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Long Beard, the Giant Spy. Harry eased him carefully down to a seat upon the ground, with his back against the trunk of a fallen tree. ‘* There, there, that is better, Harry,” he said, resting his head back upon the log. ‘*Then, let me dress your wounded arm, Davy. LIhavea silken flag, here, that I cap- tured from the English, and it will be the very thing to bind up your wounds with.” ‘* Better save the flag, Harry,” replied old Davy; “‘it?ll be a big thing for you. To cap- ture an enemy’s colors is a great thing, lad. Tney speak about such things in history, so don’t throw it away on me.” **T care nothing for the honor of kapterin’ the flag, compared with my desire for your com- fort, Davy.” ‘You can do me but little good, lad, but, that you may feel that you done all you could for me, you may bind up my arm.” ‘Davy, you don’t really believe you’re goin’ to die, do you?” ‘‘Pll never see the sun rise again, lad—no, never!” “You are disheartened and feeling bad, Davy. You must not die—you have been my best friend these many years, and I cannot give you ape) ‘*T know I have been your friend, Harry, and I never told you why I liked you so well, but now I might as well tell you. I used to love your mother, lad. WhenI was a young man of twenty, 1 had a smatterin’ of education. I could read and write, and went in the best society. Then I loved Mary Grayson, a pretty, modest girl of eighteen, and I guess she liked me. But the fates war against us, A villain came in between us, and made me what I am. He was your father, was Ishmael Wilde. He won me away from me and married her, and I bundled up and i off to the woods and be- came a hunter. Then, a year or two after they were wed, you War born. ‘Your father treated Mary very unkind, and one day she died when you war four years old. You war then left with the family of an old hunter, of whom you received many valuable lessons in woodcraft and Ingin-fighting. ‘Your father was killed by the Ingins, and the old hunter's wife dyin’ and his gal marryin’, left PC alone in the world again. But all this time I'd been keepin’ a watch on you, and when I see’d you war with- out a home again, I induced you to take u your abode with me, where you've staid a good “amg bcachs offand on. You have been a — boy, Harry, with all the virtues of your dead mother; and this is why I loved you as though you were my own boy.” Harry burst into tears as he listened to this story of his parentage. It was the first time he remembered of ever having heard of his early life. He knew that the family in which he had been raised was not his own; nevertheless he loved its members as dearly as though they had been near kindred. Carefully be could, under the circumstan- ces, the lad the wounded arm of the old borderman, when completed he said: ‘“* Now, Davy, let me take your coon-skin cap and I will ran down to the creek and brin you up a sup of water in it. You must be fever- BC ” ‘No, no, don’t move my cap, H , till after ’'m gone. My head will burst, it aches so, if you remove the cap, It serves as a bandage, and oh, if if was an iron hoop it would feel much better! Just sit down, Har- ry; it won’t last long. The clouds are break- in’ away now, and out of them I see a snow- white throne appear—ah! me; ah! me; lean my head back against the log, lad—don’t move the cap—there! there! I feel easier—much easier! Oh, that radiant light! Who says there’s not hope for all beyond this life? He who d maligns God’s mercy, for God is kind and just. He makes the good and makes the wicked. He has an object in it, for His ways are inscrutable. He will be unmerciful to none—we are the offsprings of His will, and He doeth all things well—Harry, Harry / where are ob sl ‘‘Here, Davy, here, by fe said the lad, kneeling by the old man’s side. ** Ah, there’s a mist gatherin’ over my eyes— I can’t see you, and my ag never failed be- fore. But, Harry, don’t take off my cap till I'm pig me here—right here in this glade, Harry. The rush of the creek and the moan of the woods won’t disturb my slumber— I'll sleep here sweetly—Harry, here—your hand —fare—well, lad, fare—” He rattled in the throat; his head fell for- ward upon his breast, and all that was mortal of Davy Darrett had returned to its Maker, Happy sat down upon the log by Davy’s side-and burst into tears. He sobbed as though his heart was broken. He had lost a friend—a dear friend. The scene was sad and solemn. The deep, dark wood, the little moonlit glade, the weeping boy, the couchant dog, the deep and awful silence of night—all, in the presence of death—conspired to make the occasion one of the deepest solemnity. It was some time before the lad could ‘shake off the dread and sorrow that had settled over his young spirit. When he did, he removed ——— Davy’s cap and beheld a spectacle that sent a shudder to his heart. Davy had been scalped! The Indians had found him, true enough, which accounted for his refusal to have his cap re- moved. ‘Poor Davy! how he must have suffered!” the lad murmured; “‘ but he is out of this mis- ery, and I can do nothin’ but—” de burst into tears again, but after awhile he rallied, and taking Davy’s knife, began the laborious task of cutting outa grave. He cut and sliced away the sod, then put Belshazzar to digging. Thus the two together finally ac- complished the work, and just as the sun looked over the eastern forest-tops, Harry, with sorrowful heart and tearful eyes, turned away from the lonely grave of his beloved friend, Davy Darrett. CHAPTER XXXIIL AS IT SHOULD BE. As he turned away from the grave of Dav Darrett, Happy Harry broke into a run as if to keep down the terrible emotions of sorrow struggling in his breast for expression. When a mile or two away he stopped to think whither he was going. He knew by the course of the Brownstown creek and the position of the sun, where the points of the compass were. But he wished to reach some ¥ sss of safety. Le remembered where Van Horne had told him that Colonel Miller was encamped with a large party of. troops, and so at once set out toward that point. . , He reached the camp during the day in an almost exhausted condition. But, when it be- came known in the camp who he was, every kindness in the power of the soldiers was shown him, and by the following day he was himself again. ‘ "The news of Van Horne’s defeat preceded Harry to Miller’s command, and the colonel at once made re to move against the enemy. On the following day he took up his line of march, and the same day engaged the British and in a tea bog 8 e, _ ting a decisive victory over them, as already rela Harry accompanied the little army and passed Sheeag the hottest of the battle without a Hgty tch, fighting side by side with veterans of e army. On the day following this second battle, the outh took his departure for Laketown, where e had left Long Beard and his daughters. And it was the happiest moment of his life when he broke to the giant the news of Kirby Kale’s death in battle, and received the bless- ings of the father and daughters for the ser- vices he had rendered them in the hours of trial and trouble. From this time on dated a new era in the life of the persecuted Long Beard and his fair daughters. With the chief instigator of all his troubles forever silent he had nothing fur- ther to fear. He never returned to England but made America his adopted home, and all through the war of 1812 he served the Ameri- can cause in the capacity of a scout, along with Happy Harry. . appy Harry never met with the Princess Eeleelah again. He even never heard of her, and always believed, from certain evidences, that she had been murdered at the Pleiades Islands after her return from the brig-of-war the day she took aenpr her friends aboard the vessel. If she h n killed, Bill Muckle- wee had done the deed in retaliation for her hectiams g upon him that day with his own pis- tol and driving him out of the canoe into the And now comes the denouement of our story, which will no doubt be a surprise to the reader. Captain Robert Rankin took command of his company as soon as he had recovered from his injuries received that memorable night, and during the time that he was absent from Tempy, the infatuation that had sprung up between them at the Pleiades died ually out. After each one had been pla amid different sur- roundings, the romance of his and her first meeting lost its charms. Tempy’s was but a childish attachment, and the captain’s that of a gallant man for a gal- lant child. Had they been permitted a more intimate acquaintance and years of courtsbi this attachment would no doubt have ripene into pure love. But, the hand of fate willed it otherwise, since they were no more than com- mon mortals, pg a of all the changes that young lives are heir to. They had never been betrothed, so there was no violation of either’s words or honor, in their disseverance and forgetfulness of their first admiration. 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