The Maid of the Mountain — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

fps: aS oe ee | . t mw eta ‘CHAPTERT — “ 2HE CAMP, : THE sétting sun just tinged the white crests of the sierras with floods of golden light. On every side Tose the great peaks, towering crest above crest, drawing around one summit, which lifted its mighty sity head “above the like @ great parent keeping silent guard over its children. : Halfway up to the crest of this parent peak, @ band of ran-- gers had made a camp. These were the days in the peed of California when lawlessness held complete rule, nace. or was punished by the strong arms of the : stieklers for quibbles in law were they. caught at the crime and the punishment fense, ‘and dealt that punishment with an 1 3) protest gold had® drawn hither “bands” of | Se these théy issted to their work a thirigs at length brought form J a race of resolute spirits, styled Regulators, ‘he = “frontier justice ” to those who 7 =— The group"camping” up om ‘the’ sierid eof | hat type rough-looking, bearded fellows, smooth-faced striplings, “ar handsome youtfg men, all well versed in border w The oecasion which had called them together was th Where among the sierras there dwelt Send OP Salis, whoa Suspected acts were such that the Staal mare 3 was necessary (6 “ wipe ‘out the v comichooks;com