The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky

CHAPTER XXII

THE LAST STAND

Hen­ry Ware and the oth­ers, lis­ten­ing at the cir­cle of the wag­ons, heard the flare of shots, and then, a lit­tle lat­er, a lone but long and de­fi­ant cry, that seemed to be an an­swer to the oth­ers.

“That's Jim Hart, and he's through!” ex­claimed Hen­ry ex­ul­tant­ly. “Now he'll fair­ly eat up the ground be­tween here and Ware­ville.”

That night an­oth­er at­tack, or rather feint, was made up­on the train; but it was eas­ily beat­en off, and then morn­ing came, raw and wet. The woods and grass were drip­ping with the show­ers, and a sod­den, gray sky chilled and dis­cour­aged. The fires were light­ed with dif­fi­cul­ty and burned weak­ly. The wom­en and chil­dren ate but lit­tle, cast­ing fear­ful glances at the rain-​soaked for­est that cir­cled about them. But Paul, as usu­al, with his bright face and brighter words, walked among them, and he told them a good tale. Long Jim Hart, with mus­cles and a soul of steel, had gone forth that night, and he would bring help. They were to march to a place called the Ta­ble Rock, where they would stay un­til the re­lief came. Grad­ual­ly down­cast heads were lift­ed and sunken spir­its rose.

The gant­let be­gan in the usu­al fash­ion an hour lat­er, and through­out all that long, dis­mal morn­ing it was a con­tin­ual skir­mish. The sav­ages pressed clos­er than ev­er, and all the vig­ilance and ac­cu­ra­cy of the ri­fle­men were need­ed to drive them off. One man was killed and sev­er­al were wound­ed, but the bor­der­ers mere­ly shut their teeth down the hard­er and marched on.

To­ward noon they saw a flat-​topped hill, with a stony sur­face, a lit­tle stream run­ning down its side, and Hen­ry ut­tered a cheer­ful shout.

“The Ta­ble Rock!” he said. “Here we can hold off all the sav­ages in the West!”

The train in­creased its slow gait, and all hearts grew lighter. The sav­ages, as if de­ter­mined that the wag­ons should not gain the shel­ter, pressed for­ward, but af­ter a short but fierce com­bat were driv­en off, and the train cir­cled tri­umphant­ly up the slope.

It was in­deed all that Hen­ry had claimed for it--an ide­al place for a pro­tect­ed camp, easy to de­fend, dif­fi­cult to take. Not all the sur­face was stone, and there was abun­dant graz­ing ground for the hors­es. The spring that gushed from the side of the hill was in­side the lines, and nei­ther horse nor man lacked for pure wa­ter.

Now they for­ti­fied more strong­ly than ev­er, throw­ing up earth­works high­er than be­fore and dou­bling the sen­tinels. Fall­en wood was plen­ti­ful, and at Hen­ry's di­rec­tion the fires were built high and large in or­der that they might drive away dis­cour­age­ment. Then a sem­blance of cheer­ful­ness made its ap­pear­ance, and the wom­en and chil­dren be­gan to talk once more.

“Long Jim will go through if any mor­tal man can,” said Hen­ry Ware to Daniel Poe.

“Pray God that he suc­ceeds,” said Daniel Poe. “Sure­ly, no wag­on train ev­er be­fore ran the dead­ly gant­let that ours has run.”

Shif'less Sol strolled in­to the cir­cle of fires, and sat down with Paul.

“Now, this is what I call true com­fort fur a tired man,” he said. “Here we are with nuthin' to do but set here an' rest, un­til some­body comes an' takes us to Ware­ville. Them sav­ages out thar might save their­selves a heap o' trou­ble by goin' peace­ful­ly away. Makes me think o' that siege o' Troy you wuz talkin' about, Paul, on­ly we won't let any wood­en horse in.”

“Maybe there is some like­ness,” said Paul.

“Maybe thar is,” con­tin­ued Shif'less Sol, in his cheer­ful tones; “but Tom Ross wuz right when he said the way them Greeks an' Tro­jans fought was plumb fool­ish. Do you think that me, Sol Hyde, is goin' to take a tin pan an' go beat­in' on it down thar among the bush­es, an' call­in' on the biggest boast­er o' all the sav­ages to come out an' fight me? No, sir; I wouldn't go fifty yards be­fore I'd tum­ble over, with a bul­let through me.”

Most of the peo­ple laughed, and the shift­less one con­tin­ued with ran­dom, cheery talk, help­ing Paul to heart­en them. The two suc­ceed­ed to a great de­gree. There was mourn­ing for the dead, but it was usu­al­ly silent. The bor­der­ers were too much ac­cus­tomed to hard­ship and death to grieve long over the past. They turned them­selves to present needs.

The night was rainy, and un­usu­al­ly cold for that time of the year, and Hen­ry Ware re­joiced be­cause of it. The sav­ages in the thick­ets, de­spite their har­di­ness, would suf­fer more than the em­igrants in the shel­ter of the wag­ons. Hen­ry him­self, al­though he caught lit­tle naps here and there, seemed to the oth­ers able to do with­out sleep. He kept up an in­ces­sant watch, and his vig­ilance de­feat­ed two at­tempts of the war­riors to creep up in the dark­ness and pour a fire in­to the train.

A sec­ond day came, and then a third, and the sav­ages re­sumed their con­tin­uous skir­mish­ing. A sin­gle war­rior would creep up, fire a shot, and then spring away. They did lit­tle dam­age, but they showed that no one was safe for a mo­ment out­side the cir­cle of wag­ons. If help did not come, they would nev­er leave their rock.

Time wore on, and the be­lea­guered camp be­came again a prey to gloom. Wom­en and chil­dren fell sick, and the hearts of the men were heavy. The ring of sav­ages drew clos­er, and more than once bul­lets fell in­side the cir­cle of the wag­ons. It was hard work now for Paul and Shif'less Sol to keep up the spir­its of the wom­en and chil­dren, and once, at a coun­cil, some one talked of sur­ren­der. They might at least get good treat­ment.

“Nev­er think of such a thing!” said Hen­ry Ware. “All the men would be killed, tor­tured to death, and all the wom­en and chil­dren would be tak­en away in­to slav­ery. Hold on! Jim Hart will sure­ly get through.”

But the war­riors steadi­ly grew bold­er. They seemed to be an­imat­ed by the cer­tain­ty of tri­umph. Of­ten through the day and night they ut­tered taunt­ing shouts, and now and then, in the day time, they would ap­pear at the edge of the woods and make de­ri­sive ges­tures. Daniel Poe grew gloomy, and sad­ly shook his head.

“Help must come soon,” he said, “or our peo­ple will not have spir­it to beat back the sav­ages the next time they try to rush the camp.”

“It will come, it will sure­ly come!” said Hen­ry con­fi­dent­ly.

The worst night of all ar­rived. More of the wom­en and chil­dren fell sick, and they did not have the en­er­gy to build up bright fires. It was to Ross and Shif'less Sol that this task fell; but, though they kept the fires high, they ac­com­plished lit­tle else. Paul lay down about mid­night and slept sev­er­al hours, but it was a trou­bled night. The sav­ages did not rest. They were con­tin­ual­ly flit­ting about among the trees at the foot of the hill, and fir­ing at the sen­tinels. Lit­tle flash­es of flame burst out here and there in the un­der­growth, and the crack­le of the In­di­an ri­fles vexed con­tin­ual­ly.

Paul rose at the first com­ing of the dawn, pale, un­rest­ed, and anx­ious. He walked to the earth­work, and saw Hen­ry there, watch­ing as al­ways, seem­ing­ly tire­less. The sun was just shoot­ing above the hills, and Paul knew that a bril­liant day was at hand.

“At any rate, Hen­ry,” Paul said, “I pre­fer the day to the night while we are here.”

Hen­ry did not re­ply. A sud­den light had leaped in­to his eye, and he was bent slight­ly for­ward, in the at­ti­tude of one who lis­tens in­tent­ly.

“What is it, Hen­ry?” asked Paul.

Hen­ry lift­ed his hand for si­lence. His at­ti­tude did not change. Ev­ery nerve was strained, but the light re­mained in his eye.

“Paul,” he cried, “don't you hear them? Ri­fle shots, far away and very faint, but they are com­ing to­ward us! Long Jim is here, and Ware­ville with him!”

Then Paul heard it--the faint, dis­tant pat­ter, as wel­come sounds as ev­er reached hu­man ears. He could not mis­take it now, as he was too much used to the crack­le of ri­fle shots to take it for any­thing else. His face was trans­fig­ured, his eyes shone with vivid light. He sprang up­on the earth­work, and cried in tones that rang through all the camp:

“Up, up, men! Long Jim and the Ware­ville ri­fle­men are com­ing!”

The train blazed in­to ac­tion. Forth poured the hardy bor­der­ers in scores, sur­charged now with courage and en­er­gy. The fir­ing in front of them had risen in­to a fu­ri­ous bat­tle, and above the roar and the tu­mult rose the cheer­ing of white men.

“Long Jim has sur­prised them, and he is half way through al­ready!” cried Hen­ry ex­ul­tant­ly. “Now, men, we'll smite 'em on the flank!”

In a mo­ment the whole force of the train, the Ama­zons in­clud­ed, were in­to the very thick of it, while Long Jim and two hun­dred ri­fle­men, deal­ing out death on ev­ery side, were com­ing to meet them. The bat­tle was short. Sur­prised, caught on both flanks, the sav­ages gave way. There was a tremen­dous fir­ing, a med­ley of shouts and cries for a few min­utes, and then the war­riors of the al­lied tribes fled deep in­to the woods, not to stop this time un­til they were on the oth­er side of the Ohio Riv­er.

Forth from the smoke and flame burst a tall, gaunt frame.

“Long Jim!” cried Hen­ry, seiz­ing his hand. “It's you that's saved us, Jim!”

Af­ter him came a fine, as­cetic face--the Rev­erend Silas Pen­ny­pack­er--and he fair­ly threw him­self up­on his beloved pupil, Paul. And then the brave men from Ware­ville pressed for­ward, and some from Mar­lowe, too, wel­com­ing these new peo­ple, whom they need­ed so bad­ly, and who had need­ed them. But Daniel Poe said solemn­ly, in the pres­ence of all:

“It is these who saved us in the first in­stance!”

He in­di­cat­ed the valiant five--Hen­ry Ware, Paul Cot­ter, Tom Ross, Shif'less Sol Hyde, and Long Jim Hart. And the whole camp, see­ing and hear­ing him, burst in­to a roar of ap­plause.

The next morn­ing the train re­sumed its march in peace and safe­ty.

* * * * *

It was a month lat­er, and spring had ful­ly come. Once more the vast wilder­ness was in deep green, and lit­tle wild flow­ers sprang up here and there where the sun could reach them. Two youths, un­usu­al­ly alert in face and fig­ure, were load­ing pack hors­es with heavy brown sacks filled to burst­ing.

“This pow­der has kept dry and good all through the win­ter,” said the larg­er of the youths.

“Yes, Hen­ry,” replied the oth­er, “and we are lucky to come back here and be able to take it in­to Mar­lowe, af­ter all.”

Hen­ry Ware laughed. It was a low, sat­is­fied laugh.

“We have cer­tain­ly been through many tri­als, Paul,” he said; “but, with Tom, Sol, and Jim, we bore our part in turn­ing the al­lied tribes back from the great war trail.”

Paul Cot­ter's face was il­lu­mined.

“Ken­tucky is saved,” he said, “and I shall be hap­py all my life be­cause of the knowl­edge that we helped.”

“It is sure­ly a pleas­ant thought,” said Hen­ry.

Then they whis­tled to their load­ed hors­es, and marched away through the green­wood, this time to reach Mar­lowe in safe­ty.

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