The herald., 1898-01-23

ed fore l stood up for my rights.
was too fast-just my luck. Told you
my luck was always ag'in me. I heard
talk OF doing it. but I got too fast
about my old rights, and was throwed
down the pitt
Wen, why don't you go back?"
can't, Cap'n. There's only one way
TO get between the part of the cave
where they are and this, and that's up
ana down that there pit where thev
throWed me. It's fifty feet, and Won
can't go up it 'thout O rope. though
you can come down-that's what Won
can! and the man chuclxled: but I
uhought his laughter was about as
cheerfui as bats squeaking.
Isn't there any way to get out of
; this part of the cave?"
Not way Capn."
ana the pit is too high to get up?"
100 high to get up, Cap,n-tho,,eb
you can come down."
Where is it?"
FIRST you get down here and ,o ovor
there TIL you come to a straight Inn
mel running downhill a little and"
IL comes out in the botton, 30
oome, doesn't it?" broke in the Canto,n
Yes, that's it. There I was tbroua1
oown seventy-five feet if 1 was an inch
so l was, Cap'n." ''
But that dome is higher tban tho.
as 1 believe. You couldn't have haar
thrown down it,"
L were. Cap'n. There's a +,,nra,
comes in part way up and thew tbrowed
me from that. 1t may be a bundred
feet-when 1 come down I didn,t stor
to measure it,"
well, the three of us might he ahla
to get up that pit somehow" said the
Captain thoughtfully.
Not without berloon. CAM, - r,,t
in Dauphin pN'
You don't know what we can don
answered the Captain. rather in,no-
tiently. 'If you fell down II withp',t
having your neck broken it can't he so
extremely high"
My neck was broke, Cap'n. IT
was"
Come, I can't listen to that kind or
talk. When your neck is broken it will
be when you're we'll hanged. Wen go
ana nave look at that pitt" and the
Captain arose. You know the way ont
beyond there, do you?"
Just like book. There's two ways
out, but they're both beyond the Fort.
The Forts where Ike and the boys is.
Capn' II l ever get him by the throat
I'll"
No matter about that. There's a
way to get around the Fort, 1 sup
pose?"
That's what there amt, Cap'n. No
way at all. It's big room, and there
rhey set with their fire, and their guns,
and their big jugs of liquor, Cap'n-
their big. elegant jugs of liquor, Capn."
Come, We'll go to the pitt" said Cap
tain Archway.
"All right-you're the cap'n," an
swered Dauphin. Go down my rope
or round through the Rat Hole?"
Your rope? Our rope you mean"
Was it yourn, Cap'n. found it and
just borrowed it to save going through
the Rat Hole. You know the Rat Hole,
Cap'n?"
Il think so. We call it the Pocket
Gopher Hole"
That's better. couldn't think of
nothing except Rat Hole. But I ain't
used it much nor the rope, neither, late
ly. cause the boys have been down in
that part of the cave and I've been
afraid to show myself 1 seen their
tTdchS anu tHelr IRE, ana I've only
gone down when got starved out and
had to get some fish or wood l used
to keep my fire down there to save
bringing the stuff up, but I've been
afeared to lately. They got up here
once, too, I reckon, cause somebody
pushed my rope over"
"I think Harry did that" said the
Captain. "And I guess the tracks and
fire you saw were ours"
"Is that a fact, Cap'n? Have you