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fF 623-9 YELLOWSTONE JACK, | vie oe foot below the surface of the spring, be attacked only & Seater in front, babe a CS eat weighted at the lower edge, the do this the enemy must fully expose 1elr skin curtain hung almost motionless, bodies to the deadly aim of the pak or if it did sway a trife now andj} faces. — ani then, it seemed but the reflection of the} There were those in the coord a ax; a - effervescing water. By diving intoj secretly hoped and believed that __thespring, “which was not “ bviling -” from savages would not venture an atta eat, since this spring had long been (and under these adverse circumstances a } ee as still) noted for its magic powers, both | both Campbell and Yellowstone Jack " 2.) BSB tonic and a means of “making medi-| argued different. The Blackfeet had eine,’ and men came scores of miles | suffered a heavy loss, and would be wild simply to quaff its waters, and pressing | to wipe out the stain. ¥ against the skin the running waterswould |. “ They'll wipe us out this time, or ee quickly c carry one inte the mound. This-| bu’st,” said Brindle Joe. 4 also had been a spring in ages gone by,| “ Mebbe they'll bu’st, then,” chee and gradually subsiding, by some strange | Yellowstone Jack. “ Wouldn't 4 be. a freak had left this refuge—lke some | sniptious sight—them all bu’stin’ ?’ _ gigantic gluc-pot, seething in its hot| The hours rolled rapidly by. sail water receptacle. A trap-door had been | came and pased by, without sign or sound ¢4 he cunningly cut through the wall. <A light | of the enemy. Yet the emigrants belf ay horse-hair lasso had also aided Kitty and | their posts, wakeful and vigilant. oie _ her mother. danger of their growing careless while _ The reader must imagine the joyous | three men like Campbell and hho Sra 3 meeting between father and daughter, | were on the alert. . for my pen is not nimble enough to do| ‘Then, all at once, there came the rapid 4 the matter justice. The greatest draw-| thud of many hoofs upon the hard back was that both Ada and Frank were | ground, and a dark mass burst out from — lying very ill. The first transports over, | the pass, and scattering, dashed furiously _ Minnie quietly took her station as nurse, | down upon the corraled waggons. The Xe - nor did she once abandon her post wild yell of the Blackfeet broke the air, _ through all the excitements and horrors | The critical moment had arrived. pes of the coming night. enemy was upon them, It would have been impossible to move | No man’s pen could describe what fol - the wounded youth, even had the emi- | lowed. An active mind might grasp the © grants beheved it prudent to resume their | idea—a vivid imagination realize some of y : journey while so many of the enemy | the scenes, but words are powerless to still hovered around them. So they con-| picture the wild, terrific, sublime, and a tented themselves with strengthening | horrible whole. . | their defences and seeing that their wea-| The headlong charge of the Blackfeet . pons were in reacliness for use. and outlaws were met by a deliberate, Vernon Campbell, who seemed to con- | closely-aimed volley from the emigrants’ sider himself as one of the party for good | rifles that covered the ground with dead or ill, warned them that they might expect | and disabled horses and riders. But the an attack that night, since the reinforce- | rush was not even momentarily checked. ments could be brought up by that time, | The survivors, yelling and screeching like. | f as the nearest Blacktoot villaze was not | veritable demons, dashed on as though © more than fifty miles distant, they meant to override the substantial And thus, in watching and waiting, the | waggons. Hurling their animals against 3) day slowly wore away. The emigrants the waggons, the foremost leaders leaped — were calm and composed, though tha | from the saddle, endeavouring to seale a chances were greatly against them. Yet | the barricade. 8 % they were men, and could die, if die they ; They were met by pistol-shots, blows — must, like true pioneers. from clubbed rifles and home-thrusts, The sun set, giving promise of a clear, | Still, a few gained an entrance, and — cloudless night, nor was the pledge belied. recklessly attacking the emigrants, forced The moon arose, bright and beaming; | them to turn from tho barricade, in order — the little plain before. the corral was | to defend their lives. And, taking ares rendered distinctly visible. The emi-/| vantage of this, the Blackfeet , with wii: 40 grants position was such that they cou d | moment, drcpped into the inclosure, - ee _————_—_—_—— oo ee ee ee ee ee nit y se Gomicbooks.co