Tales and Items of Interest incoherent words that ended with hysterical laughter. That was enough. Quickly the three retraced their steps, groping their way through the dark passage as best they could. Twice more the strange blasts of air swept down upon them, almost throwing them to the ground. Then, as they reached the foot of the stairway, the entire passage collapsed behind them with a defining roar. The men who waited above saw three badly scared wild-eyed fellows climbing the stairs pell- mell. "What's all the rush about?" they questioned. "You fellows look as if you'd seen a ghost." "Didn't you hear that awful noise?" asked the others. "Not us," said their spokesman. "Up here everything was as silent as sunset." When the strange yarn had gone the rounds, every last one of them pulled stakes and left the place forever. Tradition says that for many years the steps leading to the mysterious passage lay exposed to all who went to visit the spot. But the secret passage, where the moaning voice, mingled with the rushing wind, almost scared three gold seekers out of their wits, was never seen again by mortal eye. What unexplained something was loose in that subterranean passage? To this day the mystery re¬ mains unsolved. IN CLOSING In closing this portion of our book, we wish to use the following quote from a letter of Cecil A. Miller 's to a correspondent, Mrs. Frank L. Connor , dated April 29, 1979. "Thank you for your interesting letter, for your enquiries which I have tried to explain, for your interest in P.E.I. , God's garden of , where people live longer, where there is no rat race to shorten one's life, where people live close to each other in harmony, and where a great many live by the following thought: I shall pass through this world but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." The indentation is by Stephen Grellet 1773-1855 Quaker missionary Copied with permission of the publisher and with our thanks. -269-