The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-18

companions. must leave you there. Be- fore the hour Of r o'clock strikes you VIII know where the treasures of the Carmilhan are hidden wtini Fake stared at, the old man with dread. In that way old-Engroi fell Into the hands of the devil with body and souli's he cried. shrinking from the boat that held the creature. You are the Evil One! Go back to your Heiiy. He drove his oars furious ly into the sea and pulled away with mighty strokes. "I will have nothing to do with your he shouted.
 The little old man gnashed his teeth. curaed and screamed after him. but Wiim Falke soon was out of sight and jutted into the sea-
 His befief that the Evil One had tried to win his soul did not deter the ffsherman from continuing his search for the gold On the contrary, if con- firmed, him in the determination to find. the treasure. which he now felt certain, lay somewhere near the cavern. He thodght that he could use the old mans information without falling into the snare of the devil.
 From that moment he fiid not cast a net again for fish, He let the field iie untitled, Day in and day out he cast his dredge along the bleak shore until it, last all the money that the two men had saved was gone and actual privation came to them.
 Kaspar Stfumpf tried hard to work for both. Although their, condition was due solely to Wilm Fakes mad ness for wealth. hts companion male neither complaint nor objection. but showed the same confidence in Fakes superior inteliigence and sense as he had shown in the days when every thing that Fake attempted was sue cessfuL s,,'ts
 Fake was ;keeniy alive to the cendi- tiou 10, which he had brought the af- fectionate Kaspar. That he had rob- bed him Of his savings was a source of Intense grief and remorse. The thought tortured him; and 1t drove him to still moro furious efforts to raise the treasure of the Carmiihan The Satanic ,whisper of the name of the ship still haunted every minute of hts sleep. Hunger, disappointment, avarice and love for. his friend ali combined to make him little mad. At last he reached a state of mental emotion where he determined to do that which the little yellow man had oounseled. He felt sure that he would deliver .hinse1f to the Devil by doing it: but 'io 1t he would.
 He confined in Kaspar. who begged him on his knees not to insist on the terrible attempt. All the prayers and petitions of the innocent follow only maddened. lWilm Fake and increased his iufatuationes At ;, last the good, weak fellow agreed to accompany him and help him.
 The hearts of both men felt a sharp pang when the rope was tied around the horns of the pretty, gentle COW which was their last possession. They had rearei her from a calf and had declined to sell her. even In their need. because they could not bear to let her go into the hands of strangers.
 l. But the wild spirit that had taken possession Of. Wtlm Fake choked all better feelings and Kaspar could not withstand his partners fiery will.
 The night fixed for their attempt was one of those windy September nights when the long winter of that far partZof Scotland announces It's ap- proach. Black clouds 7. of the night rolled heavily in front of a rough breeze and piled themselves wildly like ice floes in the mouth of the Clyde. Vast and inhy shadows flooded the gorKes between 3the cliffs The black pools in the peat bogs and the laundering beds of the mountain tor rents seemed to Kaspar forbiiding and fearful like. the mouths of he'll
 Fake walked swiftly in front Strumpf followed, trem bling at his own boidness Tears filled his eyes when ever he looked at the poor animal that followed so obediently and affee- tionatelyf going unconsciousiy to the death which was to come from the hand that always had fed and fohSled her. ..
 After wearisome climbing and de- scending again, they came to a swampy valley, tufted here and there with sparse growths of heather and moss sown with immense stones and ailrf.nrlnded hN | forhldAlnR rhafrt nf