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’ , HAND TO WAND. 97 another quarter, and noticed a stampede in the camp. He picked up his harpoon, stepped outside, and saw that the sentry had gone from Ellen’s lodge. He hastened thither, and had hardly reached it, when he was confrented by half “a- dozen Blackfeet. Resolved to perish in the defense of his” cousin, and to get as much revenge as he could, the Yankee swung His harpoon around his head, struck down his foremost aediilant: and cleared a space before the lodge. But the Indians pressed him, his foot slipped, he fell, and thought all was over, when “there was a sharp cracking of rifles, and Bill Bush, Frank Steele, Nathan Carver and the Delaware, rushed eee the Blackfeet, who had been reinforced. ‘There was a fierce and bloody hand-to-hand encounter. - David Carver attacked a tall savage who was entering the lodge, and was stabbed to the heart for his temerity. The next instant, the savage was brained by the butt of Bush’s rifle, and Steele sprung within. He sawa sieht that made him leap forward more quickly, for an Indfan; with uplifted knife, was bending over the prostrate form of ‘Bllen Carver. Frank threw himself upon the savage, and struck him ‘with his knife, with all his force, in the back of the neck. The knife was, shivered, but the spinal column of the Blackfoot was proken, and his arm,,as well as the rest of his frame, was paralyzed. Frank stepped out to assist his companions, but they had finished their work, and he returned to the care of Ellen, CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION, Tum battle was over. Captain Steele’ and his men, charg- ing furiously.on the breastwork, carried it with arush Frank Steele, as has been said, devoted himself to the care of Ellen Carter, for the strong New England girl had fainted, as any girl might have done, if attacked by a painted savage with a bloody knife. He soon succeeded in restoring her comicbooks.conn