Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-28

mortals that would unravel the se- crets of this mysterious range One day after particularly arduous climb over a trail somewhat more distinct than any we had encountered. we came upon an old cabin beneath a bluff that was almost entirely GOV cred with wild grape vines. So effec- tually was it hidden that had Dussard not been with me l should never have discovered its existence
 This looks good" exclaimed Dus- sard. T have talked with dozens oi men who have explored this range. and 1 never heard one of them speak of finding anything like this. Perhaps 1t is the Dutchmans cabin"
 In The Outchman's Cabin
 The cabin contained but one room, which was rather large for a primi- tive mounslin Gbitation. . was partly excavated in the bluff, and was walled up in front with rock laid in mud mortar At one end was a rect anglar hole that probably had served as a door and at the otier. d smaller one that served the purpose of a win dow. Built into the rock wall was a fireplace, about which were strewn some rusted pots and pans. in the centre of the caoin was a table hewn from cedar, and three ungainly chairs of the same material. both of which bore the marks of the toughest kind of workmanship. Everything looked as if the place had been deserted only a short time before. but the deep lay CT of dust on the floor without a foot print of even an insect showed that i, had not been inhabited for years. This is a damned peculiar place, said Dussard, What gets me is that while it has not seen man for twenty-five or thirty years everything : is as solid as when it was built. and the animals have so much respect for it that not even a spider has cast a web on the walls. Rattlers like such places as this to live in, but there is not track of rattler in the dust, | and as there is not a snake skin around it shows that no snake iNs been here. If any had lived here this ! is the place he would have shed. Funny old hills are these Superstition Mountains
 An uncomfortable feeling of depTes. sion came over me and said, I'm not 1 supeIstitious, but l wish l were some place else. These mountains certain : ly get on my nerves.
 ! You will have to sleep in here to- night. though he replied. From the way the thunder is rum bling We are gong to have a storm
 T don't like the place myself, but anything is better than trying Co sleep in the rain
 Both of us were tired, and after i eating hasty supper and hobbling our pack animals We turned in, Thunder began to boom, Tightening .. flashes threw a hideous glare through the chinks in the cabin, and rain be gan to faI in torrents. Gusts of wind tearing through the crags and caverns with uncontrolled fury varied the con
 tinual moaning with fierce shrteks and hOwis, which mingling with tne roars of thunder sounded like a bat tie Of fiends. My already depressed spirits gave way to sensation Of un speakabl gloom and foreboding. Fla
 tigue did not bring sleep. Words eau not describe my feelings. have reaC
 extensively, but 1 know ol no authoi ho has put such sensations on pa
 per unless it be the morbid oe II the opening paragraphs of The Fall of the House of Usher. Dussard, too who usually fell into a sound sleeI quickly, did not rest well, but tossed about among s blankets as if sui fering from some Torment l lonGed to be away, somewhere. anywhere
 1 lcnged for daylight, for anything
 that would alleviate the cursed ment d, strain.
 The Psychical Phenomenon
 fell asleep finally. How long
 had been sleeping l do not know but 1t must have been several hours
 when l suddenly awakened with 8 start. A sickiy yellOwish light filled the cabin. Sitting at the table was al old man dressed in the garb oi the . trappers Of forty years ago; buckskir
 hunting shirt, fsggings, and Ngh
 coloTed slouch hat. lis body va. small and undersized and his head groJesquely large Ike the pictures oi
 gnomes that German decorative art Ists are given 10 fs>nioning, but nc gnomish good ns.ture of munihciency beamed from his countenance. Ill. nose was big and hooked, his o5t.s small and ayericious. and all the line , aments of his face were expressive O brutality and intemperance. He sat perfectly quiet and did not make q sound At first l was puzzled ho"
 anyone could enter withcIt waking l. US, but after contenT latiug him foI
 some moments l discovered that h'
 was not Of this world. Tor 1 could set ! the rocks in the wall through his at
 tenuated body. In few moments an
 other specter entered. a young maj , similarly attired, with sack on hi! , shoulder.
 ? His features were hard and deter l mined, but he had none of the malig ] nity of the older man. He steppe' l, noiselessly to the table, and emDtie' i the sack before the old man, who ha' ? the air of authority. From the saci - fell pieces of ore, bullion, and coin , but not d sound disturbed the silence } of the room as the metal struck th' 5 table. They began Co gesticulate, ant 1, their lips moved as if engaged In al 5 animated 'convcrsariou. but mot a ? sound broke the stiffness It appeare 3 that the young man wanted his pari .I