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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-04-06, Page 6PAGE SIX. IIMINEENNIMEMBEENMEMEMEEMEIN T E HAVEN Johnson., (Continued from last week,) '"T.he white 'men upon the I'ow- hatan are many," ;he said in his ,own tongue, "but they build not their wig- wams upon the ,banks of the IP:amtn key. The sin'ging'ibirds of the Tan- •ualeey tell no tales; The pine splinters twill 'burn• as 'brightly there, and the White man will smell them not. We will 'build a fire at Vttarnussac, tween the red 'hills, before the temple and the graves of the kings." There was a murmur of assent from his ;braves, Uttamussac1 They would pro'b'ably make a two days' journey of it. We had that long, nthen, to live. 'Captors and captives, we presently feft •the hut. On the t'hreshold I looked back, past the poltroon whom S had flung into the river •one mid'su'mmer day, to that :prone and bleeding' figure. As I loaked, it groaned and moved. The lIndians behind me ,forced meon: a moment, and we were out beneath the s'#ars. They shone so very bright- ly; there was one—large, steadfast, golden' -just over the dark town be- hind us, over the 'Governor's house. Did she sleep or did she wake ? Sleeping or waking, 1 prayed God to keep her safe and give her comfort. The stars now shone eh.rough naked branches, black tree trunks 'hemmed us round, .and under our feet was the dreary ru'st'ing of dead leaves. The -leafless trees gave way to pines and cedars. and the closely woven, scent- ed roof hid the heavens, and made a darkness of the •world ;beneath, 'CIII-PT'ER XXX In Which We Start Upon A Journey When :the da:w'n broke, it found 'us traveling through a narrow• valley, (beside a stream of some width. Upon its hanks grew trees of extraordinary height and girth; cypress and oak and walnut, they towered in -to the air, their topmost !branches stark and black against the roseate heavens. 'Be- low that iron tracery glowed the fire- brands of the maples, and here and there a willow leaned/ a pale green cloud above the stream. Mist closed the distances; we could hear, but not see, the deer where they stood to drink in the shallo-w places, or couch- ed in the gray and dreamlike recesses of the forest, (Spectral, unreal, and hollow seems the world at dawn. Then, if ever, the heart sickens and the will flags, and life becomes a pageant that hath ceased to entertain. As I .moved through the mist and the silence, and felt the .tug of the thong that bound nee to )the wrist of the savage who stalked before me, I eared not how soon they inade an end, seeing hoi stale and unpro'fitable were all things under the sun. Diccon, walking -:behind me, Stum- bled over •a root and ;fell upon his knees, dragging down with him the 'Imdi•an to whom he was tied. In a sudden access of fury, aggravated by the jeers with which his ;fellows greeted the :mishap, the savage turn- ed upon his prisoner and would have tele nes the p there set in the :March • day of keen wind and 'brilliant sunshine. Farther on, an Indian beret his bow against a bear s'hamb'ling across . a ;little sunny glade. The arrow did its errand, and where the .creature fell, there we sat down and - feasted be- side a fire .kin'd'led by rubbing tw•a sticks together.' According to their 'wont the ;Indtians ate ravenously, 'and when the meal was ended 'began to e n'ake, each 'warrior .first' throwing into 'the air, as thenkoffering to Ki- wassa, a pinch of tobacco, They all stared at the fire around •whic'h we sat, and the -silence was unbroken. One by one, as the pipes were smok- ed, they Paid themselves down upon the brown leaves and went to sleep, only au•r two guardians and a *third endian over against us remaining wide-eyed and watchful. There was no hope of escape, and we entertained no thought of it. Dic- con sat, biting his nails, staring into the fire, and I stretched myself out, and 'burying my head in. my arm tried. to sleep, but :could not. With the midday we were alfoot again, and we .went steadily on through the bright afternoon. We met with no harsh treatment other than our bonds. Instead, when our cep- tors spoke to us, it was with words' of amity and smiling lips. Whoac- counteth for Indian .fashions ? ht is a way they have, to flatter and .car- ess the wretch for whom have ,been provided the torments of the damm- ed. If, when at sunset we halted for supper ant' gathered around the fire, the werowance began to tell of a for- ay I had led against the Paspaheglls years before, and if he and his war- riors, for all the world like generous foee, loudly applauded some daring that had accompanied that raid, none the less did the red stake wait for us; none the less would they strive, as for heaven, to wring fro'mr us groans and cries. The sun sank, and the darkness en- tered the forest, In the distance we heard the wolves, so the fire was kept up through the night. Diccon and I were 'tied to trees, and all the savages save one lay dawn and slept. 1 worked awhile at my bond's; but an (Indian had tied them, and after a dime I desisted froni the useless la- bor. 'We two could have no speech together; the fire was between us, and we saw each other but dimly through the flame and wreathing smoke,—as each night see the other tr nlorraw. What Diccon"s 'thoughts were I know not; mine were not of the .morrow:. There had been no rain for a. long time, and 'the multitude of leaves un- derfoot were crisp and dry. The wind was loud in them and in the sway- ing trees. Off in the forest was a ;tog, and the wilt -.o' -the -wasps' "danced over it,—pale, cold flames, moving aimlessly here and there like ghosts oaf those lost in the woods. Toward ;the middle of the night some heavy annual crashed through a thicket to the left of us, and tore away into the d-arkness over the loud - rustli-ng leaves; and later on wolves' eyes arced from out the ring of dark- s beyond the firelight. Far an in night the wind fell and the moon rose, changing the forest into some dim, exquisite, far -,off land, seen only in dreams. The Indians awoke •si.l -eartly and all at once, as at an ap- pointed hour, They spoke for a while, among themselves; then we . were loosed from the trees, and the walk toward' death began anew. stuck a knife into him, bound and 'helpless as he was, had trot the we rowance interfered. The momentary altercation over, and the knife re- stored to its o'wner's beht, the Li - diens rela'p'sed into their usual men- acing silence; and the ,sullen • march was resumed. aeresentay the 'stream made a sharp 'bench across our path,. and 'we forded it as bent we might. It ran dark ,and swift, .and the .water was o'f icy coldness, +Beyond, the woods 'had (been learnt, the trees ris- ing 'fronn the Ted ground like c'h'arred arid' !blackened stakes, with the .ghost- like mist between. ;We left this dismal tract behind, and entered' a wood' of eni•ghty oaks, sta'nd'ing well apart, and with the earth' :below .carpeted venni moss and early wild flowers, gras The stun rose, the •mis•t ntanislsed, and ion, men On this march the wenawance him- self -stalked im-selif"stalked beside me, the moonlight whitening his dark li'mlbe and relent- le's's face, 'Ile spoke noword, nor did I deign to question or reason or en- treat. Alike in the darkness of the deep woods, and in ,the silver of the glades, and in the long •twilight stretches of sassafras and sighing s, there was for Inc 'but one vis - Slender and still and white, 'she ed before me, with her wide dank, THE SEAFORTH NEWS: THURSDAY, 'APRIL 6, 193 eyes "upon, my face. Jacel,em I Jio'celynI Alt sunrise the mist ilieted from: a loiw hill before us,' and sh'o'wed an IInd'ian boy, painted white, poised upon the sutmmit like a .spirit about to take its;flight. He prayed to -the •O'rre' aver All, ,and his voice' .came :dawn to us pare !asic, earnest. Alt the eight of us he bounded down the hi1Qs'ide like a hall, •and would have noshed away. into the .forest had not a Pa'sipaheg'h starting: out of dine seized' helm and set hien in our 'midst, •where lee stood, 0001 and undisertayed; a warreor In miliiature,. He was of the Palmunkeys,,and his tribe and ,the 'P'aspalheghs were at peace; •there - 'fare, when he slaw the totem' burnt upon the' bre'aslt of the Werowance, lie becanne lo'q'uacious eli'owgh, and offere'd'to go before us to his village; upon] the banks of a stream, same bowsleats away. He went, "and the. IPa'splah'eghs reseed., under the • trees until the odd men of the vil]'age came forth to lead them th'rou'gh• the breave fields :and past the ring of leafless: mulberries to the strangers' bodge, !Here on the ,green turf nt'ats were laid for the visitors, and: water was brought for their hands, Later on,the women .spread a great breakfast of 'fish and turkey and venison, maize 'bread, tucleahoe and pohickory. When it was eaten, the Paslpa'hegh's ranged themselves in a semicircle upon .the grass, the Pamun'keys ,faced 'thein, and each wanrior and old man drew out his pipe and tobacco pouch. T:hey smoked gravely, in a silence broken only by an occasional slaw and stale- ly q'ues'tion or complim•erut. The blue' incense Fran the pipes mingled with the sunshine falling freely thh;ough ' the bare ;branches; the .stream which ran by the lodge ni!p:pled andshone, an•d, the wind rose and fell in the pines upon its farther ba'n'k, • 'Diccon and 'I 'had been' freed for the time from our bonds, and placed in the centre of this ring, and when the Indians raised their eyes frons the t ground it was to gaze stead'fas'tly at '1 as. I knew their ways and holy they valued pride, ipdifferen'ce, and a bra- •.1 vado disregard ,of the waist an enemy could do. They should not find the g white man less proud than the sav- age. saisie hugejest, and bent to the witha will that sent .our canoe inn adva'nic•e of its mate, ''Diccon b into an old - song that we had sung the Low 'Oountries, by camp fi on the manila before the battle, 'Forest echoed to the loud and w tune and a multitude - olf birds startled frown the trees upon the ba The Indians leavened, and one in boat- bsh'iad caviled out to strike singer upon the mouth; but the we wa!il!ce shook his head'. Tlhere w none upon that riverwhe mightkn'o'w' that the Pas(p'a'heghe journ to Uletamwssac with ,pr'jiseners in ti midst, Deacon sang an, leis I' thrown back, the olid 'bold laugh his eyes. 'When be came to •she ch us I joined nnyd voice' .ta his, and woodland rang ito the song, :IA as had :better befitted o•ur. lips ;than -th rude and ,Vaunting wards', seeing we s!houl'ct never sing again u'p'on t earth; but at last we sang:bravely gayly, with minds that were teas' ably quiet, The sun dropped law in the h' ens and t'he' trees cast shadows ac the water. The Plagparh'eghs now gan to recount the enterta'inm they ,meant to offer us in the mo lag All those 'tortures t'h'at they w wont to practice with he'l'lish ing city they told Over, • s'lo'wly, 'tauntf1 ly, watching to see - a lop whiten an eyelid quiver. They boasted th they would' snake women of as at stake. Alt all events, they made n women •of us beforehand. We laugh as we rowed, and Diccon whistled the le'apin'g fish, and the fish' •h'a and the otter lying along a fallen tr beneath the bank, The sunset came, and the river 1 beneath the colored clouds like mol en gold, with the gaunt forest bio upon either hand,. From the lifted pa dles the water showered in gold drops. The wind died away, and ',Ai' t all noises, and a dank stillness se led upon the flood and upon the en e'ss forest. 'We were - nearing U'tt ammo,muc, and the Indians rowed quie y, with' bent beads and fearf glances; for Okee brooded over th lace, and he might be angry. grew colder and stiller, but the lig welt in the heavens, and was r ected in the bosom of the rive 'he trees upon the southern b'an were all pines; as if they haddbee arced front black stone they stoo 'gid against the saffron sky, Pres ntly, back from the s'h'ore, `there ros afore us a few s'm'all 'hills, treeles ut covered with' some law, dar growth. The • one that stood the high t bore upon its crest three bla cuses shaped like coffins. Be'hin ens was the deep yellow 0f the sun t we1.1 matt fir res, The arlike ease bh e the, ro- ere not eyed heir egad mn for fihe, alis' ose that his and oat- he toss he - eat rite. ere en- e'g= or at the of ed to wk, ee ay it- cic d= en th t- d- a- t- ub is I1 ht e` k n d e s, 0k d They gave us readily enough the pipes I asked for. Diccon lit one and -I the other, and sitting side by side ) we smoked in a contentment as ab- solute as the Indians' own. With his r eyes upon the weroarance, .Diccon e told an old story of a piece of Pasa b 'pahegh villainy and of the :paymentb which the English exacted, and I laughed as at the most amusing thing in the world. The story ended, we ,s smoked with serenity for a while; th then I drew my dice from my pock- et, and, beginning to throw, we were se a` once as Hutch absorbed in the game as.. if there were no other stake ea in the world- beside the remnant ofbo gold that I piled 'between us. The b strange people in whose ,power we e" found ourselves looked an with grim uP approval, as at brave men who could er' laugh in Death's face. Cr The slim was high in the heavens sti when we bade the PantunkeYs fare- se well. The cleared ground, tine mul- berry trees, and the grass beneath, the fete rude lodges with the curling smoke above them,' the warriors and women and brown naked children,— all vanished, and the forest closed around us. A high wind was blow- ing, and the branches far -above beat at one anfriher furiously, while the pendent, leafless vintes sevayed against us, ped the dead leaves went past in the whirlwind. A monstrous flight of pigeons crossed 'fie heavens, flyin from west to east, and darkening the land beneath like a transient cloud. hate came to a plain covered with very tall trees that had one and all been ringed 'by 4he Ind-ian•s. Long dead, and partially stripped of the ,bark, with their branches, .great and 'serial, squandered upon the ground, they stood, gaunt and silver gray, ready 'for their fall, As we passed, the wind brought two crashing to the earth, 'In the centre of the plain something —deer or wolf or bear or man—lay dead, for to that point the buzzards were sweeping from every quarter of the blue. Beyond was a pine wood, silent and clim, with a high green roof and a sntootll and scented floor. We walked thnou,gh it .for an hour, and it led us to the Pamunkey, .A tiny vil- lage, counting no more than a dozen :warriors, stead among the pines that ran to Ile water's edge, and tied to the trees that shadowed the slow- moving flood were its canoes. When the people came forth to meet us, the Fas'paheghs bought from them, for a string of no'anroke, two of 'these .'boats; and we nnaele no tarrying, but envber-' doing at o'nce, rowed up river toiward Uttamussac and its three temples. (Diccon and I were placed in the sabre canoe. We were not bound; what need of bonds; when we had no friend nearer than ,the Powhatan, and when. Uittamussa:c was so near? After. a time the paddles were put into our' amide, anis we were required to row while our captors rested, There was no use in sulkiness; we laughed as at t, An Indian rowing in the second n'oe ,commenced a chant or 'prayer Okee, The nates were low and oken, unutterably wild and melan- oly:. iOne_by •odte Isis 'fellows took the strain; at swelled -higher, loud - and sterner, became a deafening y, then, ceased .abruptly, making the lines, that 'fat•lowed 'like death it - la !Roth 'canoes swung round from e mid•dl'e stream and made 'for the bank. When -the boats :had slipped from the stripe of gold into the inky shadow of ,the ,pine's, 'the IPaspaheghs began to divest 'themselves of this or that which they 'coinceivecl Okee Height ,desire to possess. One 'flung into the stream a 'hand:full of copper. links, another the chaplet iof feaithers trans his head, .a third 'a bracelet of blue 'beads. ,The werawance drew opt the arrows from a gaudily painted and beaded quiver, :stuck them into •Isis belt, and dropped the quiver into the waiter, We landed, dragging The, canoes into a covert of 'overhanging buslhes and rfastening,thein there; then struck through the pines toward Inc''rising. ground, and presently 'came to a large village, with many :long hots, and a great central dodge where dwelt the the emperors when they came to -Ut- ;tamuss'ac. tIit`t vas vacant now, IOp:e-: cbantanough being no man knew whe When the,usual stately' welcome had teen, extended 'to (elle IPasp:ahieghs, and when they had •returned as stately thanks, the we'ro:wance began a har- angue for which lI ifurnislhed the mat- 'ter,'Wlhen he ceased to 'speak a great accil.amatiion :and tumult arose, and- I eat alitinsmane th thbughlt ;they,would seance wait -i for the morro;tv,'IBvt lit"'was late,' end their wenowam•ce :and eonijureil• :restrained th'een. dun ;the end :the then cl'uew:off,. and !the yelllVing of the 'eleildmen ,and' Ilhe pasaioiinate areas of 'the •w'o'men,' importunate for vengeance, 'none still- ed. A guar,d was ,pl'aced around the vacant lodge and we two Enlglislhe 'nen were taken, wcfh;in .and 'bound down to great logs;' such as !tote 'In- d'ians use to rob] ,agwinet +their doors When. '''hey go front fhante. • There was revelry lit ,the viIiag.e; !for''h'otnns after;the night calme, every-' 'where 4ee're'aright ' fit -alight and the rise 'and hall of laughter and song The voices .of '110e- awomen, were nett'sioal,. tender, ami ,plainll'we; and y'e't ,they ,waited lflar 'tine enbrrblw' as :for 'a' .gala day. I 'thought tot a woim'a'n who' us -ed bo sing, solithy'; and .,slweetly,, in the twilight at IWeyanoike, in the ',firelight' at 'the minister's house, At last 'the tnai'ses ceased, •the U''cg+ht died away, and the ,vellage slept 'beneath a heaven` that 'seemed. ;somewlh'at deaf and blind, CHAPTER XXXI In !Which N!anitaupuas Conies to Our 'Rescue A roan whio 'hath 'lyecn' a soldier and an adventure'r into .far and, strange countries nnuet .aneeds have faced Death neatly times and in many guises. a had learned 'to know . that grim countenance, and ilio have , no great fear of it, And beneath ;the ng- bi'nes's of 'the mask :that n'o'w 'present- ed itself 'there .was only Death ,at .last. I was no 'babe to whimper at a sud- den darkness, to ,cry out against a curtain that a IHaecd, •c'hose 'to drop between me and the life 11 had lived, (Death !frigh'bed me not, abut When I thought •af one ;whom 11 should ,leave behind vie I 'feared lest I ahsu5d go Mad. 'Hod ;thus t'hing come to me a year 'before, a could 'Nave silept the night t'hroug'h; now .now—, 11 lay, bound to the log, before the open door of the lodge, and, eookifig through it, saw the pines waving in the night wind. and the .glean of 'Mie river beneath tthe stars, rad saw tier as plainly as though she had stood there under the t're'es, in a flood of noon sunshine. Now she .was the Jo- celyn Percy •of Weyan'o'ke, - now Of the minister's house, now of a storm - tossed boat and a 'pirate ship, ndw of the gaol at Jamestown. One of my arils was .'free; I could 'take from within my doublet the little ,punp•le flower, and drop. my face. upon the band that held it, The 'blooin was quite withered, and scald'in.g 'tears would not give at life again, The :face that was now gay, now defiant, now pale and suffering, be- came steadfastly 'the face That ,had leaned upon my 'b'reast in the James- town gaol, and 'baked at me with a mournful brightness of love and sor- row. Spring was. in the land, and the summer ;would corse, but not to us. 'I stretched ,forth my hand to the wife who was not there, and my heart: lay crushed within 'Inc. She .had been my wife not a year; it was but the other day that I knew she loved me— 'After a While the anguish lessened, and, I lay, doll and 'hopeless, thinking of trilling 'things, counting the stars ;betweenthe ,pines. ,A -'other slow hour; an•d, a .braver mood coming upon .nue, I thought of Diccon, who was in that plight because. eel me, wed spoke to asking aim -:bony he did. He an- swered from the other side of the lodge, but the word's were scarcely out of his mouth ;before our • `guard broke in upon us commanding eivice. 'Diccon cursed them, where- upon a savage struck beim -across the head with the .handle of a tomahawk, stunning him for a time. As soon.' as I 'heard 'him glove 'I spoke again, to know if he .were mach ,hurt; when 'he had answered in the negative we .said no more. (To be 'Continued.) In. 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