The Phantom of the River

e's trouble a

any doubt o

er ranger, Simon Kenton, and the second fell

me together for the purpose of consultation. They had threaded their way along parallel lines, separated

he same course, gliding more deeply among the shadows of the Kentucky forest until, di

oment forget their surroundings. They had lived too long in the perilous wilderness to forget tha

his most marked characteristics, "this 'ere bus'ness has took th

narrow, but clean-shaven face upon the other, and smiling gently in a way that

ul sartin to be afore them

to signify that he a

-house, Dan'l, when the

N

through the woods on my way t

ut up the cabin a mil

they put up a tidy cabin. A few weeks ago the father started east to bring down his family in another flatboat. George, the younker, got tired of waiting and set out to meet 'em; him and me

urning toward his friend; "I was

lieving he had a chance to clean us all out. Of course, I knowed what was up, but The Panther made a powerful big mistake. He got mixed up with tha

y exploit, but he looked questioningly at Kent

dge and Altman and me went over in a canoe to the other flatboat, which the Shawanoes had cleaned out, to even up ac

ast night, but didn

than a child), felt so sorry for The Panther, thinking, too, that

fool o

s Altman. She made a powerful big mistake, but she done it in the kindness of her heart, and, Dan'l, you and me knows there ain't many such mistakes made. But that little gal showed her pluck when she follered up Wa-on-mo

oone, hoping to hear that the career of thi

he foot of which was raised from the ground, and looked thoughtfully among the trees in front. His coonskin cap was shove

Afore we went ashore, I diskivered that Girty and several varmints was in the cabin. They knowed we was going there, and they meant to wait until w

happening in this part of the wo

done by that darkey, Jethro Juggens. He's a big, strong, simple chap, that hates work wo

ing more interest in him than in Jethro Juggens

ourselves, in the woods near the clearing, and settle that account between us. If I come

one, with a glow of satisfaction, in strong contrast to th

pot, but The Panther

the appointed place of meeting, eager for the encounter with Wa-on-mon, the famous war c

-mon was a coward," bi

e the mistake of thinking so now; the reason why h

t wa

w as wel

ly deferred his furious meeting with the ranger in ord

Kenton, he was off like a deer in search of a large war party that he knew was somewhere in the ne

ly done when Daniel Boone appeared at the clearing with disquieting news. He advised them, however, to stay, since their means of defence was good, but hardly was the decision reached when a runner came in with the news that an uprisi

tain Bushwick. The Altmans and Ashbridges made the sad mistake of not fastening the flatboat to the bank and tak

y had a brush with a company of Shawanoes, and defeated them. It was not the main body, however, u

hro Juggens, Mr. Ashbridge and his wife, daughter Mabel, and their s

amilies were in charge of the rangers that Boone had brought with him for the purpose of acting as their escort. They were forced to

he part The Panther was certain to play in the coming events, that Boone and Kenton took the advance, pr

ssed no available trail that could be used even in the daytime, the rangers, and especially Kenton and Boone, were so familiar with it, that they could guide their

rned or prayed for t

ing to Boone, and raising his

the sound-a faint and apparently distant

nstead of its being the call of a crow, they knew it came from t