The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-01

Saul Mark standing erect. The heads
OF the monks were very close together,
In an instant he had grasped the situa-
ton, or at least a part of it. Treasure
had been found in one of the cast
Always who last had recruited the chain
gang. The black ravens of Brozas had
swoOped upon it The captain OF Spain
bore them no good will. The gold box
was hist contained jewels of price.
most like. He would soon show these
! clerks who was master on the island of
st. John of Porto Rico-whether they
or he, Nicholas Silveda. cOmmandante
; IN the service of his Most Catholic Ma
jesty Ferdinand, king of all the SPANS.
/ Give it here!" he cried, "alI treasure
is the prerogative of his majesty, King
Ferdinand. | claim that which is
found, whatever it may be, as his
alone,"
'Excellency," said the inquisitor. with
Difference, this is not found treasure.
1t is gift to holy church, being a box
containing the blessed parings of the
great tOenails of a martyr. Such even
the king himself could not claim, were
he here in person
THE box is gold, I claim that" cried
the cOmmandante. truculently.
THE box is the gift of the holy
father, the successor of Peter" said
the priest. 1T cannot be separated from
the blessed relics it enshrines
Deliver it or 1 will take it by force,''
cried the officer, fiercely. For in his
heart he hated and feared the rival au-
thorities of the monastery. Forward,
there, men. Seize them,''
The two priests put their hands 70
their sides swiftly as horseman draws
a pistol from his holster And the next
moment crucifiX was in each. right
hand. They held it toward the COM
mandante and his soldiers, who shrank
back as they would not have done from
the muzzles of hostile guns
Dare to lay a hand on the priests of
the Lord" cried the abbot, towering
above them all on his white mule. land
we will wither the blasphemous fingers
and deliver to eternal fire the soul of
the desecratori BY these relics of the
blessed martyr James We swear it,"
And so for a space they. remained
thus, daring the powers military to
come on The cOmmandante was speech
less with wrath. but, looking about. he
saw we'll enough that his men would
not obey him nor yet seize these head
strong sons of the church.
Il shall not forget this" he said
turning away.
DO not" returned the inuuisitor
gently. Il pray that you will remem-
Der. Let it be a lesson to you. nv
son.
The churchmen were riding off to-
gether when Saul Mark, seeing himself
forsaken, cried out TO them: Have
pity, deliver me. They will wreak their
vengeance on me. Take me with YOU.
reverend fathers in God Do not for
sake me who did this thing for your
sakes''
Bpt the abbot and the inuuisitor
seemed not to hear.
They had obtained all they cared
about, and what mattered a naked man
in the chain gang. The reliquary was
a reliquary, authenticated by the holy
father-or at least well enough docu
mented for their purpose. But most
like the man was a pirate, and got it
at the sacking of some town of good
Catholics. or mayhap from plundered
galleOn laden with racks and thumb
screws and such like blessed machinery
for the propagation of the faith. Let
him abide. If he were'a just man, God
would reward him. They would leave
the matter to him.
Then Saul Mark, seeing himself de-
serted and growing afraid, cried aloud: