The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-03-22

reading. But seeing that my father still
stood respectfully by, and was disposed
neither to nsk again nor even to grow
angry aud pass on in silence, he again
lifted his eyes for second, and looking
at Iny father, said, in deep, solemn,
and never-to-be.forgotten tone:
Maybe they have teen judged; and
are not!"
And sgtin he want on reading and
bald no word more, while MY father with
pa'e lips, silently took my hand and re-
turned to camp. He knew what that
awful sentence meant very we'll.
Bet the beadtifui, tl&cE-eyed girl, no
full Of youth, health. affection, devotion
what monstrous creature in all this
world could bo found miserable enotgh
to murder hefe Surely her purity, her
sweetnes8, should be as ten thousand
swords to defend her. Her beauty
should have been as an army with BAN
rers. What had happenedP We shall
see.
One morning before Sunrise, two long.
haired men on horseback, bearing long.
rifles before them dashed up to the grim
black shape baif.hidden in the rank rye,
grass there by tae bank Of the little trout
stream, and the bopy giant was seen to
Sit Suddenly bolt upright IN his coffin.
The conference did not last long
, Only few words passed--orders main
ly-brief, short sharp, and mostly made
UP Of monokyliab,es aud gosidfes; and
thsa The lonF-haired men on horseback,
with their long rifles before them, wheel.
ed suddenly and disappeared in md be-
hind g$ove Of the cool, leouing willows
mp The streaiH.
Then 1t was that the certain conviction
settled down upon all as TO who this
monster was. Men an women too. in
She many camps scattered here and there,
mp and down the willow.lined stream
began to question themselves ~ith pale
lips If they he'd a6ght 10 answer for, to
Sheso sudden, swift, and merciless
'jndgcs" of the tribe Of Par.
TIE terror that now possessed us, and
lay steadily and still over all, was pain
ful, piGrul. No one dared to speak to
his neighbor. 40 one knew who his
neighbor was; rhese was son,ew hat of
that awful stiffness aud sad pity o7er the
face OF nature which is to he observed
when an earthquake is about to break
the heart of our mother, earth.
On the next day four other men. SINH.
larly mounted, equally abrupt. endden,
and swift swept up tho little stream
from the shores OF the white lred sea,
and locked up and down and right ard
left as il fof SOME one who was lost or
had escaped. They did not speak to
any one, or even come rear to the silent
man up the stream, above our camp.
But they beckohed him, and he ans
wered back. They tuen dashed OF up
the morntain-side which sloped to the
stream, and, climbing 81 steady gallop
to tue high gray summit, sat there in
group long time, looking to the east,
to tho west, everywhere, long aud eager
lY. Then they rode on down the grassy
bill toward the head of the stream. and
we saw them no more. But a darker
shadow than ever was over us now;
shadow lay behind them like the shadow
Of death.
We could not endure the strain any
longer. And then. in fact. we were nj.
most ready to set out once more on the
long, long journey still before us. Faith.
er made excuse that heywanted to catch
the cool of the evening, And this gave
him some pretence Of reason to haste.
And so he set out, nc the sun went duwn
to move his little train on, on, on, on.
ward over the great white border of this
black sea OF death--anywhere, indeed. to
get rid Of this nightmare that lowered
over, su9oca,ed us.
Some Of our men had made boat
here out of an old wagon-bed. By the
help Of friendly Indian they had rowed
far out to little island with three green
trees on i:. There was n rock inst vi,i.
ble above the black. hoavy waters here
close to this island.
One of the men who went IN bathing
on the edge Of the island swan toward
this rock, The Indian was horrhea and
With horrissd y-lls beekonsa hin back