—Shakspeare.
The curtain of our imperfect drama must fall, to rise upon another scene. The time is advanced several days, during which very material changes had occurred in the situation of the actors. The hour is noon, and the place an elevated plain, that rose, at no great distance from the water, somewhat abruptly1 from a fertile bottom, which stretched along the margin2 of one of the numberless water-courses of that region. The river took its rise near the base of the Rocky Mountains, and, after washing a vast extent of plain, it mingled3 its waters with a still larger stream, to become finally lost in the turbid5 current of the Missouri.
The landscape was changed materially for the better; though the hand, which had impressed so much of the desert on the surrounding region, had laid a portion of its power on this spot. The appearance of vegetation was, however, less discouraging than in the more sterile6 wastes of the rolling prairies. Clusters of trees were scattered7 in greater profusion8, and a long outline of ragged9 forest marked the northern boundary of the view. Here and there, on the bottom, were to be seen the evidences of a hasty and imperfect culture of such indigenous10 vegetables as were of a quick growth, and which were known to flourish, without the aid of art, in deep and alluvial11 soils. On the very edge of what might be called the table-land, were pitched the hundred lodges13 of a horde14 of wandering Siouxes. Their light tenements15 were arranged without the least attention to order. Proximity16 to the water seemed to be the only consideration which had been consulted in their disposition17, nor had even this important convenience been always regarded. While most of the lodges stood along the brow of the plain, many were to be seen at greater distances, occupying such places as had first pleased the capricious eyes of their untutored owners. The encampment was not military, nor in the slightest degree protected from surprise by its position or defences. It was open on every side, and on every side as accessible as any other point in those wastes, if the imperfect and natural obstruction18 offered by the river be excepted. In short, the place bore the appearance of having been tenanted longer than its occupants had originally intended, while it was not wanting in the signs of readiness for a hasty, or even a compelled departure.
This was the temporary encampment of that portion of his people, who had long been hunting under the direction of Mahtoree, on those grounds which separated the stationary19 abodes20 of his nation, from those of the warlike tribes of the Pawnees. The lodges were tents of skin, high, conical, and of the most simple and primitive21 construction. The shield, the quiver, the lance and the bow of its master, were to be seen suspended from a light post before the opening, or door, of each habitation. The different domestic implements22 of his one, two, or three wives, as the brave was of greater or lesser23 renown24, were carelessly thrown at its side, and here and there the round, full, patient countenance25 of an infant might be found peeping from its comfortless wrappers of bark, as, suspended by a deer-skin thong26 from the same post, it rocked in the passing air. Children of a larger growth were tumbling over each other in piles, the males, even at that early age, making themselves distinguished27 for that species of domination which, in after life, was to mark the vast distinction between the sexes. Youths were in the bottom, essaying their juvenile28 powers in curbing29 the wild steeds of their fathers, while here and there a truant30 girl was to be seen, stealing from her labours to admire their fierce and impatient daring.
Thus far the picture was the daily exhibition of an encampment confident in its security. But immediately in front of the lodges was a gathering32, that seemed to forbode some movements of more than usual interest. A few of the withered33 and remorseless crones of the band were clustering together, in readiness to lend their fell voices, if needed, to aid in exciting their descendants to an exhibition, which their depraved tastes coveted34, as the luxurious35 Roman dame36 witnessed the struggles and the agony of the gladiator. The men were subdivided37 into groups, assorted38 according to the deeds and reputations of the several individuals of whom they were composed.
They, who were of that equivocal age which admitted them to the hunts, while their discretion39 was still too doubtful to permit them to be trusted on the war-path, hung around the skirts of the whole, catching40, from the fierce models before them, that gravity of demeanour and restraint of manner, which in time was to become so deeply ingrafted in their own characters. A few of the still older class, and who had heard the whoop41 in anger, were a little more presuming, pressing nigher to the chiefs, though far from presuming to mingle4 in their councils, sufficiently42 distinguished by being permitted to catch the wisdom which fell from lips so venerated43. The ordinary warriors44 of the band were still less diffident, not hesitating to mingle among the chiefs of lesser note, though far from assuming the right to dispute the sentiments of any established brave, or to call in question the prudence46 of measures, that were recommended by the more gifted counsellors of the nation.
Among the chiefs themselves there was a singular compound of exterior47. They were divided into two classes; those who were mainly indebted for their influence to physical causes, and to deeds in arms, and those who had become distinguished rather for their wisdom than for their services in the field. The former was by far the most numerous and the most important class. They were men of stature48 and mien49, whose stern countenances50 were often rendered doubly imposing51 by those evidences of their valour, which had been roughly traced on their lineaments by the hands of their enemies. That class, which had gained its influence by a moral ascendency was extremely limited. They were uniformly to be distinguished by the quick and lively expression of their eyes, by the air of distrust that marked their movements, and occasionally by the vehemence52 of their utterance53 in those sudden outbreakings of the mind, by which their present consultations54 were, from time to time, distinguished.
In the very centre of a ring, formed by these chosen counsellors, was to be seen the person of the disquieted55, but seemingly calm, Mahtoree. There was a conjunction of all the several qualities of the others in his person and character. Mind as well as matter had contributed to establish his authority. His scars were as numerous and deep as those of the whitest head in his nation; his limbs were in their greatest vigour56; his courage at its fullest height. Endowed with this rare combination of moral and physical influence, the keenest eye in all that assembly was wont57 to lower before his threatening glance. Courage and cunning had established his ascendency, and it had been rendered, in some degree, sacred by time. He knew so well how to unite the powers of reason and force, that in a state of society, which admitted of a greater display of his energies, the Teton would in all probability have been both a conqueror58 and a despot.
A little apart from the gathering of the band, was to be seen a set of beings of an entirely59 different origin. Taller and far more muscular in their persons, the lingering vestiges60 of their Saxon and Norman ancestry61 were yet to be found beneath the swarthy complexions62, which had been bestowed63 by an American sun. It would have been a curious investigation64, for one skilled in such an enquiry, to have traced those points of difference, by which the offspring of the most western European was still to be distinguished from the descendant of the most remote Asiatic, now that the two, in the revolutions of the world, were approximating in their habits, their residence, and not a little in their characters. The group, of whom we write, was composed of the family of the squatter65. They stood indolent, lounging, and inert66, as usual when no immediate31 demand was made on their dormant67 energies, clustered in front of some four or five habitations of skin, for which they were indebted to the hospitality of their Teton allies. The terms of their unexpected confederation were sufficiently explained, by the presence of the horses and domestic cattle that were quietly grazing on the bottom beneath, under the jealous eyes of the spirited Hetty. Their wagons68 were drawn69 about the lodges, in a sort of irregular barrier, which at once manifested that their confidence was not entirely restored, while, on the other hand, their policy or indolence prevented any very positive exhibition of distrust. There was a singular union of passive enjoyment71 and of dull curiosity slumbering72 in every dull countenance, as each of the party stood leaning on his rifle, regarding the movements of the Sioux conference. Still no sign of expectation or interest escaped from the youngest among them, the whole appearing to emulate73 the most phlegmatic74 of their savage75 allies, in an exhibition of patience. They rarely spoke76; and when they did it was in some short and contemptuous remark, which served to put the physical superiority of a white man, and that of an Indian, in a sufficiently striking point of view. In short, the family of Ishmael appeared now to be in the plenitude of an enjoyment, which depended on inactivity, but which was not entirely free from certain confused glimmerings of a perspective, in which their security stood in some little danger of a rude interruption from Teton treachery. Abiram, alone, formed a solitary78 exception to this state of equivocal repose79.
After a life passed in the commission of a thousand mean and insignificant80 villanies, the mind of the kidnapper81 had become hardy82 enough to attempt the desperate adventure, which has been laid before the reader, in the course of the narrative83. His influence over the bolder, but less active, spirit of Ishmael was far from great, and had not the latter been suddenly expelled from a fertile bottom, of which he had taken possession, with intent to keep it, without much deference84 to the forms of law, he would never have succeeded in enlisting85 the husband of his sister in an enterprise that required so much decision and forethought. Their original success and subsequent disappointment have been seen; and Abiram now sat apart, plotting the means, by which he might secure to himself the advantages of his undertaking86, which he perceived were each moment becoming more uncertain, through the open admiration87 of Mahtoree for the innocent subject of his villany. We shall leave him to his vacillating and confused expedients88, in order to pass to the description of certain other personages in the drama.
There was still another corner of the picture that was occupied. On a little bank, at the extreme right of the encampment, lay the forms of Middleton and Paul. Their limbs were painfully bound with thongs89, cut from the skin of a bison, while, by a sort of refinement90 in cruelty, they were so placed, that each could see a reflection of his own misery91 in the case of his neighbour. Within a dozen yards of them a post was set firmly in the ground, and against it was bound the light and Apollo-like person of Hard-Heart. Between the two stood the trapper, deprived of his rifle, his pouch92 and his horn, but otherwise left in a sort of contemptuous liberty. Some five or six young warriors, however, with quivers at their backs, and long tough bows dangling93 from their shoulders, who stood with grave watchfulness94 at no great distance from the spot, sufficiently proclaimed how fruitless any attempt to escape, on the part of one so aged95 and so feeble, might prove. Unlike the other spectators of the important conference, these individuals were engaged in a discourse96 that for them contained an interest of its own.
“Captain,” said the bee-hunter with an expression of comical concern, that no misfortune could depress in one of his buoyant feelings, “do you really find that accursed strap97 of untanned leather cutting into your shoulder, or is it only the tickling98 in my own arm that I feel?”
“When the spirit suffers so deeply, the body is insensible to pain,” returned the more refined, though scarcely so spirited Middleton; “would to Heaven that some of my trusty artillerists might fall upon this accursed encampment!”
“You might as well wish that these Teton lodges were so many hives of hornets, and that the insects would come forth99 and battle with yonder tribe of half naked savages100.” Then, chuckling101 with his own conceit102, the bee-hunter turned away from his companion, and sought a momentary103 relief from his misery, by imagining that so wild an idea might be realised, and fancying the manner, in which the attack would upset even the well established patience of an Indian.
Middleton was glad to be silent; but the old man, who had listened to their words, drew a little nigher, and continued the discourse.
“Here is likely to be a merciless and a hellish business!” he said, shaking his head in a manner to prove that even his experience was at a loss for a remedy in so trying a dilemma104. “Our Pawnee friend is already staked for the torture, and I well know, by the eye and the countenance of the great Sioux, that he is leading on the temper of his people to further enormities.”
“Harkee, old trapper,” said Paul, writhing105 in his bonds to catch a glimpse of the other's melancholy106 face; “you ar' skilled in Indian tongues, and know somewhat of Indian deviltries. Go you to the council, and tell their chiefs in my name, that is to say, in the name of Paul Hover107, of the state of Kentucky, that provided they will guarantee the safe return of one Ellen Wade108 into the States, they are welcome to take his scalp when and in such manner as best suits their amusements; or, if-so-be they will not trade on these conditions, you may throw in an hour or two of torture before hand, in order to sweeten the bargain to their damnable appetites.”
“Ah! lad, it is little they would hearken to such an offer, knowing, as they do, that you are already like a bear in a trap, as little able to fight as to fly. But be not down-hearted, for the colour of a white man is sometimes his death-warrant among these far tribes of savages, and sometimes his shield. Though they love us not, cunning often ties their hands. Could the red nations work their will, trees would shortly be growing again on the ploughed fields of America, and woods would be whitened with Christian109 bones. No one can doubt that, who knows the quality of the love which a Red-skin bears a Pale-face; but they have counted our numbers until their memories fail them, and they are not without their policy. Therefore is our fate unsettled; but I fear me there is small hope left for the Pawnee!”
As the old man concluded, he walked slowly towards the subject of his latter observation, taking his post at no great distance from his side. Here he stood, observing such a silence and mien as became him to manifest, to a chief so renowned110 and so situated111 as his captive associate. But the eye of Hard-Heart was fastened on the distance, and his whole air was that of one whose thoughts were entirely removed from the present scene.
“The Siouxes are in council on my brother,” the trapper at length observed, when he found he could only attract the other's attention by speaking.
The young partisan112 turned his head with a calm smile as he answered “They are counting the scalps over the lodge12 of Hard-Heart!”
“No doubt, no doubt; their tempers begin to mount, as they remember the number of Tetons you have struck, and better would it be for you now, had more of your days been spent in chasing the deer, and fewer on the war-path. Then some childless mother of this tribe might take you in the place of her lost son, and your time would be filled in peace.”
“Does my father think that a warrior45 can ever die? The Master of Life does not open his hand to take away his gifts again. When He wants His young men He calls them, and they go. But the Red-skin He has once breathed on lives for ever.”
“Ay, this is a more comfortable and a more humble113 faith than that which yonder heartless Teton harbours. There is something in these Loups which opens my inmost heart to them; they seem to have the courage, ay, and the honesty, too, of the Delawares of the hills. And this lad—it is wonderful, it is very wonderful; but the age, and the eye, and the limbs are as if they might have been brothers! Tell me, Pawnee, have you ever in your traditions heard of a mighty114 people who once lived on the shores of the Salt-lake, hard by the rising sun?”
“The earth is white, by people of the colour of my father.”
“Nay115, nay, I speak not now of any strollers, who have crept into the land to rob the lawful116 owners of their birth-right, but of a people who are, or rather were, what with nature and what with paint, red as the berry on the bush.”
“I have heard the old men say, that there were bands, who hid themselves in the woods under the rising sun, because they dared not come upon the open prairies to fight with men.”
“Do not your traditions tell you of the greatest, the bravest, and the wisest nation of Red-skins that the Wahcondah has ever breathed upon?”
Hard-Heart raised his head, with a loftiness and dignity that even his bonds could not repress, as he answered—
“Has age blinded my father; or does he see so many Siouxes, that he believes there are no longer any Pawnees?”
“Ah! such is mortal vanity and pride!” exclaimed the disappointed old man, in English. “Natur' is as strong in a Red-skin, as in the bosom117 of a man of white gifts. Now would a Delaware conceit himself far mightier118 than a Pawnee, just as a Pawnee boasts himself to be of the princes of the 'arth. And so it was atween the Frenchers of the Canadas and the red-coated English, that the king did use to send into the States, when States they were not, but outcrying and petitioning provinces, they fou't and they fou't, and what marvellous boastings did they give forth to the world of their own valour and victories, while both parties forgot to name the humble soldier of the land, who did the real service, but who, as he was not privileged then to smoke at the great council fire of his nation, seldom heard of his deeds, after they were once bravely done.”
When the old man had thus given vent70 to the nearly dormant, but far from extinct, military pride, that had so unconsciously led him into the very error he deprecated, his eye, which had begun to quicken and glimmer77 with some of the ardour of his youth, softened119 and turned its anxious look on the devoted120 captive, whose countenance was also restored to its former cold look of abstraction and thought.
“Young warrior,” he continued in a voice that was growing tremulous, “I have never been father, or brother. The Wahcondah made me to live alone. He never tied my heart to house or field, by the cords with which the men of my race are bound to their lodges; if he had, I should not have journeyed so far, and seen so much. But I have tarried long among a people, who lived in those woods you mention, and much reason did I find to imitate their courage and love their honesty. The Master of Life has made us all, Pawnee, with a feeling for our kind. I never was a father, but well do I know what is the love of one. You are like a lad I valued, and I had even begun to fancy that some of his blood might be in your veins121. But what matters that? You are a true man, as I know by the way in which you keep your faith; and honesty is a gift too rare to be forgotten. My heart yearns122 to you, boy, and gladly would I do you good.”
The youthful warrior listened to the words, which came from the lips of the other with a force and simplicity123 that established their truth, and he bowed his head on his naked bosom, in testimony124 of the respect with which he met the proffer125. Then lifting his dark eye to the level of the view, he seemed to be again considering of things removed from every personal consideration. The trapper, who well knew how high the pride of a warrior would sustain him, in those moments he believed to be his last, awaited the pleasure of his young friend, with a meekness126 and patience that he had acquired by his association with that remarkable127 race. At length the gaze of the Pawnee began to waver; and then quick, flashing glances were turned from the countenance of the old man to the air, and from the air to his deeply marked lineaments again, as if the spirit, which governed their movements, was beginning to be troubled.
“Father,” the young brave finally answered in a voice of confidence and kindness, “I have heard your words. They have gone in at my ears, and are now within me. The white-headed Long-knife has no son; the Hard-Heart of the Pawnees is young, but he is already the oldest of his family. He found the bones of his father on the hunting ground of the Osages, and he has sent them to the prairies of the Good Spirits. No doubt the great chief, his father, has seen them, and knows what is part of himself. But the Wahcondah will soon call to us both; you, because you have seen all that is to be seen in this country; and Hard-Heart, because he has need of a warrior, who is young. There is no time for the Pawnee to show the Pale-face the duty, that a son owes to his father.”
“Old as I am, and miserable128 and helpless as I now stand, to what I once was, I may live to see the sun go down in the prairie. Does my son expect to do as much?”
“The Tetons are counting the scalps on my lodge!” returned the young chief, with a smile whose melancholy was singularly illuminated129 by a gleam of triumph.
“And they find them many. Too many for the safety of its owner, while he is in their revengeful hands. My son is not a woman, and he looks on the path he is about to travel with a steady eye. Has he nothing to whisper in the ears of his people, before he starts? These legs are old, but they may yet carry me to the forks of the Loup river.”
“Tell them that Hard-Heart has tied a knot in his wampum for every Teton,” burst from the lips of the captive, with that vehemence with which sudden passion is known to break through the barriers of artificial restraint “if he meets one of them all, in the prairies of the Master of Life, his heart will become Sioux!”
“Ah that feeling would be a dangerous companion for a man with white gifts to start with on so solemn a journey,” muttered the old man in English. “This is not what the good Moravians said to the councils of the Delawares, nor what is so often preached, to the White-skins in the settlements, though, to the shame of the colour be it said, it is so little heeded130. Pawnee, I love you; but being a Christian man, I cannot be the runner to bear such a message.”
“If my father is afraid the Tetons will hear him, let him whisper it softly to our old men.”
“As for fear, young warrior, it is no more the shame of a Pale-face than of a Red-skin. The Wahcondah teaches us to love the life he gives; but it is as men love their hunts, and their dogs, and their carabines, and not with the doting131 that a mother looks upon her infant. The Master of Life will not have to speak aloud twice when he calls my name. I am as ready to answer to it now, as I shall be to-morrow, or at any time it may please his mighty will. But what is a warrior without his traditions? Mine forbid me to carry your words.”
The chief made a dignified132 motion of assent133, and here there was great danger that those feelings of confidence, which had been so singularly awakened134, would as suddenly subside135. But the heart of the old man had been too sensibly touched, through long dormant but still living recollections, to break off the communication so rudely. He pondered for a minute, and then bending his look wistfully on his young associate, again continued—
“Each warrior must be judged by his gifts. I have told my son what I cannot, but let him open his ears to what I can do. An elk136 shall not measure the prairie much swifter than these old legs, if the Pawnee will give me a message that a white man may bear.”
“Let the Pale-face listen,” returned the other, after hesitating a single instant longer, under a lingering sensation of his former disappointment. “He will stay here till the Siouxes have done counting the scalps of their dead warriors. He will wait until they have tried to cover the heads of eighteen Tetons with the skin of one Pawnee; he will open his eyes wide, that he may see the place where they bury the bones of a warrior.”
“All this will I, and may I, do, noble boy.”
“He will mark the spot, that he may know it.”
“No fear, no fear that I shall forget the place,” interrupted the other, whose fortitude137 began to give way under so trying an exhibition of calmness and resignation.
“Then I know that my father will go to my people. His head is grey, and his words will not be blown away with the smoke. Let him get on my lodge, and call the name of Hard-Heart aloud. No Pawnee will be deaf. Then let my father ask for the colt, that has never been ridden, but which is sleeker138 than the buck139, and swifter than the elk.”
“I understand you, boy, I understand you,” interrupted the attentive140 old man; “and what you say shall be done, ay, and well done too, or I'm but little skilled in the wishes of a dying Indian.”
“And when my young men have given my father the halter of that colt, he will lead him by a crooked141 path to the grave of Hard-Heart?”
“Will I! ay, that I will, brave youth, though the winter covers these plains in banks of snow, and the sun is hidden as much by day as by night. To the head of the holy spot will I lead the beast, and place him with his eyes looking towards the setting sun.”
“And my father will speak to him, and tell him, that the master, who has fed him since he was foaled, has now need of him.”
“That, too, will I do; though the Lord he knows that I shall hold discourse with a horse, not with any vain conceit that my words will be understood, but only to satisfy the cravings of Indian superstition142. Hector, my pup, what think you, dog, of talking to a horse?”
“Let the grey-beard speak to him with the tongue of a Pawnee,” interrupted the young victim, perceiving that his companion had used an unknown language for the preceding speech.
“My son's will shall be done. And with these old hands, which I had hoped had nearly done with bloodshed, whether it be of man or beast, will I slay143 the animal on your grave!”
“It is good,” returned the other, a gleam of satisfaction flitting across his features. “Hard-Heart will ride his horse to the blessed prairies, and he will come before the Master of Life like a chief!”
The sudden and striking change, which instantly occurred in the countenance of the Indian, caused the trapper to look aside, when he perceived that the conference of the Siouxes had ended, and that Mahtoree, attended by one or two of the principal warriors, was deliberately144 approaching his intended victim.
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