Rocky Mountain Sam — page 200: what you’re looking at

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. 191 then all was over. Still without making a sound, he rose from his prostrate foe, and stood wagging his tail, as if waiting philosophically for anything that might next turn up. Sam merely patted him approvingly upon the head, and then motioning the dog to remain without, raised the deer- skin covering and entered the lodge. : All was silent for some seconds, and then arose a grea hubbub inside of the lodge—oaths, curses, and gutteral cries, mingled with screams of women. Lhe next instant our hero emerged, half-bearing, half- dragging the form of the Indian maiden, Favaway, and followed by four Indians, who appeared to be but half awake, but who still stumbled after him knife in hand. Chawer brought one of these to the ground at a single bound, a shot from the car dropped another in his tracks, and the remaining two halted hesitatingly at the door, while the inmates of the other lodges were at once aroused, and began to issue forth, raising their war-cries as they came. ‘Tear down the lodge!” yelled Sam; ‘‘the young lady’s inside.” He reached the car with the girl in his arms, but here Fayaway indicated that she would not desert her mistress, and after clinging to him with a loving kiss, resolutely tore herself from his embrace. As she did so she caught a elimpse of the comely face and form of Mawanee leaning over the side of the car. A jealous spasm passed over her face, and with one glance at herlover of mingled wrath and reproach, she darted back into the lodge. The Indians began to surround the car from every side, not only from the few lodges that had been noted, but from the mouths of several deep gerges that seemed the canon’s walls. Sam had just.time to leap reluctantly into the car, when they were beset on every side. ; It was evident that the savages could be kept at bay but foramoment. Indeed, notwithstanding the numbers that fell beneath the revolvers and breech-loaders, they kept pressing in closer every instant, and already the aeronauts found themselves hand-to-hand, when Big Horn, who had hastily armed himself after the manner of the ‘‘period,” and was bristling with knives from head to foot—sprang upon ~ the edge of the car. Comicboo “S com