The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-15

CO. 80
n MUCH EXCITEMENT JOE PICKED UP THR
the sky above 1t. The moon was
glimpsing out of an eastern cloud-rift
and throwing down meager web Of
rays. which the unquiet, dark surface
cauC. fitfully and shredded into the
broker coils of a writing silver SER
pent. Perhaps it was this, or perhaps
the golden snake-chain in her hands
that suggested the thing, but at any
rate Norah suddenly bethought her of
the Past. For Tough Fintragh is
haunted by the terror of one Of these
monsters, huge and grisly worm.
dwelling down in the shadowy end Of
the lake, where the water is said to
have no bottom, and to wander in lab
yrinthine caverns about the roots Of
the mountains. The creature had not
been very often seen. but Norah well
knew what a direful fate had over
taken every soul to whom its shay
named. lurid-eyed head and rood-length
of livid scales had disastrously APP
peared. One of its least appalling
habits, ran report, was to glare fixedly
at its victim. until fascinated and dis
traught he leaped wildly into the jaws
gaping for their prey. In the lone
some, murmurous dimuess by the shore
Norah did not care to linger over such
incidents, and she was turning away
quickly when a shock of fright almost
paralvzed her. Within a few yards Of
her feet she saw two reddish amber
eyes glowing through the gloom and
from the same place came "A sound of
something in rustling, Tapping motion.
1t was, in fact, only a harmless and
rather bewildered seal. who during the
past nights turmoil, had somehow got
into the Tough. and who now. instinct
lively aware Of the rising tide. had set
out eager to quit the insipid fresh
water for his strong-1avored Atlantic
brine But Norah naturally jumped
20 the conclusion that nothing less
:earsome than the Past itself was
Hopping towards her. and she fed
away before il in a headlong panic,
which eliminated moment after
wards when she ran against some large
moving body. This. again, was simply
her brother Joe, returned from setting
his friends on their way; but Norah,
with wild Shrek, gave herself up for
lost, and did actually come near put
ting an end 10 herself by tumbling in
frantic career over one stone, and
striking her head violently on En-
other. She had TO be carried home in
sensible, and Christmas day had come
and gone before she found her yes
back gropingly TO consciousness.
Meanwhile conjectures. Of en-,
were rife a. 60 the origin OF
nap. ana the suJecccenTs OF the
''illigant gold Snakv chain" that she
was graspiug. "Sclutched that tight /
she had it IN her sclenched fist, we
were hard set to wrench IL out Of her |
hand" Mrs Kenny volubly told her I
neighbors. The favorite. theory held /
that she was after pic6ia' il up on |
the shore, and would be skytin' home /
wild it in q hurry, not uirdin' where /
she was goin, and tina: was the way !
she got the ugly toss And when I
of it sufficiently 70 BE- asked for her 2
own account Of the matter, she could .
throw but little Ezh. thereon Her 4
accident had left, a so often happens, /
g strange misty gap in her memory. /
which il was vain % sean The space 4
between he- first sight az the I
box and her binding crash down on
the shingles was all confused blank
However, NO results Of ne affair
emerged and though thsi- cause re
NAMED untraceahle, had q dis:inc.
influence upon her future. One of
them w@S, tha. she would On 10 &C
count permit The snake necklace 20 b.
q her property. >he per
asserted thai = belonged 20
Mary and Eosc; and when Or. Mason.
- no had undertaken 70 dispose Of i in
dublin RENTED an incredible number
90 pounds. she would hea- 3 n ar
save dividing .lsrn be.--een
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