Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 24: what you’re looking at

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mee figure shrouded in a blanket from the sh ~ —_— . > . s . . rs « — ‘ to,” he ad&ed in- reply to her last’ remark. “I> ‘suppesa saad term him Christian on account of his profession.” _“ More perhaps beeause his walk and life accords with it ‘When father ‘first:‘met him, he wasa very bad man. @ranken avdquarrelsome, and it’ has been said that he has | He was "ourdered more than one whiie man. He eame from: the “But he is'completely changed.” Y ‘@pper portion. of Minnesota, where the traders have always — ' wreountered: great danger.” “$0 completely indeed, that I believe he literally considers | ‘Bimscif*another-person. ‘You~see he has taken an English name, A few years ago, I suppose his greatest passion was | for strong drink. To obtain that, he would sell the blanket — -from his back. Since then, he has been subject to the strongest kind of temptation,;-but bas never. yielded, and declares that he has no taste at all for any such thing.” “A remarkable being. “Phen you ny admit, “Miss “Maggie, ‘that Iam not. entirely mistaken in my estimate of ‘Ladian character ?”’»said the artist, turning with a smile toward the girl beside him. “Tt is not the Indian thatis tins, but the Christian.” This pointed remark, “vas the.most complete ‘ refutation that Halleck had received, ‘end -he felt its force:meore than’ if it had: been’ expounded to him by the commandiag’ general of ‘this department. His admiration for the girl:kept him silent a antjesgee and then he:added : “And ‘yet you will not deny that there have’ ‘been savages, ‘who never embraced Christianity, that have been ag noble ‘and chivalrous as the one of whom we-are speaking.” “No doubt of it, but -many-as-I have’ seen, I-haye-never'as _ yet‘met such a ‘person —hieigho ! yonder comes “oe; this minute.” The’ gate at this point opened, ‘and the: artist saw 9 bare | feet, walle toward the ‘porch. A glance convinced him that : voice, “ Good eben heseaasni ‘Indian, while ‘his easy unhesitating..gaze showed gia lie stuod: upon the‘ familiar footing: of..9° trend. As he ‘cathe forward; hie'spoke in: a deep, gutteral; a. pa igsamstaa rvs to his-salutation, “and ‘svithout- darther Ecom S (e 0)(0 (0) i)