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(u tlie hairy rugs. Cateechee. who was queen of the home, place a. faun a soft pallet for their plump girl of a few months. (Every femafe grazing in the tall grass that grew heneath the old tre-s under whose veiru shadows she was nlxtut to shyly glide.

Clad in l)iiskins, kilted to the fttee with richly braided white faunskins, she glided from trunk to trunk, liV hadow. "Do th pouiej she said. Her heart. was aching sadlUhdd ft tin infatH'V to wonianhcMxl, of the Cherokee tribes, was made to sleerr mi faun-skin pallets, that thev tnisiht itnbilxi the irraco of carriasre afid th tvith tlread for fear that some eagle eye might spy her form and divlnu her tirpose to carry the news of the colony's doom to the ear of her white lover at tort "Ninety and six miles to Cambridge," she said. Will the ponies help me?" As she her brown hand was Ktret.ched to them and they gazed shyly at her, but it was for a moment only, then thev quick ly" turned and scampered off, all except one which it seemed, moved with compassion, came and licked her brown hand like a dog that courts friendship.

She took a girdle cut from buffalo skin, from her waist and improvised a rein to guide her steed over the," hills and through- the' vallevs to where fated Cambridge stood. Cjiteeche-. mounted her steed in the thicket of the shadows, and sit ith betjuty of the While the raindrops beiit on the roof- the baby cooed au'dxthe mother smiled. Suddenly the door was. thrust backhand iu nished the styrm ith r.ige so tierce that sjwirks, and smokejbot and blind-." ing, flew; from hearthstofie oyer the nx-m." But that was not the Worst.

With theNstonn and smoke, there came yells that shook like aspen' leaves, the rafter beams, joists and huge logs. For Kuruga's warriors were thej-e; like old blood hounds they had scented their prey to their lair. Allen Francis' muscular arms hurled billets of wox! at the foe. He fought ha-home, it was his castle, against xlds and fate. "He wrestletl bravely, until he haul laic! low many brave.

But the nimlxr of the red men were too great for him. They soon pressed hnt to the wall and pinioned his arms to his sides and lxamd them tightly with strong -straps of buffalo skin. Then they looted and burned his cabin to the ground arid led The explanation of this legend is dint'tly from tho prt-faetr of Rev. J. Daniel's "Ctiteechee of Keeoww)." The writer isalso indebted to Rev.

J. Walter Daniel for much of tlj material ushI in constructing this story. Several years ago while explofng the Blue Ridge Tu in tel. and thiit region of country, the writer ajso gatued much information aboat thiB Legend from nu old gentlepnan of that vicinity. Out of the naiterial obtained frodi these two son reCs this story has 1wd cpnstructcih but much of interest has been ouiittei 011 account of Explanation of the Story.

In l750 Capt. James Frdtlcis and his two sons. Allen ami Henry, came to the vicinity of Ninety -Six, S. established a trailing pst with the Ohwokees. Allen rancis, witli hjs father, frequently visited the Cherokee country on trading expeditions.

During these visits he becDmn acquainted with Cateechee, or Kaqueena, as sheas sometimea She was a slave to the old chief a captim maiden, hence the two names by which she is known in tradition. The former is Cherokee and grace, as if pony and maid had grown 411 one, and the fleet 'footed pony txre! -its inmates out into the fierce howling tempest. Catcechee-carried her baby away ins lovely rider noiselessly, the. long shadows appeared as woven ta peltry to carpet the way. "Younh, the giXxl Choctaw prophet, muffles his feet," said Cateechee.

who urged by love, and hipepd by hate, spurred by revenge and drawn by "hope, carried in "her mind and heaving bosom an awful Was there ever a maid so bold She rode onward, like the whirlw ind iu.xpercl and the arrow in course, fn the silent hours of theni-rht on her back-out into the darkness that could felt by her sad soul. jSfa-lure seemed i i kymixithy with her. For the trees stood still, the clouds partil and the stars peeped down oft the captives that Kuniga's warriors were leading liack to Keeowee's far off vale. Xinetv-Six miles through il dv ft 1 rr I 1 iJiles stream gurgled as she crossed If'l 1 It 1 Atues siream gurgieu as sue erosseu ine rrix like a phantom, inert the the latter is Choctaw. The names mean the same thing- "The Deer's scream of panthers greeted her ears and she lwwed her bare head low as she dreary forests, tangled corpse and waste la nds, Cateeehe.

and her husband Head." -She was a beautiful girl and AlltntV became enamored with her i.iL.t.i.iii 1., 1 1 were led to' the stake or to torture, or to servitude arallintr Ixuids. The v.rc Mr, a mi a a row a in. ii iHjrai 10 i truiiiiii rvtL'T leaped forward faster until the horrid screams were wiia nnn7nwininii nn. hii.Miu WniSpereft WOril.S )( MM 1 1 ,.1... 1 ..1.

1 1 1 1 I drown! in the deep black wood behind her. Whinnoorw ills and church- II. journey was completed in two days and nights and the sad captives led in the council chamber to await the corning of the Kavens. The braves sit silently in-the council chamber and the captives stood in the1 midst. of the circle, lxamd with hongs of buffalo hides.

Old Ouasta, a he sat gazing down xm the captives, broke the long silence and gloom tlurt hung over the solemn-cottncil. ill not trv sqtiaw and 'par a av a iia aaa a a. a a vaa laiaii aaiaa.AV aita. ij fears dismayed her Jgjyfce thoughts of Kuruga's warriors. Now Twelve Miles the way which was markwl on ik map lior traced on earth by hoofs nor wheels, the stars we're her faithful sign lxwrds through the lonely tiilckless forest.

Then the Eighteen told the dis- Pk.mv lie said. let Kuruga send to the wigwams of the women, the tance she had come, from Keeowee -va le. IjOiutly the stream over slave squaw who loves the pale face more than heY people," So Cateechee The plot Was betrayed by Cateechee, who nxle through the forest from Ke-' owee, famotul' Cherokee town lootted oil Keeowee River, in what' is now the northwestern part of Pickens Co. S. C.

to Ninety -Six, in what is now OroenweodCo, and revealed 'Kuruga's dark designs-'biie to her lover, Allen FranCis.The betrayal of the plot thwarted the cfesigiiH, of the old chief. Cateechee did not then return to Keeowee. but became the wife of Allen Francis. Some years after, this event they were captured by Cherokee braves and espied into the Cherokee country where hey rema rnf for nearly two years. Finally they escaped and came back" to the.

old trading post "where they lived and died, a Stump House Mountain, the scene of their escape. Is six miles north of Walhalla, S. and around its base flows Isaqueena Creek and- the falls the rocks as ti all danger were gone, but Cateechee lingered not. Soon she a nd her baby were led into Kinga's wigwam. Allen Fr.vnci stxxl as mute reached lliree and Iwenty which was more noisy still, for hve miles farther from the red men as they sat in council seemed to yive even nature more tongue.

Six and Twenty now thundered over the falls where she crossed the stream, so distance gives men courage as it lends enchantment to views. li Cateechee rode on like the fragment of a white cloud driven by the fierce wind over a dark back ground, where the storm kinir mutters and as a siatue at tne jwrnng oi ins ne and ixtut; lor lie knew the old warriors watched for sonic sign of pain or grief, that they might brand coward, worthy of desith. He was not naturally a stoic, nor cold of heart, but he was a stoic to the braves bo watched iiim so keenly. The great council of chiefs warriors, and ok! conjurers, sly and shrewd, that had convened to try the captives, sat and smoked until the sun sank low into the lap of the bitty hills. Kiagunsta rose from his seat, pointed to the hite setting sun, kwked at Allen Francis, Ixnmd to the stake and said, "The hope of the pale face now wanes, the sun croes to the areat wiirwam in 1 down which it is said Cateechee leaped are at the southern entrance of the famous tunnel of the Blue Kidge railroad partly excavated through Stump House Mt.

The place names Ninety Six Miles, a creek in Pickens Twelve Miles, a ymall river, in Pickus par Eighteen Creek, constituting lengthy portion of the line between Bickens and Anderson Comities. Three and Twenty and Six and Twenty, creeks in Anderson Co. were, nil named in commemoration of Cateechee's famous and heroic ride. These streams crossed her path, and were respectively six, twelve, eighteen, twenty-three and twenty-six miles at the point where she crossed them from the Cherokee town, Keeowee, and the terminus of her ride, is just 96 miles from Keeowee. The Legend.

howls. Onward she swept aintil there gleamed bright harbinger in the Cast. Day was fast approaching and the birds twittered in. the bushes by her pathway. She stopped by the brookside to pluck lx-rries aful luscious grapes that hung around her.

As she thus stood, she was indeed "tyieen of the wildwcxxj. feasting at the sumptuous board of Nature." Not far off pearehed ou the top of a willow bush a 'bold songster sang sweetly to Cateechee. She wondered if the saucy tell her flight to" Kuruga's bloody warriors or perchance reveal her coming to Allen brave band. She pondered awhile, then mounted her steed and rode onward like the swift wind. Her paleface lover was in her heart and Kuruga's hate for white meil drove her swiftly forward.

The sweet song of the. wood thrush called her towanrher journey's end. It was Choctaw musjc, mellow and sweet, thitt sang through the ldnely forest, a nd loved the birds that had learned her language so well, She quickly passed the place of fruitful white oaks, then Quoo-ran-he-quar, but now displaced. by the white man's and anon the curling column of blue smoke from Francis' cabin greets her eyes, and her lover stands inthe door. The breech of his trusty rifle rested oiv the earthen threshhold, while he grasped- the long barrel and leaned upon it.

There was the west. Let the pale face become Kuruga's faithfufsoir and the red man's good friend. "After this speech, the cunning speaker sat down and the throng that rxnind the pale face was loosed and he was led to old Kuruga," who gave him the pipe. After all had smoked, Allen took the oath of allegiance, anil repeated their most sacred word of honor. Theu they gave him freedom, but the Ravens watched him closely lest he should steal back to his pale face father arid kind old Cambridge." Allen Francis realised that to fx; watched was a bond as galling as fetterexjf cold iron, it-was a bold insult harder to bear than thegross charge of, crimes.

But Cateechee and her husband bore it meekly and with patience. With time the oath they, liad taken grew weaker ana weaker. They built them a wigwam far up in the valley. It was a lavdjspot selected by.Kuruga.' It was. here that the old hunter taught Allen now to shoot the buzzing arrow 'straight as an to.the.mark.

i Then this clever pupil roamed far over tie rugged hills and mountains with the hardy skilful hunters, from clear Swananoa's green banks to. Oconee's winding channel. From Hiwassa, Choctaw's Riverv to oki Tugaloo he sought game. The Tugaloo's bold, surging waters marked the limit of his huntinc lournev southward, and the whermusca- i 1 I The old Indian townjof Keeowee, Cateechee's wild home, was the jewel of Kuruga's vast possessions of crags and lying like a rar3 diamond at the bottom of a blue lake. The town has perished in daj-s long past, but the laughihg river still mormumthe jnan's beautiful name and forever enshrines noble memories of the Ghqiefaw maid and lovely captive, who was a slave to savage masters.

Cateechee, the lonely, lithe and graceful maid, stood by the pellucid waters, stooped low and whispered a soft message: "Francis, heed my warn aigfor Kuruga plans tonight thy death." The breeze hissedj throtigh the Lolly, the tall pine trees pent forth waUings, and the leaves of the birch tree TOstJed like an unseen ghost: Just then the moon ran behind a thick cloud send there was silence: Cateechee glided lithely into the dense wood that crowned the brow of the rugged hill Bide. What was it that made -nature a knife with buckskin handle, under the hood girdle that he wore and on his head an otter skin cap. The forest ranger, thus attired, peered throught he green woods until Cateechee's form came in sight under the matted boughs I 1 1 J2 111 a.L -laY dirtes grow in its fertile, yine clad valley, marked' Bis journey east But Unas uu rims, nuticiv ceuara wiu gums, ix was inus in tne staining morning shadows that she beheld her lord in the good old days when man's wooing -was by proxy, She leaped from her steed's back, graceful as a fawn and her black fell around her shoulders as she stood bv Allen redely as Cateechee's message awful to the flowing waters tend mailing windT Aye, it was indeed, for death lurked in the council of th braves, and Cambridge, the home of the pale face lover must fall. the shrewed old bunters watcned him. is but not jvith bonds, for the' soul chafes, "where lines restrain it.

To be old I Kuruga's true son. Allen Francis, must have freedom as boundjesa as Kuruga's free will. He- will not te; bound in cold hondr by the sacred vows taken. Ho said, if one's freedom js taken'from him, itT an insult to true manhood. There is no wrong' when the fetters forced upon us are hurled to the earth.

Allen and Cateechee then will be as free as God mad them or they will dio for "sweet liberty." Thus he soliloquized. It was the custom in Keeowee's vale, every spring for the matrons and maids, to wander far out in the woods to pick red juicy berries So this spring Cateechee went with the staid matrons to guard and euide the 1 While Cateechee whispered her message of deliverance and warning to the Francis amid the shadows of the She started her journeyj.amid the.shadows ajid in the shadows her journey ends; but the sunshine hastens the dawn of a peaceful Journey, through life, for Kuruga's plans are Ninety and Six milesCof shadows have beenjerossed by this damseVwtto now shares the 'humble cabin 'of her lover, Allen -w; 'v vv -KAr- PART II. The wind howled through leafless forests; and dark clouds shut out the light of stars, blackness walked throuch earth and over the It was water sprites, a usuy warriors, painted, plumed ana armed, danced widely xrotind the glowing-beacon's rel glare. 'v 1 Secrets otirreat import sink deep into the soul's secret chambers', but thev trouble the calm bosom and will not stav burried from Rio-ht. Thev rrv maids, and Cateechee had been captives in the valley for two long winters and one summer.

The old Ravens had now became less 1 and the matrons eyed Cajteechee and her husband less sharpy. The sua sank slowly behind black, tlorcatenmg clouda; distant thundcrxjalod forth out for help and will cry to all nature till they are heard. Brave cbee's heart ached ana throbbed for a share of its burden, and if the river would not bear it, nor the moon nor the trees hear it, then the doomed pale it i just such a night as robbers covet and thieves love, a veritable paradise for the assassin's deed. Allen Francis and Cateechee sat bv a blazing oak fire,.