The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-15

"l can't leave home" Caldron replied, Fl am not afraid, for don't believe thar $ anything the matter out thar, but I've got too much work to Go al home and sides all that I ain't got the money to spar for the trip
 "The trip shall not cos, you anything, the captain declared.
 don't believe want to go.''
 You are afraid" said the captain you snort around and laugh at others but when the time for showing your met tie comes you back out like the coward you are. You needn't get mad, for you know you are coward"
 The blacksmith, whose courage had never before been disputed, bit his lips and walked away.
 Captain Lomal rode on the seat with the driver. Tell me, the captain said, "when we get nearly to the place
 We are nearly ihere,' said the driver after few moments.
 The captain examined his pistols For Gods sake, exclaimed the driver, !" don, shoot. tell you the thing what ever ii is, ain'i 10 be fooled with
 Leave that to me- the captain re- piled. Hello. what's this
 The horses stopped and the driver whispered. "Tha,'s it.
 The arm arose. The white. phosphor- esoent hand sleamed with pale light, The captain, despite he whispered pro- testations of the driver, levcled pistol and fired.
 The hand laughed.
 The captain leyeled another pistol and fired.
 The hand laughed again.
 The passengers got ou, of the coach and the captain dismoun,ed. This is certainly very wonderful he said. " BruNton wha, do you think of ii:"
 :" l don't know, replied the person ad- dressed. Never saw anything like i, before, and hope never shall again"
 What do you wan;:a the captain de manded of the hand
 Money. Your relations in hell are suffering. Your grandfather Is urging you 10 relieve him. The devil holds his note for fifty dollars and he will burn until i, IS paid
 You are liar vceiiera,ed the captain.
 The hand drew up is fingers and laughed, such a horrible, shrill shrieking laugh that old Brux,on turned to ore of the adventures and remarked; Wish hadn't come"
 I'm going 10 see what that is," the | captain declared. = have come here 10 investigate and I'm going to inves,i- gate
 Don't go neai i;..' implorcd the driver. " Come back" but the captain pressed forward. When within a few feet of the hand the captain stopped and turned back, but too late, for the hand seized him. IL whipped him agains, the ground, tossed him up and caught him and shook him again. The poor fellow yelled and begged his companions to come to his assistance, but paralyzed by fear, they stood, seemingly unable to move When the captain was released. he hobbled back 10 the stage and implofed his friends to give up their valuables. The hand stretched itself on the ground, and Brnxton, after being assured that he would not be harmed, deposited the money in it's palm. Then the hand dis appeared. When the stage reached the next town, the villagers were thrown into a high state of excitement. The ad- senturers would not re,srn by the Rock Pass route. but walked over the mountain When they reached Little Rock, the captain sought David Caldron. the blacksmith and apologized to him.
 The road was abandoned, for people actually were afraid to go through the Pass. Sometimes private vehicles. owned by adventures would so through the Pass, bu, never without being stopped by the hand until long time afterwards, when the hand failed to appear, but the memory of the terrible arm deierred the stage company from ever afterwards re- suinins .heir business as public carriers.
 David Caldron would never go to the place. Several years after the frs, ex- eitement caused by the hand, he dis appeared suddenly and every one de cided that he had been murdered
  Several days ago while railroad workmen were cutting through Rock Pass, they suddenly broke into a cavity. Near the centre of the