Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 42: what you’re looking at

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~—— Shh Bg OS Sut be al ~~ “How came you to leave that place?” inquired the artist, with one of hig droil expression, “ when I distinctiy forbade you, until I came back ?” | =< “T did not leave—I was taken forcibly away. Those tw “honorable” Indians of yours came directly to the place, and . took me away.” “Why didn’t you scream, so that I could come and help “ Scream ! I thought I should wake the dead—” “Ah! here is my “pistol, that I flung in the face of one who ‘was chasing me.” ‘The artist stooped and picked it up, and then turned to tha eft, Jim having changed his course, so as to prevent Marian -geeing the savage which his rifle had slain. “Tam of the opinion—” | 7 The Indian suddenly halted, turned around, ‘aad retreated geveral steps, speaking in a ‘apid whisper: “Git down; de Sioux be coming !” Ail three instantly sunk to the ‘earth, and, for a moment, Femained as motioniess as death itseif. Not the slichtest sound xeached their ears, and then, as Jim cautiously lifted his head aT Or ee ‘was on the ulert for any new danger. Their course led them _ ‘within a few yards of where Marian had been concealed. - | and peered forward, the artist deemed that he might do the . same. And gazing thus stealthily forward, he caught a glimpse ef a body of Indian warriors, moving, not toward the wood, Put by it. They numbered perhaps a score, and the face of every man was the face of a demon. They stalked silently forward, like so many phantoms, upon their errand of death and destruction. The Minnesota Massacre had begun, an@ _ these were a portion of the piime movers in it. A half hour after they had disappeared, the Riendly Sioux came to an upright position, and the three again resumed their journey. A few moments, and they were clear of the wood, and making all naste toward home. Marian couid not free _ herself of a terrible misgiving, that all had not gone well during their absence, and she was feverishly impatient to catch g view of itz well-remembered surroundings. As they ascended - @slight swell in the prairie, and she discovered its farailla | ‘stlines, disturbed by no sign of ar enemy's presence or wort, (e@nnticelsxorol KS