The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-03-27
4 Mountain Missionary,
By ALFRED R, CALHOUN.
Copyright, 1895, by American Press Associa-
ton.
Continued.

Continued.
The last sentence was addressed TO
Het Magoone, who was now about to
mount the horse on which he had come
The people who had been praying |
and the people who had been shouting !
about the fire and Het Magoone himself /
were startled by the blacksmith's voice
and manner. All saw that the Christian
blacksmith had gone, and that the strong
and savage Dick Bradley of few years
before had come back Magoone obeyed
the summons, for he knew, as did all
his supporters, that the first sign of dis
obedience would have been the signal
for a bullet i'll his heart.
Het Magooue had 40 men with him
All were armed with rifles and pistols
The very fact that they carried these
weapons showed that they were pre-
pared for fight and expected one.
Physically it is safe to say there was
not downright coward in the lot.
Well led, there was not man of them,
not even the brutal, staggering Het
Magoone who could not have been held
| in line against overwhelming numbers
/ till the last one fell i'll his tracks, and
who could not have been carried ON in
an assault, though certain that not one
could return, but at sight of strong Dick
| Bradley, and at the sound of his voice,
the strongest trembled and became, for
! the time, more obedient than If not so
weak as a child.
Ignoring the fact, if indeed he was
| aware of it, that Father Peters was
! clinging to his arm, the blacksmith
/ strobe right through the crowd about
| the church until he stood face to face
with Het Magoone. The clergyman S
daughter, to whom l am indebted for an
| account of what preceded this and what
is to follow, followed her father, fearing
for his safety. Although as true and
brave woman as ever lived and quite
as self possessed as if she had spent all
her life in the best society, Ella Peters
was paralyzed with alarm when she
saw the change that had come over the
man who hitherto had been more gen.
tie than girl to her and hers.
"Het Magoone, yo' KEN har today to
raise h-ll Don't lie, yo' dog, and say
yo' didn't! WAL, yo've riz hit, and
now, by the great Eternal, I'll send yo
tharr'
The blacksmith raised his arm, ant
giant though Magoone was he lowered
over him. The horse kept the nov
cowed desperate from retreating, ant
he did not dare to touch his rifle or on,
{ of the many pistols belted to his waist
At this juncture Father Peters threw
himself between the two men. His ha
was off, and the wind blew his whit,
hair about his bare, thin face. He wa
the one man who did not fear strong
Dicl-mad Dick Bradley
{ I'm Gods name, Brother Bradley! II
Gods name, have patience! Oh, m.
: prayers and my lessons, my son, hav
I you forgotten them? Wait! Wait
;, Prayers and patience! Prayers and pa
tiencer' and he threw his thin arm
l. about the raised arm of the giant and i
: fell-with sob.
{ 'I've obeyed yo' too long" groane,
i the blacksmith, "to brak' off all a-sud
! dentlike. But, Father Peters, yo' mout'
= well have let me did today what I'll b
+ 'bleeged fo' to do tomorrer or mex
;, day" Then, addressing Magoone:
c "Het, way back when me and yc
wuz boys, yer father sneaked upon m
/ father, way down at Loudon, and xii
I him. Hit was towards deed, and
i lowed when yo' and me growed up l.,
have blood for blood, and yo' knowe,
hit, too, for you KEEP outer my way an
d went to live down Tennessee way. The
| Dot Iyi, nd I ri, ~ ct, =
J of religin, and yo' felt hit safe to com
back and hit wuz safe, SO longs the re
q ligin lasted.
but she's gone, gone a-f1ickerin i
: that fab yo' uns made today. Fathe
!, Peters staid my ahm today, not on &C
, count of religin, but COZ l love him
]. and I'm a-goin to stand by him, and
u by the great Eternal, | want yo' un
ii fab and neah to know hit! Go yer wa
Il with yer people and make ready. II
d stay back har with my kin and friend
- and prepah. And bear in mind, Het Ma
l. goone, when we uns meet agin, thar
be blood, and l won't AK God to hav
mercy on the dead. Now go, d-n yo'!
! The desperate swung into the saddle
Y
ID relief. Not at all ashamed of thei
n work, but with their feelings agains
Of Father Peter somewhat allayed, Ma
Is goone and his gang, on foot and o
horseback, started into the hills.
Then the old clergyman assembled hi
a, friends before the ruin and addresse
W them. He counseled patience and peace
ri He implored them to avoid gathering
IN and not to talk, even with those the
n 'ero sure of, on the subject now excl
n, gthe land. This done, he called ON a
" Encel and to join with him in pra,
AS r, and all did so excepting the blaol
n smith, who, with folded arms, watche
as the blue smoke pillar rising from til
ruin.
It; Brother Bradley" said the old Gle
gyman when he had concluded, xvi
p you lead us in prayer"
" Strong in everything he did, IL
= blacksmith. during his years of grac
+ had developed decided talent for pra.
ps er. There were force and a rude ell
Il quence about the man very effecti,
" with people of impressionable natures.
a. Father Peters,, he replied, II can
: pray Hit don't seem jist the thing fl
me to pray to Jesus Christ when
- stands by and sees lot of cussed rebi
= burn down the house we uns built f
him. He had the powah to strike 'ei
dead like lightnin, but did he do hi
Not much. Thar's heap of Goals an
ash whar the church was, and thar
that id Het Magoone off safe wit
his gang, whin / should smashed
his skull like the shell of bird egg al
then flung him into the fiah."
Father Peters tried to reason with h