The Maid of the Mountain — page 41: what you’re looking at

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THE SEQUEL. , 43 home to the very hilt. She staggered to the side of her lus- band, drew the weapon from the wound, and fell upon the corpse of Gonsalvo. When they ran to lift her, she was dead, They buried the husband and wife in one grave, under the pine trees yonder, took the hoard of gold which Gousalvo had gath- ered, and returned, bearing with them the child. Gomez took his share of the plunder, and left his companion, who has-. never seen him since. That is the story of Murderer's “A strange tale. Is there no sequel?” “ There is, Since that day they say that the ghost of the dead Gonsalvo haunts this spot, and warns ail who enter it ’ away. His prophesies always are true, for, sooner or later, any one so warned is murdered here.” “ And that is the way it received the name ?” “ Si, sefior.” “ There is some jugglery here,” said Elliot. “I do not claim fully to understand what it is, but there is jugglery for all that. I live in a country where we do not believe that dis- i se spirits bane the earth.” “You know best what you heard, scfior. I never have I have heard it from lips which never decciyed me,” re- plied the Mexican. “I think it must be true.” “And who are they who commit the crimes which give the name to Murderer’s Caiion ?” _“ How should I know ?” , “Is it the Brothers of the League ?” “It maybe.” © (,. > “ But do you know ?” “T do not.” ; “ Who told you the story of this place ” “ Pedro, the sole survivor of the struggle, with the excep- tion of Gomez and the child.” om aa “ Where is this.Gomez ?” | “ Sefior, for sixteen years his friends have never seen his face. It is only known that he took the child and the gold in many tongues, but for some crime of which he never ~ conmiclooolkks.conn