The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-04-03

never took her eyes from them.
Had she marked them for her shafts?
We shall see.
Stealthly approaching she stopped
over Chalbert Ross, and touched his
shoulder with her bow. The touch
reused him, and he looked into her eyes
astonished. She touched her | ps indi-
cative of silence, and, stepping back,
motioned him to rise. He glanced at
Bains.
The giant still slept, and, confid ent
that he would not awake for q while,
the younger hunter arose and followed
the Apache girl.
Without word, she led him down
the canyon until she began to ascend.
He followed her up the rough path
to the country above, and on the edge
of the gulch-the precipice-s paus-
ed.
THE country so far as the white man
can see belongs to Walpau, the Apache
she said, sweeping her hand before her.
He owns a thousand rifles, and more
horses than the two pale faces can
count. Neva is his child, and the only
child he has. She has followed the
pale.face for many miles, and she
knows what brought him to the land of
the Apaches.'
She smiled as she spoke the last SEN
tence and Chalbert Ross started forward
with eagerness.
TELL me-tell me, Neva, where is itl'
he cried.
The lost mine of shining silver?' she
asked. ..I
'Yesl yes!'
what will the pale-face do if Neva
tells him?'
Anything you askl
Anything, he say she said trium-
phantly, in low voice. 'He says he
will do anything Neva asks il she tells
him about the lost silver mine. She
will try him. Neva will see il the pale
face is as good as his word
Try me girl. Chalbert Ross never
broke promise.
Then her right hand pointed to the
west--away from the canyon.
DO the eyes of the silver-hunter be-
hold 6re?' she asked.
They do
There is wagon train from tho white
mans country continued the Apache.
'Walpau has said that it might halt in
his land, for the pale faces do not hunt
silver mines. In one of the wagons is
a pale GIRL
Chalbert Ross started again.
will the white man swear to obey
Neva if she tells him where the silver
is?' the chiefs daughter suddenly asked.
yes
Let him swear
The oath was taken.
'Nowl' cried the Apache girl, in tones
of triumph. 'Neva commands the sill
ver-hunter to slay the white rose.'
With cry of horror on his lips,
Chalbert Ross started back, staring at
the Apache, cursing himself for his
rash promise.
rs the silver hunter cowardl' she
cried.
No; but you have asked too much,
Neya. 1t would be murder
The Indian girl laughed.
well, if the pale faces word is
worthless, he will die near the lost sill
yer; but his eyes shall never see it.
Neya knows where it is. There are
rocks of shining wealth; but the skele-
tons of the old Spaniards guard them.'
What care for skeletons?' cried
Ross. l will keep my promised Where
is it?'
'In few words the Apache girl To-
Gated the lost silver mine, aud swore to
guide the hunters thither.
Kyle Bains was soon made acQuaint-
ed with Neva's visit, the oath she had
exacted from his friend.
Look here, he said. we can't find
the silver without the girl, that s certain;
and she wont guide us until the white
one is out of her road, A little case of
jealousy. Her red lover has been smit-
ten by the pale girl. III attend to the
business. I've sinned oftener than you,
Ross
But 1t will be murder
well, what of i'll Nobody will know
it in Buena Vista or elsewhere. 1t will
give us the silverP
That seemed TO decide Chalbert Ross.
He would escape the crime; but would |
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