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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

> kT Avs eT he ee Poe FRR rio tie Calprf hate : Yd Aa wale: ih a the lonely ba opded reaches nf the creek, in a great cliff that towered sheerly aloft from almost the water’s edge, was Alexander’s Cave; where Deerfoot is ‘ had hoped to hide for a time, and where he had sent word Hane tO his friend Linn to meet him. The cave was an ancient place, weird and uncanny of some of people. reputation, and seldom visited by even the most venture- | It had a broad, high entrance, which oe continued inward for a hundred feet or more, and then _ terminated in a narrow hole at the top of a oP ledge of rocks. From here a multiplicity of passages, wound and en- _ tangled with one another, were said to lead in numerous - directions, none having an exit to the outer air, and all terminating hopelessly in the bowels of the earth. _ There was a well-founded story to the effect that years - ago, when Carlisle was an army post, a soldier and his A week Jater the dog turned up at the garrison, worn to a skele- ton, and with his hide Selped and torn by squirming i irongt sharp stones. _ dog had entered Alexander’s Cave to explore it. But the soldier was never found a nor heard of again; nor could any one discover the exit by which the animal had escaped from underground. Naturally, this story—which was fully credited—pre- _ vented any further or complete explorations of the cave. as . - he college students frequently went in for a short dis- - tance, and twice Linn and Deerfoot had penetrated to the ae first turn beyond the ledge. 7! we See ya ed ae +h The young Sioux had known something of caves in the West, and he had more than once boasted his willingness to go through this one from end to end. - It was early in the afternoon when Linn reached the water-works’ dam. An old man was fishing from a rock Bruce and Steve. - - | * - - 7 _ v iC ele (ele) mn ? . ta fiat ea on the opposite side of the creek, but there was no sign of © That hey had been here was carat, OKS con