The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03

Av what if we should find that foass5 sdedHi aii uas n0s Ad 9e mf ana hap of the hfsakas stealth t.vss If we uere we on sar1ea soe thevsh @ errand The manner o
 seemed r e fall e to eac for the old fo the 3 n was Nae so after M the years had not destroyed man rgotten way. which re-
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 n ong a et e s @ h Ter It indeed sheer fall of & m cond 1es no @ tell that half ghnew had become almost I ike ea6y s5 rsg Sg dn pointing toward Proeetiagb bes st bv marrow %"s 5ecR so that it formed peninsula into h ad air a@ee the @ e n w expectations raised by the success o of irqn chests ther lids ali opened revealing in the sapphIres the glow rqbes They there beck k the chests the absorbing yellow glare of golden con5 Yet we knew that here was wealth such as But why had they been that jufng rOck7 ques- could quite ganIy borden candle down Ss @ 1xgs; Tashns soRs enen 0e oae 6ehnd % oapg the jewels As followed he picked from of the chests ssos said holding for the light More of santos words!S he added '' "
 instinct the scholar mastered Fenton even in that
 Miguel Santos writing" he said; slowly
 Gold by dshonestly shalt curse thee always For sin must be penance Fool thou shalt perish God the mser is that he shall keep goats
 "Fo9i% % came p@ordens @ voice hissng should maddis glare in his eyes suddeny ike 6end he ony The T ua onsht c u9 9e m three ne Gre 6 edge. Fenton and struggling to hold him pack. Tn way-God knows howl disentangled myself. and just at the edge My companions there; from afar little splash, while voice cried horrfd despair-t indeed have been strained agination and yet indeed it may have been Dorden's some say for was fleeing l was aergss the narrow and crumbling behind. Awed even in fear looked about.
 The air seemed to be filled with flying and jewels, sending out yellow and red, blue and flashes. then the earth gave away that great crag sank and moment-yes 1t might have been but to me a tediousy horrible day there mighty far above the surface of that and ends in the bowels of bottom at this point may find should you examine strewn with old Spanish coins and jewels and perhaps bones or Yet most of that great wealth been carried by the forceful of on under the earth which gives and takes riches and takes bodies. As for had then no desire to search, have I
 Then I turned and accursed cave or avartce. Outside the Mexican beat on me Rlt
 did not dare to return Corpus Christi turned down the other side of the mountain thinking soul of Miguel Santos, and those of late connpanions- God help themi For in the years left there is penance for past, and come back into the New England town where crime done
 AS for the riches of the I would mt touch them, for the comfort
 robbed The secret of Miguel Santos shall with m, for the way to the is have described even should chance in the village of Corpus Christi in the State Sonora " o
 Copyright. 1898, by Clinton Ross)