Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-27

~ think M1ttliCU'S got q scrCr loose"
GUS efforts on the part Of the servants.
Greatly to Joyce's disgust, Monckton
stea,li V refused to invoke the aid of the
law against the offenders, contenting
himself with ordering a stricter watch
to be kept upon the property.
1T is Incredible" affirmed the over
seer to Miss Duke, whom he met upon
/ the road short distance from the
Monckton dwelling the day following
the burning of the stables. Would
you believe it, ma am, when I asked
permission to have the rascals arrested,
he looked at me in that strange way he
has of late and said, We raised that
devil ourselves, Joyce?' When l re-
spectfully requested him to explain, he
asked. Did you ever see your family
starving about you while you were
helpless to provide for them?' replied
that l was thankful my people had al
ways been respectable. He only said,
My poor Joyce! Then he told me a
story of how, when he first went to
France, mere boy, in some country
place, the awkward, hobbling gait Of
the peasants made him laugh, and how
an old man, pulling of his wooden
shoes, showed his bare feet covered with
sores, and said, My little gentleman,
you have never worn sabots.' shook
my head and observed that I did not
catch the point of the story. You have
never worn sabots, Joyce he replied,
and have only just put them on l
begged him not to excite himself" add
ed the overseer, with sigh, for l saw
that he was still wrong in the head"
Monckton's policy Of nonretaliation
was bearing better fruit than even he
himself had anticipated. Though his
persistent refusal to punish the wrong
doors was at first mistaken for intimi-
dation, the fact that he refrained from
calling upon the constabulary or the
militia, either Of which would have
been promptly granted him by the state
authorities, impressed the malcontents
and insensibly weakened Matthew
North's influence. Day by day desert
ers from his party joined the workers in
the pits. and by the time the proprietor
was sufficiently recovered to resume
control Of affairs fully 800 men had re-
turned to duty. With the decline Of
his power North's emnity to Monckton
increased in intensity. Fanatical as
his opposition to the despotism of wealth
had been while still honest and imper-
sonal, now, fed by his despai-ing pas
sion for lmogene Duke, it was nothing
less than insanity. Indeed some of his
former adherents had not hesitated to
call him a mailman to his face. At all
hours of the day and night, with soiled
and torn clothing, CHASTITY cheek and
flaming eyes, he might he found wher-
ever the men congregated in the village
declaiming, arguing and threatening
In tireless effort to keep together his
disheartened forces and inspire them
with some portion Of the hatred he
himself felt for the tyrant.
Fact u.s." observed John Turner to
his friend, Peter Lakey, one evening aft
or listening to violent address by North
in the village tavern, II think Mat
thew's got a screw loose about this
thing"
"That's what education leads to, p"
replied Peter sagely. II hain't found
no call to go foolin round with books
and fggers. But Matthew. he always
did feel hisself peg higher the rest
of u.s.