Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

(H1E(ASHI WIS now re u LII III 3
W42 to camp over rough,
'|| rocky way, leadin 6
through lonely gorges,
such as one sees nowhere as in tho
pieturssqte State OF Colorado. His
pony had that day lost shoe. Hence,
it was not possible to urge the animal
rapidly over the uneven road, or Tune,
much Us he wished to get back to his
comrede at the camp, disliked to be
inhuman enough to do so.
Occasionally, his path would be SUR
rounded by high, dark, frownins
ridges of rock, whispering pine trees
clung lohcsomely, and seemed to awe
into murnurless subsection the dwarf
cedars below them. Then, again,
down into picturesque gullies, with
limpid mountain streams urging their heir
torturous courses among the etornalls
silent powders that jutted ever and
anon actess the canyons and gulches
through which he guided his pony.
At one of these beautiful streams
Earnest Tune reined in and permitted
the thirsty animal to drink. One by
one the stars had crept out in tho violet
vault above, so far, far above, from
horse and rider in the gorge, Dense
shadows 1urked about and fefused to
yield space TO the dainty starlight that
dared invade those dark, gloom
cnshrouded recesses The young man
looked about him. The night was calm.
The scene was sublime. Here the din
and tinsel display of boosted ciyilile-
ton were unknown, TO young fellow
used al his life to home in n gay
Eastern city, the gulch, with Its gloomy
mountains renching away phantasmal
| ly into the night, held something mex
pressibly fascinat ling, almost divine.
To his right, and overlooking the spot
where he had paused, doomed bold, out
standing cliffs, their rugged sides here
and there clothed in meager patches of
spruce and pine, their submits gray,
| vague and barren, as if Ceres and Flora
had united in affecting them with an
| irremovable, blighting curse. AS his
eyes swept the shadowy cliffs he start
ed and almost leaped from his saddle.
and not given to superstition and wild
imaginings. He had always hooted the
| idea of supernatural visitations. But
now He was confronted by an appa-
rition as beautiful as it was startling
Brave as he was, he felt his blood grow
chilly, and he seemed deprived Of the
power to speak CT stir
| The spectacle that enchanted his
| gaze was most lovely object, ghostly
though it was. A beautiful girl, clad
in white, flowing dress, with wild
masses Of midnight tresses falling
around pale. delicate face, stood re-
venled on the lore MOUNTAIN side. She
STOOL directly within the halo Of a
strange, greenish light that glowcL
steadily, casting It's deathly hues
around the weird yet namelessfy lovely
| figure OF the cliffs.
to artieula tie, though his voice was
hoarse and unnatural. Am I in a
dream? How awful, yet how beauji-
full
With one pale hand she motioned
| him away, away. But Earnest sat a.
if transtixed, and continued to ga e
with terrified fascination upon The
spectral object of the cliffs. What
could she mean by waving him off?
Suddenly the animal ceased drink
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rocky stream, leaped away through til
dusk of the gorge, and was rari1l
bearing him from the ghostly vi ion g
| the mountain,
When Earnest succeeded in quie'ins
down his animal, they had got too ia,
to go back. He was venturcsomc
enough to do so, and resolved to in
yestigate the mystery on the following
night, alone, if he could not persuade
his friend to accompany him. Tho
pony trembled in every limb and
showed evidence of deep fright.
Very soon horse and rider stop, ed
before a tent in q charming green
valley, not more than two miles from
the haunted cilifs. Earnest dis
moonIIo' put MS morse away, ana en-
teree the 'eht' where his colifaoe Wa
waning supper 'of nun. M, =,
Earnest Iune ara wizard N holiof'o"
were youub men rom ne" ON Nv o.
1,i porting eAl,eul loi III 'ne "',t'
noiierton' II Go'o iooklnG' wen. maze
dark-eyCd fellow, was engag e
pretty H ne; uHe' Earnest ON
SISTER. Inc marriage was SET lor eail
WINTER ana NE Young lfienas were eli
loving nm ontinr in Colorado GRE th.
wedding came off,
AS Ea. nest entered the tent. Willard
greeted him: