Klondike Kit's Chum, or, A Hot Strike on Vulture Hill — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Wh hey are ae Jats weacad’to aicwe? When I came up and untangled you from the bone pile you had your eyes closed and were saying you prayers. Excited! blue in the face.”’ hy, Disc, yan WES. ‘‘Plue, is it? Vell, tell some more lies like dot und I make you plue all ofer.' I. can stand so mooch und den I can’t stand some more. ) “There, now, ring off 1”? said Kit. «Yon fellows ouglit to be gagged.’’ “Where were you, Karl, when you were captured ?’’ asked Ph). ‘(Py der rock vere Kit left us.”’ “Kit hadn’t mueh more than pulled out,’’ put in Bill, ‘‘when Dutch thought he saw something. a Ne ‘‘He went off to se eaiepa tee and, as he didn’t come back, I-moseyed after him. _/ **Next thing I knew I didn’t know anything. 3 “When my thinker got in working order again, I found myself in here with od ‘Dutch going through my pockets and looking for matches.”’ ‘“‘Boliver must have done the trick after stopping at Henderson’s to announce the strike of the Chinks,”” remarked Phil. Courtenay struck another match and saw that Kit was getting up. ‘Where are you going, Kit?” sie in- quired. “Back into that rear room. Bill, yi 8 the way. If you have AP inatches, strike them as you go along.’’ 4:3 ‘*Keno!’’ facuice Bill, and ro once ‘made for thé corner of the chamber and turned into the narrow passage which took alinost a square dip to wont ward, d cscual ing the lode. A dozen steps brought them to the sec- ond vault-like room. It was a gruesome place with white and gleaming skeletons hanging from the - walls and lying about the floor, It was difficult to -wall without tread- -KLONDIKE KIT WEEKLY. viaes ee HAVE you: READ PAGE 32 ing upou some gsiqning skull or detached | bone. — SUH Reise To bile aectaiatta Giacteeaina in Ae 4) gust. .‘‘No wonder Karl and Bill ante) : bad attack of the creeps here.” 5 Kit volunteered noreply.. | eae , = OM 7) - - r. Al A s ‘ ra* ~ <n e is hs ad f ° Ww = = & yw ee SrA Se f fe A, ; Pad inva * = + a a, * *% y4 tie . 7F * ~ a . 225 eee 4. * : s - 7 - - ~~ ret hf ar : ag? oe In all that strange nothern country this cranny in the cliff, with its human re- ‘ $ LP ree oe at. Se = Y he 2: at ~ ' - a mh inains, was the strangest thing he had yet =f rum across. — | Nes agen = He walked about, thing minutely. Out of a heap of bones in one corner, a ghastly arm was thrust up. Arm and examinin g ~ : ~A,. o every- | Per — ut the hand were intact, and in the hand’s bony =) . @ palm lay a piece of ore rege the size 2 oe So anegg. - * oe As Kit removed thes specimen and ee | dropped it into his pocket, he gave voice to an exclaination that drew the attention of his friends. rates ‘What's the matter, Kit?” aie, Phil. . “T have a theory that this dyke in ne as cliff 1s the nother lode of thie Klondike.’? — “Id give a whole bunch of mother ak lodes to be out of this hole,’’ said Bill. = ‘*Pah! I.smell brimmstone.’’ So did the rest of them, and, all at once, little clouds of vapor could be seen surging through the chamber, while the choking fumes became stronger and “with what?’ aie : ‘‘Gun powder, I should say. Let’s make our way back to the other room and see _ what the condition of the HN deans as. there.”’ | - In the first chamber the air was found am 2 to be even more heavily charged with the om terrible fumes than in the second. ) ~ All four of them were coughing, sneez- ing and aantering Siete eae a ena \ stronger. ye | e © a “Vat vas der madder?” coughed = | oe “ophey? re trying to smoke iis out,’ re-° \¥ie ef ; plied Kit. ee a = ao io . ’ oh Se =f - ” ~— " tae -_~ « nu atte +. * ns hy ~ ee . i. — comicbooks.com