“NICKEL. By. I1.WALTER BURR. “Oh, this Casey, as he enjoy the el exclaimed George paused for a few moments to grelng alr and scenery. All about him the mountains lay In tumbled heaps, farther away the foothills sloped gracefully downward, and still farther down In the valley and out over the mining the old trail that to the westward, He was ving recently come » in Boston, and atmosphere of the Is grand!" } ® id ‘ from. drinking ns sheovertook thinkin' as how It's a-gettin' twelve miles more than git » girl purty from ther T'wo , taun believe you're a ward ere you i f1 l try, and tingly, *'1 were vou're hills after ot, and yet 1 r all over these a ‘‘tenderfoot,” of his fallings, he had been , and had ruled it himself. That it portion of the moment doubt, sire that others \ pit with regard to him When four hat he was to spend ti ' = | | | | [4 kl 4 att Ir Ss me minh ed that of all other the people there rfoot that was not fow friends w hie he had mad n fir riving at Bolg ing i soon t red of his lordly o who cared to accom- journeys over the efollowed him but this was 1 80 rious wh vo-hits got her ith girl of true HMOs na mn oR to he and blood —a fact « \ ry whe N¢ characte 4 id been more o] those Casey had always been acensto ] with roughly- dressed, brown-fe 110 bow-legged cows boys, ! p } of their own kind for th is and ) } Indian proud possibly have of George po yer pond. 1 whe n just bey and are than a want to, at jen't more » declared: but the falthful 3 he were going, ther® was hi or it but that she must accompany him, They trudged along In sil for half an hour, and still thy, pe wank seemed as far away as ever onfound 1!" sald George, at last, “if we ha stopped so long to talk aboat it, we conld have been there before this 1 suppose it's too late to go any farther.” Ha I'wo-bit een more cultured and learned, It is Hkely she ‘wonld have said “1 told you #0." Dut she only turned as ad not we come ter the Burnin® Mils, Poors as though I could feel the heat right now. There! Look yonder! They NO now on an eminence command ing a good view of the lower hills, nnd as they looked down into the darkness they could see distinctly long lines of glowing red, streaking the earth lke the tralls of fety serpents. ‘T'he redness pulsated lke a thing of life, and as It did so the very ground about seewed to heave up and down, Then sudde nly all was darkness again. ‘Yer see,” she continued, “I many be a coward, an’ all thet, Mebbe so, It may a bin all a ghost story, too, But there it is, an’ we got ter cross thet place, The brave young man was getting really scared, He had never before been out in the mountains In the night time, and tHe awful stillness, broken now and then by unpleasant sounds peculiar to the mountain country, awed and frightened tlm. His teeth were fairly chattering, “lel--wish we had started hack sooner.” he managed to say, “l-—l--had idea It was so bad” “Yer might a had a purty good Idea,*’ answered; “but it ain't a-goin' to good ter git scared now. Come faster.” By this time they were dreaded place. Suddenly, as she reached forward her foot to take a step, she realized Instinetively that I€ was not finding a solid footing as soon as it should. A sudden and uncommon warmth came upward, and In another Instant the faint glow was seen, showing her a chasm, with the further brink some three feet away. Leapingacross the called to her companion, “Mind yer eye!” They had changed places—she was pow the master and he the slave “What is it?’ he asked, as he neared the place. Just then he took the fatal step, and felt himself falling. But the girl was quick. Suddenly reaching out her arm, she grasped him by the hand and fairly drag- god him across the chasm. “Well, T never!"’ he exclaimed in frig “Thdts something awful, don't you Flan! I say are there many more like that?’ “Come on, an’ quit yer talkin',” was the pre-emptory order ‘But | say, 1 wo-bits, It isn't safe, 1s It?” he called after her. ain't afeard.’ answered; “If yon are, why stay you are, or go back an’ fine peak.*’ i Imp,” he muttered. going to go away and here all along Perhaps 1t would serve me right, for I suppose it's all my own fault. But really, I had no Idea thers Fe any truth In what she sald.” “H« T wo-bit s! Don't run away and leave do, all alone!" And there came into throat something very lke a sob Look ent th '"* he heard her the dn ness | w her » mt try to we It's wide, no she do no along nearing the she where the highest the Little if she's me out “1 wonder eave his t forth his ibt of her ows » chasms, but she oot wpanlon was a patiently He st pped ba came to the edge ind looked ruoefull } him. He held ou gis hand nd drew back suddenly, ¢ h rit the cause hea hen what ) possessed fi shok him, and he began whituper “1 Just can’t make it, Two-bits. Whateve shall I do? “Wall,” deawied the matter.of fact girl 1 8 pose I could go ahead an’ git son the feilers from town ter come out an’ yer across. They'll make no end of fun yer, though. * “Blast the fun!” he cried “Hurry and fe me out of this, most anyway “Al right. be back after a while:” and she bounded away like a deer, leaving George Casey sitting there in the night alone Minutes dragged like hours, and the dark ness seemed to grow thicker every momen of up except when It was penetrated Ly that un canny glow from down below. Then, as — Then he remembered that she had not been in the best huthwor, and decided that shi would probably enjoy the sport as wuch as any of the others “Hello!” ealled a vaolee, Mr, Casey?’ It was the ahd It was sweet music “Right this way, Two bits,’ “Have you brought help?” She came to the other slide of the gulf, and thrusting a stout plunk out toward him she drawled “Yes, Thet's er help. Did was a-goln' ter give yer away ter Yer would never a-heard the last uess we ken make it all right with this wre.” Then, making sure the Je wa resting securely on either side, she ordered “Now, git spry, and don’t waste Hop across, 1 tell yer!” AS they cnme to the last the hoard WAR necessary, Georg “W.a-ll,' drawled I'wo-bit waited, with arnis akimbo, ** one. Yer goin’ I'H leave yor “*“Pwo-hits," considerable pathe bits," he repeats calling you a cowat girl 1 ever knew to mee tonight “AW, come along greatly embarra yer fellers in yer heads roar wean what yer They neared slide, The boar and from thelr have known ordinary had her own door and sald “You heroine Next day sl ! pony 1 to post In front of her mother’ ET nd « the beautiful saddle wl it bore, ¥ ploned a note which reas “This Is Nickel pre the bra little who coward." “Where are yer, voice of Two-bits in his ear, he answered yer think no Liu ereviee whor paused d tightly tthe da AN ed het “han are girl--a regular was good to a ————— T0 ENTERTAIN LO. Ambassador Reid and Wife will Pre- sent Young Couple to England's Court. Longworths will while in London, | 1 bassad®r and hi i Refreshed by her long Reid has returned to the Con James with her bh tious for King Edward's + WORTHS. 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He pecretl advice and started home would not admit It to her, “Yor'll hef ter hustle faster'n thet,” reared or Bh De al) up wh BS. when ner, but wished that he bad taken hat strained his eres to ecateh night of the res ecuing party, he thought with bitter anguish of the Jokes that would be enjoyed at his expense by the fellows In the camp. He knew that he had tried to lord It over them, and now they would have a chance to got even, He could Imagine Two bite, as she ran into the “Last Chance,” and In great hilarity told the boys how she had left “thet felller from Boston'' out on the edge of a chasm on Burnl Hills He could al mont hear thelr lond laughter as they pre. if b come In search of him, a Bethe midst of these thoughts he spied h att in the distance. It wavered, was and a3yriared again. 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