Wetzel, the Scout; or, The Captives of the WildernessEllis, Edward Sylvester
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Wetzel, the Scout; or, The Captives of the Wilderness
Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Dime novels; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Ohio River Valley -- Fiction; Shawnee Indians -- Fiction
“All right; I will take the savage. Never fear for me.”
Simultaneously the rifles came to their shoulders, and pointed like the
finger of fate toward the doomed ones. Simultaneously their sharp crack
broke upon the stillness, and at the same instant the two victims fell
forward upon their faces, dead.
Irene Stuart was still gazing in wonder for the explanation of this,
when her lover came rushing toward her, and the next moment she was
enfolded in his arms.
Abe Moffat scratched his head until they were through, and then
suggested that they take the back trail. This they did until they were
far removed from the dead bodies, when, as all three were thoroughly
exhausted, they halted for the night.
Bright and early, after a refreshing breakfast, the homeward journey was
resumed, and just as night set in they came in sight of the settlement.
As they looked toward it Kingman said:
“As we are now safely back again, and our marriage has been postponed
several times, don’t you think it is about time it was consummated?”
“You need wait no longer, dearest,” said she, leaning on his arm; “you
have been very good to submit to my whims thus far.”
* * * * * * *
It was a genuine old-fashioned wedding, such as our grandmothers tell
about. Fiddling, and dancing, and mirth, and cider, and apples, and
jollification were the distinguishing features. All went as merry as a
goodly number of marriage bells, and it was not until the “wee small
hours ayant the twal” that the parties separated and went to their
homes.
The death of Johnson the renegade, was a relief to all the settlements.
His influence, beyond all question, had incited most of the massacres,
and now that he was gone, there was some hope felt that peace might be
reasonably looked for.
But peace did not come until 1794, about a dozen years later, when the
incomparable Anthony Wayne—“Mad Anthony”—gathered his invincibles
together, and scattered the combined forces of the aggressive tribes as
the autumn leaves are scattered before the tornado. A long, lasting
peace then came, unbroken until the mighty Tecumseh arose, and led his
warriors to battle. But his history belongs not to us. Our work is done,
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