Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. The Little Red F oot BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS INSTALLMENT NO. 7. Who's Who in the Story— ’ he knife-h' LemeSOME Barr BARNEY GOOGLE--Welll W. PhGOSH «IM A FING CLUCK! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1922 By Billey De Beck Che Casper Daily Cribune ay HECES THIS ROOM OF CUNT AU D]EcoraTeED uP for The : Holpexs — AND POOR ’ SPAR ovr WA “ are: a ) ALL BY HIMSELF, JACK DROGUE, of discarded ttle, * eagegche tae + Ce. marching t Continenta! art he eet “stwen | Army as Neutenant under as aha 1 fushed COLONEL DAYTON, who has order-|%, : <aitaetonties { ed Jack to place under arrest nag? gH tn) en LADY JOHNSON, retiring in the| “My name ts a ee ed | hunting lodge at Gummer House|*™ ghrgeotg = ond e | ¥ “5 re : her rank Royalist bi Bush, | f nd broke parcle, enlisted Indians | : and escaped on the Sacandago| P®*™ | | Trail. | CLAUDIA SWIFT, accompanies Laay seg peal ada || Johnson and begs . pepent ing enti PENELOPE GRANT, yellow haired) !* now on the Iroquois trail, looking 1] Scotch girl to remain at the lodge.| for Sir John to guide th tugs | Penelope tells Jack Drogue of a vis-|Canadas!’ ies waeek of a white shape hovering ov Li logece, Ab ge ices moms = st war. Her Scottish second feo: aaah Rasa sight impresses Jack as he eeta a ae eo he “They have taken . ‘ PETEY DINK : ) ir rig tt fe war!” I ex WHE 2 ae ee “Aan hat p le Uy Be have takal Scaled Bibs | au you seem to B=») —Besives Dems out Tie Tie Be VR warriot is wi ° who have Thar HotDer- BS ‘Out ny adt AGG sha Oat Extovine THA \ Think THEY ARe Very SENSISir MABEL— 1 CoutoN'T ' N He \ GaveNov uncee Petey —_ (T Keres he Smoke ; t te “oy Do tik” OvT oF Nour ENtS AND IT's i my-| \T Dont You—? less HARMFUL : > se and zante ; 4 two good men on Maxon, the| j Syne French trapper, Johnny Silver and| ay T asked at) Renjamin De Luysn Nick and | ~~ , ee ounted two more. With four One! Two Oneida youths ant my afopt-| 114 perhaps Joe de Golyer and G.d-| Winene, vst palo sas Shew—we would be ten stout | Ly 2 acc amg to stop this Mohawk war-party | Aa dda ah the garriscos at Summer House “Let them show themselves,” said eould ‘rive the | | 1, instantly bitten by suspicion te Two young n and a girl came i calmly from the thicket and stoc | the bank. All carried RED FOOT. | rifle, At a sign from al dunk We were ten rifles; for an three laid their blankets at their fee aftor we left Fish House Johnny 2nd placed their rifles acroes them er and Luysnes joined us on the! One a stocky, powerful youth, spoke néaa trail; and, just as the su frat: pehind the Mayfield mounta: “Iam h, the Bereech-Owl mes rushing down stream a cand My clen is Oneida Tortoise.” Shews bow-paddle The other young fellow -said:| in the last rays and Joe “Brother, I am Hanatch, the Water er steering amid the rattling Snake nigh buried in a mountain of f the Onekia Tort: Then they them } selves. ver, we ate, but I rose from my cover, my rifle tr th it seemed safe the ho arm. Nick came fi juniper and} 2 hew and the Water- | stood 100! at the One.| snake far Iroquois trail to ides across the stream. | ve for the girl, a!) were naked ex. © breech-clout, sporran, and moccasi! l were oiled and others gathered ir circle to munch thelr corn and jerked meat, laughing amorous a and jesting and merry, eres . too, in tri at her ease and “Then why does be skn'k after ust’ The Oneidas, who had been seated, | witching; she ate with the healthy ap rose as I came up to them. gave! petite of an animal, yet wag polite to my n,|those who offered meat. And her And then I|sweet ‘“nash-wennah,” thank you, | never failed any courtesy offered by mmong ny | these rough Forest Runzers. Confederacy,} From Kwiyeh, the Screechow!l, I so costumed, | had an account of how they had eeen Sir John pass, floundering ‘madly madly northward and dragging three For never anywhere, nation of the Iroquois had I seen any woman patted, and accoutred. I said wondering: “Who is this girl} tn a young warrior's dress, who wears | brass cannon, a disk of blue war-paint on her fore-| For a week, it appeared, they had aees: {hung on Sir Jahn’s flanks. Then it But Nick erm and said ‘ . appeared, these four Oneldas gave up! im roy ear: Py the _ itt hence? the quest and struck out for the Iro- eerie dittie:.witchmaaid OF trail. And siiddenly came upon Askalege—their prophetess. I turned to the girl, who was stand- | nearly two score Mowhawks, silent! | passing southward, painted for war i =f eed = ad ouns rilver| otied, shaved and stripped, and rots Sir Jot (Who are you, my sister, who wears |C8MHY searching for Sir Jotn, to aid ana | #74 guide him in his flight to Canada. es.) Presently thetr young sorceress touk cent?” | up the tale in English and In Onedia, “Brother,” she sala i her soft| explaiing with lively gestures to both Oneida tongue, “I om an Athahescan| red men and white. of the Heron Clan, adopted into the| “Not one of the Mowhawks saw u: Oneida nation. My name is Thiohero,| she said scornfully the River-ree¢. Brother, I come as a| made a camp and hi ut- friend to lberty, and Oneida inter-/ers out to kill game, we came so near preter to your General Schuyler.|that we could see their warriors cur- My adoptei uncle ts the great war-|ing and hooping the scalps they had @ little blue moon on yor the drees and weapons of chief Skenandoa, also your ally. The| taken and painting on every scalp the Oneida ere my people. And are now) Little Red Foot, (to show that the late become your brothers this new he scalp had dled fighting b pale, but said nothing. sickness came to my stomach and I ith alfficulty e these scalps, little si w the Mohawks ous nd the Frenchmen’ these Mohawk dogs were forced toward | Foot i | ! | i y| my made a point above her forehead, she painted a little crescent moon in blue. And touched no more her face; but on her belly she made a were the glossy hai whe ¥ peculiarly graceful gesture: | “Be honored, O white brothers, that to | paint upon every scalp the Little Red | ON THE TRAIL. and drank at the » among We us row, ng in her beaded | bring forth blue! nt and a trader's mirror| wo inches in diameter. i the little maid of Askalego D cross-legged and began to} paint herself for battle. | At the reot of her hair, where it! e picture of a heron—her clan being the Heron, which 4s an ensign unknown amog Iroquois Now she took red paint, and upon chest she made a tiny human was surprised, for neither for war r fox mony I ever heard ad J sven that jdread symbol on & Indian | ne Oneidas, also, were looking a curiosity and astonishment, | susing in thelr own painting to dis cover What she was ebout. | len, it struck me, so, came to them at the ant what their sorceress meant,—| what pledge to friend and foe alike! this tiny red foot embodied, shining above her breast. And the two young} apparent-| same in- warriors who had painted the’ tortolse | blue upon thelr bellies, now made | each a little red foot upon their} chest “By gar!’ exclaimed Silver, ‘eos it onlee ze. gens-du-bois who shall made a boast to die fighting? Nom de dieu non!” And he unrolled his blanket | and pulled out a packet of red. cloth | | and thread and neodle—whleh 1s like | |= Frenchman, who lacks for nething, | j even in the wilderness. | He made a patter yery deftly out! of his cloth, using the keen point of | his bunting knife; and, as we ail, now, wished to sew a little red foot | upon the breasts of our buckskin | shirts, and as he had cloth enough | for all, and for Joe de Golyer, too, | when we should come up with him,)} | I and my men wore presently marked | with the dread device, which was our | pledge and our defiance. The sun had painted scarlet the olw- er Adirondacks peaks when we start- ed north on the Sacandaga tral). CAPTIVE... | The Water-snake caught an Ad-| jirendack just’ before ten o'clock, and | was holding him on the trail as I came | up, followed by. Luysnes and Thio-| hero. The Indian was 2. poor, starved-| looking creature in ragged buckskins and long hatr, from which a few wild. turkey quills fell to his ecrawny neck. “Let him loose,” sala I to the Water-snake: «hers is but a poor brother, who sees us armed and in our paint and {s afreid.” And I went to the man and offered hand. Which he touched as/| though I were a rattlesnake. “Brother,” said I, “we white men and Oneides have no quarrel with any| Saguenay that I know about. Our} quarrel is with the Cantenga, and that | is the reason we wear paint on this| trail. And we have sto our} Saguenay brother it the forest on his| lawful journey, to say to him, and to all Saguenays, that we mean them no herm.” The Saguenay’s’ ed from or ed at me. he look “how 1y Ma rf ee a = THE FORKS I THE ALLEY ane THE BEST OS ME MAS AND bean'T even suspect / NO + “EVER SEPFORE Saw THAT MANDWOITING 4 WOMOER (F {7 Froud BE FS0m SOME ONE WHO a <NOWS OPE ABOUT Mim | \ ear noes: NG_ MoTHEA THERE'S NO ONE Tl Can THINK OF WHO WOULD SEND Skee HUNDRED DOLL {VE CETEM WONDERED aQout SMEEZOS PARENTS PERHAPS THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT se ‘T must BE BOM SOMEONE \e + DOw'y See How ANY moO COULD xREP QUIET (© SHE KNEW. COULDN'T! HAROLD TEEN—AN YTHING ELSE BUT. { We. MusST Beam | Worn. Hi, THOMAS ~]] " HE HAS AIS HEART SET ON & WwSICAL ) HavENT Hap @ MuiuTeS PEACE. Since MA BouGHt Mim THAT BLAMBD “went ib sus 66 SOON Have HI Bacon A Hod caeeicr! 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ERWIN, "Then why does he skulk after us?” | tional homestead SW%SW i, E's | ‘yay Ben Sonalcate, | SWHSEN; SINE section 28,| Publish Dec. 18, Another fine installment tomorrow. | Soanani AT, ean Te a inn ane de 8 38, 1928. eae ae | principal meridian, has filed notice of intenticc #0 make final three- lyear proof, vo establish claim to the | nd | not an antmal to be mocked by the! | Maqua? | | And I stooped and picked up his He muttered. something in sBts Jar: | js rset and weapons,) and-gave:thain gon, Thiohero touched my arm: pari “Ho aye he saw painted Mohawits| “J 0 coo Sete es g Edd hers; fishing in the Big Eddy, and others) is 1 «the Yellow Leaf is free as in| watching the trail. He says the Mo-|°* hawks stoned him and mocked him.” | Dis clan enaign, the Hay. eae His low, thick voice answered in a “Nevertheless,” sald I, very quietly, dialect or language I did not compre-|«iny Saguenay brother is a nian, hend. i “Can you speak Iroquois?’ I de- manded. | (Copyright, 192: 25, 1922, and NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Depart:ient of the Iatertor, U. Ss. “What is my brother's name.” I Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming,|!and above described, before Marion asked. And I motioned people forward. | December 12, 1922. Wheeler, United States Commis- “Yellow Leaf,’ translated the girl After ten minu’ silent and ft} Notice is hereby given that W sioner, at Casper, Wyoming, on the “His clan H jam H. Cheney of Freeland, W 2nd day of January, 1923. ence, Thiohero came light’ “The Hawk,” 3 i her sboulders. Wes itiming, who, on, January 15, 191S,/ , for a January 20, 1920, made homestead Claimant names as witnesses: \ Charfes N. Richards, William 1.