Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 45: what you’re looking at

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: .. Haiieck were to remain behind, and watch the estate, being | -. (whose purpose was plunder only. Each was given a trusty — Lge She « - flight was resolved upon, as.the only means that. offered the -. ¥pon outrage and massacre, swooping down upon the house, = . altogether... This remote probability —almost impossibility— eS -and Jim, should take their departure at once in the team that »»' savages, for such were always cowardly and fearful of encoun | = ae ines _—— any opposition. , 2 an | if ’was not absolutely certain would be successful, for, in spite of 4 | those Minnesota savages, when their blood ‘was up, were o> re d ty at v Lele * My. 1 Ba eT RL a hs. were an of te Oia - , ‘ ~~ <t.9 4 . > a = ° : > i 4 a ee te ee Mi; Sry “3 a4] mee . = 5 re oe _ h _ PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURB, o : q ee ; » ae Loa oi Ae _ ~~, papain delay.” | = ~ “Oatch me,” laughed the artist. “That reminds, meé thas you have not seen a sketch I have made of— | “T have no time to look at sketches, when the lives of rr ‘gil are in danger,” said Marian, impatiently. = << —~ St 2, = In a few moments, all were gathered together within the —_ house. Will Brainerd, just descending from his lookout, re- ‘ported the horizon clear of enemies, although the evidences tS their work were constantly multiplying, and it seemed 4 won- ‘der that.this house, up to the present, had escaped visitation — = eS =i at their hands. ee The “ Council of war” was short and conclusive. Instant figitest chance of safety. Still, while there were nuiety- nine: 3 = £3 chances in a hundred, of a band of fiendish Indians, bent there was the hundredth chance that it would escape visitation was the cause of a slight deviation in the programme: at first — = = laid out by apprehensive imaginations. It was decided that Uncle John, his wife, Maggie, Marian — was waiting at the door, going due east: toward St. ‘Paul, tray- | . €lir-g rapidly, in the hope of gétting out of Minnesota before — the infuriated hordes had reached this section. “Brainerd and. — pees | jprepared to flee at an instant’s warning. Their object in de- — © laying was to protect the building against vagabond Indians, Tifle, in addition to the pistol owned by the artist. - “These Sa ae ‘would be amply sufficient to drive away any thieving body of — a. -Unele. John. adjured them to offer np resistance which } 2S } 3S Halleck’s protestations to the contrary, he assured~ them thas Bee Ss . i. _~ ~ a oN i Eom ebook s.com . ise oe