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RAINIER'S PERIL,
A ROMANCE OF THE NORTH-WEST
FRONTIER, -HY
DERTRAM MITFORD
(Author of "The Ruby Sword,
Sign,
the Spider," "The Word of the Sorceress," &C).
CHAPTER XI.
THE STTED'S SANGL.
"Are you superstitions, Mink Clive?” “Well, I don't know Not more than other people, I suppose,
That is tantamount to an answer in the af- firmatice," rejoined Raydirr Believer in Obavances connected with the new moon- he friding of a borze shie. Things of that kind.ELA
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"Oh no, I'm not,” she answered decidedly.
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the head again-huge, shaggy, mensoing-April ext. d
Apply to staring down upon them in the gloom, Then it again disyppeared.
But raugh expression End come over her face, the faraway look of one whose thought were not with her words. Ia after times that look came back to hingen ve pogle
I want to go through it too, she repeated. Very well then, You've been warned." As they entered the grim ports! the sun was just touching te horis a, but it occurred to reither of thim that it might he pitel dark be- fore they emerg d At first the slant of the rock walls caused one of these in overhang, shut-
• but the rift, gradually widen ting out the ing, they oönfl see the brow of these atopen- · as cliffe, far above against the sky at a diany height. Unvensionsry the tones of both were lowered as they convers d
It isn't healthy taking too long to get through a fangi like this when there are rain. storms going about," Rarnier was saying. It
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"Well I've never seen one," she austered demurely mischievous, And then, they both Inughed.
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In a crecice of the rock was a wign of withered tass, or a few sticks. There was no mistaking how these objecte bad got there, and the awful magnitude of the food which at times bollowed through this grisly sift
"Why is the place supposed to be haunted said Hilda Clivo: "You didn't tell me," "
"The pauol things curse. There was man killed here by the people of the neighbour- hood--not on incident of very great moment in this country you world think. But this one tres a great charaner in the Eanotity line of businessa Syyed or a Hadji, or something of the sort and so bis ghost appeared and took it. out of the neighbourhood, and indeed the human race in general, by planting a rigid embargo on the place. And it was a pretty practical way of taking it out of them to, for they used this fangi as thoroughfare- it's scarcely a mile long you know-whereas now they've got to go round the mountain instead of through it, which makes a difference of at least eight
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This they had frequently been, since nccident shad thus thrown them together, nud in that brief period of time Rayuier bad fallen to wo dering more and more, what there was about Hilda Cive that already he had begun to think how he would miss for later on, and bow on earth theyo uld have been shut up together on board a silp all the time they bad, and yet that he should hardly have taken any police of her. Now in their daily intercouren she was companionble and totful-auf withal femi nine. She was really attractive too, he thought. not for the first time, as he looked at her and noticed how well shout bar horse! As an acity of the cliff walls The sun had goos toal fact sto really had improved in the point of of the world now, and a tambalike twilight >appearance, and thot vastly for the bealthy Prevailed here in the heart of the mountain.г. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
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"If youre absolutely sure are free from superstitio." went on Bayuter, "I'd like to show you something that's worth seeing.
Whatis it?"
"Theres & real thrill of ouriosity in that question," he laughed. "It's a tangi-and hoonted the."")
#Ou, I must see it. Where is it. Mr. Ray Bier?"
It's an eerie place, anyhow," said the girl, looking up a little awe stricken at the imquen
It was chilling enough to bare begotten" a whole volume of grim legends,
*Wonder if the old Syyed's ghost is on band now," said Raynier, who was oynically and frankly adoptical in-ush matters. We'll girə him the salaam anyhow."
Then raising his voice bat very slightly, he exclaimed
Balanta, Byyed 1'; 2.
What was this? The whole of the immense vault was roaring and bellowing with sound. In waves it rolled, now running along the ground at their feet, now tossed on high as though escaping into outer air," Salaam, sal- nata, kalaam 1,” it replied in every conceivable Closaliere. But before! venture you had better think over the penalty. The beliettons and key, then roured along the cliffe again is that whoever eaters it meets his death in as in a peal of thunder, the whole accompanied some shape or form before the end of the next by a mighty rattling. The nodes was simply
appalling
Koon,"
You
That creepy at any rate. But is the ides borns out by fact!"
They may it is, without exception. You would not got any of the people here to set foot in it on any consideration whatever?"
"Then none of them ever set foot in it P
I should rather think not, devel Then how do they know what would happen
if they di "DAT
Kayalar, the sceptical, was more than startled. Not to put too fino a point on it he was just a little bit scared, though no manifestation of it escaped him. The horses of both, too, were backing and snorting, evincing a degree of ter nor not at all ealonlated: to soothe the nerves of their riders. The sudieanses of it all, the Toming of the spectral roless here in the grisly depths was rather startling
He looked at his companion somewhat appre "They now what has happened at least they say to. This is the places hensively, expecting to see her pals and shak- They lad been riding over a nearly lavding, Farhaps hysterical. To his surprise she
plain, spreely grown with stunted vegetation, And shut io by bilis, atony and desolate, break- ing up here and there into a network of shaams. Under pre of these and at the farther edge of the plain was pitched their camp, and from where they now halted they could distinguish the smole of the fire rising straight apward on the still sur, could make on the gummer of a white tail or tivo. Right in front of them reared a nanntain elde, steep and lofty, rising in terraced slopes and leaving this there yawned the entrance of a gigantle rift
I'm not surprised they should weave all sorts of superstitions shout such a place as this." sad Hilda Clise, as she gazed up with almirata not anmixed with swe, at the sheer of the stupendous rock partais, so regular in their grobik immensity almost to preclude the posibility of being the work of Nature a aided H
Will now, I've warned you what the pon- alty is," went on the other. Do you still
walt tego in F-
"Why, you are so solemn over it. Mr. Ray. niez, that anyone would think you believed in it yourself."
was laughing, Hia first thought you, then was that this was a form of bysteria,
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Don't you see?" she said: "Don't you see? Don't you see the vault areand. "Don't you goo! Don't you see shrieked and weiled the heights above. And then Reynier felt secretly more than a little shamed of himself for he did ge
As they were talking they had rounded's sud- do bed in the deffle, and the saluto be bad jooosely directed to the dead *yyod--if such a person had ever existed in fact—had been caught up by a most astounding echo, which for no apparent reason was given forth procisaly at that spot, Still it was not a little curious that they abould have entered within its scope simultaneously with the utterance of the ball. mocking words, which mingling with the rattle of the horses hoofs upon the loose stones of the tang, had produced the horrible din.
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In fact the animals were in the wildest stage
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How is it the game thing did not happen Nosesion lat May. Yes. Haslam told me. I questioned Meh-when you came through here before?** Brid Tab Khan about it. adil he is a frri believer in it. It fast all the people are. That's the rea- son I sent Inm on to the camp now. I didn't want him to know what we were going to do, if valy that there's nothing to be gained by Jamplar with both feel upon other people's prejudices, especially ustive. And these might look upon it as a desecration,
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Fasily explained. I left my horse at the extranos and walked. I always wear very silent hoofs, and I had nobody to till 10, Look, we are through now, but we shan't bava much time to admire the view on the other side, becanza it's rather late, and we ought to get back to camp,
A tower of light now rose in front of them. light only in comparison with the gloom of the tangi. It was the oxit at the other end, similer in every particular to the entrance.
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She had turned her eyes full upon his face. What wonderful eyes they ware, he thought- "sad they were, fascinating too. How on earth had he been so long in making the discovery He thought, ton, how she and been the one whose terve had remained entirely unshaken during that very startling surprise how she it senos hawho had at once seen through its perfestly natal solution and he felt mial! Wordingly Bat his admiration for her bad
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