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I've come here to free all the negroes in this State. If I'm interfered with I'll burn the town and have blood." Every man who passed through the dark streets was accosted, made prisoner and placed under guard. Hazlett and Edwin Coppoc were ordered to hold the Armory.
At least for a time he was spared this, for no boat would go back to Valdez within a month, and those who awaited news were Alaska mothers and knew the delays of the frontier. None the less, Mr. Hazlett had borne in upon him all the time the feeling that he himself had been responsible for this disaster. Even as he set to work to organize search-parties he felt despair.
"Give orders to Hazlett and Hand to despatch foraging parties at dawn, to seize all cattle, pigs, corn, wheat, or flour they may find, save enough for the necessities of the people, and to impress horses and wagons in which to transport them. Then join us at supper." Brereton saluted, and turned, but as he did so Washington again spoke:
Hazlett and this old chief, and don't you come back without those boys! They're only out hunting somewhere, or else they'd have a fire going." As the bow of the boat grated on the shingle Mr. Hazlett sprang ashore, and, under guidance of the Aleut, hastened over the sea-wall and across the flat to the barabbara. All was deserted and silent!
For forty years or more this region has been the scene of active logging, the work having begun under the direction of Messrs. Bricknell and Kinger, of Forest Hill. The present president of the Truckee Lumber Co. is Mr. Hazlett, who married the daughter of Kinger.
Mr. Hazlett knew well enough the strength of the outgoing Japan Current here. A boat might be carried to Asia, for all one could tell to the contrary, although its occupants must long ere that have perished from hunger and thirst. And what chance had a small boat in waters so rough as those of this rock-bound coast, risky enough for the most skilled navigators and in the best of vessels?
Meantime, Skookie was standing silently and stolidly at the side of his father, who made no such great excitement over him. The boys now introduced him, with the highest praise for his faithfulness and a plea that something be done for his reward. "So far as that is concerned," said Mr. Hazlett, "every decent native concerned in this shall have more than justice done to him.
"Already done that, sir!" reported the lieutenant. "They are in the long-boat alongside." "Then bring them here at once!" A few moments later he and Mr. Hazlett found the deck crowded with a score of much-frightened natives. "Who's the interpreter here?" commanded the captain. A squaw-man who for some years had lived with the natives was pushed forward.
It was not until, in his despair, he had turned to leave that he saw, fastened by a peg to the inside of the door, a brief note on a bit of paper. "Mr. Richard Hazlett," it read. "All well. We sailed about July 30th. Love to the folks." Signed to this were the names of the three boys. "God bless them!" he muttered. "They knew I'd come! Why did I not come soon enough!
But Stephens, Hazlett and Green went to their doom like the heroes they were, without a murmur, without a regret, believing alike in their captain and their cause. For the disastrous termination of this invasion, several causes have been assigned. It has been said that Capt.
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