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November 25, 1882.
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That voice! Good gracious! it was
Van’s! And as the light trom the camp-
fire flashed across his face, Paul saw that
he was not mistaken. -Tanned, and
with a soft, downy growth of dark beard,
yet it was Van, ai ul’ssoul was filled
with wonderment as he reflected upon
the strange fatality that bad again thrown
them together,
“Ye es,” returned his companion, in
whose vice-marked face Paul recognized
the young man he had seen with Van on
the steps of the Hyde House. ‘Just the
thing, after such a pull a: we've had to-
day.”
So you don’t know the parties that
fen in with after your scrape with
ihe 3 grizzly eh, Sam ?” remarked Nixon,
as he strétched himself before the tire,
casting impatient looks at the cookery.
“Tope you didn’t say anything about
our errand,” he ‘ded: suspiciously,
“Only a little,” replied Sam, reluc-
tantly, ‘¢an’ that Slip out my mouth ’fore
I know it.””
A of profanity followed from
Nixon’ 's lips.
“ Like as not they’ll put on ahead and
locate before we do,” angrily began Dan,
when, to Paul’s disinay, little Nod, at-
tracted by the sinell of the broiling meat,
broke through the underbrush, and run-
ning directly to Van, whom he seemed
at pee to recognize, began leaping up
on
CHAPTER XXX.
As little Nod fawned delightedly upon
bis old acquaintance, Van turned pale
even under his bronzed skin, and ut-
tered a faint cry.
Nod!? he exclaimed, as Dan
Nixon» rose to his feet. “ How—where
on earth did he come from
“It's same dog I tells you of; b’longs
to other camp,’’ said Sam, looking up
from hiscooking. “I thinks there must
be spy round somewheres—eh ?”” he add-
ed, in a low tone.
& ‘If there is, it’s owing to your blab-
ring tongue, you old fool 1”? angrily ex-
claimed Dan, glaring about hi
“You keep quiet a bit, Dan” “observ ed
Van, in a low voice, a: though
it seemed, the possibility or Paul! 's pres-
ence in the vicinity, pegan to force itself
upon his mind. “Ill bring him out if
it’s the person I think it may be. We
don’t want any strange curs round
Gis camp, anyway!” loudly exclaimed
Va
‘As he thus spoke, he seized Nod so
roughly by the neck that the poor little
dog, all unused to such treatment, cpled
out piteously. At the saine time, Va
rew a heavy hunting-knife from his
belt, as though he intended putting an
end to the terrier’ 3 existence, from a
spirit of sheer wantonness.
The ruse was a perfect success—if any-
thing, rather too much so,
Tosave Nod from harm, Paul would
have plunged into the midst of a band
of Apache Indians, I firmly believe.
Full of wrath, as he witnessed Van’s
action and heard Nod’s appealing ery, he
threw caution and prudence to the winds.
Bursting from his hiding- pices he shot
across the camping-grouy ke 3 rocket,
and, in his blind anger, struck Van such
a direct Mow between the eyes that the
young man in question went over back-
ward in an instant.
“You cowardly brute!” exclaimed
Paul, with flashing eyes, as Van’s knife
flew from his hand, and little Nod fled
yelping from the scene, *haven’t you
done me enough harm, without venting
our spite on m.
* The Pest of ay ence was smothered
in the folds of an army blanket, which
Dan Nixon, stealing up from behind, had
flung over Paul's head, pulling him Back-
e same time
were neatly and expeditiously lashed to-
gether, and he laid at full length in th
Shadow of the tent, there to ruminate at
his leisure on the folly of rash action.
He knew, however, that his captors
would probably not dare to do him fur-
ther harm than keep him a prisoner till
they had got well along on their way to
the mine; indeed, a remark to that effect
wat droppe: ed by Dan Nixon. But thatof
itself was a source of bitter mortification
and disappointment to him. Surely Van
Morris was destined to be his evii genius.
But little Nod was safe—that was one
comfort; and as the dog had probably
made his way back to the cainp, his ap-
earance would naturally suggest, to
ing or Mr, Groves that something
might have happened to his master.
Meanwhile, Van’ kept sullenly aloof.
Possibly he was ashamed to face the
young fellow whom he had injured in
so many ways, and against whom he had
no revengeful feelings 5 3 indeed, apart
from his own se est, Van had a se-
cret feeling of respect ‘for Paul Grafton.
An hour passed. Supper bad been
discussed, pipes lighted, and the three
sat around the fire talking together in an
undertone. In obedience to a command
from Dan Nixon, Sam arose, and taking
a bundle of blankets and_horse-cloths,
proceeded to heap them with seeming
carelessness above Paul’s body, while
Mr. Nixon, with an ugly smile, adjusted
a soft piece of buckskin’about his mouth
in such a way that he could not articu-
late the slightest sound.
The reasons for these precautions were
soon apparent. Scarcely had they seated
themselves again, when a horse’s foot-
steps were heard clattering up the defile.
Some one leaped hastily Troi the back
of the horse.
“Seen anything of a young chap on
orseback, riding along the “trail any-
wheres in these parts to- night 2? > said an
abrupt voice, Which Paul Tecognized at
orvainly he struggled, but he was bound
in such a way that he could hardly move,
and he was obliged to lie helplessly, lis-
tening to ever; ‘ything that passed.
one, it seems, had seen ‘my person
of any description.
Sam innocently wanted to know if Mr.
Groves meant tye smart looking chap
that kill the so brave, and ap-
peared quite concerned at learning that
he was the one inquired after.
Mr. Groves glanced sharply about
him, but, of course, saw nothing to fix
his suspicions on the party before hiin.
Something must have happened to Paul,
or little Nod would never have left him.
What a fool he was not to have brought
the dog with him! ‘Ten to one Nod
would have followed Paul’s trail.
As these thoughts were passing
through Mr. Groves’ mind, Van, in obe-
dience toa sign from Dan, rew a tin-
cup full of liquor from the keg beside
him.
“Take a drink, mister?” said Van, ex-
tending the cup.
“No, no,” was the hasty reply. “Tm
not “doing” anything of the Kind, nowa-
days.
“Oh, well,”? returned Van, still hold-
ing out the fiery draugbt, whose fumes
began to arouse the smouldering y enibers
of inherited appetite, “it won’t hurt you
for wes once, Drink it, man; it'll do
vn For it Mr. Groves could be induced to
thus partake, he would not be likely to
pursue his inquiries, and they would
thus get rid of him the sooner.
A strange, wild light came into the
tempted man’s eyes. “There was a brief
struggle with his better nature, and he
ed.
Seizing the cup trom Van’s hands, he
tossed off the raw liquor as though it
had been w ater.
“More,” he cried, hoarsely; and I
need hardly ay that his request was.
complied w
But why. proiong the sad story?
An hour later he was helped upon his
horse, who bore his swaying form back
to camp. One thought was now domi-
nant in his half-erazed brain—to get
more liquor on the morrow. It was only
a repetition of the terrible truth taught
by the parable concerning the man from
whom an unclean spirit was cast:
“Then goeth he and taketh with himself
seven other spirits more wicked than him-
self, and they enter in and dwell there.”
The evil spirits called together by the
demon of drink are madness, misery,
remorse, pisdon, vice, murder
death. No wonder, then, that the last
state cf that fman is worse than the first.
‘0 BE CONTINCED.]°
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. RAINING CATS AND DOGS.
Among the many queer say! ings which
one often hears, none is more peculiar
than, ‘It’s raining cats and dogs.”? Some
say that the expression came from the
French word, “catadoupe,”’ a waterfall;
but there is a more pleasing explanation
of how the phrase came into use, In
some parts of England, the blossoms of
the willow-tree are called ‘cats and
dogs.” These blossoms increase in size
very quickly after a few warm showers
in April, and it was believed once that
the rain ‘vrought them. Hence the say-
ing, “It’s raining eats and dogs.””
BITS RELATING TO BIRDS.
—A lady who lives in Limington,
Maine, has a number of feathered pets.
They are sparrows of the American fam-
ily, being known as “bush sparrows,”
and they make their hones among some
plum trees in the lady’s yard. She has
been in the habit of placing on the win-
dow-sills shreds of cotton yarn, which
they have used in building nests, and
also of scattering bread-crumbs in the
yard. The lady takes a great dea
leasure in thus feeding the birds, ‘hich
ave been coming year matter year, for the
young birds joined in the original friend-
ay last summer, after this
had grown up, the whole
flock flew dow h to get their breakfast on
the doorstep. While they were peckin
the crumbs and sugar cookies, a striped
youre rrel, also a pet of the lady, ’suddenly
leaped among them. The sparrows scat-
tered, and the squirrel then withdrew.
Upon t the return of the birds, the little
animal repeated his antics, and again the
lock sought safety in the plum trees.
Finally all the birds perched on a clothes-
line, and, putting their heads together,
they chattered several ininutes, as Sif con:
sulting upon what should be done in re-
ard to their enemy. By-and-by the
whole flock returned to the doorstep.
ftera few moments the squirrel once
more sprang into their midst. To his
surprise, however, the -birds, instead of
flying away as usual, set u im and
‘began to fight reely. ‘the ecked
him, beat him with their wings, and
raised a chattering that attracted the at-
tention of many persons. The squirrel
fought fora few moments and then ran
away, never again to bother the sparrows,
—About two months ago, alittle son
of Mr. John Donahue, of Pioche, Cali-
fornia, was playing along the bank of a
stream near his father’s house, when a
Jarge bird, probably an eagle, swooped
down upon him, The boy started to
run, and the eagle tried to follow him,
but the bushes were so thick that the
boy managed to escape. But w hen the
bird po fonger followed the lz
so ba cared that be kept straight on,
never thinking that every step w
ing him further into the wilderness.
When night came on, the boy was lost.
As soon as he was missed at home, search
was made throughout the immediate
neighborhood, and. that night the lad’s
mother suffered intensely from anxiety.
@ next morning, an Int can learned of
the ‘circumstance. Peering around
among the bushes where the lost boy
had last been seen, the born hunter at
last found the right trail, When con-
vineed that the trail was the true one,
the Indian started off at a dog-trot;which
he kept up for twelve miles. In some
places the ground was so hard that it did
not seem possible for tracks to be seen,
but the Indian never faltered until he
found the boy asleep at the roots of a
tree. Nothing more was seen of the
eagle which caused the odd adventure.
—A bird-fancier’s journal, published
in London, says that bird-funciers have
aregular system of telling the notes of
birds. The following melody is at-
tributed to the mocking-bird :
“ Knee deep, knee deep, knee dee)
Cher tas eberry du, cherry an) cherry
White hat, white hat;
Pretty Joey, pretty Joey, pretty Joey.”
: The jo journal then gives the melodies of
other birds, leaving the reader to guess
to which birds the lines belong:
Tiouou, Hovou. touon, tiouou,”
io} ou. toko
, tio.
“ Kouoution,
tiou.”
“ Fokuo, tsekouo, tskouo, tskouo,””
“Tsu, tsu, teu, tsu, tsu, tsu, tsu, tsu, tsu,”
“ Kouovio tion, tksoua pipitk 5 souis.””
“ Tso, tso, tso, iso, ts 0, tso, tso, tso, tso.”
“Tsiro bading.’
“ Tsi, tsj, tori, si, si, si, si, si, si.”
” Tsovie, tsovie, tsdvie, tsovieki.”
“Tsatu, tsatu, tsatu, tsatu, tsatu.’?
“ Blo, bio, blo, dlo, dio, dlo, dlo.”
* Kiouou trrrrret ght.”
“Su, su,su, by, by, Dy. li, Mi, 14, 14.”
—A gentleman whose home ‘is ‘in
Lewiston, Maine, last winter began to
feed.a number of doves by scattering
corn in his yard. The wild birds seemed
to appreciate the act of kindness, and
every morning they flew from the woods
roundabout to get their nice meal. The
flock increased as the weather got to be
more severe, so that before springtime
‘ouoution, kioutiou, kiou-
all the doves in the neighborhood ap-
eared to be sharing in the feasts. They
ecame very tame indeed, and would fly
in at the Windows of the house to eat
their breakfasts. When the winter was
over, the gentleman ceased to feed the
birds, and they disap) He is now
waiting to see whether the doves will re-
new their friendship this coming winter.
—One night during the month of Oc-
tober just past, Doctor W. P. Sweetland,
of No. 405 Hayes Street, San Francisco,
Cal., heard a voice screaming, ‘Come
here! come here!’ He could not itna-
gine from whom the appeal came, for he
knew that every member of the family
had retired. When he aroused his wife,
she said that the voice was that of her
patrot, which had been left in the din-
Ing-room. Sweetland hurried
down stairs, to find the kitchen in
flames, -He quickly gave an alarin, and
the fire was put out. Sad to relate, the
‘poor Polly,’* who Perhaps had saved
the lives of several persons by her tintely
warning, was choked to death by the
smoke.
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