Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-02-13

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s.lw tne sleeping men, ard never took her
eyes from them.
Hal she marked them for her shaftSf
We shall sec.
Ste,lthly approaching. she stopped over
Chalbcrt Ross. and touched his shoulder
With her bow. The touch reused him. and
he looked into ber ayes a;tolu5hod. She
touched her lips indie tive OF silence and.
stepI NJ back, motioned him to rise. Ii.
glanced at Btins.
The giant still sler! and, confident that
he would not awake far while, the young
er hunter arose and followed the Apache
girl.
Without word, shs led him down the
canyon until she began to ascend. He fol-
lo.ved her up the roush path to tho country
above, and on the edgs of the gulch-the
pr,cipicc--she paused.
"The country so far as The white man can
see belongs to Wnlpan. the Apache, she
sud, sweeping her h. before her "He
owns thousand rides, and more horses
than the two pale-fac - can count. Ncva IS
his child, and the OILY child he has. She
has followed the pale-facc for many miles,
and she knows what brought him to the
land of the Apachcs.'
She smiled as she spoke tho last sentence,
and Chalbcrt Ro IS started forward with el-
gerness.
"Tell me--tell me, N.va, where it is !"
| he cried.
Tho lost mine Of shining silver" she
asked.
Yes ycs!'
"Wnat will the palo-faco do if Ncva tells
him?"
Anything you ask y
"Anytnin5, he says" she said, triumph
antly, in Il low whisper He says he will
do anytjling NcvA if she tells him
about the lost silver nine. She will try
him. Neva will soc if the pAle-face is as
gool us his word"
Try me gal. Chalbert Ross never broke
a PROMISE
Thcn her right Land pointed to the west
away from the canyon.
"Do the eyes OF the silVor-h'Ater behoia
fire ?" she askol.
"Tacy do.
"'lhare is a wagon-trAln from the white
mans country" CO .t.nu,d the Apache
"Nalpan has sud tn, t might halt in his
llni, for the plle-t1c 10 not hunt silver
mines In one of the wagons is II pale
s;,ir.'
Chaib2Et RoaS started AGAIN
"NIii tAa white III swear to obey Nova
if she tells him where the silver IS! The
chief d1uShter sAi1cn.y aSA'''
eyes,
"L2t him swear it."
lhe oAtA was t'Heh'
"Now = cri ID the a '.eh' girl IN tones
Of triumph, "AeTa nintnds the SILVER
hunter to slay the p" rose.
Nith Il cry oi horr III ms hP'' oh''ioo''
Ross started back, staring al th'
Apache. c":sins hninseH ior MS r'''.
promise.
For moment he 1dd hot SPe"A>
cried.
"No. but you hlvo asked too much' NoVa
It wolld be murder"
The Indian girl llughcd.
"Well, if tn, pale-tlce's word is worth
less, he Will die mar the lost silver; bu
his ewes will never see it. Neva know
where it is Thcra .re rocks Of sh.nin!
wealth but the skeletons Of the old Span
iar,ls guard theln.''
"Whut care | f. skeletons:" crie
Ross Il will keep NY word! Where
the mine:
"In Il few words the Apache girl locate
the lost silver mine, and swore to guide tn
hunters thither
"But first the white girl must step upo
the long trail" she said. "If the huntt
fails, Neva's shaft will find his heart. Sh
will meet him tomorrow night. Can
find the fire where his brother sleepsf"
"Yes," answered the young man, an
the next minute the Apache girl was giC
ing away.
For awhile he stood alone. undecided
He thought OF making his way to the COZ
raled train, and getting glimpse of Il,
travellers: but, after some sober thinkin,