The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-01-22
THE LOST MING.

"L2t MS go back"
"ro the States -
yes"
ITO Bucna Vista ?''
''Of course. Where else would We 70"
The last speaker was a dark-faced, brig
andish-looRing man Of fve and forty; his
companion d handsome fellow at least If
teen years his Junior. They sat in the
light of a small fire in one of the famous
guiches of New Mexico, aad seemed to be
alone. Their clrbincs rested on the
ground beside them, and the twain looked
fatiguc1.
The words Of the eldor caused sneer to
ruffie the liys OF the other. and deterInina-
ton flashed III has dark eyes.
al am not gong back % the States, much
less TO Buena Vista, before L have found
the treasure
"Then, by George some sun viii find
You in Il gulch with = iozsn feathered sticks
in your body. Where's p2vis?"
"Dead?'
"And Angerbrig!lt
Dead"
"Yes, and if you'll go up the Rio Grarde
you'n find poor Knigh- s anatomy. and in
the best heart that ,5r lived in Ohio is an
Apache arrowhead. There were five of US
when we left Buena Vista; you and I are
al the Indians have spared. And Heaven
knows that they are alter us now! %
"You can go back il you wish, Kyle. /
am going to find the tie ssure."
WHAT go back and leave you here
Chalbert Ross, you don't know Kyle Bains
never plore'n half believed The story about
the lost silver mine, and we have been up
on a wild-goose chase
al believe we are ne " the treasure rs-
sponded the younger .Iventlrer, conGdsnt-
ly. II do not think tnat the information L
gathered in Taos is altogether deceptive.
But we VIII talk while we hunt tomorrow.
Kyle, guard tonight Lie down and go
to sleep"
Obedient ths bearded man drew blank
ct about his person, and threw himself upon
the ground. A mo cent later he was
asleep, and it seemed that his guard, Chal-
bert Ross, was not far from the land of
dreams. He seemed worn out with travel
ing; but there WIS a fire IN his eye, and
his ear was on the alert for adinon.t;ons Of
dlnge=.
Perhaps he thought of the three Ohio
boys who in high spirits had crossed the
Arkansas at his sile a short time Prior to
the date of his pres sent encampnent. Brave
fellows and full OF adventure they were !;
bat there were InIian arrows in their bel.
les, and ~ the banks of unexplorel
streams they slept the sleep Of the dead.
Now but two os the little band of five men
WHO left the Buckeye State to rediscover
one of the many J ID lea. silver mines of New
Mexico replaine.i, AMI they Had hunted
many weeks with the shadow of deaths
wing above them, aaI dark mystery before:
The ig,iis Jtdtuus, invented perhaps by
some iTnagi-.ative writer, had lUred them to
The gulches and chasms of the, to them,
terra incognitd of America. Would they
ever eseape2 1t was question they could
not answer.
Chalhert Ross felt FRAT sleep WIS stealing
over him while he watched his prostrate
companion, and coveted the refreshing
slumber that closed his heavy lids IL,
rose and paced up and down the canyon N
the light Of the Ere. Far above him gilt
tered the stars; on each side. dull, gray
rocks, on which his giant-hke shadow fell.
Once he paused and drew a medallion por-
trait from his bosom, and looked at it,
| He saw the beautiful features of girlhood,
bright blue eyes, and a wealth of radiant
hair, as aureate as the sunbeams.
She wouldn't know me now,' he mur-
INJURED. II look SO old. wonder if all
silver-hunters get so haggard. 1 ought to
| go back to her; but not without the treas
ure. No! no. no %
He repeated the nionosyllable with deter
mination, and the giant, talking in his
dreams, seemed to respond propheticaly, for
he sud: