. With Sully into the Sioux land . m pausing to fire at their pursuers. Al, being strong and quick, was soon abreast ofthe Captain. He was just pulling himself up onhands and knees over a ledge when he saw a tall,broad-shouldered Indian step into view from behinda rock not thirty feet ahead and raise his rifle tofire. As he stood, his left side was turned slightlytoward Al, and what the latter saw as he lookedmade him gasp as though he had been struck inthe face. A long, livid scar ran down the cheekand neck of the savage and out upon his shoulder. For an instant Als head swam, as he realized
. With Sully into the Sioux land . m pausing to fire at their pursuers. Al, being strong and quick, was soon abreast ofthe Captain. He was just pulling himself up onhands and knees over a ledge when he saw a tall,broad-shouldered Indian step into view from behinda rock not thirty feet ahead and raise his rifle tofire. As he stood, his left side was turned slightlytoward Al, and what the latter saw as he lookedmade him gasp as though he had been struck inthe face. A long, livid scar ran down the cheekand neck of the savage and out upon his shoulder. For an instant Als head swam, as he realized thatbefore him stood Te-o-kun-ko, the captor of hisbrother Tommy. Then, with no thought in his mindother than that he must catch up with the Yank-tonais and demand his brother, he began runningand climbing ahead again with frantic energy. TheIndian had fired and disappeared; but to Als ex-cited imagination it seemed almost as if in over-taking him he would overtake Tommy himself. Hepaid no heed to Captain Miner and his men nor 246. I If \\ as pi-.) ] ni II i ii- lii nisei f 111. THE BATTLE OF TAHKAHOKUTY to Wallace Smith, who had joined them, all of whomwere shouting to him to come back. He leapedover the rock where Te-o-kun-ko had stood but thewarrior was not in sight. He ran up a little, steepdepression beyond and swung around a tree-trunkat its head. An Indian behind a stone a few feetto one side, who had not noticed him so far in frontof the line, gave him a terrified glance and fled likea rabbit. Al did not pause to fire at him; but an-other warrior on his opposite side sent a bullet soclose that the wind of it brushed his face sharply,and he stopped long enough to reply with his re-volver; whereupon the savage dived between twoboulders and vanished. Al rushed on, totally obliv-ious of the fact that he was getting far within theretreating Indian lines. Just then, in climbing over a boulder, his footslipped and he pitched forward and rolled into thenarrow crevice between tw
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