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Show 76 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. made that half hour a living age to us, for 'those who for-see calamities suffer them twice.' " I shrank from contemplating the misery and despair of the cowardly white man, while the heroic energy and inflexibility of the bold Ethiop commanded my homage and reverence. The good woman at my side seemed to be whispering her dearest secrets into the ears of God. Her face shone with a heavenly light, that fell upon me like a benediction, and I felt resigned to say, ' Father, not my will but Thine be done.' " Lee Ayres said ' I will crawl", on my hands and 'knees, up the ravine, until I can command a better view, and if I find that death is inevitable, you must kill your baby, I will kill you and then kill myself; they cannot have us alive.' " Kill my child! The dear little innocent babe! The thought seemed to shatter my heart and brain. All grew black around me, and I thought of nothing but heaven and eternity. " When Lee returned his face was lit up with renewed hope; he said, ' the Indians are gone and we will now make the drive for life.' " When we reached the top of the hill we could see Thompson's ranch. It looked like a little mound in the distance, and to our anxious hearts it seemed millions of miles away, and lured us, like the will-'o-wisp, to the verge of the soul's extremest woe. As we neared the conflagration the horses became unmanageable, and the one on the right jumped out of the traces. The Indians had gotten some distance up the ravine, when they caught a glimpse of our moving wagon. They turned with a fiendish whoop and commenced firing upon us. Their flaunting and |
