Frank Merriwell in Mexico: The Search for the Silver Palace — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Jssued Weekly — By Subseription $2. 50 per ear. Entered as Second Class Matler cat the N.Y. - Post. Office. SsrrEer & Suter, 29 Rose 8, ¥. Y . ‘ gress, in the Year 1896, in the Office of the Libi ‘arian of Congress, Washington, D. C. aa Een oe teaeeneneeannar oan eemRnOenesinenmesieneepenenenenmnenmmnetmeenenmennmmenenemmmnsiannen dintered parses to Act of “August 38, _ August 8, 1896. 7 By the Author of “PRANK MERRIWELL ’ ‘CHAPTER i ey ae .’ WONDERFUL STORY. Z Tt is in the. heart of the Sierra Madre range, one hundred and twenty-five miles west of Zacatecas,” said the dying man. : ‘Across the blue chasm you can. see its . towers and turrets glistening in the sun- shine. Itis like a beautiful dream—daz- _aziing, astounding, grand!” | - . “He wanders in his mind,’ softly de. 7 clared Professor Scotch. “Poor fellow ! His brain was turned and he was brought to his death by his fruitless search for the mythical Silver Palace. a | The man who lay ona bed of grass in one corner of the wretched adobe hut turned a reproachful look on the little _ professor. : , | “Vdeeply interested, bent over - the unfortu- 7 nate man, asking: “By what route can. this wonderful | palace be reached??? coTHere is no route. like battling armies. horror. voice that-seemed to have gained strength | and despoil it.” for the moment.. oy am not deranged—I am not deceived by an hallucination. - With my eyes I have seen the wonderful Silver Palace—yes, more than that, I have stood within the palace and beheld the marvelous treasures which it con- | tains.’ - The professor turned away to hide the | - look. on his face, but Frank Merriwell, of the e dying: maa, he would mutter: Despite - his doubts, the professor Ww as listening with strong interést to. this Te markable tale. ‘The fourth person in the se was as the Dutch boy, Hans Dunnerwust, who ‘sat — on the ground, his back against the wall, his jaw dropped and his. eyes bulging. ~ Occasionally, as he listened to the words» re TR Seren re tT eo Pic Five ha rkl rs S FRANK ‘MERRIWELL | N ‘MEXICO; | THE SEARCH FOR THE SILVER PALACE Between us and the Silver Palace lie waterless deserts, 5 great «mountains, and, at last, a yawning — chasm, miles in width, miles in depth. — This chasm extends entirely round the | broad plateau on which the wonderful -- palace stands like a dazzling dream. The - bottom of the chasm is hidden by mists ©. which assume fantastic forms, and whirl and sway and dash forward and backward, . Indians fear the ‘place; Mexicans hold it in superstitious — It is said that these. mist-like | forms are the ghosts of warriors dead and gone, a wonderful people who built: ‘the. : Silver Palace in the days of Cortez—built _- “You are wrong, f he asserted, in alit where the Spaniard could not ‘Teach i MIC DOO ECO (CO)