The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-09
TREAN;
THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER.
By ALVA MILroN KERR.
twr,ttsn while Living in Utah.

BY ALvA MILTON KERR.
fwrittsn while Living in utah.l
Copyrighted, 1857, sy the A. N. Kellogg Ns,ps-
paper Go. Ay Righs RsssrUsd.
CHAPTER Iv.-CoNT1ruED.
Apore ole woman was cl,ngin' at the same
cart, but she let 60 to'ards night an fell
out Of sight. No body could 60 back fer 'er
wen dark come, an in the mornin' not fur
from US some tore clothes an hair was
found, ON human skull with the wet
prints Of wolfteeth all over It, That
mornin' we buried Ave froze folks in one
grave, mind, an then went draggin'
on'ard agin, but bout noon we could go no
furder, the snow was 30 deep, an we
stopped ready to lay down an de- But
some Of the stoutest Of us managed TO get
the tents up, an, fires started, am went
beclk in the snow AM got the sick an the
1roze, an some what was out Of their minds,
an got 'em round the fires. Il was tur-
rfble sighti My Uatharine never said nary
word that day. Her eyes looked big an
CLASSY, an she went weavin' from one side
to tother, but she KEEP her eyes on the chill
dren an tryin' to push. / could see the
end was comm, but couldn't feel some-
how. I seemed to be jest movin' iii numb
kind Of awful nightmare. Sometimes I
didn't seem to know whar was; then agin
things'd look clear, but wild an strange,
an seemed to be worlsin' with all my
might, but I'm feerd it didn't mount to
much.
s'Well, that afternoon hep come. One of
the elders that passed US was shore we'd
never get through an urged President
Young to send US some pervisions. So
that day two Of party reached US an tole
US teams with supplies would be there the
next day, an fer us to kill one oxen an save
ourselves. 80 we did, they hepin' us, an
that evenin' we had big fires and all the
meat we keered fer an used what was left
Of the pervisions, an some on US got o little
life agin. But many was past all mortal
hep, an that night my Catherine died, an
just afore she passed away my darter Trean
was bornr'
There he stopped aud sat looking heavily
at the floor. A sweat broke out upon his
furrowed forehead, and for few moments
he seemed supplied by the shocking retro
spect.
az hain't no words to show We it furder
with" he said, hoarsely, without looking up.
I've talked too much about it; it comes too
nigh to mel and he swallowed painfully as
II the vision his memory brought suffocated
hum. II kent say nothin' furder, only that
the child was saved an has always been sad
like, an I've been q broken down man ever
since," and he got up and went tremblingly
out with something like sob shaking his
form.
Elchard had said nothing as the story
progressed, and the alternate surges Of
anger and pity in his bosom had followed
each other with no sign upon the surface
save Q tightening and trembling Of the
fingers, clouds flying across the face, and o
dsrkening and melting Of the eye.
And when It ended he still remained
silent, but with tears slipping from under
the lashes Of his closed eyes. What could
be saida What else given such folly and
suffering but tearsa 1t was Of piece with
other large examples of abuse in the
world's life. One with the hurting to-
gether Of countries in slaughter by design
ing tyfants; one with the enslaving of
races by sleek opulence and greed; one
with combinations on the food for 9htions
that few might live fatty at the expense Of
general hardship; one with the stake, the
chain, almost with the assassin's knife this
black abuse Of confidence, and yet, alas |
what else was there for it but tears3 The
deceived, the foully injured, still clung to
the deceiver, still revered the destroyer,
still melt to the idols that drowned them.
Aye, what could be saidl
And what for the effectl All, it was one
with the trust Of ignorance in all ages; one
with blind faith, one with reliance on sys.
tenn in the stead Of reason and simple
righteousness. But what for the cause2
Alas, there was nc penalty, no law with
which to blast i'll Nothing but to leave it to
the One in whose name it was perpetrated
and to the long verdict Of Time, and Paul
EINhQr6 nd teot IN,
silence.
Then nearly. two weeks fell away slug
gishly. Trean kept about her work and
well under the shadow of her heavy sad
ness, coming not often into the room where
Elchard lay, and saying little upon such en-
frances. The injured man, not knowing Of
the swinging over her Of this later cloud,
laid, and naturally, her enduring somber-
ness to the grief and horrors that hung
about her birth. His heart moved toward
her with the thought Day by day
she was melting into him, and
he could not put her back. She
seemed like twilight to his nature, sad,
soft and beautifully sweet, spreading slowly
throughout his being. It did not give him
JOY, thrilling his soul upward into ecstasy
like the coming Of love to many, but per-
vaded him all the day long like a tender
music, sorrowful, haunting, but bringing q
holy pleasure. When he lifted his eyes to
hers the spirit Of this was in them, and hers
would flicker down and seem to swim in
light a. she turned away. Once he heard
her break into song when out among the
flowers that was 20 mellow and sweet it
thrilled him to the heart; then it fell away
70 plaintively his eyes were bedewed and
dim with pity. But she did not sing again,
as dHy after day he Law watching tho sun-