Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-13

vulsion of feeling came over him, and,
casting last hurried look at the pros
trate form and the white upturned
face, he fled. After several days OF
continuous travel be arrived at an
obscure mining camp in Colorado, hop
ing that, buried in the wild Businesses
Of the Rocky Mountains he could shut
out from his vision the ever present
horrible sight of the face of the brother
slain by his hand Entering upon the
pursuit of miner he sought BY few
erish industry and the hardest kind OF
hard work to forget his one horror. but
in the dark recesses of the drift in
which he was working. in the gloomy
corners of the cabin in which ne slep',
everywhere and always it haunted him.
In the meantime, after few months,
fortune with her usual fickleness re-
warded his labor, which had been per-
formed without any particular thought
or hope of result, and the open drift
which had become q tunnel Of some
proportions, struck a rich lead of mar
vellous proportions and containing inn
mense wealth.
At once the almost unknown camp
became famous, and his name all un-
consciously to him became almost as 4
household word in all mining commu
mites as associated with one of the
largest strikes of the year. Fame of
this kind travels far. and even after
time reached the quiet farm in Chester
Valley where he had spent his happy
childhood days and afterward wrecked
his manhood. One day, while in the
cage ascending from the bottom of one
of his deepest shafts, shadow cast
over the top caused him to suddenly
look up, and the face he saw caused
thrill Of horror to pass through him,
his hands relaxed his grasp of the rope
and he had narrow escape from
falling to the bottom. Arriving at the
top more dead than alive, he gave one
hasty, frightened glance around him.
saw the face again and swooned away.
The owner of the face, tall and
handsome man, evidently stranger in
the camp, sprang forward and caught
his falling body in time to prevent it
from being dashed to pieces in the
bottom of the shaft. at the same time
calculating, ooh, William The
miner was taken to his cabin, and
after the application of restoratives.
slowly revived "Wherc is it?' he
asked, at which the stranger slowly adj
vanced and said softly, Brother, don't
you know me?" With still half
frightened look in his wandering eyes
the miner gazed again at the face
which had so startled him, and gradu-
ally realizing the fact that it was real,
living rlesh and blood. again relapsed
into swoon. For days he raved in
the paroxysms of a fever, living
the hideous chapter of his life over
again, until at last thefever exhausted
Itself by its very force, and the sick
man sank into deep slumber.
At last the invalid awoke, weak and
helpless as child, but in his right
mind. Instantly the cause Of his i'll.
ness was by his side, and taking his
hand tenderly in his own said, "Wil-
liam, my poor bTotherr' It was James
Samuels, the brother who was supposed
to have been dead, but who was here
alive and well and in the full enjoy
ment Of manhood as it a miracle %
calculated William, as soon as he could
speak. .'It is. no miracle, but a sad
mistake under which you have labored
and from which you have undoubtedly
suffered much. When you get strong
er viii tell you all. The next day.
William having SO far recovered as to
be able to sit up, his brother sat by
him and said, Notwithstanding NV
injury, which was not nearly SO serious
as you imagined, regained conscious
ness shortly afterward. and our father.
who entered the barn at that moment
assisted me to the house. The news