The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-02
never thought of that"

property winch you and Eva own
Jointly must either be owned by both
as one or divided. To divide it would
be ruin. Come! Bestir yourself"
"I1l see what l can do" replied
Amos as he strobe away thoughtfully.
Amos and Eva lived In a billy coun.
try that in part might be called noun
famous. There was one place called
the Devils Climb because an ambitious
youth had lost his life trying to get up
it. Amos was driving past it one day
when he saw a man scaling it like q
cat. Indeed. while he climbed with
the agility of a cat, he seemed to be
endowed with invisible wings. He not
only climbed. he flew. No part of the
cliff was so perpendicular that he could
not mount it. At times it seemed he
was about to fall backward and be
mangled on rocks a hundred feet be-
low, but he always caught, sometimes
on the edge of a landing above him;
sometimes he would draw himself up
by a twig that seemed too slender to
sustain a kitten. Yet up he went, sur
mounting every difficulty, till he reach
ed the summit, then turned and, as
suming a theatrical attitude. took off
his hat and waved it to imaginary per-
sons below.
AS soon as he had achieved his ex-
plot q group of persons who had been
standing near began to shout and wave
to him to the music of a movie cam
era which had beer set up near enough
for Amos to hear. Then, the show be-
ing over. the players moved away.
Then Amos, looking about him, saw
things that he had not noticed before.
Several cameras were being emoved
and placed i'm vehicles. A man on top
of the cliff was taking down a sort
of derrick that had been hidden from
view, while one at the bottom was coil
ing a wire and taking apart an APP
paratus similar to that above. n man
was directing the transfers, and Amos
approached him
1.-THE man who climbed the cliff was
pulled up by a wire, | presume?' he
said.
Just so; and a donkey engine.
There it is going into that wagon"
Gould | secure this paraphernalia
and these men to hoist me up there?'
Il reckon you a if you want to pay
for it."
what would it cost?'
well, | reckon about a hundred dot
lars"
"I'n pay you the hundred dollars If
you'll permit me to choose my W
time. Would l need any practice?
You could do Il better job by having
had practice. but it isn't absolutely
necessary"
Amos paid the mar $50 III account,
and he agreed to be on hand with the
apparatus set up the following after
noon at 4 o'clock.
The next day Amos took Eva to ride
and directed his car to the Devils
Climb. On reaching a point a few
hundred yards from it Amos pulled up
and, assuming an air of injured limo
cence, thus addressed her:
"YOu have thought proper to i'm
pugn my courage. You nave intimated
that | am nothing better than ii worm
of the dust. You have said that you
wished some one for a husband who
would elevate, not drag. you to earth.
This, coming from II | love better
than my life, has blighted it. 1t is no
value to me. | am going to risk 1t to
convince you that | am a man. not a
coward"
Jumping from the car, he ran to-
ward the Devils Climb. Reaching a
point directly beneath 1t, he paused
and looked up He was doing some
thing with his hands, but Eva could
not discern what it was, He hooked a
wire to a belt under his shoulders.
Then he began to climb.
Great heavens" cried Eva. rs he
going to try to scale that clff?'
Amos sprang lightly over the lower
rocks. which were comparatively easy
to scale. Then he reached a perpen-
dicular rock higher than his head. He
sprang up, clutched it, and in another
moment stood upon it. The ascent now
became more difficult, but h more
difficult it was the easier it seemed for
him. When he was nearing the top
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down face in the rock and carefully
placed a foot in a cavity. Then catch
ing a slight projection he placed the
other foot on a similar support. He
was midway up the face of the rock
when he fell backward.
Eva gave a shrek loud enough to
wake the dead and covered her eyes
with her hands.
In a moment took them away
and looked again. Heaven be praised.
Amos had beer caught by a scrub tree
growing out of the face of the cliff.
Giving a sprin~, he seemed to fly
back to the cliff slightly below the
rock from which he had fallen and
proceeded to make a second attempt
to scale it.
Eva shouted to him to stop. Wheth-
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