The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-05-12

HaDOut the deer, me loTu, Lne OSSeS
bein' gone
Don't alarm yourself needlessly,
William" said Lord Chugmough. 81
will carry the deer on my shoulder"
Suiting the action to the word, when
Lord Chugmough had got his pipe
fairly alight, he seized the half
skinned carcass of the deer and slung
it across his shoulder with apparently
no effort.
Come, William" he said, and he led
the way down the eastern slope of the
mountain.
After he had walked some distance
through cedar, caoutchouc and ebony
trees, he paused.
William he said, ''it seems to me
that we have here sort of path
where people have recently walked
The path did not lead straight up
the mountain, toward the top, but
wound around it. Lord Chugmough
struck into the path, and William fol-
lowed him.
After walking short distance, they
what have we here. William"
asked Lord Chugmough.
Looks VERY like hold stone chap
ell, my lord"
"Stone chapel. Stone prison, you
mean. However, it has a roof and
three sides. We will occupy it, Will
liam"
Yes, me lord"
The old ruin to which they had ac-
cidentally found the way was one Of
the relics of an ancient barbaric power,
the truth concerning which is vaguely
guessed at by students of today.
Inside this strange place, the en-
trance to which was nearly the entire
open front, the stones having here
fallen down, there were the charred
remains of what had once been fire,
and other evidences that the natives
had adopted the ancient ruin for their
modern worship, even though they
were ignorant Of its early uses.
Lord Chugmough threw the deer
down on the earthen floor.
William" he said, sit must occur
to you that we are two most fortunate
men"
Hit as, me lord, VERY true"
81 wish, William, that our friends
had not been so careless and lost them
selves. Judging from present indica-
tons, we are going to have storm,
ourselves in finding shelter If they
had not been so reckless-if they had
kept closer to us, William
eyes. me lord" said William, think
ing that the portly Sir Galloping Grace
and others of the party would have
some difficulty in keeping close. up
with Lord Chugmough.
William, said the English sports
man, "to be prepared for emergencies,
you had better gather some sticks
while they are dry. You know, Will
liam, that we have been in similar sit
uations before, and our greatest trou-
BILE has always been in trying to make
wet sticks burn
Very true, me lord; they most
Railways splutter some"
William began at once, just outside
the solid Enclosure, to gather wood,
and he was none too soon, for the gale
had become SO furious and the sky so
black that it seemed impossible for
even the old ruin to remain standing,
and with a sudden boom" the rain
began to fall in torrents.
The wind walled and shrieked
around the thick stone walls, and the
slanting roof of thatch and hide SEEM
ed i'll danger of being carried away.
But the ruined temple was not more
than twenty-five feet high at the high
est point, and the trees that lowered
above it and bent before the awful
blast broke it's power, SO that down
in it's sheltered spot the fastenings of
the roof held good, and the interior OF
the old temple was dry and comfort
able
All day it rained, and at night Will
liam made a fire of a portion of the
wood he had gathered, and another
chunk OF the appetlzlng VenlSOn WIS
swung into it to roast.
All night it stormed, and torrents OF
water rushed down the mountain past
the stone ruin, where Lord Chug-
mough and William slept as calmly
and as peacefully as they would in
their beds on board the Cheerway, or
at Chugmough Heath, where, in fact,
they slept most uncomfortably of all.
And another day worse than the
first followed, and Lord Chugmough
began to wonder if the monotony Of it
would last much longer.
1t was the evening of the second day
of the storm, and Lord Chugmough sat
smoking in one corner CT the stone
ruin, and William was preparing the
usual meal of venison, when, in the
gloom, q peculiar shadow doomed up in
the opening at the end. Lord Chug-
mough at once saw that it was man
carrying heavy burden.
He seized his rifle and took aim.
Ito be continued)
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