Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 202, 6 July 1918 — Page 13

RICHMOND PALLADIUM. JULY 6. 1913

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"IN THE GOLD PIT" Along a certain mountain in a foreign country there ran a very beautiful road. This road was called the "Path of Gold," the name of which was taken from a legend told very frequently in the village at the foot of the beautiful mountain. It was said that a very wealthy man, with his wife and children had come a long time ago to this village hunting for gold. Although the man was already wealthy he wanted more money and after he had been traveling many days in search of gold, he stopped at the village inn for the night. The people told him that it was sometimes said that there was gold in the mountain which overhung their village. That night Mr. Fays, for this was the searchers name, could not keep from thinking of gold, and as a result of this he dreamed that halfway up the mountain he could find gold if ho dug a pit about thirty-five ftet deep and about three acres in area. The next morning he started the task and when he had finished, he had used all his money and had accomplished nothing. To keep from starving he and his wife worked a little in the village and lived in a hut in the pit, which he had made for his workers The villagers had ever since regarded the pit as being haunted, both because they had thought the gold-seeker crazed and because people that went in there were sometimes never seen again the truth was that they did not want to be seen either by the village guards or anyone else. They also warned travelers not to enter it and indeed they never entered it themselves. The descendants of Mr. Fays, with their little son, lived in this house at the pit at the time of my story they were very quiet and contented people and always treated travelers kindly, although the villagers did not think so. No one ever stopped there for the night or even in the day-time unless they were Seeing from the village guards, because most of them were aware of the fact that guards never went into the pit. Their son was between the ages of 10 and- twelve years old He wa3 always interest- , ed in these strange travelers and often studied their faces. As the family were eating their supper one night a strange knock was heard at the door. Before the boy could reach the door a tall man entered hurredly. He asked, out of breath, to be hid from the guards, because lie thought that they were determined to get him and would surely enter the pit. They told him that he need have no fear and they gave him a place at the table and treated him as if he were one of the family. The boy gazed earnestly at him as if he thought that he had once been a good man, but had been thrown out into the world and had become a robber. When the supper was finished he seemed to have some sacred friendship with the man although he had not said a word to him and although he might be dangerous. The man also seemed to take a strong liking to the ooy, but he had not paid much attention to him as he had been used to doing to all humans. When the father of the house had given the stranger a lodging in another part of the house, he, his wife and son discussed the stranger: His father thought that he was a highway murderer because he wore a dangerous look and seemed to. have nothing to say but acted as if he were a dog taking his feed from his master. The boy stood up for the stranger all through the conversation, but he was very much impressed by his father's speech. When he went to bed that night he first looked in the man's assigned room and hearing him snoring loudly he went back to bed. He kept thinking of the man until he came to the conclusion that he really might be a bad robber, so he reached down to the bottom of his bed and got his wooden money bank. He finally fell asleep, clutching it tightly and dismissing the former idea. He thought that it must have been about twelve o'clck when he half-way awoke, hearing a rough knock at his bedroom door. He was frightened on seeing a village guard before him and he did not understand how he got into the house without his parents consent, because village guards were the most prominent men of the coun-

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try and were never before known to have done anything like this. He also knew that this was the first guard to enter the pit because they had always regarded it below their dignity. The guard seemed to be unarmed, as if off duty and acted as if he had taken a little too much wine. He asked the boy gruffly several times, whether he had not seen a thief in the pit. The boy did not want to tell on one who seemed to be such a good friend, although he knew that the guards were considered high officers and that death was the penalty for one who would not tell on a thief, wbom he kept in hiding, but he found that he was so frightened that he was not able to speak. He happened to be looking at the transom of the door when he saw the face of the robber looking very angry. This did not frighten him because he thought that the robber was coming to rescue him, but the face did not move. The guard slyly reached down to the foot' of the bed and when his hand felt nothing he withdrew it blushing and trying to cover his unsuccessful trici. The boy kept watching the face and when the guard did this it made a deep scowl, but when the guard began searching the boy's dresser drawers, the scowl turned to a smile. The guard found nothing and came to the bed asking the boy again for the thief. When he was not able to answer the guard attempted to drag the boy from his bed, watching the face the boy resisted until it disappeared. It reappeared and a loud sound of a pistol, issued from the transom. One of them fell dead.

Rose Mary decided that she would run away to a place where she could have her own way. She started out and the sun kept getting hotter and hotter so she laid down under a tree and went to sleep. , She dreamed that she was in a land where was unknown and that she was the queen of it. She could do anything that she wanted to do and no one could stop her. Rose

Mary soon grew tired of this life and longed to hear her mother's gentle voice.

Al lat one-? sue felt a gentle tap i

on her shoulder. It was her father who had watched her go away. He said, "It is supper time, Rose Mary and mother is going to have strawberries for supper. Upon hearing this Rose Mary jumped up. Sho kent her dream a secret, but

never again did she want her own j

way. Grace Simcoke, Garfield.

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