And, when they descended a dozen well-worn steps to the door of their cabin, they left the summit, as before, lonely, silent, motionless, its long level uninterrupted, basking in the cold light of the stars. Why don't you get the chalk?”. “Get up,” he said quietly; “there's a strange fire in the Canyon head that I can't make out.”. Yet, mingling with this familiar sound, his ear, now morbidly acute, seemed to detect a stranger inarticulate murmur, as of confused and excited voices, swelling up from the mysterious depths to the stars above, and again swallowed up in the gulfs of silence below. There were a few moments of absolute silence, and then another stumble. Cart All. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Taking out his pipe, and chipping some tobacco on the table, he said carelessly, “I came a piece through the woods with Mornie just now.”, The face that Ruth turned upon his brother was very distinct in its expression at that moment, and quite belied the popular theory that the twins could not be told apart. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers The Twins of Table Mountain, and Other Stories Contents: The twins of Table Mountain -- An heiress of Red Dog -- The great Deadwood mystery -- A legend of Sammtstadt -- Views from a German spion. " The Twins of Table Mountain are Rand and Ruth, sharing a cabin and working a mine. She took me for you, or pretended to.”. Stories that will inspire you. Within the cabin the walls and chimney-piece were dazzlingly bedecked with the party-colored wings of jays, yellow-birds, woodpeckers, kingfishers, and the poly-tinted wood-duck. Rand slowly clambered from his shelf, and hand in hand the brothers stood upon the ledge. The Twins of Table Mountain. Each man kept his half of the cabin until the feud was forgotten. The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories: Harte, Bret: 9780554271767: Books - Amazon.ca. They are twins, not easily told apart, and a strain on the relationship occurs because of it. Yet in that dry, highly-rarefied atmosphere, there was not the slightest suggestion of odor or decay. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Smell, indeed!”. EMBED. “What's your little game? Read Online. Here followed a stumble, the clatter of stones down the mountain-side, and an oath so very human and undignified that it at once relieved the bowlders of any complicity of expression. Also available in digital form. He would have liked to ask his brother another question; but there was clearly nothing to be done but follow his example. They lived on the verge of a vast stony level, upheaved so far above the surrounding country that its vague outlines, viewed from the nearest valley, seemed a mere cloud-streak resting upon the lesser hills. The vague horizon of darkness, that a few feet from the lantern still encompassed them, gave no indication of their progress, until their feet actually trod the rude planks and thatch that formed the roof of their habitation; for their cabin half burrowed in the mountain, and half clung, like a swallow's nest, to the side of the deep declivity that terminated the northern limit of the summit. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. A faint rhythmical roll, rising and falling in long undulations against the invisible horizon, to his accustomed ears told him the wind was blowing among the pines in the valley. 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