Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-10-21

parlor. The inn is licensed to Joseph
Exon. 1t is also the smoking divan of
the parish of Challacombe.' The room Is
paved with stone, and furnished with u
long wooden table and benches, a high
backed wooden settee to pull before the
fire in cold weather, and broad, hos
pitable fireplace
The room was about half full at nine
O'Clock this Saturday evening, when the
latch was lifted, and an unknown per-
soma stranger-stood in the door, look
ing about the room. He looked about
the room as one who remembers it. But
his face was scared, and his eyes seemed
as If they saw nothing. Mrs. Exon, at
sight of him, spoke up:
Now, my man." she said, "what do
you want? We don't encourage tramps
here You must go as far as I5ovey to
get bed tonight"
Il am not a tramp" he replied,
hoarsely. Il have got money. See."
He pulled out a handful of silver. LET
me come in"
lie shut the door and sat down at the
lowest end of the table, taking off his
nat and shaking his long hair off his
torenead Six years ago all the men IN
the room would have risen out of respect
to the owner of Berry Down. Now not
soul remembered him.
His eyes were full of trouble, and with
KIND of trouble which the good woman
had never seen before. Not pain of body
or grief, but yet trouble He dropped
his head upon his chest and began to
murmur aloud as if no one was in tho
place but himself
mot dead he is not deadl How can
that be? how can that be?'
Then he fixed his eyes upon the land
lady's and gazed upon her as If she
could read in them what allied him Be-
w1lderment and amazement which beat
Upon his soul, as the old poet said, as II
madman beats upon a drum-this was
the trouble which caused his eyes to
have that terrifying glare and his limbs
to shake and tremble. Mrs. Exon watch
ed him, thinking he must have a fit of
ague.
THE poor man is ill.," she said Here.
my man, drink this" She gave him half
a tumblerful of cordial, which he poured
down.
The dose had the effect of composing
him little. His legs ceased trembling,
though his hands shook.
~ es, he said, 81 am Ill. l was took
sudden just now. 1 am better now.
Where may you have come from -
asked one of the men.
I've come from Southampton, where
l was put ashore. I've come all the way
from Australia"
And where might you be going next 20
III tell you that, my friend, as soon
az 1 know" Ragged and rough be look
ed. he spoke, somehow, as if he belong
ed to something better than would have
been judged by his appea rance. eff you
had asked me this morning. 1 shoulr
have told you that 1 was going TO Bo-
| vey; now, / don't know"
| Mrs. Exon still looked at him with
curiosity which comes of half uneasy
recollection.
'Old Dan Leighan, now" he went on,
''can any one give me news of him
mean Old Dan; him as had Gratnor first
and Foxworthy afterward, and then got
Berry Down, being a crafty old fox. Is
he still alive? Somebody told me he
| was dead"
alive and hearty, except for his legs
poor man"
"Oh, he's alive-alive and hea :ty? ]
thought, perhaps-somebody told me
that he died. forgot how-six years
ago come October it was. That's what
they told me- six years come October"
HE had an accident just about tina,
time-six years ago. Perhaps that is
what you are thinking Of"
How" he asked, without taking any
notice of this reply, "can a live man
have a ghost7 How can a live man
send his own ghost to travel all round
the world? Won't he want his own
| ghost for himself sometimes?"
Hes got a touch of fever" said rhe
| landlady, "and it has gone to his head
You had getter go home, my man. and
lie down, if you have got a bed any
| where"
Il want to know this" he repeated
earnestly; "did anybody ever hear of @
living man sending his ghost on. OF
errands, to keep people awake and
threaten things? 1t can't be- it isn't IL
nature"
Nobody could explain this fact, which
was new to all.
How did he do it, then?" he asked
impntiently, banging the table with hii
fist; tell me that? How did he do II?
Then he pulled himself together and be
came natural again. about his legs
now. What's the matter with Dar
Leighan's legsT'
why, after his accident they begar
to fail him." said Mrs. Exon, land now
he's paralyzed, and never leaves hi,
room unless he's wheeled ont of a fine
morning. But hearty in appetite, and a,
for his head, 1t is as clear ever"
CTo be continued-)