Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 46: what you’re looking at

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48 TH LOST CACHE. that we want. We want their horses, their blankets, their powder and lead, their guns, their ‘cloth and ornaments, and their scalps, for our lodges are bare. ‘ Will the Big Knife lead us against them, or shall we die heré and wither away?” Adams agreed with them that something must be done, and | promised them that their reasonable desires should be satis- fied, proving his sinéerity by painting ‘his face, and ordering the immediate recruitiig of a war-party. : ke “T will give them ‘their fill of fighting,’ he thought, “and then, perhaps, they will leave me alone.” The day after the ‘promise was made, he set out, at the head of about fifty men, all’ mounted, armed, $lumed and painted for war. “They went ‘in south-westerly direction, expecting to hover about the trains that were often crossing ‘6n the Oregon trail, until ‘they should meet one that was small ‘enough or careless enough ‘to be snapped wp by ‘their greedy and’ murderous: beaks. Before’ striking the great trail, they crossed the Lewis Fork, and were resting on its banks, when the scouts’ brought intelligence of Morris Brainard’s party, ‘that’ was approaching the head-waters of the river. ‘Having ‘learned the’eourse that ‘they were taking, ‘Adams ‘stationed his Indians in a defile through which he supposed his victims would have to pass, and ‘waitéd for them. As has been’ seen, they eluded him,’ by going up the ‘iver, past his hiding-place. When he discovered, in ‘the morning, ‘the position ‘in which _ they “had fortified themselves, he endéavored, unisuccéssfully, to dissuade his Indian” allies ‘from making ‘a direct ‘attack. The ‘attack-was made, and was bloodily repulsed: Another attack; which he vlamned ‘and led ‘mm person, was also a fail- ure, and he drew off the dispirited ‘savages, comforting them with the assurance that he had “ told them go.” oo The painted braves were so brokén down ‘py’ their defeat that he had no‘ great difficulty in perstiading them to abandon their enterprise for° the ‘presént, and to be obedient to his cwishes, He told them that the train was going ‘into the mountains, where it would ‘be useless to attempt to make an attack upon it, but that they might meet it on the other side, where they could: obtain retnforcements, and might be able to ~ capture'the whites‘and all their property, They acquiesced. et oe comicbooks.com -