then i went among them speaking of the unknown things of the dead that come and go like shadows and do evil deeds till they cried aloud in terror and gathered all together like little children afraid of the dark made laying that had come upon them at the door of when he had done there was a furious commotion and they took in their hands and of and clubs and stones from the beach but ran away home and because he had not drunken of they could not catch him and fell one over another and made a haste slowly even now they do howl without his and his within and what of the noise he cannot make himself heard o thou hast done well i commended go now taking this empty and the lean dogs and ride fast to the of and before the people who are drunken are aware throw him quick upon the and bring him to me i waited and gave good advice to the faithful ones till returned was on the and i saw by the on his face that his had done well by him but he tumbled oflf and fell in the snow at my feet crying o master thou wilt forgive thy servant for the wrong things he has done thou art a great man surely wilt thou forgive call me brother � call me brother i lifting him to his feet with the toe of my wilt thou obey yea master he a then dispose thy body so across the � led i shifted the to my right hand and direct thy face downward toward the snow and make haste for we journey south this day and when he was well fixed i laid the lash upon him at every stroke the wrongs he had done me this for thy in general � and this for thy in particular � and this for and this for thy soul s welfare and this for the grace of thy authority and this for and this for thy rights god given and this for thy fat and this and this for thy income tax and thy and fishes and this for all thy and this finally that thou henceforth walk softly and with understanding now cease thy and get up on thy and go to the fore and break trail for the dogs on thomas smiled quietly to himself as he lighted his fifth cigar and sent curling smoke rings a but how about the people of i asked kind of rough wasn t it to leave them flat with famine and he answered laughing between two were there not the fat dogs the faith of men the faith of men � ell you what we ll do we ll shake i for it that suits me said the second man turning as he spoke to the indian that was mending in a corner of the cabin here you take a run down to s cabin like a good fellow and tell him we want to borrow his box this sudden request in the midst of a council on wages of men wood and surprised besides it was early in the day and he had never known white men of the of and to and play till the day s work was done but his face was as a indian s should be as he pulled on his and went out the door by the sunset the faith of men though eight o clock it was still dark outside and the cabin was lighted by a candle thrust into an empty bottle it stood on the pine board table in the middle of a of dirty tin dishes from innumerable candles had down the long neck of the bottle and hardened into a miniature the small room which composed the entire cabin was as badly as the table while at one end against the wall were two one above the other with the blankets turned down just as the two men had crawled out in the morning and were million though they did not look it there seemed nothing unusual about them while they would have passed muster as fair specimens of in any camp but outside in the darkness where holes yawned in the ground were many men engaged in and gravel and gold from the of the holes where other men received fifteen dollars per day for the faith of men it from oflf the each day thousands of dollars worth of gold were scraped from and to the surface and it all belonged to and who took their rank among the richest kings of broke the silence that followed on s departure by the dirty plates higher on the table and a on the cleared space with his the smoky candle and rubbed the from the between thumb and forefinger by jove i wish we could both go out he abruptly exclaimed that would settle it all looked at him darkly if it weren t for your cursed obstinacy it d be settled anyway all you have to do is get up and get i ll look after things and next year i can go out why should i go i ve no one waiting for me � your people broke in roughly the faith of men like you have went oa a girl i mean and you know it shrugged his shoulders gloomily she can wait i guess but she s been waiting two years now and another won t age her beyond recognition that d be three years think of it old man three years in this end of the earth this falling oflf place for the damned i threw up his arm in an almost articulate groan he was several years younger than his partner not more than twenty six and there was a certain in his face that comes into the faces of men when they 