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There was no wedding that night at the Independence Rock The Arapahoes

saw to that But there were burials the day following, six of theht the coood illumination for shaft

and ball

"Put out the fires! Corral! Corral!"

Voices of couests rushed for the shelter of

their oagons Men caught up their weapons and a steady fire at the

unseen foe held the latter at bay after the first attack

Indeed, a sort of panic seized the savages A warrior ran back

exclai away

from the attack, but toward them as they lay in cover He had shot an

arrow at the spirit, which then had vanished It would be better to fall

back and take no ate, pursuing her closely as

they could, found her at last, lying face down in the grass, her arown red with blood An arrow, its shaft

cracked by her fall, was ie boho had fired in fear at an object he did not recognize

So they found her, still alive, still unirl back to her mother, who reached out her aron wheels

"Bring me a candle, you!" she called to the nearest man It chanced to

be Saht