Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-07

''The dawn is white. We see 1t with our eyes" answered the spokesman of the elders. 70 ye who stand on high, cast down the false gods according to the judg- ment of the People of the Mist.'
 Otter heard and knew that tho moment had come to leap, for now he need trouble himself with Francisco no more. Swiftly he turned his head, looking at Nam, for ho would know If he might carry out Q purpose that he had formed. It was to seizo the high priest and bear him to tho depths below.
 No, it was not possible. He was out of reach. Moreover, were he to snatch him away Francisco would fall backward, and the others might see that this was not the Shepherdess. He stood up upon his feet, kicking the stool on which he had sat of the platform and watching it's flight. It fell into the water, never touching the rock, and then Otter knew that he had planned we'll.
 Now Nam and one priest seized the fainting form of Francisco, and the other two stepped toward him. Tho dwarf wait ed till their hands were outstretched to grasp him, then suddenly sprang at the man upon his right, and shouting aloud, Como thou with mel" he gripped him about the middle in his iron grasp, and putting out all his strength hurled him self and his burden into sheer space be. meath.
 The priest shrieked aloud, and 0 gasp of wonder went up from tho watching thou. sands as the dwarf and his victim rushed downward like n stone. They cleared the edge of the pool by an inch or two-no more-and struck the boiling waters, sink ing through them till Otter thought that they would never riso again, but al last they did rise. Then Otter loosed the dead or senseless priest, and at that moment tho body of Francisco, cast hither by Nam, struck the water beside him and straight- way vanished.
 Otter loosed his grip, and diving beneath the surface Swam hard for the north side of the pool, for there he had noticed that the current was least strong, and there also tho rock bank ovorhung a little. He reached it safely, and rising once moro grasped 0 knob of rock with ono hand and lay still where, in the shadow and tho swirl of waters, he could not be discovered by any watching from above. First ho breathed deeply and moved his limbs. It was well. He was unhure. The priest whom he had taken with him, being heaVi- or, had met the water first, SO that though the leap was sn great the shook had been little.
 Hal" said Otter to himself. Thus far my spirit has been with me, and here could lie for hours and never be seen. But there is still the snake to deal with" And hastily he scized the weapon that he had constructed out of the two knives and un- wound e portion of the cord that was made fast about his middle. Then again he looked across tho surface of the waters. Some ten fathoms from him, in the exact canter of tha xYhirlnool tha hodv of tha priest was still visible, for the vortex bora 1t round and round, but of Francisco there was nothing to be setu. Only 30 feet above him Otter could see lines of heads bending over the rocky edges of the pool and gazing at the priest as he was tossed about like straw in the eddy.
 Now, if ho is still there and awake, |" thought Otter, surely the father of eroco- diles will take this bait. Therefore shall do best to Do still awhile and see what happens
 As he reflected thus louder shout than any ho had heard before reached his ears from the multitude in the temple above him, so tumultuous 6 shout indeed that for a few moments even the turmoil of the waters was lost in it.
 Now, what chances up there, won- derg" thought Otter again. Then his att pleasant fashion.
 This was the cause of the shout: A mir acle, or what the People of the Mat took to Do Q miracle, had como about, for sud denly, for the first time within the mem. ory of man, the white dawn had changed to red Blood red was the snow upon tho mountain, and, To! it's peaks uers turned to fire. For awhile all who witnessed this phenomenon stood aghast; then there aross