The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1896-05-21
Tea Merchants

made wicked fool of my self in anothc
minute II the colonel hadn't come
Hello! who's thatP"
lie turned at the sound of gallop
ing horse behind him aud waited until
Henry Latimer refined up beside the
footpath. The colonels son glanced
quickly around into the gathering dusk.
and then leaned over and handed q re-.
volver TO Ringbrand. Father saw you
turn up this-a-way," he explained, ''nnd
he says you'd better tote that You
mghtn't need IL in hundred years,
but IL you did you'd need it right
much"
Ringbrand took the weapon awk-
wardly as n man handles unfamiliar
tools. "Ill carry IL because you were
kind enough to bring IL, but | doubt
10 I'd have the deXterity TO make usr
of it; however, | imagine there's not
likely to be any occasion. Please thank
your father for me-"
lie dropped the pistol into his pocket
and stood looking after Henry as thu
latter cantercd back toward "rhe Lau
rcls;" then he resumed his walk and his
gloomy uleultutlOUS'
Thinking about IL afterward, he
never knew just how far he had gone
lie had an indistinct recollection ot
coming out upon the cliff once, opPo.
site the furnace, and OF stopping To look
down into the fiery throat of the cupoia
lighted by the Intermittent flare Of
'he burning gas, After that he remcn-
uried that the road made detours int,
the forest and came out upon the cliI
alternately for what seemed distance
of several miles. His last clear inn
preston was the picture of deep rent
in the mountain lying before him IN
| the obscurlty of fathOmless darl,nch
he felt rather than saw that he Wa
looking into its depths from the ycrR'
| of precipice; and he noticed that I
shadow Of great tree came bctwccu
| him and the stars. 1t was here that th"
mysterious warning OF the underlined
sense which tells Of approaching dan
| ger began TO make Itself felt; and
when he recognized its odmonition he
| realized that il had been pressing upon
him all along, and that he had been
too preoccupicd 10 heed it. Now, how
cvnr n rerusel to lie lonrer ipuorcu
and he felt cold little chiIs ofarprehcn-
sion creeping over him as lac pcerca
around into the shadows Of Tie to.est
What contemplate coward ami
ne muttered. struggling 10 brace HIM.
scIf ogninst the unrclvinp attach.
standing here shivering Ike chil'
in dark room! | don't deserve L
be called a man!"s
Then he turned to retrace his steps
toward Tregarthen; but he had no;
left the shadow of the tree when two
men appeared before him as suddenly
and as silently ~ If they had dropped
from the branches over his head.
"rh'ow up yer hama, dcrn vel" com
manded the one nearest him, advancing
with rife half raised.
Ringbrand saw his opnortunity a,
distinctly as IL its details had been writ
ten in letters of fire ON the n,url,y hnel,
ground. Though both OF the men la
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