Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 60: what you’re looking at

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~ | a x aaa arrowy. point of flame. quivered through the. | Shingles, near the chiziney, and, a moment after, another and _ another made its appearance in different parts.of. the -house,. showing unquestionably that the house was on fire, The. artist bad learned enough of conflagrations in the city ronition; the. glare of. this.one. would reveal his form as dis- movc, ond, as he did so, encountered a. huge painted Indian, | ace exclaimed :. “White. man’s: friend—-hoss. off yonder—wait. dere for ? you. And almost, instantly he. disappeared, despite the effort of - | the artist. to detain him. “That's. genuine Indian,’ said he, “just the kind I believe ‘in. Plague. on it, why didn’t he wait. till I could.take his likeness. He was a splendid: fellow. I. should. like to.ex- change cards. with him. flow did.he know. where Brainerd \had diik Lapnsel f 2” ! It never once, occurred to Halleck that this savage was. de ‘eeiving him. He placed implicit-confidence in his statement, and fullosved. ia, the direction. which had been pointed out to, thim.. As.he dil so, he caught the shaclowy. figures of several ~ 'gmounted Indians, who failed to observe him. The iliumina- tion: froma the burning building. by this time had become: so great, that: he. was» in. constant danger of being. detected. by , Some; prowling warrior, | Tt need scarcely: be said that the enthusiastic artist had. come ‘to the conclusion that it was hardly prudent to venture among: ‘those noble aborigines, who would haye scrambled for his pealp.as> greedily, as.a.lot of boys: would have clutched . at - Bome.covetcd prize thrown among them, As-a consequence, : his. actions. were more circumspect, and his ears and. eyes. more oa the alert: for any threatened danger, Still, had. | Adolphis- Halleck. been questioned fairly. and. pointedly, he. ‘would have given it as his belief that this was only.a tempe-. vary excitement of the-Sionx, and even white.men were, some am dangerous a such times. aera =f. New. York: to know that, if, he remained in his presens- tincily as if-at broad noonday. Accordingly, be turned. ta} standing. within six feet of. him. . Halleck, instinctively placed | his Land upon-his revolyer, but, ere he could draw it, the say- } Gomicbooks (EO)