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But it has, also, three miles from Templeton, the village They did not catch Natty that night. had fled. a vast amount of action in it; and, as which Marmaduke had established in the Edwards had got him through the vil- Tenderly did In writing It. Cooper was dealing with valley. lage hidden In the straw of the cart, carry the body to the scenes with which lie had been familiar And there was a mystery about that and both of them were now In the cover it with a from boyhood, and with the traditions of young man and about the hut of Natty mountain wilderness. his family and his family estate of ~ Bumppo also. Early the next day Elizabeth went to The First Cooperstown. he made it, for many peo- As soon as Recently no one had been allowed the Frenchman's store and, when M. Le the ple, the most interesting of his famous left by the fire enter the hut, the door of* which had Quol was otherwise engaged with an- allowed “Beather-Stocking Tales"—as it was the guided Elizabeth heretofore, been hospitably open’t and i‘ other customer, she craftily bought the to first of them. forest and set her on her was rumored that Edwards was a half- can of powder from his you assistant. The character of Leather-Stocking was well-beaten path breed—for Indian John always spoke 01 Then, some time before noon, she , such a success that Cooper afterward had allowed of an him as Young Eagle and made allusions started for the hill across the lake exit took up his creation as a young man walked on when the fallen to his being of the race of the Dela- which her father had named Mt. Veni- and carried him through many adven- brushed away before wares. son. Louisa was with her, but as they tures, until finally he let him die in “The wards. came to the bridge which spanned the Prairie." On Road 'Elizabeth," said the Mountain stream which fed th^ lake Louisa said: Most of the characters in "The Pio- The took the injured Edwards to her, "I shall, probably, Judge "O, I can go no further. I am afraid. neers" are and fictitious, Natty Bumppo his manorial house—a square, stone again. But—I may call you large, The last time we went Into the woods— of a of was, course, only child the au- structure of which nom- may I not?" ugly proportions that fearful panther—I cannot go." thor’s brain. But some of the main pei- inated the settlement, hut did not get him "Yes," she said. "Then wait for me here," said Eliza- sonages In the have been traced to "I story there without another adventure. cannot explain now," beth and walked on. real and the character of popple, Judge For. going down the mountain road, th sometime you may know.” Temple is supposed to have been drawn a kisa sleigh of the judge met another sleigh— The Snub Direct upon her cheek—a kiss which from Cooper’s grandfather. horses—com- she returned—and was a large one drawn by four Just before she reached the verge of gone. When up the hill to meet him. Louisa, awaiting at the bridge, A Test of ing the forest she encountered Edwards. Marksmanship the cousin—an eccen- had seen the woods on fire she In it were judge’s "Miss said are had JLD UP, there, Aggl I" cried Temple,” he, “you go- ttLI Richard Jones, who rushed hysterically to the tric person named ing Into the forest. It Is not safe for settlement) Judge Marmaduke Temple to and announced J | was of an idea that he could that Elizabeth was on possessed you to go alone. Permit me to act as the hlack driver of the the sleigh do and do it well, and was the mountain. everything your escort. Your father would not in which the judge was seated with his factotum—and three other gen- Judge Temple, greatly alarmed, judge’s like that you should venture alone Into had, daughter, the blooming Elizabeth, Just with some tlemen. these mountains." volunteers, started out oii from New York fresh boarding School in One of the others was Mr. Grant, the* a rescue party but had been able to “Did my father commission Mr. Ed- —"hold up. And Bess, If you can stand who looked after the spir- get no trace of Elizabeth., The clergyman, wards to act as escort?” Judge fire my I will give you a saddle of ven- of settlement; one was returned, blackened and to the itual needs the but—” burned, sion for Christmas dinner." "No, manor your a French refugee, M Le Quoi, who had house and with tears of joy. "It Is Mr. Edwards. I need no The let first enough, Judge go one barrel and opened a shop in the village, and the found his daughter already there and escort. I thank you, but have no need then the other of his shotgun at a deer other Maj Hartman, a German, who uninjured. of or desire for your company.” which had sprung out into the open. had drifted to the new world dur- So on she went alone, leaving Ed- The deer did not seem to mind, hut ing the war, and stayed here. He was Leaf her-Stocking’s Secret wards standing there—snubbed. The next instantly there came the sound of a rifie on his annual Christmas visit to the day Judge Temple went with, If Edwards felt, for a moment, as If a of his and the deer fell dead as an aged hunter, judge. body neighbors to the point of would to he like take the capricious rocks in the burned forest clad in buckskins, stepped out from oe« These last two men are mere ad- where Eliza- t girl by the shoulders and shake her he beth had been hind a tree. juncts to the story, but Mr. Grant has taken as to a sanctuary soon subdued that feeling and, after a from the It was the celebrated trapper, hunter a deeper interest. For Mr. Grant had Are. while, followed her secretly at a dis- and guide, Natty Bumppo, otherwise one fair daughter and no other child. Leather-Stocking was an escaped crim- tance. inal—there was known as Leather-Stocking. Following no doubt about that—but At noon Elizabeth came to the top the him was a young man of 23 or 24 years A Hero judge would see that he was par- Richard, in to turn his of Mt. Venison. But there was no of age. dressed like the hunter, but of a trying horses, doned; would entreat him to corfie andv t them all mixed and frightened, there to manner and bearing which showed that got up Leather-Stocking meet her. live In peace In the settlement. On the so that his 4lnd all in it would She sat he had not, like his companion, been bred sleigh down and gazed out over the rocks they found Leather-Stocking and have been dashed over a precipice to to the woods, and a complexion whicn valley. ^ Edwards standing. death had not Edwards from showed that he had not been sprung "I will surrender,” said long ex- V jrnvx Bumppo when the judge’s sleight and, in spite of his Indian John’s Lament the cordon had posed to the rigors of an out-of-door life. PA*** JCAAZXT been drawn about tha the At length she heard a In the wounded shoulder, grasped leaders Pass AWAy pa?/* rustling cave and the rocks above It. by the bits, and brought them to order PA* PSA* -J3ADBA hushes and old Indian John stood be- By Whose Shot? "Wait a moment. Judge Marmaduko jgsxp as* &anr side “Ha, Natty,” cried the judge, “that was and the sleigh to safety. her, Aad at* karsts ■soA Temple—I will show you one who will It was a close call—almost half of “Daughter,” said the old man, “look a good shot of mine. I heard your dog, S confront you.” the over the brow of the out over this to where the old Hector, baying and knew be was-on sleigh hung valley wig- Edwards and Leather-Stocking disap. when Edwards seized the the wam of peared into the trail of a deer. Had I known you precipice slow-arriving; spring had come, f’.e “.Judge Temple!” exclaimed the young and the panther was a fierce one, but your father stands. John was the cave and then came out horses.
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