Show SAVED BY Y prize story written tor detroit free pre se by wm tl smith aged 14 and it you see any indiana IndIA tide ald for the devils chimney said widow arnold to tier her son jack just as he be and mike alike flanagan Flana gaii the chief herder were star starting tAng out to find some stray cattle prank frank arnold had bad come to colorado ight years before nith his alfe ife and ali alx lx year old sort aon but he yas was killed dur ins ing the third bear ear ot of his hie rehl duce by a band of wand cOng indians leaving alike la in charke charge of tile he banch laach As tack jack a and nd the lueider lei der set out 0 alky had bad no thought of dangar toi fol indians had not been seen around for several months montha mike alike and jack rode across the prairie in search of tho the cattle and found them lit in a crook tied bed five miles from homo home suddenly mike alike saw caw a cloud of dust off to tho the south and rapidly drawing draving neater ride for fer er life me bet be and nd well we 11 havo have to lave tho bastes to them hayt hay liens exclaimed mike alike as aa I 1 fc whipped his broncho into a faster w ill go first said mike tun run when the savages neared the held they left some flome 20 of their iliin aum ier ber to tako care of the cattle and the rest ot of the red men came after jack aud and mike at breakneck speed for the first two to miles the herder and his bis companion seemed to be leaving their pursuers behind but jacke pony suddenly its shoulder sli by planting its foot into a diable pi ail ie dogs deserted bunow and a bullet hom mikes alike s rifle soon put the poor ci satui e out of its misery up bellint me bye urged mike alike we 11 II have to ride fer th ChI chimney niney I 1 he herders gerders pony could only go at a trot cair ing double weight so BO the indian eie haddly an eights of 0 a mile behind them when they i cached beached their hiding place go alist said cald mike alike so I 1 can 5 ou oil the chimney went down at a slight blight angle about a feet set into the rock and had bad probably pio bably been hollowed out by the action of water thet e was quite a growth of vints and bushes springing from the he soil on the ledge on the inside since m waited aws to pick the two nearest savages out of their saddles and then started down doa the calm ney by the old aid of 0 the bushes jack foll following oming suddenly Sudden 15 the bo lost loat hla his hold bold and fell more than ten len tet fet onto ohp abo ledge where mike hilke v vas as standing jack said the man baan t we better luck duck into this thia cato cave to a hole lit hi the tha tork lock jack agid and started starlet in but soon scrambled out again there a a panther in heie for I 1 saw hla his eyes eyen lie he cited who mike peered in and said youie light jackle and rm aether lie he looks uga As be spoke llie heard a allot gaail I 1 and the savage animal jumped toward them but as they ducked lie ho flew flea over their beads and striking etri king the 0 opposite 1 mall all tell fh mith alth a thud to tho the bottom mike alike and jack then ci ailed into the cavo cave and lay domn soon they heard the th jabbering ot of indians indiana and looking up saw raw them making it a file ot of green stuff and smoke soon hoon began to till the chloine degorda De gorra gorral d mike strip plug ping oft off his coat the scoundrels aie to smoke us its out this cor gainly la is the civils s chimney only the smoke la IR lorning coming down instead of going up off our coat jak jade and well fool the sn alib the herder and tack jack waited in the lor about fil six horns then taft mhd smoke having cleared im a they out of the cave and looked up tip it was vas quite dark and they saw that the tit indians had lolled a huge lock over the mouth month of the chimney mike alike exclaimed jack fiust bs be an opening dov donn n belov belom or how did the smoke clear offa they started to descend and on the ho bottom they round found the doad dead body of the panther alicy soon found the hole through which the smoke had passed and by a good deal of ing they got it onto the side or of a cliff aftel walking along a ledge they reached a path that lod led to the top rhe file then caught their pon which had bad been quietly glazing about and m acre ere soon oft off on a trot foi home and were soon telling of their adventures to an anxious and interested crowd of n neighbors |