The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

Lord, / am about thy work. l loo
to thee to bring me through
And it really seemed as if the water
Stacked and became less impossible
As for me, was neither wet nor weary
Umphray Spurway caught me VI
! on the verge of the black interspac
and carried me right sickerly on hi
shoulder to the other side, going a
easily as If l had been no more thai
pound weight avoirdupois.
Presently we were passed the peri
of the waters. and the minister return
ing thanks. Umphray Spurway put hi
hand on his shoulder and said: Sir.
humbly crave your pardon for my un
civil words. 1 spoke as rude man, fol
which l am heartily sorry" And Mr.
Bell answered that he thought no more
about the matter. For which thoughi
the better of him.
But all this was soon forgot wher
we came to where the kirktown Cd
Morenam lies low beneath the kirk
| thereof. For we saw lights dane
ing here and there-not lanthornS with
! dip candles in them alone, such as the
men use at the stables. or the maidens
at the milking of the COWS, but great
| torches of tar and roSin knots, max
ing red trail of fire above on the dark
and cloudy sky AS we came nearer
| we heard also the crying of voices and
the trampiing of many e'ncd feet. So
we went fast that those that were wet
ted at the ford might take no hurt.
Then, as We proceeded at the sway
! ing tTot of the Irish harvester, We came
! on a man running as eagerly as our
selves, but in a contrary direction. Him
/ Umphray SpIrway called upon to halt,
and when he did not, tripped him up
monument, being of a country where
| they are skilled in such plays. There
after Spurway stelled the man up on
his feet and said to him: "Ah, William
Robson, it's you, Whittier away so
fast, pray you, at this hour of the
morning? What goes forward with
so great concourse OF 1olk at TIE
kirk OF Moreham2"
Then the man, being held fast on-poth
sides, and seeing no remedy, told us
how Philip Stansfield had given orders
for the burial of his father that night
secretly in the kirk yard of Morenam,
which was more retired than that OF
New Milns, and in which also was the
family burying place of the Stansnelds.
For" cried the man, he had gone
about swearing that whether his father
were murdered by the Englishman or
whether he made away with himself,
he died a dogs death, and should De
buried like dog out of the house that
was now his,
And so fiercely did he speak that no
man dared to counter him by word or
look. Fer, as William Robson testihed,
ever since the finding of his father,
Philip Stansfield had been wild and dis
ordered, threatening any with death
that withstood him in the smallest
trifie.
.I.ife-life." he would cry; 'at long
and last 1 have. come into my heritage
of new life that Yves yeStereve lick
pot lacauey and a whipped cur, am now
become the master OF -. And ON the
heads of them that fiouted me. Will
clean the mire from my s5oonE
We viii go down and see what is to
be. SEEM said Umphray Spurway. 1
set william Robson in the midst That
he ma.r not escape. and follow me
quietly. as / bade you at first.
So falling into the train tbut yet
keeping carefully in the dark behind),
we followed the riotous cCncourse on
it's way up to the kirk of Moreham-
as We mounted the slope see
ing the beard of the EngliEhman glow
red as fire in the light of the tossing
pitch-pine knots ahead of us.
Then, when they slowed to go up the
final ascent, we took behind the whin |
bushes and, bending cur heads, We
hid ourselves at the back of the kirk
dyke before they entered. And a |
gruesome sight it was that we looked |
upon from that coign of vantage
Two women went dancing and sing |
ing ribald songs, mixed with psalm /
tunes. These had torches in their /
hands. and would often stop to swear I
if one scattered tar on the other as (
they waved their firebrandS in the air. {
And once l thought that they would
certainly fall like furies one on the
other. The wilder Of the two was that
same buxom blowsilind, Janet Mark, /
whom 1 had seen at the change house !
with Philip Stansfield. The other
knew not at that time.
Then came the corpse of my grand
father, white-sheeted and coffinless,
borne upon the shoulders of half-a-
iozen men. thus mishandled and
abused, looking at least twice the
ength of an ordinary man. mind
lear as the pen in my hand that my
Door grandfather's swathed head af-
me more than all, for it was
lot stiff, but rather waggling this way
md that. from side to side like a twig
With a broken top-a memory for
grown man to carry with him to his
yrave let alone halfiing boy such as
was.
And a thousand times since when I
lave slept alone may, even now, after
have been in strange places for
bile haps and mishaps) 1 could wish
hat / had never seen that gray un--j
table ball which looked at me that
light over the shoulder of the deil's
ailor.
This unseemly procession came into
he kirkyard with levity and jest,
over gravestones. the most
art of them being we'll touched with .
trong drink. The six bearers in
special went forward cursing and !
wearing. like men not in love with
heir work, who would have out their :
niger upon the very stones beneath !
heir feet.
Presently they came to an open s
rave, where was a man still busily {
ling up the red earth along the sides,
lanthorn shining down from the I
rave head upon his bare hairy arms !,
nd besweated brow. This opening !
Tas not made in the walled family {
ault of the Stansfields, but rather in {
he sunny corner where the poor folk
e. And this by special order of the I
cad mans son. {
ody, not robustly and noisily like the I
Tiers. but rather dull and sullen, like !
devil from hell whose leave of alb
snce is almost expired. c
So when the two women stood near
lie grave. and with their feet de- q
lched some of the mold back again E
Ito the yawning deep, he turned upon h
iers, condemning their souls to black 6
srdition forever and threatening to t
III them if they stood not where he
ad ordered them, without moving so I
uch as a little niger. Then re paae e
lie graye-digger. Saul Mark, to come d
II of the hole that he had made for c
zy good-for-nothing, swearing that 1t b
as deep enough for all it had TO keep n
ON The crows. and called to the six h