NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1891 Who they were, and whence they came, none can say. The mountains where they found their home--their long home--keep silence. The stars, that they knew, look down upon their graves and make no sign. Their memory, unless in some fine and subtle way lingering in the mystery, the pervasive melancholy, the vaguely troublous forecast and retrospect which possess the mind in contemplating this sequestered spot, unhallowed save by the sense of a common humanity, has faded from the earth. None might know that they had ever lived but for a dim tradition associating them with the ancient forgotten peopl…
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