Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 80: what you’re looking at

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83 MOUNTAIN NED. They pass through another opening into a room Jarger than the one they had just left and it was with difficulty that the gentlemen suppressed the loud utterance of their sur- prise. Here were tools which were only to be had in large cities which this remarkable man had evidently made for big own use. A stone anvil was in one angle uf the room next to a rude forge. Chemical contrivances of all kinds were scattered about. ; “ Where did he get his powder to. make all ade shells he uses ?” asked Campbell. | ‘“* He made it.” és | “ Where did be get his i iron, rine wee “ You'll find further on in this byar ‘cave what you'll find nowhere else except in Japan- —a bed of natural steel,”’* As they stood gazing at the many evidences of the skill of the Flying Scout, Snodgrass suddenly started and cast a wild. look about him, “There is something evil in the air to-night. I feel it and must know what it means. Git back to camp all of you for I have work: to do.” . ~ od « CHAPTER XIft. HOW SILVER LANCE KEPT ‘AIS WORD. WE left Blazing Stat in the clutches of Minnitash, the prophet—his savage face close to hers, and his fierce eyes seeming to pierce her to the heart. Fora ‘moment neither spoke, but she knew tbat the silence on his part was the slumbering wrath of the volcano which might at any moment burst and overwhelm her. He broke the silence first. “When Minnitash built up the prophet fire on the moun- tain and put Blazing Star there to watch,” he said, “ he * The author of this work has seen, and can show any one skeptical on the subject, a specimen of natural steel which, when placed in the fire, can ‘be at once welded into a knite or chisel which will turn the ege of any common steel instrument vow manufactured. The ore resemble iron and was brought from Jupun. ages bk a Ccomiclbooks.com