Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-11


ger. SO the prophet gave her over TO him.
No one won't have her very long. for I
saw death in her face yesterday. She is
more like a ghost than "A woman. Are
you of, Them
"Yes, I'm of, " said Jefferson Hope,
who had risen from his seat His fce
might have been chiseled out Of marble.
SO hard ard 30 set was its expression.
while his eyes gluwed with baleful
light.
Where nre you going?"
Never mind" h6 answered. and
singing his weapon over his shoulder
strobe off down tho gorge and so away
into the heart Of the mountains to the
haunts of tho wild beasts. Among them
all there was none so fierce and danger.
Gus as himself.
The prediction of the Mormon was
only too we'll fulfilled. Whether it was
the terrible death CT her father or the
effects of the hateful marriagointo which
she had been forced, poor Lucy never
held up her head again. hut pined away
and died within month. Her scottish
husband, who had married her princi.
pally for the sake of John Terriers
property. did not affect any great grief
at his bereavement, but his other wives
mourned over her and sat up with her
the night before the burial, as is tho
Mormon custom. They were grouped
around the bier in the early hours of
the morning, when, to their inexprsssi-
BILE fear and astonishment. the dior was
flung open, and a savage looking,
weather beaten man in tattered gar
ments strobe into the room
Without glance or word to the
covering women. he walked up to the
white, silent figure which had once con-
tanned the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
STOPPING over her. he pressed his j rs
reverently to her cold forehead, aud
then snatching up her hand he took
tho wedding ring from her finger. 'Sho
shall not he buried in that" he cried.
with fierce snarl, and before an alarn
could he raised sprang down the stairs
and was gone. So strange and So brief
have found it hard to believe it them
selves or persuade other people of it
had it not been for the undeniable fact
that the circlet of gold which marked
her as having been II bride had diSap
peared
For some months Jefferson Hope lin
gered among the mountains, leading
strange, wild life and nursing in his
heart tho tierco desire for vengeance
which possessed him. Tales were told
iT the city of tho weird fignrn which
was seen prowling about the suburbs.
and which haunted tho lonely mountain
gorges, Once bullet whistled through
Staugerson' window and fiattenad
itsolf upon the wall within a foot Of
him. On another occasion as Drebbnr
passed under a cliff u great bowlder
crashed down on him, and he only es-
capped ii terrible death by throwing him.
self upon his face. The two young Nor
mons were not long in discovering the
reason of these attempts upon their lives
aud led repeated expeditions into the
mountains in the hope of capturing or
killing their enemy, hut always with
ont success. Then they adopted the pre-
caution Of never going out alone or
after nightfall and of having their
honses guarded. After time they were
able to relax these measures. for moth
ing was either heard or seen of their np-
ponent, and they hoped that tune had
cooled his vindictiveness
Far from doing so. it had, if any
thing, augmented it. The hunters
mind was of hard, unyielding nature.
and the predominant idea Of revenge
had taken snch complete possession Of
it that there was no room for any other
emotion. He was, however. above all
thugs. practical. He soon realized that
even his iron constitution could not
stand the incessant strain which he was
putting upon it. Exposure and want of
wholesome food were wearing him ont.
II he died like dog among the noun
taius. what was to become of his re-
venge then? And yet such death was
sure to overtake him il he persisted.
He felt that that was to play his enemy's
game, so he reluctantly returned to the
old Nevada mines, there to recruit his
health and to amass money enough to
allow him to pursue his object without
privation.
His intention had been to be absent
year at the most, but combination Of
unforeseen circumstances prevented his
leaving the mines for nearly FIVE. At
the end of that time, however, his
memory Of his wrongs and his cravings
for revenge were quito as keen as Oh
that memorable night when he had
stood by John Ferrier's grave. Disguis-
ed and under an assumed name, he re-
turned to Salt Lake City, careless what
became of his own life as loug as he OBJ
tanned what he knew to be Justice
There hc found evil tidings awaiting
him. There had been ii schism among
the CHOSEN people Il few months before,
some of the younger members having
rcbclled against the authority Of the
elders, and tho result had been the Sc
cessiun of a certain number of the NAL
contents, who had left Utah and become
gentilos Among these had been Dreb-
Der and Stangerson. and no one knew
whittier they had gone. Rumor reported
that Drebber had managed to convert
IL large part Of his property into money,
and that Ito had departed wealthy
nian. while Stangerson was compnra-
lively poor There was no clew at all,
however, as to their whereabouts.
Many man, however vindictive,
would have abandoned all thought of
revenge III the face of such difficulty,
hut Jefferson Hope never faltercd for
moment. With the small competence
he possessed, oked OFT by such employ