Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 43: what you’re looking at

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THE SAVAGES AT WORK, | = per heart gave a great bound of jor. and she felt a PY. if a load had been lifted from her heart. “Tt must be that my nerves are all unstrung,” said ‘she a her cousin,” for I was almost certain that something had hap- © pencd 10 Uncle John, or some of the family, during our ab- sence.” ‘| “Do you suppose every one is as attractive to the pallént | Sioux as yourself?” “Fudge! Any person, if he only be white, is attractive to their tomahawks. Suppose that was poor Maggie, instead of myself, and the Indians had succeeded in carrying her away.” Adolphus Halleck appeared to be gazing directly forward, but in reality he was looking sideways, at his nervous, excited and deeply earnest companion. The same dull, mysterious smile was on his countenance, and, in spite of the terrible scenes through which he had recently passed, it was evident = that be was vastly amused at something. Several minutes elapsed before he spoke, and then it was upon an entirely dif = ferent matter, ‘“ Marian, it may be that the brightness of the sun deceives me, but Jook off yonder to the north-east, and tell me whether that is not genuine smoke making its way up into the sky 9 “I noticed it several minutes ago. Say, Jim,.what is that?” The Sioux partly turned his head, and replied : “ Settler’s house burnin’—lInjuns set it on fire.” “ How far away is it?” - = “Six, eight, ten mile.” ae “T tell you, ” said Marian, in the whisper of fear, while her ee face was blanched by her mortal terror, “ those Indians wil goon be here.” : In spite of his indifferent manner, young Halleck did not — appear fully at ease. The palpable approach of this dreadful — danger could not be denied, and the words of the affrighted _ ‘Marian were, in reality, those of sense ana truth. | 7, i bh AOS FA PS 2 Ax, a hist ; 4,190 AY ™ pays’ rhe ry tir sit ates q : ee SS. Cee -“onfuund them,” he finally exclaimed. “ What has got- = ten ixto them? The devil himself, I suppose. But what ‘= oe sei tiem in motion?” = + \ 1 ON | Ss bd > : : $ : o¢" aie } ty Sth a Sew 7 "" - at yh 4A) A i €omicbooks.con