THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 192t
ftnrtiKht. 1920 by Doubleday, Page; Published by Special Arrangement With
C9PJTb the Wheeler syndic ate, Inc.
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF.
looked like a good thing; but wait
11 t tell you. We were down South,
" Vinhama Bill Driscoll and myself
ttfls- as Bill afterward expressed it,
It . ' - mnrnont. of temoorarv men-
c ui1"' - -
A' i.narailns- idea -struck us.
hen t.nB "l1"""1.'. " " V
duriwt. " ... v ,V, riirln't find that
tal aPPai1111'" " c
out till a e . flown there, as
T"0 flonrd-rakp. and called Sum-
K of course. It contained inhabi
H111, ... nrlplpterious and self -sat-
fid a class of peasantry as ever clus-
!red around a Maypole.
tcreu . , mint eamtal nf
Ti 1 I 1 lllV .
, Mlnro
CIV nUIlUi CU o,
8 iut two thousand . dollars more
neeaeu j - fraudulent town-let
in Western Illinois with. We
id- -
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tO PUU
scheme
if t
Philoprogenitiveness says
strong in semi-rural communi-
.toa and tor omer reasons.
fan; incii'--"- -- -- . -
l'1"' : m.rvioft nnrht TCI (in VlPT.
kidnappiiiB ij- -- , -
there tnan m me muiuo ui uc wa
if' 1 .. . ,j ronnrtera nut in
the noici
wp. is
PaH tn stir im talk about such
tliinZS. e
plain
-.i-itVi onvttilnc strniKrer
ret alter u "e,
tC tnMiio onrl mavhe. some, laek-
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UllU . , i i -l u n 1 1 n rl cj Qiirl n rl in triVio nr
wo in UiC
. n it looked good.
We selected for our victim the only
oViild of a prominent citizen named
i,L,or Dorset. The father was r-
fnectable and tight, a mortgage fan
Her and a stern, upright collection
"nte passer and forecloser. The kid
S a boy of ten, with bas-relief
freckles, and hair the color of the cov
a of the magazine you buy at the
L,-ctnnri when you want to catch a
train Bill and me figured that Ebe
nezer would melt down for a ransom
If two thousand dollars to a cent. But
-,ft tin I tell you
About two miles from Summit was a
liitio mountain, covered with a dense
cedar brake. On the rear elevation or
this mountain was a cave. There we
stored provisions.
One evening after sundown, wo
drove in buggy past old "Dorset's
house. The kid was in the street,
throwing rocks at a kitten on the
opposite fence.
"Hey, little boy!" says Bill, "would
you like to have a bag. of. candy and a
trie? rule:
The boy catches Bill neatly in the
eye with a piece of brick.
"That will cost the old man an extra
five hundred dollars," says Bill, climb
ing over the wheel.
That boy puts up a fight like a wel
terweight cinnamon bear; but, at last,
wp got him down in the bottom of
the buggy and drove away. We took
him up to the cave, and I .hitched the
horse in the cedar brake. After dark
I drove the buggy to the little village,
three miles away, where we had hired
it. and walked back to the mountain.
Bill was ' pasting court-plaster over
the scratches and bruises on his fea
tures. There was a fire burning be
hind the big rock at the entrance of
the cave, and the boy was watchin?
a pot of boiling coffee, with two buz
zard tail-feathers stuck in his red hair.
He points a stick at me when I came,
up, and says:
"Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare Jto
enter the camp of Red Chief, the ter
ror of the plains?"
CALOMELr LQSING
OUT JN SOUTH
Mr. Dodson, the "Liver
Tone" Man, Responsible
for Change for the
Better.
Every druggist in town has noticed
a great falling off in the gale of calomel.
They all give the same reason. Dod
Bon's Liver Tone is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it." Dodson's Liver Ton is per
sonally guaranteed by every druggist
ft'io sells it. A large bottle doesn't
cost very much but .if it fails to Tgive
wsy relief in every case of liver slug
gishness and constipation, just ask for
jour money back. - ' , -
Dodson's Liver Tone is a- pleasant
taf ting, purely vegetable remedy, harm
less to both children and adults. Take
a spoonful at night and wake up feel
ing fine; no biliousness, sick headache,
acid stomach or constipated bowels. It
3ce?n't gripe or- cause inconvenience
Jjll the next day like violent calomel,
rake a dose of calomel today and to
morrow you will feel -weak,- sick-and
nauseated. Don:t lose a dav.
He's all right .now." savs Bill, roll
ing up his trousers and "examining
some Druises on his shins. "We're play
mg Indian. We're making Buffalo
Hill's show look like magic-lantern
views or Palestine -in the town hall
I'm Old Hank, the Trapper . Red
Chief's captive, and I'm to be scalped
at daybreak. : By Geronimo! that kid
can kick hard."
Yes, sir, that boy seemed to be hav
ing the time of his life. The fun of
camping out In a cave had made him
forget that he was a captive himself.
He immediately christened me Snake
eye, the Spy,- and announced that,
when his braves returned from the war
path, I was to be broiled at the stake
at the rising of the sun.
Then we had supper; and he filled, his
mouth full of bacon and - bread an J
gravy, and began to talk. He made a
during-dinner speech something like
this:
"I like this fine. I never campel
out before; but I had a pet 'possum
once, and I was nine last birthtay: I
hate to go to school. Rats-ate up-sixteen,
of Jimmy. Talbot's aunts' speckled-hen's
eggs. Are there any real
Indians in these woods? I want some
more gravy. Does the trees moving
make the wind blow? We had fly pup
pies. What makes your nose so red,
Hank? My father has lots of money.
Are the stars hot? I whipped Ed. Wal
ker twice, Saturday. I don't like
girls. You dassent . catch toads unless
with a string. Do oxen make any
noise? Why are oranges round? Have
you got beds to sleep on in this
cave? Amos Murray has got six toes.
A parrot can talk, but a monkey or
a fish can't. How many does it take
to make twelve?" t
Every few minutes ne would remem
ber that he was a pesky redskin,
and pickup his stick rifle and tiptoe to
the scouts of the hated paleface. Nowj
ana tnen ne wouia let out a war-wnonp
that made Old Hank ' the - Trapper
shiver. That boy had Bill terrorized
from the start.
"Red Chief," says I to the. kid,
"would you like to go home?"
"Aw, what for?" says he., "I don't
have any fun at home. I hate to "go
to school. I -like . to camp out. Sou
won't take rne back home again,
Snake-eye, 'will you?"
"Not right" away," says I. "We'll
stay -here -in 'the cave for a while." '
"All right!" says he. "That'll be fine.
I never had such fun-In all my life.'
We went to bed about eleven o'clock.
We .spread down some wide blankets
and quilts and put Red Chief between
us. We weren't afraid he'd run away..
He . kept up awake for three hour:,
jumping us and reaching for his rifle
and screeching: "Hist! pard," in mine
and Bill's ears, as the fancied crackle
of a twig or the rustle of a leaf re
vealed to his young imagination the
stealthy approach of the outlaw band.
At last, I fell into a troubled sleep,
and dreamed that I - had been kidnap
ped and chained to a tree by a fero
cious pirate with red hair. .
- Just at daybreak, I was awakened by
a series of awful screams from Bill.
They weren't yells, or .howls, or
shouts, . or whoops, or yawps, such' as
you'd expect from a manly set: of vo
cal organs they were simply inde
cent, . terrifying, humiliating- screams,
such as women emit when they see
ghosts or caterpillars. It's, an awful
thing to Ivear a-strong, desperate, fat
man scream incontinently in' -a cave
at daybreak. V V?
I -jumped tip to see what the matter
was. Red Chief was sitting" on Bill's
hair. - In the other he . had the sharp
case knife we used for slicing bacon;
and he was industriously and. realistic
ally trying to take Bill's 'sdalp, accord
ing to. the sentence that had been "pro
nounced upon him the everting . be
fore. ' "
I got the knife away from the kid
and made him lie down ? again. But,
from that moment, Bill's spirit was
broken.' He laid down on his side of
the bed, but he never closed an eye
again in sleep as long as that boy
was with us.; I dozed off .for. a wh51e,
but along "toward sun-up I remember
ed that P,3d Chief had said I was to
be burned at the stake at' the rising of
the. sun. I wasn't nervous-.or afraid;
but I sat upland lit my. pipe and lean
ed against a rock. : -. "
"What you getting up so soon for,
Sam?"- asked Bill. -
"Me?"- says I. "Oh', I got a kind of
a pain in my shoulder. I thought sit
ting up would rest it." '
"You're a liar!" says Bill. "You're
afraid to be burned at sunrise, and
you was arraia ne a ao it. Ana ne
would, ' too, if he " could find a 'matcn. j
Ain't it awful, Sam? Do you think i
anybody will pay out money : to geta
little imp that back home?"
"Sure," said I, ""A rowdy kid like
that is just the, kind that parents dot
on. Now, you and the Chief get up
and cook breakfast, while I go up on
the . top of tnis mountain and recon
noitre." I went up on the peak of the little
mountain and ran my eye over the con?
tiguous vicinity.' Over toward Summit
I expected to see. the sturdy yeomanry
of the Village armed "with scythes and
pitchforks beating 'the countrysiJe for
the dastardly kidnapper. But what I
saw was a peaceful landscape dottod
with one man ploughing with a Oun
mule. Nobody was dragging the
creek; no couriers , dashed hither and
yon, bringing tidings of no news to
i,ne aistractea parents. There was a
sylvan attitude of somnolent sleepi
ness pervading that section of the ex
ternal outward surface of Alabama
that lay exposed to my view. "Per
haps," says I to myself, "it has not
yet been discovered that the wolvrs
have borne away the tender , taaibkin
from the fold. Heaven help the
wolves!" says I, and I went down the
mountain to breakfast. .
When I got to the cave I found Pill
backed up against the side of it, breath
ing hard, and the boy threatening to
smash him with a rock half s big as
a cocoanut. ,
i, "He put a red-hot boiled potato down
my back," explained Bill, and. then
mashed it with his foot; and I boxed his
ears. . Have you got a gun about you,
Sam?" . - . ..
- I took the rock away from' the boy
ana Kina or patched up the argument.
"I'll fix you," says' vne Kid to Bill.
o man ever yet. struck th-3 Red
Chief but what he got paid for it. -You
Detter beware."
' After breakfast the kid takes a piece
of leather with strings wrapped ground
it out of his pocket and goes outside
tne cave unwinding it. -
. wnats he up to now?" saya Bill
anxiously. "You don't think he'll run
away, ao you, Sam?"
r "JNO rear of it." savs I: :'H ilon't
seem to be much of a home bodv. But
we ve got to fix up some plan :ibout
the ransom. There don't seem to be
much, excitement around Submit on
account- of his disannea ranee- Km- m
be they haven't realized Vet that he.'s
gone, wis roiks may think he's spend
ing the night with Aunt Jane' or ore
of the neighbors. Anyhow, he'ir be
missed today. Tonight we must get a
a message to , his father demanding
the two thousand dollars for his return."-
. ...
Just then we, heard a kind .of war
whoop, such as David might have emit
ted when he knocked out the champion
Goliath. . It was a sling that Red Chief
had pulled out of his pocket,' and he
was whirling it around his hed.
I dodged, and heard a heavy thud
and a kind of a sigh frpm Bill like a
horse' gives out when you take his sad
dle off. A niggerhead rock the size of
an egg had caught Bill just behind his
left ear. He loosened himself all over
and fell in the fire across the frying
pan of faot water ior washing the dish
es. I dragged him out and poured cold
water on his heaa tor half an hour.
- To Be Concluded.
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