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Show ,Tii6 yellow sprinQ, Iomartfic Mexican &ot$. ' " i BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP. rOopyrigMefl by X B. Lippincott Company, and pV Ijshed by special arrangement with Uuxn.) random effect. I look with longing, envious en-vious eyes on all the tongues of flame and strong steam jets going to waste here; wcre'l quite free from constraint, how 1 would make these natural forces work forme!" . , . . These passages of the journal-against the bare chance of their being found by any third party-were but fragmentary and half disguised under the form of a fairy tale, and he made mention of no definite locality. The journal was vn-) vn-) tended in good measure- for the eye of I Amy, but it would have been hard to 1 gay just when any particular portion of i it came into her hands, and whether it was early or very much later that she saw even those here quoted. There were many important circumstances the writer could not Bet down in his account for her out of common prudence, and others that lie would not out of native modesty. Thus his journal contained but little, for instance, concerning his own painful labors, which were often really herculean. hercu-lean. ' . His various tackles were wofully inadequate in-adequate compared with the tasks he imposed upon them. He qnite dismissed the ordinary standard of human achievement achieve-ment and performed prodigies of strength and Archimedes like miracles of invention. inven-tion. His muscles, always powerful, responded re-sponded grandly to the tax upon them, and he developed new powers unsuspected unsus-pected in himself. Yet, driven on by his fervid zeal, he was always dangerously near some of those violent strains or shocks that would have put an end to aU and crippled him for life. He was con-gtantly, con-gtantly, by turns, cold, wet, hungry, Boorohed by excessive heat, or weighed down by almost unendurable fatigue. "The earlior Croesus," he said, "offered & priza for the discovery of a ubw pleasure; pleas-ure; I, the later Croesus, might also"offe2 one for exemption from a new pain." Nevertheless he by no means complained, com-plained, but, on the contrary, even rejoiced re-joiced in his hardships. They seemed to give him a more valid title to the treasure. treas-ure. They were a mere nothing compared com-pared to the life long drudgery to which most men are condemned, not only to amass wealth, but even to obtain a bare subsistence. The slightness of his real claim was one of the causes of his nervous ner-vous dread lest all should be snatched from him even at the last moment. "It is the destiny of man to win his bread by the sweat of his brow," he I way through the vitreous mass. They ! varied in size from a beehive to a cottage. Many were of snow white pumice, and they looked like tents, from his doorway. He took up his own abode in an inconspicuous, incon-spicuous, mud colored one, near the place where the treasure flowed forth, yet not so near as to establish any direct connection with it. It needed only an I enlargement of the natural opening near I the bottom and the cutting out of a port-' port-' hole-like window or two, to make it hal-' hal-' itable. He spread some petatos mats of ' the maguey fiber on the floor, and con-! con-! structed a rude table and shelves for his ' scientific apparatus. Then, finding it ' gloomy, as he lay on his camp bed, to gaze up into the Cimmerian darknessin the top of the tall cone, he made an opening for light there also, and later placed a ceiling, ceil-ing, which divided the hut into two stories. sto-ries. Then ho fitted rustic gratings to his door and windows to keep out wild birds or, perchance, even wild beasts at night, He had a natural taste for the ornamental, orna-mental, with all his masculine habits, nnd when this was done he set sonio plants in his window openings, so that there was a certain hardy air of comfort about it. Just as the edelweiss is found in Alpine snows, so he brought back from his explorations small flowers symbols, perhaps, of headstrong passion that throve as close as possible to the burning heats. But ho did not complete this work of installing himself till he had put the signal sig-nal of communication with Amy upon a more stable footing. "It had been my habit," he said in his journal, "to throw into the baain large stones and pieces of stalagmite broken off aroimd its own borders. These anger it and thus cause a disturbance in some central chamber that finally reaches to you. But the ebullition seemed daily to decrease, and I feared there might be danger of choking up the tube and put- j ting an end to it altogether. So I cast about for some less hurtful means, and I found it by rigging np a long beam rested on a fulcrum, and with another short, heavily weighted beam, hung on like a flail at one end." The sketch he drew of this device showed it not unlike an oft fashioned well sweep of rural New England. "I can let down this flail end into the water and stir up a more or leas furious protest as I wish, and then move It away again, to await tho nest oooa-oion." ' The man hesitated in surprise, but the order was peremptory and ho went back. ! When the Senoritas Arroyo heard of it i they said, "It is exactly like his warm heart, considerate both of beast and man." As soon as the servant had disappeared up the road Don Walter plunged into the woods. There was no one in sight in either direction to observe this unusual un-usual proceeding. Within an hour afterwards after-wards ho reappeared as a peon, of tho usual copper colored skin and in the cotton cot-ton shirt and drawers of tho class. Ho emerged from tho woods near the same spot and took Jho road back towards Cuornavaoa. The animal ho rode was also considerably changed in appearance, and seemed to have been a victim of wanton neglect. Ho passed tho night at the same meson with his own servant, who was dallying on the road. He set out much earlier in the morning than the latter. When he reached a but little used trail, penetrating penetrat-ing his own mountain district, he struck off into it. A wild babbling brook ran down the same course, disputing the right of way. When he had gone a certain cer-tain distance he dismounted, took off the moro necessary articles, and with a sad but resolved air led his horse into a thicket. The poor animal seemed to have a sense of tho fate that was impending. impend-ing. Ho trembled und drew back, and wlien the revolver was aimed that, as a precautionary measure should have put an end .to his existence, he made so resistless re-sistless a bound that he escaped to the bed of the brook. Don Walter scrambled scram-bled after him over tho rough stones, but pursuit was useless. "Go, then, in heaven's name. I am glad I did not do it," he breathed aloud, rejoicing in the chance that had stayed his hand from a cruelty so repulsiv, even with nil the danger of detection involved. in-volved. Then ho shouldered his effects in a bag, peasant fashion, went on on foot and disappeared. Surely his acquaintances acquaint-ances would have thought this an extraordinary extra-ordinary way in which to start for the United States. After Don Walter had gone Amy Cole-brook Cole-brook felt far more than before the serf-, ousness of her position. It was a weighty responsibility indeed for her, an inexperienced inex-perienced little American girl, to be down there in the far off wilds of Mexico, the confidant of a 6ecret of life and death and a monstrous treasure, with all its far reaching interests. At times it seemed too formidable to bear, and she had to CHAPTER VIL BOW DON WALTER ARBOVO SET OCT-FOR THE UNITED STATES. ! States for a visit;' that will divert attention atten-tion from me entirely, and I may then ' do as I please in my retreat. But letters would naturally be expected from me. Will you help me in this, also, or have I exhausted the measure of your aid'" "You have not yeteven begun to draw upon it." "Suspicion will thus be allayed, and without them it would bo certain to arise, to say nothing of its being a civil thing to do. Let us say a letter onee in three weeks; that will answer for my good aunts. I can plead being extremely extreme-ly busy, you know. Other people will hear of me through the postmaster." "You speak of being gone for so long a time!" exclaimed Amy, dismayed at the prospect he opened before her. "I can estimate it almost exactly, if the luck holds good, allowing, of course, a liberal margin for contingencies. I have never given you more than tho merest inkling of a burden and obligation obliga-tion that rests upon me, and I am not now prepared it is not best to do so. But of this 1 assure you, by whatever force you may attach to a solemn assertion asser-tion of mine, that the object is a most worthy and honorable one. It is one that you may well feel glad and even proud ' to have assisted." Amy recollected with sympathy the hint he had once let fall of an adequate cause for his recklessness, and her heart smote her at the injustice she had more than once done him in thinking him possessed pos-sessed of mercenary greed. "The sum is a great one," he continued, con-tinued, "but till the last cent of it is realized I must hold it as a sacred trust; before heaven! 1 seek no advantage of my own." Ho named it. "Millions?" cried Amy, aghast; "how can they ever be realized?" Still, in her heart she felt reassnred, for had he not on a former occasion demanded the entire en-tire contents of the heart of the earth? "There are two things to be dono," said Walter. "In the first place, will you give mo a few points about New York the hotel at which I may be supposed sup-posed to stop, for instance, and the theatres, thea-tres, palaces, noble monuments and galleries gal-leries of pictures and sculpture that I may see? so that I can write as if I were actually there." "Alasl our poor noble monuments and galleries of sculpture! However, I will put our best foot foromost." "In the second place, will yon be capable capa-ble of so much duplicity as to find some one in New York to receive the letters and iifmail them from there?" "It is in a good causo, and I undertake it." Sho sent one, in fact, to her friend Miss Winchester, another to her family, and another again to. Miss Winchester, explaining ex-plaining it in each instance a3 a joke, the key to which they should have later. often exclaimed, "ana woe to mm wno tries to escape it! I am reaping a good fortune far beyond what is granted to the ordinary lot of mortals, and I ought to he glad of any small semblance of earning it." , Paths were traced over the cinder heaps and purple black emery sand by his frequent goings and comings. They grew as familiar to him as the streets of Cuernavaca, and he could follow them as well by night as by day. It seemed to him he had been there a very long time; former periods of existence became visionary, the world of men grew small in contrast with this world of elemental forces. He had dedicated himself to Vulcan; he was communing directly with that mysterious heart of the earth towards which his fancy had been so strongly drawn. He felt its throbbing : pulse in earthquake tremors; he heard , its breathing in the issuing steam, and i sometimes a mysterious sound like a ; heavy, plaintive sigh came forth and per-i per-i vaded all the place. He might have ! thought, as tho simple natives say of Popocatepetl, that wicked chiefs were imprisoned below for their crimes, and their groans and murmurs were often heard. I At night he had around him lights and ! sounds as of a great city, while in truth there was only unbroken lonesomeness ! on every hand. He thought upon his i last end and the brevity of life, as one ; could hardly help doing amid such surroundings. sur-roundings. Still, he was not often gloomy. He was full of aspiration for love, power, display, for all those things that an ardent young man may desire, and for which his desire seemed now to stand no small chance of gratification. "My apprehension," he related, among other things, "lias led me to take a lesson out of the book of nature, and imitate certain animals whose safety lies in being of the same color as the objects around them. I have easily reduced my clothing cloth-ing to the general dusty hue of the Barranca, Bar-ranca, and thus glide about very little distinguished from my background. There is steam generally floating in the air, and this is, perhaps, an efficient protection pro-tection against being seen from above; but I have often fancied I saw troops of animals and men peering down from there." It was vagaries of the crags and fringing fring-ing bushes for the most part that produced pro-duced these illusions, but occasionally he may have been right, for some of the lonely charcoal burners who inhabited the district may have stopped a moment to gaze downward in passing by. However, How-ever, there was never any indication that he was seen, and no harm came to him from this source. He had a quick eye for natural scenery, scen-ery, and did not soon lose his interest in the striking original effects offered him in tho Barranca. From his hut he saw the sun rise and set like a flaming beacon bea-con on the towering cliffs.' These cliffs broken into a thousand fantastic or casl tellated shapes, were at some places sheer, uncompromising, terrible, leaving leav-ing no rest for the eye as it scaled their heights in search of lodgment. Else-whore Else-whore they showed ba?al While the strange, dumb messages ) were going he sat on the steps of the i travortine terrace, dreaming of her to whom they were sent, having but scant leisure for dreaming at other times. He i thought it good to occupy a hut at this I place also as a sort of spring house. In-' In-' deed he ultimately removed most of his apparatus here and made it the head-i head-i quarters for his analyses of the abundant I material found in his researches. In addition ad-dition to the other pretexts in mind, he might affect, in case of discovery, to be taking baths for rheumatism or to be a rapt dovotee of science. They would set ' him down for a visionary, or even a lu-j lu-j natic, but this would only the better withdraw attention from the vital inter-: inter-: est at stake. I "When other needed preliminaries j were accomplished," he wrote, "I had to inaugurate extensive improvements in my way of gathering and protecting the deposit. I felled some trees where the lower margin of the forest encroaches on the canyon, slid thqm down and drew them along on a kfnd of sled. My idea was to erect an efficient barrier against the searching heat and deleterious fumes from the boiling stream, one behind which I might have secure access to ; tho golden spring. I therefore made two 1 very large, heavy frames of wood. I ! nailed cross pieces upon these and small-: small-: or pieces again crossing tho first. Then I bethought me what material, strong , enough for the ordeal it would have to endure, would be suitable for filling the interstices. i "In making my way along a ledge at ' the top of the lower slope of talus I came upon a strange substance in strata white, i reddish or green, embedded amid ser-j ser-j pentine rock and soapstone. It was ap-1 ap-1 parently a mineral, and yet it was soft, even silky, to the touch, and elastic and pliable as any vegetable fibers. Surely this was the far famed asbestos, a material ma-terial indestructible even by the fiercest heat or flame. Nothing could have been more opportune for my purpose. I conveyed con-veyed large quantities of it to my cabin, prepared the fibers, and with this thoroughly interwove the lattice work of my frames, which were then ready for use. "To put them in place I hoisted them with a small derrick to the top of the platform that had been my first lookout point, and from there let them carefully down. I secured them above by supports sup-ports weighted with stones, and below the sharpened feet of the posts were let into hMes by degrees prepared for them in the rock. "I next made an improved course for the flowing metal, the first one having more than once given way at weak points. I made it longer, too, arranging an even grade for it across a considerable yawning interval, and I removed the receiving re-ceiving trough to a greater distance. Tho new receiving trough was larger and more smoothly finished within than the former, nnd I was even capable of lavishing lav-ishing a little ornament upon it, for what did apparatus so closely identified with the garnering of this wondrous treasure not deserve? For a while-1 set up a small wheel in the cold brook.'canahla of rrt,.1. struggle not to betray her preoccupation to those about her. Nor was it of one sort only. Looking at the prospect of success from the hopeful standpoint, she would say: "When he is very rich he will have other interests, other friends, and then ah me!" If she had been fond of him before, her affection took a far greater intensity now that he was away, engaged in his arduous struggle with the powers of nature in the lonely canyon. She often dreamed of him, fancying she looked down upon him from the towering walls ana saw mm there, a small, sun scorched and storm beaten figure amid the vast surroundings. Soon a startling episode happened. Don Walter's horse mado his way back to the haciondita, and was recognized there by an old servant who staked his veracity npou it, since he had bad something some-thing to do with raising the colt. The report went out that Don Walter had been murdered. This again in the mountain region was laid to his ill luck in having seen the Yellow Snake, and tended to keep peoplo away from the gorge moro than ever. Tho mozo who had accompanied him towards Puebla was put under arrest. The Jefo Politico, who personally would not have greatly mourned tho loss of a forward young mau given to lauglung at him, was nevertheless never-theless stirred up by the frequent fainting faint-ing fits of the Arroyo ladies to do something. some-thing. Capt. Perez too was on the warpath. war-path. Amy was full of consternation, not because she believed Don Walter had come to harm, but lest this excitement excite-ment should cause his discovery. Sho thought, in a helpless way, of appealing ap-pealing to Capt. Perez to stop the hue and cry, as if this would not have been equally fatal. J In the midst of it came a letter from Walter, apparently safely arrived in New York. The old Borvant was discredited; dis-credited; tho Misses Arroyo recovered from their fainting turns. Amy had a guilty feeling when they told her about Walter's travels. Ho wroto a most interesting in-teresting letter they said; he described Broadway, Central park and the Brook- j lyn bridge so that it was almost like being be-ing there, but the excitement and fatigue of exploring a foreign country were great and he would not have time to write often. i At the appointed time she loft her communication com-munication for Walter as they had agreed. She watched and found it soon replaced by one frpm him, a sort of jour-1 nal of sonio of his doings in the Barranca. What a mysterious feeling it gave her to think he had been so near her in disguise! 1 it was like the visitation of a spirit. The ! second month he did not come at all; no doubt the risk was too great. But the troubling of the spring still continued. ' Then all at once, after a while, the spring was not troubled. A second day thiseuneerted signal was lucking, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth for eight days tho waters gave no sign of disturbance. Amy was in an agony of fear. CHAPTER VIII. IN THE BARRANCA OF C1MA11RON. The poor animal tcemrd to have a gentt of the fate that wa impending. He began at once a series of furtive excursions to the Barranca, finding many different ways of getting there. At one time be would go by way of Campo I llorido, as if sotting out simply for Cruce Vivo; again he started up from the other side of Las Delicias, and succeeded suc-ceeded in picking a path over the almost insuperable lava beds; and sometimes he would fetch a compass even as far away us Rio Frio, a large town in another dis- trict, where he pretended to sell some of , his horses or mules. From Rio Frio he got access to the gorge by way of Lake Jornada, a body of water some fifteen milos in its longest dimension. There was a settlement at its lower end, with a rude glass factory. The end near the Barranca was entirely desolate, frequented fre-quented only by a few lonely alkali gatherers, who collected the alkali to be Bold to the glass factory aforesaid. ' In this new way of life he had to shun Perez as well as others, so that at last the worthy captain was piqued at the rebuffs he met with. j "The fact is," said Walter, "my guardians guar-dians are a little dissatisfied with our friendship. You know how it is; we have spoken of it before. Women will get whims into their heads. Let each go his way separately a little while. The notion will not last long, and it will be all for tho better for us when it is ever." 1 The same circumspection was used by Walter in disposing of the product he collected in his watchings. A part of the metal he concealed in the gorge itself, it-self, part of it became a growing 1 hoard at Cruce Vivo, and another part still, at his home with the unsuspecting Arroyo Ar-royo ladies; and, finally, one more repository re-pository was established at a lonely spot on the alkali whitcnened shores of Lake Jornada. During this time no words of mora than merely friendly import passed between be-tween tho pair who should have been lovers. Walter did not return to that mood the meaning of which had seemed hardly equivocal. "Ah, well," reflected Amy, "I am the Bole confidant of his secret. I am his copartner in so great and hazardous an enterprise. Ought not that to bo enough for the present? When thiB is over, who can there be to whom ho will owe more gratitude than to myself? When it is all pver, who knows? Perhaps perhaps." It was agreed between them that whenever when-ever Walter was absent he should every day at a certain hour trouble the waters of tho travertine basin, that the effect might appear in tho spring at Las Deli-cias. Deli-cias. The actual existence of such a connection had been established by sufficient suffi-cient trials, and Amy went as often as possible she could not do so quite without with-out fail to see her basin thus strangely eurge and splash. This singular means of communication, rude as it was, was a souveo of much reassurance to her. By it she could at least tell his whereabouts, assume that ho was well, and be sure he thought of her. "Why," she often sighed, "can I not send a message to him also?" Tho golden flow, according to tho best estimates to bo made, was producing every day iiiany thousand dollars, but neither of them could realize this as solid and tangible value. It seemed rather some game of splendid d reams and figures purely mythical at which they were playing. play-ing. At last Walter came and mooted a wholly new plan. "I am overpowered with uneasiness; I do not have one moment's peace," ho euid. "When I am away from the Barranca Bar-ranca I am constantly tortured by the fear that the flow has stopped, that somebody some-body else has got access to it, that I am not doing tho utmost to secure it, or tlwt I have been or shall be followed in going in or out." It was but too evident in his looks how mental turmoil and bodily labor were wearing him out. "The last time I went np by El Jasmin Jas-min I met our Sonor Jefe Politico, with two evil looking alguazils of office behind be-hind him. That country is all in his district, of course, and he has a perfect right to bo there, and he is probably not spying after my movements, but it gives mo a nervous feeling all the same. I must end this. I must go to the Barranca, and stay there till the work is done." "Alone in that dismal place? It would be too dreadful! Suppose you should be sick?" "A la guerre comme a la guerre!" he responded as before; "that is one of the least considerations when there are so many more important things to think bout. If anything should happen now by my fault when only these few poor thousands have been realized a mere drop in the bucket to the sum I must have with what bitter regrets I should bo overcome!" "But how will your absence be accounted ac-counted for? How long will it be? What if you should meet with any accident?" expostulated Au.-, in pain, a thousand ' obstacles and dangers rising before her fancy. - "i ESt. pcear to ao. to ike Failed TIm composition of the first letter was entered upon at once, and so much amusement was caused by mistakes arising aris-ing out of Walter's preconceived ideas of things in the United States that a humorous hu-morous light was cast, fur tiie timo being, over tho sadness of parting. It was proposed pro-posed tlwt Amy should prepare for him after each lottor a few particulars, to give a sort of contemporaneousness to the next, and he was to endeavor to steal out, in disguise, once a month, to get these notes, and leave his letter and also one with some account of his own doings. "Where shall we put the letters?" askod Amy. "You know the cross set np at the spot where tho English governess was killed by lightning; that is an excellent place. A natural, easy path goes by it, and there is a short cut across tho fields to Campo Florido. You can easily make an excuse for going there. A number of earthen pitchers uro hung to the cross by leathern thongs, and it is always in order to fill them with flowers. The letters must be put in one of these and well covered with leaves." Don Walter had already sounded his guardians on the subject of a voyage to tho I'pited States, and when ho finally announced his determination to go they were not too much astonished. They thought it might not be a bad thing for him to see a little more of tho world; perhaps he would settle down moro contentedly con-tentedly at homo on his return. He had no desire to hunt up his relations in New York, but he mado this an occasion for finding out as much as possible about them. The Senoritas Arroyo, in fact, knew but little. They were distantly related re-lated to his mother, and it was through this fact that their adopting him had come about; but his mother was dead before be-fore his father had brought him to Mexico, Mex-ico, and nearly all the rest was befogged and lost inthenon-intercourso the odium of disgrace had occasioned. Tho kind spinsters made a pleasant reunion re-union for him at their honse to bid him Godspeed. Ho was of so essentially frank a nature that he could with difficulty diffi-culty carry off the imposition. Amy was there, nnd at the moment of farewell his eyes gazed long nnd lingeringly into hers, while her own were veiled and swimming swim-ming with tears. "If you do not come back," she suggested. sug-gested. "Yes, tho worst side also ought to bo thought of, it is true. Why, then then go to Perez and tell him about it. But that is to be only a last resort, (live plenty of time." Then he set out on horseback, by a long journey, to take the railway i'or Vera Cruz. It was his plan, he said, to visit some neglected business correspondents correspond-ents on tho way. . He meant to dispose j of his horse at Puebla to pay part of tlm expense of his voyage. Somo of his young acquaintances accompanied ac-companied liiin part of the way on his road iu lively fashiou. After 'leaving them he went on with a single sen-ant, who carried his baggage. On tho second day he insisted that tho horse this mozo rode was lame and looked badly. "I would not for anything that so good an animal should bo permanently disabled," dis-abled," he said. "Give me here the baggage bag-gage on my own horse" he had purposely pur-posely mado it very light "and you go hack; I nhall get ou perfectly well by myself." . 1 life? some tossed at random by eccentric force, others standing upright, and many broken off as if for pedestals for gigantic statuary. Small lateral canyons, too opened from the cliffs-curious nooks' of sharp fracture, forever hidden from the sun. If Walter found any beautiful thing he laid it aside in his cabinet, hoping some day it might delight tho eyes of Amy. He put away for her amygdaloids. almond shaped crystals formed in air cavities of the lava, specimens of scoriaj and pumice filled with crystalline deposit, de-posit, and fossils that had once been under un-der the sea. And how many a bulky mass of pudding stone he broke asunder with his hammer to search in this promising prom-ising matrix for diamonds! "Such a laboratory affords all the conditions con-ditions for the formation of precious ' stones, he argued "The diamond is only carbon, the amethyst silica and the ruby and sapphire alumina, ail crystallized crystal-lized slowly under enormous pressure. Why should I not find some of them'" Nevertheless his efforts in this direc- hon did not meet with success. TO BE COOTIN-CED NEXT SATURDAY. 1 iug a stream into the trough to quickly chill its contents, but this I afterwards removed for tear of detection. Furthermore Further-more I scattered rough fragments of vol-cauic vol-cauic slag about in every direction, to artfully conceal, as I hoped, all traces of humau handiwork. "Nor was this enough. I felt it necessary nec-essary to form around all the works and the entire place, including my hut, a covert of heavy stones resembling those m the central cairn. The dread of discovery dis-covery is never absent from my thoughts, and, if discovered, tho most desperate energy of one man could not expect to avail against such fierce cupidiy as must bo aroused by the temptation here presented. " 'It is true,' I say to myself, 'that the spot is not on the route to anywhere, it is utterly desolate, nothing is to be gained by coming here, and the strongest strong-est prejudice exists against it. And yet, other men may come as I have done; other men have come, as witness the superstition, su-perstition, and the accurate account of the phenomenon given even by mv guides.' ' "I bronght down my derrick, set it np again, and placed with it numerous cv-clcpean cv-clcpean blocks, resembling those of the central cairn, leaving a winding, irregular irregu-lar path among them. When this was done, I thought the whole too formal, and SEentiaueh tifue ia giving it a mora I To put them in p!acc I hoisted them with a small lieriifk. Don Walter utilized a bright night of the tropics for his final march to the canyon. ! A radiant moonlight still whitened all its Btrango features when, in the small hours ; of tho morning, he arrived there. I He hud already conveyed thither many I things that would be useful to him, anil his first care was to make something like a permanent home in one of the lava huts he had used temporarily. These were in reality a kind of rude glass, the ' effijet of ixoDrisoned steam forcimrit I |
