The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
He put his hand

BiIls face went sickly green. He put his hand up to his throat weakly.
 Wen find his rnine-we've got. the world by the tail down hill road" Red cfTsa@p SaSeSSGST4
 "Hushw said Bf1I flush Thh 16esf nsvSf epsnw from hereabouts He just brought t here with him. Red threw out his hands inploringiy Don't take her" The girl was beside him, clinging to his arm, her eyes riveted his face He looked down at be true-I found it, I tell you" He took the girls hand and, pulling her after him. started back down the trail Were goin' back there" he shouted, "you followed them dazedly Red suddenly fell silent He took them, after him down the steep nountain-side pIunging ahead while Bill helped the girl over the great leaps s The yellow sailed with sudden dizziness into the pae sky; M The & & skeleton ,d me - ian dragging her forward. She shrank back terTi .1TIere" said Red, T found him. And this money" gave them to her And these" He laid the battered The money fe tinkling, to the sand The girl stood staring fxedly at the bauble her breast rising and trnEe eanne She % laid % ae tips Q of he her fingers s nne nGs She held it # against her sHG tTenbag lips
 Then she looked up at Red gistening tears yelling quaint gesture HAnd they came and took me away
 was little7-tres p'tte-and the. dragged me away up at Fed pleadingly holding the lodet toward him.
 "Who took you away, dear@ Red whispered.
 Indians she answered, trernbng suddenly. It the first time they had ever heard her say the word For the first time words seemed to easily to her, and they stared at her woaderngiy T never came back here. Always Indians.
 Did the Indians tie you to the. groundP Red de nanded hoarsely. She nodded. and broke into a storm of strange words.
 -Hush! said Red, quietly Why, ha~
 T would not go-go with man, shes said, brokenly, What man?" :+k-
 aTall rnan-so-and keep his camp and cook She shuddered and the tears rushed to her eyes, And 11f1en xUn1ftd n0E EeH0 days in the red and put alive horses into deep hole and covered them with sand-and tied me to the
 Until come" said Red.
 They would not put me in the fire to die. For sGsa diss from the sky would come down and kill all if
 "Injuns got her when she kid and when she got big wanted her to marry some InJur They put bind- folded live horses carry the dead to the happy huntn ground. Bill repeated. rapidly.
 "Afrad,p she WfspeIed-flndaf1S afraid. For grand pere grandpere, said hetwould come back when most needed him, and kill all If they die Mon hands above his head and told them Mon erandpere'- she ledout the cross, indicating the initials Monsieur Louis leEeere Ma reAsasdile younet French But remember for she not here Mon pere told me often of how she died, away and left her back somewhere Mon pere. Indians took away from FIIer grandfarer,@ Bill glanced down neaningly at the scattered skeleton. @Her father maybe we saw that first day by the trail. For Injuns burn their
 Jeanne stood looking helplessly fp into Reds face.
 NThey should "a been tortured to death to bring little child into this wilderness Bill cried.
 And them Injuns never come back to see if she died for they scared of the cnrse, Red argued
 The girl started forwards suddenly, and chung to Red "Gold--gold!' she cried and stood swayihg her feet Then with sudden bound she broke away from him, flying down the canon They ran after her. She darted down the narrow gulch intersectng the main draw, running fieety, one familiar with fhe boulder
 him, up winding trail that circled sudden hiL He called to her, but she sped on, unheedng hers@eet moonlight she was like some shadowy dream drifting before him, eluding hrn-5ust beyond the call of his voice the reach m of M his +r pSadng @ hand hands for him. Before her, gaunt and unheraded the skee ton wood frame of rotting tripod stood out clear against the hills She stopped and lifted an old sieve from the ground. In the clear moonlight hundred nuggets gleamed, they rolled to and fro in the
 Many nnore' she said softly pointing to the tripod and inky shaft Mon pere ct mon grandpere dug there"
 Red stood looking at her, making move to take the sieve from her hands Bill came and stood beside found that lost nine He took the sieve wonderingly Red" he said, there's two thousand dollars worth and let them trcke through his fingers to fall chink ing against the pan And we been in two miles ot it all this time-and was goin away tomorrow There's more rockS His words were lost ass he crossed to the other side of the shaft There's a trail here" he called back Red-Red can see our
 They ran forward Beyond the tripod the trail
  in white tnbroken line they could see the distant campfire glowing like great yellow coal on the blue mountain M "Ths here trail leads straight to water-tankr z Bill said q seen 1t one day, cuttn' along the back bone of the ridge calculated it sheep's trail cause no human could climb like that" 9 The girl stood silently beside them Suddenly she gave little cry and cutched at Reds Sine swayed uncertainty, Bill stretched ont his hands
 "No" said Red, quietly, and he reached down and Bill touched her dress. Give her to me Red,S te demanded "Tm goin to tote her to camp"
 Bill you're the only friend got, or ever had but if you don't move that hand Ill-" He broke down suddenly. "I want to carry her tonight, BiilS he said, brokenly.
 The girl stirred "Red carry me-" she told Bin faintIy, and without word, he turned away from them. 9. With his precious burden Red started up the new trail. She stirred in his arms Red, she whispered ? He bent over her He could seel the soft movement of her breath against his cheek The weight Of het slender body in his arms suddenly had 3 mean: inu to him He could not trust himself to trr ard