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Show The Mysterious Ugh! ol Cap Nolr. For many sears on Cap Nolr the west-ern west-ern point of Maria a strongt light was seen dancing nnd moving about In the most unaccountable manner At one mo ment It would rise like n lolunm of tire Into the air at another time It would fall ke a meteor, then It woull seem to leap over the point and drop lot the sea oft-erward oft-erward nrpeorlng flauln In the sarni spit en the hillside The hal Hants tell llils slors nbout ll In the time of the war for the possession of Can id i a I reni-h vessel pursued by an Lngllsh warship steered Its course hit the bay at this point for refute I oat was lowered from the side of tho rlchls -laden merchantman mer-chantman and In this thirteen men swill-Is swill-Is rowed to the shore Their object ias to secrete a chest of gold which they brought with them On reaching the point thev drew lots to sec which of the men shoul 1 remain to gunrd the treasure. The one to whom the lot fell was forced to swear a solemn oith bs land and sea, bs das and night, by the ruler of, the nether worl 1 that ho woul 1 b- faithful tn the trust thriuBh his life unless relieved re-lieved bs Ills n turning comrades and even lifter d'nth would haunt the spot, should no one come lo lake Ills place To secure the fiilllllment of this vow his wlckfd associates Ihen ml there lit hln to death and hurle I him with the Ireas. lire nie ghoslls light was supposed to be the spirit of the miirtterel man and inanv persona whn tenii led bs the hope of recovering the treasure, ventured Into the haunted spot lld In (error nnd told blood running stories of the horrible phontome nnd frightful slehts which they had witnessed The light la seen no longer long-er perhaps some nlseuturer boldar Intn the rest slicceede I In rilscoverlne the gnl I carried It off and thus knvo rest to the unquiet spirit -Lllza U Chase In the Ern Magazine |