People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-14

from the snoOd, rippied down below
her knees. Her appearance formed a
strong contrast with that of her fa-
vOred lover, while there was some re-
semblance between her and the young
er brother. This fact seemed, to his
fierce seliShneSs, ground for a prior
claim.
III may appear strange that a man
IKE MIN should not have had instant
recourse to his superior and hidden
knowledge, by means of which he
might have got rid of his rival with
iar more of certainty and less risk;
put l presume that. for the moment.
ms passion overwhelmed his conscious
ness of skill. Yet l do not suppose
that he fOreSaw the mode in which his
hatred was about to operate. At the
moment, when he learned their mutual
attachment, probably through a do
nestle, the lady was on her way to
meet her lover as he returned from the
DAY $ sport The appointed place was
on the edge of deep. rocky ravine,
down in whose dark bosom brawled
and foamed little mountain torrent.
You know the place, Duncan, my dear,
| dare say"
There she gave me a minute deScrip-
ton OF the spot, with directions how
to find it,
whether any one saw what I am
going to relate, or whether it was put
together afterward | cannot tell. The
story Is like an old tree-so old that it
mas lost the marks of its growth. But
this is how my grandmother told il to
me, An evil chance led him in the
right direction. The lovers, startled
by the sound of the approaching horse,
parted in opposite directions along a
narrow mountain path on the edge of
the rayine. Into this path he struck
at a point near where the lovers had
met, but to opposite sides of which
they had now receded; so that he was
between them on the path. Turning
his horse up the course of the stream,
he soon came in sight of his brother
on the ledge before him. With a SUP.
pressed scream Of rage, he rode head.
long at him, and ere he had time to
make the least defense, hurled him
over the precipicc. The helpleSsnesS
OF the strong man was uttered in one
single deSpairing cry as he shot into
the abyss. Then all was still. The
sound of his fall could not reach the
edge of the gulf. Divining in a mo-
ment that the lady, whose name was
Elsie, must have fled in the opposite
direction, he refined his steed on his
launches. He could touch the preci-
pice with his bride hand half out
stretched; his shorthand half out
stretched would have dropped stone
TO the bottom OF the rayine. There
was no room to wheel. One desperate
practicability alone remained. Turn
ing his horses head toward the edge.
he compelled him, by means of the
powerful bit to rear till he stood al
most erect; and so, his body swaying
over the gulf, with quivering and
suaining muscles, to turn on his hind
legs. Having completed the half-cir-
Gle, he let him drop, and urged him
fwiouSly in the opposite direction.
1t must have been by the devils own
care that he was able to continue his
gallop along that ledge of rock.
He soon caught sight of the maiden.
She was leaning. half-fainting, against
the precipice. She had heard her lov
er's last cry, and although it had con-
veyed no suggestion of his voice to
her ear, she rembled from head TO
foot, and her limbs would bear her
no further. He checked his speed.
rode gently up to her, lifted her unre-
SiSting, laid her across the shoulders
OF his horse and riding carefully till
he reached a more open path. dashed
again wildly along the mountain side.
The ladys long hair was shaken
loose, and dropped trailing on the
ground. The horse trampled upon it.
and stumbled, half-dragging her from
the saddle-bOw. He caught her. lift.
err up, and looked at her face. She was
dead. l suppose he went mad. He
laid her again across the saddle be.
fore him, and rode on, reckless with
err Horse and man. and maiden were
found the next day lying at the foot
of cliff, dashed to pieces. 1t was OBJ.
served that a hind-shoe of the horse
was loose and broken. Whether this
had been the cause of his fall. could
not TO be told, but ever when he races,
as race he will till the day of doom.
along that mountain side. his
gallOp is mingled with the
clank of the loose and broken
shoe. For, like the sin, the punishment
is awful; he shall carry about for ages
the phantom body of the girl, knowing
that her soul is away, sitting with the
soul of his brother, down in the deep
ravine, or scaling with him the topmost
crags of the towering mountain peaks.
There are some who, from time to time
see the doomed man careering along
the face of the mountain, with the lady
hanging across the steed; and they saw
it always betOkens a storm, such ms
this which Is now raying around us"
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