Beadle's Dime Novels No. 92: The Twin Scouts — page 76: what you’re looking at

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78 * THE TWIN SCOUTS. An-ga-wam followed him into a lodge aside from the rest, and at the door of which stood a guard. They entered. Upon a couch of skins, in one corner of the room, Jay the body of a young brave, embalmed. after a manner still in use among Indian tribes. His countenance, stern in death, and strangely lifelike, looked up at the two. “Here is the body of my son,” said the old chief, not a muscle of his face telling the agony that. must have. wrung his heart a’ the sizht of nis only son dead at his feet. “ What say you to the story of Hau-do? Did my son die in. bat- . tle ?” ‘““Hau-do has lied. Where did you find the body ?” “Two days after they departed upon the war-path together, two braves went out to hunt; They shot a deer, and it fell down the rocks... While climbing after it they found my son, cast like a stone into the pit. He was dead, and close beside him lay the hatchet of Hau-do. We calied the council, and all said, ‘Let him die” We waited only for your voice, and his return. What say you ?” | “Let him die.” “Tt is well. Mo-ne-ton, thou shalt. be A pega A little ‘while to wait, my son, and he shall join you in the happy hunting-grounds. Wait, on the borders of the river, and I will send him after.” An Indian drum sounded, beaten with measured strokes, and the warriors began to gather to the council. Hau-do came too, gaudy in dress and insolent in bearing. He knew nothing of the cause of the council, and he did not heed the angry glances cast upon him from every side. _ . The chiefs did not sit; a platform had been built in the council-ground, and around..it gathered, first the chiefs and braves, and then the women, Then a stern voice cried; . See cs And forth from the lodge, pittited. in somber black, came the bearers of the body, and laid -it on the platform. Until that instant, Hau-do had not dreamed what the meeting might - mean. But the moment that body appeared, he knew_his doom. Then came a group of girls, bearing flowers, which ‘they cast upon the platform where the body lay, singing, in a slow monotone, the funeral chant ; : a Cconmicloooks.conn