The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-05-31

rible Well said the old man this is thu
worst looking place / have ever beer
and bet there is something terrible II
here and then some animal jumped on
from back in there and bit him wher,
the ottomatick bullets had wounded hin
and he said oh some animal is bittin;
me right in my wonds oh now it /.
biting me where my leg got broken
"Soon the old man died and went Il
meet his Maker Well said Harold
wonder what / better do So he wen
back In the cavren and there was som,
kind of something green back in Their,
and he was afraid probly Ii was the ole
mans gohst and he saw something tina
looked like some eyes looking right a
him"
"Musther Penrod !"
This was hail from the house. Del
la. the cook, emerged from the kitchen
door and stood upon the back-porch il
the sunset light. She addressed the
silent stable.
"Musther PenrOd Y rOut there sim.
where's, why can't y'answer me? Yer
father an mothers away fer dinner
an SOS Miss Marg'rut an I'm not goin
to wait ahl night. so If We want amy.
thing feat We better c'min an eat 1t.
rs the last III cahl ye!"
However, she came to the door five
times during the gradual dusk to shout
"Musther Penrod' and various warn
ings; but the stable remained stolidly
unresponsive. Finally she delivered a
real ultimatum, and when it proved in
effectual, retired permanently.
Certainly her voice had reached the
physical ear of Penrod, but 1t conveyed
no meaning; his mind had not heard
1t. Periods self was in a horrible cav
ern in the Rocky mountains with Har-
old Ramorez.
Like many another good soul moved
to attempt the transmutation of vision
into manuscript, this author was not
aware how frail and treacherous are
the processes of the alchemy. The fact
that words are fixed symbols of things
concerned Penrod little; he thought
that the words he set upon the paper
meant all the things he heard and felt
and saw, in his minds eye, as he wrote
things which so stirred and thrilled
him that his hand had begun to trem-
BILE as 1t sped, faster and faster across
the pages.
He shook with horror of the awful
refuge discovered by Harold RamoreZ !:
he saw a green vapor shmmering in
its sinister hollOws; he heard the
of the canon wind across the
cavern's mouth. saw Ii lifting and toss
ing the white hair and beard of
dreadful figure which lay there, naked
torn and drenched. He fled toward
the green vapor in the depths, only to
turn back, shuddering with CHASTITY
while out of the darkness
of eyes-eyes without bodies.
eyes without faces-loOked ut him and
began to come closer, and closer, and
closer.
When such situation is thus con-
ceived and developed in such an au-
thor, 1T seldom proceeds toward con-
valescence; but rather the symptoms
become more and more malignant In
definitely, relief being obtained only
after the author has had nights
sleep. So II was but natural that Har-
DID Ramorez's suspicious concerning
he green vapor turned out to be well
founded. The vapor proved, indeed, to
De the ghost of the unfortunate Old
Man who had suffered so greatly after
arriving at the cavern, and on the
Journey thereto, and also, owing to the
of Mr. Wilson, for six
cen long, previous years.
And. with the typical inconsistency
If all ghosts. this one had undergone q
complete change of character since
'aSsing. Forgetting every former tie
md all gratitude, it seemed wholly
nimical to its former benefactOr, and
SSuming the position of terror-in-chief
# place upon which. in life, it had
pronounced an unfavOrable opinion
nd for which ii had shown no attach
nent whatever, 1t now appeared to
ave no affairs to call it elsewhere.
or any purpose in existence save TO
nSettle the reason of one who had
bown il nothing but kindness. For,
4 truth. Harold Ramorez feared he
night go midland Periods mouth
pened and his eyes bulged fearsomely
s he wrote.
And that very instant the flame of
is depleted lantern died absolutely.
Iarold Ramorez himself was not left
1 more complete eclipse. Instinct
rought Penrod to his feet at n bound
nd. as he looked out over the side of |
he sawdust box toward the open door.
is state Of mind was one that needed |
he immediate reinsurance of sunshine. |
nd bright. warm. July afternoon sun
line was what Penrod fully expected |
, see.
Instead, he looked into Egyptian
light.
Therefore it is not surprising that |
hen Penrod emerged from the stable.
very few seconds later. breathing
disconcertedly, he bore in
9TH hands, ready for all emergencies,
4 overweighty but certainly formid-
Die weapon, which had come TO his
and as he slid down from the saw
lst box