. The death shot : a romance of forest and prairie. awkins, at length, put an end to the con-sultation, by saying, You, Cris Tucker^ if Mr. Dupre dont object,go back cross the river, and straight up totherside to the mission. Eide fast as your horse cantake you. Tell the colonel what we\e done, andwhat weve seen. Tell him about the trail o*shod horses, that appear to have gone up theriver this side. Say, weve taken after, and aregoing to follow them far as their trail only five of them, so we neednt beafeerd. Tell the colonel not to despair, but getall the boys ready, and keep by
. The death shot : a romance of forest and prairie. awkins, at length, put an end to the con-sultation, by saying, You, Cris Tucker^ if Mr. Dupre dont object,go back cross the river, and straight up totherside to the mission. Eide fast as your horse cantake you. Tell the colonel what we\e done, andwhat weve seen. Tell him about the trail o*shod horses, that appear to have gone up theriver this side. Say, weve taken after, and aregoing to follow them far as their trail only five of them, so we neednt beafeerd. Tell the colonel not to despair, but getall the boys ready, and keep by the building tillwe come. An, Cris, just to comfort the oldgentleman, tell him that maybe well bring backthe dear girls along wi us. ril do as ye say, was the simple response ofthe young hunter, seeing that Dupre signifiedassent. After which he galloped off, and soon after THE SCOUTING PARTY. 113 went plunging across tlie ford; wliile the partyof scouters, Hawkins again guiding it^ pro-ceeded on up stream, on the trail of the shodhorses. VOL. CHAPTER XII. AGAIN JOY. Though riding in all haste, it ^Yas near mid-claywhen Cris Tucker came in sicrht of the missionbuilding, bearing the report sent by the time consumed by them in scrutinising thecross trails had thus late delayed him. The colonists, who anxiously awaited theirreturn, descrvincr a sino-le horseman afar thrown into a fresh state of excitement andalarm. Tt did not tranquiJlise them to identify thehorseman as their hunter Tucker; which theydid, long before he had got within speakingdistance. For he was alone, and spurring hishorse as if pursued! Where were the others ? Had the scouting AGAIN JOY. ii5 party fallen into an ambush, and been cut off ?Were tbey all killed, except Tucker, who wasridinor as if the last left of them ? The colonists crowded around Colonel Arm-stronor, and watched the scout as he came —for no one ventured to offer an explan-ation of his being alone. They tr
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