Show o l W dI THE SIGHING MOUNTAIN Part MOUNTAIN Part I 1 Once upon a time lime in a country countr country coun coun- i tr try there was a big mountain near neara i a I village that the people c called the Sighing Mountain because on Mummer summer summer sum Mum mer P evenings R when the tho wind wa was blowing gently senti it sounded as if Ir some Rome someone someone one were on top of or the mountain sight sigh sigh- t Ing ng The mountain W was wag 8 covered ered with thick growths of or briers and prickly trees and after aCler going half halt way ay all were glad lad to return and so o it had been man many years since an anyone one had made the attempt when hen one da day there came a stranger to the little village and heard hear the sighing of or the big mountain There Thre is no use trying to find out what makes the sighing the old peo people peo-i peo plc pic told the stranger It U It has been tried many times and each one who went failed to get farther farther- than half hatt halfway halfway wa way up the mountain Ah but that Is Just why h I want to try replied the stranger I 1 shall start at daybreak tomorrow All the village people w were re out to tobee see bee the stranger T start for ho he was Vat still stilla a stranger er to them He told them he would woul tell his name when he return returned d. d an and the old men shook their heads head and sal said He lie will ne never t er r return for when he finds he has haR failed he will ride away by hy another road But he dill did not return In the time Ume I Ither they ther had expected and then th they grow frightened frig by hy his hla long Ions absence but Lut there was no sign of him to be seen on the mountain a and nIt th the sighing was heard hard as usual usua that night ni I But what the villagers did not see was what hat happened when the stranger strang- strang er pr disappeared among amons the trees He looked about for tor something and wh where re th the briers grew the tho thickest he lie found it it was a bl big tree with Ith long Ions slender branches and this the stranger er tried to reach by 11 sending his hll horse over o the briers but hut the faithful faithful faith faith- I ful animal could not be made to go so 1 so 0 the rider dismounted an and climbed through h and over the sharp bushes until he came to the tree then he broke oft off a n branch as ns long as twice the l length nth of ot his arm but wh when n he tried to return to his horse he found he had trouble rouble In holding the brunch branch or rather he had hard work to go bO toward to toward to- to ward his liis horse for the thc branch blanch drew him In another direction But the stranger held tI tight ht to the branch with both hands and though his clothes w were wre re torn lorn almost almO l to tatters tat tat- teis and his hands hand sore from the thA sharp briers he managed to reach ff his torso horse nn and mounted holding the stick nil all the time lime And now a strange thing happened The stranger held the stick before him and ami it turned the the- pointed end toward to toward to- to ward the top of or the th mountain at t the tho cr very center Then the stranger knew why he had hu hud had trouble in get getting tins back to his hor horse e he was going in the wrong direction di dl- dl lection To reach his horse he did not go up the thc mountain but along alon the side Hide Taking th the broken end of or the stick in one hand the stranger struck the briers and bushes with the t I point an and they separated and made madea a path for the horse and rider as though some unseen hand had chopped them or oft Up and up went the horse hors and when the sun was setting the tho stranger strang strang- er stopped his horse honse and ami looked around H He could coul hear no pa sound not even f the chirping of ot the birds all was wag still nn and i soon oon Il it would be dark but the thet t stranger did not seem at all In a hurl hur hur- l ry iT Instead he cleared a place for tor his horse and anel himself to rest rest- reston on the ground under a tree and throwing the stick that had served him so well Into the bushes he la lay down and was soon asleep When he he- awoke the moon was w shining shining shin shin- ing ins and taking hold of or the bridle he brought his horse to his feet al ard d mounted him Then he listened and the sound that he heard was a tl sigh He Ile waited and ag again again- ln he heard the I sigh When the stranger reached d the top of ot the mountain he looked about but nothing could he see sec but trees and rocks Still StUl he heard the sighing and now It seemed very very- close to him But the stick s seemed to have hae lo lost t tIts its charm n now w. w There were no briers to clear away RY and the stranger hel heir it loosely in his hand as ns he listened but suddenly suddenly- the stick flew new out of or his hand and seemed to fly to the top of or ofa ora a high rock where it rested T Tying his horse to a a. tree the stranger went toward the rock and andas andas andas as he did so the sighing grew nearer and louder louer It came from rom the rock and as the stranger drew near to It he walked w vp very carefully so so that his steps might not not be he heard and crept around the rock to find an nn opening The rock stood tood on the v very ry top of ot the mountain and close to the ed edge e RO so that t one end of or it ft was at the side of ot the mountain and the stranger found that if It the rock had an openIng opening open- open Ing tn It must mut be he on that side All this time the sighing continued and the stranger swung himself out over the thc edge of or the mountain by takIng tak tak- taking ing hold of ol twigs and bits of projectIng project- project In Ing rock Yes the rock did have havo an opening and on a a. long onA stone shaped like a a. couch lay Iny a a. b beautiful maiden malden her eyes closed and her hands folded over her breast It If it had not been for tor the sighing which came from her lips the stranger strang strang- er would have thought she was made of ot marble so ISO still and ana white she looked Continued tomorrow COP Copyright 1915 b by the the McClure Newspaper Syndicate New York I City Tomorrows Tomorrow's story story The The Sighing Mountain Part Mountain Part II 11 Use Standard coal High Hish in heat 10 low in moisture Phone Wasatch Ad Adv |