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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 77 Bosilla, at the foot of Monta Reccia. He was prospect ing in the Eugenia range with Alphonso Thimm, who per ished of mountain fever seven weeks after they made camp. Pedro buried his friend and companion in a side of the mountain, said a " de profundis" for the repose of his soul, and returned to his lonely tent. Three days after the burial of his companion, he was examining some ore he had taken out of the shaft, when he saw Alphonso coming toward him. He dropped the sample and began to run, shouting for help. He fell at last from exhaus^- tion and lost consciousness. When he returned to his senses, Thimm was gone and Pedro retraced his way back to his tent. The next afternoon, at about 4 o'clock, when he was working at the shaft, Alphonso again appeared; and held him by his glittering eye, as did the Ancient Mariner the wedding guest. He beckoned to Pedro to follow him and Pedro followed. The ghost led him away to the north, over rocky, broken ridges, and at last stopped. Then he took Pedro by the arm and said, ' ' Come here to- morrow and dig. ' ' Thimm vanished, and Pedro, marking the spot the ghostly finger pointed out, dragged himself back to his tent. He awoke at noon the next day, cooked and eat his simple meal, and, shoulder ing his miner's pick, returned to the place shown him by his dead companion. Here he discovered and located the " El Collado" mine, which he sold to a Mexican syndi cate for 30,000 pesos. Ghost or no ghost, Pedro found the mine, and from the proceeds of the sale built him self a pretentious and comfortable homse, occupied to day By one of his daughters with her husband and chil dren. |