Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-04

tbeaa dtgcir,s and n vou know what,
oood ~ vo,,r healtb vou1l max,
tricks too before long. for this iol
means murder ,ist nothin' else
Dodd watched the departing figure o.
HE acconplice till II was lost in the
pine forest. then muttering, savagely
''Blow for blow, an eve for an eye-ah
that's good Bible teaching, Master
Wilders," he slowly took his way back
towards Orstown.
Half petrifled with terror, Elsie had
drunk in every SYLLABLE uttered during
this terrible interview. With quick
psrceptiou. aided by her knowledge Of
local habits. she pieced the fragments
Of the conversation and read the story
like a book These villains by a well.
copcocted tale. had induced Jack Wild.
era To descend the disused mine and
there prenared his death.
Never Tor a moment did the brave
Girl hesitate Her one burning hope
was 10 reach the third gallery before
Wilders had descended to the lowest
Aoor
~ .rrrac,ata the daring Of her nm.
dsrtsL,nr ore must he familiar with
Tho cb.rsctsr ~ her SURROUNDING. tina
nina dascsraa IN several stories each
o.,Iad H. ~ hordv worLmer a GALLERY
nd aocb dsscont Il from ftv to seven.
tv.avs fset in dentb reached nv long
,.ddsrs rl.ood rearIv nernendicnlarlv
ard l., so,rs ,rs..rces With the ION hare'
" reaching n the surface.
with av;ng stens she ran 10 the dark
vawnino chesm which was the shaft
~ tbs ia nina prave as she was her
haort ho.t os sbe oazed dawn the
onlf ~ blackness
put sbo ,vss resolved. Flinpinc her.
self for one moment on her knees she
noured forth her soul in PRAYER: then.
binding her shawl around her waist.
sba cal about her nerilous task
Foo,,nc hor ,yav stem bv stem for be.
,ro without a ,antern added tenfold IN
her merrill she reached in safety the first
aoor yhero n oreuter danger n waited
ber Tbe second ladder must be nm
nrooohoJ In a l,obt On dim. inst the
few lain, aashes That reached her from
tho month ~ tbe sbaft. that she co,ild
or,v orora har v,av in desnoir IN thu
blacL ahvsa hafore her
Rut she found the ladder at last. with
,ts Ton fortunately nro;actino above the
foor of tho gallery
verv slowly and nainfullv and in ut.
ter darkness shc made her wav down.
her dal,cota hands form with snl,nters
from Tho half.decaved runos ~ the old
ladders and hor teet rrotectad only NV
ber fra,, sboss acbina with n burning
ro,r
Onca mora sha eoehad tbe ground
"y,,dsrs, V,ldorsw sho scroamed
Tbe echoss ~ her yo,ce rolled through
thosa suhterraroa, IN yerns with awful
dis,,rctnass i rereatad in tho hollow
chambers IN Il seemed IN her heated
brain as thouob aends we're moclino
hor
Then terrible soul.sIckeninv 81
lenca
sha cou,d heor ber heart beat as she
stroiued ber sors N catcb soma faint
renly Int Nil IN vain The terrible
stem must he taken. the Inst ladder must
be descended
Fliug;no herse,f on bands and knees
sho crono5 bor ,vovt N tha adoe NJ tbe
nrecipice, An. what IL tbi.? A wall,
Sbe knew that she had taken n wrong
direction and was wandering into one
of tbe interminable nassages Of the dc.
sartad nina where n sure and lingering
death awaited her MANY were the
stories that flashed across her burning
brain Of miners who. once having lost
themselves IN these subterraneous lab
vrintbv could never win their wav bacl,
10 sofetv What mould she then a
W 49, Al, ~
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ua'nern's ',ersoi' 'o' on' SUPREME "a
'or, ,,, she s'','e ,.,,, ,r,,w
nv "nu.is' "nue.a' " i,a,
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"no"n w ,'e'' nv .n n.y. ~, W a.. " III
''a niiees she groPcu WI sAo ,e'V WIN
'ren'o',as n""o '''' SHINY wan VI WIZ
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