The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

broke sufficiently to allow the peak to be
assembled she would have the trail thor
Oughlv searched, but this would not be
until spring, as a man might lie concealed
in the bottom Of a ravine or gulch whtre
the snow lay many feet deep, with a
thousand men looking for him.
1t was nearly a week after her vision
that one of the men servants, on coming
in from feeding the cattle In an clubhouse,
inquired who was the guest that had
made the extraordinary Journey up the
peak 10 the halfway house in such wealth
er, for the thermometer registered 30 de
grees below zero. Mrs. Donahue asked
what he meant, and he replied that as he
was approaching the main building he
had seen just ahead of him a man in a
rough tourists garb carrying staff and
a provision bag. He had not seen his
face, but had seen him enter the house by
the front door, and was disposed to be in
credulous when his mistress assured him
that no visitor had arrived, and at her re-
quest made a thorough search of the
premises. Again Mrs. Donahue saw the
specter for herself, as a few nights after
she was sitting before her bed room fire.
ANNIE N THE BREAST.
The same icy wind that mad previously
heralded its coming chilled her, an /, look
ing behind her, she saw Johnston, stand
ing in the same attitude of distress and
appeal On this occasion she found her
voice and asked: what is It you want2
Are you living or dead2'' He smiled at
her piteously, then, opening his coat, he
showed her the handle Of a knife plunged
to its hilt in his breast then pointed to
the snow on his garments. He looked at
her for a moment, as if silently urging
her to do something, and then, as before,
was gone in the twinkle of an eye. AS
soon as spring would permit of it, the
woman hired a party of searchers, who
went over the mountain looking into every
hole and ravine where IL seemed possible
for body to be hidden, butas there are
natural pits on the mount where the
snow never melts from one years. end 10
another, it was impracticable to make
this search a thorough one, and the re-
mains Mrs. DOnahue was so certain were
lying unburied somewhere were never
found.
Again and again the apparition came
to her, until at last, unable to bear the
look of reproach in the dead mans eyes,
she decided to return to Ireland. Before
she went however, she made inquiries Of
the people living in the valley as TO
whether any one had seen young John
son after he started up the mountain with
his two companions, but no one had,
though all remembered him for his gay
and genial disposition and regretted his
fate which was told them by the men on
their return. No one had doubted the
story they told Of hrs remaining sick at
the inn to be nursed well by the hostess,
and they had taken the first train for the
East
Since Mrs Donahue left several tour
lists and guides have returned from an
ascent Of the mount with an account of
man in a rough travellers coat and AL
pine trousers, who preceded them up the
trail, always keeping the same distance
and never even turning his head in reply
to hail or salutation, but who presently
disappeared in the mist From time to
time searching parties go out still looking
for the remains, though the mountain
still keeps its CHASTITY secret Of their
burial place