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The Seaforth News, 1933-04-13, Page 6PAGE SIX. TI.Pi 411 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. TiHi1TR'$DIAY,' •A'PRIIL. 20, 1933 THE Johnson. (Continued from last week.) It was now 'moonlight without the lodge and very q'ui'et. ;The night eros :far ,gone; already we could smell the morning, and it would come apace. 'Knowing the swiftness of that ap- proach, and what the early light would bring, I strove: for a courage .which should be ,the steadfastness of the Ohris'tian, and midi the vainglorious pride Of the (heathen, V my thoughts wandered, if her face would, come athwart the verses I tried to remem- ber, the prayer ,I tried to frame, per - ,haps He who •made her lovely under- stood and 'forgave. I said the prayer lI used to say when lI was a .ohdld, and wished with alt my heart for Jeremy. ;Suddenly, in the first gray dawn, as at a trumpet's call, the v'ill'age 'awoke. From the long, 'cdmmunal 'houses .poured ,florth men, women, and 'children; fires sprang 'op, dispersing the mist, and a 'commotion arose 'through ,the length and breadth of the 'place. The .women made haste with their cooking, and 'bore maize cakes and 'broiled -fish to the warriors who sat on the ground in front of the roy- al lodge. Diccon and I were loosed, lbrough•t without, and allotted' our share of the 'flood. We ate sitting side by side with our captors, and Di m with a great cut across his head, seiz- ed the Indian girl who brought him his platter of fish, and pulling her down beside him kissed her sound- ly, whereat the maid seemed not ill pleased and the warriors laughed. lin the usual order df things, the meal aver, tobacco Should have . fol- lowed. But naw not a pipe was lit, and the women made haste to take away the platters and to get all things in readiness. Tihe werowance of the Paspaheghs rose to his feet, cast aside his mantle, and 'began to speak. He was a man in the prime of lite, of a great figure, strong as a Susgne- hannock, and a savage cruet and draf- ty beyond measure. Over his breast, stained with strange figures, hung a !chain of •small bones, and the 'scalp Jocks of' his enemies fringed his mos- casins. His tribe being ,the nearest to (Jamestown, and in frequent alterca- tion with us, I bad heatd him speak many times, and knew his power over the passions of his people. No player could he more skillful in gesture and expression, no poet more •nice in the .choice of words, no general more quick to raise a •wild enthusiasm in the soldiers to whom he called. All !Indians are .eloquent, but this sav- age was a leader among ,them. He spoke ,now to some effeot. 'Com- mencing with a day in the moon ,f blossoms when for .the first time wing- ed canoes brought white men into the IPerwha'tan, he ,came down through year after year to the :present .hour, ceased, and stood in silence, regarding his trittnt h. It was complete. In its wild excitement the Village was ready then and there to make an end of us who had :sprung to our 'feet and stood with our backs against a great bay tree, facing the maddened throng. So much the 'best for us would it ,be if the tomahawks left the hands that were drawn back to throw, if the knives that were flourished in our faces should be buried to the 'haft in our 'hearts, that we ,courted.. death, Striving with word and look to infuri- ate our •executioners to the p'in't of !forgetting their former purpose in the lust for instant vengeance. 1I't ,was not to he. 'Th'e 'werowance spoke again, .poinein'g to the 'hills with the black houses up'ori them, dimly seen through : the mist..A ,moment, and the ,handsclen'chedt upon .the weapons 'fell; another, andd we were upon the march. iAs one man, the 'village •swept through the forest toward the. rising .ground that •wa's but a 'few bowshiots away. The young men 'bounded .ahead to make preparation; but the approv- ed warriors and the ,old :men. went more sedately, and with them Walked Diccon and '1, as steady of .steep as they. The women and :Children for etre most part !brought up the rear, though a few impatient hags ran past us, calling the men tortoises who would never reach ,the goal. One of these women bore a great 'burning torch, the flame and smoke streaming over her shoulder as she ran. Others !carried ,pieces of bark heaped with the slivers of pine Of which every wig- wam has store. The sun was yet to rise wth n ,we reached a hallow a'mon'gst the low red hil'l's, Above us were the three long houses in which they keep the •image of Okee and ,the mummies of their kings. These temples ,faced.the scrim- son east, and the mist was yet a'bout them. Hideous 'figures, painted over with strange devices, the stuffed skins of snakes knotted about their heads, in their hands great .rattles which they shook vehemently„ rushed through the •doors and dawn the bank to meet us, and began to n1ance around us, contorting their bodies, 'ehrawing up their arms, and making a hellish noise. Diccon stared at them, shrug- ged his shoulders, and with a grunt of •contempt sat down upon a fallen tree to watch the enemys man- oeuvres. The place was a natural am'p'hi- thearte, well fitted for a epectacte. ITihose Indians who could not crowd into the narrow level spread them- selves over the rising ground, and looked down with 'fierce laughter upon the driving of the stakes 'Which the young men brought. The women and children scattered into ,the 'woods beyond the cleft !between the 1dlis, and returned bearing great armfuls Of dry branches. The hollow rang .to the ex- ultation of the playgoers. Taunting laughter, cries of savage triumph, the shaking of the rattles, and the furious beating of two great drums combined to make a clamor deafening 'to stupor. And above the hollow was the angry reddening of the heavens, and the white mist curling up dike smoke. II sat dawn 'beside Diccon bn the lag. Beneath it there were growing tufts of a pale 'blue, slender -stemmed flower. 1 plucked a handful elf the blossoms, .and ,thought how 'blue 'they wauid look against 'the Whiteness of her 'hand; then dropped them in a sudden shame' that in that hour I was to little 'Steadfast to things which twere not of earth. I did not s'peak to Diccon, nor he to me. ,There seem- ed no need 'of speech. In the 'pande- moniu'm to Wh'ic'h 'the world had narrowed, the one familiar, matter -Of - course •thing was thatan,d :I were to die 'together. The stakes were lin the ground and painted ,ted, the wood properly arranged. The :Indian 'woman : who 'held the torch 'that was to tight the pile ran past us, whirling :the wood around her head 'to ,m'a'ke 5't 'blaze more fiercely. As she went by she towered the !brand' add slowly drag- ged it across my wrists. The beating 'of the drums suddenly ceased, and the loud voices died away. To Indians no music is so sweet as the cry of an enemy; if they have wrung 111 horn a 'brave men who has striven to endure, so much the better, 'Tlhey were very still now, because they 'would not lose so mulch as a drawling in Of the breath: Seeing that they were 'odm,ing for us, Diccon and I rose to await them, When they were nearly upon us I tanned to 'hien and held ,dolt :my 'hand, He made no motion to take it. In- stead he stood with 'fixed eyes look- ing past me and' sl'ightl'y u'p'w'ar'ds. A s'ud'den pallor had 'overspread the (bronze of his 'face. 'There's 'a verse somewhere," he said in a genet voice, —,"it's in the Bible, I ,think,—II heard it once long ago, before 1 was ;last: 'I will look unto the bills from whence 'come't'h' shy help' — Look sir I" R 'bu,rned and followed with my eyes the pointing df isle finger. In front off us the 'b'a'nk dose steeply, 'bare to the 'summit,—no 'threes, only the red earth, with here and there a low growth • of dea'flesls 'bashes. 'Be - 'hind it was the eastern 's'ky. •Upon, etre crest, against the sunrise, stood the figure .of •a Iran,—an Ind'ian. Prom one shoulder 'hung an. ,otterskitr, an'd a great bow was in lis hand. His limb's were (bare, and as he stood nl'o tionlesie, bathed iso 'the'rros'y light, he looked like some bronze, gad, perfect; from the 'headed moccasins to the Icalm, meager 'face 'below the feath- ered headdress.1H'e had but jest risen! al}ave the brow of the '''ill; ,the In- dians in (the 'holllow. saw 'him not, Whine Dieoan and II 'stared Our tor- m'en'tors 'were upon us. (They came a dozen Or more at once, and: we had not 'wea'p;ons. Two hung ;upon 'my arms, while a third laid 'hold of my dou'bl'et to rend it from Ime. An arrow 'whistled lover .out heads. and, stu'ok into a'' tree (behind outs. 'The hands that cluttclhed .me 'dropped, and with a yell ;the •b'u'sy throng turned their faces in, the direction Whence had ;came the arrow, That /Indian' ,whto had sent that dart before him was' des'cendin'gthe hank. Ala 'in'stant's breathless Mash while they stared at ,the ,s'dlitary fi'gu're; then the dark` form's- 'bent forward for 'tide rush straightened, and there arose a 1!oud eeryof relcogn'ltio'n. "The son of (Powhatan 1 'The son of Pdty- hatan 1" lHe came !do'w•n the ;hillside to the level of the 'hollow, the authority Of This look and Igesiture making way for him through the ,crowd that surged this way and that, and walked' up to us where' we stood, 'h'e'mmed round, but .no longer in the •clutdh Of our enemies. "It was a very .big wolf this time, Oap'tain 'Percy;' he !said. "You' were never more wel:come,, Nlaantattquas," I answered, "—un'les's, indeed, the wolf intends .making a meal af_three instead Of two," He 'sm'iled. "The 'wol'f will go hun- gry gry to -dray." Taking my hand inhis he turned to his frdwnin'g country- m'e'n. "Men ort the Pamunkeys I" he cried, "`This is Nantauqu'as' friend, and so the friend of all the tr'i'bes that 'called IPo'whatan 'father.' The ;fire is not for him nor for his servant; keep it for the 'Mon'acan's and for the dogs of the ,Long House ! The calu- met is for the friend oif N'anrtauquas, and the dance of the .maiden's, the noblest buck and, the hest of the weirs" . There was a surging forward of the Indians, and a fierce murmur of .dis- sent. The wero'wan'ce, stan'din'g out from the 'throng, lifted his voice. "There was a time," he cried, "When Nantauquas •was the .panther crouch- ed upon the 'bo'ugh above the leader of the herd; naw ,Nan'tau,quas is a tame panther and roll's at the whi'te's men's feet 1 There was a time when the word or the son Of ,Powlh!atan weighed more than the ,Dives of many dogs such as these, but now I know not why we should put out ,the fire at his command 1 He is war chief no banger for Olpeoh'enc'anaugh will have no tame panther to lead the tribes. Opechan'oanough is our head and O'pe- chancanough 'kindleth a ;fire indeed 1 'We will give to this one w'h'at fuel we choose, and to-nigh't N'antauquas may look for the bones of the .white men 1"• He ended, an.d a ;great clamor arose. The Paspahegh's would have cast themselves upon us again but for a sudden action' of the young dhief, who had stood motionless, with' raised 'head and un'm'oved ,face, during the werowance's 'bitter speech. Now he flung 'up his hand, and in it was a bracelet .Of gold carved and twisted like a' coiled snake and"`' set with a green shone, fi had ,never seen 'the toy before, but evidently others 'had done so. The excited voices fell, and the In'dia'ns, Pamunkeys ,and Paspalheghs alike, stood as though turned to stone, ;Nlan'tauquas Smiled 'coldly. 'This day 'bath Opectancan'ou!gh :made ni•e war Chief again. We have smoked the peace pipe together — my . father's 'brother and II—in the 'st'ar'light, sit- ting 'before his lodge, with. ,the wide marshes arid the river dark at our ,feet. Singing bird's in the -forest 'Nave been ma'n'y; evil tales have 'they told; lOpech'anoan'augit 'has 'stopped his ears against their • false singing. My !1nie'nd's are his friends, my brother is his brother,; my word is his word: Witness, the' armlet t'h'at .hath; no like; ,that O' echan'can'otitgh brou'gh't with him, when 'he cafne lfro'm; no main knows where to the land o'f•rthe 'P w- hatans, 'many, 'Huskanaw!ngs ago; that no white m,en but these .have ever 'seen. .Operchanoanoulgh is at hand; he 'comes through the ''Forrest with his two hundred Warriors 'that are as tallas ;Susiquehanndoks, anti as brave as the children Of IWia'hun- eonac'ock. He comes to the temples to ;pray to Kli:wassa for a great hunt- ing. (Will you, when you 'lie at bis feet, that he ask yeti, 'Where is the friend df .my friend, of my war .tial, of the Panther 'who is one with ane .again ?' n !There came a long, deep breath from the Indian's, then a silence, in whieh t'h!ey fell back, Isilnwly and sullenly';` Whipped hounds, llyut with the will to break that leash df fear, '"H'a'rk 1" said 'Nantau!q'v'as, s'mfl ins. 't'I hear O,p'edh!ancarnou'gh 'and his warriors coming over the leaves." The noise df 'many 'footsteps 'was in- deed .audri'ble, corning towards the hod - lo'w froim' the i Loons be io;n'd. With, a burst of cries, the leaders and' the conjurer 'w'hiatled away .to bear the welcome oif Okee !to the royal wor- s!hipper, and at their !hee1is .went. the chief ,nen 'oif tree'Pa!niin:keys. The werdwan'ce of the 'Pas:paheghs was one ,that sailed' With the wind; .he lis'tened rto the de'epeni'ng sound,' and gllaniced at the son of P!o!whatian where he stood, calm and. ,nionfidenit, then smo'dfhed. 'his owl. countenance add ;made a mast ptaciftc' speech,' in wtie'h aril 'the 'bl'a'me df the Irate pro, ceedinlgs was laid iitpair the Singing (birds. (When Ihe' !had done slpeaking, the yo'u'isg .men tore tete ,Stakes; from the ,.earth• and threw .them into a. thicket, ,while the 'wo'men plucked a- part the nelwlly 'kindled fire and 'flung: the (b'ran'ds into ` a little near -by, stream, 'where .they went out in a cloud .of 'hissing steam. II turned Ito ;the !In'dia'n who had wa'ou'gh't ,this 'miracle. ''Art 'Marc it is not a 'dream, ,Nanta+ugana's ?" II said "I think that IOlpechandansuigh •would not lift a 'finger to save Me from all, the !deaths The tribes could Innivent." "Olpe!Chancalnough is ,very vvise," be answered Iq'uhe'tll'y. one says ,that now the (English -'will 'believe in his love indeed ,when Iehey see that the 'holds. dear even one -who .might he /called his enemy, •who 'hath spoken against him at the En'g1ish'meh's:'cou'n'cil'fire. He says 'that :for 'five suns" IOalp'bain Percy shall feast witJh' 101pec'hancan- ough, and that 'then be 'shall be sent black 'free to Jamestown. He thinks that then 'Captain Percy will moot Speak 'against him any more; 'calling his love 'to the white men only words with no g'o'od deeds behind." He 'spoke simply, out of the no'b'il- ity of his nature, 'believing in his Own speech. I' that was older, and lead more knowledge of men. and !the ,masks that they .wear, was 'bu!t half deceived. My 'belief in the hatred oif the 'dark !Emperor ,was not s'h'aleen, and II hooked yet .to ifind .the !drop of poison within 'thi's: ;honey bower, How poisoned was that 'bloom God knows I could .not guess 1 "W,hen' you were missed, three sums ago," "Nantauquas Went on, "I and my brother tracked ,you to the hut beside the forest, wlhere we found only the . dead panther. Where We struck the trail Of Ithe Pask'alheglhs; but ,presently we came to running wa- ter, and the trail was (gone." "We walked up 'the bed of the stream 'fo'r 'half the night," !I said. !The Indian. nod'd'ed. "'I know. 'My brother went back to J'amesito'wn 'for men and boats .and guns to go 'to ,the Pastpahegh village and up the Powlha tan. IHe was wise with the wisdom 'of the white ,men, 'hut I, who needed no gun, 'and Who would not lfigiht against my 'own 'people, I 'stepped into the stream and 'walked up it until past the 'full sum power, 'Then 1I found a. broken twig 'and the paint oif a 'mac- eosin, half hidden by a bush, over- looked when the other ,prints were smoothed away, 'I left the stream and 'fo'llowed the trail until it' was broken again. I looked far it no more then, for 1 'knew that 'the lPaspagheghs 'had turned 'their faces (toward; itJttamusac hath the w'isdo'm Of the wo'od's; let and that they would 'make a fire him come and !gain that "of the town." where ''many others had been •made, The Emperor smiled again. +wi'll in the hollow 'bel'o'w the three temples. ;.came to Jamestown 'soon,but not .to- IpecInstead c wenn with speed to' seekn jday icor to-mo'rrdw *nor the next day. Opechanca'noulgh. Y'esterd'ay, hutch The sun was 1'dw, I found 'him, si!ttfn'gtlAmd !Cap'tatin 'Percy 'must sm'oke';''tih.e in his 'lodge shave the rmarsihes and ('peace pipe' lin ivy • lodge above the the collared river. We s'mo'ked theiPampnkey, and 'watch .my young :men peace 'pipe together, and I am' his war'and'Imaidelns dalnce, anti'• eat with me chief again, 11 asked 'for the green ;five days. Then 'hc may go ;back to Stone, that I might show it to t'he:Tamestown wall' °resents for the great IPa'slpa'heq'hs -for a sign. He gave it,l'wh'ite father there, and 'with a tries - but he willed to 'came 'to !Uftamussac sage 'that lOpechano'anough lis coming with .me," moon to learn wf the white mien." " I owe you my life," a 'said, with lI could have ,gnas'h'ed my teeth at my haled upon' his. "'I and Diccon:"— :that -delay when She must thunk me 'What !I would, ;have said he put I dead'bu't it would have Ibsen the intact aside with a fine gesture. "Captain ,niers of folly to sIh'aw •t'he i'mbatieaice (Percy .!is my 'friend. My broth'erri'wg'h I felt. I too could smile with doves :him, and be was ,kind to 'Mato-!h'i.my lips when occasion drove, anld ax when She was (brou'gh't :prisoner to !drink a bitter draught as ,bhough my Jamestown. 2 a!m glad that I could 'soul d'dighted;,in !t. 'Blli'the'enou.gh to pu'11 off (this 'wolif." (•ail seeming, :and With as few 'inward "Tell 'ole' one thing," IT asked, "Se- misgiv!ngs''as.t'he rase dolled 'for, IDic- fore you left .Ja'mestawn, had ' you heard aught of my wife or df my enemy?" He shook 'his 'head, "At sunrise, the commander came to rouse .my brother, crying out that you had broken „gad 'and were. no'w'here to be found, and that the !moan you hate was lying 'wli'thin 'the guest house, sorely torn ,by s'om'e beast df the forest, 'My brother. and '1 .followed your trail at once; the town was scarce awake /when we delft it (behind us,—and !I did not return." IBy this we three were alone in the hollow, for .:all the savaiges, 'men and wormer; had gone .forth to ;meet' the Lndian !w'ho'se ward was law from the, falls ' Of the !far west 'to the 'Chesa- peake. The sun now rode above the low 'bilis, pouring its -gold into' the hollow and.'brlighltening itihe 'would besides. !The `'lititle stream . 'flas'h'ed diamonds, and 'the •carver• devils 'upon' the 'black hbselsl 'above us were rightful no donijgeir, '(There was Fnot a !menace anywhere 'from' ,the :el!ondiess skies to the sweet •arnd',Iplalintive chant to '.Kliwassa, sung : tby. ;wo!'nnen and' fl'oatingto''us ;from the woods beyond th'e Ilvdllolyr, 1Tih'e'singing grew nearer; and the rustling orf the feet (beneath 'many 'feet more loud.: and deep; then sill n'dise'eeas'ed, and !O!pec'h'ancanoutgh entered 'the; !hollow alone. ' Oda idlgle feather as Ifhnust. 'through 'his scalp loek;5'oV'er ti's inked! breast, '.:that was neither Painted !nor iptrioke'd into strange figures, hunlg a triple d(olw of pearls; /his mantle w'as woven all blue- bird feathers, as 'so!ft and sleek as satin. "'The face df 'this lbadharian was dank, •co;Id„and intp:as'sdve as d'ea'th, 'Behind 'fetat 'elhainigeies's m'as'k. as in a safe retreat, 'the sulpersu'btle'dev'il that was a man Might plot Idest'ruc'tii'an and plan the laying 'df 'dreadful Mines./He had -dignity and courage,—no' man !de- nied him that. JI sup!pose'the thought that the and 'hits had - 'wrantgs: God knows!! Ipetih'aps they had. Burt if ever we were hard or unjust in our deal- ings ,with eal-ings'with the !savages, --11 say holt that this waa the case,—at least we were not ttreacherous and. dealt not in''Ju- dos' 'ki'ss'es. s'tep'ped 'forward, and ,m'eth'im !on the spot 'wdhere the ',fere 'had been. For a 'minute neither a'pb'ke. It was .true that I had striven again'slt him many a time, and I 'knew't'h'at”dye knew Wait was'als'o 'true that'without !his ,aid N'antau'quas could not have rescued us (from that dlite peril. :And it was again the truth •that. an Indian. neither forgives nor 'forgets. 'Hoe 'was my. Sav- iour. and ,I knew that 'mercy le'a'd been shown for some dark reason Which I could not divine. ,Yet 'I owed him thanks, and gave 'them as 'shortly and simply as I could. He heard me tont with 'neither liking nor disliking nor any o(t)her e'mo'tion written upon this face; but when 'I had finished, as though he suddenly tbe- bhou'ght 'hi'mself, he 'snllt'ied, 'and. held out his ;l'an'd, Whiteman !fash'i'on. Now, when a ma'n's lips widen•;I look into his eyes. The eyes of lOipechancan- ough were as fathomless as a pool at 'midnight, and as devo'i'd of mirth or 'friendliness as 'the staring ,ores !df the carvers imp's upon the 'temple 'corners. "Singmg birds have 'lied to 'Ca'ptain Percy," he said, and his voice was like his eyes. "Opeehancanoutgh thinks, that Captain Percy will never listen to them (again, The chief Of the Plow 'hatans is a lover of The white 'men, of the English, and' df ,delver White men, —if there are .others. IHe would call the Enlglis'hmen 'his 'b'rdthers, and be taught of them 'h'o'w to rule, and who to pray to' "Let 10!pee!hancanouogth go w'i'th me Ito=day to Jamestown," I said, ''He non and I went with the sulb:tle eror and 'the Young, chief he had bound to !himself once more, and with their fierce ;train, back to that village. whidh we had never th'ou'ght to see` again. IA •day and a •night we stayed there; then Olpec!hanaanough sent lawny the IPa'apa'he'gks,—where we; knew not, ---and ta'kin'g vis with h'i'm went to his own vil'la'ge a'b'ove the great marshes of the tPamurn'key, (To be 'Continued.) A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with 11 fora *six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by Tae Oaarsrrtn Sciagas Pnsuesera Boor= Boston, Massachusetts. II. S. A. 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