Category: Romance
The wind was howling over the prairie, with a sharp, penetrating power, while a few feathery flashes eddying through the air, showed that although it was the season of spring, yet in this elevated region of the Far West, there was scarcely the first premonition of its breath.
It was an appalling situation indeed. There were fully thirty mounted and fully-armed Indians in front of them, not one less in their rear, and on the right and left rose the pe...
6. CHAPTER VI. BLACK TOM’S ADVENTURE.Old Stebbins and Teddy O’Doherty crawled carefully over the rocks and bowlders until they were near enough to gain an unobstructed view of the camp-fire, when they paused, somew...
8. CHAPTER VIII. THE LOVERS.Hammond felt that he had done his duty. He had awakened the trapper to a sense of his personal danger, and that was enough. Without waiting for his reply, he moved rapidly away,...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE DEMON AT THE CAMP-FIRE.Ugh! what a galvanic shudder shook him, as he heard its smothered bark repeated, and felt its hideous nose glide along his body! He felt it thrust beneath his breast, and then t...
3. CHAPTER III. TEDDY O’DOHERTY’S ENCOUNTERS.It will be remembered that upon the appearance of the strange animal, during the preceding spring, one member of the party, (Teddy O’Doherty,) was asleep, and failed to see it.
1. CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERIOUS RESCUE.The wind was howling over the prairie, with a sharp, penetrating power, while a few feathery flashes eddying through the air, showed that although it was the season of spring, y...
2. CHAPTER II. WHAT IS IT?Black Tom and old Stebbins had a hard day’s ride of it, and they drew the rein in a heavily-timbered grove, just as the sun was setting, with the intention of camping there for...
5. CHAPTER V. IN THE CANON.As we have intimated in another place, old Stebbins and Black Tom were veteran trappers who had been in the “profession” a goodly number of years. Both men had families in Indep...
7. CHAPTER VII. GOLD!“We’ll let the answer to that question remain in abeyance for the present,” was the graceful response of Hammond. “I think she will do so, but the time has not yet come for such...
10. CHAPTER X. THE WONDERFUL CAVERN.Teddy O’Doherty had no time to wonder how these red-skins had got there. It was sufficient to know that he was thrown among them, and that there was no retreat for either party.
13. CHAPTER XIII. BETWEEN TWO CLOUDS.It was only fairly daylight when our hero climbed a small tree, near the base of a spur of the Black Hills, that commanded a view of the Meagan village. Carefully concealing him...
12. CHAPTER XII. HUNTING WEALTH BY FIRELIGHT.Yes, Fred Hammond was not a little astounded, as he learned by what a singular means Teddy O’Doherty had discovered the cave of wealth, and he listened to the close of his chara...
11. CHAPTER XI. AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE.The three were together, and they had taken all necessary precautions against danger from the Indians. The entrance to their underground house had been securely closed by means...
9. CHAPTER IX. “I HAD A DREAM WHICH WAS NOT ALL A DREAM.There could be no doubt that gold in abundance existed in the section of the country where the three men had located themselves. We have shown the discovery made by Black Tom, a...