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Updated: June 28, 2025
The gold-hunter, Andrew Seldon, rode on his way from his retreat in the cañon, determined to risk his life by returning to Fort Faraway and reporting the presence in the Grand Cañon of the masked outlaw band. If recognized as Sergeant Wallace Weston, under sentence of death, he would be at once arrested and his execution would follow.
This struck him as being a very remarkable circumstance, indeed, since they were clad like miners, some of them wearing beards that came below their masks. All were armed thoroughly. They were eating their supper as Andrew Seldon looked at them. Gaining a point of observation still nearer, the gold-hunter obtained a view of the camp-fire apart from the others.
Colonel Kellogg was a Litchfield County man, a native of New Hartford, and at this time about thirty-eight years of age. His education was not of the schools, but gained from years of adventurous life as sailor, gold-hunter, and wanderer.
He would say that he had higher aims than those of a mere fighter and gold-hunter; and so doubtless he had. In the complex tangle of motives that actuated the mediaeval Spaniard and in his peninsula we may apply the term mediaeval to later dates than would be proper in France or Italy the desire of extending the dominion of the Church was a very real and powerful incentive to action.
"I will at once solve the mystery, for I had hoped never to behold a human face here other than Lucas Langley's and my own," and the gold-hunter walked away in the direction of the firelight which had so startled him. He went cautiously, for he knew well the danger if he was discovered, and the builders of the camp-fire proved to be foes.
Then, until after midnight, they sat talking together, the surgeon, the scout, and the gold-hunter, about all that had happened, after which they retired to their blankets. It was just dawn the next morning when Wallace Weston rode away from the old camp to make all speed to Last Chance.
"Why don't you take him down?" he asked. "It was ordered that he hang for twenty-four hours, as a warning to any others in camp who might be tempted to steal. The time isn't up yet. "You are a young gold-hunter," said Hunter, scanning over hero's youthful face. "Yes, I am," Ben confessed; "but I had to earn a living, and I thought I could do it better here than at home." "Are you from the East?"
That young girl, sir, gave the name of Celeste Seldon. She is my daughter. "Now, Surgeon Powell, you have my story, and my comrade is in my camp, awaiting my return!" Frank Powell was greatly impressed with the story of the gold-hunter, to which he had listened with the deepest attention.
"This this is my soul and body! Jedediah come alive again!" The returned gold-hunter swallowed several times. "Thankful," he faltered, "I know you must feel pretty hard agin me, but but, you see " "Hush! hush! Don't speak to me for a minute. Let me get my bearin's, for mercy sakes, if I can. . . . Jedediah HERE!" "Yes yes, I'm here. I am, honest. "Sshh!
The snow had piled itself, in the open spaces along the bottom of the gulch, into long ridges that seemed to heave, and into hills that appeared to toss and scatter spray. The spray was sunlight, twice reflected: dashed once from the moon, once from the snow. Among the advantages of which the mountains cannot deprive the gold-hunter is the privilege of speaking Latin.
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