Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-08-16
A GREWSOME ROMANCE.
THE TRAGIC STORY OF A DE-
SERTED CAMP.
Haunted by tho Spirit OF Murdered
roman-sho HAD Meant to Surprise
Her Husband with u Present-Rcsults
of His Jealousy.

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Is late Creed Raymond, chief
counsel of tho Southern Pacific,
could hardly be called dabbler in
the occult or believer in things
supernatural, and yet as his in
innate friends will remember, he did
believe implicitly that he had seen
one ghost
1t was early in the ffties when
Raymond then u stranger in Cal
ifornia, became an express rider.
He used to make regular trips into
the mountains visiting the camps at
stated Intervals carrying in his big
saddlc-bags letters. papers and such
small articles as could be transported
III this way.
On one OF his first trips away up
in the Sierra he came to an almost
deserted camp where II rich strike
had been made and the pocket quick
ly exhausted Only one family had
remained, that OF man named
Rodden.
A knock at the door brought forth
the occupant. 10 Haymond's re-
quest for lodgings the man growled a
surly response and reluctantly let him
in The express rider.was surprised
to see sitting beside the little table,
on which stood the lamp, young
and pretty woman. He was sur
prised to recognize in her a school
mate, whom he had supposed to be
still safe i'll her Eastern home.
1t was more than month before
he again came to the deserted camp,
and this time, reaching it at an
earlier hour found the woman alone,
her husband having not yet returned
from his work. Raymond learned
from her that she had married Rod
den against the wishes of her fam
lily, and had come to the mines with
him without letting her parents
know whore she had gone. She said
little about her life in the noun
tains, but that little showed that it
had not been a happy one.
Raymond made two trips more,
calling each time at the cabin where
his schoolmate lived. Whom leaving
the second time he told them that
one trip more would be all he could
mako before the snow blocked the
trail Two or three times Raymond
had suggested to Rodden that he
take his wife. to some settlement
before winter shut them in, but had
received no answer He did not feel
ut liberty TO, say moro, SO with the
/, promise 70 visit them on his return
! in few weeks he mounted his horse
and rode down the narrow trail.
A few steps took him out of sight
of the cabin. He heard faint call,
and, looking back, saw Mrs Rodden
running down the trail after him.
She waved her hand for him to re-
turn and he rode back
"Wlli you 40 an GRAND Tor me
while you are IN the city, she said.
OF course he consented, and she
gave him her commission, and with
Il few parting words she ran up the
trail while he turned mis- horse again
to descend lie looked back after
his friend and TO his surprise saw
hodden rise from behind bush near
the trail
1t was almost night anu wind and
snow were IN riotous possession OF
tho 'mountalns when he found him
self riding down the trail mile or
two above the camp where he was to
spend the night with the koddcns.
Dusk came while he was still more
than mile from the cabin lie
pressed on as last us he dared,
= when suddenly his horse stopped
short with snort and stood culver
ing AT last the morse started ior-