The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-12

over this treasure to me, and you shall
go free-of course when the day OF
vengeance is past and your sheep have
found themselves without a shepherd,
nor shall you be nolested afterward.
Refuse to do so, anu you will be
brought to trial and die as you de-
serve"
How can you promise for others?''
L asked. You are not the only white
man who would have fallen
II can promise for others first, be-
cause am their master, and, secondly,
because nobody but myself knows
anything of this matter, since, if /
told them, | must also share your
wealth with them, and that, friend
mean to keep. Give it up to me and
you may go and plot against my sue
cessors and the government of Mexico
as much as pleaseS You. and take your
wife with you for aught I care; for.
friend, having earned so comfortable a
competence, ( propose to leave land
where, as this business proves, people
in authority are too apt TO get their
threats cut. Now choose, and be so
good as TO stand quite still while think
ing the matter over or L may be forced
to shoot YOU
How about my associates?" he
asked.
Il believe that threee or four of them
have been carried of with typhus with
in the last day or two, the prisoners
here are so dreadfully unhealthy; but
but 1 am sure that if the gold is forth
coming, no more will sicken."
| Then 1 chose. for 1 thought to myself
that I might get more gold, but 1
never could get another life. and if l
died, many must suffer with me, and all
my hopes for the future of the Indian
race must come to naught. Also,
knew this villain to be a man of his
word. and that what he promised he
would fulfil.
Within ten days he had the money,
and ] was free to begin my life again,
nor did any Of those who were doomed
to perish in it learn the tale of the plot
that threatened them.
| YVES free; but what q freedom was
this, when 1 mad lost everything save
the breath that God placed in my nos
trilsand, perhaps my honor. The great
house that I had builded was fallen
to the ground, the moneys had
companions were dead, my credit
among the people was gone and my
cause had become hopeless. All these
things had come upon me because of d
woman, tTaitress, whom [ had nur-
tured in my bosom.
At first I was dazed, but when 7 came
to understand / swore a great oath be
IOIc heaven ll1dl, IOI .IItI SakG, WOuIu
hate and renounce her sex; that, what
ever might be the temptation, never
again would l look kindly upon one of
them, or have to do with them in word,
| or thought, or deed; and that oath, so
far as lay in my power, L have kept
to this day, and hope to keep through
] all eternity.
1t may be asked what became of my
wife. l lifted no hand against her
who was flesh of my flesh, but she
persisted. The story was known. L
was forced to tell it to clear myself.
After 1 escaped from the prison I lay
i'll for many weeks, and when L recov-
cred she was gone. Others had been
betrayed besides myself and, doubt
less, some of them had wreaked fitting
vengeance on her. What it was L
never asked.
For many years-twenty, perhaps
] became a wanderer. Now, as before,
the Indians loved me, and as Lord of
the Heart and their caciQUe, in q sense
1 still was great, though 1t was but
the shadow of power that dwelt with
me; the substance had departed, as it
departs ever from those who fail:
From time to time I strove to rebuild
the plot; but now that l was friendless
and without fortune, few would follow
me.
J So it came about that at length I
abandoned the endeavor, and lived as
best [ could. I fought in three wars,
/ and gained honors there, and too my
share in many adventures, all of which
left me as poor as 1 had entered them.