The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-27

post. yonder by the gorge. stood in
shelr tack.
AT midnight she passed stirge's
house, and he was going in. His door
was open and faint light shone on
him. She paused, where he saw her.
She looked at him, with her soul in her
eyes, and he spurned her. Her bad self
/ famed up. she ran away, wild with
hate. She stood 4 moment under the
palms, and there a diabolic purpose
came 70 her.
1t had long been a custom in this dis
trict to lead the culprit out very early
IN the morning. Chained in darkness
TO the post. he was confronted by a
priest The black hours dragged on
giving the criminal the most solemn
reason for repentance. Five soldiers
and an officer were stationed near.
{ When GAVIN came. and they could
clearly see, they fired.
At II O'Clock a detachment of soldiers
had arrived. About 1. Otilia came TO
the door of the decrepit barracks. The
captain had orders to obey the chief of
police. She came to him and said:
My brother is i'll. His servants are
sitting With him. So he sent me with
this ORDER
She disappeared The captain read
the command for the immediate execu-
tion of one Stirge. American.
little later the unfortunate Anglo
Saxon schemer was seized in bed. They
10 those worn by runners in athletic
contests so that he was nearly naked
In the night they led him out and on
through the black mango grove In
tnat stony field by the gorge they
chalned him to a post. A priest came
was received with naughty contempt,
and went away. Well for the soldiers
that they stood ten yards to the
gorge's left Thus did the flank of that
harmed.
Silence. darkness. weird waiting for
the dawn. The gold-maddened dream
er was stole. He was as iron as the
post and chain. Out of the night shad-
ows ghost voice called from yonder
in The rocks:
Il can free you. I can free YOU.
Tell me once more you love me, and
life is yours"
He did not answer. The soldiers be-
leVed her crazy. or thought that St
Mary had come down.
1T is 1 who brought you here. Give
me your heart, and it is 1 who shall
take you away"
The night was yet black. He did not
answer. What stole. beyond mans
dreams Of stoiciSm was that man of
Anglo-Saxon blood Ay. Indians can
endure Savages can suffer and emit
no sound But of all Gods creatures
there is none so strong as the Ameri-
can steeled to bear
There was wild war in her. She had
meant to torment him. She had NOT
meant that he be shot. She could never
consent to kill, her better self was TOO
tlmld- But his spurning had crazed
her- AT dawn, she thought. sinking
down on the rocks, she would confess
lne substituted name, release him Rut
tn second self joyed in torture
Inc dawn came Yes the chained
man lace began to show a little
white, out of the shadow. The can
tam formed his five men and bade
them be ready. So, the day thus slow
~ coming, they stood waiting till they
could see: and he stood yonde~, his
arms chained high up on the post
1he minutes went by. The scene
was wild and rocky. The EAST began
t. family glow. Strange-strange. As
ne appeared yet a little clearer-how
still he stood-how white sIercifuI
hand of Nary is that hanging crea-
ture there human being?
Aimi" commanded the captoin.
The guns Were raised.
"A minute more and it VIII be lioht
enough to see
They waited. The light came randi
". Behold. Suddenly the cuiprit
seemed to start fully from the shad
ows. a second more and they would
fire.
The guns fell The men staggered.
Horror chilled them. The face that
looked on them was the face of a SKILL
The body that hung there by the chain
was q clean, white skeleton. So terri
bic is the devastation of the warrior
ant So perfect is the labor of mill
IONS
Stumbling away, they found OtiIia |
swooning on the rocks.