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Updated: May 13, 2025
It chanced that the Blackfeet had arranged to attack the Fort in two bands that night advancing on it from opposite directions. The consequence was that while MacFearsome and his men were away after one band, the other a much larger band ignorant of what had occurred to their comrades, advanced after dusk on the Fort, and gave the signal for attack.
When all was at last prepared a new and unexpected difficulty arose. It was found that Reuben had fallen into a sound sleep! Thereupon a whispered but anxious conversation took place at the end of the hall farthest from the wounded man's couch. "We must waken him," said MacFearsome, with stern look and tone. "No, father," said Loo, with a tearful smile, "we must wait."
A shout was heard outside, the door of the hall burst open, and Jacob Strang himself strode in, bearing the Reverend William Tucker on his shoulders. Depositing his burden on the floor, he said hurriedly, "He's not dead, only stunned. The reptiles did their best to kill him. They're not far off, MacFearsome. We'd better go after them."
There was no resisting this, so the Reverend William Tucker made arrangements for the wedding, while The MacFearsome and his men were busied extinguishing the last sparks of the fire. It was near midnight before these arrangements were completed. Then the men were summoned once more to the Hall, but how different were their feelings now from what they had been earlier on that day!
"My friends," said Kenneth MacFearsome, taking up the prayer-book, and commencing a speech which he had spent the entire forenoon in preparing, "I have a few words to say to you on this interesting occasion." The old gentleman's usually stern and handsome countenance had relaxed, and assumed a bland, sweet expression, which was more consonant with the circumstances in which they were assembled.
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