Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

with strong medicine. 1t take all smell
| away, so dog can't find where he been
walking. Now you sleep little while
When you wake up you feel better"
So saying, the Indian mCistened his
hand in an ola near by, and held it to
the patients nostrils. In a few min
utes the strange narcotic did its work.
| Greenwood was fast asleep.
| When at last the sleeper awoke, the
medicine man was sitting by his side,
watching. White man feel better?'
| he asked.
Well, yes; I believe So"
ME very glad. Sit and drink this,
he said, taking up a small bowl con-
! tanning the prepared liquid. Now
/ stand up
Catching the extended hand, Green
| wood rose to his feet. All stiffness
was gone, even the wounds had lost
/ their smart.
Now" said the medicine man, Il
talk quick; not got long. Your father
| do good. l pay you. Come
Taking the taper he started off at a
| rapid walk with the White Panther
right at his side. Greenwood hesitated
to follow at first.
%, he no hurt you; | been rub you
with medicine. He think you Indian
now"
After cropping their way some hun
| dred feet between leaning walls the
cavern came to an abrupt ending.
! THAT for you,'' said the medicine
man, holding the taper high above
their heads.
/ Greenwood caught his breath, gasped
and staggered with astonishment. The
face of the drift glittereds with gold.
"Wh-what did you say?" he stammer-
ed
THAT all for you. 1t rich, rich mine.
Long time, 10 old mems ages ago, it
belong to big men that live in rock
houses. Then Indian come and medi-
cine men take it. Now medicine men
all gone, give it to you. But you not
take it now. | send you away, and you
come back in two days; then you take
it,"
Reluctantly Greenwood turned from
the enchanted spot and followed out of
the drift. "Will you be here when i
come back?" he asked.
mo: you see me no more. / go long
way to another country. Some time
on the desert, maybe, you see picture
Of him in the sky"
What" exclaimed Greenwood, in
credulously.
YES, / 90. Great Spirit tell me come
here and wait till he come. Hurry
said the medicine man, beginning to
ascend an inclined passage. Great
Spirit coming now. l feel him"
Suddenly the White Panther stopped
short distance ahead and waited.
Il"Come quick, Great Spirit calling
me-" Whispered the medicine man
thrusting out his hand and pulling
Greenwood up the last pitch. "Yonder
the way out, and he pointed to q
glimmer Of daylight. "Goodby. Me
60"
Greenwood took the extended hand,
already 50 cold that it made him start.
"Goodby."
The next instant the medicine man
and his faithful attendant had disap-
peared down the crevice.
Greenwood hurried to the entrance,
which he discovered, through accident,
to be closed by a boulder balanced in
such a manner that a push on either
side rolled it back far enough to let j.
into place again.
A heavy thicket Of catclaw guarded
the approach. Crawling on his hands
and knees through this barrier he
found himself on the slope of Medicine
Ridge, about 100 feet below the pile Of
bOulders where the White Panther had
kept such faithful watch over the lodge
of the Great Spirit.
True 10 the prospector's instinct,
Greenwood. without a moments delay
built a miners monument of discovery
on the spot. Filling out blank loca-
ton notice, he placed it inside. The
treasure was his beyond dispute.
Turning to go, he saw a rider coming
round the pile Of boulders. 1t was Kate.
Hardly had the first wave Of joy passed
before a second rider appeared. 1t was
old John Morgan himself.
Rapidly flew the questions and an
swers backward and forward Nothing
would do but that Greenwood must tell
his story on the spot.
At the end of two days Burnie Green
wood returned TO Medicine Ridge. But,
though so we'll marked it was some
hours before he found the remarkable
entrance again and descended to take
possession of his gold.
To this day, however, he has never
been able to find a trace either of the
iaged medicine man or of the White
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