Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-22

| saved me from drowning, MS clothes also
being wet and caked with black mud We
walked ia silence for some time, but TarGs
spoke at Length in low, soft voice;
~ owe my life to you, little friend; more
than my lie" he added, my liberty"
Flow did you let 'em come over your
asked.
II was deceived. l thought the darl;
man was O friend He was an enemy-an
agent of police.n
And the three others-was they Stops
tooi'
'slops-wbat is thati"
"Policeinans"
Eyes, they were police"
WAS they goin to kill youw
"No, worse than that. They were going
to take me back to my country"
You amt done anything wrong, are
your"
mot wrong as we understand the word
You and l."
II thought it was only parties like me as
was hunted about for being spicious car
rictersn
mo class is free from suspicion in my
country; It is not like yours"
at must be pretty bad II it's wus."
at Is pretty bad"
"What are you goin to do with the dark
man with the round shoulders2"
Keep him at arms length"
But s'posin," persisted tentatively,
"s'posin you'd got him in corner or in
'ole, wouldn't you drop something on him
and smash him2"
That would be murder"
earn aw'yl It amt murder; it's JUS
tice. You only does for him what he'd do
for you ii he got a chance"
T.. . H.. I,.. q
1t would be murder, and we should pray
for strength to resist the lust of vengeance
that leads to it. For think, little friend, Of
the misery that follows, the degradation
and shame of being Stunned by innocent
women and good men, the feeling that one
is not fit to kiss a child.n He said more,
but l could not follow him for thinking Of
the men | had left to die in the Mariners
Joy, whom had murdered for this--to be
Stunned forever by Taras. A sickness over
came me must have stumbled or reeled,
for Taras stopped suddenly and held me up,
You are faint, Let us sit down on this
sep" he said.
NO. We will 80 on. shan't be silly
again
He drew my arm through his and bude
me lean on him, telling me that we had
now but little way to 10. Lenning on his
arm, wished that We might go on forever
and ever and never reach our journey S end.
Talk to me, said
He proposed brighter subject. but |
would not hear of that and babe him tell
me more about the DARK man and the po-
lice,
He is nothing but an instrument" said
Taras. II bear him no i'll will. He does
what he is paid to do, like a soldier who
lowers his rifle and kills another soldier at
the command of his officer 1t isn't tine
unreasoning man who executes IN unjust
law, but the thinking man who makes the
law, who should dien And then he went
on to speak Of many things beyond the
reach of my reason, but that made no diff
ference to me. heard his voice like a
flowing strain Of music that softened my
heart and lighted up my soul with an ex-
quisite emotion such as had never before
felt. And | knew not why. 1t seems
strange, anomalous, unRccountable to me,
as L look back now, that these feelings
should suddenly spring up In my being,
which had hitherto been dull TO all the in
huences cf nature But surely 1t was not
more exceptional than the revelation Of a
new world TO the blind whose eyes after
years OF darkness are opened,
We stopped before small house in o by
street of the Minories, and Taras rang a bell.
The door was opened instantly by a fair
haired young woman and her husband
They were friends who expected the arrival
of Iaras with the three men whom he had
been led to believe were friends. They
looked at me in mute establishment when
we entered the shop-a tobaceonist's-as
Taras in his own tongue briefly explained
what had occurred. But when he had
hn Il l.. l.. d. 1.
pressing them told me in his broken Eng
lish that should never want n friend while
he and his wife lived. She could speak no
English except yes" and mo-" but she
understood what her husband said, think,
for she nodded smiling agreement with
his promise aud kissed me heartily upon
both checks, despite the dirt upon them.
Then she led me quickly to u room up
stairs where II bright fire was burning,
aud chatting merrily all the while, some.
times to me, sometimes to her husband
who followed, bringing a big bath aud a
can of hot water, She laid out "A complete
change Of clothes for me, and when they
had made me understand that supper was
waiting for me below they left me with
more cheerful smiles and expressions OF
kindness
10 all their amiable overtures made no
i.'PoiSe NV OuCe opening my lips to |
thank them Their sympathy and solicit
tnde oewildered me, being as strange and
incomprehensible to me as the language
they spoke. had never had to thank any. I
body in all my life for anything, and tic I
sentiment of gratitude was as unknown TO
me as the experience of gentle treatment.
Indeed seemed to have stepped suddenly /
into another world where all was unreal /
and dreamlike,
AS dreamlike was the physical sensation
produced by the warmth of the bath and
the comfort of clean, dry clothing. A de ,
lieious langIor STEPPED my senses in forget
fulness Of misery, and yielding to the i'm |
pulse of the momentT threw myself upon
the soft bed and the next minute lost con.
seriousness of everything.
CHAPTER VI.