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CHAPTER XVllL
"So you've got gold In the wngonT'
The next three days were full of
strange events. The party which sot
out from the wugon li-iim to hunt for
tbe cauyon were certain that the one
near which the renegades had encamped
was the place they were looking for.
Taylor and one of the renegades pros
pected down the valley and found a
canyon which Taylor was sure con
tained the cave and its treasure.
Both parties were working in the dark,
but the wagonmen had the advantage.
They knew the renegadss for what they
were, and also discovured that Taylor
had joined them. Some of the men were
for attacking them ami 'wiping out the
whole five to revenge tbe murder of the
emigrant and his wife. iut this the cap
tain would not approve! He would lose
a man or two at Jeast, even if he won
great victory, and he did not forget that
the Indians might make their presence
known at any moment.
At the second visit paid the canyon
above the renegades the wa"onmen
penetrated far enough to be certain that
this was the one described by Saunders.
They would have investigated still closor
but for the approach of a storm, which
made them anxious to reach the shelter
of camp.
Strangely enough, the other party was
just as firmly convinced that the other
canyon was the right one, and on the
forenoon of the third day it was decided
that they should move. Bob had told a
big story to get the other party off up
the valley, and as they had not moved
the renegades did not know what to
make of it He could not see why they
should question bis veracity, but Taylor
made the situation plain when he said:
"Harkins has no doubt told them of
the cave, and they ore making a still
hunt for it. Depend upon it, be has
given the secret away, and they'll divide
op the stuff if they hud it."
It was decided to hitch up and move
down the valley at once. It would not
do for Taylor to be seen, and he was to
hide away in the wagon. Bob cooked
op what he thought a very plausible
yarn, and about uouu Joe, who happened
to be looking up the valley, saw the
wagon a mile away. The rescued girl
was at once hidden from sight and the
seven men in the camp quietly mad.
ready to meet an attack.
The wagon came on, three of the rene
gades riding their horses and the fourth
driving, while the horses of the latter
and the one belonging to Taylor fol
lowed the wagon. The vehicle could
have passed the camp by fifty yards, but
it drove up and baited within ten, and
Hob called out:
"Hellol to all of ye again. 1 reck
oned ye'd be up at the diggings by this
time, but ye don't teem to keer for
(old. 1 come out to guide these boys,
who hev made their pile and are now
beaded for Brule. D.dn't so. anything
of tbe lost gal yet?"
The captain being absent with a party,
Joe took it npon himself to answer.
"We shall probublf move this after
oon. The wagons had to be overhauled
and fixed. So you'vt got gold in the
wagon?"
"(iold 'nuff to buy ialf of Dakota, my
friend.' Sorry we cf't let y. see it,
bot it's kivenxl up ar the journey.
Meet any luck yet''
"(July so so. VVUt did you get that
bay horse?" '
"I was jist goiri bhb ye it ye baa
ever seen hira a.'jrt We met a chap
named Taylti' s co le of days ago,
who was headed for e mines. He al
lowed be didn't ured is boss any long
er, and I bought the -ast for fif ty dol
lars." "Yes, that Is Taylor's horse, and 1
was wondering how you cam. by him.
Was Taylor all tight?"
"Seemed to tie a. pert as a cat. So
y. are going away tfJayV
"That's what we apect."
"Waal, I'm goin oi with the boys fui
bout twenty mile aid 1 may see you at
1 cum back. Good ick and goodby."
Th. little party noved off down the
valley, every renegide chnckliug witb
satisfaction, and th-y were soon out of
sight. Half au boir later th. captain
and his party retorted and dinner was
mini
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waer
PURE
qulcUly aispaicneu anu uie w
nessed for a move. By three o'clock a
new camp had been formed in the mouth
of the canyon. The wagons were run
in out of sight, a wall of rock was piled
up as a screen and a defense, and in a
little cave were found water and grass
for the horses for the time being.
It was well that tlwy had moved with
promptness and made things secure.
Before sunset the ram descended in such
torrents that the main valley was almost
a river. A good aized stream swept
down the bed of the snyon and out into
the valley, aud witliiu un hour the foot
prints of the horses and the tracks of
the .wagons had been obliterated. The
storm lasted half the night, ot using
great discomfort in the camp, but the
next day was not throe hours old when
everybody was made to realize that the
storm was his salvation. Some of the
men were still eating their breakfast
when Joe, who had been down to the
mouth of the canyon for a look around,
returned and said:
"Injuns till you can't rest!"
" W here? W here?" called half a dozen
men.
"In the valley. A band of at least fif
ty bas just gone tearing by."
The tire was burning clear and mak
ing no smoke, although it had been built
against the wall of the canyon, in a
place where the smoke would go filter
ing up among the trees. Every man
was ordered down to the wall, and they
reached it ill time to see the last of the
Indian band disappear np the valley.
"What's your opinion?" asked the cap
tain of Joe as they stood together.
"They are hunting for us. They've
got word that we are in this valley and
they are trying to locate us. They prob
ably expected to tiud us at the other
camp."
"Well, 1 hope they'll keep right on as
they are going." ,
"But they won't, captain. They know
that we left that camp about noon yes
terday. They picked up a dozen proofs
of it. They believe we went straight up
the valley. They'll figure that we
I couldn't have gone over ten c: twelve
miles when the storm broke, itvetliiles
above this they will be looking for onr
trail. If they don't find it they will ride
on five miles farther. Then they will
j discover that we did not go that way at
1 all."
; "And then whatf"
i "They will come back looking into all
the hiding places, and we shall have a
fight witli odds of five to one."
"I'm afraid so," said the captain, "and
this time we cannot look for a rescue by
the soldiers. The party which passed
down yesterday has no doubt been
butchered."
"1 think the reds struck into the val
ley by a pass farther up," answered Joe.
"There would have been fighting, and
we should have heard the reports of
rifles. Wo must get ready."
The month of the canyon was abont
one hundred feet wide. Seventy-five
feet up it narrowed to fifty feet and
made a bend. The wagons were in this
bend and a wall had already been thrown
across a portion of the fifty feet. Every
man now went to work to extend this
wall to a distance of thirty-five feet and
to make it look like a landslide from the
bank. Dirt was thrown in among the
rocks, and bushes pulled up aud set
among them, and two or three of the
men brought armfuls of vines and creep
ers and trailed them over the wall.
It would not do to close up the entire
width of the canyon, as the Indians
probably knew of its existence. The
wall made a strong barricade, and as
the men surveyed it from the other side
they pronounced the deception perfect
The test was at hand.
They were yet at work when th. ad
vance of the Indian party was seen re
turning down the valley. They knew
that if the wagon had come np the val
ley they had dodged in somewhere.
"Every man to .over and lie low until
1 give the word," ordered the captain,
and in a moment the gloomy mouth of
the canyon was as quiet as a grave
yard. CHAPTER XIX ' "
"Great hewCTia, hut wtvtl it thatf"
The Indians were in truth looking
for the wagons. Both parties bad a
narrow escape. Their presence in th.
valley had been detected by scout or
stroller and information carried to soma
point from which a war party of seventy
bad been dispatched to surprise and an
nihilate them. This party had come in
by one of the narrow valleys and found
the camp abandoned. The severe storm
bad obliterated all traces, aud tbe In
dians had gone up the valley to pick up
tbe trail. As they returned they were
riding at a slower pace, and were spread
tint the width of the valley.
Would they look into the mouth of
tbe canyon?
Th. otierv was answered five niinnte.
tater. Three warriors turned their ponies
to the right and rode in to within ten
feet of the stone wall. They rode its
entire length and baited in the gap and
looked up the canyon.
The men were lying flat down on the
earth, each clutching his rifle, and horses
and wagons were just around the tend.
Could it escape the Indians that the
wall was artificial? Must not their
sharp eyes detect the figures hugging
the earth? It did not seem that the gold
hunters had one show in a thousand to
escape detection, and yet they ware not
detected. After a halt of not more than
a minute, though it seemed a quarter of
an hour to each man, the trio of red
skins passed on and the moment of peril
was passed.
A bit of natural philosophy stood be
tween the gold hunters and discovery.
The Indians had turned i'Jto the gloom
and shadow from the bright sunshine,
and their vision was shortsighted and
uncertain. Had they waited a little
longer they must have seen something
or other to arouse their auspicions, but
they seemed impatient to get on.
"Thank Uodl" whispered more than
one man as the horses w-.'re heard mov
ing away.
In half an hour tbe gold hunters dared
exult and plan. Two men were left ut
the wall as lookouts, three or four others
were held as a reserve at the camp, and
the captain, Harkins and Joe set out up
the canyon to search for the cave of
gold. When the darkness became so in-
tenso as to interfere with their progress
they lighted torches aud a thorough in
spection was made of both walls.
The canyon extended into the moun
tain for a full mile, winding and turn
ing, and long enough before it ended
the pine trees met above it and prevent
ed a single ray of -light fro n descending.
Nothing answering the description of
the dying hunter could be found. He
hod .aid, as Harkins nuderstood, "five
miles to the right of the peak." Hers
was the spot. He had described the
mouth of the canyon and everything
here bore out the description. Ho said
that Bridger went up the canyon about
a mile and then tnrned into a smaller
one running to the left
' There was no such canyon. The left
bank was solid rock and earth from th.
wagons to the spot where th. great rift
stopped short at a flinty wall a thousand
feet high. The mighty wrath had split
the mountain thus fur, but it could 50
no farther.
Three times the men traveled from
the camp to the end .f the canyon, and
then all were certain that Harkins had
been mistaken. They sat down on a
bowlder in the bed of the canyon to rest
and discuss the matter, while the single
"i-ch, secured in a cleft, hardly alloweo
mtm to see each other's faces.
"Well, wo have no right to complain,
as we have lost nothing," said the cap
tain, "indeed, if w. had not slipped in
here not a man of us would now b.
wearing his scalp."
"Wasn't the old man flighty in bis
last hour?' asked Joe of Harkins, who
seemed much cast down.
"He gavo no evidence of it; on the
contrary, his mind seemed wonderfully
clear to the last."
"Perhaps be said to the left instead of
.no right of Custer's peak," suggested
the captain.
"No, 1 am snre be said to ths right,
but he may have meant th. left,"
"It's no use crying over spilt milk,"
laughed the captain.
"If we have lust the cave we have
paved onr scalps. I'm Inclined to
think the old man misspoke himself. 1
believe those renegades gave this place
a thorough looking over and are now in
the canyon below, if there Is a canyon
there. If the cav. is there they have
got the gold ere this, and that ends it."
Harkins sat with bowed head. He
had felt so sure that old Saunders told
the truth that he hated to give up the
search. There was deep silence for a
moment, broken by a whisper from Joe,
"Great heavens, but what is that!"
They were near the wall which formed
the end of th. canyon. All raised their
heads and looked into the darkness and
saw a faint tight shining ont like a star
At th. same moment their ears cangh
th. sound of many voice, chantinr , -low
tones, and a strange, weird mi
filled the heavy air.
"Hush sit still!" whispered the
tain as Harkins seemed about to spi .
np.
Then from the face of the solid rock
i.itied forth a strange procession of
strange shadows shadows which moved
in double (lie right past the trio down
into the blackness of the canyon toward
the wagons. Ths one who led the pro
cession carried what looted like a ban.
er. Behind him was on. who seemed
10 carry an urn. T'.iuu uurni mur
shadows which bore a bier, and those
who came after had theirlaces upturned
and were wailing and chanting.
The men saw and heard and realized,
but were chilled and powerless to move.
Can the dead come back to earth? Do
the ghosts of those who have gone be
fore gather in the shadows aud the dark
ness and hold reunions?
Chant! Chant! Chant!
Out from the solid wall a wall In
which the sharp eyes of tbe gold hunt
ers had failed to detect a crevice large
enough to conceal a squirrel poured the
strange, queer specters, and down into
the darkness inarched the proceaxion.
March! March! March!
Their feet kept time to the wild, weird
chant, but not the sound of a footfall
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ghostly figure stood out separate and
distinct, but not a foes could be seen.
"We are doomed men!" groaned Bar
kins, as he covered his face with hi
hands to shut out the sight
"Aye! We shall never leav. this spot
alive!" added Joe.
"Hush, men!" whispered th. captain
as be raised bis hand, "They are dead,
true enough, but they are the dead of a
thousand years agrj of the cave dwell'
era and the Aztecs. 1 have seen them
twice before, and they brought no bad
lnck. Here they come on the other side!"
The three were seated on a rock in th.
center of the rift The head of th.
spectral procession had gone down th.
canyon several hundred feet and then
turned to com. back on their left, Bast
ing them again within a few feet
March! Marchl March! '
Chantl Chant! ChantI
Soft and low and sweet cam. th.
notes like th. murmur of the August
breeze in a forest pine. The feeling ot
awe was crowded out of the hearts oi
the living, and a feeling of sadness and
reverence crept in.
It was the dead burying its deadl
March! March! March! Never th.
echo of a footfall, never the touch of
skeleton foot to the flinty rock. Th.
ear caught no sound but that of th.
ghostly voices chanting in nnison,
And of a sudden he who headed th.
spectral procession swerved to the left
and disappeared into th. solid wall and
was followed by the long lines nntil th
last had been swallowed np and lost
sight of. And then, as silence and dark
ness reigned again, the captain said:
"Men, we have a treasure here. Ex
amine that wall and yon will find aa
nening to a cave behind it"
CONTINUED.
UPPER KHEA CREEK.
Mr. Lou Goaney and wife ar. visiting
Mr. Wm. (josney.
Mr. Noah Mulkey msdeatrluto Hepp
ner this week.
We understand that Viola Tolbert ii
on the siak list.
We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Wm.
Qosney is quite ill
Mr. Sam Creesnn, the golden-haired
baobelor, has just rerurned from th.
oily. .
Noah Mnlkev Is going to out cord
wood on Frank Hevland'. plac. thit
winter.
Mr. Grant Copplp, who baa been herd
ing sheep for Wm. Pen land, it having a
vacation .
We saw a couple ot men returning
from the mountains on a hunt a few
days ago. They didn't seem to be very
heavily loaded.
Died On the 5th, the infant son of
.nr. and Mrs, Wm. r'lmeon.
one, yes has gone from among us; ,
rassetl, to ihe regions abeve.
etop, shed a tear lu remembrance
of 0110 w hose life was of love.
Mourn not, mourn not, fond parents', , .
For he Is gone, be Is gone ; vtheref
Passed lu sleep Iroin among ui
To rest lu his dear savior's care.
Rest there In peace, dear Georgie,
Rest there In peace serene.
For some sweet duy wu shall me et you.
Yes, meet you in joy tuprems.
Pakciis.
December 10, 1892.
IOMC ITEMS.
Morrow oonuty is slill in th. lead.
Wm. A. Allyn, a well-kuown citizen of
lone, a ho left Morr w county a short
Inue hko vowing Unit be would never
return, is homesick before be bas been
Kime ibrve months. He sayt he will
return in tbe spring, it -he live that
ong, for
We have Ihe laud to raise the wheat
And everything that's good to eat.
I got mv laud from Uncle bam,
Aud r ui a. happy as a clam.
My r .iri ens are the Plymouth Rock;
My hoises, t.'lydesilule-Koruiau stock;
My entile, ftliurlhorns very Hue -And
Poland-China are iny swine.
It is reported ihat Charles Hperry not
hurt lrr,m l.i. Iw.p.i. ..ull..n u..nI..J i-
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some linrbed wire which was loose. on the
.....Mtwl hnl it - ...ia..t, V.
' " " " - , o ' uiwiniv. Ji WH.
Cbsrles, himself, v. bo became tangled in
a grove of pine tree bitters.
Boy who are always falling In love
witb every .ond-lotikiiig schoolma'am
iney see, get, leu retty oiten.
A OART AND BOMB TO LOAN.
Ifyonwisban scaommodation, go to
Frank Willows, of Ioue. He is a good
Denned boy, and will loan you his bore,
and eurt.treeol charge. If you break it be
will go mill have it tiled and charge it to
Krsuk. This chaiming story will beonn
inued in the next issue. Ketneniber the
Heppner Ouz-tte is only $3.00 per year.
"HW FOLKS."
Tbe following notice was found pinned
to a telegiaph pole, "down th. liu." re
cently: LOST, BTRATID OB STOLEN.
A man about Ihe meridian of life and
about a meridian in length, wearing a
pair of mirfit irt uteis, a d uble bunehd
coat atid matkid ajnipli ns i f el rouie
iljapepBin. At ihe lime uf his die. t.Lesr
hiiob be wore a broad briDinird, 76 cent,
Baker Cilv hat, and bis general appear
ance would inilicHle he was Ibe pri pei ly.
man of "a wild (test tbow." When last
seen he war, in dot m suit of Burdett.
Wolf, and us be dim have wundetrd '00
near the reudizvous of tbe East Oregon
Outlaws, or Lave been shuen by lb.
gypsies, a great anxiety it i.-lt for bit
safety. Any iufomiHlion concerning
him will be received cheerfully by
"Hi Folks"
Heppner, Deo. 7, 1892.
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