OMING
Cc ing the
rescu
They are Jug
nald Vv fefvyr
Hardy
politician un
they have been chea*ed in a
vyn are working iil 1
tribesmen,
he determines to find
itten with
She holds him
ent
es a quarterbreed
(ues Dapont, post tra
1, Agency clerk
that Vandervyn
le, discovers that
tribal
I
Hi
| had
eurns
interpretes
becomes st
to
poses .
is shot and wounded fi
companied by
dian policemen,
that trip makes
'
CHAPTER X—Continued.
When
ahead,
Hardy
he would
+
lioht wr
SUENTeST
the trip.
“Yo
"f ¢ 01
1 were not so certair
did not u
rege the
Though He Saw No Smoke, He Did
Not Look in Vain.
smoke of the shot, But though he saw
no smoke, he did not look in vain,
Above a bowlder, ugh up in a cleft,
he perceived a devilish painted face,
surmounted by a war bonnet, He
glanced sideways up the ridge slope
at Vandervyn, The young man had
halted his pony on the ridge crest and
‘ hark Haurdv,
"er down nt
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Indian reservati
Capt. Floyd Hardy, N. A,
dinans,
Maurie, Regis
of Senator
been promised the
Indians are
mine which
when his friendly speech to
tool, angers the Indians, and
all around and right ie
andervyn Is courting, ocd or
nurses him
Recovered,
and
Clemmer,
agency by his
disaffected
Dupont
nephew
Hh
hecause
and Vander-
=
tenderly he
Hi
interpreter and a
What occ
is instaliment.
when
Captain
n, an
the mountains,
A
waved to him in
he shouted.
Muay
0
'¢ around to 1}
iperatively.
“Guard Mi
thom
Laem,
be more of |
ards "
DANK
decpening
into
is
tered
but kept
cape out of the ma:
Night had fallen
ched the top of
he
last
and cla
But the sk
the cleft
crest
and the tarligl
the outlines of
line, A star lo
of the others en
n-
bered up on a ridge
18 clear,
it enabled
HOE the mo
mit cut the sky
than any
He peered
twinkling point
it 13
y acros® the interve
4 Hardy took his bearings
irs and started the mountal
side directly toward the fire,
the
0
: #¥
at it fixedly,
fa fire
ar
£8 awy
down
Onee clear of rocks of the
Almost from the
first he had lost sight of the fire and
trail to the mine. Of to the left he
the main stream in the valley.
rill headed. The moment his eyes
he
the
of the fire for which
Ile could make out
flicker
looking. fnp-
fire, but their number and the
dozen white tepees grouped around the
fire told him that he had not found the
camp of his party.
He had no more than made this dis.
covery when a number of yelping,
snarling mongrel dogs rushed out at
him like a pack of wolves. He met
their attnek by swinging his rifle bur-
rel around In a circle, The cowardly
curs closed about him, but were afraid
to leap in within reach of the club,
nad not stopped his advance, Nor did
| he pruse or hesitate when
the leaping, yelling pack he
the Indian women and children
to the and the bucks
spring up with their bows and guns,
saw
scurry tepees
CHAPTER XI.
Light in the Darkness.
Soon Hardy had app:
of the firelight.
Indians started to aim
at him. He held up his
palin forward
onched into the
Some of the
their
end chief of the
po "
There follow
ras broke
and
murmur;
hands interpreted
“He says I must be only the tongue
He why
Why have you not gone
ns you said you would?”
iy turned and lool
the haughty face of the chief.
him I did not lle. I did
wonld go away.
{ between yon and him,
did you lie?
awny,
SAYS,
not say
”"
attacking me,
Olnna's interpretation brought
turnl exclamations from the surround
ing bucks. Hardy was equally
konza :
{| "Does the chief of the Longknlives
Bui to destroy a tribe single-hand-
ed 7”
“No, nor do I wish others to destroy
the tribe,” answered Hardy, “I do not
wish the Longknives to come and make
war on the tribe. Yet that Is what
| ae will do M I am barmed.”
spend
turned
he
to go
in
He--he
promise
Hardy
fn. He
ruest
oy
smiled,
too grea
arn.
ation to b
. it ould
or drive away
’
That is a mist
would punish the tril
Olnna inter
the
interm
revert
i. With
hands
stew]
the exn
intended
given ct
been
to the situation
ardy at began
what he had tried to tell at
cil. He explained why the
goods would the following
spring, and what nt by «
lotting of tribal land In severalty. He
fadded that if there gold any
of the reservation |
in his
onee to make
i ©
issues of
Cease
was men in al-
was on
it would be
{ well for the tribe to sell that part of
what they owned; otherwise bad
white men would, sooner or later,
come In and steal it.
More than half convinced of Har
dy's sincerity, though with still a lia
gering suspicion, Ti-owa-konza ex-
plained in turn that the tribe was not
only willing to aliot the farming land
of the reservatirn and sell the min
eral land, but a treaty to that effect
had been agreed upon by the tribe, the |
| previous year All thot remained to!
and
\
*.
a
%
O00
Ion ag
NANA
ay.
irdon, Captain Hardy,”
flashing
“You told me to go
3 his eves
with quick anger.
rie,
“1 added for you to send the police
around te flank the
Vandervyn drew
assassin,”
himself up
that I heard
“In common might
have ret od to gee what had become
of me,” returned Hardy,
Dupont hastened to interpose: “Mr,
Van got the idea you meant us to rush
Marte through here to the mine, where
she'd be safe. So we lit out fast
we could. The p'lecce found
mare, but lost your trail up
rocks. Firet thing this morning
the whole bunch back to
decency, you
Hero
urn
ns
sent trail
you"
The
fone at
be
honest bluffness of Dupont's
a his straightforward statement
Hardy nodded,
I could not expect that
you would trouble to go back
belief,
“Yory' well,
either of
for we.”
inn hes Full
t of Maris
dub
*
to §
Retu
of
ee What Had Become
rned
Me.”
i has
old chief
am a friend of the
recent
©
Due
ae
muttered
wd girl
-
ined Hardy. “She
than interpret be
*hief and myself, 1
wit Nogen's dishon-
the
more
1 the hea
ve learned al
esly and his harshness to ribe.
him to be
both
induce more
off
Just,
else I should order you the
“Lying? What d'you mean by that?™
“The word is explicit,” said Hardy.
Miss Dupont, I regret
i
:
in your presence”
The girl's eyes were ablaze with ine
dignant anger. “Regret is a mild ex-
cuse for insulting my father, sir!”
ey
Do you believe that Vander
vin had anything to do with the
attempt te ambush Captain
Hardy on the way to the mine
and what about the story of
Readbear's wound?