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the Missiissipp, on his way to Biloxi,
in the early 'days of the settlement
of Lousiana William Brampton, Eng
-
Usk spy, known to the Indians and
settlers .as the ' "White Indian," sees
Natchez: Indian post' a declaration
of war against the French. For 'his
own purposes, he hastens to Biloxi
to carry the news to Bienville, French
governor.
CHAPTER H.—Brampton meets
an old friend, Joe Labrador, Indian
half-breed, who warns hien Bienville
has threatened to hang him as a spy.
Brampton refuses to turn back. 'Fie
falls in with Jules and Basile Mat -
tor, on
attor,on their way to Biloxi to secure
wives from a ship, the Maire, bring-
ing women from France. At Biloxi
Brampton protects a woman from.. a
sergeant's brutality. She tells hien she
is Claire Dahlsgaarde, picked up in a
said in.Paris. .Evidently well bred and
educated, she is something of a mys-
tery to Brampton. He intervenes to'
prevent a man, English, known as
"Old Six Fingers," following her to
New Orleans. A Frenchman, Fran-
cois Narbonne, slightly demented by
stories he has heard of the riches of
the New World, introduces himself.
He is on his way ' to land he has
bought.
Chapter III.—Bienville accuses
Brampton of treachery, but the latter
secures a respite from' death by re-
vealing the Natchez declaration re-
vealing
war He . is to await the arrival of a
former companion, Damoan the Fox,
who will exonerate or condemn him,
Damoan has documents proving that
Brampton is an English spy. Branlp-
ton receives a message from Claire
urging him' to help her reach the
English settlements, ' e°"'
Chapter IV,-13rainpton trusts
Narbonne with a note to Claire pro-
mising to meet her at New Orleans.
He bribes the Mattors to help limn
escape. Before it can be effected
Damoan arrives.
Chapter V.—After a struggle Brain -
pion wrests the incriminating papers
from Denman and escapes from Bil-
oxi. He meets the Mattors and they
start for New Orleans in a sailing pa-
cket.
Chapter VI - At the landing place.
Brampton again encounters Joe Lam
rador, Whom he sends to bring Claire
to him, The girl arrives. Brampton
questions her closely, but she will tell
him little of her history, With Lab-
rador, Brampton and Claire 'leave in
two canoes for the English settle-
mehas. Dantean, follows them, and
theybarely ,G
r c y c, cape capture.
Chapter VII.—Labrador leaves the
fugitives, returning to New Orlean;z.
Brampton realizes that the.girl, city
red, and utterly unused to forest
ravel, will prove a terrible handicap
,n their way to safety, She tells lnrn
she is in dealy fear of "Six Finger•s,"
}ler companion on the. voyage from
France, but will not say why. Her
stir of pride, wider the_ circumstances,
surprises and amuses Brampton, From
the shore they can see Damoan, with
his Indians, pass in canoes, They fol-
low;
Chapter IN.—At a : inipinc; mare
the fiiertivc; encounter i)anrali and
the fol},=ww t is 'i'hey escape by the
river, hut. at si forced landing are sur-
jirised by Denman, `1"h. three Men
repel the attack, and franitittr, car-
,les off a�.ttoumided Mail, t;clic:virlg
1011 to be Narbonne, but wvha perm::.
to be Joe T.abrador, MIrbc,nne is
lef fighting, his death ficins; certain.
Chanter :X-.1)nntoan had compel-
led Labrador to accompany ]tint in
hi:, pursuit of.l";ramptoii, but held hire
as a prisoner, Labrador deludes <rtix.
Fingers" with tales of gold or•naarients
(really copper, and of little value)
worn by Indians. lS;oved by pity as
wwell:as love, .Brampton asks Cbdre tci.
berinne his wife when they reads saf-
city, She haughtily refuses, ehnost im-
plying that the coffer is an insult.
They re,icli a village of Hama Irtd-
g
Bins, With 11 10111 Brampton is friend-
ly. R e tries to the village .end is pro-
mised protection by the chief: Da-
mian arrives,. blit it prevented from
sei2irtl llr•arnptnrt. The other` mem.
here of th Party join'' him in the via-
laf;e,.
('hapten I, Brattipton makes ,tr-
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to a Natchez stronghold. Labrador
has his own reasons for not wanting;
to go there and Claireh f b
as r;, e per-
suaded. They finally leave. The Hu-
mh:as arrange a feast, during Which
the body of a Hama woman, murder-
ed, and with the hands and; feet cut
off, is brought in. She has been kill.-
ed for her .ornaments, supposed to be
gold, by "Six Fingers." Damoan ac-
cuses I3ratnpt0n. , Admitting his guilt
"Six Fingers"' is shot by I3rantpton
as he is about to reveal the plan of
escape.
"I can tell: their plans!" screamed
Six Fingers in English as Dainoan's
fingers began ripping his face.
'fell then! Tell thein! Or I'll
pick you joint from jointl" howled
Damoan, bending over• the craven, his
outstretched hands looked like claws.•
"Save rue! Save me!" gasped Six
Fingers. "Take hie
h e with you. III
lead yon to them!"
"Speak!" yelled Damoan, lsutuhing
his shoulders and wriggling his, long.
fingers before the murderer's bleed-
ing lace.
eThey planned for Labrador and
the, woman to get away while we was
eating!" ,panted Six Fingers. "They.
planned—"
But now it was purely a question.
of 'the girl's safety and not of • this
snake's sufferiu:g; and I fired an
ounce: ball through his wicked skull,
and slipped ,through the hole and
away into the black forest.
CHAPTER XII
The Proud One's Sister Dies.
1 led the ebase that night toward
the east; and so long as 1 travelled
that direction I took pains occasion-
a]ly,to betray niy position. This pro-
cedure gave the girl and Labrador
more time to escape, for I knew Da-
moan would bend every endeavor to
overtake rhe. Toward morning I
swung backfin a wide circle, planning
to strike the Mississippi near the
Italica village at the tipper end of th
Portage of the Cross, There I was:
sore. to find a canoe in which to push
on after my friends,
' That night I skirted the Tunica vil-
lage and Stole some corn from an out-
lying village and was 'fortunate en-
ough to find a small canoe' contain=
ing a fish, net made of linden -bark
fiber and some lines equipped with
hooks and ,fishbone. I made excell-
ent progressthat night, nor did I
observe anything to indicate rimy foes
lied discovered my return to the riv-
er.
It was not until h reached the cliffs"
of Natchez and ,was reconnoitering
the mouth of Little river that I made`
two important, discoveries—one brou-
ght great joy, the other impelled me
tc, paddle with desperate haste into,
the tributary. Ahead of me, some
distance up 1 ittle river, was a;pirot:taa
containing twee persons, One Of the
couple looked like a boy and was not
using• a paddle, 1.11 the next moment.
I had glinipsed a long pirogue turn-
ing a bend of the big river below hie.
It held at least a dozen Indians and
their- six-foot paddles were flashing
rapidly. 1 did not believe T had been
seen as I was disappearing into the
tiihu.tary when this strange craft
showed its ruse around the bend.
'I.'he canoe ahead now discovered
me and the slim figurevanished by
dzopping flat, and the other abandon-
ed the Paddle to. pick up a musket. I
waved my cap and Labrador turned
about and began paddling. to tnec-t me,
1 violently . gestured for him to go
bade, and in pantonine announced the
111 -11 behind nit, As he swvung his
piregtte about to load up -stream 'ho
mug have told tlic girl, for she re-
appeared and stretched out built her.
hands fir me. '
We Were within three miles
White Apple; the principal town of
the Natchez, which in turn was wit,m-
i t three utiles of Fort Rosalie: ,Let
els but tet inticic the vmllal;cand T
Would have no fear of either time
French at the Frrrt, or of bemoan geld
•' m r, . r
(1 a
tla recta s rte• r
Vi 1 4t ink 1 me, 'rho i h Er Nat•
chez were on 't.hc eve of War with tin:
breech. They were a very; haughty
peoplee; there would be' no subtle eva
Sion of their 'l tws to please liienviile.
even if the red ,warrior`s Post.'' did not
Al and between than, ,,The i'heee cif
us
.would have fell' nie<tstrrct of pro-
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tection
tection from. the Great Stan and his
brother and war chief, Tattooed Ser-
!drew
So my heart was light when I
1 drew up alongside Labrador's pirogue
and leas greeted by his amiable grin
and a tremulous handclasp from the
girl,
They noticed the absence of Six
Fingers, and both began asking ques-
tions.
"He was shot and killed while, es-
caping from the village," f said. "`11
he had obeyed orders he could have
escaped with me."
The girl's face was violent at hear-
ing such violent news, and yet I fan -
tied there was relief in her bearing.
We dragged the canoes under .some
bushes, and, being in familiar coun-
try, took the shortest cut to White
Apple— sometimes called 'White
Earth,
When we had all but. cone to the
village we heard a peculiar'howl,
which frightened the girl 'because she
cotzld imagine'it to .mean almost any-
thing unwholesome. l inotioncd for
Labrador to make a detour, but be -
for we knew it we were, through the
bushes and in an opening close to the
village, and the girl. was staring with
wide eyes at the strange scene. Some
of the Natchez were rehearsing for a
funeral 'ceremony.. I whispered as
much to her, and she became quiet
and curiously. watched the peculiar
pi"oceedings.
There were five victims, three wo-
n en
onen and two nhen, and fdrty execu-
tioners, the grim office being eagerly
sought because it ennobled. All the
executioners had their hands painted
i•
As He Swung His Pirogue About to
Head `Upstream Again He Must
Have Told the Girl, for She Reap-
peared, and Stretched. Out Her
e Hands to Me.
reel and had red . feathers thrust
through the long braids of hair hang-
ing down the deft side of the head,
The five victims ' had their hair paint
cd red. The girt saw nu significance
(in the red hands, the red hair, the
'rope and red ax, but the gestures et
the man with the weapon frightened
her,
It is alI make-believe," I whisper -
led, trying to hurry her on. "We will
go to the village If Damoan dict not
(see. me enter the river he will learn
'from the fort that none of us have
!passed:
Sc ii we walked toward the village,
and, the rchersal being finished, the
Natchez came after us. ' But such was
their courtesy that they would not'
pass us,, and those who desired to
reach the village quickly swung far
to one side as if taking an " entirely
different course.
Labrador was frowning aheavily and
in Choctaw said:
"Friend; there was no word -bearer,
nor any medicine man among those to
be sacrificed. The dead must be a
woman. The three old women were
her kinswomen, The two men were
her servants. If it was I.,a Glorieuse
there would be many more servants."
He named a woman of noble rank,
called "The :Proud" by the French be-
cause of her aristocratic bearing, her
contempt for commoners, and her ig;-
norentent of any Frenchman antes:;.
he possessed rank. It was known
that Tattooed Serpent was enamored
of liner, but both being nobles mar-
riage between them was inmpossibie.
No; the funeral procession was scar-
cely worthy of a woman who enjoyed.
the 'favor of Olabalkebichc, head war
chief, as well as brother of the Great
Sun,
"It is not La; Glorieuse,' '1 said:
Labrador sighed:
"Alt, that ..grandc' dame! 'Why
couldn't it be Merl"
"''hat is queer talk," I rebuked,
"liow has the Proud Otto ever harm -
'1 o�tt,
a
y , )
is I who harmed her ---as she
thinks, I married her sister. Sfre
never forgave her sister for marrying' _.
beneath her. Never forgave me for ;.
looking so Muhl"
We entered the vili tge, a collection
of equate, huts made of timbers t51ds-
keyed with, mud, nx ss end sand, with
the roofs of reeds and gras;i, woven
so as to be weather-proof,.
The Natchez were much different
fraith any Indian tribe I ever encuun-
ttirr d, or head oL The practice of
human sacrifices can the death of the
elect whacked of ancient Eastern civ-
ilizations; and the worship of the son
reminded one of the •stories brought
back from Central and South Amer-
ica, And > et their language was
linked up with ' the lialects of the
Choctaws, Chickasaws and Creeks.
I accosted an "ancient warrior—s
called to distinguish him from the
"young" warriors and "apprentice"'.
warriors, and referring to skill rather
than to age— and asked if I could se-
cure
ecure an audience with the Great Sun.
He told me the Great Sun was absent
inspecting the teniplit and sacred fire
in a neighboring village, He believed
I could see Tattooed Serpent, how-
ever.
I told Tahrador to take the girl to
the edge o filme villitg-e and ;wait while
I paid our respects to my old acquain-
tance, the weir chief. She was glad;
to do this; nor did Labrador regret
escaping an audience with the great
chic whose mistress'' sister he had
married and deserted.
1 went to the cabin next the tem-
ple and informed an aged man, the
Serpent's word -bearer, that 1 wished
to see the chief, He disappeared
through the low doorway and very
soon motioned for me to enter.
(Continued Next Week.)
Miss Edna Gannett has returned to
Toronto after spending a month with
friends in town:
REPORT OF HOG SHIPMENTS
For Month Ending March 31, 1929
Total Hogs—Winghatn 49, ,Wrox-
eter
Wroxtiter 244, Bluevale 103, Be.lgrave- 334,
lduron County 5945.
Select BaconWinghatn 23, Wrox
Iter' 56, Bluevale 29, Aelgrave 163,
Huron County 2033,
"Thick Smooth—Winghatn 26, Wro-
eater 1.71, Bluevale 64, Belgrave
Huron County 3370.
Heavies—Wroxeter '7; Bluevale 6,
13elgravc 10, Huron County 245.
Extra Heavies—Wroxeter •'1, ' Bel -
grave 1, Huron County 6.
Shop Hogs -Wroxeter 7, Bluevale
2, Telgrave 6, Huron County 104.
Lights and Feeders—Bluevale 1,
Huron County 41.
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