Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-14

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| kept looking hrst over one shoulder ana
then over tOther, hoping Some redsAln
Z Svonld steal up in the darkness and lst
\ quietly give me nay last sickness nut u Is
unnecessary to state they didn't, aud Wnen
il were purity near daylight | rolled over
upon the ground and went 20 sleep.
IL were near noon when ! were awoke
by the Queerest blinking noise / had ever
heerd. When my ear were pressed agin
the ground I could catch IL very plain,
but wnen raised nv head n weren't
there. which is all natural enough, as
/ p'rhaps YOU understand, being as you can
I hear good deal better through the airth
than the atmospheric. ltwere very much
like the noise made by hitting one stone
agiu another under the water when you're
diving. As | couldn't make 10 out 10y bob
hing my head up and down | started out
to rsckynoiter.
1T we're all rocks and gorges and ra-
vines, and | had to be mighty keertul
In moving along; but got the direction,
and arter nearly an hours maneuVerin' /
found out what IL were; and tell YOU,
stranger, that l had such s4eer
that my hair rose straight up onto
my head, my knees knocked to-
gether, my jaw dropped, and for 1--WE
minutes | couldn't speak or move a step,
and during all that time were just az
sartin / were looking upon a genOoine
ghost as am that I'm setting here this
minute.
The sight which met my eye was the
figure OF Jim Redteld at work on some
stony gravel with pick. His side were
toward me; 80 ] seed his face plain. aud
there could be no mistake about it. Bime-
by, while | stood there trembling Ike, he
Strengthened up and drawed his sleeve
across his forehead, for it were warm
work and he looked straight toward me.
"'Jim, are il you or your sp0okY
~ ack, are il YOU or your spOOk -
1--WE spoke together and then rushed
up and shook hands, when we found 1t
were ourselves, and we were so happy
that we kept on shaking hands and
dancing double-shuflles for a half hour
afOre we could talk connected like. as IL
were. Well, it were the strangest peri
ence we both had had. being, as 1t may be
said. they were so much Ike.
when hit Jim with my knife | didn't
scratch his skin, but somebody else
fetched him a whack that dropped him TO
the floor, and he thought he had shot me,
and / was drug out the back way. When
the police came in Jun were panic-struck,
as il were, and lighting his way out the
saloon, he swum the Mississippi and
struck of for the trapping grounds OF the
Nallerstun. He met an old friend, and
they stole boss apiece and made for the
pint, where found him. The other chap
said he knowed where gold was, and they
started for 1t; but, when they were close
to the spot, the Sioux came down on 'em
one night, and Jim's friend went under
and Jim himself had hard time to save
his own HAIR.
"Well. you can bet me and jim went
into partnership agin and agreed to say
nothing more about politics We gave
up all thoughts OF trapping and devoted
our energies to the pick and shovel.
There were some gold there, but not
great deal, and we soon cleaned out what
there were, being about thousand dol
lars worth, and then we made "A move
further up into the mOutains with the
idea OF going in for furs and peltries, as
we'd been doing for twenty years. We
found a right peart spot, and soon got
things ship-shape, as the sailors say, and
/ when we lit our pipes and sot down by
1 the campfire, arter supper, and grinned
and told stories, you kin bet we We're a
rapturOus couple.
"But on the third day Jim said the
/ Sioux were looking for US hot, and at
! night we didn't dare start our fire, but
/ laid down in a spot behind pile of rocks,
where we thought they wouldn't be apt to
/ fall over us. At0re we got aslee? Jim
thought we'd better get little further
4 apart, thinking the redskins would have
/ harder work TO lind us.
81 remember that when put my ear agin
/ the ground didn't hear nothing of the
/ Sioux, but | could detect "a sound, like
running water, away down in the earth.
/ I'D often noticed the same thing and !
/ didn't think nothing OF it, and bimC-by
I went to sleep. The sky were cloudy, and
being there were no moon nor stars, It
\ were as black as a wOlfe's mouth: but
/ ] hadn't slept long when ! was awoke by
/ the crack of rifles and the screeches of
4 IDjins, which, coming from the direction
where Jim had laid down, l knOwed it
were all one with him and he'd been
struck with his last sickness. | couldn't
do nothing for him, 80 backed out to
safer place and waited for daylight.
when morning come there weren't a
living creetur to be seen, and / crawled
over purity close to the spot where Jim
had laid down, but there weren't any
signs OF him. We'll, being as he had to
20 UNDER said to myself, SD rather
have the Internal Sioux do II than me;
but just then | observed big ragged hole,
like grave that were intended TO put u
dozen people in, and crawled up as close
as l dared and looked over.
! "Well, Ii were a sink-that is, a river or
stream run under the ground from some
where up in the mountains and come out
agin to the surface, mebbe miles away.
1 didn't dare 90 too close, because, you see,
the whole thing was likely to cave in and
! 20 down, In which case i would be took
/ bad. l could tell, howsumever, by the
sound of the water which come up TO me
that there were good deal Of 1t, and It
weren't so very deep down, either.
"Not forgetting the Sioux, backed out,
and hunting up our two bosses, | loaded
'em up with my things, and such as Jim
had left behiRd HIM, and concluded to
move down the mountains. IL were tick
lish work, l can tell you, with watching
for the Iniins. but | struck the right sort
OF spot about five miles away and anchor
ed myself.
at had blowed up colder, and ! started
fire where thogt it weren't likely to be
seed, and agin it my pipe and sot down
very lonely like, thogh the sorrer wern'i
half as bad as when were sure IL were
me that had sent Jim under. | missed
him bad, and | sighed and smoked slow
like for long while.
"'Well, Jim alters 'spected the var.
minis would clean him out in the end
said, aloud, 'aud they've done IT,
81 rather guess not;' and with that
Jim Redheld walked out OF the night, and
laughed and shook hands with me, and |
stared at HIM sorter surprised like and
axed him 10 explain.
He said tue yarmints somehow OF
other found ont where he were, aud, FIRM
about dozen shots toward him, made 2