Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-17


him with a potent, dreadful terror,
and his only thought and care is to
flee from 1T. Why, the very palms
above his head, rustling their leaves
at hmm loudly, are accusing him, he
thinks, with inteliigiblev voices. So ne
dashes madly though the low growth
OF the jungle, and reaching the boat.
leaps in, casts loose the rope, and
pushes of IN haste from that shore
accused.
But has he left his sin and his awful
fear behind MIN ? Not so. Even here.
on the bosom of the tranquil water,
a thousand witnesses seem to muir
muir Of his crime. The voice of the
distant tiger, that rOlrs In theiungle,
he fancies might be the vail victim.
The luminous wake Of a phOsphOres-
cent fish has terrOrs for him; he sees
in 1T the CLEAN of the ghOstIy moon
light, fltering through Jhe palm
leaves. on that pallid c0untenance
yOndeF. He is rowing on, wildly.
blindly, needless Of his course, and,
instead of rounding the point, ne
is going straight on, out toward the
breakers. He looks up to heaven
in desperate hope of sOlace; alas
but heaven itself derides and threat
ems, ne thinks, for in the flying scuds
of cloud he sees but spectres. On,
on, he huPries, bending to his oars
till his frail bark bounds and leaps
/ on the heaying, swelling water, now
! growing more turbulent with every
/ impulse that urges the light boat
/ forward. The roar OF the breakers
/ in his ears is demOniac, but he heeds
not the warning; rather he hears in
1 the clamOr the cutlery determination.
/ He is in the midst of churaing. foam
/ ing, angry waters. A black rock
! seems to uprear itself from the raging
/ waves, and Wrest an oar from him.
/ AS he bends to snatch at the shatter-
! ed fragments, the other slips from
/ his hand, and goes spinning away III
/ the moonlight, as if Whirling ia q
weird dance of mOckery. His boat
! crashes on the reef, whose fantastic
mantle Of spray, flung high in the air,
! he takes at the supreme moment for
/ another phantom. There is a brief
/ struggle between Il stupendOus force
/ and an atOm-and the man and his
sin are buried Ia the waves forever.
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| men who once landed here are for
/ liViOn, unknown, indeed, Of their
/ these things come abOut2-the spot
is known as 1.-The Cove OF
| the Treasure No one knows
name has come to he applied There
Z
corning the matter; but through
/ some subtle medium the association
OF ideas has become u fixed one. And
the two palms have long since gotten
a name OF evil reputation, and here,
/ indeed, there is somewhat of definite
shaping For the story goes that a {
nightfall Il grisly spectre comes forth
/ from the shadow and pursues the af
frighted Wayfarer- in all the oOun-
try around there is not "a human be
ing who will approach these palms
when the sun is fairly sinking, and in
fact they are stunned ut cost OF a
| wide circuit AT any hour whatever.
Once agaiIl-but the hour is now
high mid-afternOOH OF brilliant
tropical day-Once again a little boat
comes around the point, and makes
lAJl LAAC Ay-lltlt III Lllt tJtlI anu B4Ett
again two men step Ola the shore.
! They stand "a brief while contempla-
/ tive, impressed l1Y the absolute re-
! pose of the scene The broad green
/ leaves of the bananas are scarce
astir. all sensitive as they are of the
| lightest zephyr Those uncOuth
forms that salute the eve, unprac-
/ ticed though it be, with something OF
IL. ] 4 L. q
/ logs. as might be thought at first
sight, but sWinish 3lligat0rs, lazily
/ basking IN the slime OF the
creek or IN the shade OF
/ the cane-brake The iaguar and
/ the lizard, too, are asleep, but farther
| within the Jungle, where their more
sensitive bodies receive less OF the
! intense heat of the hour The huacO
sits in the high ceiba- for this tall,
! silk-cOttOn-tree viii be the first point
to catch the grateful breath of the
land breeze, when thatcOOl refreshing
wind shall blow up sWeetly. The cica-
da sings his grating, strident chal-
/ lenge, but its measure, far from re-
/ lieving the weight Of the day by a
hint of activity, only serves to en-
nance the feeling Ofbreathlessness, as
the cicada-Cau Will do, the wide world
/ over. So, too, an added heaviness
comes from contemplation Of the
hawk overhead, moving in lazy cir
! Cles.
''Carambai but what heatl' says
/ one OF the newcomers, inliguid Span
ish; 1--WE have found the spot, there is
no doubt, but the hour is badly chOs-
/ en-. Does it not seem strange, Felipe,
! that we should so readily have found
/ thn SO loanr.iL,oa In thnr- Old roar.-h-