St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02
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| DOA lIOHl lily pocket. IL leu my mana
before had time to open it.flew against
one of the rocks with a sharp click and
stuck there like frosted fly to CELL
ing. There were no other rocks in the
immediate vicinity, and | was forced to
kick it loose with my boot heel.
suddenly realized that | was grove
ing very weak and faint. Past eXperil
ments with electrical batteries had
proved to me the facilitating effects if
carried to extremes, and | knew my
danger. Retreating fifty feet in an OPP
p osl5e direction from which | had en-
Tered this mysterious arena, | proved
that the diameter of the ozonic pathway
or Delt was in the neighborhOod OF 100
feet. Indeed did not retire momenr
TOO soon, for upon entering the normal
atmosphere of the valley / fell on the
sod in limp mass. 1t was fully an
hour before recovered strength suffi.
Gent to carry me home to my shack.
=" 10 say that slept much OF soundly
mat night would be a deception.
don't know that the discovery of gold
mine on my land would have occasioned
greater or more pleasurable surprise.
MY mind was filled with vague sense
OF the possibilities of my discovery. II
was high noon the next day before /
found time to revisit the mysterious 10,
callty. And then another sensational
surprise awaited me. For eight years Z
had been annoyed by mild though
VeAatlous case OF salt rheum, or eczema!
Oh my left ankle. This disease is acl
companied by an almost continuous
burning sensation. Once only had il
IN that time disappeared for brief
| period, and that was after long series
OF salt water baths at Galveston. Tex,
upon finishing my small dinner it oc.
Cured to me that had forgotten all
about my lntiction. L examined nv
ankle. The skin was as smooth and
Ialr as an infants. Not vestige of the
| disease remained.
That afternoon l visited my roc's
nest: Every phenomenon was repeated,
| but did not allow myself to remain
over minute within the charmed. VET
| fatal circle. | was forced to estimate
this period vaguely, for my poor watch
was rendered utterly useless by the ac-
ton OF the strong magnetic currents in
the vicinity of the rocks. The peculiar
sensations within the electric circle
were pleaSurable and the temptation to
remain there only to be resisted by
strong exercise of judgment. Once,
| when out OF the range, of the arena, (
Looked up to the summit of the bluff.
| There
| SAW A DAUGHTER
| VI my HodICoG uClS uUOI-I dNIOll-AllSS
Irene. Evidently she was intent upon
some GRAND for her father, for size
taught small school about half mile
from my shack and must have come
| out of her way to call there. | mmedi-
| ately joined her by running up the cans
| yon COW path. Once or twice before r
had met Miss Irene, but until now had
not realized how pretty she was; a
bright, cheerful. blue-eyed girl with a
| beautiful head Of auburn har
"'Father asked me to come home by
way of your place. she said. and ask
| you if you could run the north and west
| lines of the land he sold Mr.. Dickson
"A few years of my life had been
| passed surveying, and, having my in
struments with me, had done something
| IN that line in my county. | told Miss
Irene that l would come on Saturday
this was Wednesday-an then. in nv
my strange discovery. l now know
| Just what the girl thought of me, and I
! don't blame her bit for the abIuptneSS
| OF her departure and the strange, fright
ened look she gave me. She thought
was lunatic.
1.-THE next day l did not visit nv
| prize, but all along kept a sharp lookout
for aerOlites. However, was obliged to
! confess to myself that, as there were
but eleven rocks in tine nest, they came
at rare intervals, and that ages must
have elapsed in the accumulation Of
that number. On the second day went,
about o'clock in the morning, and
looked over the brow of the bluff. This
| time | looked into that valley with hOr-
rOr. L saw Miss Irene within ten feet Of
the rock pile, her arms eXtende wildly,
her gait, as she wandered aimlessIy
around them, staggering and ul-
certain. few down the can
yon,, and was soon by her side
electric currents. The girl had been
within the pernicious circle for some
time-toO long, | then feared. Her lux
uriant hair was extended, like huge
fan, above and around her head, giving
her something of the weird appearance
of an albino; her eyes were turned up
wards until only the whites were visi-
BILE. Selling her in my arms bore her
fully 500 feet beyond the electric circle,
and upon coming into the warm air of
the June morning she really appeared
to die: her pulse was gone, could scarce
discover a heartbeat.
Ito restore from lightning stroke,
dash cold water over the body
''This had read years ago: in one in
stance witnessed its successful opera
ton. [ hurriedly brought water from
the Medicine creek-truly most APP
propriate name at this critical juncture
lin my hat and poured it over her body
from head to foot, drenching her COM
pletely. She revived slowly. But
with life came recollection. Thirty
rods away was the mysterious.
almost fatal rock pile. She looked
toward them, and with a convulsive
shudder, her eyes closed as though she
would shut out the sight of some hideous
object: Fully an hour we spent in talk
ing about this now distasteful, yet
strangely fascinating mystery. She
languidly making inquiries in terms
quite crude and unscientific, and L
vainly endeavoring to substantially ac-
count for the phenomena. But | don't
believe" this with merry chuckIe
from young Mr.. Bloom, that made
half the impression on her mind that [
did OIL her heart. However, my story
has nothing to do with that in the main.
Our remarkable courtShip is merely q
side issue. So soon as Miss Irene was
strong enough to walk we went up to
my shack via the COW path through the
canyon. She told me that, although she
had dlsbelieved my story, she had gone
out of her road OH the way to school for
the sake of testing my veracity.
GA wOman'S curiosity | said.
Certainly she answered, family, L
admit it,
Il hitched up my team and carried
her home. Arrived there, we both
found ourselves in nearly as bad To-
electricity the air was charged with
profanity, old Mr.. Paxton acting as
principal conductor. How could we
explain matterS-the girl soaked with
water, pale, Shivering; myself evidently
wandering in mind with cock-and-bull