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Updated: June 10, 2025
Still water has something in its placid surface significant of deep channels, of hidden depths; the dim outline of the forest is dark with meaning, suggestive of its wild internal character. So Simon Girty's hard, bronzed face betrayed the man. His degenerate brother's features were revolting; but his own were striking, and fell short of being handsome only because of their craggy hardness.
His object seems to have been to remove the depression occasioned by Girty's speech, by treating it with derision; and perhaps to establish a reputation for successful waggery, as he had already for hard fighting. "You ask," answered he, "if we do not know you? Know you! Yes. We know you too well. Know Simon Girty! Yes.
The recollection of how nearly he had forever ended Girty's brutal career brought before Joe's mind the scene of the fight. He saw again Buzzard Jim's face, revolting, unlike anything human. There stretched Silvertip's dark figure, lying still and stark, and there was Kate's white form in its winding, crimson wreath of blood. Hauntingly her face returned, sad, stern in its cold rigidity.
They believe in God, and in us. These threatening savages have failed signally to impress our Christians. If we do not hold the service they will think we fear Girty, and that might have a bad influence." "I am in favor of postponing the preaching for a few days. I tell you I am afraid of Girty's Indians, not for myself, but for these Christians whom we love so well. I am afraid."
The white dog leaped and snarled around the prisoner. Girty's hands pulled and tore at the powerful arm which forced him hard against the beech. It was a brown arm, and huge with its bulging, knotted, rigid muscles. A mighty arm, strong as the justice which ruled it. "Girty, thy race is run!" Wetzel's voice cut the silence like a steel whip.
Heaven's curses on him for a villain! and I don't think he'll more nor git his just dues, to suffer them hell fires of torment, hereafter, that he's kindled so often around his victims on arth." At these words Ella started to her feet, and exclaiming wildly, "Who are they who are Girty's victims?" sprung swiftly towards the group, followed by Mrs. Younker.
Before any conference of the defenders could be held, one of the younger men leaped to the wall to reply to Girty's plea. "You know who I am, don't you?" called Girty. "Indeed I do know!" shouted young Reynolds: "Everybody south of the Falls of Ohio knows that you are Simon Girty. I have a good-for-nothing cur dog which I have named Simon Girty, or Simon Dirty, he looks so much like you.
This was not for himself alone; for Algernon was a brave man, and in reality feared not death; though, like many another brave man, be had no desire to die at his time of life, especially with all the tortures of the stake, which he knew, from Girty's remark, would be his assignment; but his soul was harrowed at the thought of Ella her awful doom and what she might be called upon to undergo: perhaps a punishment a thousand times worse than death that of being the pretended wife, but in reality the mistress, of the loathsome renegade.
That's the reason I asked, an' ef I ain't mistook, Simon Girty's in the other boat. Oh, Henry, do you think I kin git a shot at him?" "I doubt it," replied Henry. "Girty is cunning and rarely exposes himself. There, they are firing, but it's too soon." Several shots were discharged from the leading boats, but they fell far short.
I learned from a wounded Indian that a renegade had made off with a white girl about a week previous. Perhaps it was poor Lucy." Jim related the circumstances of his own capture by Jim Girty, the rescue of Nell, and Kate's sad fate. "Could Jim Girty have gotten your girl?" inquired Jim, in conclusion. "It's fairly probable. The description doesn't tally with Girty's.
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