The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25

Bilrs face went sickly green. He put his hand up to his throat weakly =. wen find his minsrws'ye sot the world by the "Hush!" said Bill Hush! This rock never come from hereabouts He just brought i here with him.. Red threw out his hands imploringly: Don't, take her" The girl was beside him, clinging his arm her eyes riyeted to his face He looked down st be trueNI found it, I tell you" He took the sirfs the trail Wsre goin back there,' he shouted ayou followed we them dazedly: Red suddenly fell silent He took them, after him. down the steep mountain-side plungng ahead while Bill helped the girl over the great leaps.
 The yellow moon sailed with sudden dizziness into the pale sky. The disordered skeleton gleamed fan arm, dragging her forward. She shrank back, terri hed but he ,a did pss not see si ., ,; .,1 ii. gave them to her. And these He laid the battered s hs Ga aas to ~ e s saS fe staring fxedly at the baubles her breast rising and falling swiftly with isd her a.11 p1nfq nonaa Hsiane % trnEet sa she % sid p2e e tp. e of % her finger hsr brsss s ha saase she .:.s vsSsTsMd M
 into her shs a sas @ w from the man who would hold me by this" She looked ad saG sy.y dea3 % Red asDs,sd M "Indians" she answered tremting suddenly. It va: the first time they had ever heard her say the word For the first time words seemed easily to her, and they stared at her wonderingly. T never came back here Always Indians" ,,. rnanded hoarsely.
 She nodded, and broke into storm of strange Hush p said Red, quietly "Why was it7"
 I would not go-go with man," she said, brokenly. ''What mani"
 "TalI man-so-and keep his camp and cook She shuddered, and the tears rushed to her eyes And when I would no keep his camp. they brought me hole and covered them with sand-and tied te the ground. and left me in the red sun until died"
 Until I come" said Red
 "They would not put me in the fire to die. For . man from the sky would come down and kill all if "Injuns got her when she was kid and when she got big wanted her to marry some Injun They put blind folded live horses carry the dead to the happy hun t' se afraid For grand pere, grandpere, said he would come back when most needed him, and kill all if they die me. Mon grandpere was tied in fire when he held out his two hands above his head and told them. Mon grandpcr- she held out the cross indicating the initials Monseur remember for she not here. Mon pere told me often of how she died, come away and left her back-somewhere. Mon pere, Indians took away from Her grandfather" Bill glanced down meaninsiy at dead"
 Jeanne stood looking helpessy up into keds face little child into this wilderness" Bill cried
 "And them Injuns come back to see If she died, for they was scared of the curse, Red argued The girl started forward, suddenly, and eiung to Red. "Gold-godp she cried and stood swaying on her feet. Then with sudden bound she broke away from him, flying down the canon They ran after Sex su ssi oirsa dlsw fs"nns ee ss ms
 path She disappeared, suddenly, behind huge Ead c1unoad forward She was cl;snhinr before him, tip winding trail that circled sudden tin He called to her, but she sped on, unheedng her .ea moonlight she was like some :hadowy dream, drihsae on before him. eading himEjuSt beyond the call of his R,vaoS the geaeh m of s ' he found her v. for him. Before her, gaunt and unheraded the skeie- ton woodfTame of Iottns tripod s. stood oat at ssss from the ground. In the clear moonlight hundred nuggets .geamed. as they rolled to and fro in the
 Many more" she said softly pointing b the fsieoA and inky shaft. "Mon pere ct mon srandpere dug
 Red stood looking at her, making no move tc t.te the sieve from hef hands Bill came and stood beside fhsnd hs t.t M He he .osf ssd ss1s Red" he said there's two thousand doran wcr1:: of nuggets banned out here" He took up haedfsl ing against the pan. And we been in two miles .! t all this time-and we wa: soin away so-morrow; 1f ore 5orafa aoc ss Hs words lost crossed to the other side of the shaft There's . trail here he called back Neo-Neo, ~n see oes eamp-fre"
 They ran forward Beyond the tripod the sraA swerved and where it the side of the hill and rsa in white unbroken line they could the distana campfire glowing like great yellow coal on the biue mountain.
 "This here trail leads straight to waEef-esnky Bill said q seen it day, cuttn' along the back, bone of the ridge calculated it wa: sheeps ra'i cause human could climb like that.
 The girl stood silently beside them. Suddenly s!ie gave a little cry and elutched at Reds arm; She swayed uncertainty. Bill stretched out his handa
 "No," said Red, quietly, and he reached down and
 Bill touched her dress "Give her to me, Red" hs demanded. "Im goin' to her to camp"
 Bill, you're the only friend got ever had. bsa if you don't move that hand Pn-" He broke down suddenly "T want to carry her tonight. Bnl," he said, brokenly. = fantly and, without word, he turned away iron them
 With his precious burden Red started up the nex trail She stirred in his arms "Red," she whispered He bent over her. He could feel the soft movement of her breath against his cheek The weight of hes slender body in his arms suddenly had 3 new mean.