Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 58: what you’re looking at

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te owe Ae - = as | “Yen gnall no} commit suicide in that manner, if I cas ___-prevers it.” _ | YJ don’t intend to do so,” replied Halleck; “you hop out and niake for the horses, and I will follow you as soon as if sf advisable.” 2 The window was raised, and the shutter thrown ouen. Not sign of a savage was visible, and Brainerd stepped softly out, “whil;: the artist turned to attend to the Indians, whose clamor ‘was almost deafening. a 4 © Who's there ?” - demanded, in a loud voice. . Se | “ Poor Injun—want to come in—tired ; want spree ae i €A }? >. “Do you want to stay all night ?” “No; go away soon—not stay long—tired; want to sit | own and rest.” | “Try the porch awhile, and see how that goes; and if you -__ t@on’t like it, you can then come inside.” f A Profound silence succeeded this-impudent reply, and then —— “there came a rush against the door that almost carried it from its hinges. Adolphus Halleck concluded the “ advisable -} moment” had come, and lost no time in folowing Brainerd = out of the window with no definite purpose in view. He -. Jowered the window behind him, and forced the shutter back ~~ to its place again. This act, trifling m itself, was the means Of saving his ufe; for he had scarce completed it, when the door was burst .yen, and the infuriated Sioux poured tumultu- ously in. Had the window becn left open, they would have _ Instantly understood the cause, and, in less than one minute, the artist would have been in their hands. Finding nething - gtories, and they immediately hurried up the stars. around him. hoping to catch a glimpse of his quondam com- _ panion; bnt secing nothing of him, he walked leisurely away of him, however, they supposed he had fled to the upper _ fs the artist came into the garden, he pawed and looked & arrying his rifle in one hand, his portfolio under his other * ; -. grm, and an unlit segar in his mouth. The only mishap with hich he met was in encountering a clothes line, which, as he _-—s expressed it, “ caught him beneath the chin, and almost sawed ee SS as head of.” ee spegona the ape pence the shelter ~ a large tree, he o: eee : cat = .GOmIcbooks.com