When Next We Came Forth From Their Dancing
Shadow And Sunlight, We Found Ourselves Standing In The Broad Glare
Of Day, On A High Jutting Point Of The Mountain.
Before us stretched
a long, wide, desert valley, winding away far amid the mountains.
No
civilized eye but mine had ever looked upon that virgin waste.
Reynal was gazing intently; he began to speak at last:
"Many a time, when I was with the Indians, I have been hunting for
gold all through the Black Hills. There's plenty of it here; you may
be certain of that. I have dreamed about it fifty times, and I never
dreamed yet but what it came true. Look over yonder at those black
rocks piled up against that other big rock. Don't it look as if
there might be something there? It won't do for a white man to be
rummagmg too much about these mountains; the Indians say they are
full of bad spirits; and I believe myself that it's no good luck to
be hunting about here after gold. Well, for all that, I would like
to have one of these fellows up here, from down below, to go about
with his witch-hazel rod, and I'll guarantee that it would not be
long before he would light on a gold mine. Never mind; we'll let the
gold alone for to-day. Look at those trees down below us in the
hollow; we'll go down there, and I reckon we'll get a black-tailed
deer."
But Reynal's predictions were not verified.
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