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16 Beadle’s Half-Dime Library. —— ——— 2 eee “No,” simply answered the girl. **Will you not regret the step?’ asked the lover, softly ; his tone could only reach the girl’s ear. ‘No; I love you better than I do any thing in all the world. I have loved you from the first moment that I saw you in the settlement at Port Benton. Do you not remember that I showed you my face there?’ * Yos,” replied Courtney, ‘‘I do; the most beautiful face that Lever saw.” ‘Ab! you think so now; but, will you always think so? ‘* Yes, while I live I shail love you. Have you not left home, friends and all for me?” cried Courtney. ‘*‘Have you not saved my life? But for you I should be even now a prisoner in the hands of the Blackfeet.” **T do not think you would deceive me, and if you do, the plied the gir “While I live my life is ledged to you!” cried Courtney. ‘‘ You have left home, friends, country, all for me, but you shall not regret them, for my love shall make amends for all.” And over the soul of the lovers crept the holy calm that pure love alone can bring. Young hearts were they that lived truly for each other, “Then you will undertake the expedition that I spoke of?’ Wright asked of the big trapper. ‘You jist bet { will!” emphatically returned old Sol. “I calculate I kin wallop the bull sadly. oor White Bird can but die,” re- | ' and settled down contentedly. _ defile in the rocks, conducted b | | | Blackfoot nation either with fist, legs or bead. | T ain’t much of a fightin’ man; but, when-you pen me into a corner, and say, ‘fight or die,’ * firht,’? “You shall lead the expedition to find the | heir, and if you are successful you shall have one-half of the fifty thousand dollars,” said Wright. ‘What on airth could I do with so much money? I ain’t. gob any use fur it,” returned the trapper. ‘Well, you shall fix your own terms,” said | Wright, ** Jos’ so; couldn’t be anything more squai’,” | replied the trapper; *‘ but, s’pose I just ask the , leetie gal over thar "bout the critter we're | ; arter.” es Do,” said Wright; ‘‘we may learn some- thing.’ ‘*Say, White Bird, I don’t know as you know it, but we’re arter somebody in your village.” ‘* Yes,” returned the Indian treasure in the village of the Blackfeet.” ‘*True as preachin’!” said the trapper, “‘ but as the Injuns somehow know of our plan, we’ve kinder mide a failure,” ‘*No,” returned the gir], quietly, “‘ you have succeeded.” The trapper stared at her with astonishment. Wright and Conrtney also were puzzled at her words. ‘| reckon you don’t exactly understand me, tectle gal,” said Sol. ‘ You see, the fact is, beauty, we seek a ‘treasure, as Misther Wright calls it, worth fifty thousand dollar.” ‘* Yes, I know you seek what you call a treas- irl; ‘*youseek a | ure, but, how it can be worth that sum, I can’t | imagine. The girl spoke with calm assurance. * k hyer,” said the oll guide, not able to make head or tail of her words; ‘‘ we’re arter a leetie gal—” ** Yes, Tam the girl !” said the White Bird. * Tiunder!” cried the trapper. Wright and Courtmey started in astonish- ment. “Yes; I heard the White Wolf say in the white settlement that you sought me, You see But, I again say, you will succeed.” | | 261 Ferevs FEARNAUGHT. Isave you the trouble by coming,” said the | L | at But the girl we seek is white,” said Wright. *SoamlI. Taken from my parents by the Indians when a child; on my arm, in little blue characters, is my name.” ‘** And that name is?’ questioned Wright, ea- gerly. a’ Delia Curtis,” replied the girl. *‘ Hooray!” cried the trapper, gleefully. And then the story of her 3 ons peer was told'to the White Bird, and her le history was hearl by the three men who risked their lives to rescue her from the savages. The White Bird bad not, until her return from Fort Benton, know» that she was not of the blood of the Indians Then one of the old aws had revealed to her ber history. nan hour from the time that the trapper had entered the cave, the moon came slowly ver the tree-tops, The time had come for flight; so, through the | 216 you kin pretty ginerally reckon that it'll be | the White bird—or, as we should call her, Delia Curtis— went the little party. At the little glade, on the Bitter Stream, where they had camped, they found—as the trapper had predicted—their horses, for the horses of Wright and Courtney had followed the example otf the clay-colored animal of the big trapper, in remaining close to the spot where they had been left by their masters. With the aid of the horses, the little party reaclied ort Benton in safety and without see- ing a single hostile savage. At Fort Benton, Wright, Courtney and Delia parted with their old guide and faithful friend, and took passage to St. Louis. In St. Louis Delia easily proved her identity, took posses- sion of her property, and then became the wife of Harry Courtney. Wright received his fifty thousand dollars As for our long-legged friend, the shrewd beaver-catcher, he stil/ traps in the North-west, and no man brings a larger or finer pack of pee into fort Benton than Ginger, familiar- y called SOL, THE GIANT TRAPPER. THE END. BEADLE’S HALF-DIME LIBRARY. 218. Frirz To THe Front. By EE. 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