The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-08-04
CHAPTER XXI.

was pencMlIpg the eastern hofl-
ION with streaks of gold and ann
Der, Of violet and purple, Of Grim
sonandcarnation, Olatha and Don
gotha arose from Them couch, In
provised In nooky recess Of the
mountain side. and straight way
commenced preparations for
their contemplated departure m
TO the mountains. The few trHlsty
followers Montezuma had Left
with Olatha, were dispatched TO
Znni wit information Of his and
Dongotha 5 INTENDED excursion.
Then, after having repaired TO
the Estuffa, and performed the
customary rites Of their religion,
they babe farewell to the village
and valley of Pecos. They jour
neyed to the northwest. For two
leagues, their pathway led over a
gently ascending plain Of alter
nate clumps of pine and patches
of prairie, terminating in an alb
rupt summit which descended al
most per-pendicularly into the
deep Apache canon. In this can
on the bands Of Daglotha had
left their chief raving maniac.
Engrossed i'm conversation, the
two companions had threaded
their way nearly to the outlet
where the obscure gorge contract
ed itself into narrow pass, with
high walls of oyerhangimg rock
on either side, when strange
spectacle arreetd thin steps. They
beheld man perched on pro
jectlng crag, huge grisly bear
on another, the head Of a famISh-
ed wolf protl1tding from his den
among the rocks, and ollsl Y rat
tliiiS hui HIS ! ttil8it. ~ tiItiI utdi
CT approach. the bear fled, the
wolf sunk back into his den and
the snake more closely contract
Id it's coils. The miserable man
was gnashing his teeth, foaming
at the mouth, and snarling at the
wild animals, or kissing back al
the Infatuated serpent.
And this was the revolving
wreck Of the daring captor of
Gurutha 5 lovely daughter; a
raying maniac, chatting under the
sunpall ofdeanonlac Madness
flung from the black wing of
Hecate, by Missing ftu.ies; an in
furiated mailman, writhing under
tlie raven shadow that darkens
the soul OF the evil doer, when
INSANITY follows In the wake of
miSdeeds and crime. And this
was the fierce and revemgeful
Doglatha the fee and rival of the
high s0nled aud noble Olatha, be3
ing Summed by even, his own fol
lowers. abandoned to solitary
madness, amid the gloom OF u
dismal gorge, surrounded by raw
enouS beasts and venomous rep
tiles.
q Iutha; thou art doubly, tire
bly,, yea, a Thousand times, aveng
ed Had the gallant Olatha empti
ed his quiver of arrows INTO the
heart, or dyed his war-club into
the blood, of thy ruthless cap
tor, thy wrongs could never have
been so fully avenged.
20 Hutha; - exclaimed Olatha,
as ne beheld the wretched man
lac, Heaven has avenged, with
terrible retriblttion, thy wrongs
and the sight Of the awful pun
iShment which has ovea-taken thy
revengeful captor, has disalmed
me of resentment. God of my re-
nowned father: let mortals take
warming from this fearful exam
pie of thy justice; let them now
learn that wickeClness and crime
cannot escape their terrible pen
alties, that, tough crime may proi
per and flourish for a season, yet
its sure end, sooner or later, is
misery
Thy words are true" Dongo-
tina responded yet, Olatha, how
slow are short sighted mortals to
recognize this great law, and
square their actions by its wise
suggestpngs. All nature attests
the existence of supreme being
who invisibly, through the agen-
cy of laws, rules and governs
the universe. But, to me. it has
ever been 4 mystery, why the
Supreme Ruler should permit the
existence of anothr being who
exerts such baleful influences ov-
er mortals, leading them into the
wlckedness of crime. Behold the
maniac, who worshipped the ma
lignant wizard of the mountain
with his reason wrecked, and his
mind the abode of scorpions lash
ing him into demoniae phranzy.