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Never had I believed brave men could show such terror Nobody heeded alloping alongside, beseeching theht into the streets of Johnstown fled thethe town inwith them their mounted officers, as a torrent hurls chips into a whirlpool

"Halt! In Heaven's name, what is the matter? Why, you had them on the run, you men of Tryon, you Ulster itives was blocked at the old stone church Into the, I a panic

"Don't run, lads," I said; "don't put us all to this sha to scare a child on the hill And this isto scare a ers there all alone, would you? They're up there drilling holes in the Indians who came to murder your wives and children Coers and Greens take a cannon as easily as that!"

They were listening to Willett, too; here and there a sergeant took up the pleading I found an exhausted dru on the steps of the church, and induced him to stand up and beat the asse out handfuls of n and displayed it; a coed fronment; another followed more steadily; line after line fell in and paraded; the fifes began to squeal, and the shrill quickstep set coht, lads!" cried Willett cheerily, as he galloped forward "We are going back for that cannon we lost by ers laugh at you!"

Then the first cheer broke out;the Colonel He gave me a calm and whimsical look, almost a smile: "Scared, Carus?"

"No, sir"

"D'ye hear that firing to the left? Well, that's Rowley's flanking column of levies and the Massachusetts men Hark! Listen to that rifle ot theht him by the sleeve, and bent forward from my saddle: "Do you know that the woman I am to marry is with the enemy?" I demanded hoarsely