The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26

Lynch's matter of fact way of removing
any for whom he had no further use.
The horror of Justin's possible fate.
alone with theEe wretches, thirsting
doubtless for revenge on Sir Roger.
whose presence had mainly defeated
their plans oVercame Oziel and he
rushed wildly at the barriers before
him.
The heat by now, for it was near
noon was intolerable. In the excite
ment of battle it had passed unnoticed,
but now the lad became aware that the
sultriness of the forest was Overpower-
ing. In his loneliness also. in the alb
solute silence of the jungle, the rum
bling of the thunder which had pro-
ceeded all day. became now most no.
ticeable dreadful and threatening, for
there was no rain, no lightning, only
swift increasing darkness, and that sui
len, almost continuous, throttled roar
from the mountains. Further and fur
ther he pierced the underbrush, and
heard no sound. nor saw anything TO
tell him where Justin had been carried
from the temple. and he could not have
gone far He retraced his steps, but
lost them, and wandered hither ana
thither for the best part of an hour,
lost. Then a thing happened which sent
him to his knees. During that night
and day in that horrible land he had
seen things pass which had made him
shudder in the honest Puritan belief
! that he was among a people directly
in the service of the evil one himself.
but now that the land was abandoned
by an angry God. he had no doubt. The
forest shook tho earth trenbled be-
neath his feet, end a low, ominOus srowl
came from the jungle all about him.
Then the simple lad dropped down and
raised his hands to heaven. yet even in
that moment of horror he remembered
Marian's pale, tear-strewn cheek, and
shouted in anguish:
Justin. If you live, cry, and / Will
come"
Again the mountains echoed to the
below of the skies, and again the earth
mcaned and heaved, but above and
through these noises came an answering
call, faint and despairing:
'-OZieiu'
At once Oziel regained his feet forgot
his fears, and in the strength of devo-
tiCn. pushed toward the voice. He
called again and again, but no answer
came. Then. pale with fear and doubt,
he redoubled his efforts and at last
came upon little open space in the
forest. where, under a great tree lay
his friend and Marians cousin, bound
and gagged.
By the boy crouched Donnereau, and
there was that in the face of the negro
which chilled Oziel's blood. 1t was gray
with the wrath Of disappointment and
defeat. The wretch's schemes were
blasted; the old priest was as powerful
as ever he had been; the treasure was
further from him than before, or in the
hands of Gabriel Murrin. Lynch and
he were the last in the game. the de-
visers of a plot which was but to en-
rich others. In his grim rage the black
hung over Justin with the hate Of
man who must be revenged On some
one. Who better could that victim be
than the son of the man whose I'M
loOked-for recovery had robbed him?
He held knife in his hand. whose
point lowered at Justin's heart. Yet he
did not strike. Justin's gaze was fixed
upon him in desperate pleading. His
mouth was gagged with kerchief.
doubtless upon his calling out, and now
he could make no sound. Donnereau
was waiting feVerishly-hs head side
wise as if listening for a signal, the
signal to strike. All this OzieI saw in a
glance. as he sprang from the bush in
to the open. The Negroes back was to
him. but at the sound he leaped up and
turned around
Have they made terms?" he cried,
''or shall Knife
He got no further. for instead of the
drawn cutlass But little good would
that sea sword have done the lad
against the resistlees bound the negro
made at his throat. with a scream that
rang through the jungle.
YOU shrieked the maddened man.
Its always YOU
With that he sprang like a wildsat
but Ozel jumped aside and ran to'Jus-
tin, over whom he stood, waiting. Dom
nPreau landed like a hea ef on q fnIrs.
his knife sinking deeply into the ground.
Like a beast, too. he was quickly UP.
and crouched for another spring, when
there came great crash of thunder
the forest, the island. rocked. treea
bent and toppled, and the earth beneath
them quivered in agony and opened in
a huge, crack below the wretch's feet.
He howied terribly; the knife dropped
from his hand and he clutched wildly
at the air; his feet slid from under. and