The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-07-30

horses ana play the foolish game you
describe with little white balls"
Il could not tell it better" responded
Oscar. who had dismounted. like q
good trooper. to rest his horse
And our place is it below there?
demanded Armitage.
ut is not, sir 1t lies to the west
But man may come here when he is
lonesome and look at the people and
the gentlemen's houses. At night it is
pleasure to see the lights. and some.
times. when the wind is right, there is
music of bands"
Poor Oscar" laughed Armitage.
His mood had not often in his life
been SO high.
On bis flight northward from Wash
ington and southwark down the Allan
tic capes. the thought that Shirley Clai-
borne and her family must now believe
him an ignoble scoundrel had wrought
misgivings and pain in his heart. but
at least he would soon be near her
even now she might be somewhere be-
low in the lovely valley. and he drew
Off his hat and stared down upon what
was glorified and enchanted ground.
"Let us 60" he said presently.
Oscar sauted, standing bride III
hand.
"You will find 1t easier to walk" he
said. and. leading their horses, they re-
traced their steps for several hundred
yards along the ridge, then mounted
and proceeded slowly down again until
they came to mountain road Pres
emily high wire fence followed at
their right, where the descent was
sharply arrested. and they came to a
barred wooden gate. and beside 1t
small cabin, evidently designed for
lodge.
This is the place. sir" and Oscar
dismounted and threw open the gate
The road within followed the rough
contour of the hillside that still turned
downward until it broadened into
wooded plateau. The futter Of wings
In the underbrush, the scamper of
squirrels. the mad lope of fox. kept
the eye busy. A deer broke out Of
hazel thicket. stared at the horsemen
in wide eyed amazement, then plunged
into the wood and disappeared
There arc deer and Of foxes great
plenty" remarked Oscar.
He turned toward Armitage and add
ed with lowered voice:
ut Is different from our old hills and
forests-yes? but sometimes have
been homesick."
but this is not so bad Oscar, and
some day you shall go back"
Here" said the soldier, as they
swung out Of the wood and into the
open, 's what they call the Port Of
Missing Men"
There was broad park like area
that tended downward almost imper-
ceptibly to deep defle. They dis.
mounted and walked to the edge and
looked down the steep Sides A little
rreek flowed out of the wood and emp.
tied itself with silvery rush into the
vale, caught its breath below and be-
came creek again. A slight suspen.
sion bridge flung across the defile had
once afforded u short cut to Storm
Springs, but 1t was now In disrepair.
and at either end was pNlted mo
Thoroughfare." Armitage stepped
upon the loose planking and felt the
frail thing vibrate under his weight.
1T Is bad place." remarked Oscar,
as the bridge creaked and swung, and
Armitage laughed and jumped back to
solid ground.
The surface of this harbor of the
Hills was rough with outcropping rock.
IN some great stress of nature the
rees had been destroyed utterly, and
'nly a scant growth of weeds and wild
lowers remained. The place suggest
Il battle-ground for the winds. where
hey might meet and struggle in wild
'ombat, or, more practically, 1t was
arge enough for the evolutions of a
Quadron of cavalry.
why the name?" asked Armitage.
"There were gray soldiers Of many
'attles - yes who fought the long
ght against the blue soldiers In the
alley Of Virginia, and after the war
vas over some of them would not sur
but they marched here and
tayed long time and kept their last
ag, and so the place was called the
'ort of Missing Men. They built that
tone wall over there beyond the patch
cedars and camped. And few died,
and their graves
! ! n. !" !: + !: !.
MN, NJ are there by the
WMU MV cedars. Yes;
hNKVv vi they had brave
NVlW hearts," and Os-
ltWEfc-7H car lifted his
3LAI1SSR hat as though I
TGNE -. he were saluting
lSAsis 1SLEE the lost legion. 3
AZ &-1|k They turned /
S7EFXXzhl again to the road
/&" I4AMW and went for t
MI"Ml ward at a gal Il
ny w lop, until, half a