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I OF DEATH
0 Ey Charles Lee Taylor
l5 ComiKahL 1001. hu A. S. lilchardson
It was u forlorn looking house, long
since forsaken of human tenantry, one
would have said. Scurrying lizards did
sentry duty upon its porch, and the
predacious ants had eaten into its
woodwork. Hr.t to u cjvil engineer in
the unsettled center of Mexico any
6helter is a matter of gratitude. Dar
rel and 1 took possession without any
qualms of guilt, for it was evident that
the owner had moved out years be
fore. While the cook built a fire and
prepared dinner in the main room we
proceeded to explore, not without cau
tion, , for the old shack looked like a
promising resort for snakes. I had
just dispatched a couple that were
keeping house in a side room when a
shout from Darrel summoned me to
the second story.
"Here's a queer thing to turn up in
an abandoned house," he called.
He was bending over a small box
bound in horsehide, the lid of which
he had pried open. Together we car
ried it downstairs and went through
the contents. They were surprising
enough; at least it was surprising that
the tenants should have left such pa
pers behind them, for here were deeds
to property, leases, some mortgage pa
pers and other valuable documents, be
sides a number of family records, all
dated many years before, but all In a
good state of preservation. What in
terested me most, however, was a
small 'map drawn on prepared paper,
the work of an amateur. ' Whoever
drew it knew something about survey
ing, for he had his ranges and genles
fairly correct!" . IIebnd started al a
spring at the footof nii'Jinjocntod Jiill
InJthejrootWH fMiTnuiie
and Yuri "n line up' aravliw' O'jo feet.
'J. noil luMuicl run llcet up across
rnrtlioT turhing"totiie" left'and had
mnrked a cross on the face of a wnii
fisi;ig"s!i?(T ninety feet. His marks
showed the elevation of Jhls cross to
be thirty-two feet abovo the bed of the
fa vine. Here was food for speculation.
my companion.
that map didn't
DaiTcl," said I to
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RED FRONT
Court House Block, Oregon Cih, Ore.
Straw and Crash Hats, beiow cost.
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Shirt Waists, - - - from 35c up
36-inch Percales, - - -. now 2z yd
Table Cloth, - - L - from 20c
buck Skirts; hi colors' - - , from 75c
Mcn ani B y'k CAps Reg. price 25c, now 1 5c
Men's Fancy Dress Shirts, " " 1.00 " 75c
Neckties, - - " " 25c u J 5c
Men's Sweaters, - 85c " 65c
Boy's u ' " " " 40c
Men's Heavy Shirts. " 60c to 75c " 45c
Fancy Sox, - - per pair, 5c
"the man that drew
do it for fun."
"1 guess 't hat's right." replied Par
rel. "There's something behind the
place marked by that cross, but what
is it 7"
f "WhnVs the most likely thing to be
in the i--,:de of a cliff In this country?"
"Oh. 1 see!", said he. "A cave, you
mean. But what's in the cave, then?"
"That's what we'll (ind out if we
can locate the cave," said I.
Luck was with us In the matter. It
wasn't n week later when one of our
surveyors came in with a tale of hav
ing located a flue spring at the foot of
i nJ''1-LQil!Ur;u' onc of thd wildest ra
vlui iliat lio jnul ever.gjj, eyes on.
Neither Dan-el norTl'ested easy until
j we were on the way to the spot with
the little map tucked under my belj
We were to split even on whatever we
found, roor Darrel! When 1 think of
j Jhnt bnrgiiin, I have'a chill even to this
I day. . t -.
1 !t took us nearly a"'flay on muleback
to reach our destlnatloiTThere were
the spring, theilll and the ravi'ne run
ning back justjisin the map. It was
orio 'of the"wiidest spots I evef saw in
gvild country; one couldn't IMpfccl
Ins o bit piit'ont .'llhjts iwWiTi)ws.
tp the big ravine we trudgeJ until we
mTc'iu;if-'tUoj:;i,oss guls.li, a sheer cut
.leuis.
centuries' of fiefio'tor
...It took us n loivi time ta
ine cross, as
arc hi? king a big cut in prices on everything
in the line ot Shoes, Dry Goods and Furnishing
Goods. Call and examine goods and get our prices.
ED FRONT,
Court House Block Oregon City
I lay peering Dver the dill at tli
twitching rope that gave indications of
Darrel's movement Then there ech
oed from the opposite side of the ra
vine a strange sound as of the rattling
of many castanets, followed by a
shriek of such grisly terror as I never
again want to hear. The next Instant
Darrel plunged forth from the mouth
of the cave, swung out from the face
of the cli.tr, swung back again against
the rock and, still shrieking horribly,
so that the ravine reverberated with
the sound of it, slipped through the
bight of the rope and fell headlong to
the rocks below. For a moment I lay
there stricken, waiting for I knew not
what thing of horror to issue from the
mysterious cavern. Then I rushed
down to the aid of my motionless com
panion. Half the contents of my flask
had been forced down his throat be
fore he opened his eyes. But not to
consciousness did he open them. The
glare in them told me that I tried to
recall his mind.
"What was it, old man? What was
it?" I asked him.
He half raised himself and tried to
speak, gasping and choking like a man
being strangled.
"The hands! The hands of the dead!
At my throat! They're throttling me!
Help!"
He tore at his throat with mad
strength. Then his limbs relaxed, and
he fell back In my arms lifeless. I
believe in my Inmost soul that it was
not the fall from the cliff, but sheer
terror, that killed him.
How I ever lived through that fear
ful, horror haunted ride to the camp
i don't know. I was crazy with fever
and delirium when I reached there.
It wasn't till weeks afterward that
they told me of the expedition that
went out to find and bury Darrel. My
ravings and the map that they found
when they undressed me gave them a
working clew to the tragedy. They
found the rope tied to the tree, and two
of the men went down and entered the
cave armed with stout clubs, for their
theory was that poor Darrel had been
killed ()"y a venomous snake. That
would nof have .explained his last
words, bu J'fej-t t'jSX fo'lU.' .flMj, A
fuw"yiirds' in from the i eiitraiiciT liijf,
sprawled a heap of articulated skele
tons. Darrel's hat was beneath the
heap. Groping his way in, he had dis
placed a slender post which held in
place on a shelf above him the grim,
dead guardians of the dead. They had
fallen, upon the invader and claimed
him for tUereWn.
The men searched the cave. Row
after row of long dead mummies they
found,' but little treasure. The brace
let that had cost Darrel his life and
one or two small gold carvings that
was all. But what of the mnp and the
maker of it? Did he perhaps visit the
cave and perish there of terror? Were
his bones those that Darrel saw from
the entrance of the cave? That Is a
mystery that I shall never solve that
and that other mystery of who set,
against the profaning Incursion of the
living, that grisly trap of the dead.
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4 iiiake out
tie cliff .AV'as in souiidark-
iiessifiidtiriteueSof moss.were grow
ing over the surface, but we located it .
at Jast and saw that the only way to
teach if was from the top of the cliff,
f: Having foreseen this contingency,
we had brought along a stoufrope, and
ucdr'tho edge of the cliff, which we
mounted after a long detour, we found
a convenient tree. Forone of, tis to
Jower the other would boan'easy mat
ter Both of us '"wereeager to go.
Which should it. be?Tho good old
American method of 'a flipped coin was
the arbiter, and Darrel won. Present
ly ho was 'Bitting in the bight' of the
rope before the. spot wherethe cross
was marked and calling up Uisivports
to me.
"Yes,, there's a cave here all right,
but It's walled up. Lower me down
that geologist's hammer of yours, and
I can break the flimsy thing in."
1 sent the hammer down on a string,
and for five minutes Darrel hammered
and panted, and the sound of crum
bling masonry told ine that he was
niaUlnc headway. Presently there
came a sort of gasp from him.
"Phew! That's bad uir! Don't dare
po in there for a bit."
"Throw in a lighted match, and if
It burns the air is pure enough," 1
called excitedly, for 1 was in a hurry
to know what was in that cave.
"There she goes," said Darrel a min
ute biter; burns all right. Oh, great
Civsar!"
"What's the matter? What Is It?"
I cried, dancing on the edge of the
cliff. '
"It's gold, that's what it is-a big
bracelet cf it right near the entrance.
There's something that bx.ks like bones
near it."
"Just what I expected!" I cried Jubi
lantly. "An Aztec burial cave proba
cy, uiul the fellow that drew the mnp
found it out some way. They burled
their finest treasures with their dead.
It's a fortune. Darrel."
"i :iv -1 place to And it in,"
he said. "Hut here's for it anyhow."
And lie cut. 'rod the opening that he
had made.
Kor what sorm-?d to me long uilnutei
A Mistake Somewhere.
liad jread," said the colonel as he
was rciating"some "of his' experiences
In China, "that. if a .person fell into
thewater no 'one couldjpulfhlnf Cor,
holdlng that his fallingin was a decree
of rrovfdence' that' must not be inter
fered with. One day, on one of the
canals, fstumbled and went overboard,
and, although there were twelve boat
men, not omj.of thyiwauTdexlentt hie
a hand. A JcjA 'close "shave, as I can
not swiin, T gotaboardTagaity and as
6o5n ns 1 recovered my "breath I yelled
ttt the boss boatman:
" .'-You infernal scoundrel, but why
didn't you help me out?'
'"it was your fate to fallin,' he
calmly "replied.
""'And U's your fate to take a' good
licking!5" i said as I wen, for him and
kicked and cuffed himiibont. When I
had finished him, offf, I took another,
and I was Just ''pqllghlng off my fifth
victim when the,txth,ruan halted me
to say:
"'There seems to be a mistake here.
We are taught that if a person falls
into the water he must save himself or
drown, butwe are not taught that if
be does ave himself he Is at liberty to
lick halfof China in revenge.'
"I thought his point well taken,"
laughed the colonel, "and I stopped my
score at live and went down to change
Into,, dry clothes."
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An-kward.
Professor (in a medical college, ex
hlhitincr a natieut to his class)-Gcn-
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Impossible for you to guess what is
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thane of his head and the expression
nf his eves, and you are none tho
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It takes years ot experience and con
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that he is deaf nud dumb.
Patient (looking up with n prln)
rrofesnor. I nin very eon'.v, but r.iy
brother, who U deaf nud dumb, could
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