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A T HE crumbling adobe stockade and barracks and the more durable stone of Officer’s Row at Old Fort Davis stand guard as faithfully now as in the days of Indian warfare, though there is little to stand guard over now save the memories and associations of a heroic past. The earliest ot those memories go back more than half a century, for though the permanent build¬ ings were not erected until 18G7, the Post was established by Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, in 1854, and but for a brief period of abandonment during the Civil War, the Fort was the setting for dramatic scenes until its final abandonment in 181)1. Through all these years it has hoarded its wealth — tales of daring, of noble sacrifice, of death, and of love. Of these myriad legends and tales none is more poignantly beautiful than that of the Indian maiden who gave lie] life to save the man she loved from death at the hands of her people. Wounded during one of the Apache raids on the Fort, she had been left to die beside the trail, but Mrs. Faston, the mother, ot a young Lieutenant, Thomas Easton, took the girl into the Fort and nursed her back to life. For two years the shy, grateful maiden lived in the Easton home. Then one night she stole away to her people, and no one knew, perhaps, that she had gone heart¬ broken because the young lieutenant, to whom she had given her love, was to be married the next day to a charming American girl. For a year there was no explanation of the mysterious dis¬ appearance of the Indian girl. Then one night the sentry on duty heard a stealthy, footstep. He challenged, but received no reply. He fired, and the scream of a woman answered the shot. Dying, the Indian maiden gasped a warning: her people were coming to kill and burn; ‘‘Tom” must be saved. And she was dead without the happy realization that her warning had been timely, that her life had saved the Fort and the man she loved. Page 25
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