Little House Albert and Sylvia story
Chapter thirty- four The Wild days are ahead!
Laura Ingalls Wilder was being kidnapped by Indians when they attacked the house and farm of the Ingalls. Laura didn't know where she was or who had her all she knew was that they was rough and mean, they didn't speak English too good.
Finally after miles of hard ridding they had ended up in a wooded area Laura didn't recognize the Indian she was riding with had a tight hold of her so no matter how hard she would of kicked and screamed she couldn't get free or get her captor to release her.
Once they got the horses all sweaty so sweaty their covered white sweat they stopped. Laura sighed a deep sigh of relief.
Her relief didn't last long, the Indian threw her roughly off the horse and Laura had landed on the ground kind of hard, her arm hurt a little from the fall, but the Indian didn't seem to care. He ordered his other comrade around on what to do with the two horses. The first Indian jumped off of his horse and grabbed Laura by the arm he instructed her to follow him so she does trying to rub the pain out of her arm.
They walked for quite a long spell, the Indian didn't say too much kept to himself as so did Laura trying to figure out where they was and how to tell someone where to find her.
After several hours of walking which by now it was day break and the other Indian had come back from whatever he did with the horses and he carried the saddle and saddle bags with him, he kept up the fast pace of everyone else.
Laura sort of wondered what was in the saddle bags that the other one was carrying but she didn't bother in trying to ask, she kept her mind on where they was walking and wondering what was going to happen next.
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Meanwhile back in town things got quite for a bit. James Rocker stayed between the doctor's office to help Doctor Baker with Caroline and Charles, and the jail.
Seems like on the outside of this old town things were normal but once you get to mingle with the people that is not always the case, James was in the doctor's office with Caroline and Charles. James just got done with checking Caroline over and told her she was slowly but surely making progress.
Caroline kept asking "Charles where is Laura she and Carrie should have been back by now? I mean I sent them home to get some papers for me it shouldn't of taken that long, that was last evening!"
James says gently "I am sure there is nothing to worry about things just takes longer than previously thought". James didn't say anything about him sending Albert to the Webb's place to look for things for himself either.
James was beginning to wonder if Albert took the high road and stolen his horse on top of it. Just then James heard a horse rode up and stopped at the hitching post that was between the doctor's office and the jail. It was Albert! He came back, James thought as he looked out the window of the doctor's office to see Albert tying the reins of his horse to the post. James sighs and turns back to Caroline who has just fallen back to sleep.
Charles who wasn't sitting that far away in an old wooden rocking chair with his arm bandage up gets up, James turns to him and asks "Where do you think you're going?" Charles says harshly "I don't want to see Albert, I'm done being nice to him! Look at the trouble he's caused!"
James says "You might want to stick around he might explain why he did what he did". James then turns to look out the window to see someone else pull up with two horses, the second horse had a body slug over the horses back tied to it, that person looked like they was out cold. James says "I might need some help some more people may need medical attention".
James gets up to go outside to see who was all lining up outside and if Albert came back with what he was supposed to. Once James opened the door he was surprised to see who was slung over the spare horse that Alamanzo was bringing back into town. James got excited a little, "Alamanzo! Where did you find Arthur? Who did this too him?" James called out standing in the door way for a moment frozen in surprise.
Alamanzo went over and got Arthur back off the horse and was going to carry him inside, he said "The Indians! He had an arrow stuck in him!" James was surprised; the only Indian James ever saw here was at the old mine where the chief died. James says questioning Alamanzo "You sure it was Indians?" Alamanzo with Arthur draped over his shoulder says "yup, I need to get him inside". James moves out of the way, to let Alamanzo through.
Then Doctor Hiram Baker shows up thinking he was done for a while this morning but by the way that people were coming to his office he knew he wasn't going to get a break anytime too soon. Hiram could see that James wasn't too happy about something,
Alamanzo was there and so was Albert with two horses too. Hiram got close to the men and says "Better get him in my office in a hurry". Alamanzo continues to walk in the office and place Arthur gently on the gurney not far from the door.
James followed Alamanzo and Hiram inside Albert stayed out he didn't want to have that discussion with his ma or pa. Hiram was there first checking Arthur out see how bad his wound was. Hiram looked at James and asked him, "Son do you want to operate on Arthur your son?" James looks might pale in the face now, and slowly says "No, no I can't no!" Albert was shocked at what he heard he finally decided to go inside, he stood by the door way for an easy exit.
Albert says to James "Come on you got to help him out, you're the best doctor here, you got Ma back to living". James says "NO! I can't do it not this time not now!" Hiram says "Okay okay I guess I'll operate I do need an assistant though?"
James who was white as a sheet now backed away and then Charles came through from the other room and says "What's all the commotion? Where are Laura and Carrie?"
Everyone has been pretty preoccupied here as of late and everyone forgot about Laura or Carrie. Alamanzo says "Charles your house, uh, I hope you find a chair to sit down in". Charles sighs then says "I wish someone would tell me where Laura and Carrie are Caroline has been asking about them, what is it about the house?"
Alamanzo, had to be the one to give Charles the update and more bad news about what was going on, he said "Well, uh Charles the house it burnt to the ground so did the stables and the animals are all gone!" Charles was surprised that someone had damaged his property but now with Laura and Carrie missing he didn't care about that.
He tells Amlanzo "Son did you see Laura or Carrie there at the place?" Alamanzo said "No I just happened to be going by Arthur was laying out cold off his horse in the drive way I stopped to help him and didn't see any or heard anyone moving around".
Charles says "Did something happened to them? I hope none of them got hurt in the blaze! Oh my…."
Charles sits down in a chair next to Arthur and says "Alamanzo can you go back and check the place? Make sure there is no one there?"
Alamanzo says "Sure Charles I go do that now". Alamanzo leaves brushes up against Albert who was still holding the gunny sack, and what James had told him to bring back from the Webb place. Albert turns to watch Alamanzo get on his horse to head back to the Ingalls home place to see if any one got hurt since the buildings bunt in the raid the other night.
Alamanzo made it back to the Ingalls burnt homestead to do a thorough check on the ruins and once he got off his horse he hardly couldn't stand the smell of the burnt place. He didn't know if he should just walk around or starting calling out for Carrie or Laura.
After a while of Alamanzo just staring around at the burnt place watching the smoke roll up out of the burnt woods and ashes he begins to call for Carrie, he started to call to see if any one answers "CARRIE!" Alamanzo called, once more he tried again, "CARRIE!" he waited for a response, dropped the reins of his horse so he could walk around the burnt place, He calls out once more "Carrie! Carrie! Laura! Laura!"
Carrie quits crying and she listens to the voice doing all the calling, she thinks its Alamanzo but she wasn't sure. Then she heard his voice again, "CARRIE! LAURA! CARRIE! Where are you?" Carrie comes out from her hiding spot and yells at Alamanzo "I am here!" Alamanzo turns to where he heard her voice, and he seen her walking and running to him.
Alamanzo and Carrie hug each other gratefully. Carrie ends their tight hug to deal with more pressing matter. Carrie says excitedly "Alamanzo! They took Laura with them!" Alamanzo says to get Carrie to calm down "It will be okay dear, who took Laura and where?"
Carrie swallows and tries to hide her tears "The Indians took her they touched the barn first then I bailed out and hide inside the well house, and then one of them opened the gate and let the animals out, then they rode back behind the house then set the house on fire from behind!"
Alamanzo hugs Carrie some more to keep her from crying loud, he says "Well, first we can't do nothing more to save this place there is nothing left here, we need to get you to town close to Ma and Pa."
Carrie looks up at Alamanzo and says "Thank you Alamanzo for being here for us, Sorry I didn't come out of my hiding sooner".
Alamanzo says gently "Don't worry about it, we need to get you back to town, got those papers I hope that your Ma wanted?"
Carrie takes the big leather fancy fold out from under her dress and long skirts to show Alamanzo that she still had what they needed. Alamanzo said to Carrie "You're doing your Ma proud dear, now let's get out of here the smell of this burnt up place is getting too me".
Carrie then asks as her and Alamanzo heads to his horse, Carrie says "Alamanzo?" Alamanzo replies "Yes dear Carrie what is it?" Carrie asks with a little fear in her voice, "What about Laura?" Alamanzo says gently trying to hide his fear, "I don't know! I don't know!" (To Be Continued).