The Red Cloud chief., 1888-05-18

CHAPTER X~.-CONTINUED.
Meantime the Prophet, with his train,
had gone on his way with a balmy forgiving
exterior but a cold and ranking heart. He
had said with a holy smile of cOmmiseratiOn
as his carriage was starting. THAT the Lord
would avenge the insult given His servant.
and cut of the wicked in His own good
time,' but to Farley he had said; ''Pick out
q man to do the work if Beam fails; Rock
well and my men will attend to the fellow if
he comes over to the city! you had best
manage some way to send this very smart
young sister over to Shoots too, and I will
see personally to her case"
And the Bishop had assented with great
Difference, but when the Prophets carriages
had gone, and he stood alone in the tithing
Office. he glOwered darkly at the floor for u
long time in silence. At last he threw him
self heavily into a chair and brought his
fist down on the desk with a crash.
WHO else. I'd like to know, is going to
get between me and that girl!" he snOrted.
Here's Arsen and Beam, both under me,
and this Internal Yankee, that I've got no
control over. and now who but the Prcsi-
dent of the Church himself, with his foot
on my guilct, has his nose pointed in the
same direction! Now, blank me-, if some
body amt goin' to get fooled in this little
affair. and if it's me I think the rest IL find
'emselves in the same boat when the games
over.or my names not Hyrum Parley!" and
be glowered more blacklv than ever.
At hat there came a timid tap or two
upon the door, and he growled, roughly:
"Well, come in!' In response to his surly
invitation one of his wives entered, a tall,
well-formed, young Scandinavian woman,
with light hair, fair skin and blue but not
very intelligent eyes. She was his latest
acquisition, one of q band of Mormon i'm
migrants sent to settle about Mooseneck.
She had come without parent or relative,
having been decoyed away from her pleas
ant home by the specious promises and
sanity wiles of aMormOn missionary. Upon
the arrival of the company she had at once
been chosen by the Bishop as q servant, as
is much the custom, and presently became
his wife. For q time she had reigned as
the acknowledged favorite, but her charm
for her lord, which in such q case could
hardly be else than of questionable and
ephemeral character, had begun to wane.
"Well, what is it now, Cistene!" he asked,
without looking up.
Lucy hafe whipped my chile :" she cried,
with quivering lip.
Lucy was the first wife, and rather old
and acrid. and the Bishops brow grew puck
cred and thundery. He made a movement
as II to rise, then a thought seemed to in
tervene. and he smOothed the trenches out
Of his brow, and. with a rather sheepish
blandness, drew the weeping girl down on
his lap n kissed her.
"Cistene," he sand, II am thinking Of TAX
ing another wife soon, a girl who will make
these fussy fools keep TO their knittin'! Of
course, Cistene, l shall always love you
best. and l am going to build you a little
house on the empty lot across the street
there so you may Y unmolested. OF
counsel want your consent, thought he
added. coaxingly.
The poor thing looked at him through her
tears. 'Why, ISIS there not now enough!'
she lmplored. ''Why do you need more
when there ISIS SO much tears now and mis-
sery::"
'-Oh. that is the way the Lords kingdom
IS built up. you know, Cistene! Besides. the
Lord has shown Brother Young that it is
my duty TO take another wife: that l am to
marry a certain party for His names honor
and glory. She will take your apartment in
the house. Cistene, but you are to have the
AANeNS ~ ouS y luC WAY WHICH, IL IL
built, you know"
The girl disengaged herself and stood up.
"YOu hafe stop the love- she sobbed.
''When l been put away and leaf over there
you not coOme or care for me any more!''
And she started toward the door. The
Bishop got up and put his arms about her
and began to coax and wheedlc again.
Among other cheerful things he told her it
was the Lords command that she should
acqulesce willingly. and not complain to the
neighbors or make unseemly scenes. and
that the greater the number of his wives
the more certainty there was of her own
salvation and the higher her Race ia Heay-
en-. since her salvation depended upon him
and has position III glory depended upon the
number of his queens and increase.
He did not trouble himself about the other
wifely partners in the ownership Of his
heart: they had all been displaced one by