CHAPTER IV

THE VISITOR FROM THE OTHER SHORE


Jack Carleton and Otto Relstaub saw the twinkling point of light,
glowing like a star from the bank of darkness on the other side the
Mississippi. It shone for a minute with an intense brightness, and
then, to their amazement, began revolving in a circle of a foot or
more in diameter. It sped round and round with such swiftness that
it resembled a wheel of fire without the slightest break in the
flaming periphery.

"What can it mean?" asked the mystified Jack.

"I vos told something apout afire dot vos to jump apout in one
circle," was the remarkable statement of Otto.

"What was it?"

"I don't forgot him now," replied the German with the hesitating
speech of one in doubt.

"Well, you're the prize blockhead of the West," was the impatient
comment of the young Kentuckian. "How you could have heard anything
of that signal--as it must be--and forget it is beyond my understanding."