This is a story of the far Southwest, of the high mountains, abandoned dwellings, venomous Apaches, and a hunt for a treasure lost by Spaniards many generations ago. Charles Wayne is a telegrapher at a small way station in Arizona. A man who seems to be a tramp, staggers from the desert into his little office and dies there. But before his death he utters disjointed sentences about a great treasure concealed in the distant and lofty mountains. The adventures of Charles in search of this treasure form the basis of the story. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK Transcriber’s Notes: ――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text in bold by “equal” signs (=bold=). ――Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate. ――Printer's, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected, except as noted. ――Accepted possessive “s” variants (e.g. Simms’ vs. Simms’s, Holmes’ vs. Holmes’s, etc.) were retained. ――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. ――Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Around the End, by Ralph Henry Barbour