl his bewildered senses.
One by one he rccalled the events that had
transpired up to the time he had fallen under
the blow of the savage’s tomahawk. But,
Where was his fricnd and guide. Bill Muckloweoi
Where was tlfe boy, Harry!l What had been
their fate?

The sun beating down upon his aching head
increased his sufl’i-riiig‘. Ho attcinpted to rise,
but sunk to the raft with shccr weakness. On
his hands and knees he crawlcd into the tent
out of the hot sun. Hero ho found everything-
exactly as thcy left it at the time Happy llurry
"live the alarm of danger. llo at once took :i

ask of brandy from among his cil'ccx‘s and
swallowed some of the contcnts. ltstreiigflicncd
him—it rcncwed his s )irits. llnt ho was still
unable 0 rise to his cat. llc opcncd the box
in whic l he had some cold provision, and taking'
a biscuit and some meat thcrofroni, ate hoariil y.
This helped him also, and be rapidly grcw
stronger. The hot sun beat down upon the
raft. There was a. light brown bloWi‘n'r from
the west, but it was hot and sultry as theobreath
of a storm. .

Birds appcrircd afar oil‘ in tho ethereal blno
of heaven, tiny spccks at first, but gradually
growing lar or and larger. Tho were n )-
proaching—tioy were buzzzn'ds. hey finahv
took a position above the raft and rose and fell
in the air in spiral circles—growing bolder and
bolder each minute. They, were nftcr tho
(load—that savage corpse swelling in the hot
sun; but Rankin was unable to remove it from
their filthy beaks—unable to consign it to a

I watery grave.

Overcome by a. sudden. reaction, the young
co. itain sunk down half fainting. He fell
asicep, and for hours slept soundly. When he
awoke the sun was in the zenith. It was pour-
ing down upon him with a. fervid heat. He
looked out of the tent and over the great ex-
panse of water. Upon all sides green-clad isl-
ands broke the monotony of the waves. The
si ht was so sur rising that fora. moment he
be 'eved it a de usion—a fantasy of a bewil-
dared brain. He had drifted into the midst of
a up of islands.

he oung captain’s heart now took cour‘
age. life looked out n on the mlaeds._ How
cool and inviting was t eir green, rusthng fo-
liage and silvan shade! and yet, how like
mockery, as, with his achin head,_ he re-
clined upon the raft beneath t _e blazmg sun,
unable to turn the heavy craft aside.

He carefully scanned each island, but no
sign of human life was visible upon any of
them. There was other life,.however, near

‘ Somethin black, with great q) dlgg

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the jaws dismndcd, and the protruding oyc-
balls staring awfully into the heavens. "ho
young man shuddcred with horror. A bllZlel‘d
dcchnded and perched itself on the bloated
form. The filthy bird flappcd its somber wings
held them extended for a moment, glanced
around him and then peered down into the
stony face of the dead. -

For a moment it regarded the ghastly Object,
then it uttered a cry of satisfaction—a. cry that
grated terribly upon the can; of its auditor.

Another bird immediately descended from the
clouds. Then another, and still another, until
ncarly a down of the foul scavengers of the air
had assembled at the banquet. 'l‘hoy hesitated
about beginning the feast. They chattcred
around the dead as if discussing some point of
etiquette, or as if in doubt of something.

Suddenly their necks bccnine outstretched.
Thcy uttered a shrill cry of alarm, then they
spread their wings, beat the air, rose aloft, and
circlcd swiftly away through the air. What
had frightcded them?

Rankin crawled to the door of the tent, and
gazed out. To his surprise he found the raft
floating in a narrow channel hctwcen two is]-
ands, both of which were covered with a dense
growth of luxuriant foliage.

The raft drifted slowly down the channel,
kecpin away from either island as if guided
by the and of an invisible Charon who was
carrying the soul of the suffering man out into
the illimitable sca beyond this life.

Nearing the eastern extremity of the island
the helpless man saw a human figure push out
from the shrubbery and pause upon the beach.
A white woman stood there bcforo hiiiil

Scar-ccly had Rankin made this discovery ~ere
ashadow crossed his path. Raising his 6 as,
they fell upon what appeared to be a. bright
vision—tho delusion of a pleasant dream.

It was the face and form of 9. young girl.
She stood upon the raft before him.

 

CHAPTER XII.
TEMPY, THE ISLAND ENCHANTRESS.

RANKIN'H mind was weak and confuscd with
pain and incntal torture. His brain achod and
throbbcd; his cycs were dimmed and blurred
by constant watching and by the dazzling Sim,
and as ho gazed upon the form and face of the
young girl before him, he was not sure that
she was abcing of flesh. There was something
so ethereal about the form, something so an
gclio about the face.

“ You are hurt—wounded stranger,” the
apparition at length remarked, sccinn‘ he was
speechless, that thcre was blood uponrhim, that
his face was pale, and that his eyes were wild
and startling.

The sound of her voice broke the spell and
drove all doubt and llllCl‘l'Luinty from his
mind: the being before him was in the flesh,
and his veiy’sou cried out in glndncss.

“ Wonk,” he responded, in a broken, f‘cvcr-
i-:li tonc, “ I am dying by inchcs, fair maidcn.
Look around you, and -rhaps you can imagine
a tithe of what 1 have con suffering for what
sci-1.1:; an ago.”

“,I have already made myself fully ac—
quainted with tho Liliil't‘HHf‘ll sight this raft
presents,” tho fair girl i'cplicd; “ but, sir, you
are fast drifting out into the open lake, and if
you would escape from this raft, now is the
time. if you will accept of my assistance, I
can hclp you to the island, where you will ro-
ccive kind attcntion.”

“ Then you live upon the island?” he askcd.

“ The one to the lcft, as you float east,” she
re )lied. -

nkin staggered to his foot. He could not
refuse the proffered kindness of the beautiful
girl, even had he known that she was hurry-
ing him into unknown dangers. He had fong t
bravely against the enemy and. the horrors
that surrounded him; but, almost in the very
hour of his trium h, he yielded to the Will of a
tender, feeble girl?

But this girl possessed charms of soul and
body that true manhood could not resist. She
was not over seventeen years of age; her form
was a. model of exquisite beauty, her face a
type of rare loveliness, her eyes were of a. soft
brown, with the wild, timid expression of a
fawn’s;her hair was of the color of her eyes
and gathered back from her brow and confine
in braidS.

'She wore the ratherpretty, yet odd frock of
an Indian princess; but, instead of Indian blood
coursing her veins, it might have been that of a
royal queen. Her face and hands were tanned
by exposure to the summer sun and wind: but
15 is exercise in the open air had been instru-
mental in im tau-ting a healthful low toher
cheeks, a spar 18 to er eyes, and rength and
activity to her buddin form.

She conducted Ran n to the rear of the
raft, where a li ht canoe vies fastened by its

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painter, and ass sting him to it, she seated
erself, took u the die, and turned toward
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claimed, as Rankin and his fair rescuer stepped,
ashore: “ you were right aftor all.”

The s wakcr was a woman—she whom the
captain nul first seen upon the island. She up
proachcd thcni, expressing both surprise and
sympathy in the look she gave the wounded
man. She was perhaps ten years older than
Tempy, a handsome woman, with threads of
silver among her dark brown hair, a large, sad.
cyo, and a face upon which was written the in-
delible hand of hidden sorrow.

“Yes, Margery,” replied the maiden, “it
was as I told you—a'wounded mun upon the
raft, though he himself insists on it that he in
dying."

“Far from it, I hope, stranger,” said Mar-
gery. “Let us not tarry here," and tumin ,
she led the way alonga beaten path, beneath
the cool shadows of the dense foliage.

Rankin and Tempy followed, moving v
slowly, for the captain was so weak he reel
as he walked.

Threading their way through the rave,
they finally dcbouched into an opening, ntho'
center of which stood a log-cabin, hul buried.
in an arbor of wild cucumbers and mo
glories. In the rear of the buildin was a,
vegetable garden, in front a garden 0 flower]
that sent forth a mingled odor sweet as the
perfumes of Araby or 1nd. V

Rankin was conducted into the 'cabin, which.
was furnishcd with neutness and 1811335
Teni ygnve him water in a stone baa wi '
whic to make an ablution, and after this
needed operation had been performed, he Wll"
seated in an easy-chair, wlicn Margery, with,
womanly tcnderness, drcsscd his wounh
Then she brought some brandy and water. N

ave him as a stimulant, and in a few minute:
globcrt Rankin felt that he was himself again
He convorscd free] with his fair Samaritan,
friends, givinga ful history of his late ,
ous adventure, which eventually led if
guest to their cabin. ° . A,

The fcmulcs, ‘howevcr, evaded all goodwill 1
concernnrr their secluded home. nkin - W5
not comerholdl out and ask what callin thcirf
male frionds fo lowed for a livelihood; o 
proached them with all the caution of a gen '
approaching an enemy; but they moved tum:
solves the most disciplined skirniis mm, and d.-
featcd him at every point. Of course, this : i
to the supposition that the life of the women
and their friends was shrouded in some mym,.
and so he askcd no further questions. go

Finally the convcrsution turned to the are r
ble war with England. Isay robable, a). w --v
the war was at that time ully inaugu :- "
and Rankin knew it, but be affected igno - i
in order to test the knowledge and sympathy 0!
his two female friends. ’3.

He soon found that they were ignorant v ‘
the tlircatcncd wrrr, but as they expressed tho,
strongest sympathy for the American cause, ' '
soon hccmno inoro communicative. ‘

“War,” he said, “has bccn declared, v-l‘
nlrcadv tho cnciny is moving across the from,
tier. Mackinaw is belcuguerod, and in case W,
flallsnthe straits will be open to the English‘
i cet. ‘

The women were greatly surprised byt ,
startling information, and expressed fears -- "
thcir own safety. ‘ '. 

“The English in Canada have anticin vv
the war," continued Rankin “and have 1
ready takon such stops as will result in a tour
blc blow to our country, unless we can In H
to be prepared for them. There is straw“
the cnciny now in tho territory, wai on} "-
for orders from head-quarters to e‘ , ‘
blow." . 

“ Where is that party of enemies -
asked Margery.

“I huvo been unable to fhvl out; my in
sion is, however, that they are conceals
squads along the wcstci'n Bhorcs of St. Clair; 4‘
the‘lieavy woods, or they may be guests of I u 
red allies, the Indians.” 1‘ ‘

“When were orders from the British in "
mander expected, do you know?” 3

“ During the week. .

“Then you are in the secrets of the Brl
movements.” 1 '

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“Iain Robert Rankin, with the com - . ~-.

of captain of dragoons,’ replied Rankin,

siveiy, and with a smile. ‘ A».
“ see you are in uniform,” continued -

gffiyfd have {god better without it “dc 

circums .
“Indeed!” exclaimed the keen-withd
go “I comprehend the meaning of
evasions—you are a spy!" v  ,j
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wounded—unable to move, and will be [On ,
some days to come.” i ‘ , 2'.
m9 Havetgou dispagchesvifir worrdof in i v '-- - "
carry an or e ‘ Am» .
Rankin lookyefip and filled. He inad'o. ‘

reply. 
know ” continued Marge “that '
questh is 4 bold one in one sen-m)! fly, ~ 5'
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ied Rankin.

“ I ask not for your secrets, Captain Rankin;
but I thought, if I could do so, I would take
upon mysef the responsibility of concluding
your mission for you." -

“You? a feeble woman!” exclaimed Rankin;
“ why you are weary leagues from the military
post at Lakewwn.”

, “I care not for that,” she replied, with a
firmness that denoted her courage and patriot-
ism; “a woman can serve her country as well
as a man. Tell me what 1 am to say and I will
“all!” t M " h ta

' canno argery, t 9 you cap in
said, regretf ; “my manhood abs-Inks from
sending a woman out alone on a wide, watery
waste. Perhaps I will be able to strike out
sooner than I expect.”

“ I know these waters well—perhaps far bet-
than you, ca tain; besides, I am no novice in
water-craft,’ Marge persisted. “To refuse
me the conclusion 0 your ourney may bring
disaster to our country an entail the loss of

» hundreds of innocent lives."

“That’s all truhvery true, Margery; and if
your ability is equal to your persistent desire to
Etc Laketown you can accomplish the mission.

t then—”

“I’m a woman!" interrupted Margery, with

rity in her tone.
, ‘I have nothing more to add, Margery,” the

‘ mug man said; and removin one of his

ta, he unscrewed the heel and oh from the
race tacle therein a small leaden ball, which he
ban ed to her, saying: “That contains the
messagel desire to be laced in the hands of
none other than Colone Miller, the command-
ant at Laketown. Had you not been a woman
I would never have surrendered it otherwise
than with my life.”

“ You have faith in woman’s honesty, then

. and so I shall endeavor to strengthen that

. faith.” replied Margery, with the resolute deter—

; mluation of a brave and noble nature. “God
» :' vwilling, this message shall be delivered into the
. hands of Colonel Miller.”
' ,Rankin was now highly impressed with the
7 ,nharacter of this woman. He saw that she was
. Inhre than an ordinary personage in intellect
. ad was fully aware of the responsibilities an
dangers she was assuming for the sake of her
i , country.
- The two women left Rankin’s presence and
’ , went into an adjoinin room—Margery to pre—
f pare for her long peri ous journey.
‘ The gonnfia tain awaited their return im—
,¥:tien y. 6 soft, brown eyes, the pretty
as, the sweet voice and gentle kindness of

, Tgmpy had made an indelible impression upon
i , I: heart and he could hardly help thanking the
terrible fate that had thrown her in his way.
 e recovered so rapid] , or, at least, felt
.1, .0 much better, since his a vent in the island
,': home that his wounds gave him no uneasiness
‘ whatever. His heart feasted u on the m ste
, rious beauty of the angelic empy, an his
. , body w stronger.
i, At t e same time there was a struggle goin
 on within his breast. His spirit of manhoo
2’}, rebuked him for surrendering his message,
 which was of the most vital im ortance, to
~ vlazge ; while he felt it was a. uty that he
5' , ow h country to have the message delivered
it all hazards. But, while he looked upon
ry as a woman of more than ordinary
ability, it was his manly courtes that rebelled
 3" the idea. of placing such a erculean task
‘- : upon the shoulders of a woman.
; ' - While speculating over the situation Tempy
‘ burst into the room like a sunbeam, er face
[gallant with iicy.
 A little sa lor hat, trimmed with blue, was
 Apon her head. , Gloves were upon her hands,
v,  d a light, purple scarf was around her
v; shoulders.
~  -“I’m oing,” she said, with a look of delight,
Rankin

,1" turning .

V  ~“ W ere?” asked the latter.

* ‘ “To the post with the message. I prevailed
on sister Mar ery to let me go as her health is
I ,Dmewhat fee 1e. Besides, I think I know the

~ lake better than she does.”

“Tam y you—” began Rankin, but he was
hterrup by the maiden who exclaimed:

, , ' “I hope 1you will not obiect to my gang Mr.
. Rankin. thought it my duty to e Mar-
sly’s place, since she hadso kindly volunteered
v ’ conclude your mission. I wish you a
“happy sojourn here, Mr. Rankin, and a speedy

very. Good-by Marge I”
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ff‘stayi not I”
I at Tem id not hear him; she was no.
d to rise and follow her;bu his
,bsrefusedtosupporttheirwei tand he
not back, half unconscious, in his . v
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lake shore, where, out of breath, he sat down
to rest and examine the button that the unsus-
pecting Englishman hud intrusted to his care.

“Great hoppin’ hornits, Belshazzar!” he 0x—
claimed, wiping the perspiration from his brow.
“this is jest more’n fun, ar’n‘t it, ole chum?
And, mortal p’izcn! didn’t I do it u to that Brits
isherslickcr'n a peeled sapplin’? didn’t know
1 war so good reachin’ out with my voice. I
didn’t, for asacred fact. By George! he nor a
kind of a spy, that red-coat, and I’d ort to ’a’
taken him risoner; but then, what did I want
with him a ter I got the feller’s secret? Ho! out
here, ole button. What news from the head-
quarters of the ole kin ’s army? Open, my
pretty silver bauble, and et it out. ”

After repeated efl’orts, he succeeded in un-
screwing the button, which he found to be a
mere shell of silver, the cavity of which was
filled with a neatly-folded paper of the finest
quality.

“Sweet Jerusalem! there lays the kernel of
the silver nut!” exclaimed the yo th, looking at
the aper as it half afraid to tone it, for fear it
won d vanish like a bubble.

While thus occupied, Belshazzar uttered a
low, plaintive whine.

A twig cracked in the undergrowth not far
away, and was succeeded by a. rustling of
foiiiage’ H t h' r t H dth

up any run 0 is es , s e
buttonpizito his posgketfand cocked his rig:

Aman emerged from the undergrowth, and
sleek of protound astonishment mounted his
face as be confronted the young wood-tramp.

The man was Long Beard, the Giant Wood-
man.

“ Hop in’ hornits,” burst from the boy’s lips,
and he ug his knuckles into his eyes, as ifto
removea mist of doubt gathered over them,
;‘ ittc’tm’t be so—it’s a mistake, it is, for an ugly
ac .

“Hullc, my little waif i you are safe thank
God ” said the giant, advancing toward im.

“ Safe? why, that’s no name for it,” replied
Harry. “Great hornitsi but I'm proper de~
lighted and majestically glad to meet you. I
am, for a fact, govenir. Giv us your ten-acre
aw—tberel och l—s ueeze gently; you’ve a

car’s bug in that st. But, whar ye been
keepin’ 1your corporosit , ineral?”

“ In he woods, on t e ake, along the shore,
looking for you.”

“ And I've been lookin’ for you, gineral.”

“Well the objects of our search have been
found. What news have you, Harry?”

“Nothin’ but some good news; but wasn’t
them a smashin’ set of fellers we banked with
t’other night at the cave?” .

“ A notorious set of scoundrels, I must say,”
returned the iant, emphatically.

“The be you haltered up pretty snug,
hadn’t t ey, Big Beard?”

“ Ay, my bo ; and did you know what I do
of that man, irby Kale, you would not won-
der that I was haltered up so securely.”

“You don’t say, do you gineral? Why,
great hornitsl arn t they all Englishmen?"

“ Most of them."

“ And is Kirby Kale?”

“ Yes; and as mean a man as ever breathed,”

“ Wal, by hornitsl—but, say, Big Beard, did
you see that feller in the cave With his head
tied u and arm in a. sling?” _

“ l ‘d; and I saw him spurn your body With
his foot when you lay apparent y dead in the
cavern.”

“That was the traitor, William Mucklewee
E uire, whom ,I banged over the head an
Sen a-bouncing and a—waltzin’ into the lake—
the very demon that tried.to betray Rankin
into the savages’ power. But, Big Beard, 1
think them devils at the cave are waitin’ to do
some awfully blood work I do, for aserious
fact. They are Eng ish soldiers, I know they
are, for I saw their uniforms stickin’ around
the cavern one place and another. I think
they’re waitin’ there in disguise for some or-
ders to strike—in fact, I know they are; and
them orders are to come through a mes-
senger expected from Canada. And, would
you believe it, gineral! sure as I’m livin’, me
and that messenger had a little difference
awhile ago. He just scooped me ri ht in a
prisoner of war, in the name of the ing, the
sun, moon, and stars. I wasn’t hard to take,
and Belshazzar, he just tucked his tail atwut
his legs and away we marched. But, sudden-
ly, my friend of the kin had summons from

ifferent quarters to yie d himself up to sue
perior force, that war hid in the woods not

ur away. Before he could reply, I turned
and informed him he war in what mi ht be
termed a snap, and soon. Then I tod him
who he was, and whar he war goin’, and that
[I b’longed at the cave and was out lookin’ for
him, and that I’d let him capter me for the fun
of’it, and a whole lot of just sich—sich funn
things./’ This tickled the royal maipr of b s
majesty’s arm , and quicker’n wink e jerked
abattonofl.’ h coat andhanded ittome. with
orders to deliver the same to Captain Kirby
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and away I went, Iickey te-splii, leavin’ the
great English dispatch bearer from screw the
riny deep, waitin’ for the Americans to file
out of the wood and salt him down. But nary
scout filed. The fact of it war jist here: there
wasn’t a scout within miles of him, and for
all I know, that poor, deluded man from the
moon is standing thar in the opening yit.”

“ You tricked him with that tongue of yours
did \ on?” asked Long Beard.

“Didn’t I, though, general?" replied Harry,"
with a sly wink. “ I jist had ’em demandin’
his surrender all around, and you ort to ’a’ heard
the one with a creaky voice. Dogged if I didn’t
like to overdo it on that voice. But, here’s
the button, Big Beard, already unscrewed,
ready for an investigation of its contents.”

He handed the button to the iant, who re
moved the a r therefrom file found the
latter to beo t efinest texture capableof being
compressed into a very sum] 5 ace. It was
near y a foot square when spree 0 en. Upon
the upper half was traced, y a skillful hand,
a ms. of all that portion of the United States
and territories lying north of the forty-second

agree of north latitude, also a portion of
Canada. There were red dots upon it, which
doubtless represented the location of the
American posts of defense. It was also traced
with blue lines, su pose to represent the an-
ticipated routes of t e En lish arm in their in-
vasxon of the republic. eneath t is ma was
an explanation written in cipher, whic the
giant at once set to work 11 on to translate.
t seemed as though he ha had some ex~
perience in such things before, for in a few
minutes he had unraVeled the secret of the
whole. And what a secret worth knowing it
was to the citizens of the American republic!

It proved to be a key to the pro osed opera-
tions of the English arm in the nited States,
and which, if .success ul, would place the
whole northern frontier and the great lakes in
British possession!

On the back of this map was written, also
in cipher, these words:

“CAPTAIN KIRBY Kim—Mons secured General
Hull‘s retreat from Canada, and believe it will see
cure the surrender of Detroit. Try it, at any rate,
if your present movement should prove a failure.

“ MAL-GEN. Bacon."

“Great hoppin’ hornits!” exclaimed Harry
when Long Beard had revealed the secrets 0
the paper; “afore such a thing shall happin,
I’ll run my very soul out. I’ll start this very
hour for he nearest military post. Wouldn’t

on, Long Whiskers, if you were a little

risky boy ?”

“I might, it is true, Harry. But then, this
is a matter of such vital importance to our
country that no risks must be encountered in
delivering it to the proper authorities. There
is no out hurry in the matter, therefore you
can a 0rd to take your time and run no risks.
Now, if you will go with me to the Pleiades
Islands you can take a boat and reach Lake-
:ovzn’m half the time you can go there on

00 .

“Just as you say, Long Beard. I’m elers
willin’ to obey them as are older than me.
There’s my dear ole bunknnate, Davy Darrett,
whom I hain’t seen for a month, who’s alers
right on sich things as b’long to the border.”

“ Then come along with me.”

They moved along the shore and in a few
minutes came to where the giant’s little
schooner was tied up. Boarding her, they at
once put to sea. ‘

As they pulled out from shore Belshazzar
uttered a low whine, and glancln 11501! to-
ward the shore, Long Bear and arry saw
the cause of his uneasiness. An Indian girl,

whom Harry recognized as the princoss Eelee-

lab, was standing on a prominent point of the
shore, waving her hand toward them in a vio-
lent manner; and the very instant she ceased
sh? gihrew hezsellf ovetr {Etc thde hare.

‘ , grea orm s crie app Harry;
“it’s Eeleelah, and she’s drowned hersyelf!”

“Nay, nay, Harry," res onded Long Beard;
“ that girl is our friend. ose gestures were
intended as a warning. Look! she is swim-
minfi around the base of that rock, evidently 'to
reac the opposite side unobserved. Enemies
to us must e ap roaching the point from
whenpe we embarked—ah, there they come
nowl

Fully twenty men, with flashing uniforms
and (hristling muskets, emerged from the great
woo s.

It was a compan of British soldiers, and at
their head Happy arry could distinguish the
forms of Ca tain Kirby Kale and his late cap-
tor, the Eng ish ma or.

“Halt there!” or ed Kale, at the top of his
lungs, andithe soldiers brought their muskets
into ition. '

Bu Long Beard and Harry paid no attention
to his order. ,

“ Halt, or we’ll fire i” again shouted Kale.

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rifle to his shoulder'and god at thefoe. A
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their bullets pattered against the side of the
little schooner, but Long Beard and Harry
having sought shelter in the cabin escaped un-
armed.

The giant at once ran up another sail and
soon the were out of reach of the enemy’s

uns. T ion the two again went on deck, and,

) their surprise, saw that a number of savages
had joined the English, and all together were
holding a consultation.

“'ith his field‘gluss Long Beard scanned tho
allics closely, and whilc thus engaged ho hap-
peiiql to run his eyo along the coast, whcn,
to his surprise mid astonishment, he discovcrod
a small sail bearing down the wind toward
them. It was over a league away, yet he
could sec distinctly that it was a brig carry-
ingaguii fore and aft and flying the English
colors!

“ Bv heavens, Harry!” exclaimed the giant,
“an English vessel has gained our lakcl Look
011’ here and you’ll see her.”

Happy Harry took the glass and, having
scanned the sail, confirmed his friend’s'stato-
ment. -

“ Strikes me, gineral,” he said, “ that we’re in
a fair way for a. bit of naval engagement.”

“The chances for a fight are good, but our
condition to stand up to a. brig carrying heavy
Sins is not very promising of cod results.

1‘ best hold lies in flight, and shall press
every inch of canvas into service and attend
prom tly to the helm and our course. It is now
one o clock, and it will take us until evening to
reach the Pleiades.” _

“ Well, all right, gineral; drive on your gig,
and if thar’s anything that we can assist you
in doin’ make a. clean breast of it and we‘ll be
on hand like a. dozen warts.”

“ Kee a watch on the brig Harry.”

“ I’ll do so, gineral; I will, for a solemn fact. ”

Half an hour had passed in silence when he
suddenly exclaimed:

“There, by homitsl Captain Kale has suc-
ceeded in hailing the brig and two boats have
been sent ashore.”

“Then depend upon it, every effort will be
made to overhaul us, arry,” s'iid Long Beard,
“and you in that English moistiiigcr’slhands
and I in Kale’s, we would fuie ba'lly.”

Suddenly the boom of a cannon came down
the wind, and glancing back, the fugitives saw
a cloud of smoke hanging upon the brig’s
row.

p Lon;r Beard took.the glass and brought it to
bear upon the enemy. A cry burst from his

s.

p“Sho has sighted us, and is giving chase!
Now for liberty, an English prison, or death,
Harry!” he exclaimed, a stern, desperate look
kindling in his eyes, and his great form grow-
ing majestic with the firm resolutions that
strung every nerve and inspired his soul.

The race now begun in earnest between the
little schooner and the hrigof-war. Silent
and firm the giant woodman stood at the liclm,
while Happy Harry stood aft gazing away at
the pursuing enemy with u kiml of a vague
fascination, at the same time humming softly
to himself: .

“My name was Ca taiii Kidd
When I sailed, w cu I sailed."

CHAPTER XV.
Tm: PLEIADES NIGHT WATCH.

CAPTAIN ROBERT RANKIN could not forgive
himself for havin made known the secret, oi-
rather giving up tie dispatches, that led the fair
little lamp to brave the dangers of a long
journey by and and water. _

He walked the floor in feverish agony. Mur-
gery endeavored to calm his emotions.

“Tempv is not in half the danger you are,
Captain Rankin,” she said, “and I pray you
wi not worr yourself into a fever over hcr
departure.~ S e is well acquainted with tho

 

‘ lake, and I dare say will reach her destination

in safety.”
“ Not before night thou h.”
“She will do We if s 0 reaches it by to-
morrow ni lit.” 7
“ Well,b palilmotm egsy until I knowlharlm
has not e a an rave yo gir wm
virtually saved my life. But, kintdnfi'iend, how
soon do‘ on expect your friends in?”
i“ Not hefore evemng. Father usually returns
about sunset.” ” ’
“ Is your father a fisherman?
“Sim 1y a recluse,” replied Margery, evasive-
ly. “1;; has a. penchant for secluded places,
hence tho reason that we dwell here among the
romantic Pleiades.” ' -

“And is this secluded life agreeable toyou
and our sister Tom y?”

“ a love our ather, and are contented
wherever he is happiest)", * . . _

Around this lon y sland cabin and its lovely
inmates there hung a mystery to Ca tam Ran-
kin. He would have had it solved, or already
be had become deep] interested in the family‘s

' historv. He did moi hesitate to admit that he
had fallen desperately-in love With thed’air
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the hounds of the law. But his better judg-
ment would assert itself, and the exalted inno-
cence and honor that surrounded the women
stood confessed.

Margery extended every kindness in her
power to alleviate the suffering of her guest,
and in her gcntlo administrations there was a
power as of iiizigic. To him, she and ’l‘enipy
had been good Samaritans—Sisters of Mercy—
rrscrved in nothing that makes woman noble,
gcuflc, loved and coinpanionable.

The hours drugged wcarily along to Rankin.
He watched the sun changing in the doorway,
and at iiuics it seemed as though an hour made
no ditl‘creiico in the position of the light and
shadow. But, despite his impaiioiicc, tho sun
was gradually sinking westward, and final]
dropped behind the ll't’l)»t0ps. 'l‘lu-n the tw1«
light shadows hogan to gather in the (‘llllllL A
light breeze, swcotoucd with tho perfume of
wild flowers, stirred the green drapery of tho
trccs. Away out al mg the margin of the island
a. hull-frog scnt forth iis harsh, rnsping crook,
while a solitar cricket cliirruped shrilly undcr
tho (loor-ste , its ungrateful music harmonizing
with the ga boring gloom and depressing soli—
tudc.

Margery sat down at the open window, and,
gazing out over the lake, bummed a low, plaint-
ive tune to herself. Her thoughts were far
away; she was soon in deep meditation.

,Mcanwhilo Rankin’s thoughts turned upon his
own situation. The silence and shadows tilled
him with vague forebodings.

Both were suddenly started by the boom of a
cannon breaking umn the silence. It rolled
down from the nort with a stunning shock.

“Oh, my God!" cried Mai-gory, and she
sprun to her feet and ran out of the cabin.

Rai 'in rose and followed her, tottering al-
most as ho went. ‘

From a point where they could obtain :1 ar-
tial view of the twdight-cnsliroudod lake, t ey
beheld two sails. One of them, a little schooner,
was already within a few rods of the island.
The other, a brig, carrying the English colors,
and a. gun fore and aft, stood on the northern
extremity of the group of islands, over a mile
away. It had evulently been anchored there,
for all sailsliud been lowered.

“ That is father’s sail approaching there,” ex-
claimed Mur cry, in delight. ,

“Do you now that other one oil! north?”
asked Rankin.

“ I do not; it’su stranger. Father will know,
perhaps.”

Tll" little schooner soon turned into the show.
A tall man, with a long, snowy board, stopped
ashore, followed bv a. boy and a large dog. It
was Long Board, Harry and his dog.

Long Board, then, was Mai‘gery's father.

Having sccurcd his little craft liy moons of
aheavyropc, he turned and irocecdcd with
the boy and his dog: toward he cabin, to be
met by Mai-gory and Rankin. I

Iloi‘ore a word of rrooiiug had passed lio-
twccn the father and auglitcr, Hurry shouted,
as his eyes l'r-ll upon Captain Rankin:

“Hurrah for glory! hoppin' lioi‘nitsl there
he is, gincral; tho very irlcntikul chap that
war in the big fight with us on tho raft.”

“Yes, I am tho iii-iii, my good follow," rc-
spondcd Rankin, cxrondiug his hand toward
the youth. “I i-cnii-inlicr you very well, my
brave and pom-loss youih. Tiie last I saw of
yupI 7was during the fight on that trap of a
ra‘ . -

“I have a distinct remembrance of that
raft, captain, and a little onplcasantncss we
had on it. That wore a gory old light, it was,
for a stubborn fact.”

“ Yes, and I have wondered a hundred times
how you and Mucklowco came out of the fight.”

“ ucklcwcc!" exclaimed Hurry, indignant-
ly; “darn his hidcl he got 011’ with a 21$th
head. I’m sorry to say.” ‘

“You speak severely of my guide, Harry.”

“ Your guide!” the youth replied, with is-
dain. “Captain, didn’t you know that be
war a traitor?”

“ I did not, Harry.” “ ,

“ It’s a holy fact, captain; it war him that
glgt you into a confused muss with the red~
s ins. He is a. British emissary.”

Rankin was confounded by this intelligence,
and.but for the sober look on Harry’s face
would have disputed his word. He hurriedly
connected difl'crent events that had occurred
since he and .Mncklewee had been together.
and out of ihe‘links thus collected he gathered
sufficient material to constructl a chain of
strong evidence corroborating Harry’s story. ,

Meanwhile Margery and her father had
stepped aside, when the-former at once in-
formed her parept of what had been going on
since his departure. The ant seemed deeply
affected by the news of ompy’s departure;
at the same time, however, be expressed his
approval of her going forth on a journey of
such importance to their'country. '

“But at the same time she maybeiu less
danger than we are in,” be said. in concluding
his reins.er on that subject, andintroducing
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“It certainly does; it is an English brig-015'
war, and has chased us since one o’clock, sev-
eral times firing upon us.”

“How does it come that English war-vessels
are on this lake father?”

“ Why, Margery, war has been fully iii-u-
gurated, and the armies uro movin . Hull
has relinquishedtlio conquest of Maiden, and
retreated on Fort Detroit. The English are
already across the frontier; but our I;th
danger, Margery, docs not collie from lliat‘
sourco"—he spoke in a low tone. “Night ho- ‘
foi-c last I was a prisolu-l' in the stronghold of I
a company of British soldiois under command
(if-none other than Captain Kale, alias Sir
Eugono Nculmui‘i'y." ) ‘ .

“Oh, God of iiiorcyl”cn‘cd Margery. Clrzp- ’
iiig her brow, while her then turned ghasii b-
palc and her form rcelcd as if about to fnl .
{or father drew her arm in his to support hcr,‘ ‘
and then narrated the story of his capture by
Kirby Kale, and his release by Hap iy Harry. '

Finally matters were explained all around.
whoa Long Board led the way to the cabin.
He introduced Hurry to Margery and his so- ‘
cludcd home. ‘-,-

The youth was welcomed by Margery in 
words that filled his young heart with joy. He "‘
had never before received such praise and,
thanks as Marge bestowed upon him. Bo "
falls/[that ho was ililu eed a hero.

urge soon ad an am lesu r re red"
for all, w en Harry and Rhukinpvggrep in‘iiiied "
to the board. The Wild Boy and his host aid g'r
justice to the meal, for they had fasted since ’-
morning. i a

Before night had closed in Long Beard made»:
certain of the brig-of-war‘s position. He found, ‘
it was still standing oil’, north of the Pleiadq. ,
But he knew that the enemy would not remal v_
idle during the night—that they would, in u 1“.
probability, send out a boat to reconnoitor and ’-
scont among the islands. To defeat the nicer-fill
of such an expedition was the main object in [ml]-
the giant, for if his cabin was discovered, 
know i? destruction would be inevitable. ‘ , ,"-

  
 

Haply Harry, ever ready for adventure,
volunteered to keep on the move with hisn "a
during the night, venturing the assertion th ‘l I
no boat could approach undiscovered.  -

The night was dark—extremely dark, "ion
sky being overcast with a heavy, gray miss-f
Everythiii was as still as though the heavyfl,
gloom 8111." had the very pulses of the air o1

Like two shadows, Harry and his dog on, Li
throuin the undergrowth that skirted 1€o¢
margin of the little green clad islands: likd.‘
shadows they stole along the beach. Now (will:
then they stopped to listen—the master vilhoN
his hand upon his dog’s head. The Milan-"l- -
hearing was most acute; did he detect a suipi- .
cious sound, a toss of the head, or a low whzmr
would announce the fact to his master. 3.

Thus for hours they continued their watch-43"
around the island. Harry was growing drowsy 
and careless for the want of excitement “lion 1.
his attention was suddenly attracted by “mag
surging of the wuvcs along the bunk. 

“There’s no wind to make them waves.” '
the youth reasoned with himself, “and whm’p'h
iiiulcin’ thciii tickle the shore is uiore’n I can
tell, 'less tlinr’s sunithiii' in the strait betwt‘og
the two islands. If it wasn‘t so wickedly m 1'}
a tailor and his dog might see snnithin. 0W»
great liornits, Bell, 1 hope nothin’ will I, ,H’
fall these folks here. That poor woman was
sad enough anyhow, and then the old gineml ‘s‘
takin’ on so ’hout his t‘other gal that’s one \v
Lakctown. Gracious! if we ever it glue". '5‘
this bald-headed darkness alive, I’l strike o I
after that little gal of his’n. And we’ll flu
her. too, or expand a blood-vessel in the"
tempt. ’Shl—hurkeo, 'Shaz—arl—jlggere .
there isn’t—if there doesn’t come a canoe or , '. .4.
ing through the darkness like a spell of deo.’ 5%;
I1;“dggo‘v who is, ltfil-fllld whar are they (pi 

0g eir riggin s, t e ve ot mufied om'uu'
that means deviltr he “grorld over. The ' 
ap’iscn pack from’ he brig. Thoy’reEn l ' “fit
come down here to reconnoiter, and I’ll ,c0 i
fiisticatcd if I know whether to '
here and exterminate ’em, or fire nto 'em 7.
let ’em slide. But then I guess I’ll do melt
ens; I’ll trick ’em,” and so saying, he ca
011 : ‘

“Boat alloy 1” . l .

The voice seemed to come from the o u 8‘

  
 

 

          
 
  

“A I a l” was the response from the '1'
“Who goes there?” demanded the vcrl. 
the island. .:
The crash of half a. dozen muskets wu ,
response. A groan issued from the . -  
The boat turned in toward the sham: '9" ‘
Harry laughed to himself. ‘ 8‘ M
“Gus-s we [laid him out,” he heard one oh ' 
unknown boatmen say. ’ ' I . ‘ ,yt'i.“
Quicker than we can record the foot, Bar w. 
Harry had stripped oil? his clothing, ondflt ‘ ',.
his knife between his teeth, entered the .‘t‘frs
gdt shiughout fiirefiitslys‘dtoward tho  a“ 
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the under owth for the body of their supposed
'  gll'he one left to watch the boat re-
: mined seated Within it. His musket was lean-
;“Jng‘ against the side. The oars hung loose
in the rowlocks. The stillncss was unbroken
: , save by the noise made by the men among the
". rustling bushes.
Thus several moments passed; then a tiny
‘ -', wave broke against the side of the boatand
. L‘chafed the bank. The soldicr noticed it. In-
}; ,r stinctive precaution made him a good soldier.
He recognized, in an instant, the fact that
 was no air to stir a ripple on the lake,
fi- “and very natural] concluded that the water
,i; had been disturbe by something in it. He
:j‘ bent'his head and listened; he hcard the very
"faintest noise like that which is made by the
front of a small animal cleaving the watcl's as
, “ tglides along. Ho peered into thedccp, dark
Efflnight around him, and upon the bosom of the
3 water; not two feet from the side of the canoe,
be imagined he saw a round, spherical object
resting upon the waves. Mechanically he put
out his hand toward it, when to his horror ho
falta. pair of sharp fangs close like a vise upon

     
   
  
   
  
   
  

 

, A cry of horrible agony escaped the man’s
ti}? , but Belshuzzar hold on to his hand, while

pgy Harry, springing up, into the boat,

to ed the man overboard. ,

The youth was instantly warned of other
. "dangers by the hasty approach of the men on
*Bhore. Seizing an oar he pushed the boat out
I n the bosom of the night-eushroudcd waters.
, ‘ dog followed him. The unfortunate soldier
i’lwam ashore and briefly as possible told the

,‘ ltor of his mishap. .

1dr» ,Tgen the party discovered that they had been
‘3,' .mpped—at least enticed ashore upon an isl-
p‘?‘ Ind—from whence they could not escape.

f3" The soldiers heard the boat with the unknown
dikcuemy retreating and discharged their niuskets
Inthe direction of the sound, but in the dark-
has they shot at random and Harry escaped
hutcuched. '

   
   
  
  

 

CHAPTER XVI.

. THE BESIEUED CABIN.

HAPPY HARRY having crossed the channel
and mhde fast his boat, hurried to the cabin of
Long Beard and reported his adventure.

The giant at once became very uneasy, for
llhould the enemy discover his location escape
§Mflld be impossible. ,

5" ,' “I must get away from here ” he said. “It

   

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 be death—yea! more than death to me and
' children, should we fall into the power of

. «‘ English. We must escape under cover of

fill! ni ht. I wfll move our effects most needed

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1mm 1: 9 house and place them on board the
'Ilshooner, and then we will embark for some
lanthern port.”
“I am afraid, friend Long Beard,” remarked
Rankin, “ that it' you once get away from these
ds, the frigate will run you down. Per—
_ we could dodge the enemy here, at least
3 “until your daughter Tem y returns from the
- ‘ . Of course, Colonel iller will give her a
mug escort, and this assistance will enable us
b‘get 03.”
h . Tempy may not get back for a week, and
Fwy not at all,” answered the giant, half

ndin .
I '_ I’ll tell you, gineral,” said Harry, his face
' w with joy and boyish excitement' “if
- ’ll jist stay here and stick to the island like
»- : see to a boy’s hair, do my cats if I don’t
 . kapter or sink that ritish brig—me and
y ‘ mar will. We’ll 'ist get into the lake and
r» her right over—we ll be a. torpedo to that
- t' We will, for a fact.”

.‘Altho h be questioned the youth’s ability to
even as much, Long Benrd’s main re-
’ . - owns centered upon the Wild Boy of the
oods. He had seen the lad tested under the
t trying circumstances—he had seen him
orm deeds of daring that none but Happy

_ could have accomplished. So the giant
up. use sent the outhful borderman to watch
.k. at eenemy id not effect a landin on his
.. u and this precaution was not a opted a
v r u z i: too soon. Those at the brig had heard
' firin of musketry down among the Plei-
--: ,an at once dispatched another boat to
 , scene of action with half a dozen armed
men. This boat had just effected a landing
When Harry discovered it; and having picke
, those left upon the opposite island, a force
, '8 dozen armed men were now ready to in-
the retreat of the mysterious Long

 
   
  
    
  
  
    
   
    
 
  
   
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
   
   
 
 
  

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urrying back to the cabin, the youth made
Wu his second discovery. Long Beard,
W thoroughly alarmed, at once proposed to
, -~ to the island. He could not be induced
' .attempt adefense, although his cabin had
- - constructed and provided with every
. .u isite for defensive measures. Something
es 8. fear of the result of an English in-
- w Seemed to prey upon his mind and that
' Ibis daughter, like some aw ul horror. '
To Ranldn there appeared o be some secret
. A’ ying the whole of this man’s fears, and
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‘ cries. led to hehgvo that there was a

It required but a few moments for the father
and daughter to prepare for departure. A
change or two of raiment, some cooked food
and a. few articles of bedding were all they at-
tempted to carry away with them; and even
these would not have been taken had they not
been absolutely neceSsary for the comfort of
the party (luring,r the journey.
cabin in no disorder. On the contrary it'wus
in its usual primncss, so that the invaders
would not suspect it of being deserted.

Harryled the \Vily along the dim path to-
ward the point where Long Bcnrd had left tlnx
boat—Margery and Rankin following, while
the giant brought up the J'car. As they neared
the water asligbt noise arrested Harry’s at—
tention.

Stopping still, be cautioned his friends, and
requested them to remain standing there until
he crcpt forward and rcconnoitcrovl.

Softly he moved away, and for several min—
utcsu deutblike stillness reigned. Finally the
lad came back with the startling intelligcnco
that the schooner was in possession of the
enemy and that all escape from the island was
cut off.

"Then let us go back and do last what we
should have done fii‘st—intrcnch ourselves
within the cabin,” said the giant in a husky tone.

“Govenir, we—that’s me and Bell—don’t
keer about coopin’ up to fight. We’ll stay out-
side and busliwhack on the corner—kind 0’
split the attention of the foe should they at-
tack the cabin. If you fellcrs ’11 do your
duty inside like a dose of i’isen, we’ll be a
red hot blister outside, and ’11 bet we’ll dcc-
tor the red-coats up magnificently. They
can’t catch me, that’s certain, if l’ve got elbow-
room. This island’s a little cramped for me
to operate on without crowding upon the lake,
and the water there’s so carnal thin that it lets
a fcller in. But go ahead, govenir; scoot back
into your cabin and then let into ’em bald—
headed jayhawks like a swarm of hornits with
fresh sharpened javelins. I’ve hcnrn say that
a British soldier can’t stand fire half as well
as an average Yunkee-doodlcr, and I propose
to test the matter. Yes, I’ll keep outside and
run a side-show of my own, gineral; and MI
bet we’ll make ’cm think we re runnin’ a little
judgment-day, too, of our own. Bet you’ll
hear somethinl drop ever time little ‘Brown
Chick’ here chirps, ’ and e patted the breech
of his boy’s rifle significantly.

And so Long Beard, Margery and Captain
Rankin returned to the cabin, which had not
yet been found‘ by the enemy. Husteningm-
side, the recluse barred the door, and at once
proceeded to put the cabin in the best possible
shape for defense. The plugs were removed
from the loop-holes that pierced all the four
walls of the house. A uuntity of water was
placed in the middle 0 the room ready for
any eniergencyili which it might be needed.
A amp was lighted and laced behind a screen
whzre its rays would fal only on an unexposed
spo .

The face of Long Board were aserious yet
determined look. His voice was low and firm,
his movements like that of the lion.

Margery’s pale face and heavy, mournful
eyes evinced the deepest emotions, yet with
resolute step she moved about the room ar-
ranging things so as to afford every facility for
defense.

“Now I am ready,” said Long Beard, finally,
as he looked to the priming of his rifle.

“Give me a, rifle, friend,” said Rankin, “that
I may assist.” And the giant brought him a
rifle and brace of pistols.

Five minutes later there came a. sharp, vio-
lent rap, rap upon the door.

“They are come, father,” whispered Mar-
er .

g to enem were at the door.

“ Who is there?” demanded Long Beard.

“Persons desirous of admittance,” was the
res onse.

ong Beard turned to Margery and in a husky
tone asked:

“ Daughter, did you recognize that voice?”

“Oh my God, yesl it is his—Eugene Neal—
murry 5!”

“Yes; Nealmurry’s, alias Captain Kirby
Kale’s.” ‘

. Fear seemed to hold the father and daughter
spellbound for awhile.

Rap, rap, rap, came the summons at the door
again. ' l, .

“I cannot admit you,” Long heard re lied,
rallying fromfhis momentary stupor wit the
look of a lion starting from a. nap.

“ We seek admittance [en peaceful measures,
but cannot accept a refusal,” came from with—
out. '

“ Then you threaten,” re liedI Long Board.

“We must be admitte ; ityou refuse we
will be compelled to force an entrance.”

“ You will do so at your peril.”

“ We' demand admittance in the name of His
Royal Majesty the King of England I” and the
speaker emphasized his words With a thunderous
rap upon the door.’ .. ‘ , V

‘And I refuse to admit you , ,the name of
f “,2; , w Jim" Mont" alias;

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The violent crash of musket-butts against
the door was the only response. The door,
being muth of heavy oak boards, however, res
fused to icld to the terrific blows.

Long card thrust the muzzle of a pistol
through a loop—hole, and fired into the crowd in
front of the cabin. Evidently tho shot was
without effect, but a violent excln I: '
surprise and the rush of feet follo\ a .
pnrl‘y retreated :1 few pnccsand poured a volley
of shot into the door, but not one of thc leaden
missich pierced the hard, (:okcn barricade.

A (lccp silence succeeded the (rash of nuns
kv‘try, and the English Wore wondering what
effect it had had upon the inmates of the cabin,L
when they were suddenly surprised bya loud,
shrill “chirp, chirp,” like that of a halfvgrown
chicken when lost from the rest of the brood.
It issued from the thicket t0 the right. One of
the men laughed and said:

“ VVc’re disturbing the lien-roost.”

At this instant a tongue of flame leaped from
the thicket to the left, a iiflc 1111);; out on the
air, and a cry of nicrlal agony cscnpcd the lips
of one of the soldiers as he tell dead at the feet
of his comrades.

“ Charge the thicket,” thundered ihe voice of,
the commandant; “ bayonet the assassin X”

With fixed bayonets eleven men charged into
the thicket, through the thicket, strai 'ht 0n-
ward until they reached the water’s brin . But
the found no enemy. They turned and hurried
bac to the side of their dead comrade. Four
men carried the bod down to the boat.

Then‘the party hefd a consultation as to their
further movements, which resulted in sending
to the brig for reinforcements.

In an hour’s time live more men landed upon
the island, and the attack was renewed upon
the cabin. But the dcl‘eiidcrs were upon the
alert, and met them with a sharp and deadly
fire, forcing them to retire under cover of the
woods with three men killed and wounded.
Here they again held a short deliberation over
their re nlse, and the probability of success
should t ey attempt to force an entrance by
attacking the cabin on both sides—at the door
and window. In the midst of their talk that
ominous “chirp, chirp” was heard avain, this
time coming from the direction of the cabin
before them;but it was immediatcl followed
by the whip—like report of a rifle he ind them,
and another of the soldiers fell dead.

“Search the island till that murderous devil
is found!” commanded Kale, and he launched
away, sword in hand, through the undergrowth,
followed by his men.

Like so many.hounds 'ust freed from the
leash, they beat throu h tile shadowy grove in
search of the enemy. he island was not more
than three acres in area, but being overgrown
with dense vegetation, it afforded the skulker
every advantage over his enemy. -

The noise made by the soldiers advancing“
through the thicket enabled Harry to deter-
mine their exact position. and getting into
their rear,’he kept along a few paces behind
them. Accustomed to the Woods, the youth
glided along without creating a sound above
the rustling bushes stirred by those that pre—
ceded him.

An hour’s search proved fruitless. The sol-
diers had not seen nor heard one thing of the
enemy, and, under the impression that he had
left the island, they returned to the cabin and
renewed their demand for its unconditional
surrender.

As usual, they were promptly met with a
refusal, when a vigorous and determined as~
sault be n.' The soldiers were more careful,
and too a. position close in against the wall
where the defenders could not reach them.
The only decisive resistance now came from
that enem skulking in the darkness outside.
No sooner ad they renewed their attack upon
the building than that hidden foe.began his
work‘of death. Three soldiers were detailed
to watch, with cocked rifles for the flash of his
rifle, and shoot him. But t ey were always de-
ceived by that ominous “chirp.” If they
sought the enemy at the point whence the sound
came, death was sure to come from some other
direction. '

Captain Kale concentrated all his force
against the cabin door. With the heavy butts
of their muskets they hammered away unceasr
ingly. At first it was like ounding upon a
heavy wall, but the door final y began to rattle
u on its huge wooden hinges. This encouraged
t e besie ers, and they worked away all the
harder. he door grew more and more shack-
ling, and finally burst from its hinges and fell
inward with a crash.

The tall, ma‘estic form of Long Beard con-.
fronted the so diers in the doorway, He dis-
charged his pistol in their very faces, then he
threw the worthless weapon aside, and with his
huce fist fought the enemy.

aptuin Rankin came to the assistance of his
host. Margery crouched with terror on the,
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fell under its awful sweep. i‘ho floor at the i

giant’s feet was piled with strugglingjnen, and
slippery with blood. The vmce ill lxirhy kale
was heard above the din of conflict, urging the
men on. Rankin fell under a blow. Long lleiird
fought alone, and inch by inch the foe pressed
him back into the room; the tide of battle was"
slowly but surely turning against him.

The eyes of the great man blazed with an un-
earthly fire. In the. dim light that pervaded
the room his tall form and Venerable beard ren-
dered him grand and imposing. His very soul
seemed inspired with the majesty of strength.
He seemed possessed of a. (-lizirniod life, and 1
within that nimhiis of unearthly power the
loe disappeared, one by one, bleeding and dy-

ng.

But this was not to last long. A soldier suc-
ceeded in getting in behind the giant and (ll‘fll
ing him a blow upon the hood. llostii'i'uV‘l'l‘ll
forward, and before he could recover lll§~‘ foot-
ing half a dozen men were upon him. ’l‘liiis
overpowered, ho was borne to the floor and >‘c«
curer hound. .

“At last, my venerable Long Beard,” said
Kirby Kale, glaring triumphantly down upon
the old man.

A look of loathing—iiinittcrable scorn—was
the latter’s only response, and even from this
Kirby Kale involuntarily started back.

Neither one affected ignorance of the other’s
identity now—they recognized themselves us
toes to the death!

 

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In speechless wonder he stood and rewarded
the maiden, who, running her eyes about the
room and seeing its disorder, cried out:

“ Oh, where are my friends!”

Harry knewi licr now—tho maiden rnllcd
Tenipy, who had gone to Colonel Miller with
Captain Rankin’s dispatches.

“ I'm sci'ry—-very sorry to say,” the lad re-
plied, recovering from his momentary embar-
rassment, “ that the English soldiers took your
friends away to their brig."

“ Oh, my poor papal my poor sistcrl—it will
kill them, kill them!” she criodfwringing her
little hands~ in a. paroxysm of grief.

“Little woman,” said the youth, with rude
gallantry, “I b’liove I know who you are. I
heard. your sister Margery tell Long Bea rd that

‘einpy had gone 011’ with some dispatches to the
hand-quarters of some colonel, and l guess you’re
the girl, are you not?”

“ Yes, sir, I am.”

‘“ Well, you see, I’m Happy Harry, and am
down here with the govcnir—tlizit's Long Bcnrd.
I’m a friend of liisn, and done all I could to
keep them p’isen English from capturin’ them.
lliit it wasn’t no use. They come too many, and
bu’stin’ the door down, bolted in. lliit I tell
you, miss, a hornet stung a few of them red-
coats, as they won’t hear another buzz this side
of the judgment day. I’ve been tho very edge
of despair—a brink of eternity to several of ’eni,
and I can jist fight for you like a nest of liornits.

, And that 010 dog, Bclsliazzar, ’11 fight for on an-

: {In} (my time; but, as we’re not overly safe here,

CHAPTER XVII.
run WATER sralru’s RETURN.

WE will not attempt to describe what i'ol—
lowed the capture of Long Beard, Margery and
Captain Rankin. They were all bound and
carried away to the boats, the woman ina state
of total unconsciousness.

Kirby Kale searched the cabin through and
through as if for something which he particu-
larly wanted. He ransacked every box, nook l
and corner in the house. In a small chest in I
abedroom he found an infant’s clothes and 
some playthings all carefully folded and lziid
away. A sigh, then an oath escaped the lips i

u n the infantile garments and trinkets.

ith set teeth and clenched lists he sat and
gazed upon them, his thoughts reverting to the
im past. Then, as a mist gathered in the
sinful man’s eyes, that hard, wicked look on
his face softened; his soul seemed smarting
under the remorseless reproachos of a guilty
conscience. ' ’

Finally he dashed everything aside and with
a violent oath strode out of the building.
Just across the threshold he stopped, when he
saw that his men had all gone to the boats with
the dead, wounded and riscners. Terror
seized upon him when he mind that he was
alone in the gloomy night. He trembled—his

tooth chattercd and his soul cowcred. Then ‘
that terrible death-warning, that strange ]
“chirp” rung startling upon the air. With a i

bound the English otflcer reached the darkness,
as a bullet cut through the space where he had
stood a moment before.

He ran with all speed, urged on by the
phantom of vengeance, down to the boats,
where he found the men in a passion of fury
over the loss of every oar left on the boats.
This loss dela ed their retreat all of an hour
until oars cm d be exteinporized from boards
torn from the outbuildings.

In the mean time Happy Harry was busy.
Having stole about, putting in a deadly shot
now and then. until he saw that his aid was of ,
no further avail to his friends,‘he turned, and
hurrying down to the boats, removed and con-
cealed every oar.

Then he crept back into the bushes and
waited until the soldiers had emerged from the
cabin with their captives. Fearing, however,
that there might be others in the cabin, he
waited several minutes, when, true enough, a
man appeared in the doorway. Ho recog-
nized the form by its'outlines as that of Kirby
Kale. Raising lns.r1fle,.and giving utterance
to his warning cry, he fired, with the result al-
ready seen.

Satisfied that the house was deserted, lie‘
crept up to the door and entered. All around
gave evidence of the dreadful struggle; the'
ruin was complete—that home was indeed deso-
late. With a heavy heart he turned to go out,
when Belshazzar uttered a low growl am
crouched in the doorway as it about to spring
upon something in the darkness without.

Harry’s first thought was that one of the l
soldiers had returned to the cabin. .He glanced
out into the night; all was gloom; but a voice i
from out the darkness camg: ,

“Doggy, will you bil 3—here, follow,” it}
gaid, in a. low, musical tone, tremulous with ‘
ear.

“Be still Belshazzarl” commanded the 1
youth, and his dog rose from his couchant po- :
sition and turned aside.

Then the darkness seemed to part, and from
between the walls of gloom a light up ared—
the light, of a sweetnangelic face. ouug
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Miss Tein ile, we’d better get away from here.
Their) son ~corru ted English are on this island,
yit, and are liab e to drop in on us at any ino-
nient.”

“And what became of the young captain—
Mr. Rankin, whom I left here!”

“ He was taken with the others.”

“ Taken !—~whero to!”

“ Them English are soldiers, and jist ofl’ the
Pleiads to the, north, they’ve got a small brig-
of—war, and it’s to that vessel they’ll take your
friends.”

Tcmpy'e eyes filled with tears, and her slen-
der form shook with deep emotion. Her tears
touched Harry’s heart, for his lips quivci'ed, he
sighed heavily, and, turning aside, he drew his
hand across his eyes, and said, in a half—choked
voice:

“Como, Temple, we’d better git out of here
into the night, afore them varmints llnd you’re
here, or all creation will be overturned to git

ou.”

“ I have friends near here,” Tempy replied.
“Wife heard firin in the vicinity of the house
as we approache the island, and as l was ac-

uuintcd with evcr_ foot of the ground, I in-
Sisted on their allowing me to creep up and see
what was the matter, or fear ol.‘ some trap.”

“ Who are your friends?”

“An escort of soldiers under Lieutenant

Render, of Colonel Miller’s command.”
“The great he pin’ hornitsl you don"t say?
thy I‘m 'ist at liomc with them fellers, Tem-
plc, fam, or a muniilccnt fact. I know every
mother’s boy of ’em bettcr’n a book. Just lead
the way to Whar they be; I want to grapple
with ’em.”

Tempy led the way from the cabin, along a
dim put through the undergrowth—down to
the beach where seven men, in the uniform of
United States sold' .rs were waiting.

“My friends or all taken captives,” subbed
Tom )y as the approached the men.

“ 11m eedl t is too bad, but I see you are not
alone,” said one of the men, whose voice Hap y
Hurry recognized as that of Lieutenant Phi ip
Rccder.

“ No, sir, she’s not alone. Lieutenant Reader,”
the vouth answered, stew mm forward.

“ Hn )py Harry, the ild Boy!” exclaimed
the soldiers.

Lieutenant Roedcr gras )9d the youth’s hand,
and shaking it warmly, as (ed:

" VVhat’s the trouble here, Harry? Have the
English got this far down?”

"You mean this fur up, don’t you?—up trom
Satan’s dominions?”

“ Well, have it as you please, but what’s the
trouble?”

Hairy narrated all that had transpired on
Hand durin the night. The soldiers,
completely astoniswd by '8 story, knew not
what course to pursue, so turned to Harry for
suggestion.

“ Hornits!” exolaimed the youth, “ if my
say ’d do the work, I‘d say exterminate the
Englishers and Indians, overrun Canada, and
take possession of the province and run it in
our own )rivate interests. But, as we’re only
a few, we d better do the best we can.”

“ Well, what can we do? that’s the ques‘
tion.” .

“ Let .me see," said the boy, scratching his
bend, reflectivcly. “I guess we’d better hide
this little angel here on the island. then we’ll
take to the lake, row down toward the brig,
and see what we can do about takin’ ppssession
of the institution.” ' .

“Preposterousl” exclaimed Lieutenant Reed-

.“ Thor’s nothin’ onpossible, Lieutenant Phil.

 

squad of men mid captured 'cni. Why, it’
noi hiii’ after you git used to it once. When yo
git to be llll ole. Veteran like me, you’ll buckl
right up and attack a cannon, and if item
londcd you may carry the works. And so it ~
With the brig; if we’ll spruce right up to her
we may capture licr, providin’ her crew is n
aboard.

“ ()li, certainly: but that is not likely to be.

“ It is, lieutenant. likely to he," returne
Harry; “you see, tho dogged thing war afrai
to run down here uniting the islands and be -
without takin’ soundin’s mid so they aanO '9
iip thar and sent :1 boot, down here to reconn
tor; but, ’utwixt mo and Bclslnizzar, we ma
ag< d to extract their boat out from under ’9!!!
and then I talked out of hiy long—ranged men n
to low, when click, click, \\'linng~che-bang wen
their qld iiiiiskets into the gloomy night. 
sounds miulo them up at tho brig think a butt!
was goin‘ on, so down to the islands comean
other boat-load of English buzzards, and at : ~
It While here come another, and so I don’t thl '-
thcrc were many left at the big bout. All of :
score of mm came down, and I can’t see who
moro’n that’s a~doin’ aboard a little ufl'alf ll :
that brig. But, say there are live left: I belie '-
wc can pit in ahead of them as have been he »
and ’snlt the brig and her crew. I do for.
monstrous fact."

“ But those that were here may be at the u ,
ere this.” ' ..

“Nm-y brig; they’re on this island it—I
the t’other end, liuntin’ for oars to padd e th
old shebaugs with. You see, lnbstracted 
cars from their boats when they were at -:
cabin raisin’ hob, and dog my cats if I didn't!
git to put ’cm buck; and it’s causeda bothern . :
delay to ’ein sweet-scented roynlists. If th
git to the boat in the next two hours they’ll - u'
well, and so we might try to take the brl u
out of the wet; and if we manage things ri um
we might cabbage a few of the crew. I’ll :
a. little canoe layin’ rifiht around there and l ‘ l
the way to within hm in’ distance of the brl
when you can stop, and I’ll go on and gitah.
the British rcncgadcand find out how u;
men’s aboard of her. If ihar's two or three - {
such a matter, I’ll give a whistle, and than 
pear” proudly down upon us and board ri-
)I‘l". - -.

“That is- easier pro iosed than exec 
Harr ,” said Lieutenant eeder. _.-i‘

“Great lioppin’ liornits, yes! in course it »
easier to (lo the talk than the work, lieute'nl ~ ;_
But then, we must always lay our lans H"
work up to ’cm. Now, that brig, lieuten ~ -
is not goin’ to be fool enou h to pull up : w
run down here and surren er herself- to
No, sir; we’ve got to go up there anti“!
thunder outcn her crew aired-coats, a in
course we’ve got to get up and buzz. , Here’
seven of you and one of me that’s ' ~
llelshazzar I’ll leave with Miss Tem 16. _ 2
eight is a nod force. Every Yan ea in :w.
to three I ritishers: that makes eight ‘tlm
three, which is forty-four—forty~four red-cop
that we can whip. Just thlnk of it, 'Lieuten ‘
Reeder! But then, what’s the use talkin’? i
only wastin’ time. It you won’t go with me,‘
believe I’ll run up alone and try t e brig j i
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attack a manof-wnr, and come out to ca'n n - ,
I have for an extended fact. It’sa lnl ~ 5'

one can’t tell what he can do till he tries. i 
what do you say, lieutenant—go? or stay!” .3.
Lieutenant Reeder was a soldier but he" i,
no practical experience in the field, there! ,
he used more discretion about venturing n n
unknown dangers than the “ old veteran ~ 
has been under fire, as it were. He was - ‘
and cautious—brave, but not venturesn‘
however, he could not stand still, and hear}, ‘
boy—a more child—like Ha py Harry, o ; '~:4I-
for his assistance in an undertaking whc‘ '“
declared he would attempt alone, if not, a v
iercl’ore the officer consented to his - - «i
t n, and at once prepared for departure.'
Tempy was concealed in a clump of i - . >
and Be shmar left to protect her. She it
somewhat reluctant about remaining mu
but when apprised of the danger to which " i
would be exposed in case she accom a 
them, she yielded to her friends" deslr - ,
ing that sucrcss might crown the expeifi,
and lead to the rescue of her father and sin ‘
The soldiers at .once embarked in their o,‘ =
boat—a six—onrcd barge, creeping away thr‘ we:
the darkness after the indomitable Ha vi» -..
Harry, who, in asmall canoe, headed to '3
the brig-ol-war.

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ALTHOUGH Lieutenant Beeder’s boat w , 1.,
stated provided with three pairs of ours, ‘3
were andlcd by rim-e stirrup, skillful mei‘
was scarce able to keep up wit i the little, we ;.
manned by Happy Flurry. , The dark!) as 
somewhat against the lieutenant’s party, {3
by careful watching they were enabled to.k '
the Wild Bo in sght. In this manmr I
traveled near y a league when the young; u
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""That’s her—that jade of a brig; things
a pears still, too. In course, they’re anchored
tEere with their rags of sail taken in to wait

for ‘fair weather and fair wind.’ But, boys,
it we find the sullen-browed rip deserted y
all but one or two, she won’t be a circumstance
to us. And if we git her, we’ll weigh anchor,
rend sfirts and send her promenading over
1: claim like Julia Fipps racks it oil? for style
' ' down to Cornfield Corner. Now, boys, I‘m
-v- goin’ to pull straight for the English hussy,
and if I git aboard without gettiu’ perforated
, with a composition of metals kicked from n
ten-pound cannon, and find the English lady
deserted, or nighly So, I’ll whistle ()ap’n Kidd
 smart] , and then you come on down and board
'. , her. ’11 direct you then, and if we’ e likon
5', ‘tohavea fight, you shell know it in no sea-
‘ son. So now hold your tongues and lteep yer-
' sslvas ready to march at the tap of the drum."
‘ ' -'.l'he next instant Happy Harry was gone.
' The darkness grew more intense. Nothing
' around couldbe seen save the occasional flash
, of alight on board the brig. All was silent but
i.' the rip le of the waves circling outward from
' the wake of Harry’s boat.
‘93 In dire suspense, Lieutenant Reeder and his
‘ men waited the movements of the young ad-
'- venturer.
Bold] the youth pushed across the water and
‘ alongsi e the brig. A voice hailed him, and he
2 answered. ,
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bri .
| . “gNobody but a small specimen of a boy,” re—
 " plied Harry, boldly, in his reckless, whimsical
‘ " wayofs aking.
‘ Wha 'are you doing here, then?” again do:

‘ landed the watch.
“1 a I“Why, I’m run away from home, and call

myself aptain Kidd, and I’m out sailing on the
lien. I’m a irate—that’s what I am, come to
think; and jigger my buttons if I don’t believe
I'll board you. Got any treasure'i—surrender,
or I’ll open fire on you i”

'- i‘ “Keep your mouth shut, or I’ll put a bullet
‘5 at-tlri-Oi'igh your pate!” was the response of a.
‘ . ' fl, savage voice, that came from above. It
“ was the captain of the brig who spoke so an-
'tholitatively.

“Wbewi’ whistled Harry, softly, “he‘s a
«angular ole blurterin’ hurricane. Spect he’ll
' knock me baldhended when I git within his
frea‘ch, but, blest if I go back without first
going the deck of this old galavantin’ tub.
, y, up there.” and he spoke in a suppressed
tone, “ would you have any objections to takin’
‘ “the aboard?”

ii vi"). Wit out further parleying, Harry was taken
"l" incur the brig and struightwny conducted to
' the captain’s room, which was lit up by the dim
rays of a lantern. \
-. hsca tain was a true t of the English
Hilly, w th dark, morose, an savage features.
, ‘ form was'short and stout and clothed in a
' 'filuyal uniform, that lent an additional air to his
Mastering bravado.
. .He received Harry with a. fierce searching
lance and a disdaint’ul toss of the round
' ,, allot-head, while the lad, hot in one hand and
i“, ‘flfle in the other, bowed humbly to the soldier
’ ofthe sea. '
“Humpb!” sneered the ofllcer, “a. blursted
,l‘wtle Yankee! Who sent you here, sir?”
,, N r‘-7"‘Who?" ejaculated Harr , in apparent as-
m hment; “why, commo ore, nobody. I’m
, »' un rover-boy—I’m a pirate—I’m Captain
‘   am, fora fact.” ' I
1gb,- r',‘ ou’re a young idiot, that’s what you are.
‘ in our looks tell mo that. But, sir, tell me
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-. .' v- _ nce over there?” - - .
“flothin’ worth mentionin’, commodole,”
innocently. ’

‘ =7.H“Don’t lie tome, boy, or I’ll put this blade
:3: w 1 "your body,” said the captain, drawing
V». -- swo . ,

,,‘.“lG1'9at hoppin’ homits, commodoreldon’t
urer me, ‘when I sail, when I sail,’ forI

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fi‘ffiow long has. it been since you left the

P demanded the captain still fiercely.

. y Several days ago, and I never expect to
' 53,. m _ filo. I do not like the shore, inerai.
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 ’12-'1- oed of gold. urrah for Captain Kidd, the
"l," - -~.u of the seui”snd he gave utterance to a
  w M that might have been heard a mile, and

“,1 ~ raised the ire of the British captain to
461‘ .a pitch, that be seized the youth by the
I I and shook him savagely.
' ‘Dldu’tI tell you to keep still?” he roared.
‘ ~, “didn’t I tell you I was: pirate?"
. rm Wear slapped him inthe face. He
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gineral, when he gets wounded, is an awful
old butter. I war out huntin’ with my dear
old god-father, Davy Darrett, when he shot
and hurt a lammin big buck. The animal
keelcd over for dead, and Davy shouldered
arms and marched up to tap the critter’s
throat; when, what should that buck do but
jump up, face Davy, shake his head that way,”
—nnd Harry illustrated the movement by
taking 0 1. his hut, lowering his head and
shaking it fiercely; “ then,” he continued,
“the buck started to’rrls Davy this way, and
sln he tool: Davy in tho pannch, that way,”
andlwith all the force of a young bull, Harry
drove his head into the plethoric stomach of
the UllSUHpCCtlllfi)(lfilCCl' who went down like a
log, completely rcathlcss.

Quicker than a flash Harry snatched the
key from the lock on the door of the room, and
running outside, locked the captain in. Hur-
ricdly ascendinhr to the deck, the youth uttered
two or three shrill whistles that were imme—
diately answered from out the darkness.

“What does this mean?” asked the watch,
approaching Harry.

‘ It means that I’m Captain Kidd, the pirate,
and that I’m master of this brig. "

The mate drew his short sword, but, before
he could use it, Harry dealt him a blow that
laid him prostrate upon the deck.

Five minutes later Lieutenant Reader and his
men were aboard the brig. Before the mate
had fully recovered, he was bound and gagged.
Then they descended to the ca tain’s quarters,
unlocked the door and pushed i open. Like a
hurricane the enraged skipper started toward
the door in blind fury, but the muzzles of seven
American rifles caused him to recoil with sur-
prise and horror. It required but a moment to
convince him of the situation. and he sheathed
his sword in token of submission. He was at
once bound and gagged and locked in the room.

This success suggested a second stroke, and
arrangements were made for the reception of
Long Beard’s captors. Each man took his
position to await their arrival. A deathlike
stillness settled over the brig. That dim light
still hung in the rigging, a guide to those on'the
dark waters. .

Half an hour went by.

Still those eight shadowy forms on deck wait
and watch with bated breath. Sudden] the
dip of oars breaks upon their cars—the ats
are coming!

The Americans nerve themselves for the or-
deal. A severe struggle is imminent. ,inther
and thither, like a dusky shadow fiits iappy
Hurry, trying tocatch a glimpse oi' the boats.

One of them soon came alongside the brig.
The murmur of voices could be distinctly board
below. In a few moments five soldiers ascended
from their barge to the hrig’s deck, with three
captives in custody. The guard was conducting
its prisoners across deck, when cight forms rose
up before and around the English with leveled
rifles, and a voice cried out:

“ S’render, every mother’s brat of you!”

. It was the v01ce of the Wild Boy of the
Woods.

The English, so lately flushed with victory,
were stricken almost speechless. They saw at
a [glance that the brig had been captured, and
not knowing how many of the enemy were
aboard. surrendered without a word.

I And Long Beard, Margery and Captain Ran-
kin were free again!

“ Harry, Harry, my boy, is this your work?”
asked the giant, advancing to his side and lay-
ing his hand upon the lad’s head.

“\Vell, not all of it, gincral. Idone some
figurin’, u. bit of flghtin’, more runnin’ and
skulkin’ and final] came to with my head in
the gru basket 0 this brig’s pussey old cap-
tain, and 1—”

“’Shl harkl” cautioned Reeder, “the other
boat is coming,”

True enoug , the other boat could be heard
approaching, and it is quite probable that its
crew would have met the fate of the first boat,
had it not been for one thing—the first mate
succeeded in getting his month free, when at the
top of his lungs he shouted forth a thunderous
warning to his friends.

Lieutenant Reeder sprung forward and de-
manded the surrender of the party, which
was already within hailing distance; but “the
crew, seeing the trap into which their friends
had fallen, resolved to avert a similar fate,
and turning their boat, fled away over the
water.

This left the brig in the undisputed
sion of the Americans, and without a merit-

ing voice it was declared the prize of Happy
TY- .___.
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wanna was SHE?

Tn captive crew of the “Scout,” this being
the name of the little bri , was at once se-
curely bound and lodged low deck. Then
attention was given to Captain Rankin, who
was still suflering severely from his wounds
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Margery, although a sufferer herself from the
mental tortures and horrors of her late cap-
tivity, rendered ever kindness in her power
to make those around er comfortable.

Long Beard, fortunately, was an old sailor,
and made himself at home aboard the brig.
To him all now turned for further directions,
and he suggested that, as the wind was favor-
able, they weigh anchor and make for a south-
ern ort.

“ nt, look a-here, gineral,” said Harry,
“couldn’t you be induced to drop down to
your island, and see if all’s right there?”

“I care nothing about the island, Harry.
When my children are safe, then I may look
after our home.”

“But, see here, Big Beard, I’ve news for
you," replied the youth: “an angel fluttered
down onto that island after you were cap-
tured, and she said her name war Temple, and
that she war your 211.”

“ Harry, you’re Jesting now. "

h “,1, can prove it; these soldiers came with
er.

“It is so, stranger," affirmed Lieutenant
Reeder.

“Then, of course, I will stop at the island
for her; but how does it come that she is back
so soon?”

“I will tell you ” answered Reeder. “ Colonel
Miller sent me out with eight men to reconnoi-
ter the coast, some fifty miles north of the fort,
and fortunately met your daughter. When we
made ourselves known, she told us where she
was going and for what purpose. I offered to
relieve her of the‘dangerous ourney, when she

ave up the dispatches, and sent two men in
Eer boat back to the post with them, while I
took her in our boat and brought her back to
the island. We landed a few minutes after
your capture.” .

“Thank Heaven! thank Heaven! Then
Tempy is safe, too,” said the old father, oy-
fully. “Yes, of course we’ll touch the is and
and take her aboard. Did you leave Tempy
alone?”

“Yes,” replied Reader: “ we dare not weaken
our little force a single man. We'thought if
we made sure of the brig, all would be well
otherwise, and if we failed and were ourselves
ca tnred, she would be safe. That’s why we
le t her alone on the island. "

“Allow me, lieutenants,” said Barry, polite-
ly, “to say that Miss Tcmple are not alone.

y dog, Belshnzzar, are with her, and you
know gineral, that that’s as much as to say
that half a dozen mi hty good men guarded
her. Bell will fight asfion as he’s able to nag
his tail, and so I think we‘ find the young an—
gel all right.”

“Then we will move at once.”

It required but a few minutes to weigh an-
chor, hoist sail and put the brig in motion. The
giant, assisted by the soldiers, manned the little
craft with remarkable skill, and in an hour’s
Enieghey stood oil’ the island—the home of Long

ear . .

A boat was lowered, and Harry and a couple
of soldiers Were sent ashore for Tempy. They
were gone nearly two hours, and when they re-
turned they were accompanied only by the
youth’s do , which bore many bloody marks——
evidence 0 a terrible encounter with a terrible

foe.

But Tempy—she was not to be found—she
was gone from the island!

THIS news well-nigh crazed the father. He
walked the deck and wept tears of bilterest
agony. Margery, too, was almost prostrated
by the news, while Captain Rankin seemed in-
wardly suffering the tortures of death. He
sprung from his couch, his fecLle body stimu—
lated by the sad tidings, and rushed on deck:
but this strength was unnatural—the force of
excitement, and be soon sunk undcra relapse of
the most aggravating nature.

“We must never leave here till we know
what has become of her, gineral,” Harry said,
after discussing the matter.

“No, no, never!" cried the father. “I can- v

not leave my child, dead or alive, in the hands
of the foe!”

“I’m of the ’pinion that that ornery Kirb
Kale and his crew come back to the island a. —
ter we chased ’em from the brig, and ca tured
her,” averred Harry. “ It is hard] like that
a pack of red-skins have got ofl ere, t ough
sich a thing is possible.” _

They cast anchor and spent the night oil? the
island, and with the first streaks of early morn
Happgmflarry and his dog, accompanied by
Long rd, entered a boat and crossed to the
island. When the rising sun had dis lied
every trace of the eventful night, they gun
the search. ,

They went to where Harry had left her, and
there ound strange tracks in the yielding sall-
One was a very small foo rint, and had, been
.made with a moccasian oot. This discovery
gave Long Beard cause for alarmingapprehen-
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deadly conflict. The ground was torn up;
there was bloodu n the leaves and bushes,
and fragments of c othing strewn about.

“ There, gineral, there is the very spot where
Belshazzar had his skrimnmge, and from looks
of thin they both made the fur fly. Great
hoppin'fornitsl I’ll bet it was lively ’bout the
time they spun through that thicket whar ye
can see some slices of Injin and clumps of fur
stickin’ on the bushes. Bell makes a nasty
fight—chum; away. without any regard for
jugular veins and SlCll machinery. He’s a lee-
tle rude and barbarous-like in sich things.
He’s never had a thorough trninin7 on the mode
of civilized warfare, therefore he has no choice
’bout doin’ up a death for a red—skin. It’s my
opinion, however, that we’ll not find your

daughter here, for I think the red variiiints‘

have carried her away.”

Long Beard groaned in s irit.

“ Oh, my poor child! Wiy does God punish
me so?” he exclaimed, pressing his throbbing
tem les.

.“ on may feel ver thankful that the British
didn‘t get her, ginora . The Indians are ornery
bald-faced varmints, but the do most always
treat young white gals kin y in their way—
especially Slch angels as your Temple is. 'But
that’s no telling what them red-mouthed
foreigners ’d do.”

“I would rather see her die than fall into
Kirb Kale’s power,” roamed the father.

“ ou know that fel or, don’t you, Big Beard?
you fear his wer, don’t you?”

“ He is a emesis to me, Harry.”

“A—what?” ‘

“ A curse that pursues me, haunts me—the
fiend incarnate that made me an exile—a re-
cluse—a hunted wretch 1”

“0h, great hornits, Big Beard!” exclaimed
Harry, sympathetically; ‘you and me have
met off and on nighl two years. \Ve’ve been
like the needle to t e pole to’rd each other——
right there; and I’m awful sorry to hear this.
But, I always thought you’d trouble on your
mind; and, gineral, if Kirby Kale is the cause
of that trouble, I can eradicate it as effectually
as though Kale had aver been born. l’llen-
gage to hoist his hair aforc two more moons; I
will for a polished fact.”

“ Do not stain your hands with human blood,
Harry, however vile it may be, unless in self-
defen e or in a just cause.”

“ Why, wouldn’t it be in a just cause to stop
Ar’n’t lie in battle-array
against our country? Don’t be fly the rag of
En land? while I throw to the breeze the stars
an stri es of ole Hail Columbia Yankee Doodle!
I’m an merican atriot, gineral—uio and Bel-
shazzar are, and or the cause of our kentry
we’ll fight till the cows co 10 home. No, no,
ginernl; [ don’t see a; it won (I be wrong for me
to put Kirby Kale on the list of royal (leid, and
henceforth I shall keep an eye open for that
foreign Johnny jump-up. But then, we must
look further for your Temple—not give up till
we know she is gone."

“Yes; let us' look further. lVe may find
her dead," said the white-bearded inan, sadly.

They moved on, searchln 1* every s ep of
round for some evidence 0 the girl’s fate.

arefully the approached the cabin and en—
tered it. lt iirl been plundered of everything
worth carrying away, and an attempt had been
made to fire the building. They also found
that the giant’s sail—boat was gene, which left
no doubt in their minds but that the enemy had
all disappeared from the vicinity, carrying the
cafitive with them.

appy Harry climbed to the top of the tallest
tree on the island, and from this point he could
command a tolerable view of the whole group
of islands that dotted the lake, The first t ing
that caught his eyes was a thin column of w iite
smoke rising above the tree- tops on an island a

, mile or more north of them.

“ I 59° " 911ml“, ginel‘al ” he exclaimed, “over
there on the furthest isla d.”

“ Indeed! what does it imply!”

“Well, it’s not the smoke of a recent camp-
fire, that’s plain to be seen. The red varmints
that got (your gal might have spent the night
there an left a smo denng camp-fire, or else
Kirby Kale, after turnin’ tail on the ‘Scout’
mi ht have dropped in there to wait for da'.
light. I'll bet it’s one or .t other, and maybe
both. If ihey aro.tliere yit, they will be apt
to stay there till night; they” not Venture out
as long as the brig no_w_ an American fish,
swim around in this Vicinity. So I’ll kee a
watch here, and if I see any change in he
color and volume of that smoke about noon or
after, I’ll know the flre’s been replenished, and
then as soon as convenient, I’ll fl , re 01! in
that direction. And new, gineral d suggest,
in order tothrow them varmmts off their guard,
if ’they are watchin’ the ‘ Scout.’ that you re-
turn to the boat and run southeight or ten
leagues, and return durin’ the night. That’ll
give me more chances to ii ure." ,

“Ha ,~ iny brave boy will does you sug-

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“ Good-by, and may God bless you."

The giant turned and moved away, leaving
the brave little fellow and his faithful dog
alone upon the island.

CHAPTER XX.
THE JEApous PRINCESS.

WE will now go luck and look after Tom y
when) we left on the island, with no one Bit
Harry’s faithful dog: to keep her company. I
was with no little reluctance that she consent-
ed to remain behind, but she knew that both
Harry and Lieutenant Reeder acted in the
! best of faith in leaving her there; so the peer-
less little maiden was concealed in ii cluin ) of
branching oaks, Belshnzzar at her side. the
soon made friendship with the dog by kind
words and gentle caresses. Ho crouched at
her feet as it‘ assuming the guardianship of her
safety.

Tempy sat down upon the gnarled root of
the oak and leaned her head against the tree.
She was tired—almost exhausted. The day’s
journey and the night’s perils had been more
than her feeble strength could withstand with-
out wearing upon lier. Her physical strength
was not equal to her courage. Moreover, she
was laboring under a terrible suspense—she
was troubled about the fate of her father and
sister. Nor was this all that weighed iipou
her. The face of Captain Rankin pale and
wan, yet handsome in its manly beauty,
haunted her young heart like the vision of a
dream, and some aching, longing desire filled
her breast. She wept ovor the fate of her
friends, but when her thoughts reverted to the
young captain, she choked down emotions that
she had never before experienced. Young as
she was; love had fettered her innocent, guile-
less heart, though she was scarcely aware of the

 

act.

She sat thinking, taking no note of time, nor
dreaming of danger, until the dog at her feet
started with a low growl. She listened with
bated breath. She heard a faint rustle of the
bushes near.

The dog growled again.

” Pale-face, pale-face!" suddenly called a soft,
feminine voice, evidently that of an Indian,
speaking English.

. 'l‘empy’s heart ceased almost to beat, and it
was some moments before she could recover sufa
ilcient to reply.

“ Who Calls?” she finally made out to ask.

“ Me—your friend l‘lelecluh, the Indian girl,
the princess of the Ottawns."

“ \Vliat seeks Eclceluh?" returned 'l‘empy,
with an air of relief.

“ Her white sister.”

“Then come nearer, and tell me why you
seek mo."

1 1“,I’3ut your dog growls fierce—he bite Eclee~
a l.

Tempy spoke to Belshazzar, and he at once
became quiet when, with that characteristic
precaution of ier race, the Indian maiden crept
softly and shyly toward Tciupy. As she came
nearer, the White girl asked:

“How did the princess know I was here?”
She spoke familiar y of the Indian girl, for she
was not unknown at the island homo.

“ I saw you come here in the boat of the Long
Knives. followed you.” -

“ Ah! then it was your boat we saw follow-
, ing us like a tiny speck on the water! But why
' have you followed me here?”

“Why does the bird seek its mate in the
woods?’

“Because it loves the one it seeks, I would
think.”

“That is why Eeleelah is here.”

“Then I am the one sought!” I

“No, it is the master of that dog ” inter-
rupted the prinoeSS: “but I would rather ilnd
you now than him,” and her voice lowered to
a. strange whisper.

“ I welcome my red sister; I am in trouble.
The English have robbed my home.”

“ That is not as bad as to rob one’s heart.”

Tern y was surprised at this. reply. She
knew t are was a hidden meaning in t 0 words,
but she could not imagine what it could be.

“I do not understand you, Eeleelah,” she

said. .

“My white sister's tong; is crooked, like all
the pale-faces but the ild Boy’s. Why is
that dog herel”.

“ His master left him to protect me.”

“Then the Wild Boy loves you?”

“ I am sure I do not know. I

“My white sister knows—she has won his
heart—stole it away from Eeleelah,” and her
voice was tinged with bitter sad ess.

Tempy now divined what the irl was aiming
at—that a feeling of jealousy rankled in her
Youn heart like a poisoned shaft.

“Egleelah is mistaken.” she said. “I do not
love the white boy. I never met him till since
the night set in.”

“ That is long enough to learn to lova.
Three suns a 03‘ bad white man struck Eelee-
lall (lawn in be woods because she would not
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wav, and his dog scented the blood where E04
leelnh fell, and led his master to where she-lay
with a cloud on her brain. But he soon drove
it away as the sun in his eyes shone down into
Eeleelah’s heart and made her love him. And
now her white sister would steal that love
awa ."

“I’would not, Ecleelah. stand between you
and the Wild Boy of the Woods.”

“ But do you not wait his coming here?"

“ I do,’7 I‘cplicil 'l‘cinpy.

“You will never see him here," the princess
said. Then she began innrniuriiig, as if to her-
self, growing louder and louder until she broke '
into a plaintivo chant. ’l‘his she kept up for ,
sevvrul lllull'A‘lilH, to the surprise and terror of
'l‘einpy. When she had ceased, footsteps were"
heard approaching through the undergrowth. ,

Ilelshuzzar started up mid growled fiercely. .
Tcinpy shrunk buck and turned to flee but ‘
lieleelah seized her by the arm and held her
'ast. ‘ '

“ \Vliat do you mean, Ecleelnhl” the maiden .'
cried; “release me!”

Eclccluli made no answer. The crashing in "
the undergrowth came nearer; friends of the

rincess were approaching. Belshazzur dashed -

orward and became engu ed in a terrible 
counter with a savage. there came on and
seized the now terrified Tempy. They were elk":
Ottawas, friends of the jealous Eeleelah. ‘, “

Tempy shrieked for help, but no friendly on“ i
save that of Belshamrr heard her. Already the
dog had seized an Ottawa by the throat, and}
together they rolled upon the earth. The con-1;”
test would have been of short duration between;
the animal and warrior had not others cattle to ‘
the assistance of their dying friend. Two of "
them threw themselves upon the dog, and in'
deadly contest whirled and crashed through the?
undergrowth in rapid evolutions. The stru .i»
had lasted fer some moments when the --
managed to elude the grasp of his enemies an v
esca d in the darkness. as if conscious of hill!
{:flblllty to cope with such overwhelming many":

are. 

Tempy was carried away across the island“.
Stopping at the cabin, the savages plundered it 5
of everything that would be of use to th ‘
Then they fired the building and hurried to tho ,.
boats, expecting to be far away ere the bland ‘
cabin lit up the surrounding loom. Tothggt
disappointment, lltl“HV01', the re went out,a' p "
surinising that it had hecn cxiin uislied by 
mics who were upon the island, they push 
westward among the islands. "lal‘

Teinpy sat in the hunt, weeping bitterly. Bil. .
suddenly had the blow fallen upon her that i.
could scarcely realize the terrible truth. -‘«
Eolcelah she, (lill‘ll‘llted all her trouble. ‘ l '
girl’s jealousy had made her treacherous ' '
merciless. She would listen to no reason
truth from the lips of the innocent girl. "

The lndians wure all young warriors, '-
sccnicd not only willing but anxious to obey]; I: :1)
mandates of the fair princess. By herdiredti ‘
they paddled along through the islands, : ,
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11‘ required but a few minutes for the“ '
ngrs to edict a landing remove their,
and fair litlle captive ns iore and beach ‘
boat. This done, the advanced to the'
terior of the island, ant selecting a little w '
ing in the dense woods, went into camp. 'l 9‘, ,
of the hed~clething taken from Tempysih' 
a kind of a lodge was constructed for the ’
five, and Eeleeluh, with every sense she '
by her burning jealousy, constituted he -
watch over the prisoner’s apartment. W?"

In the heart of the forest, where no bro. ‘
air stirred, gnats and inusketoes and insecb
of annoying nature, gathered in sun ml 1 
harassed the warriors until it became t- ' “
to strike a fire or smudge to drive the " '
feious insects away. Surrounded on all M
as they were, by dense vegetation, the it
had no fear of he light straying them. g
Usual )i'ecautions, however, u ere not negl N;-
Guar s were posted at points where an m n
were most likely to approach, and after a, m “
deliberation over thelr'pipc, most of the‘ v -
stretched themselves upon the ound Indi‘
The sentinels were relieved at ntervall, so" 5' 1"
each rformed his share of dut and  M1
his s are of met. There was ut one in ‘5”
party whose eyes were not closed that . m:
- .eleelah, the princess. ‘ She would not ‘
lieved of her watch over Tempy: but sat
whole night throu h, holt upright, a
statue of patience ant unyielding determine.
watching her captive rival as she W!
moaned in a tron iled sleep. 1

Thus the night were away. . .'

With the first streaks of dawn every
was astir. By permission of her
guard, Tempy was conducted. down to
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“Take you to the village of tho Ottawas.” !

“'Why will you not let me go to my people!”

. “ Where are your people? where is your .
home?” ‘ l
‘ “i know not," Tempy responded, burstingl
Into tears.

“Oh, ('eleelah!” she finally cried, “I know i
why you keep me. a close prisoner. You love .
the Will Boy of the Woods, and Think I float-:0 "
-—that I stand between you and him. lie at

, i once umleeeivwl, Eeleclah; llovo another—not

Happy Harry-and if you would win and hold

his love, t'ike nu- io my people. He will Search

for me, and if he linds me the captive of iii-lw- .

lah's pcople,-hc will hate hrr. I know the pale-

face heart.”

, “Does the pale-face speak the truth?" she

i ' asked.

[is “I call the. (Eli-wt Spirit to bearwilnl-vs to

I: .~-. What 1 have . .ii-l being; true," replied 'l‘vmpv.

“ My pale face. sister should have told me this
before—when we stood alone upon the island
., beneath the shadows of last night; then Eclec—

' lah’s heart would not have grown so hard, .‘lli’l

, she would not have called the warriors that

- ‘, :, were near.”

. “ leleelah’s ears were deaf last night with
her feelings of revenge, and she would. not lH--il‘
me. But then, it is not too late to free in” yet,
and then the princess can seek her lover, and l
mine.”

“The young chief, Gray Fox, is your lover
now,” Eeleelab said, (uh-cling ri-gict. “it is

'400 late to free my white sister, for she has In-
come entwined in the heart of the young; chief.

. He will make her his wife when he returns from

1 the war-path.”

At this juncture a. warrior appeared and re—

quested the immediate return of the maidem to

, can) , with which request they at; once com-

9 .
A fire had been lighted, and a. number of wild
, pigeons, procured in the woods, had been dressed
,/ and roasted for their meal. Tempy did not 1‘0.-
tuse to eat, for the roasted birds were too tempt-
ing to her hunger. She ate with relish, llii’l
4. Elle tender food gave her new strength and new
0 9.
' ince their interview by the water, she no—
ficed that Eeleelah had honours sorewhat
. downcast and thoughtful. Tempy’s Words had
nfully impressed her.
Breakfast dispatched, all but five or sivi
warriors entered their boat and pushed (11’
among the islands, evidently on some prcdi-
on.

Tempy was consigned to her lodge, and a
Warrior detailed as guard, for the princess
,i Deemed to have lost all desire to perform that
. dut further., I
j» . e day were slowly on; it was past noon,
in? whenithe faint report of a rifle on an adjacent
. island enlisted the attention of the red-skins. As
r. it was not repeated, however, no serious appre-
hensions arose, and all relapsed into their wont.
ed silence and patient waiting for the return of
the expedition.

The afternoon had worn nearl away when
he patter of feet suddenly sturte the encamp-
ent. To the surprise of all, a large dog
Handed into their midst. It Was Belsuazzar,
the dumb companion of Happy Harry. l-Ie
flopped, and looking imploringly up into the
. vages faces, uttered a low hark, wnggod his
hi1, then, turning, bounded away again into
the woods.
’The red-skins were awe-stricken by this un-
ected movement of the great mastili’.
eelab uttered a little cry of surprise, and
toher feet. For a moment she gazed at-
1" the fleeing dog, then s‘arted to follow him.
13 she had scarcely taken a dozen steps are
,‘ 'dog again appeared in sight. He was
hiking backward and appeared to be drag-
-, ' something that taxed his power to its
inhth extent.
' an instant every savage was on foot.
in»: who was nearest the dog, suddenly
flared.” a cry, that was repeated time and.
| in until it was prolonged into a piercing
_~ rick. She recognized the. object that the dog
w: dra. gipg. It was a lifeless human body.
#wns t e body of Happy Harry, the “‘ild
y of the Woods! He was covered with blood.
is hair was all soaked and drnggled. His face
, as covered almost beyond recognition with
fifth and gore. I-liselotbiug was tattered and
‘tpm and thoroughly saturated with blood.
Es dumb friend had seized him by one leg,
and in this manner dragged Him along the
gh ground, through the brush, into the very
0f the Indian campl

 CHAPTER XXII.

_ . A “ BLOODY ” TRlCK.

"ll hmvages stood gazing in astonishment on :
r.i. bloody, lifeless form before them.

.fleleelab, thh princessset up a chanting wail

rung in mournful. solemn and weird ca-

througb the woods.

shamr crouched by his young master’s

and howled iteously. ,

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time previous. But his scalp beint: untouched
was evidence that no lndian had slain him.

They speculatel some time over the manner
of his death, and were about to institute an
investigation, but .Belsliayzar refused to allow
them to touch the body.

A young warrior seized his riilenud wa about
lo shoot th\ (10;: when Evil-chili inlv fci'cii.
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lly lu-r orders a blanket was thrown ovu- the -.

body, and then she. sat down by l and began
chanting a sacl and niournlful riquiein to
which Belsliuzzar but the (lccp bass of his
V0200.

Tcmpy looked out upon the. scene, and h-'r
own heart grew aiinoss hopclrss at sight of
the bloody lace of the boy scout lying lyvf'n't'.
her. She turned away, sat down and wept
bitterly.

The warriors became very anxious about the
manner of Harry’s death and set ofl’ to follow
the. track where he. had been dragged along.
They followed it some ten rods from camp, or
to the mint where it appeared the dog had
lll'll’l'tnlflfll his laborious work. Even here
there was no sign of a struggle, but in the weeds
at one side was found the body of a large squir—
rel. It had been so recently killed that it slill
retained some animal heat. It had been shot
through the head with a small bullet, and its
throat had been cut with a knife. Having
made this discovery, the warriors exchanged
significant glances and started back toward
camp as fast as they could run.

In the mean time matters had assumed a
lively condition at camp: the warriors were
scarcely out of sight ere the blanket that
covered the body of Happy Harry was thrown
aside and the supposed dead boy rose to a. sit~
ting postm'e and gazed around him, one of the
most dolet‘ul and distressed looking; creatures
imaginable. His dirty, bloody fnoo wreathed in
a smile, his blue eyes sparkling and his hair
hangin down in Wet, druggled locks over his
fuce~—; l conspired to give him a look that
would have provoked any one into laughter.

“ (lrca't hornitsl” ho exclaimed. “ Muniiiccnt
,Moscsl what’s all this you‘lin’ about? A dead
man can’t rest in peace—hope it isn’t ole Gu-
briel’s trumpet that Parson I’eus used to spout
about. Mortal agesi whar be it”

Eclcclal) started back aghast and Teinpy
rUshed from her prison-lodge.

“Hui-keel not a word above a whisper,”
commanded the youth, springing to his feet;
“I’m here to save you, little Temple. I am,
for a fact. Now come on; foller me as fast as
you can.”

“Will you not go along, Eeleolah?” asked
Tempy, us she walked by the princess.

The terrified look on Eclcelah’s face softzned.

“ I am not wanted 1” she replied.

“If you are friend?, to us, come along,” said
Harry, “and we’ll tul ; on the run.”

The three at once set off—going directly
north.

“How came you in this predicament Tempy?”
Harry asked.

Tempy explained all, even to Ecleelah’s
jealousy.

Harry smiled and said to the princess:

“ I am glad to know you are a friend to me,
Eeleelah, for ldid do you a good turn once;
and now if you would do the fair thing by me
you will promise to see that your n bite sister

ets safe back to her friends. [ am not quite
gone with this island yet, so now let Ecleeluh
prove that, she is my dear friend by taking her
white sister in yonder canoe to the big boat
lyin toward the rising sun.”

“ elcelah will prove that she is true.”

They up reached the shore where a light canoe
was bcaCied. Harry at once launched the
craft. The. twomaldensentered. Eeleelah took
the paddle and drove the canoe out into the wa—
tor, across the channel, and mught shelter be-
hind an adjacent island—a movement mode by
Harry’s direction in ordrr that the savages
might not see which course they took.

A yell in the vicinity of the nmp told Hurry
that his trick had been discovered, and warned
him of danger. With Belshuzzur at his heels,
he crept away through the undergrowth and
finally secreted himself—to admit the move-
ments of the red—skins—in a thicket where he
had left his rifle and accoutermcnts an hour
previous.

“Great hornits. Belshazzar.” he said aloud to
his dumb companion, “I feel awful squalmish
with these. ’ere dirty duds on me. That )oor
squirrel wasn’t born for nothin’; besides, I’ll bet
’em red yogi-ants will find it and gobble it right
down, hide and hair. tooth and nails—not the
blood, though——we got that. You did your part
well, Belshazzar~you done it proper right, you
did, for 9. noble fact. Glad I am that you did-
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out top canines 1:. a light. But,

‘ what yowlin’ nu! yelpiu’ as that ,
“Ilic’s smut. on L:.:. xii 41: she is  a loyin’
fact. If she no. ’i an lugm she‘d not be such
an all—killingr ugly gal. But that l-lood—that’ll

‘ show “Hull on all. orcasions. .You can’t tame u.
i fullbluoth-(l lngin morc’n you can fly I]; Guinea.
= “'hy. jint see about the Sort ' _\. Tth
‘ tool; a young); pup lug-in boy to i he, and fed
‘ him up well till he :10: to ten years old. “hen
he turnivil in one «iayund Shulle Ila: whole
family, iaurut up the house, stole the led. his;
in the lirij.;lsluii'limill. and sought llio land of his
forefalhers and soon income a iiii;;ls‘y cluiul‘.
Now that’s lnjin, ll: 1“. :Izzzu‘, it i:=, l'r'r a p’izen
fact. lint ihu; an lujin has some ioimr, :«i'iA-r
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sweet—scentwd touch-mi- noli and 1.13.: on mine
and tl:e;1irl’s trail, he is for a incl.”

The youth straightened liinrilf up and
uttered a sound that s cmed to 01.1110 from be-
yond the red—skin. ’l‘hu wary ioc ii;.lencd iu«
tcntly for a moment, then bent his course and
glided away in the direction from whence the
sound emanate-l.

“ New," sci/l Harry, in a low tone, as if his
dumb coiixpnnion could eoniprchmid what he
said, “hear me witness, ole il'll‘liil, that I am
not the most bloodthirsty Yanl're lio)‘ lirin’.
I could ‘a’ shot that red-skin drle if l’d ’a’
wanted to. but liun one gets: tin-:1 of blood,
they do, for an ctirnal fact. I‘Vc SI." ‘d enough
of it the past two “tel-Ls to floni the li; ; (st war-
vcsscl on the sen. ‘If it is ncccmary, why, l’ll
shoot; but then it don’t do much good to kill a.
red skin. It’s like killin’ a muslzectcr—iwo
will come to see the spot where he fol]. and sip
from the hole already bored by his (load i‘r.i nd.
And so the thing: we ;:~; salt one. and Mn» 711
come to avenge him. ut there is om llill'lft’ we
must do Bel. and thal’s to see “lu‘llzrr Cap-
ti‘ng Kirby Kale  on this island. \‘i- don’t
want to foolish with him, for link a iignlm‘
~ole dcvil-cnteherr. I know it, mu; “m glprised
to see dear cl" Lug: Iiculd nfen'd oi Lim.
But ucvvr mind: \w'll spring :2 leak in his hide
it we ever get half a chance, we will, fer a gos-
pel fact.”

With all the caution that the ho could inas-
ter, he crept solLly away throng) the Lashes
toward the chirp. He soon came to where he
could command a full view of it. and saw three
or four savages deliberating cwr numbing
that was occasionally empliusim-d by violent
gestures. The youth was satisfied that he was
the subject of tluir conversation, and wnvluced
of it beyond a doubt when he saw one of them
hold up the dead squirrel from which he had
procured the blood to cover his face and hands.
A smile passed over his roguish countenance,
for he saw they had detected his trick.

In the course of two or three minutes several
scouts made their appearance in can p with a
look that implied dissatisfaction. In a few
minutes more the chief of the party, Gray Fox
and thrsc. who had accompanied him, returned
from his expedition among the adjacrinL islands
to learn of the trick: ry of the pale face boy and
the less of the fair captive, as Well as absence
of Eelee-lah.

Captain Kirby Kale came to the island with
the chief.

The impression prevailed. that Happy Harry
had taken Eeleelab a captive, and when the
whle innlter concerning the CClllllliT of the
supposed dead youth and sutsc ucnt release of
Tcmpy was narrated, it sudden y occurred to
Kaie’s mind that he had seen a canoe, with
two or three occupants, pass around the adja—
cent northern island, a few minutes before he
had met the chief’s party. They were so far
awaylhut he could not make out who the
persons were. but naturally supposin they
were some of Gray Fix’s braves. he (id not
give the matter a sodoud thought after the
canoe had passed from View. Now he was satis-
fied that the canoe contained the fugitives and
the missing princess, and so a boat was immedi-
ately (lisp!) tched in pursuit.

Harry knew what it all meant, but felt satis-
fied that the maidens were beyoan danger of
being overtaken, and so be lingered in the
woods, his eyes upon Kirby Kale, and his fin-
gers upon tb trigger of his rifle. He sought
the villain’s life in behalf of Long Beard, and
yet there was that natural fear. and dread at-
tending the taking of human life that causod
him to hesitate. He could not deliberately
shoot a. White man down without justification,
and in entertaining these conscientious samples
be lost the opportunity of riddirg Long Beard
~of his foe, for Kale tamed and moved away,
followed by the savages.
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merit, and entering the camp, heaped evvi‘y i in: what llo do to avertdiwovery. 'l‘lic canoe

combustible article in it upon the smouldering
Quilts, blankets, l'l‘nlhi'l‘dwlls and (infill.
ing, plundered from Long Board‘s cabin, wm-e
piled in one promiscuous lll‘l') upon Luv. red
coals. A huge voiuuic nl deli minke atom-o
iii-gun to roll up among the, Jr. mp; 5mm,
in the wind over the island. 'i'lw l'ciid, 42 illiiig
Smell of burning wovl and l'wtlh: in liill‘li the
air. it reached the la” n <ii,‘:."i1",' 1[5';'\'i.; [,i'
the red-skins, and bronchi, Hum. ii; my; [mi-k to
camp to find thvir slob. (hm pi; um! um,“ “H
aflaliie, and lhe lill"'ll ll‘_\' com;

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possibly could in LliH 1‘(:‘l skins, I ..ppy Harry
resolved toquit the island and strike out for l‘2o
brilr. So he l‘l‘l‘lli' around to where the ciiciiiy
had licnclicl l'll ii' canoes, and sch-cl izig liic
Ilghhl‘slil'lllh rkwl therein. The island iii-:i.'—
est to the one JlNF hill. laid oil: to the south, and
solic Illiliio l'oi' that williall his nii'iht. ]L was out
of his course, it is lruc, but ill: \. lrdli’l‘l to gel. l‘l

bind the nearest island, and endeavor to low p
it between him and the enemy. 1:! Soon
reached the island, and passcd around it, as: he
believed, unobserved:Jiiil}, to his surprise and
horror, he suddenly discovered the savages iii a.
sfx-ozii'cd barge coming round the island from
the other direction directly toward him.

The youth was almost horror-stricken. Ho
scarcely knew what he could do, and, for a mo-
ment, hold the paddle motionless. But no time
was to be lost. The savages were not over forlj.r
rods away, and were skimming along at n. I‘npi'l

ace. In his flurry and excitement, Harry laid
own his puddle and took up_ his rifle, ut ii
second thought convinced him that to tire upon
the red Skins would only add new dangers to hi:
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CHAPTER XXIII.
fink/iii! iiiucniniwnn nuns A BATH.

MEANWHILE whore wcre lrlclcclnh and 'I‘cnipy.‘
and had the princess been true to her promise
to Harry! She had shown what she could do
as an enemy and rival, now let us see what she
could do as a friend.

Eclw-lah was skillful in the use of the paddle,
and sent the canoe gliding swiftly through the
water. She labored with all her strength to
put an island between them and her red friends,
and when she had linnlly accomplished this suc-
cessfull , she permitted the canoe to come to a
stand t at she might gain a moment’s rest. Her
address and demeanor had assumed a. different
phase toward Tcmpy. The cold, relentless look
of a jealous capior had vanished. Her speech
was softer, and tempered with the kindness of a
friend and protector. Her whole soul seemed
set upon the accomplishment of the mission in«
trusted to her by Happy Harry. Her wild eyes
roamed rostlessly around like those of a slur-
tled fawn. She was ever on the alert for dan-
ger, or rather that which would defeat hcr cs-
ca 6 to the brig-of-war.

esuming the paddle, she pushed cautiously
around the island, and was nearing the eastern
side. when she suddenly discovered. a succes-
sion of waves circling outward from behind
the island. She felt satisfied that they were
made by some moving object, and fearing it
might be made by a party of her friends in
pursuit, she turned the canoe in toward the
island.

Along the shore at this point grew a fringe
of dense, wild rice plants. It grew out in the
water. and was in places five feet high, making
an admirable place of concealment; and into
this miniature wilderness the princess drove
her canoe. When unable to use the paddle on
account of the stalks, she pulled the canoe for-
ward b means of the plants, but so carefully
replace every stalk that the boat left no trail,
and when some ten feet in from the open water
they came to a halt.

The plants with their loaded heads hung over
and around them so densely that they were
completely screened from view on all sides.
They were blended With the shadows and «it
the same time could command a iartial view
of the open lake. Iookms through t c sieve-like
openings among the stalks. _

Both of the fugitives listened with hater}
breath for the approach of the unknown boat,
but not a sound save tho Wave like rustle ol.‘
the reeds could be heard for some length of
time, Finally, however, they heard a. crash-
ing sound among the ilants before them—:1
sound like that which tieir own canoe made
when they entered the rice thicket. .

Eeleelah’s eves started Wildly; sho listened
with all the intensity of her SOlll,’l]CI" hand
raised as if to invoke silence, her lips partud
as if to speak, and her whole l'ornrbent slight-
ly forward and trembling with the intensity
of anxiety, like one of the graceful reeds around

or.

1;; What is it, Eeleelah’l” asked Tempy, in a
w .,

“ ngerl danger!” returned the princes.“-

-‘ a i, l Thghiéom? crew louder. which made it evident

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was creeping closer and ('l1i~(’l‘»rllii\\' so close

Long Beard, the GiantSpy.

that they could make out that it contained i'ed— ‘

skins.

With dilated eyes mid quivering lips tho girls
sat lll=iLiUllll'--,Z~', watching and listening.

- inl still the boat creeps on—now so close
lhal lil‘. _
ihn lips o." :1 wai . ior, ir/io [IL/8' dis-coin n cl sonic—
Hu',.r/.’

Mil-vial? limi',‘
rI-aliz 'll .; ii slln
oil. Sim ii-l’dliu—n‘illl‘ heard (ill ('.\('lllllli|ill‘il
pans from lip lo 'ipm' l. mu: iii llic :ippri whiny;
nilioc. 'Ihi-ro nut-Lt hm/c bcci: i'oui‘oi‘ the war-
riors—flare Il‘l‘l‘l' four, for the canoe suddenly
crashed y'ast Hi: In so close that the plants wav—
ilr: n'imvo their lands wcro (lislurhi-d.
«‘ ui'irly enouax‘i (very wari'jn's lH.‘.'llI was
cd—lie “as ||‘()1iii.‘," soul hwai'd :lllli 1““,‘fi'll'li-
inga (inllHG column oi smoke l'lhlll;_',' from the
'g-iiicl'oi' the grove in which their caiiipwas
iomtcd. l‘licy sci nil-d to know what it implied,
and in the lllOllll'ill} ol' cxciLe-iiicnt forgot the ob-
ject of illl‘il‘ N‘lll'l‘ll and paused on, leaving the
iiiai lens lvliiirl tliciii.

il‘.‘l-‘l‘l£lil drew a long breath of relief, and
'l‘ciizpy unfolded “(‘1‘ hands that had been
(‘lllsped over her iii-art to still its wild throb—
bin":

'l he princess wailcd till the sound ol.’ ihe rc-
Ircaling canoe had died away, then she 510...]
up in the boat and gazed around or: r the wil
corners of rice plants.
li'ii‘, unless ll:o smoke ascondiiig from the island
sonfli i: 'J‘I Lave lwen considered such.

’l‘czziri s.in it, and asked:

“ \‘y’liiit dies it mean, l‘lcleolab?"

“I do not ltnow. Suiiicthiiig is burning.
The Vfil'l lioy of the \Voods is tliri'e yet. He
may hare ' ~:, lire to the things taken from your

 .‘r‘st viii.”

. ~ . ,gbi-d s‘ully, regretfully.

ilzzh ii(‘_"llll pulling the canoe along
ill'~ u';h tho .~.\v:iiiips, moving gradually ont-
ward :owai'dl.!ie opcii lake. They wcro nearly
oiil; ol'tho thicket when the boat touched against
something in lho water possessed ol’ life. A
pair of human hands reached out and seized the
cunwaii‘s ofthe canoe. A man in the water,
alziiost to his “dist. p'icrcd up into their faces
wiih a. half-sinister lei-r. He was a person past
l'oi'i‘y, with a rough, bearded i'.':(:(‘, ulnl dressed
in a hunter’s gnrb. Ho carrii-d no weapons i-x-
09:26 a brace ct' pistols, the niuzzlos of which
just reached the walcr.

It was the notorious traitor, Bill Mncklewce.

“Gee—glory to hcavins!” h'i OK"l:lilll(‘(i, as
he drew the boat closer to him. “ l'm dashed.
ghid ou’ve conic along, liltle folks. I’ve been
stain in’ here a month, if l’vc stood a second
Iliave. b_ ci’acizcy. I jis‘t escaped four dashed
or’nary Ingiiis. They’d ’a’ salted me right
down if they had beheld rue—say, can’t I ride
with you, leclle darlin’? I’in dashed near dead
-drowi‘icd—di~solvcd, and I know you would
not refuse an olo man.”

The maidens both regarded this queer speci-
menof liuiinuiil with distrust. Ilis counten-
ance was enougi to provoke suspicion in tho
keen-sighted princess. He was an entire
stranger to the girls, and his presence there
led them to believe that he was in lingne with
the English and Indians, and had been stu-
tioned there for the express purpose of watch-
ing for them. Before they could express u.
poi-mi «ion or refusal to his dcsire, he threw
him it into tho canoe with an case that was
rcnnrkabfe for a man of his ago.

The maidens were dinnfounded by his bold-
ness, and sat regarding him with silent amaze—
mciit.

“ Thanks f n' your generosity, gals," he' said,
with that same leering expression bordering
on the grotesque and comical; “now, where
in mercy’s name will you take me to!”

“ lVe’i'o going to the brig-of-war on the lake,"
said Teinpy.

“lVlizil! holy pokeisl that English brig-of-
wurl Dish it to thunder, are you allies of
Great Britain! 1'1 you be, I’ll get out of this
boat if I drown.”

“ 'l‘he brig is English, but has been Captured
recently by the Americans.”

“Oh, exquisitodc-light! it was, oh? Now I
breathe easier—a dashed sight snporbcr. I
don’t like the English. The royal hounds
lfiilled my grandfather at the battle of Bunker

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you lot me take that paddle and do that work. ‘

‘iii stronger and tougher and a dashed sight
uglier than you be. H] jisl push this boat
across this water llkl‘ n, .sl-cal; ,ol‘ lightnin’
across the licnviiis. I'll do the paddle a
dashed sight supci'bcr than you ever drcampt
ol‘.

Eclcehih gave him the paddle and changed '
him. He tool: his position, and
wilh ii grand flourish ol‘ the blade sent the
ci‘al'l. out into the open lake, and Ihcn turned it
'i/jwn Ihc nirtidi'n‘s course .’

“'l‘ho iii ' boat is liiis wuy,”said Eeleelnh,’
poiii’. iiig toward the vast. ‘
"Yis, I know it ' - lint we’d better go
around illir‘. way, l'oi' i .ai"s a dashed lot Of
lngins 7round thsz way," and the man paddled -'

()ll.

"Triviilnh flhllli'ml ilri‘lll'tl 'l‘tmpy, her eyes Z
fl: :-biiig wilh a lei‘i'ille lirc. llicii she turned',
in Mlll‘JilOWl‘ll agan. and reaching carefully '
l‘oruni'il, lil'iul h tli his Iiir‘ilis from his girdle."
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“How?” (lmwlod the man. Somewhat snr- i

Pl‘ist‘d by the question; “why, i took a boat
and come down here to ruminnte among the
Pliudrcs—hoard it war a dashed superb place
for an ole man. A million Injunst actual
count. gals. big as it may seem, got after me
the very second I landed, and so I had to
swamp 1t. Lord! if I‘ve been there a. minute,
I’ve been there a month, a roostin‘ post for
Hazards, frogs. serpents, and even a shark a
mile long come up the other day and acted as
though he Wanted to sun hisself; but I squirt-
ed some amber into his eyes, and than you‘d
rt to as him hump hisself away-from,mo.

cums ill'i’l], Lillrt he failed to (litect the heft .
until Eclccliih rose ’lo her feel; and cried: "'
“ Stop, pair-face!” ‘ ‘.
liliicklowoc, vFlio sat with his back to both '.
ol tiltigil‘lfi,‘iul‘ll(‘(l his head and glanced over
his shoulder, tolicliold two iislols pointed fun:
at. llis' head. The princess- icld one. and Tern—‘1
py'thc other, and the lock that flashed in the l
of tho girls, convinced him that the ~.‘
lii,‘ as deli‘riiiincd in their intention as the x"-
ncrrcs worosrcudy. lie started as though 85.
,knil'o had been thrust into his back, and...
throwing up his arm as if to protect his face}:
Cl‘il‘dhuli: ' 1

“Oh, Lord, dash it! don‘t! don’t!” and hi
felt for his pilitols.

“ let out, or you will die,” Ecleelah  ,-
calnily, yet with a terrible earnestness. .“

“ Why, little un, (lash it, what do you mean".
Be kecrl'ul with 'eiii ’ci'e thingswthey’l‘i
p’iscnous.” ""
' “(let out ordie,” repeated the princess. “Your
lied to us; you are our enemy, and we know
how to shoot. If oni- llllilS, the other will now.
Get out, for you \\ ill die if you slay here."

“ ()h!” gimnml llic astonished renegade, and"
he laid down the paddle mid Hpiirmcd about u 1
il' in agony. lie was (‘Ul’llpleihly outdone. HO'
saw that the princcss was a dangerous I'SOII'.
totrillo with, and he was rot in a posit on-tol
seize and disarm her before Temp , no less r09)
solute and determined in her longs, could fir...“
In fact, to saw hislil'u, he could FCC no way 016W
cape but to (lire-y tho princess’s command; so 11"
throw one foot ovcr lhe side of the boat, and u
soon as it touched the wafer, lli' raid, plvndin lyk"
“Great mortal Rcrleeiiierl girls, don’t so?! "
me to drown myself. The lake here isa mm
dce if it’s an inch, and I can't swim click»
Das i it, if». fellcr can’t expect mercy from "
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“ Get out—one minute more and I will fire .
said the relentless Eeleelnh. ,‘ '
The man threw both feet over the side of t" u
boat, and‘ holding on to the gunwale, began low:
crinLr himself slow] into the water. 4’ i
“ Don’t you see Iiii poin‘ clear under?" he ‘ l .
claimed, as he sunk inch by inch; “ als, till n‘
no bottom here. This lake’s ten miles dqep' 3*
it‘s an inch. But, oh, Lord! llCVU‘ mind, ~ ~ '
dashed, relentless ei-ealuresl I’ll haunt you‘ ‘
you’ll see my poor, ole face starin’ up from - « ‘ f
cold depths zit you all your lives. Dash it, I
sure to drown; I tell you this lake’s 
miles deep if it’s an inch—00gb! 00 hi” ‘4 ‘ .,
While thus expostulmin upongiis up .- "
fears of drowning, a wicku fire of resenlm ~V «
burned in the vilhiin’s e 'es. Eeleelah, h 
ever, saw it, and divinin ' is urpose to u i '* 
the canoe, Fllt' rapped him slim ly over 't
knuckles with her pistol, causing im to ho. 3
with rage and rclrnsc his ho (l at. once. ;  i ..
Like a Icaden “eight lic sunk from View, 1 . '
before he could rise to the. surface again, « v
princess took up the paddle and sent the i i '7"
flying over the waters. ‘ "
\thn several rods away they lanced hf ,
and saw the I‘l donbtnblc Bill Mucklewee pop' 
to the surface. spouting water like a woun ls‘
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glanced around him, and when he saw t' .

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‘ maidc'nn fleeing over tile'luke several rods aw --

llvdlflzflll cursing and shouting at the top of ‘
voice: 7
A grim smile lit up the face of Eeleeil
while Tempy regarded the whole with I --
glad feeling of fear and deli rlit. "
The princess ph‘rd the paddle vigorously,
soon they had passed the Island and were - . .
ing away toward the bl‘i"lif~Wlll‘. The . ii.
glimpse llicy had of Muck ewee, ho was v-j.‘
iiigin the water to his chin, shaking hi. 
thrcntmiingl y toward them, and no doubt
ingforth vile hm rec-m ions.
“ Really, Eelceluh, you are as true and hrs.
a friend as you were a cold and cruel one u -
Tempy flnu 1y said, when their proximity : ‘
the brig assured them of safety. ' , Q I ‘
‘p‘Whe-n Eelcelah promises to béa - nd ‘
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English soldiers that skulk behind walls and in
holes when they fight.”

“ I will never forget my red sister’s kindness
in saving me”

“ You owe me nothing. I thou ht ou loved
the Wild Boy of the Woods, and le you into
trouble. It was my duty to lead you out, and
to our—”

“Ob, Eeleelahl" suddenly cried Tempy, as

‘ they neared the brig, her eyes sparkling with

manifest joy, “I see my dcar papa on board

‘ . the brig! That is he with the long, white

.. ‘ beard!”

Z “I am glad my white sister will soon be
safe and happy with her friends,” declared the
princess.

In ten minutes more they ran alongside the

‘ brig, and were taken aboard amid the wildest
shouts of joy.

' The reunion of Tempy and her friends was
most joyous, and among the first to greet her

, r , return was Captain Rankin, who, pale and weak,

! , was out walking about on deck.

But in the midst of the joyous meeting, a man
5 suddenly cried out:
i i “A boat! a boat.”
3" , “Whereawayl” ucstioned Long Beard.
, u !‘-‘ Just rounding t )0 island—With one or two
}, inocupants. It is bearing this way rapidly—
- ' es, and there comes another boat in pursuit of

1 9 first. Look, friend Long Beard.”

Long Beard took the glass belonging to the

? brig. and scanned the two boats closely.

' f Ay, bfi' heavens!” burst from is lips,

1 “Happy arr is in the first boat, and he is

- boin pursued a number of save es in a. six—

‘oarefi bar 9. oys, now is the time to try

 ‘ your ban 8 at the guns. Be quick or Harry
' . ' will be overtaken l”

V - ‘4 " The men flew to one of the brig’s heavy guns

 l with the alacrity of old gunners, and in h mo-

' . ment later a cloud of smoke :puffed from the
lyessel’s side, and a thunderous boom rolled

’ Plumes the waters of Lake St. Clair.

CHAPTER XXIV.
- A LUCKY SHOT.

-H.APPY HARRY struggled as he never did he-
lore to escape the pursuing savages. There
‘ .was no dodging them on the open water, as he
7" “could easily have done in the forest. Two miles
[or more separated him from the brig, and with
the enemy but a short distance behind, he felt
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. He was at home on the water, as well as on
‘tha land, and handled the paddle with all skill,
‘ What the pursuers had the advantage of him. They
(Were in a six—cared barge that belonged to the

, -of-war—the same one in which irby Kale

~i 'nnn aportion of the vessel’s crew had escaped
'2‘ lathe trap set for them by the Americans.

The chase became one of fearful interest to
lhoth pursuel's and pursued. The savages, ever
"and anon, uttered wild terrific whoops calcu-
l’lated to strike terror to the fugitive’s heart and
'paralyze his efforts. Bclsliazzar stood up in the
marjof his master’s boat, and barked fiercely
at the pursuing foe. Now and then Harry
rlv‘glanced back over his shoulder to note the
'wpt‘oxlmity of his pursiiers, and when he saw how
.l 1" ,pidly the distance between them was lessen-
 " ' , his hope deserted him. But his courage
i! 1Iieverflincliedflmd he pressed on with all his
‘  htand main.
uddenly he hears a voice yell out:

Stop! stop! you little wretch, or we will
ddle you with bullets.”

" It was the voice of Kirby Kale, but the youth
. ‘ duo attention to the peremptory demand.
ifl’kept boldly on—liis exertions redoubled by
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4,4" - e enemy could have slain Harry, but they
. med so confident of capturing him alive that
‘ elforbid flrin upon him. He hadnse for
boy, hence is desire that he be taken
as
y finally ran clear of all the islands and
out in plain view of the little war-vessel.
[Why this time the enemy were within a few
' of the young borderman, and Kale was
hing at the top of his lungs for him to
and surrender, accom anying his demand
a. threat. But this id not scare him at
‘He pushed on until he saw that further
' were useless, when he dropped his paddle,
rising to his feet, faced the enemy.
0 next instant the prow of the swift—mov-
-ba.rge struck the canoo aft with a crash,
3. it almost in two. Both Happy Harry
his d were precipitated into t 9 water
' th sin ng from view. The dog soon rose
the surface and struck out for safety, un-
' ‘ r by the savages, who were on the alert
,. s a hoe of Harry. But, to their
n- or an surprise, the youth did not appear.
0 moments wore away into minutes—the
the limits for human endurance beneath
water had expired, and still no boy arose to
surface. ~
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of the boy. Aside from the waves {circling out
from the boat, the sea was still and the least
object was visible for many rods around. Kale
thought it impossible for Harry to have swum
beneath the water beyond range of his vision;
but to make certain of this, they began moving
slow] y outward in a circle, searching the water
around them carefully. For half an hour they
kept this up. Kale shook his head in a puzzlcd
manner. He could not exactly understand the
inystcry of the lad’s disappearance. Even if he
had been drowned, the body should have risen

to the surface at least three times before sinking ) the projectin side of the canoe unseen, and had '

for the last time.

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that boy’s within arm’s ritch of you this hol ,
sanctified minute. Just look over under 1: e
edge of our flaring old barge, and you’ll see
that ow ncious young dare-devil cozin tucked
away under there!”

Captain Kale leaned over the Edge of the
boat and peered under its flaring side: and, to
his wonder and surprise, beheld the object of
hislutc search concealed there within half an
arm’s reach of him. In an instant the whole
truth flushed through his mind; when the boy
rose to the surface he came up directly under

been there, (2 inging on like a barnacle, while

The sudden scream of a cannon-hall, followed 1 the savages were paddling around in search of

by the sullen boom of the gun, startled them.
They glanced away toward the brig,r and saw a
cloud of sniokc rising from her dock.

" By heavens!” cried Kale, “ tlicy‘vc opened
fire on us from the brig. and it seems there is
some one aboard of her who can handle a gun.
VVe’Ve got to get out of this and let that boy go.

probability is that the dispatches he got from
the Eiipilish spy are with him. And then, come
to thin , he (1 be a fool to be packng them
around with him, if he has any idea of their
value to the American people. But we had
better return and help search for the maidens,
Eeleelah and the white irl.”

“ Hoohl Mucky-wee- ee come!” suddenly ex-
claimed an Ottawa chief.

All looked away behind them. and to their
surprise, discovered the invincible Billy Mucks
lewee coming around the island directly to-
ward them in a small canoe. The man seemed
to be exerting his utmost strength with the
paddle, for the canoe fairly leaped through the
water. The paddle rose and fell like the win-
nowing of a bird’s wing. The water partedvin
great rolls on either side of the prow of the heat,
while a line of frothy ripples marked the course
behind for several rods.

“.Something’s wrong, red-skins,” said Kirby
Kale; “ whenever you see Bill Mucklewee in a
hurry, you may know something’s up."

They rode leisurely along toward him, and in
a few minutes they came to, together.

“ What’s the matter, Bill?” questioned the
officer, “ are you running away?

“ Whewl” puffed the renegade, mopping the
perspiration from his face with his ,sleeve
——-“ gi’me—breath. gol—dash——it—thunderation,
gi’me breath!” he panted.

“ What ails you, man ?” asked Kale again.

“'Wliew—rlash it! what are you fellers pad—
dlin’ round here—for, like apassel of nincom-
poops—whew! I found them gals, and if I’d
'n’ had help they’d ’a’ been in our possession
now. But the dashed on hussics yanked out
a small shootin‘ iron each, and tlii'iistin’ the
p’izcn thing under my nose, solicited me to va—
cate my position in their canoe; and, gentle-
mcii, Ivacated in a (lashed hurry. You may
think me a coward by doin’ so, but if you have
been married. you know it is nothin’ but bra-
vado that’d ’a’ kcpt me in the boat. I have
been married, gentlemen, and I’ll say right
here that my wife has been married three
times since we divorced, and every mother’s
boy of ’em sleeps ’neath the daisies tn-day. So
you see, I know something ’liout female nuclier.

hen a. woman draws a pistol or a. broom on
you, and observes somelliing ’bout your rctir-
ing from her presence, you might as well retire.
It’s no use whiniii’: an argymr-‘nt in the shape
of a pistol in a des )crit woman’s hand is con-
clusive, ’spcciallv i she has the opposite side of
the question. Dash take a woman, anyhow.
They’re the most necessary torture and bother
that war over inflicted on mankind. Any mun
’d be a dashed sight better off if lic’d here 1‘ scan
a woman, and' yet the dashed fools will be
drawn toward the dad-dashed critters 111:» as if
they were a load stone. As for me, gi’mc a
catamount, or gi’ine death.”

K“ Well, where are those girls now?" questioned
ale. '

“ I dare say they’re aboard yonder brig—both
of the dashed critters, red and white—wild-cat
and painter."

Kirby Kale uttered a fearful oath.

“Apretty set of fools we’re getting to be,”
he growled, savagely, “to let a ho have de-
feated us for a. week right along. Al this trou-
ble—the loss of yon brig, and the esca e of these
captives are directly owing to that 0y. And
here we sit like a parcel of fools under the very
muzzle of our own cannon in the hands of our
end: , both boy and girl lost.”

“ hatbo you talkin’ ’bout bein’ lost, cap’n?”

in his
wicked eyes; “ do on mean that dash young
Ha V Harry divi l”

‘ es; we ran afoul of him awhile ago‘ and
smashed his canoe; he sprung out into the water
and sunk, and to save our souls we can’t find
him dead or'alive.”

“Ho! ho! haw!” roared Mucklewec, slapping
his knee and shaking his head in a paroxysm' of
merriment; “ oh~ho Lord dash it! if that ar’n’t
the best thing that i ever see‘d genes the male
kicked Mrs. Mucklewee into thevmiddlo of the
followin’ week. Can’t find that boy? .Ho, ho,
'ho' dash my « isteraifthat i-‘lt? the doc-

 

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him.
“ Olrhol my young imp!” hissed Kale, “your

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hu‘i‘zefiflst in the palm othis other hand,

cause; iit, oung man, you—”
He did no finish the sentence, for a cannon-
hsll from the brig conic. skimming along the sur-

, face of the lake and struck the barge a little
if he has gone to the bottom of the lake. the ,

forward, cutting its ellfiiilllfll‘ely oil’, and shiv-
ering the canoe in which ucklcwee was stand-
ing to splinters. One save 6 was killed outright,
and a1 others in the oats were instantly
plunged into the cold water.

No attention was given to Happy Harry, the
author of their troubles, but, side by side, all
battled the element that threatened their very
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CHAPTER XXV.
THE GIANT’S s'roav.

HAPPY HARRY experienced no difficulty in
keeping afloat upon the waves. He seemed as
familiar with the 'waves as with the intricate
mazes of the woods. He turned upon’his back
and a peared to move along as easily as if pro-
pelle by the volition of his will rather than by
physical exertion. I

Mucklewee shouted and spouted as thou h
he were drowning. He called for help at t e
top of his lungs. Harry laughed at hi his
clear, boyish voice peeling forth his gjoy-
ment of the other’s redicair ent.

“0h, great Lor dash it!” the sirug ling
renegade blubbered, “if I only could get lliold
of that young boy-devil I‘d slain theSe waters
with his blood—I’d s iiash- him to thunder.”

“Here I be,” cried urry, as he shot past the
struggling villain, and kicked a sheet of water
into his face, causing him to gas for breath.

The man uttered a fearful oat as soon as he
got his breath. It was all he could do' toward
avenging the insult. He had enough to do—
in fact, more than he could successfully accom-
plish. to keep above water. ‘

Happy Hurry, however, never considering
the possibility of the failure of his strength be-
fore he could reach land, amused himself
among his struggling enemies in a manner that
reminded one of the sparrow fighting the
hawks. Ho glided to and fro among them,
now dousing a red-skin’s licnd under water,
pulling his sculp‘lock, or throwing himself upon
a broad, upturned buck.

Kirby Kale came in for a share of the youth-
ful Loandcr’s persecutions. Hurry took a po
sition in front of the English captain and
kicked the water into n. perfect foam around
him, enveloping the captain’s head in a torrent.
Kale dared not open his mouth for fear of be-
ing strangled; he dare not attempt to Sl‘lZO the
youth for fcar he would have more than he
could manage, and so he could do nothing but
turn aside.

Thus matters lasted for some time when a
succession of waves began rolling over the
sw1mmers. They came down from the north-
east. Harry glanced along the surface of the
wafer. and to his joy and surprise saw the
brig “Scout,” bearing down upon them. On
board he could distinguish the tall form and
ljonghwhite whiskers of his giant friend, Long
‘iOIll' .

The youth threw up his hand and shouted.
A moment later he saw a boat lowered and six
armed men, under Lieutenant Philip Reeder,
put out toward him. Kale saw the enemy ap—
proaching but neither he nor Mucklewee at«
tempted o gel? away. Captivity to them was
better than drowning).

“Great hoppin’ omits, lieutenant!” ex-
claimed Harry as the boat approached.,“5’°‘l
are jlst in time to help us folks out of this pre-
dicament. I like cool, moist atmosphere but
there’s too much dampness here for me. Tharfs
friend Mucklewee who seems to be enjoying 1t
hu ely, and thar’s Cap Kale and a few red '
Jo nny-jump-u s that are playin’ around like
a school of wh ; they are, for a. sober fact.”

The boat advanced and icked Harry up
amid shouts of by from the lps 0f the SOldlers.
Then Kirby K5 9, Mucklewee and the savages
1iglei‘ebeilso picked up when the boat headed for /

5 mg. -‘

Kale was sullen and morose, as were the ln—
dians also. Mucklewee‘was cross as 3 Sick bear.
His tongue clashed almost incessantly, and be
exhausted his vocabulary of anathemas upon
the head of Happy Harry, ever and anon
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a mile, “ but 011’“ be in a worse plight than
this More anot er day. You remember t’otlicr
night when you betrayed a certain young (‘ap-
tain nkin into savage clutches, and got us
all into a slamniin’ big fight?"

“Curse the fates,” growled the renegade.
“ I felt in hopes '3 had gone where that cursed
Yankee cnp’n \ nu t0-"

“ Whar was that, Muck?"

“ To the devil,” was the laconic reply.

“ You’re surely mistaken, else he didn’t find

on at home, for .Captain Rankin is aboard yon
{xvi this holy minute; he is, for a straightout
feel.”

Mucklewee glanced involuntarily toward the
vessel, and a perceptible pallor overspread his
countenance.

“It’s a mortal fact Huckelberry, and the
captain’s been \vhcttin’ his ven eance for several
days, and .I don’t suppose a undred men can
prevent him from goin' through you like it

Use of lead. I hate to see such a noble speci-
men of manhood demolished just to gratify a
selfish vengeance.”

“You dod-rotted little hypocrite! you'd like
to see me exterminated " replied the renewade,
furiously; “ on tried to drown me, that can
give, and I’ll have you arrested for premedi-

hined murder.”

“I onl doused a little water in your face
to wash it; but the dirt on it is like the stain
on your soul—can’t Wash it off; hasto be burnt
off with judgment fire."

Mucklewee fairly shivered at these words
that seemed strange] y prophetic; then he ground
his teeth and hissed a fearful malediction upon
the head of the boy.

A few moments later they ran alongside the
brig, and further words between the two ene‘
mics—the fight between the sparrow and the
ha \vk—were prevented.

In a few minutes all were aboard the brig,
the prisoners being confined in chains along
wit: their confederates captured the previous
nig t. ‘
Happy Harry was rejoiced to meet Tem y
aboar the brig, and happily su rised to lie
greeted by the mud caresses of is do Bel—
shazzar, who h been picked up by the rig a

few minutes previous.

The youth became the recipient of innumer-
able thanks and commendations from those
aboard the boat. To him was owing all their
escapes from danger, and their success—in fact,
their very lives were owing to him.

To his surpriseas well as relief, the lad learned
that Eeleelah had quitted the brig soon after
havin seen Tempy safe] aboard.

By ais time Captain Itaukin was able to be
about, and spent most of his time on deck.
He and Tempy had a long chat alone, and
when their interview ended it was with reluc-
tance that they parted. Of course he had said
nothing to her of his love. He desired thata
longer acquaintance should develop each one’s
feelings more fully, as well as the general char-
acter of each.

And now that all were aboard the brig, Long
Beard set sail for the nearest rt of safety.
The wind bein favorable, t ey ran along
mfiidly toward t e south-west.

_ appy any moved about deck with his
futh ul dog at is heels, enjoying the sail and
the cool breeze, and watching the foamy waters
around the boat.

He was standing aft alone, his e es bent
downward on the seethin track of he boat
when Long Beard approac ed him unseen, and
law? his hand upon the lad’s shoulder, said:

“ y boy, what are you thinking about?”

“Great hornits, inerall I’m hii'ikin’ ’bout
what a gol—slashin time we’ve had the last two
weeks. It’s been right out: of one trouble into
another jist as fast as a feller could keep it
up. I don’t see how we ever .got through, un-
less we were under the especml protection of
Heaven.”

“ We have, without a donbt, Harry,” replied
the giant, “ and we should not for at to return
our sincere thanks to our Great rotector. I
have been persecuted all my life, and yet I daily
receive blessing from on high.”

“Yes Big Beard, I know you have been a
persecn ed man. Ilalways said so, and you said
so too once—the night of the rum us on the
island. And I b’lleve you said you’ tell me all
an“; it Slog]: tilting, and since you have '

is i a ; mis-
trustefis’somethingl—d-Ythe truth, and been such a
friend, too, I want you t0 know for Whom you
have been runnin such perilous risks. My real
name is Albert Iiancourt, Earl of_Hancourt
England. 1 belong to the best families of that
countr , Harry, and whenayonn man I loved
Indy inin Grafton, daughter 0 Lord Graf-
ton. and she loved me. We were betrothed.
when a. rival came in for her hand, claimingit
u , n ‘matters of State.’ His name was 1"

amas Kalsington. He we: a mkéeisprggil;
to, discarded b all socie yexcep
$5. Be warn me that ‘ I stood batween
him and Indy Emily what the cause-‘1“Once
‘wpnld be. and threatened that if_I married her
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“1:0 hisword. hone"

tothe legal jurisprudence- of England,l was
disinherited of all my possessions. Then I was
arrested for an offense of which i am as innocent
as you are, Harry, but the penalty of which
was death. By some technicalities in the legal
proceedings, dv-lay after delay of the trial run
my arrest into four years imprisonment,
during which time my wife, the fair Lady
Emily, died of a broken heart. My daughter
Margery was then' a bright, acconi lished girl
of seventeen, and Temp a mere c' ild. And
now, what next should t e monsterKalsington
do but go to Margery with falsehood in his
mouth and represent to her that he held a
power over the courts that could obtain her
father’s release on certain conditions—that of
relationship with m famil . He told her that
he loved her, and t at if s 9 would marry him
he Would be empowered, under the laws, to de-
fend her father.

“Margery loved her father and was willing
to make any sacrifice for my release, but
would rather have seen her die, and myself ex-
ecuted, than see her wed that man. But. of
course, she was shut off from all communica-
tion with me, and I knew nothing of what was
going on. She married him, and for a year or
so he made her believe he was working for my
release, when, in fact, he was drawing the
chains tighter. But when she found out his
deception, she became des crate, and set to
work herself to effect my iberty. Enlistin
the sympathy of a number of Kalsin tons
servants, she went to the prison where was
confined, and forcing an entrance, eflected my
release. That same ni ht we put to sea—Mord
fiery, Tenipy, and I. e embarked in an open

out, and kept in the coursepf an American
vessel, which Mar ery ascertained would leave
for home on the ollowing morning, in ho is
of bein icked n by it, and so we were. he
crew o t e vosse had not learned of myescape,
nor the reward offered for my recapture, before
leaving port, so we were carried safely over to
America. That was three or four years ago,
and during our voyage across the sea, we were
hailed by a British cruiser which informed the
American ca tain that he wished to search his
vessel for Br tish subjects, but the Americans
having the luck to refuse them the rivilege of
searching t eir vessel, and being ab 8 to stand
up to their refusal, the Englis man went on,
and we escaped. For some length of time this
insult to American vessels continued, I will say,

.by the we , until it resulted in this very war.

“Well, he English government offered two
thousand pounds reward for the arrest of the
Earl of Haucourt and his two daughters. The
same notice gave a description of us the time
we escaped, and in fact the minutest articu-
lars. But, hidden away here amon t e lone—
1y Pleiades Islands, we have lived in compar-
ative peace and safety these years of exile.
But now the serpent of evil has again entered
my Eden.”

‘Gracious homitsl I b’lieve ou gineral;
finddlzll bet I can put my heel on that ssrpeut’s

ea .

“ You can, without a doubt.”

“ I believe Kirby Kale is the snake."

“ He is—he is Sir Thomas Kalsington."

“Ypur persecutor and the husband of Max'-

“'The same, Harr .”

“Well, govonir, i will be an easy matter to
sto that villain’s persecutions. Here’s s. ro
--p enty of good, strong hemp, and there’s t e
brig’s yard-arm, that would make a splendid
place to ban him to.”

“Harry, want nobody’s blood upon my
hands. Amid all my long sufferings I have
done nothing evil not even sought to aven a
my wrongs, and I want to continuerperfect y
upright in the sight of God. Kale is a prisoner
0 war, and I shall turn him over to the Ameri-

can authorities and let them deal with him as

they see fit.”

“You are a magnanimous enemy. gineral,”
replied Harry; “if we'd fall out, I wouldn’t be
a it afenrd of on. But how does Margery
feel toward Kalefl’ .

“She despises him—will not speak to him.”

“Good for her, say I. She serves him right.
But, gineral, I drawed a head on that feller to-
day, and why in Sam Hill I didn’t fire, I can’t
tel. I reckon Satan interfered. But if ever
I get a good, lawful and justifiable excuse
again I’ll shoot or die. I won't consult my
gingc’ence, either, I won’t, for a stubborn

c .

“I presume he will be paroled 0r exchanged
at once,” said Lon Beard; “then he will
make known my w ereabouts. But, as the
two nations are at war now, there will be no
international relations between them, and so
I W’l’ll seek the protection of the American

‘ That’s it, govonir, exactly—but, great hop-
pin’ homitsl’
“ What now?” nestioned the giant, surprised
at‘the yoiuth’p Pd i131  t d t
Grac one most in u o
morsdytheifiy‘dls-

my mwmI have not
patches from the English spy t’other

mornin’: I hasn’t, ‘tor‘ a

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if“!

“Trim enough, Ilarr , but then you have
been busy. 'l‘ell Colone Miller when on see
him, why you did not report at once. I noth-
ing further happens as, you will be in plenty
time with the dispatches.”

“Just as soon as I land, In. gain to pc-
right out for head- uarters; lam, for a Htl‘lllglg
fact. Then, cinera , I'm goin’ to 'oin thearuiy.
I’m goin’ to raise a company of s tarp-shooters.
I won’t have but one boy in my company, and
he’ll be captain, lieutenant and all the privates;
and that honored gent will be Happ Harry.
it's true I‘m without a rifle now—little Brown
Chick chirped his last and went under to-day—
under the waters of St. Clair. But I’ll have
another ’ne just as good—l will, for a fact of
facts.”

Here the conversation ended. and the two
separated. Harry was soon after ‘ ined by
Captain Rankin, who conversed with im some
time. The young otllcer promised to report
his heroic deeds to the commandant of that
department and recommend that he be given
some testimonial of esteem for his bravery.

This promise pleased the youth very much,
and seemed to inspire him with renewed con»;
ll e. a i
3The day wore away, and night camecm a
but lon before morning dawn, the briegr-o -wnr
dro anchor in the bay opposite th delu-
nat on. A boat was sent ashore to report the
arrival of the “ Scout,” and procure assistance
in movin the prisoners ashore. In two hourl’
time the nglish captives had been lodged Ills
side the garrison, and Long Beard and hi.
daughters provided for among the good poop)-
of the place.

The caplturehof the Engliish soldfieg‘fi was hailed
with '0 t e common ant o e arrhonf:
for lelSl)?’ thyat day he had sent Captnfn Cum...
with ten men, out north to reconnoitor the
forest, where a party of En lish cavalry were
reported encamped, and al but one man had
been captured. He proposed at once to send "f
man with a flag of truce to the British heId-'

uurters, and open negotiations for the a!“
c iange of prisoners. ,‘

Lon Beard learned this with the deepest ' A ‘
gret; e knew that the moment Kirby Kale.
was a free man a ain, he would pursue hill
and his children wit the vengeance of death. fr,

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CHAPTER XXVI. '. 
THE TREE-TOP SPY. . 
No sooner was Happy Harry on land than hll'
wild young spirit begzin to long for adventure;
and he at once made nown his intention of (IQ-3
parting for Detroit. He was fitted out with '
new rifle and suit of buckskin by Captain Rani
kin, who felt that these ifts in no we. compen-
sated the youth for the avers he ha bestow-n _
upon him. if ‘3
Before leavin the settlement, Tempy 3!“
him a main 0] rin asatoken of her ' .
and a mirat on for h m, and the lnvnluable AI .
vice that he had rendered her and her fan: ,
This gift Harry treasured above all his cart - :
ossessions, for he now felt more deeply his lava
For the fair girl. 
Shortl a ter sunrise the youth bid farewell
to his fr ends, and started on his lon and - u l ,‘
ous trip, through a hostile section 0 the count
try, for FOrt. Detroit. He was acoompan v i
only by his faithful do . He carried the val ‘_ .
his paper. which ho ho taken from the 3:1 n ‘I
spv, sewed into the lining of his moccasin. 
Long Beard Walked with the yduth to  ‘
edge of the woods, about a mile from the - - N ,
an when they were about to separaterhc‘ ‘ 
“Now, Hai , my dear be ,do be c -I i ’
Don’t trouble t a savage or nglish. Mal. '
a oint to avoid than as‘ much as possible.”’ l 
‘Great hoppin’ hornits gineral,”re 110d 
youth, with a smile on is flushed ace; .3‘.
want to try in new gun on a red-skin the v i l
chance I get, do for a fact.” i",
“Try it upon a bird or deer.” { is’
“Never, gineral; I prise a bird in the me ~
above a red skin or Britisher, 1 dc for a 100] w
cal fact. The birds have been my dearest . 
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would I harm unless a soluter necessary. ‘\ : "i
gliieral, don’t we yourself a moment’s on “,
ness’bout me. on iave trouble enou hot n .v.
own, and if they exchange Kirby KB 0 an - 

Mucklewee. Lord only knows what will com; 3'.
cu, gineral. But rest assured I’ll take cm- . J:
arry, for I’m in my element now. Yon, at“ ,

me the woods eve , time; I don’t like 1; _”

ter' it’s not as so] dafmtin’ as it is on i .m

besides, there’snothin’ to hidebehind-DO ‘. 3“»

no birds to sing to me no squirrels to cha .

no nothin’, but water below, sky above. andi _ f

eel-taint all around. _No, no, gineral: zsu' .‘f,

the w every time. I never grcw i,  g ‘,
that same old song it’s been singin’ the” i . ;‘,

dreds and hundreds of years. But. no :u 

must bid you good-by and be ofl'. Time“ - . ,

militia win he ha I: H r 
‘ on you c any  -": _
“That bird on onder limb can amt

well 1151. I may back Icon: I may not":
back for a year; 11:» agarblabaokx A,
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every foot of ground along St. Clair. I hope

on will git rid of that lower regioner, Kirby

la, and that you may live a long and happy

life at; I do for a sublime fact.”

“ hank you. Harry; thank on.”

“Well, good-by, Big Bear ,” the lad said,
extending his hand.

“Good-by, Harry; may God guide and pro-
tecliypu through all the dangers that beset your

. PM
4 Tears rolled up into the lad’s eyes as he turned
., ‘ away. To prevent an outburst of feeling, he
‘ broke into a run and hurried on, never daring
tolook back until assured he was out of sight
of Long Beard; then he slackened his pace to a
walk '

“Here we are again, ole dog, alone in the
woods,” he said, brushing away the mist from
his eyes. “It seems kind a—natural, don’t it,
old friend? The birds, and tho squirrels, and
V the wind whistling amon the trees and the
l. » droning around us~great ornitsl who says it

isn’t music, sweet music?”
Presently tho youth began his favorite amuse-
ment of calling the birds around him through

in? ._ his pOWer of imitation. A robin was the first
Ll; “answer his call. It perched itself high in a

, _ tree-top, but when assured that it had nothing
1? . to fear, it descended closer. Then, one by one,
came other winged songsters, until nearly a
‘ score had gathered around him. They took
2 I; their position among the branches of the green-

 . robed trees; and as he moved on, they followed
"’ him, Singing, chattering, and chirruping in

concert. Now and then a squirrel {risked out
of a narled old oak, and regarding the >assing
yout and his escort of songsters with a ook of
' apparent delight, sent forth a sharp bark that
15‘, lung clearly through the woods.
mm . And thus forbours the youth journeyed on
ll ', through the great forest. the birds following—-
 _ some dropping out of the ranks and others
_‘,'_jolning. And as he was now approaching the
'; .onemy’s country, he watched the birds closer

and closer. Long association with them had
' taught him their habits and peculiarities. He
‘1. knew by their‘movements whether danger was
- . about or not. ,

, The sun had long since crossed the meridi-

;, an, and the shadows of owning were gather-
,1213‘. The last bird lnul deserted the youth

and, instead of the music of the feathered

tribe, the boot of an owl rung upon his cars.
This was suddenly followed by the tramp of
l booted feet and jingle of military trappings.
= Armed horsemen were approaching through the
‘r woods, but Harry knew not whether they were
friends or foes. Belshuzzur prickcd up his cars
- and whined uneasily.
- “Hist, Bell!” exclaimed the youth in an un—
V.’ dertone; “some one‘s comin’l git away from
1, here——0ut into the woods, ole dog, for l’in
i . goin’ to climb this tree and hide. Away. l’u-ll.
R away!” and he motioned the dog away toward
 the nth.

e sagacious animal seemed to comprehend,
and at once scampcrcd away, and ll-n‘ry, sling-
ing his rifle at his burl; by means of a strap
Ittwhed for that pIU'poso, climln-d a huge oak
tree with low, far-branching limbs, and en.
.| sconced himself among the dense foliage on a
" bouin about ten feet from the main trunk and
' ' ice'from the ground.

A He had scarcely done so, and the foliage
. around him was still rustling from hisinove-
wh'ments, when a number of mounted soldiers in
the English uniform appeared in sight.
' Helppy Harry was almost afraid to breathe,
for e at once discovered that tho soldiers
were a squad of the king’s cavalry, and the
‘aflvance guard of an: invading army. of this
was ositivo, for he could hear, in the dis-
tame, the tramp of the army, the rumble of
\ rtillery and baggage—wagons, the blows of axes
clearing a way through the woods for the
teams, the commands of authoritative voices,
‘And the general confusion of sounds incidental
to a moving army.
'10 Harry’s surprise and fear the detachment
£1 cavalry drew rein within a few rods of where
' lasigma concealed, and the ofliccr in command
“We will wait here until the main column
Games up. It will require some time to bridge
that creek, and so by the time they get across
it will be time to go into camp. This will be
'3 favorable spot for an encampment.”

50' II ' 3 they dismounted, and just about
, .met ajor-General Brock and stall? rode up

. “pt we head of the advancing army.

', ,“Have you selected rounds suitable for an

. .gincampment, colonel?” emanded Brock of the
eavelryaofllcer. A ,

“ Tb spot, general, is the most favorable one
V venient," replied the colonel.
,, “ Then here we will halt,” re lied the general.
Harry beard every word, an it almost chilled
info blood in his veins.
- ‘ The arm soon came up, and wds halted upon
groan surrounding the tree in which our
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General Brock selected a spot directly under 1

the very limb upon which the boy was perched,
and ordered his tent pitched upon it; and as a
number of men proceeded to work, Harry’s
heart almost ceased to beat through four of de-
tection.

The tent was a large conical structure about
ten feet in hight at the apex, which reached
well up among the limbs. It required but a

few minutes to prepare it for occupation, and, ‘

thanks to the providential shadows that lurked
among the foliage, Harry was not discovered.
But he was in for a night there in the tree, and
in a position, too, tl’ at might prove more than
his endurance could bear.

The deeper shadows of night proved a great
relief to the boy, and he. gradually scttlod him-
self into a more comfortable position. The
soldiers lighted no tires. They feasted their
hunger on cold provisions, and slaked their
thirst at the little stream that rippled close by.
The low murmur of voices rose on all sides.
The animals were hitched hi-re and there to
trees and bushes, and given their provender on
the ground. The harness and saddles had not
been removed for fear of surprise. The whole
camp was a continuous stir of mingled life and
sounds, and a relief to Harry; for the stamping
of hoot‘ed feet, the rustling of bushes and the
clinking of harness chains served to drown any
noise that he might make.

Suddenly a. faint ray of light pierced the
gloom within a few feet of his face. It came
from a small, round hole in the very top of the
British commander’s tent, and the lad could not
resist the temptation to lean slightly forward
and peer down through the hole. He saw a
lamp burning on a small stand, and before it
sat General Brock and two of his officers on
camp stools, examining a map that was Out-
sprcad upon the gcncral’s knees. He could see
their faces but indistinctl '. He could hear the
murmur of their voices, but could only make
out a word now and then.

At length, however, one of the general’s ald-
de-camps appeared at the door of the tent, and
said. in a. tone quite audible:

“General. pardon my intrusion, but there is
an Indian chief at the door desiring an audience
with you.” \

“Of what tribe?” inquired the general, a. lit-
tle crustily at being disturbed.

“Of all tribes, general; it is the great Te-
cumseh.”

The general started as if at a hostile shot.
He rose to his feet, and as be. folded the map he
dismissed the two oiliccrs, and then said to tho

dill:

“ Admit the great chief, Tecumseh.”

Harry’s curiosity now "ruined a more eager
form. Carefully be dropped from limb to limb
until he actually prcss'ul his eye to the little
opening to obtain a glimpse of the mighty war—
rior, as Well as to catch the words that passed

 
   

, between him and Brock.

With stately dignity Tecumseh stalked into
he presence of the English genor:1l,\‘rlio ud-
vzizu-ud to mr‘ct him with the palms of both
hands outward in token of friendship.

They shook hands. Brock wdcomcd the great
warrior, and with his own hands spread a blun-
lict upon theground for him to be seated upon.
When Tecumseh sat down the general sat down
upon his camp stool facing him. '

Then the chief dcmuroly filled the pipe on the
head of his tomahawk, lit it, and having taken
a whiff or two, passed it to the goinrnl. The
latter knew its signification, and followed the
chief's example by smoking with Tecumseh the
pipe of peace.
lAssured of the general’s friendship now, the
cart sa'l

“M ngcrs from the Canada Father told
me, of your friendship to the red-men.” He
spoke English fluently, and Harry could hear
every word he said.

“ I have, no cause to entertain other than the
kindliest feelings toward my red brothers,” re-
sponded Brock; “they have long been the
friends of the English.’

“We are friends now because' the Yankees
are our enemies. The red-men have dug up
the hatchet, and are ready to recover theland
of their forefathers. The Great Canada. Father
said to Tecumseh, in a whis er: ‘ G0, fight the
Yankees; strike when the Lnglish strike, but
tell it not that I thus whispered in my red
children’s ear. Fight as though you fought in-
dependent of the English, for If it should be
known that we urged the red-men to fight for
us, other nations might execrate us, and send
their soldiers and big boats to help the Ameri-
cans years ago.’ When my Canada Father
said this, I come to see the chief of the English
warriors that I might know when to strike.”

“ I will be glad to have you co-operate with
me,” replied the British general, encouraging
the great chief in what En lish history dis-
claims to be true, “ for the ankees are many
and cunnin . They cannot stand, however,
before the dian’s tomabawk and the Eu lish
soldiers’ muskets. Already the Yankee c iet,
Governor Hull, has retreated from Canada like
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“Tecumseh and his braves will be there to
fight with his white brothers.”

“ How far away is your village?’

“ Not a half sun’s travel.”

“Then I can depend upon your assistance at
Detroit?”

“Yes, when my white brother is there.”

“ Then let this b” so understood."

“ Tecumseh always keeps his word with a
friend.”

By this time the greatest excitmnont pre-
vailed in camp. The news had spread like wild-
fire that the great Tecumseh was a guest at
headquarters, and in a very few minutes hun~
dreds of men had gathered around the tent, ,
eager to get a glimpse of the mighty Chieftain.
lint of course not one in twenty could get near
the door, and many were compelled to retire to
their quarters without havmg a chance to '
gratify their Ciu‘iosity. w
' ()ne youn soldier, however, determined not‘
to leave witiout seeing the notorious Indian;
that faint beam of light shining from the apex
of the tent suggested a means, and so he hastily -
climbed the huge oak under which the tent
stood, and be an crawling along the very limb
upon which appy Harry was concealed!

And the tree-top spy found binmalf in a ter-
rible dilemma, from which there appeared no
possible chance of escapel

CHAPTER XXVII.
“ IN A Box.”

HAPPY HARRY drew back as far as possible
to get out of the way of the inquisitive sol-
dier, but he could retreat only a few feet as the
limb had been broken and drooped downward
at an inclination of forty degrees. This left
but one course to pursue, and be quickly made
up his mind to adopt it. He drew his pistol
and as the soldier came williiu reach, dealt
him a powerful blow upon the head.

A groan escaped the Englislmnm‘s lips,‘as be
tumbled from the limb upon the tent. it so
'happened that he fell where the sclvagcs of the
canvas lapped one over the other, and under his
weight they parted and he fell throi gh into the
tent, landing squarely on the. princely head of
the great Tecumseh.

A war-whoop burst from the savage chief-
tnin’s lips, and an oath from Block’s. The for—
mer sprung to his i'cct and drew his tomnliaWk
and the latter his sword. But in the confusion
consequent upon the unceremonimis intrusion
of the soldier, the table was tip )ed over and the
lamp 11 )set. The canvas took fire, and in a mo-
ment tlie whole structure was in flames, the_
general, the chief and the wounded soldier
barely escaping. )

Up among the foliage of the great oak rose.
the smoke and flame. The green leaves crackled
and crisped in the excessive heat which soon
became more than human endurance (‘ii1.](l
withstand. Harry was right over the worst of
it. He began sneezing and coughing violently,
but owing to the general confusion below, no
oncbcard him. Men crowdmland justlcd mull}
other eager to get a view 01' Tecumseh in the
glow of the burning tent. The horses hear at
hand snorted and pawcd uneasily. A number
of men with buckctl‘uls of water made their,
way to the file and dashed it on the flames.
This proved the worst blow of all to Harry.
Steam, ashes and smoke wlvirlcd up into the
foliage so strong and suffocating that he was
compelli d to leave his perch, and‘slide down
the limb to the ground in the midst of the as-
tonished army!

“Great horenitsl” he exclaimed, rubbing his
eyes andlgasping for breath, “what the "tar-
nal nation’s up herel—a campmeetin’ goin’
on?" -

“By heavens! a young Yankee
a soldier.

“ Ay, that accounts for Dinwiddie’s fall,” re—
plied a colonel; “lead the little ferret out and
shoot him; the surgeon says Dinwiddie will
die."

“Yes, shoot him! shoot him!” cried a bun.-
dred voices.

“Order! order!” thundered General Brock.
“Have you forgotten. men, that you are sol-
dinrs of the En lish crown? Shame for such
conduct; he is ut a boy, not the American
army!”

This merited rebuke at once restored order.
then Brock led the boy into the tent of lone of
his generals and questioned him regarding his
presence there. I . ,

The youth talked in such a childish, fr“7019115
manner, the commandant came to the conclusron
that he was a. little runawa 'Yankee, who had
become imbued with the s It of some hero of
aflreside story, and bad rambled forth  seek
renown in the reatwildwood. Brock did not
suspect him 0 havin dealt ‘me1ddie the
wound upon- the head, ram which the surgeon
feared there was no recovery. All had seen the
soldier climb into the tree, but the fact. that the
boy was there at the time, was no evndenoeto
the general that lie—Harry —had dealt the
blow. His natural conclusion. was that Din-
widdie had received his injuries by .1133 fan,
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to give the Americans some information that
would be of interest to them.

Harry acted as thoughtless and simple before 1

the general as was consistent with his purpose
and nature, It was his only recourse to outwit

the English, although it was difficult for him to '

throw the look into his unusually intellectual
face, that should necessarily correspond with his
rambling talk. I

He was confined In an ambulance, and a guard
placed over him. He was not bound, as it was
thought that the presence of the guard was all
that would be ncccssal‘y to keep him in his
place. The watch took his position in the for«
ward part of the prison—vehicle. He sat down
11 n the di'chr’s seat with his gun at his side.

rry occupied the rear end of the carriage,
and soon after he was placed therein, he began
whistling sharply as if calling a dog.

“Shut up thatnoise or I’ll 3111 you,” vocif-
erated his angelic. guard. But I arry had ac-
complished his purpose—he had called up Bel»
shazznr, who came bounding from the woods
to the side of tho vehicle in which he was con-
fined.

“ Let him in, Englisher; pOor ole llell’s tired,”
“ He’s my friend; he’s
a bully ole dog, he is for a fact.”

“ Let him stay where he is,” growled the
amiable guard, mid Harry had to obey. '

The dog laid down under the carriage, where
he remained the long night through.

The night were away, and by dawn the next
morning the army was astir. l)inwiddie was
still unconscious, and the author of his ills had
begun to contemplate an eifdrt at escape when
a man a pearcd in camp, the sight of 'wlrroni
drove alllhope from the breast ol’ the youth.

The man was the notorious renegade and
traitor, Bill Mucklcwee!

Bill Muckleweo was conducted to General
Brook’s quarters, where he was (‘losthd for
some time with the commandant. \Vhen he a )-
peared again the general was with him. Ilo
ran his eyes over the camp where they ha )pcncd
to espy the lace and form of Harry. 1\ uckle--
wee started back as if with terror, cXclaiming:

“ G real Jehoviahl I’ll be dashed to thunder!”

“ What ails you, Mucklewee?” asked the
general.

“ Ails me? “'hy, don’t you see that boy?
that’s him—that imp of all that‘s mean, and cun-
nin’, and sneakin’, and devilish!”

“ What do 'you know about him?”

“\Vcll jist listen! dosh my picters to thun—
der! \Vliat do I know about him,’ Why, he's
the worst enemy the English have got to con-
tend with. He’s a reg’lar American spy. It
was him—that very little im )ol’ cusscdness, that
took your dispatches from Injor Grafton; and
it war him that led the party that captered tho
bright—war Scout, oil' the Pliadecs islands.”

" \Vhati is the Scout cuplnrcd?” asked the
gcncral, with a suddcnstari, for aboard the brig
was a large amount. of snpnlies for his army.

“ Captured: yes! and that boy right ihcre
done it—-thrrt very dushrd, insignificant little pup
of a be right before your eyes."

“,We 1, who is this mighty little fellow that’s
whipping the English navy LI” asked Brock, sar—
castically.

“ I-lapgfy Harry, the dashed brat’s called—
I‘luppy arry, the \Vild Boy of the \Voods.”

“ Tillill, if this is the case, he has been play—
ing a part with niy‘confldence,” said Bro(::;
“ let him he arrcslcd.”

Hurry, who was standing near with a grim.
defiant smile upon his boyish face, eyed Mnckle»
wee with a look that fairly causr-d the villain to
wince. Belshazzar, squatted upon his haunches,
and tower-in" almost as high as his young lung.
ter, regarde the renegade with a look that told
he had not forgotten he was an enemy to his
master. When the two men startedtoward the
lad for the purpose of seizing him, the (log
showed his teeth and growled.

“ Look out, tliar, sojersl” Mucklewec shouted;
“ you want to watch that durned dog. A man’s
not a bite for the dashed brute; stand aside and
I’ll put a bullet through him; I owe him a
grudge anyhow.” _ .

The soldiers parted on either Side between the
dog and renegade, who took. up his old flint-lock
musket to examine its priming.

Harry saw that a critical moment was at
hand for him and his dumb companion, and not
an instant was to be lost. Turning, he threw
his slender form upon the do ’s back, locked his
arms around his neck and is legs around his
body, then hes ke a single word to the am-
art he shot away through the
camp, carrying his young master With apparent
ease.

'80 sudden and unex cted had this movement
been that the dog withehis human burden was
flfty\yards awn before a man oke. Then
Muck ewee up w th his musket and lazed away
at the boy and dog but the piece hanging fire,
he mi his mark and wounded a va uable
horse, whose terrific plunging and cavortingi
stampeded half the horses in camp. And now
alt, equal almost to that of battle.
ariaan thepoldlers, the commands of the

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l that drew attention from the youth for the
1 time being. lint. as soon as quiet had been re-
stored, a number of mounted troops started in
pursuit of the Wild Boy.
1 Having passed the pickets in safety, Harry
! gained the woods beyond without a scratch,
' and when assured that he “as free from im-
mediate danger, ho dismounuxl from his dog’s
back.

“ “'ell done, ole (log; well done,“ said Ilarry,
patting liclshiizzar upon We head; “your
name should go down to pustci'itylike your
namesake of liiblo fame, of whom Parson
Lottsnserl to spout so much. it’s well that
you are a big dog, and that I’m a. ‘little, in-
significant pu i,’ as ole lilucklowuwl called me.
“’0 two togot ior make one party good man——
] furnish the thinkin’ apiaratus and you the
bone and muscle; I git us oth into trouble and
you git us our."

The dog was warm and painting with his ro-
ccnt violent oXcrcise, and as they had halted
near a little stream that crept along under the
leaves and grass like a guilty thing, both master
and dog slaked their thirst, and then moved on
.throngh the woods.

“ Yes, by the hop )in’ hornits,” the lad mused
as he iuovml on; “ understand a thing or two
now, I do, for a. fact. 01c fl‘ecumsoh is goin’ to
give ole England a boost in this war, and yit
England don’t want tolct on that she’s anything
to do with the savages, oh, no! She‘s a mighty
civilized country, and don’t want it known as
the gineral said, that rlie’s hirin’ savage barba-
rians to butcher and scalp Yankees and burn
and tear up hob. Oh, Lord, no; the don’t for
a fact! But I’ll see ’bout that. H putaflea
in (leneral llnll’s deaf ear, and then when that
little paper in my moccasin is brought out and
discomboboi'atod, I’ll bet somebody’s cull-um.
tions ’11 he sp’ilt. And, great horrdts! that
darned ole Mnc Priced, how I’d like to be his
final scttlcmcny, :d l willbo yit if he don’t
keep entirely oil, of my way. Everybody
thinks because I'm a boy I’ve no foclin’. luvory-
body has a lesson to learn inc, and if they don’t
quit foolin’ [’11 learn Some of them how to
shoot; I will, for a bloody fact. But, speakin’
of shootin’ reminds me of the fact that I in here
in the wilderness without even n. knife. I never
even got to try my rifle that Cap Rankin give
me; but no difference. I’ll have another. liy
lmrnits! I know where I’ll get one—at ole
Navy’s! Ilis/ ubin is right on our way. Poor,
dear ole Davy, he’s been a lather to me. For
three years I roosted under his rool’, and many
things have I learnt from him. \Ve'll strike
his palace ’bout night, and lrockon we’ll be
glad of it, too, for we’ve not a bite. to eat nor
noihin’ to procure it with. ch, olo Davy Dar-
rctt’salways got a lot of extra guns, and I‘ll
bet I git an outlit there; I will, for a fact.”

The youth quickencd his pace and hurried
on south. Milo al'tcr inilo was traversed. The
sun crossed the line and sunk slowly westward,
and just as tho evening shadows were gather-
ing ho hove in sight of the cabin of Davy liar-
rcrt. the “upper.

The building stood alone in the great wilder-
ness on the bank of a little airlng stream. A
‘Iight smoke was curling from the chimney-to)
—a huge pile of stone, sticks and mortar. Nb
other sign of life was visible about the place,
but Harry pnshcd boldly on and approaching
the door rapped shnroly upon it.

“ Name in!” bowler out a. Voice.

Itdid not sound cxactlyliko that of Davy
Darrott’s, but whose clso could it have been!
It had been some time since he had heard
llavy’s voice, and thought he might have been
mistaken in its sounding unnatural, so he opened
the lloor and entered. His dog sprung in ahead
of him.

The instant the youth was inside some one
stainling behind the door banged it shut, and
placed himself between it and Harry; while a
second person appearing from behind a curtain
of blankets suspended from the ceiling to the
floor, contronted him with a devilish, triumph-
ant leer npon his face.

This man was the notorious Bill Mucklewee,
and the man at Harry’s back was a. soldier of
the king. I

Again had the Wild Boy fallen into a. trap
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE CABIN coarmc'r.

HARRY glanced around the room, an inward
terror takin possession of him for a moment.
A fire was urning on the great stone hearth,
and some meal; we broiling on a hen of coals.
To him it was evi nt. that the men ad taken
possession of the cabin and were helping them-
selves. But, where was old Davy? As he
asked himself the uestion his eyes caught sight
of a little pool of b 00d upon the floor. He also
saw a track of blood leading from the 1
across the floor into one corner where t e
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the file of blankets. It told a fearful tale;lt
was )avy’s foot without a doubt! Those human
iionds lnul murdered the old trapper and con-
cealed his body there in the corner.

“ You needn’t stare around here, you dashed
young rascal tryin‘ to come innocence on me,”
burst from ucklewoe’s lips. “It’s rue-tho
veritable ole Billy Mucklewoe. You needn’t :
think that you and that darned, emery, 11‘
ill)" of Iy‘ourn can outwit, outrun, outflg t lo ‘
Bil y. ro, sir—eo' I'd an ijee you‘d cut out tgh '
way, and so i too ( wings and let out, too. You
am your little elephant of a pup ’11 not slip me
again. You’re, caged, my son, and you might
as well drap your feathers.” . '

“ Murderer!” hissed the youth, with all the
loathing scorn that he could throw into thI 5-
words, “ you ought to be quartered and fed!!! '
the wolves! You have murdered Davy Dali
rett, a harmless old trapper.” -' .:

Involuntarin the murderer lanced toward ;
the heap in the corner around w ich Belahamr ;
was sniiHng inquisitivoly. -,

“Nobody ’ll miss him," replied the wretch, ,,
seeing that the. boy'had discovered his blood ’:
crinie- “ and to cut matters short and end :
talk, l‘ll tumble that old dog over b him," ‘LI'
and ho drew a pistol and cooked it. Bu before :r
he could fire, Happy Harry sprung behind the .
villain, and jumping on his back, cl hi0 '
arms around his neck so tightly that
choked to the floor. .

“ 'l‘ako ’cm, Boll !” cried the lad, and tho next ,7
instant the dog sprung upon the soldier. 

“Into ’em, Harryl—sick ’cm, Belshamr— '
give ’em goss—rack it to ’em, the blood hols;
lyonsl Yoopl hurrah, for here's ole a .‘f
good as a dozen dead men yit! La itto"em "
boys, and I’ll lend a helpin’ hand— iurrah fox-v.3.
‘ Hail Columbus!‘ ” 

Covered with blood and suffering with a
number of severe Wounds, old Davy I,
had sprung from the heap in the corner “34,6
hastened to assist his young friend and 301-,
shazzar. 5

Harry clung to Bill’s ncck like a monkey to A Jr.
limb, and the old l‘l-‘Ill‘ObtllD failing to dialodgn ,'
him by rolling upon him, drew his second '
pistol, and was about to fire back over hi1,
shoulders into the boy’s- face when Davy came;‘,
to the rescue. He struck the pistol hm the,
villain’s hand, and then dealt him a furious
kick in the ribs that doubled him uinke
twisted limb. ,

With a howling imprecation Mucklewm-
strovu to spring to his feet, but before he could-
riso the trapper snatched up the villain’s pinto " '
and shot him dead! '.

Then over the fallen body, Davy Barrett axe ,
tended his hand, saying: ‘

“Shake, Harry, shake! God bless your
blessed little soul; shake, i say!” ‘

“(lroat hornits, DaVcl I thought you were: t.
dead," replied the lad. extending iis hand. 'l

“1 war mortal nigh it, and thought I’d ll 3‘"
’possuni like you are in the habit 0t doinygnir
Harry, for (lod’s sake, don’t let that dog claw;
that Englishcr any more! The man’s deudol’nj‘i‘i-
thunder, now. Call him elf, Harry, call e
oil’.” M ‘~ ‘

Harry called his dog away from the really
(load soldier; then, while almost as a sheet, -
turned to Davy and said: .

“This is awful, awful business, Do . I; -
almost makes me sick at heart to thi med
become hunters of men, and butcher and w”
one another.” ‘ ‘ 1’. _

“ You’re entirely too tender-hearted, H 
my boy,” replied Davy. “ I don’t see how y u
get along as well as you do. But then you '
git over this by’in’lw. It’s natural for :1 yo A
stci‘ to have a soft; heart. I like to see at
kind and gentle heart when the right tin:
comes, but then I want to see it st,le r- ,
brace up when courage and firmness is wanted},
You’ve that kind of a heart, boy; I know y ;.
Brave are you when bravery ’8 required: 1;
tlo and kind when gentleness and klndneu _ i
wanted. You must git over feelin badab ’ f
these two villains unless you’re a card their’
death will make times dull. ‘ "  '

“I’ve had it lively for the past week, Men,
Davy,” Harr announcad, “and I must say
that that den wrotch 1 ing there has beenb : 7
cause of a good share 0 it all. But, Davy, ,
you know a. regular ole war with England. 

cin’ on now?” ' *‘Lc‘i;

“ That tells me so,” and he pointed to th 3.
dead soldier. ‘ ‘5 "R

“And do you know that a big army of reds;
coats have crossed the frontier and are mar '
 down this we ’1?"

‘Didn’t know but, Harry.”

“ It’s true, it is for a sturtlin’ fact; I cam .
with ’em last night by their earnest re l ,
forced witha loaded musket. They’ll - . . 
aways about to-morrow noon, and ma
sooner, for I left them fellows at camp.” ‘ . . ., ,;'

“ Jewhillikins! you don’t say, Harry?"  '

“I do, for a downright fact, Davy. I m: ' '.’~
bytotell on.” i . I *‘9

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fa ,tured from a British major t’other morn—
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“You don’t say you have these things, do
you? Why, if that’s so, it’ll bu’st the Britishers’
calculations all to smash. Gracious! yes, you
wantto at that news to Hull, and it’ll be the
makin’ 0 you. You’re a trump, boy, and ort
tobe made a gineral or a ovenir when you
grow bigger. I’d walk a t ousand miles to
vote for you, Harry.”

"Davy are you goin’ with me? or will you
stay herel”

“Stay herd—stay here and git gobbled by
the British? Nary sta ;I’ll shoulder my old
rifle and peg out wit you. I’ve not much
here to lose, and everything to gain. Yes, Sir
Harry,1’ll shoulder rifle and eg out for tall
timber with you. I want to take a hand in this
War, for ’I' never expect to see another war in

my time.

_ ‘I will= be pleased to have your company,
Davy; and I’d suggest that we get awa as soon
as pOSBible, for other enemies may near.
But, before we go, me and Belshazzar wants

Iomethin to eat, if ou’ve anything in your
palace o the kind. e’ve fasted foraweek,
tseems like.”

“Anything to eat? Why, just look thar,
br’ilin’ on them coals. My jolly, genial guests
put me to bed and then went in on eir nervous

stem. But, ah, me! how very unsartain is
l to. Now thar they lay, and here I stand. Yes

we’ll have a rousin’ old supper, thou se
nail. ll‘ust, let us drag these poor dead devils
slide and cover ’em up; then, while I’m washin’
up and puttin’ on some clean buckskin, you
amuse ourself the best you can."

“ I’ll select a rifle from among our enemies’ ef—
fects, as I was relieved of mine at the British

‘ ‘ cam last night.”

“ 0 so, Harry—go ahead, make yerself right
to home-indulge reely, partake of whatever
pleaseth your fancy—be reckless as you lease,

or this is our last hour, p’r’aps, at the p see of
I ole Davy'Darrett.”
‘ ' , . Harry examined the was in of the soldier
I, , and Mucklewee, and, to his happy surprise,
 ‘ found the gun and accouterments that he had
i been compelled to leave in Brook’s cam .
, Mucklewee had substituted the elegant new ri e
u M for his old flint-lock musket, little dreaming
what a short time he was to ssess it.
‘ 01d Davy soon washed the lood from his per-
~ ;  son and attired himself in a clean suit of buck-
Ew” - skin from head to foot; then he set about re—
paring supper. This re uired but a short t me,
 when the sat down an ate heartily.

When t e meal had been finished some of the

remnants were stowed away in a leather game-

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f , , fixture for Detroit, Davy bidding farewell to
v ‘ e cabin as though it were an old time-honored
7'2, ‘ friend.
i g It was dark b this time, at least it seemed so
to our friends w en they first plunged' out into
'. , the woods. The wilderness was droning forth
‘z‘l’ : its monotonous song; but the sky was clear and
 , .ltarry, and the air cool and fragrant with the
‘< I, odors of the wildwood.
,A , The two had journe ed but a short distance
a", when the whinny o ahorse suddenl broke
, through the woods. They came toa alt and
1 v listened. Not far away they could hear a
3' sound, like a. horse impatiently pawing the
,  earth mingled with the clinking of ring-bits
s 7 3:} and slain-ups. Davy ressed his ear to the earth
1 _  ' and listened lon an intently, but could make
“ ,'. out nothing furt er than the sounds indicated.
 I “By homits l” exclaimed Harry, as a thought
’1 occurred to him.
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'   “You don’t know it that such is the case.”

. v ’ “No but then its possible. That noise is
- i viii, made y a. horse wing the ground and he
:V 14,. months hitched in t ere. Come along, and let
‘ V; 1,}: III inwestigate the matter anyhow.”

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sound.

, “Justus I told you, Davy,” suddenly burst

- we mH ’s lips; “ here’s two horses all sad-
: wiv'dled and ridled for us. Mount, Davy, and
=, , ‘ we’ll ride down to Detroit; we will, for asquare
,itfufaot. Whoa, Prince! easy, now ole steed,”
 and he approached one of the restless animals
1 «and began caressing it. In a moment he had

i  its fears, t on he untied it, and with
' ‘ t little dimculty mounted into the saddle.

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‘ Old Davy’s horse was a little fractious, and as
. the old bordermau had not been upon a horse’s
I, back for twenty ears be deported himself
- ‘nomewhat awkwar ly. With some difficulty,
,ijhowever. he finally got into the saddle, and
"than they resumed their journey. ‘
- Happ Harry could not refrain from an oc-
' outburst of merriment at the ludicrous
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account of the vessel’s motion. Jist wait till
I catch the boss’s step, and then I’ll sway
edzactly right every time."

f ”Y,ou’re top-heavy, Davy; you are, for 8.
act.’

“ Ah, my boy! if you’d clumped around on
foot as old Davy, you’d be top-heavy, too,
under sicli circumstances as these. But, never
mind; l’ll soon git ballasted, and then I’ll show
you a thin or two on hossback. It’s not in
fault that ’m reelin’ around here' it’s the boss 9
fault; he won’t walk square under me, that’s
what 5 the matter.”

“ You are like Jerry Jones when he got drunk
and fell down. It wasn’t on his account nor
the liquor’s, oh no, that he fell. He said that
the earth was like an old we on-wheel, and had
lost its disk and got to wobb in’ on its axis, and
of course he couldn’t keep his footin’.”

“Well, Jerry wasn’t fur from right,” re-
peated Davy, affecting justification for his own
awkward horsemanship.

They rode on as fast as the nature of the
forest would admit, and about midnight struck
the head-waters of a little creek “lowing in a.
south-easterly course toward the Huron river.

“ Do fiou know what stream this is, Davy?”
Ha y arry questioned.

“ t’s Brownstown creek,” replied the trap-

r. “It's ’bout twent miles to its confluence
with the Huron river, t en it’s twenty or thirty
miles from there to Detroit. "

“Can’t we reach the fort without followin’
the creek and river?"

“ We can, yes; but then as it is night and the
way uncertain and dangerous, we’ll make time
to stick to the water-courses as guides.”

“All right, Davy; as you say,” and they
kept on down the stream.

hey journeyed on until daylight, when they
rode into the creek and watered their animals
then selected a rass spot, drew rein and
dismounted. to a owt 6 animals to rest and
graze awhile.

While reclining underatree and artaking
of the remnants of their supper, t ey were
suddenly started by the report of fire-arms
far down the creek. The firing was sharp and
vigorous for several minutes, then it ceased
entirely.

“ Something wrong down that way, Harry,”
declared Davy, with a dubious shake of the
head; “ surely the British haven’t got in ahead
of us and been attacked by our sofiers.”

“Impossible; the arm cool not have
moved so rapidly with t eir heavy guns and
baggage-wagons. It may, however, be a de-
tachment of cavalry sent out in advance of the
main column to reconnoiter. Or it may be a
skrimmage atween the Americans and a band
of In 'ins. ’

“ s can soon find out by mountin’ our crit-
ters and joggin’ ’em fi'iskily down that we .”

“And we might jog into an ambusca e of
Injins, too. A feller can’t be too keerful,
Davy, these war times. An Injin or Britisher
is just liable to hopout of a bush as a wolf or
deer and we’ve got to feel carefully. along. ”

“ifou know your bisness, so go ahead, just
as ou think proper.” ,

he finished t eir breakfast, mounted their.
anima s and rode on down the creek. The im-
glint of horses’ boots in the yieldin earth sud-
enly arrested their attention; an upon care-
ful examination of the ground they found that
a large body of horses had assed down the
stream. They also examine the tracks and
found that they had been made b iron-shod
hoofs. They found such a materia difference
in the shape of the shoe and that of the animals
they rode, that they were led to believe a party
of American horsemen had gone down the
creek that morning. If so, they had fallen in
with a band of savages, which accounted for
the firing.

“What do you still counsel, Ha r ?” asked
Da ; “ had we better keep on own the
cree , or bend of! to the right a leetle?”

“ Kee right on down the Brownstown. We
may fal in with a party of friends, and be able
to make ourselves useful.”

“Just as you say, Harr . I’m in for any-
thing that’ll not dis ace t e American ea le.
Anythipg that’ll sh glory on old Cumby, ’m
in for.

They pushed carefully on, and finally entered
an opening in the forest of perha s forty acres
in area. n the opposite side 0 this clearin
the keen e es of our friend caught sight 0
something uttering in the air above a clump
of bushes. It required not a second glance to
tell him what it was.

A low, suppressed c of delight burst from
H ’s lips, while old avy Darrett swung his
tea 1 oft and shouted at the top of his power-

u un :

“Hurrah for the star-sprangled banneri the
American eaglel and Hail Columbus, happy

‘ land l”

The s' ht of their country’s flag wavin so
graceful y in the bright, morning sun, ed
their breasts with renewed irit and enthu-
siasm; and givin their anima s the reins, they
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would be greeted by friends and American
patriots with

“ Freedom‘s soil beneath their feet,
And freedoni’s banner wavmg o‘er them. “

CHAPTER XXIX.
THE OLD BORDERMAN’S TEST.

As Happy Harry and old Davy continued to
advance toward the cam . a man. in the uni-
form of aca tain of the nited States may,
rode out of t e woods and halted them.

“ Who comes there?” he demanded, in a stan-
torian voice.

“Two doggone good American chaps,”was
old Davy’s rrsponse. “I am ole David Dar-
rett, hunter an trapper, and this are fractional

art of a man at W side is Happy Harry, the

ild Boy of the oods.”

“Advance, then,” responded the oflicer.
“You will report at once to Major Van
Home.”

The two rode forward and were conducted
into the timber where nearly two hundred
mounted infantry were tempomrily encamped.
They were ordered to dismount at the edge of
the camp, and while two men took charge of
their animals, the captain conducted them to
the commandant, whose quarters were under a
low, branchin tree.

Major Van orne received them kindly. He
knew them both b reputation, and so enter-
tained no doubts 0 their loyalty. After hav-
insE (passed the usual comphments, the officer
a e '

“ What news have you from the North-west?"

“Nothin’ good, major,” replied Ha
“General Brock, with a lammin b'g arm , is
in this territor , marchin’ on Detroit with old
Tecumseh and is minions at his rig t. Fifty
miles don’t separate you from them this holy
minute; it don’t for a fact.”

“ Can this be possible?" exclaimed the major,
startled by the information.

“It’s a act, ma 'or; I war a prisoner in the
camp of the Britis , night before last, and so I
know of what I’m speakin’. Before captured,
I was an eavesdro per at an interview be-
tween General Broc and old Tecumseh and
heard ’em make their ’rangements. Oh, I tell
you, majpg, it’s goin’ to be warm on the pen-
insula. v e ’ve gained admittance to the lakes
with their ts, and. justa few nights ago,
a part of us surprised and captured the little
brig ‘ cout,’ wit supplies for Brook’s army.
But then, major, this is not what I’m here for‘
—in fact, I’m not here for anything. I’m on
my way to Detroit with some documents of
great interest to the American army.”

“Ah, indeed! Is it possible that you are
one of our spies?” asked Van Horne, in an un-
dertone.

“ I don’t know what iyou’d call me, but I’m
an American bo , and ghtin’ for yonder fla .
You see, I ca ured, or rather played a sfir
trick on a. Bri ish major t’other mornin’, and
got from him the paper I am now carrying to

eneral Hull.”

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would be of interest to me, Harry?

“Not a doubt of it, major, for it is of interest
to every loyal American; and I believe I’d bet-
ter let you see it.”

So saying, he pulled off his moccasin and
with the pomt of his knife ri ped a slit in the
lining, from behind V‘ hicb he ew out a folded
paper and handed it to Van Horne.

he major unfolded it, and with the assist-
ance of Harry, the whole secret was unraveled.

“Good heavens, Harry!” exclaimed the ofli—
cer,as soon as it had been examined, “that
paper must be forwarded to Hull immediately
-without another hour’s delay. It is of the
most vital importance to the American arm
in the North-west. It is a key that will enab 0
us to open the way to yictory. It is the writ-
ten plan of the. English general’s proposed
campaign, and With t is in our possession it
will enable us to meet them, full prepared.
Yes,_Harr , this must be forwar ed at once.
I will sen a special messenger with it—an old
ranger who knows every foot of ground be-
tween here and Detroit, and who has the fleet-
est horse in the command. By noon he Will
deliver it at Detroit. But rest assured, Harry,
that your part in this heroic deed shall receive
full mention in my official report. Your

 

triotism and bravery in this matter shall not ea- '

cape the notice of President Madison.”

“ Well, major, if this document is of so much
value and importance as that, start your man
for the fort at once.” .

The major summoned one. Lieutenant Strahl,
an old ranger, to whom he intrusted the paper,
with orders to deliver it to General Hull 3,; the
earliest moment possible.

“ I’ll do my best toward it, major,” replied K
the old ranger, bowing himself out of the com-
mandant’s presence. _

In a few minutes he was mounted u on the
fleetest horse in the command, and flying t rough
the woods toward Detroit.

“ Now, in friends,” said Major Van Horne,
W8 1’0 m and Do. , “ you fellows
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sider yourse ves guests in our camp, to exercise

yourselves at pleasure.” '

“Thank you, major, for your kindness,” re-
plied Harry, “ but Will you permit me to in-
quire the cause of that firing we heard off here
awhile ago?” _

“Our advance-guard got into a brush with a
party of savages, though nothing fatal, so far
as we have learned, occurred.”

“ We heard the noise, but didn’t know what
it meant. But, major, I’m afraid it old Brock
comes this way with his avalanche of sojcrs
and Ingins, he’ll gobble you all up.”

“We ex met to break camp by evening, at

.» furthest. e are here to convoy a. train of

supplies, coming down the lake, to its destina—
tion south. A messenger arrived in camp this
morning with information that the train it ould
reach the creek about the middle of the day,
or soon after. My only fears have been of the
Indlans, but if the British army is as close as
you say, we may have trouble from their ad—
vance—guards before we get in. Have they
cavalry l”

“Till you can’t rest,” was the laconic reply.

“Then the chances are favorable for some
fighting before we get back. if not before we
get awa from here. If I thou ht we were in

anger, would send to Colonel iller for rein-
forcements.”

“Well, major, it there’s an fighting to do,
count me and Belshazzar, my 0g, in on it;and,
I tell you we’re numerous, too, when it comes
to fi htinl; we’ll figure up to about six common
IrEng ’i’shmen, we will, for a square up and down

act.

“ And. chalk me down one, too, major,” said
old Davy; “I’m p’izen to red-coats and red-
skins, and can fetch one further’n any other
man on the peninsula.”

“ Have you anything to back that?" asked a
stalwart orderman standing within ear shot;
5‘ have you anything that sa 5 I can’t beat any
man in the camp on an 0 -hand shot? If ye
have, spit it right out, and old Iron Hand ’11
cover it, and try you one, two, or as many shots
as you want.”

“ Wnl, stranger, I don’t know what your cali-
ber is; you look as though you might be real
handy with a. rifle,” replied old Davy; “ I’m no
great shakes at shootm’, I’ll admit, but here’s
my rifle that says you can be beat.”

‘Let’s shake on that, stranger ” said Iron
Bend, the scout, and the two irontiersmen
clasped hands over the bet. , .

By this time no little excitement prevailed in
consequence of what was likely to prove a source
of amusement. The soldiers gathered around
the two old bordermen, eager for the sport.
They bet freely on the men, Iron Hand stand-
ing two to one against old Dnvy.

“ You hear the but, men?" Iron Hand ex-
claimed, turning to the soldiers, and upon re
cciving an affirmative reply, he continued, ad-
dressing Davy: “ Now, friend l'lavy, Choose
your mark and distance—no difference to me
what it is. ”

Davy hastily ran his eyes around him, 11)
among the tree-tops up at the sky, but sboo '
hishead ina dissatisiei manner. He could see
nothing upon which to test the skill of Iron

Hand, and for several moments stood in a sort
‘ of a “brown” study; then he turned to Major
Van Horne, and asked:

“ Major, how long have you been here in
camp?"

‘ ‘ Not over two hours.”

“ Ithought not.” I

“ Don’t back down, Davy, and try to talk the
matter off,” said Iron Hand.

“ Never, Iron Hand,” replied the old trapper,
advancing to where his opponent stood, and

inting up among the branches at a little forked
mugh, quite conspicuous on account at its blood-
red leaves; “ you see that limb, don’t you, with
the red leaves?”

H; I’d be blind it I didn’t see it,” replied Iron
nd.

“ Wal, now, I’ll select that as a target, and
bet that it you can cut the left limb of! with a
bullet, I can cut the right limb 011 and draw
blood—both with the same bullet.”

“ Darn sich a bet; I don’t understand it,”
said Iron Hand. “ Explain yer meanin’.”

“ Take me just as I say, and you’ll get at the
meanin’; I’ll bet you 1 can shoot that left limb
06' and draw blood, and that yon can’t. That’s

lain enou h.”
p A puzzle« look mounted the ~faces of the sol-
diers and the exchanged mqmrmg glances.

_“§ome ‘ sel ’ to that,” began a bystander but
before he could finish the sentence, Iron fiend
broke in: ”

“ All ri ht, Davy, I’ll take you, and‘throw-
4 ing his rilfe to his shoulder, he fired, cutting the
designated twig oil? as smooth as though it had
been done with a knife. '

“ Well done.” exclaimed old Davy, .“ and
now here goes for blood,” and he drew hIS long
rifle to his shoulder and glanced alon the bar-
'rel; but he did not fire. , He chnpge his post-
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treetops, a hundred yards, or more, from where
they stood, and as the severed limb came flutter-
ing to the earth, a human body went crashing
down among the branches and fell, with a
heavy thud, upon the ground.

CHAPTER XXX.
THE BATTLE or BROWNSToWN CREEK.

THE soldiers, as well as Iron Hand himself,
looked aghast.

Old Davy broke into a. hearty laugh, for be
well understood the result of his shotflwhud
killed a red-skin spy! He had discovered the
warrior in a tree—top when looking around for
at bird or an object upon which to lest Iron
Hand’s marksnmnship, and keeping the fact to
himself, made the bet he did upon the strength
of his discoverv.

The savage liad ensconced himself there be-
fore the command came up, in order to watch
the movements 01" Van Horne, and to gain smno
knowledge of the strength of his force. He
was found to be in war-paint, which was evi-
dence of his having been on the Warpath, and
which also justified Davy iii-shooting him.

Although it was rather an extraordinary af-
fair, and the bet made in the spirit of fun by
the two bordermen, the stakes were awarded
Davy, amid shouts of applause: and Iron Hand
offered up his gun. But of course Davy refused
to take it, saying:

“ l’ll loan it to you awhile, lron Hand; take
good care of it, for I’ll bet it’s an ole raker-
from—tow: besides, I think you’ll need it to
plug British pink-coats with—therel by Jeru—
saleml”

The far-off report of a rifle sounded suddenly
through the woods, starting every man.

“What can that mean?” asked Major Van
Home.

“More skrimmagin’, I reckon,” responded
Iron Hand.

“Have you scouts out beyond the creek,
major!" as ed Happy Hurry.

“ We have picketguards posted in the woods
beyond the creek.” ‘

‘I believe I’ll make a little scout off that
way, gineral, If you’ve no objection,” the
youth remarked.

“ None, whatever.”

Harry, accompanied by his dog, crossed the
creek and plunged into the Wmn‘lH. Shortly
after his departure Iron Hand and Davy went
out to rcconnoitor.

Happy Harry was gone an hour when he
came running into camp, almost out of breath,
his face flushed with wild excitonu-nl. 110 mu
directly toward Major Van Horne‘s quarts-rs
and was met by the commandant, who he
been eagerly watching for his return.

“ Great hoppln’ hornits, major," tho bov
cried. “ the British are comin’! A body of not
less than two 01‘ three hundred infantry and
cavalry, with one or tWo pieces of artillery,
am within three miles of here this holy minute;
they are, for a fact.”

“Are. you sure of this, Harry?” the major
asked, in no little excitement;

“ There’s no denyiil’ it, major; it’s a Gospel
truth.”

“Then we must prepare to meet them.”

“Yes, and don’t lose a minute, major, for
the bloody val-mints are comin’ lickey-te—
spilt.

Instantly the call to arms rcsounded through
the camp. The rush of feet, the murmur of
subdued voices, the command of officers. and
,the tramp of hoofcd feet succeeded the hitherto
quiet of the camp.

The soldiers were eager for the conflict, each
man believing that he was equal to two or
three British. They were brave, reckless fel-
lows, most of whom had been trained to Indian
fighting, and would hear to no other alterna-
tive but to fight the advancing foe; and 50
Major Van Horne resolved to give battle.

A company of fifty men were detailed to take
charge of the horses and act as a reserve. Then
the main body forded the creek and took up a

osition behind the northern bank, which of-
'orded an admirable shelter. ‘

Scarcely had the Americans thus been posted
when firing betwren meirpicketa and the che-
mics’ advance-guard began. It was kept up
for some time, sharp and decisive, when the
American outposts were all driven rapidly back
on the main body and compelled to seek shelter
behind the bank. ~

A death—like stillness succeeded the disappear-
ance of the soldiers behind the embankment.
The enemy’s advance- uard halted in the wood
beyond sight. A hun red and fifty heads were
ranged along ust above the edge of the bank;
the same num er of gleaming rifles rested on the
earth with their muzzles ciuted northward,
and still the same number 0 lairs of gleaming
eyes watched for adglim 5e 0 the foe.

Happy Harry an old avv were there in the
ranks, read for the fray. one watched the
coming of t e foe with calmer courage than did
the boy hero. - .

Not a word escaped the soldiera’ lips. _ All/
was silent save the rippling of the creek over

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woods. Then the gleam of bayonets in the
bright sun, and the flash of the toe’s scarlet
uniform amid the green of the woods burst
upon the view of the Americans. With steady
trump the enemy advanced toward the creek,
and when only twenty paces irom the bunk,
gm command to fire was given by Major Van
orne.

All along the American line a stream of fir..-
spit forth, and n curtain of smoke rolled up be-
tween the foes  if to shut from view be 309116
01‘ destruction that must have followe such I.
withering volle-y from the rifles of cool, deterg.
mined soldiers. 

The British discharged their muskets at 
unexpected foe, then fell rn idly back under:
cover of the woods, leaving t l6 ground strewn
with dead and dying conn'ndes. H,

The horrors of war were now, for thefirst
time, fully presented to Happy Herr ’s e 98.».
His young heart shuddeer at the sight 0 [9
many dead, and the ngonizinr screams 
piteous means, the horrible out 3 and the fore
vent prayers of the wounded and dying. 

Not an American had been injured, and 
shout oi' triumph that peeled from their lip;-
fairly shook the earth beneath them. i .

The enemy soon recovered from their first,
repulse, and, reinforced by a company of .5
ulars that came up at this juncture, they 9.33 v ‘
advanced. As they neared the ed at t -'
woods they made a dash, with fixed yonetl,‘
for the creek, intending to carry the Amerle
can defense by storm: but they were agent,
met by such a deadly fire that they were again;
driven back in disorder under cover of the,
woods. ‘.

Scores of their men went down before thi
withering volle . The front rank fell lik ,
grain before tie sickle. The ground w“
strewn with English dead, and the cries of. mo,
wounded and the yells of the victors rent '

mr. ‘ a, _
Harry heartily wished that the attack w . .5,
not be repeated. H . j
The English fell back some distance 
again reformed their broken lines and filled- “is
their thinned ranks from a com any of menu “
ed infantry that had been hel back as a )‘
serve. fr. ’ ;
A consultation of the British officers w 
held, for some were in favor‘ of l'enewlg‘; I,
attack and others of falling back and 3.1 I u
the arrival of the entire army advanc , N .:
drr Genel‘hl Brock. ' ii 3‘
Said one lav-ring the latter movementn _ ‘
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rake the streami I hate for five hundred
sf ronpr to give up the battle to a hundred or .
Yankees," said the general in command of - 
army. "  ’7
“General, I assure you the Americans he 
twice our mnnbnr behind that bank: with 1
reserve in the woods beyond; and probu
half a dozen batteries ready to rake ussh \
we succeed in making n. stand on the v '
Ilowdo’they know but what this is BI’ ‘
whole army? and if they suppose it many 4'}
or three hundred men would not be 'bn m 1'4}
with a thousand. Yes, general. there‘s s - .3“
Swill ,three hundred Americans behind t 
an :. ‘
“General,” said a captain of infantry. - .
{)ing up to the commandant “furnish aid. 
lOl‘SG and I will settle this matter—I will my,
whether there is a hundred or a thousand 4‘ ,'
enemy bchindthat bank.” , - ".l 
“That,” replied the general, “is thew I ‘"
formation we want, and there is m. horse.
The captain turned, and leapin Into the.
dlegatbered n) the reins, am then - '-
away through t e woods toward the Aramaic
lines. He rode boldly and rashly up to;
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the stirru s, looked over the bank, and 

burmn ,, ashing eyes 11 and down the .n -
saw that he wishe to with a :- ‘
glance—that there was but a handful ‘0! . ‘
cans behind the embankment. fill a
they swept along that gleamln line, i
turned u on him, encountered 0800‘
Harry. ey even rested for a w  .
tlégse of the youth, for each one reopgnluda
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CHAPTER XXXI.
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the speed of his horse, so uick‘di be
upon the bank, glance over t e edge, then -
away toward the woods with his in - 

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he and his horse sun to earth rt and.
bullets. ‘ ‘ ‘

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Five minutcs after the full of Kirby Kale 
the British again ndvancerl, reinforced by n
lame band nt’ S‘ants, whose blood-curdling

els did more to strike four to the hcnrts ol' ‘
1 ' he Americans than the bristling bnyonots of ‘

L. the English. The light now hocch llcspnl'ntc.

  ’The enemy pro. 1 on to tho, very innzz‘u- ol'

1 ‘ the American miles, and a. few sucwcdcd in

' ' ' Easting over tho b'ink to mac; n, ccrtnin «loath.

jor Vnn Hornc‘s reserve miningr up put the
enemy to rout for the third time.

' “Chargel (lilargcl’7 tlu’lndcred tho voicc ol’

the commander, as ho. saw the cncmy turn nml

‘ flee, and in an histnnt tho Amcric'lns sworli

. ; {out from behind thcir l)l‘(’ll.\h\\0i'l{$ nnd smrtcd

r  . " in pursuit of the foo. lint victory haul not yct

‘ ‘ -been wrchased. ho savages now, from tlwir

‘j . , - cencealments, Opened a deadly lire upon them,

Will checking their advance, and giving tho English

a Chance to rally and return to the conflict.

, A terrible hmulto—lutiid encounter now on-

?" sued. Both sides fought desperately—om) ilnshcd

I ,with partiul victory, the other with that (lus—

, "l partition upon which life and victory are staked.

_ h ' And Hn my Hurry was in the hottcst oi" the

“ struggle. [on fell around him on all sidcs.

, The terrible eyes of the cnmny glared into his .

very face. Ho could sec that awful look which

the heat and exuitcmcnt of bottle g‘ivris to the
human face and features. e soul was trans-

, . formed to that of n, mnddencd demon in ouch

5." warrior. He seemed drawn on to battle by

‘5 wsome fascination that he could not resist.

' Death appeared to have no horrors for him.

He was past four; he was literal] olate with

* , be combined horrors of battle on death. He

‘ .- ‘2 took no thoughts of what he was doing. .

Harry saw the color~bcurer of the enemy \

“pushing directly toward him with u drawn l

" word. He was a powerful man—n I crcnlns

,in stature and strength. His face was mad-

dened and contorted by the horrors of batllc.

.33 fixed his luring eyes upon the youth with

' look that tolc' his n‘iurdcrous intention.

“Shoot that color—bearer, Hurry,” cried old ‘

avy Darrott, as he staggered and fell under

e shock of a musket-ball that tore its way

gfihrough his shoulder.

;Hnrry drew his pistol and fired at the giant
glishman. The ball struck him square in

e forehead. A quiver thrilled his great form.

glare of death l'cll like a cloud upon his

see. 'He was virtually dead, but did not full.

'title body continued to advance upon the boy

*rstill obeying the impulse of the will now'

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urted out in little jets, the eyes glazed the
soles relaxed their stony rigidity, and the
P‘Myfell at the feet of the boy-soldier. Never
fit! his dying-day did Harry forget the awful
oath-look of that man. .
youth grasped the colors from the bear-
less band, and at the some instant the
lowers for the retreat were sounded along the
,mericslm lines. But the retreat began in dis-
, ‘ er, and terminated in a wild panic. The
- mericans endeavored to rally behind the bank
the'creek, but the enemy were so close upon
in, and in such overwhelming odds that :1;
ml was impossible, and 'the defeat became
" , : tothe American arms.*
‘ 3 how matters stood, Happy Harry,
 clinging to the captured colors, ran for
than life. 9 soon reached the bank of the l
‘ k at a point where the high waters had, at E
' e broken across an abrupt bend in the I
m leaving a. narrow bank of earth stun".-
ou in the stream a few feet from shorc.
. be water had eaten the dirt away from the
of this until its upper edges hung over
oor three feet. There was no water at the
within three or four feet of this ridge of
Harry, as he came up, made it loop
banr, but the distance was too long
, m, and he landed at the base of the ridge.
soldier, more successful than he, succeeded
, longing upon it, mid just ashis feet left it
{a und for the opposite side, tons of. the
v ring top fell over upon Harry, completely
'ing him from human eyes!
= 7 Americans were completely routed.
Vat at first had promised to be such a bril-
- t'victory temiinated in total defeat and the
' of many brave and noble men. But we
not enter into further details of this battle
1 'is necessary to follow up the characters of

- story.
i’l'hat one could exist for :1 single moment be—
' th apressure of two or thren tons of earth is
«question that no one would give a second
- ught. Nor did the British soldier who saw
v '1 earth fall upon the youth.
a” at Harry was for from being dead, notwith-
I- the weight that was over him. He
' n so close in against the base of the
that when the projecting top fell down a
was left betw. en the bottom of the
and the dirt that fell. and in this space
' lay. This narrow prison was closed at

’This conflict. known in bisto as the Battle of
mtown, was fou t August th, 1812. The de-
ot Van Home us, however, retrieved a. few
'on the same ground b rmlan victory

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. his conlhwncnt b-‘forc dark.
the llnttlcllcld would be frequented throughout

; tion.

‘ thcrein.

tho top, for the earth in“ in one solid chunk,

‘ but at win-h cud thcre “‘Zlm :L s .1111 opcnlnp; that
‘ admitted air and,

.unvl.

For awhile ui'mr the full a cloud of stilling:
dust pcrvndcd tln' youth’s lllll‘l‘uW‘ prison, and
in wound us though he should surely sull'mrato:
but this soon S-Etlill-ll, and Hurry poi-Initlml
lo rcj . chr hi: own inirnculons (“w wruly

   
   

,to bound the into 01‘ thc little nrlny whom

honor; haul oncc bocn so buoyant.

He could hcnr the awful cric»; and moons of
tho woundcd, tho yell and shouts of tho Vic-
torious; British and 09, mid the lh‘lnnlci'oux‘
tram}: of mm clung Uh. l'lu‘: all Sounds
of tho inttlo soon died :1\‘  Only £210 3'“ '
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cent 1y passed was n, stern reality.
The youth knew tlmtho could not cscnpo from
He knew that

the whqu day by the cnmny in burying; tho
doadnnd caringr for the wounded. lzlis may

‘ lay in waiting~ the coming:r of night, and upon

this he resolved at once, without a second
thought.

He spcnt the long hours of waiting in roilcc~
Ho epitomized all the cvonts ol' the [if-1st
week, and rccnllcd the l'uccs that bad lluurcd
The noble face of LongY Heard and the
angelic T-_:mpy, stood out the most conspicuous.
'l‘ho hateful visnucs of Kirby Kale and Bill
Mucklcwve wcre the next most prominent, but
the nssurnnco that both these mm were dead
gave him rclicf.
through wh n he had passed—his adventure in
General llrt k’s camp; his narrow encupc at old
Dnvy’s cnbin; the battle: the first discharge of
the American rifles; the groans ol' the dying;
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the color-bonror as he walked a lifeless corpse ,

toward him!

Old Davy did not escape his thoughts. He

‘ rcmcmbcrcd the last words he had heard the

veteran bordurmlm utter as he went down in
battle; and then he wondered if he had died,
or had been trumped to death bcncnth the feet
of the victors and the horses. And last but not
least, came the sudden thought of Bclslmmar.
\thro was ho? his faithful companion of yours?
Had he Mon slain? or had he been lost in the
rout? The last. time he had remembered seeing
him was a. few moments before the bottle
opened. ,

Thus musing, the hours wore away, and the
first thing Harry knew he was growinq alccpy.
He bud not Slept for two or three nights. He
had been kcpt awake by excitcuu-nt and ac-
tivity, and so be resolved to tuko n nnp. R03;
ing hi-a head upon his arm be soon become lost
in the oblivion of slccp. Wbcn he invoke it
seemed as though he had been sleeping at week.
lle know however, that smh could not be the
case; but he was satisfied that hours had
passed, and that it was than for in the night.

He listened for some sound without, but not
the slightest noise could be heard unless it was

be soft, creeping .ri )ple of the water in the
creek. This satisfied him that the enemy had
all retired from the battlefield, if not from the
vicinity; and he at once began to entertain
thoughts of attempting his release. But to his
horror and surprise he hoard a slight noise out-
side just as he was about to begin operations.
He listened closely, and discovered that some-
thing or somebody wus digging into flm bank:
that coccwd him! He could distinctly hear a
kind of scratching noise that grew louder and
louder each moment, and which left no doubt in
the boy’s mind but that search was being made
for him, either by a. friend or foe, who bud seen
him full and bill-loll.

A him-£1.29 :-,u pcnsc no“ pcsseyslon of him.
He rrzmnincd gull-t, listca inf: witn bated breath.
A great lump cmuo up in his throat when he
felt )articlcs of dirt crumbling down upon him.
It told him that the digger had made his way
through the wall that separator} him from the
outer world. He could now see the open starry
sky hrough the hole made by the un 'nown.
He could see a dark object near the opming
outside, and could bear a noise like the low
panting of an animal. He happened to think
of his dog. In a low tone he culled him by
name. , _
its-'ll.’ into the hole and uttcrcrl a low whine.

Hrri-y’s heart grrvc a. gun-t bound, and he
could scm'cclysuppress u cry of joy. It was
his faithful friend, Belulmzzm, true enough, who
by some unaccountable mcnns had sought out
his young master’s concealment.

The youth soon enlarged the hole made by
the dog sufilcient for his body to pass through.
Then he thrust his head and shoulders out and
listened, at the same time caressingr the dog.

He heard a slow, measured footsth on the
opposite shore, and peering: throth the night
he saw the outlines of a British sentinel pacing
to and fro along the bank. By this he knew he
was inside the enemy’s lines, unless they had
changed their position south of the creek, and
that great danger would attend his, proposed
attempt at etcape. ’

He knew the moon would
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fl: t the l
‘ drcndful conllict through which he had so re-

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the (lill‘lil‘iUSS which pl‘t‘C‘t‘lli‘S the rising of the
moon, llll’l nccnrinp; tho it‘n '. lgj' \ lair'h lzo
12nd cnptnrcd in lmtv lc nluoul. his pr” 1!, ho crypt
out of his coll, and upon his innit ~ and krwos
made his war to the 'vntcr‘s c-‘cc.
, Ho hml llccidt-d to crccp lltl'v r. Tllr- crock, wade
‘v whore he could not mnwl on l‘;:';Il-. and knees,
and swim “in. 1"” hc can d n n‘ \liliit‘. l4 licving
thot tho ripple of HM wnicr \NUllllE drown all
sounds ho might lllhlil‘. '
ll’itlmnn n nunncnt‘shesitation ll(‘('ll'{ l'
to ill’.‘\'.'zll'(‘l' and hogan mm'ng aimrl} ox‘
tho strr- El usinjf. his utmost U 91,1 ion.
' 'cv-‘lhd " ' l: m: than
. annuity."
h’  beyond i.‘
ho Found him li‘ viihmil ,.
rcnlly l’clt thnt lw- 41:; :It the
rum, . : ‘ll, hclind his friend. Bol—
slmmnr, whc \": “mm 1hon n. lllElil'il "
1 one-mun, and truth p; to his keen ins
pushed on d( v.71 l'in- cw" l‘:.
l Tic lllitl not, gonc ovcr l::lif:tmilc win-n the
i do: come to n. sudden stop. and uflwrul n low,
l snil‘.’lin;,; whine. Harry linuw lm hm! dimnvcr-
J ed soninthing, and stopped.
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lie hoard a slight nois-c in tl‘rv l:n~ln;< lwl'crc
them, and a heavy sigh. TLc (H u Ho ll Mill,
wagging: his {all and u ll'l.‘ his 2w E'Hllnl’l‘l vli<
rectly nllcml: and {1S Hurry 'nn Ili‘nu d to pun-n,
he heard thnt henvy breathing of Mdnc onc or
somethng rt-y outed.

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soldier who lmd crept owny nnohsmrvr‘d lrann
the battlefield and concealed hinan the; 0. ii»
bcomne soimpresscti with thc luliof l’l i. this
was the case, or. he thought thc mo? ‘ x-r (‘:lll'lly
ovor, that hc could not think ci' lcnvinu \u'lh-
out knowing positively, and to, ill .1: low tone,
he n kcd: ,'

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, ed nearly a minute, when n, veicc in the thia kit
answered :

“Spook ng’in, stranger; I sw"ar I b‘livve ll
war right."

“Yes, you were right, Duvy. Come out,”
responI . .Hnrry, and the old trapper, \‘.((1k
and suflfcrinpz from a terrible wound. staggtred

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CHAPTER XXXII.
A LoNnLY onAvn IN Tun l-‘Ol’l»"~‘T.

—chker than water," said Davy Durrclt, us
be came out oi the lZ-lJlL'kLL and npprom bed the

1 little hero.

' “LET me lean upon you, Hurry: I’m weak
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“Yes, lct me help you, Davy," rcplicd the
boy, “for-J. know you are badly hurt. ] saw
you fall, and was afraid I would never see you
apain.”

“Ah! that was a terrible battle, Harry, a
terrible battle. Our men should never have
left their intrcnchments. I got a terrible blow,
but it wasn’t half as bad as some others got.
Poor Iron Hand lay dying as I passcd him. He
reached out his hand, and said, ‘ Goodtby
Davy:’ then be cmched sight of my shattered
arm, and continue-d: ‘ I’ll tell ’mu you’re comin’
soon.’ He knowcd I couldn't live. ’

cried the boy.
. “ Hurt that bad? why, lad, I an: literally dy-
ing: by mchos ” i >
“ Oh, no. Davy,” replied Hurry. persistently,
and with a ircmor in his voice: “you are not
hurt that bad.”
4 “ 231311,} hope not, Harry; but don’t worry
)ou me:
“Lean upon me heavier, Davy: don’t hesi—
tate, for 1 am stout, you know. Let me help

 

mfantlv thvv dark object outside thrust .

you to a place of greater security. The lndians
are no doubt scouting through tl e woods after
stranglors. and they may find. you.”

“ They have found me already, Hurry, but
I was dead tbcn. Oh. but this i» a cruel, cruel
world, lad. Here l’vc fought along fifty years
or more and have nothin’ to lose, and every-
thing in the world to gain. I’ve seen but a
few sunshiny days in all these years. The
outside world has been dull to me, in one sense,
but in another I’ve made it lively. Ah. Harry,
I can go no l'urdcrl I must sit down and rest
in this little plade. It would be a nice place for
a grave. lu( .” -

“Oh, don’t don‘t give up, Davy—don’t say
die!” pleaded the youth. ‘ ,

They were now in the center of a little glade
or natural opening in the dense woods. The
moon was up, and her mellow rays fell full
and bright upon the old .man andboy.

The latter started at Sight of his companion’s
terrible aspect. . His face and .body were cov-
ered with coagulated blood. His eycs were bol-
low and, sunken. .His left arm hung limp and
lifeless at iris sidel '

“Davy!” criedJ-Iarry, “you are worsn than
you appear. You have been keeping the truth
from inc—where did all that blood come from'.
on your face and breast?”

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Harry eased him carefully down to a seat l
upon the ,qround, with his back against the
trunk of a fallen tree.

“ There, there, that is better, Hurry," he said, {
resting his head back upon the big.

“"hen let me dress your “'rilllitlpd army ;
Davy. havoa silken flag", here, that I enp- ‘
tured from the English, and it will lie the Vl'l'y i
thing); to bind up your wounds wi‘ h.” ‘

“Better SILVU the “'11:, Harry," replied olill
Davy; “it’ll be u hi1; thine; for you. ’i‘ocap— ‘
lure an enemy's crrl‘n's  ii grout thing, inil,
They speak about such things in history, so;
don’t throw it away on inc."

“1 care nothing: for llll‘ honor of l-ztiptcrin’ the
flag, compared with my desire t'oi‘youi' coin.—
fort Davy.”

“ }You can do me but little good, lad, but, that
you may i'i-ul that you done all you Could for
me, you may bind upniy arm.”

“ Davy, you don‘t really believe you're goin’ I
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to die, do you!‘7

“I'll never see the sun rise again, lad-um,
never!”

“ You are disheartened and feeling bad,
Davy. You must not die—you have lllli'll my
best friend these many years, and I cannot give
you up.”

“I know I have been your friend, Harry,

and I never told you why I liked you so well, ‘
but now I might as well tell you. I ust to love ‘
your mother, lad. When I was a young; man ,r
of twenty, I had a smatterin’ of education. I i
could read and write and went in the best
society. Then I loved Mary Grayson, a pretty. 1
modest girl of eighteen, and I guess she like-:1 ‘
me. But the fates war against us. A villain
came in between us, and made me what I am.
He was your father, was Ishmael \Vildc. He
won Mar away from me and married her, and
I bundled up and int off to the woods and be-
came a hunter. 'lhon, a year or two after they
Were wed, you wur born. Your father treated
Mary very unkind, and one day she died when
you war four years old. You war then left
with the family of an old hunter, of whom you
received many valuable lessons in Woodcraft
and Inuiu-iightiug. Your father was killed by
the Ingins, and the old hunter‘s wil'e dyin’ and
his gal marryin’, left you alone in the world
again. But all this time I’d been keepin’ it
watch on you, and when I sce’d you war with-
out a home again, I induced you to take up
your abode with me, where you’ve staid a good
many years, oil? and on. You have been a good
boy, airy, with all the virtues of your end
mother; and this is why I loved you as though
you were my own boy. ’ . .
-' Harry burst into tears as he listened to this
story of his parentage. It was the first time he
remembered of ever having heard of his early
life. He knew that the family in which he had
been raised was not his own; nevertheless he
loved its members as dearly as though they had
been near kindred. _

Carefully as he could, under the Circumstan—
ces,‘ the lad bandaged the Wounded arm of the
old horderman, and when completed he said:

“ Now, Davy, let me take your coon-skin cap
and I will run down to the creek and bring you
upl a sup of water in it. You must be tever—
is .7)

“No. no, don’t move my Gag, Harry, till
after I’m gone. My head will urst, it aches _
so, if you remove the cap. It‘serves as a
bandage, and oh, if it was an iron hoo it,
would feel much better! Just sit down, I 31'—
ry; it won’t last long. The clouds are break-
in’ away now, and out of them I see a snow-
white throne appear—ah! me; ahl ine; lean
my head back against the log, lad—don’t move
the cap—there! there! I tool easxer———much
easier! Oh, that radiant light! lWho says
there’s not ho for all beyond this life? He
who does maigus God‘s mercy, for God is
kind and Just. He makes the good and makes
the wicked. He has an object in it, for His
ways are inscrutable. He will be unnierciful
to none—we are the oflsprings of His Will, and
He doeth all things well—Harry, Hurry! where

e on be 3’
ml‘lYIere, gravy, here, by you,” said the lad,
kneeling by the old man’s side.

“ Ah, there’s a mist gatlierni’ over my eyes——
I can’t see you, and my sight never failed be-
fore. But, Harry, don’t take off my cap nil
I’m dead—bury me here—right here in this
glade, Harry. The rush of the creek and the
moan of the woods won‘t disturb my slumber—
I’ll sleep here sweetly—*Harry, here—your hand
—fnre——well, lad, fare—7’ '

He rattled in the throat; his head fell for-
warl upon his breast, and all that was mortal
of Davy Dnrrett had returned to its Maker.

Happy Harry sat down upon the log by
Davy’s side and burst into tears. He sohbcd
as though his heart was broken. He had lost 1
a friend—a dear friend. The scene was 'md L
and solemn. The deep, dark wood, the littlei
moonlit glndc, the weepina boy. the penchant ;
dog, the deep and awful silence of night—all,“
in the presence of death—conspir(d_to make!
the occasion one of the deepest solcnnnty.

It was sometime before the lad could shake l

 

.34.? off the dread and sorrow that had settled over I,

‘ Mill, where the points of tho com}:

l)n.vy’s cap and behold a spectacle that sent a .

shudder to his heart. Davy had been sculpcd!
The liidirins had found him, truc enough, which
accounted for his refusal to have his cap re-
inovml.

“Poor llnvy! how he must have suil‘cred!"
the lad murmured; “but he is out of this mis-
ery, and I can do nolliin7 luitm”

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he rallied. :tnd Mi .3- l):i,vy‘s knii'o, begin the
laborious Lek of Ling‘ out a grave. llw'lllr
and sliced away the sod, liicn put b‘clsi"
to di in;
Coniplishcd the work, and. just us the Hill
looked ovrr the eastern i'oresttops, llnri'y,

 

 

r LongwiBeard, themGia‘I-it Spy.

Mir ‘
’l‘hus tho tWo togi-thcr finally no; i

with sorrowful [wart and tcui-i'ul cycs, turned ‘

away from the lonely grave of his beloved
friend, Davy Del'l'ctt.

(‘HAJ’TER XXXIII.
AS 1r SHOULD BE.

AS he turnml away from the grave of Davy
l')nri'('tt, Happy Hurry broke into a. run as if
to keep down llie tci'rilile emotions of sorrow
struggling in his breast for exl)i-es.«.ii,ii_

\'\ hen :1. mile or two away he stopped to think
whither he was going. He knew bv the course
of the Brownstown creek and lhe position or" the
~; v." re. ilut
he wished to l'l‘iil'll some out of _ i-Igv. lie
l‘lllnl'llllll'l'Cll whr-i'c Van lorne had trill him
that (loloncl Miller was eiir'umped. with a large
party of troops, and so at once set out toward
that point.

He reached tho'cunip during,r the day in an
almost cxl.i‘.uste<l condition. But, who?) it he.
came known in the camp who he was, every
kindness in the pom r of the soldiers w" hot-Kn
him. and by the following day he win; himself
a'riuu.

k'l‘lic news of Van I'Iorne’s defeat preceded
“any to MJHur's m '- iinxl. and the colonel
at once made pr: pin-cl Ions to move against the
enemy. On the followiinr (lay ho lib-0,].kupki),
line of march, and the some may ungzqed the
British and Indians in a desperate struggle,
gaining a. decisive victory over them, as already
related.

Harry accompanied the little in rm y and passed
till'(ll!"li the both-st of the baltlo will-nut a
scratdh, fighting side by side with Vl‘ti‘l'uns of
the army.

On the day following,r this second lruttle, the

outh tool-z his departure for Lulu-tonal. whore

6» had left Long: limo-(l and his (1-: "“liiz-rs,
And it was the happiest moment of :4 life
when he broketo the giant line nwus (if Kirby
Kiilc’sdoalli in liatilc, and rociived the bin,
ings of tho fathtr and daughters for the spr-
vices he hail rendered them in the horns at trial
and trouble. .‘

From this time on dated a new era in the
life of the persecuted Long Beard. and his in" ‘
daughters. With the chief instigator of all
his troubles forever silent he had nothin:r fur-
ther to fear. He never returned to England
but made America his adopted homo, mill all
through the war of 1812 he served the Ameri-
can cause in the capacity of a scout, along with
Happy Harry.

Lu py Harry never met with the Princess
Eoloe nh again. He even nevur heard of her,
and always believed, from certain evidences.
that she iad been murdered at the Plciarlcs
Islands after her return from the brig-of—war
the day she took Toni )y to her friends aboard
the vessel. If she had been killed, Bill Muckle-
weohad done the deed in retaliation for her
turnin'r upon him that (lay with his own pis-
1toll aii<Iu1'i\'ing him out of the canoe into the
ii to.

And now comes the denoucmcnt of our story,
which will no doubt be a sur wise to the reader.
Captain Robert Rankin tool; command of his
company as soon as he had recovered from his
injuries rccvivvd that memorable night, and
during the time that he wins absent from ’llempy,
the infatuation that had sprung up between
them at the Pli-iades died gradually out. After
each one had bc‘dl placed amid d'iiI‘erent sur-
roundings, the romance of his and her lll‘St
meeting, lost its charms.

Tempy’s was but a childish attachment, and
the captain’s that of n. gallant mini for a. gal“
lant child. Had they been permitted a more
intimate acquaintance and years of courtship
this attachment would no doubt have ripcncd
into pure love. But. the hand of fate wille it
otherwise, since they were no more than com—
mon mortals, susceptible of all the changes
that young;r lives are heir to. '

They had lll'VPl‘ been betrothed, so there was
no violation of. eithcr’s words or honor. in their
disse‘VOranco and forgetfuluess of their first
admiration.

And so, shortly after the War ended, Colonel
Rankin married a youngr lady. of Detroit; and
some five years later, Hap y Harry, than a
noble Sp:-:ciii’lell of manhood). and captain in
the army, married the lovely Tempy, his first
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._ 7 11'], the flu nchbnck: or. The Sword- Ill-auto and tin- Sui-punt. By Cu]. P. ngmham. 167 The Man oi Stccl ; oi, The M shell Knigh'l .
maker of t e Sumac. By Dr. .7. H. Robinson. 105 Du n llrown ol licnvor, tho Rocky Muun- of tho Whitc 1’lumc. By A. 1’. Morris. - f ‘l
Velvet "and: or. Th!) run Grip of Injun min Detccriyc, Bv Joscpll E. Bndgcr. Jr. 168 “'Ild Bill. llH‘ I’lritol Duml Shot; 01‘. DREW! ‘
' ' DICK- BY A1110!“ 1V. ~\“‘" 106 Sllalnuu 0’ Hrlcn, tho izoulll Boy ol’ Glin- DHH‘S DOHM“, By Cl 1. Prentiss Illfll‘aham.
‘ i The Russian Spy "r, (h.- Bl-oihors ot' the int]. By Uni. Delle Sum. 169 (‘orporal Cannon. tlchuu of Forty Duels,
5" Stony Cross. By Captain Frcll. Whittaker. 107 Richard Talbot oi' Cinnabar; m'.'l‘lie By (‘01. Tholnnsiloyl-r MonstL-ry. /
l The Long Haired “' Pardfdf” or, The Brothers oftln- Rm] Hand. HyA. W. Alltcn. 1'70 S\vcct ‘\Vllh:un, the Trapper Detective.
.Tartara of the Plains. By Jos. E. Buds-«r, Jr. 1 08 The Duke ornlumonds; or. The Flnwor . By .103. it. Badger, Jr.
'Goid 13a“; or The White Savage oftho Great of Calcium. By Captain Frederick Whittnkcr. 1‘11 'l‘is'm’ Dirk, th Man (if.",}‘("11'011 Heart: or
Lak , By Albcrt W. Aikcn. . 109 1'11 118]“ Kyd, the King of the Black Flag, ~ Tln- Dumb Bandit. By Philip S. Wurne.
. NoCaili‘ornlu [)0th-11chnr,Tll€wlt0hes By L‘oiPrentiss inzrzlhnm. 172 The BMW“ l’il‘llu‘i “IV Th“ Ml‘tery 0! 'v
', ’guew York. By Alb -rt \V. Aiken. 1 1 0 ’l he Silt-nt Rlllclnun. By II. W. Herbert. ‘ “16 (991 en it‘ettcrs. By 001. P. Ingmham. ‘ . :1
‘ ‘ kota. Dan the. Recklv-ss Ranger; or, The 111 The Smuggler (la main; or, The Sklp- 173 (‘alilornin John, “W Pacific TIILI‘OUKh‘ . 1/
.. 1 Bee-Huntl-rs’ Excursion. By Oil Coomcs. er’s Crimefi Bv Ned untline. “WW “3' Albf‘l‘t W- Aiké‘ll- 
‘ ~ 0111 Dan lIm-kback.tlw Great Extanninal- 112 . 0e Phcnlx‘ l'rivutc Detectlvo‘ or. The. 174 TI!“ l'hfllllonl Knight-l- By Cal“?- F4 l
. A ; ‘ltor; or The Triunglo’s Lin-rt Trail. Oil Coomcs. Lingul- of Wu Skclcton Kc. s. By A. W. Aiken. “hitmkmi .
:1 . LE 01d finll’s E c. the Lirhtning Shot of the 118 Thc Sou S ippor; or. be Amateur From 175 “Md Bill’s Tl‘llllll) rflrd' OF-Tllelndmn)
f‘ - l.’ . ‘glnlns/ B_ Jon. 7. Badger. Jr. bootcrs. By Prof. J. H. In rahznn. He'll“. By MnJOI‘ Dlillgt‘l’fiola Bum '
' l  0 ie- nlfo Ben, till-Little Hunter of the 114 The (:cnticmnn Fro n Pike' or. The 1'73 141d." Jflflllfll', the Robb” Quark BYCRP g
'2 ‘ g" "or" e"!- By Oil Gnomes. , ‘ Ghost of the Canyon. By Phili I S. B’ame. mm Mark Wilton. ‘
'r. , ‘3‘} ficiflc Pete, thv-Pn" "4.0 "a Revolver. By 115 'l‘hc Sovcred ll 1“!- or. Irhe Secret at 177 Don Diablu, the Planter-Corsair; 0r. The
:l _ . it ., e hE- Badger. Jr- ’ Castle Concy. By(.‘apt.1;'rml. Whittaker Rivals- of the Sea. 135'001. Pmmsflnrmhamu
’ I l“ “Ian 0 Tom, the YoungOutlawofSiiverland; 116 Black Plume, th.‘ Devil of the Son. {y 178 Dark Dani-“'00 ~ thf‘ Dt‘slfm'fl'k"? 01', The
V or the Hunters of me Wild Wcst. By 011 Coomes. (Fol. Prentiss inm-aham. Child of the Sun. By “11130133111118. Hall. . i t I
l ‘ .gl'l’he \Voli‘ ‘Dcmon. By Albert W Aiken. 117 Dashing: Dam! ' the Hotspurof the Hills. 179 t‘onrud. thc Convict; or. \\ as He Guiltyl‘ )-
. 0 Jack Rabbit, "lo Prawn-9 Sport By Jos. Bv Major Dangcrneltl Burr, By Prof. Stewart Glidt'l‘slct‘VC, LL. D. . (  ,
q! ' ll. Badger, J1. ., 118 The Burglar captain; or, The Fallen 180 old "19; or. The Amazon 01 Arlzom. By
"i {- ed “01’ the 35". ROM'AgeflC’ By 011 Star. By Prof. J. H. Ingrnham. J05. E. Badger.  ( .1
l ' mes. ? t \ 119 Alabama Joe; or. The Yazoo Man-Hun- 181 The Scarlet Schooner: or. The Nemedb

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Dime American

lYoun America,

Birth( ay of Washington,

Plea, for the Maine Law,

Not on the Battlefield,

II'he Italian Struggle,

llndc eudence,

Ollr ‘ountry,

The Equalit of Man,

Character 0 the Revo’n,

The Fruits of the War,

The Sewing-Machine,

l‘rue Manhood,

The Mystery of Life,

The Ups and Downs,

The Truly Great,

Early Retiring and Ris‘g,

A. urd‘s Oration,

True Nationality,

Ollr Natal Day,

Solterino,

l telligeuce the Basis of'

The War, Liberty.

Charge of Light rigade,
fter the Battle,

The Glass Railroad,

Case of Mr. Macbeth,

Prof. on Phrenology,

Annabel Lee.

Washin on‘s Name,

The S ' or Boy‘s Syren,

Dime National

Union and its Results,
Our Country‘s Future,
The Statesman‘s Labors,
True Immortality,

Let the Childless Weep,
‘Onr Country‘s Glory,
Ullion a Household,

lnde cadence Bell,

Tile cholar’s Dignity,
Thc C cles of Progress,
A Oh stmas Chant, ’
Stability of Christianity,
The True Higher Law,
The One Great Need,
The Ship and the Bird,
chunlseh‘s Speech,
Territorial Expansmn,
Martha Hopkins,

The Bashful Man‘s Story,
The Matter-of-Fact,Man,
Rich and Poor

Seeing the Eclipse,
Beauties of the Law,
Ge-lang! Git U1),

The Rats of Life,
Creowning Glory of U. 8.,
Three Fools,
Washington,

Our Great Inheritance,
lEulogy on Henry Clay,

Dime Patriotic

America to the World,
Love of Country

Right of SewPreserva-
Our Cause, [tlon,
A Kentuckian‘s appeal,
Kentucky Steadfus ,
'l‘ilnidity is Treason,

Tile Alar'um,

April 15, 1861.

The Spirit of ’61, _

The Precious Heritage,
The Irish Element,
Train‘s Speech,
Christy's Speech,

Let Me Alone,
Brigand-ierCeneral,

The Draft,

Union Square Speeches,
The U niou,

Our Country‘s Call,

The Story of on Oak Tree,
L-o-g On My Leg,

 

 

Numbers 1 to 24, inclusive.

Speaker, No.“ 1.

J. .lcbooln‘s Oration,
A Dutch Cure,
The Weather, '
 Heater11’xi‘erlm,d
u oso ly e ,
An Old allmtp
Penny Wise, Pound Fool-
True Cleanlines% [ish.
Sat'd’y Night's njoy ‘ts,
“In 0. Just Cause,"
No Peace with Oppres-

, sion,

A Tale of a Mouse,
A Thanksgiving Sermon,
The Cost of Riches,
Great Lives Im erishablc
The Prophecy or the Y‘r
Unfinished Problems,
Honor to the Dead,
Immortalit of Patriots,
Webster’s olit’l System,
A Vision in the Forum,
The Press,

Woman‘s Rights,
Right of the Governed,
M Ladder,

oman,

Alone,
The Rebellion of 1861,
Disunion.

Speaker, No. 2.

Ohio,

Oliver Hazard Perry,

Our Domain

S stems of Belief,

'l‘ e Indian Chief,

The Independent Farmer

Mrs. Gramlnar‘s Ball,

How the Money Comes,

Future of the ashions,

Loyalty to Liberty,

Our Country First, Last,
and Always,

Blitish Influence,

Defense of Jeflerson,

National Hatred,

Murder Will Out,

Strive for the Best,

Earl Rising,

Dee s of Kindness,

Gates of Sleep,

The Bu 1e,

A Hoor ish Gem,

Purity of the Struggle,

Old Age,

Beautiful and True

The Worm of the Still,

Man and the Infinite,

Language of the Eagle,

Washington,

The Deluge. ;

Speaker, No. 3.

Histo of Our Flag

T. F. cagher’s A'dress,

We Owe to the Union,

Lincoln‘s Messafge

Inst Speech 0 Stephen
A. Dou las,

Great Be Roland,

The New Year and the

Kin, Cotton. [Union,
Batt e Anthem,
The Ends of Peace,

Freedom the Watchvvord

Crisis of Our Nation,

Duty of Christian Pa-
trlots,

Turkey Dan‘s nration,

A Fearless Plea,

The Guns of Slavery,

A Foreigners Tribute,

The Litt o Zouave,

Catholic Cathedra

The f‘ Speculators. ‘

Dime Comic Speaker. No. 4.

Klebcvergoss on the War,
Age Bluntly Considered,
arl Rising, 1
The VWaSp and the Bee
Comic Grammar, No. i,
I’m Not a Single Man,
A. Ward‘s Advice,
Buzfuz on Pickwick,
Romeo and J uhet,
Happiness,
Dogs,

PoFF, ,

A exan Euloglum,
How to be 8. Fireman,
The United States.
Put‘t's Acc’t of Hlmself,
Practical Phrenology,
Beautiful,

Cabbage,

Disagreeable People "

' A Song of Woe,

Ward's Trip to Richm’d,
Paroldiy,

The ountebank,
Compound Interest,

A Sermon on the Feet,
Old Do Jock,

The Fis es‘ Toilet,

Brian O’Linu,

Crockett to Office-Seekers
Who Is My Opponent?
Political Stump S och,
Comic Grammar, o. 2,
Farewell to the Bottle,
The Cork Leg,

The Smack in School
Slick‘s Definition 0: Wife,
Tale of a Hat,

The Debating Club,

A Dutch Sermon,

 

What is a Bachelor Like? Lecture on Locomotion,

"unnv Folk's,

Mrs. Candle on Umbr‘lla.

 

Each Speaker, 100 puch 121110., contulning from 50 to 75 piccolo

Dime Elocutionist, No. 5.

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SEC. 1. Pnlsmrtns or Tans: ENImCIATloN.—Fauits
in Enuncmtlon; How to Avoid Them. Special Rules

and Observntlons.

SEC. II. Tm; ART or ORATORY. Sheridan‘s Listol’

the Passions:
Raillery, Bllfi’oom-ry

felllll‘y, Attention, Modest

cluucholv, Despair,

Tranquillity, Cllel'l‘fullless, Mirth,

Joy, Delight, Gravity. Inn

y‘, l‘erplexity, Pity, Grief,
0

al‘. Shame, Remorse,

Courage, Boasting, 'Pl'l'de, Ohstinacy, Authority,

Commanding,

Forbldding,

At‘flrnliug, Denying,

Difference, Agreeing, Exhorting, Judging, Approv-

ing, Acqultting, Condemning
)i

lug, Arguing.

Teaching, Pardon-

slnissing. Re using, Granting, Dc-

pcndence, Veneration, Hope, Desire, Love, Re
s ect, Giving, Wonder, Admiration, Gratitude, Cu
rlositv, Persuasim', Tempting, Promising, «Hecta-
tion, Sloth, Intoxication, Anger, etc. .

SEC. III. Tm: COMPONENT ELEMENTS or AN ORA
non—Rules of Coxllfilosition as applied to Words

and Phrases, viz. :

urity, Propricty, Precision.

As applied to Sentences, viz.: Length of Sentence,
Clearness, Unity, Strength. Fi arcs of Speech; the
Exordium, the Narration, t le Proposition, the
Confirmation, the Rct’utation, the I‘erorution.

SEC. IV. REPRESENTATIVE EXERCISES m Pnoss AND
Vanna—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstafi‘s
Soliloquy on Honor,I the Burial of Lincoln; the

1

Call and Response;

and the Dagger'
Look Upward;

amlet’s Solilo
king William Ru

9. Bayonet Cha .; H" tor
ofaLll’e; the Bugle; the rge ls

ells; Byron: Macbet
uy: Old Things;
us; the Eye; an

Essa'Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo.
SEC. V. OBSERVATIONS or Goon AUTHORITIss,

Dime Humorous

A Sad Story
1% Spin (5 Onions,
mg 0 tory,

Cats,

Courtship,

cht v

Dev 3

Dow, Jim's Lectures,

Ego and Echo

Fashionable Women,

Fern Thistles,

Good-Nature,

Gottliel) chbcyergoss

Schlackenlichtcr‘s snake,

Hosea Biglow‘s Opinions,

How the Money Goes,

Hun-ki-do‘ri‘s Fourth of
July Oration,

If you Mean No, Say No,

J o Bows on Leap Year,

Lay of the Hon ecked,

Lot Skinner’s E egy,

Matrimony,

Nothing to Do

Old Caudle’s Umbrella,

Old Grimes‘s Son,

Paddle Your Own Canoe.

Parody on “ Araby’s
Daughter,“

Dime Standard

The World We Live In,
Woman‘s Claims,
Authors of our Liberty,
The Real Com ueror,
The Citizen’s eritage,

Italy ‘
The Mechanic,
Nature and Nature‘s God
The Modern Good, [Sun,
Osslan's Address to the
Inde lendeucc Boll-1777,
gm Gill" ht
0g mm: s,
Thcgfiadies' Man,
Life,
The Idler,

he Ulllleliever,

e Two Lives,

The True Scholar,
Judges not Iniallible,

Fanaticism,

Instability of Successful
Agriculture, lCrime,
Ireland,

The.Peo le Always Con-
Muslc of abor, [quer,
Prussia and Austria,
Wishing,

Speaker, No. 6.

Poetry Run Mad,
Right Names,
Scientific Lectures,
The Agor,
The Cockney,
The Codflsh,
Fate of Sergeant Thin,
Tho Featurcs' Quarrcl,
IIamcrican Voodclulck,
'i‘llc llarp of a Thousand
T1Strll‘ngs, f
le ast o the. Sn ints,
The March to Mosclo‘w,
The Mysterious Guest,
$30 Pumé),
6 Sea- e nt
The Sect-emf“ '
The Shoemaker,
The Useful Doctor,
The Waterfall
To the Bachelors‘ Union
Lea uc,
Unite States Presidents,
Vagarles of Popping the
Question,
What I Wouldn‘t Be,
yankeo Doodle Aladdin,
Moskeetare,

Speaker, No. 7.

John Burns Gettysburg,
No Sect in cavcll,

Miss Prude‘s TeaAPul-ty,
Tile Power of an Idea,
The Bcueflceuce of the
Suffrage, ‘
Dream of the Revelors,
How Cyrus Laid the Cable
The Prettiest Hand,
Paradoxical,

Little Jerry, the Miller,
The Blarney Stone,

The Student of Bonn,
The Broken Household,
The Bible,

The Purse and the Sword
My Country.
True Mora Courage.
What is War?

Butter

My Deborah Lee,

The Race,

The Pin and Needle,
The Modern Puritan
Immortality of the Soul,
Occupation,

IIel'Olsm and Daring,

A Shot at the Decanter.

Dime Stump Speaker. No. 8.

Hon. J. M. Stubbs‘ Views
on the Situation, ,

Hans Schwackheimer on
Woman‘s Suffrage,

All for a Nomination

Old Ocean, Sea,

The Sea,the Sea, the open

Star Bangled Spanner,

Stay Where You Belo ,

Life’s What You Make I ,

Where‘s My Money,

S each from Conscience,

Ian’s Relation to Society

 

The Limits to Happiness,
Good-nature a Blessing.
Sermon from Hard-shell
Tailvenders, [Baptist,
The Value of Money,
Meteoric Disquisitlon,

Be Sure You are Right,
Be of Good Cheer,
Crabbed Folks, [Shrew,
Taming a Masculine
Farmers, [Our Country
The True Greatness o
The Cold-water Man.

 

SPEAK;

m»mu:u.u.n.m:.;._.t

 

Pcrmauency of States,
Liberty of Speech,

N‘cw England and Union,
Tue Unseen Battlefield,
Plea for the Republic,
Anwricn, [Fallacy
“Right of Secession ” a
Life‘s Sunset,

Human Nature,
Lawyers,

Wrongs of the Indians,
Appeal in behalf of Aln.
Miseries of Wul‘,[Libt-rty,
A Lay Sermon,

A Dream,

ERS- ;

A. . “Aknmm

_ gm

Astronomical,

The Moon.

Duties of Amerl

The Man

Temptations of Cities,
Broken Resolutions,
There is no Death.

Races,

A Fruitful Discourse,

A Frenchman‘s Dinner ‘
Unjust National Acqui A
The Amateur CO H --
John Thompson‘s Dou

Iousc (‘chanin%‘I
It Is Not Your sin“,

 

Dime Juvenile Speaker, No. 9. Z

A Boy's l'hlloso lhy,
Hoe Out Your ow,
Six-anr-Old‘s Protest,
The Suicidal Cat,

. A Valodiction,

 

Popping Corn,
The Editor,
The Home, in rhyme,
The Fairy Shoemaker,
What Was Learned.
Press On,
The Horse,
The Snake in the Grass,
Tale of the Tropics, I
Bronlley‘s Speech,
The Same, second extract
Tile Fisher's Child,
Shaka marian Scholar.
A Malt en‘s Psalm of Life,
A Mixture,
Plea for Skates,
Playing Bull,
Ah, “by,
Live for Something,
Lay of the Hen-Pecked,
The Outside Dog,
Wolf and Lamb,
Lion in Love,
Frogs Asking for a King,
Sick Lion,
Country and Town 1. cc,
Man and Woman,
Home,
The Lotus-Planter,
k‘ii'iTh‘STl

a t‘s o o uy,
Re Ienlance q
A lea for ggs,
Humbug Patriotism,
Night After Christmas.
Short Legs,
Shrimps on Amusements,

Dime Spread-Eagle Speaker. New ,"

en Buster‘s Oration,

ans Von Spiegel‘s 4th,
Josh Billin H‘s Advice,
A Hard-she l Sermon,
The Boots,
The Squeezer,
Noah and the Devil,
A Lover‘s Luck
Hitalutin Adolphus
Digestion and arudlse,
Distinctiou's Disadvant-
Smith, [ages,
(illshalina Bendibus, .
A Stock of Notions
Speaking for the Sheriff,
aning a Shweat,
Then and Now
Josh Billin s's 'Lectur'ng,
Doctor Do listcr's Ann t,
Consignments.
Hard Lives,
Dan Bryant 's Speech,
A Colored View,
Origin-ll Maud Muller,
Nobody,
Train of Circumstances,
Good Advice.
Tho Itching Palm,

Debater and Chairman'- Guide Np.

x.—Dr.nA-mm SOCIETY.

Its Olilce and Usefulness,

Formation of,

Constitution of,

By-Laws of,

Rules of Government,

Local Rules of Order,

Local Rules of Debate,

Subjects of Discussion.
n.—How 'm Danna.

Why there are low good
Debaters,

Prcre uisites to Oratori-
cal news:

The Logic of Debate,

The Rhetoric of Debate,

Maxims to Observe,

The Preliminary Premise,

‘ Order of Argument,
Summary.

 

 

   
 

How the Raven :;. m

Black, -.
A Mot ller's Work, .'
Tho Same, .
Who Rules, 
A Sheep Story,

A Little Correspondent,
One Good Turn [allele

My Dream,

iliihi’ U T lama;
‘ over so 0 '

A Mosaic.’ “

The Old Bachelor.

i‘ra 'er to Light,

Litt e Jim,

Angelina’s Lamont.
Johnny Shrimps on i
Mercy, -  ‘
Choice of Hours .‘ '
Poor Richard‘s

Who Killed Tom
Nothing to Do ‘ ‘
Honesty Best Policy.
Heaven,

Ho for the Fields,
Fashion on the

On Shnnghais.

A Smile,

Casablanca .,
llommo athic Soup. , ‘f'
Nose an Eyes, v
mun, Onw.
A Hundred Years ' V
The Madman and ‘ »
Little Sermons, ' i .-
Snui’lles on Electricity. ‘4
Thu Two Cradles, , ,,
The Ocean Storm, '5 i
Do Th Little—Douw

'- 5.

Little uss,
Base-Ball I: a
Prescription for n

Drum-head Sermonl.

SL-‘l‘lyllitzerl‘sml’hil : .

“ oman 3 1m,

Luke Lather}

The Hog,

Jack Spratt,

New England . z

The Ancient Bache

gucloblYVhlttle':l : - .—
er 's ro nos eaten,

A Word wfith Snacks. . ,

Sut Loven cod, ~- .

A Mule m e, , ‘

Josh Billings on =

I] Trovatore, " ,

Kissing in the SM

Scandalous, ‘ '

Flight] Mixed,

'I‘heO ace-seek!

Old Bachelors,

Woman,

The Niam Nlams,

People Will Talk,

Swuckhamer‘s :;

Who Wouldn‘t be '

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BUFFALO BILL NOVELS.
By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham.

994 Buflalo Bill‘s Lone Hand.
989 Buffalo Bill’s Marked Bullet.
' 984 Buflalo Bill’s Life Raffle.
979 Buffalo Bill’s Rclniitless Trail.
964 Bulfc'o Bill’s Invinciblcs.
. 950 Buflalo Bill’s BlucBelt. Brigade.
1 950 Buffalo Bill's Volunteer Vigilantes.
: t 950 Buffalo Bill at Bay.
‘ i 043 Bulfalo Bill’s Block Game.
I 936 Buflaln Bills Black Pard.
u 927 Bull'alo Bill‘s Bluff; or, Duskv Dick the Snort.
921 Bull'an Bill‘s uaiulary: or, Velvet Bill’s Vow.
15 Buflalo Bill am the SurgeonScout.
Buffalo Bill’s League: or, Red Butterfly.
. [)4 Buffalo Bill's Tangled Trail.
‘ 3 Buffalo Bill’s Rough Riders.
‘: m5 Buifalo Bill's Secret Ally.
, V '990 Buflnlo Bill’s Life-Stake.
a 889 The Three Bills: Buffalo llill.Wild Bill and Band-
, ‘ box Bill; or, The Bravo in Broadcloth.
" 874 Bufl‘alo Hill’s Buckskin Braves.
v 809 Buffalo Bill‘s Road-Agent Round-up.
 Buflalo Bill‘s Death Charm.
,857 Buffalo Bill’s Royal Flush.
851 Buffalo Bill‘s liouble Dilemma.
Bufl’aio Bill's Redskin Ruse.
880 Buflnlo Bill’s Bovs in Blue.
1320 Buffalo Bill‘s Shu Shooters.
332 Buffalo Bill‘s Best ower.
,816 Buffalo Bivl‘s Red Trail.
12 Buffalo Bill's Death-Knoll.
Buffalo Bill's Winning Band
787 Bufialo Bill’s Dead Shot.
781 Buffalo Bill‘s Brand.
, .777 Buffalo Bill’s Spy Shadower.
' 709 Buffalo Bill’s Sweepstnkc.
t, 705 Biffalo Bill’s Dozen: or. Silk Ribbon Sam.
l 761 Buflalo Bill’s Mascot.
757 Buffalo Bill's Double.
750 Buffalo Bill’s Big F our;or, Custer‘s Shadow.
743 Buflelo Bill’s Flush Hand.
'. Buffalo Bill’s Jilind: or. The Masked Driver.
135 Buffalo Bill and His Merry Men.
:3; Buffalo Bill's Beagles: or, Silk Lasso Sum.
Buflalo Bill’s Bodv Guard.
was Buffalo Bill on the Wiir- nth.
716 Buffalo Bill’s Scout Sha owers.
’710 Buffalo Bill Bottled: or. The DeserterDesperado.
.m Buflalo Bill’s Buckskin Brotherhood.
091 l‘luflnlo Bill’s Blind Trail; or, Mustang Madge.
Buffalo Bill‘s Swoop; or. The Kim: of the Mines.
The Cowbov Clan; or, The Tigress of Texas.
Lasso King’s League; or, Buck Taylor in Texas.
Bufl'alo Bill’s Chief of Cowhovs; or. Buck Taylor
644 Bnflalo Bill's Bonanza; or. Si vcr ('ircle Knights.
m Buffalo Bill‘s Grip: or. (mm Bound to Custer.
Buimlo Bill’s Plet ge: or. The League of Three.
89 Wild Bill‘s Gold Trail; or. The Desperate Dozen.
Wild Bill’s Trump Card: or. The Indian Heiress.
Wild Bill, ‘the Pistol Dead Shot.

By flu fl’alo Bill.

' The Dread Shot Four
. Texas Jack, the Lasso Kim:

The Ranch Kin;r Deed-Shot.
White Denver’s Still Hunt.
Wild Bill. the Wild West Duelist.
Wild Bill. the le{l(l~C(‘D[el' Sho .
Buflalo Bill’s Gold Ring.
The Dead Shot Mne: or, My Paras of the Plains.
.414 Red Renard. the ludiun Detective.
Armed Para; or. Borderland Retribution.
$7 The Wizard Brothers or. White, Braver‘s Trail.
m. White Beaver, the I‘Al c oi’ the Platte.

D Wild Bill. the Whirlwind of the West.
Texas Jack, the Prairie Rattler.
The Pilgrim Sharp: or. The Soldier‘s Sweetheart.
Gold BulletSnoru or, Knights of the Overland.
Death-Trailer. the Chiet oi’ Scouts.

  
  
   
   
   
    
     
   
   
 
 
  
   
 
    
   
  
  
    
   
  
  
    
   
  
 
 
  
    
  
  
  
 
  
      
 
 
 
 
 
  
    
   
  

  
 
  
  
 
 
    
  
 
   
  
     
   
   
   
  
  
       
      
 
     

1'; By Leon Lewis, Ned lluntllnc, etc.

i378 Buifaio Bill‘s Ban; or. Curly to the Rescue.
, Buffalo Bill’s Secret Service Trail.
'  Buffalo Bill‘s During Role; or. Daredeath Dick.
0 Buffalo Bill’s First Trail; or, The Express Rider.
v ,‘3 Buffalo Bill, Chief Lf Scouts. _
' tBuflalo Bill s Strange Pnrd; or, Dashing Dandy.
Buflulo Bill. the Buckskin King.

1 BY HAROLD PAYNE.

The Man from Mexico in New York.
The-King-Pin Shark: or, Thad Burr‘s Ten Strike.
1 The Tenderloin Big: Four

‘ The Quaker City Crook.
. Tracked to Chicago.
l 'i he Policy Broker‘s Blind.
"he Frisco Sharper’s Cool Hand.
on The Tramp Shadower’s Backer.
"he Sham S otter's shrewd Scheme.

‘he Grand Sheet Gold-Dust Sharpen.
)etective Burr‘s Lunatic Witness
The Wall Street Sherper‘s Snap.
ThadBui-r’s Death Drop.
' Detective Burr Among the New York Thugs.
3Detective Burr’s Foil; or, A Woman’s Strategy.
Detective Burr the Headquarters Speeial.
Detective Burr a Spirit Chase.
Detective Bun-’9 Seven Clues.
Thad Burr, the Invincible; or, The “L ” Clue.
,ge Matchless Detective.

the Fatal Claw; or. Burr’s Master Case.

 
 

 
  

 
 

 

  

 
 

 

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Iron Wrist. t e Swordmnster.

Omaha Sam; or. The Monarchs of the Show.
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BY CAPTAIN IIO‘VAIKD HOLMES. i

929 Gentleman George, the Showman Sport.
912 Genteel Joe's Lone Hand.

903 The Train Detective.

896 Kent Keen, the Crook-Crusher.

888 Nightshade in New York.

879 Falcon Flynn, the Flush Detective.

871 The Crook Cashier.

859 Glow-Hawk Kcene‘s Right Bower.

847 Hiram Hawk, the Harlem Detective.

810 Major Bullion, Boss of the Tigers.

831 Shadowing the London Detective.

817 Plush Velvet, the Prince of Spotters.

903 The Bogus Broker’s Right Bower.

788 The Night-Hawk Detective.

779 Silk Ribbon‘s Crush-out.

766 Detective Zach, the, Broadway Spotter.
751 The Dark Liintern Detective.

736 The Never-Fall Dr-tective.

7241 Captain Hercules, the Strong Arm Detective.
711 Dan Damon, tho Gilt—Edge Detective.

701 Silver Steve. the Branded Sport.

094 Gideon Grip, the Seciet Shadower.

684 Velvet Van, the Mystery Shadower.

67.‘ The Dude Desperado

371 Jason Clew the Silk-Handed Ferret.

604 Monk Morel, the Mun-Hunter.

654 S01 S hinx, the Ferret Detective.

612 Red ard and Yellow.

608 Silent Sam, the Shadow Sphinx.

592 On tain Sid, the Shasta Ferret.

579 ()l Cormorant, the. Bowery Shadow.

569 Captain Cobra. the flooded Mystery.

559 Danton. the Shadow Sharp.

550 Silk Hand. the Mohave Ferret.

543 The Mngnate Detective.

532 Jack Javert. the Independent Detective.
523 Reynnrd of Red Jack: or. The Lost Detective
512 Contain Velvet’s Big Stake.

505 Phil Fox. theGenteel Spotter.

496 Richard Redfire. the Two Worlds’ Detective.
487 Shnshine Sam, a Chip of the Old Block.

480 Hawks-pear. the Man with a Secret.

40!? Coldgrip in Deadwood.

460 Captain Coldgrip. the Detective.

45% Captain Coldgrip’s Long Trail.

447 V0!cano. the it'siseo Spy.

441 The California Sharp.

434 Lucifer Lynx. the '0 onder Detective.

421 Father Ferret. the Frisco Shadow.

- Captain Coldgrip in New York. ,

407 Captain Coltlgrip’s Nerve: or. In,’un Nick.
Captain UO](l:.’.‘l‘l[): or. The New ork Spotter.
392 The Lost Bonanza: or, The Boot of Silent Hound.
382 The Bonanza Band: or. Dread Don of Cool Clan.
374 Major Blister. the Sport of Two Cities.

305 Keen Kennard. the Slizisla Shadow.

35? The Des crate Dozt‘n.

347 Denver Buke. the Man with “ Sand.“

340 Cool Conrad. the D3 kotn Detective. '

335 Flash Dan. the Naboh. or, Blades of Bowie Bar.
321 California Claude. the Lone Bandit.

294 Broadcloth Burt. the Denver Dandy.

941 The Shadow Sport from Frisco.

BY \WILLIAIVI ll. I'IANNING.

9-18 The Red-Glovvtl Detective.
931 Frisco Frank ar Glory Gulch.

20 The Monrimn Miner in New York.

008 The Domnstlay-Den Detective.
809 The Double-Quick Detective.
803 Yellow Gid. of Dark Divide,

885 The Exporl Dt-tectin's Shake-up.
875 TrippingIr the Racc-Trmsk Judge.

801 The Police Special‘s Dilemma.

849 Thu Geiitxcel Sharper‘s Combine

841 Graydon’s Imnhlc Deal.

838 The Sport D(’lthiiVl"S Grip.

8‘33 The Athlete Sport About Town.

808 'l'hCCl‘mllvl)iitvctivo‘s Pull,

790 .l’luntrer Pete, the Race Track Detective.

782 Royzil Rock, the Round-up Detective.

774 Steve Starr. the Dock Detective.

764 The New York Shari 1‘s Shadower.

738 Detective Chix Lon. the Record Breaker.

714 Gabe Gall, the Gnmbolicr trout Great Hump,
703 Spokane Saul, the Samaritan Sus eet

692 Dead Shot; Paul, the Deep-Range 41x lorer.

655 Strawberry Sam. the Man with the irthmark.
646 Dark John, the Grim Guard.

63% Murdock. the Dread Detective.

6-23 Dangerous Dave, the Never-Beaten Detective.
611 Alkali Abe the Grime Chicken from Texas.
596 Rustler Rube: the Round-Up Detective. l
585 Dan Dixon‘s lloubie.

570 Steady Hand. the Napoleon of Detectives
563 Wyoming Zeke, the Hotspur of Honeysuckle.
551Garry Kean the Man with Backbone.

539 Old Doubledark, the Wily Detective.

531 Saddle-Chief Kit, the Prairie Centaur.

521 Paradise Sam. the Nor‘-West Pilot.

513 Texas Tartar, the Man With Nine Lives.
506 Uncle Honest. the Peacemaker of Hornets’ Nest.
498 Central Pacific Paul. the Mail Train Spy.
492 Border Bulky. the Prairie sharpshooter.
486 Kansas Kitten. the Northwest Detective.

479 Gladiator Gabe, the Samson of Sassajack.

470 The Duke of Dakota.

483 Gold Gauntlet. the. Gulch Gladiatom '
455 Yank Yellowbird, the Tall Hustler of the Hills.
449 Bluff Burke. King of the Rockies.

442 Wild West Walt. the Mountain Veteran

487 Dee Duke: or, The Man of Two Lives.

407 The ‘vals of Montana Mill.

415 Hot Heart, the Detective S v. .

405 Old Baldy the Brigadier 0 Buck Basin.

257 Colorado Rube. the Strongr Arm of Hotsglilir.

279 The Gold Dragoon, or, California Bloc ound. t

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66'! Long Tom. the Privateer.
683 The Sea 8 y,

621 The Red rivateer; or, The Midshipmen Rover.
584 Fire Feather, he Buccaneer King.

517 Buflalo Bill‘s t Trail. ‘
861 Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot.

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ALBERT W. AIKEN’S NOVELS.

Dick Talbot Series.

991 Dick Talbot at; the Mines: or, Kentuck. the Sport.
988 Rocky Mountain Rnl).

976 Overland Kit: or. The Idyl of White Pine.

741 Dick l‘alhot’s Close Call.

737 Dick Talbot in Apache Land.

733 Dick Talbot. the Ranch King. ‘
729 Dick Talbot’s Clean-Out.

725 Dick Talbot in No Man’s Camp.

3.34 Dick Talbot; 01, The Brand of Crimson Cross
36 Dick Talbot: or, The Death-Shot of Shasta.

Aiken’s Fresh of Frisco Series.

825 Fresh, the Race-Track Sport.
660 The Fresh in Montana: or, Blake‘s Full Hand.
652 The Fresh’s Rustle at l’ninted City.
647 The Fresh at Santa Fe; «r, The Stranger Sharp.
550 Fresh. the Sport: or. The Blg‘ Racket at Slide Out.
537 Fresh Against the Field: or, Blake. the Lion.
407 The Fresh in Texas; or. The Escobedo Millions.
461 The Fresh of Frisco on the Rio Grande.

97 The Fresh in Big Walnut Camp; or. Bronze J 30k!

Aiken’s Joe Phenlx Series.

965 Joe Phenix‘s Mascot.

959 Joe Phenix’s Double Deal.

954 Joe Phenix in Chicago. ,

949 The Doctor from Texas; or, Joe Phenix’s Clue.

865 The Female Bar er Detective; or, Joe Phenix in

Silver City.

799 Joe Phenix’s Great Blue Diamond Case; or, The

New York Sport at Long Branch.

793 Joe ghenixfi IDecoyl'qz or The Man of Three.

760 Joe hcnix 5 one an .

749 Joe Phenix‘s Big Bulge.

745 Joe Phenix’s Mad Case. ,

708 Joe Plienix‘s Siren; or, The Women Hawkshaw.

700 Joe Phenix’s Unknown; or. Crushing the Crook]

681 Joe ghenix's Specials or. The Actress Detective

037 Joe henix in Crazy amp.

632 Joe Phenix’s Master Search.

2328 ice Plri‘enixls Co‘nihini ;:.r,the Dandy Conspirator
‘ 00 P enix s Si ent Six.

601 J oe Phenix‘s Shadow ; (vi-.the Detectivo‘s Monitor

419 Joe Phenix., the Kine of Detectives.

161 Joe Phenix's Great Man Hunt.

112 Joe Phenix, Private Detective; or, The League.
79 Joe Phenix. the Police Spy.

Aikeii’s Miscellaneous Novels.

080 The All-Around Athlete.

940 Captain Jack, the Scalper

935 The Hawks and \\ olvcs of New York

932 Detective Gordon’s Grip.

921i Old Sunflower. the Silent Sniiter. .

923 Old Sunflower. the Hayseed'bctective.

901 The Hotel Swell-Sharp; or, The Siren Sliadower.
892 The. Countrvman Detective. .

876 Gold Button Spelt: or, The Miner Sharps. ,

812 Tcton Tom. the Half-lilaod.

835 The King- Pin Detective.

814 The New Yor kPi‘ AIIIOHE Tean Sports.

775 King Dillltly. the Silver Sport.

753 Gideon‘s Grig at Babylon l or.

717 hipmin Put 1 ‘
674 Uncle Sun Up. the Born Detective.
670 The Lightiv eight Detective.

613 Keen Billy the Sport.

Old Benziiie the “Hard Case ” Detective.
Fire Face, the Silver King’s Foe.

596 The Silver Sh arp Detective.

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502 Lone Hand. the Shadow.

520 The Lone Hand on the Caddo.

490 The Lone Hand in Texas.

475 Chin Chin. the Chinese Detective.

465 The Actor Detective. ‘
440 The High Home of the Pacific. ,

4% The Lone. ilaml; or. The Red River Recreants.‘
408 Doc Grip. the Vendetta of Death.

370 Black
370 The Dusky Detective: or. I’ursued to the End.
363 Crowningshield. the Detective _

320 The Gentcel Spo tter: or The N. Y. Night Hawk
252 The Wail Street Blood; or. The Telegraph Girl

100 La Marn'ioset, the Letectlve Queen.

- 101 The Man from New York. ‘
91 The Winning Oar: or. The Innkeeperr sDaughter.

84 Hunted Down: or. The Leagueo hree.
81 The Human Tiger: 01‘. A Heart of Fire.

56 The Indian Mazeppa: or, Madman of the
49 The Wolf Demon; or. The Kanawha Queen.

999 The Velvet Hand' or, The Iron
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665 The Frisco Deter-two; or, The Golden tho Find.(
577 Tom, of Calif ornia; or. In-tective's Shadow Act.

570 The Actress Detective: or. The Invisible Hand

381 The Gy my Gen tleman: or. I‘lick Fox. Detective
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203 The Double Detective: or.’l‘he Midnight Mystery.

75 Gentlemen George: 01'. Parlor. Prison and Street.
7:! The Phantom Hand; or, The 5th Avenue Ham: 3

42 The California Detective: or. The Witches of NJ.

31 The New York Sher ; or. The Flash of 1312117111118
27 The Spotter Detective: or. Girls of New York.

NEW ISSUES. ‘

1000 Buffalo Bill‘s Grim Guard.

1001 The Brand’Burners of Cimarron. By JON!
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1002 Silver Cit Sam. By .105. E. Bad er.

1003 Gold Dally; or, Dick Talbot in U .
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1004 Buffalo Bill’s Death Deal. 113;? Col. Ingraham.

1005 Foot-Hills Frank. By Jon. . Badger.

1006 The Sea Cadet. By 001. P. lnzmbam.

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