Outing . it best to draw off,whooping and shooting the cattle as theyrode past the haystacks. Pioneer Women of the West 689 There was no mistaking signs now; andthe other settlers must be put on son-in-law, Luce and one Clarkset out to warn the people. North, south,east and west, all day came gun reports tothe ears of the agonized household awaitingthe son-in-laws return. Nine oclockpassed, mid-day, afternoon! Still theshooting could be heard. As the sunsetwaned through the leafless oaks, Gardnercould restrain himself no longer, and ven- gentle and flaccid East, where one mayhol
Outing . it best to draw off,whooping and shooting the cattle as theyrode past the haystacks. Pioneer Women of the West 689 There was no mistaking signs now; andthe other settlers must be put on son-in-law, Luce and one Clarkset out to warn the people. North, south,east and west, all day came gun reports tothe ears of the agonized household awaitingthe son-in-laws return. Nine oclockpassed, mid-day, afternoon! Still theshooting could be heard. As the sunsetwaned through the leafless oaks, Gardnercould restrain himself no longer, and ven- gentle and flaccid East, where one mayhold any soft creed one likes without prov-ing it or losing ones life over it—cameuppermost. She besought her husband totry the effect of kindness. Now kindnessis about as effective jn brute conflict as thesame creed applied to raging fire. Theman stood stalwart in the door, his feet onearth and on primal facts. In the faces ofScarlet Points approaching band, read the doom of her own doctrine,. , Copyright photograph by Christensea. In the bad lands of South Dakota where the outlaws retreated beyond reach of the pursuing troops. tured out. fhe was back in a momentbreathless and; white. We are doomed! They are coming—the Sioux! barricade the door—quick—we can kill a/ few before we are killed. In the houfse were Gardner, his wife, themarried daughter and her child, twoyounger children and a half-grown daugh-ter—Abbie—in her early teens. To , the conflict of three grown peopleagainst a (band of desperadoes seemedhopeless. The training of a lifetime, of the and after the fashion of the flaccid East,she promptly took refuge in another. Ifwe must die, let us die innocent of blood,were her last words. An Indian had shouted out insolentdemand for food and Gardner had butturned his head when the assassin shot wasaimed straight for his heart. Then, withthe courage that was too late, with a sud-den discarding of soft theories to face brutefacts—both women
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