The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04
CHAPTER II Continued.

On the third day went down. some
o the others went part O. the way. bu;
they didn't care 20 f5Iler- A cold sweat
was stanain' on my forehead. an while
1 went on. Ia flask o. whisky with me,
an drank 10 strengthen my nerves. An
as went on. I found. By the light o. my
torch, fuss one b5dy-wi-h the CHASTITY.
CLASSY eyes stariu' at me. an foam st--l
at the moIth-then another, with the knees
drawn up. an the arms akin the sides,
an the hands cleuched, an his teeth
hard set: an he looked a. me as e ne
wanted 10 reproach me. an my hai- wos
etandiu' on end Then I found a taird.
an 50 on. an got fust hot, then cold. an
I felt as if raw. bouy fingers wos ciuteAin'
my throat, an sounds Ike the rushin'
O waters w.os in my ears. tried % gasp
en- 10 shout, but ! couldn't. An then all
wos red afore my eyes, then black. then
red again. an sumthia' laid hold o.
my shoulders an my read. an pressed
me down: an I feu on my knees an
stared. bat couldn't see uothin'. An then
the ground seemed 10 vanish fur q second.
an thought a thousand little feet wos
runnin' over me, an jumpin' on me. an
a thousand little hands wos t0ucnin' me;
an when opened my eyes agin, 1 seed the
long mine lit up as by a red fire from
the internal regions. The whole o the
gallery wos bright with silver. an the
lode reached miles an miles away. The
sides O. the rocks looked red hot. as II
the metal wos molten an ready 10 fail
on me. A light wos burnin' at the other
end. an I tried 20 shut my eyes, an
couldn't. an then I seed what Ia felt
afore-thOusands an thousands Of uncan-
nv little silver dggers runnin
about the place. jumpin' over
ne. crawlin' hyar an thar
among the gleamin' sides. all Of EN- yell
n. all Of EN- jabberin'. an Of 'em sayin
sumthin' wot I didn't understand an all
Of EN- pointin towards me. till thought
I should have died with fright. Then sum
thin appeared TO me more fiery than the
rest-a fgger an a face that looked as If
It wos cast O. silver an yet glowed like
Twin FIRE, an voice cum TO me-a dread
full chidin voice. 'Yew was not satisfied
said the voice. with the wealth that yew
had Yew had TO stain nay ore with blood.
Thirteen yew've murdered-thirteen shall
die With that a flash as o. the fiercest
lightning that ever thrObbed in the heav-
ems crossed my eyes, an all Wos black
afore me agin. an ] knowed no more. I
must have laid thar nigh on four an
twenty hours. fur they found me when
they went down the next day, an they
brought me out into the open air. an I've
bin told sin that they thought I wos era
zy, an a man might easily have gone era
zy who'd seed wot I'd seed. An when I
told en- wot ia seed they laughed al me,
an they called me a fool, an q liar, an
wuss But IL soon cum true. Thar wos
thirteen Of US at that time. an afore TWO
days wos gone thar wos only eleven. Two
O the boys got TO hghtin' over wench
that they'd seen al Santa Fe. an who
didn't care a mules bell fur either of EN-.
An they fl, an they killed one another,
both Of EN-. stone dead.
We'd hardly buried EN- when another.
Boiling Spring Simeon. as fine a boy as
ever breathed-he stood six foot in his
bitten in the ear by a
tarantula as he wos lynn down, an his
face swelled, an his neck swelled, an lac
died choked. Then we got lot O. the orc
tOgether-Our an the Mcxicans' both-an'
we packed il on mules an sent three-tew
brothers, Tim O'Leary an Pat O'Leary-
an Kentuckian called Long Sword Mike
to take ii 70 Chihuahua an buy ropes an
iron pulleys, an things we needed An
they hadn't gone more n three miles when
they fell right slick into the hands of
band O. murderin' Appaches. an we could
see EN- from the mountains beln' killed.
After that, we ourselves had to git to the
hills, fur thar wos nigh on tew hunder'd
o the naked savages out on the warpath.
an only half a dozen of us left: an we
had 10 lie in cache fur nigh on fort
light. exrectin 10 be made meat Of every
moment, an barely DARN to git a drop o.
Water-hardly DARN 10 breathe lest we
Should lose our top-knots. An it wos
blazin' hot all the while. an we nearly
went crazy with hunger an thirst. When
the Appaches wos gone at last. an hadn't
found US, we crawled out but the wretches
had taken all our stores o. meat, an all
our stores o whisky, an salt an pow
der-everythin' that we needed An we
passed the next few weeks in terror lest
they might cum back an fall on US in
the night; an we never laid down without
eXpecun' 70 have our threats cut durin'
our sleep.
We couldn't stand this kind O. thing
long, an one of US. Fair-as-a-maid Bar
naDy, young fellow hardly twenty tew.
an SoOu-lOOkln as a Wencn--he went era
~, raving crazy, shoutin' an screanin'
about the Silver King threatenin' him
an about seein blood all around him: an
he died afore our eyes, an we couldn't
help him. An then another one. Toma-
hawk Dick, tried 10 go down I'm the mine
an slipped an fell straight down the
shaft an broke his neck an never moved
Then thar was only four Of US left out o.
thirteen-Little Snake Robinson-an old
Hoosier that sarved the northwest fur
thirty year or more-an' Raw Bone Mike.
big, strong, burly fellow as could carry
a mule on his back: an thar wos yewr
uncle, English Harry, an myself-Fire
Eyed George they called me. An we used
10 sit an try TO think, an put all sorts
O. plans about the mine; an we used to
say how unlucky the whole thing lad bin.
an how fearfully the Silver Kings curse
had cum true. An then we made up our
minds 10 risk 1t once more, an send Rob
inson an Mike TO FL Paso with a lot o.
more ore. An the tew set out, an they
went away, an we heeard no more of EN-
fur weeks an weeks. An then at last
an old Greaser that wos travellin' to Santa
Fe' an had lost mis- way, cum TO us and
told US that they'd both died Of fever on
the Deadman's stretch, an so thar wos
only tew Of us left-yewr uncle an my
self An then we resolved that we would
have nuthen' more 10 do with the cursed