The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-09-30

even looking round. as though afraid
that his resolution might fail him if
he took one glance at what he was
leaving.
She stood at the gate, gazing after
him until he vanished from her sight.
Then she walked back to the house,
the happiest girl in Utah.
CHAPTER III.
Three weeks had passed since JEFF
ferson Hope and his comrades had
departed from Salt Lake City.
John Terriers heart was sore
within him when he thought of the
young mans return and of the i'm
pending loss of his adopted child.
Yet her bright and happy face re-
conciled him to the arrangement more
than any argument could have done.
He had always determined. deep down
in his resolute heart. that nothing
would ever induce him to allow his
daughter to wed a Mormon
Such a marriage he regarded as no
marriage at all. but as a shame and a
disgrace. Whatever he might think
of the Mormon doctrines upon that
one point he was int1eyibla.
He had to seal his mouth on the
subject. however. for to express an
un-orthodoX opinion was a dangerous
matter in those days in the Land Of
the Saints.
Yes, a dangerous matter-so dan
gerous that even the most sanity
dared only whisper their religious
opinions with batei breath. lest some.
thing which fell from their lips might
me misconstrued and bring down a
swift retrbution upon them.
The victims Of persecution mad now
turned prosecutors on their own &C
count. and prosecutors of the most
terrible description.
Not the lnquisition of Seville. nor
the German Vehmgericht, nor the Sc
cret societies of Italy. We're ever able
to put a more formidable machinery
in motion than that which cast a
cloud over the Territory of Utah.
Its invisibility and the mystery
which was attached 20 it made this
organization doubly terrible. 1t ap-
peared to be omniscent and omnipo-
tent. and yet was neither seen nor
heard.
The man who held out against the
Church vanished away. and none
t
had befallen him. His wife and chill
dron awaited him at home. but no
father ever returned TO tell them how
he had Jared at the hands Of his secret
judges.
\ rash word or a has'y act wcs fol
lowed by humiliation. and Vt none
knew what the nature might he Of
this terrible power which was sus-
pended over them.
At first this vague and terrible pow
or was exercised ONLY upon the recall
citrants. who. having embraced the
Mormon faith wished af-orward 70
pervert or 10 abandon IT, SOoa. how
eyer. il took wider r'nge
The supply Of adult women vas
running short AMI nolvEamv without
a female population on which 10
draw was a barren doctrine indeed
Strange rumors began - be- banded
about-rumors Of murdered i~'mi-
grants and rined camps in regions
whore Indians had never b'e1 seen.
Fresh women appeared i7 the harnms
OF the elders-wOUlel who mined and
wept. and bore in their faces tbp
traces Of an neutrality-suspicious. horror
Belted wanderers upon the moua-
| TIln< spoke CT EduEN NI AI'''fi MOI
masked stealthy. and nniseless whp
fitted by them in the darkness.
These tales and rumo-s took SUD
stance and shape. and were cOrror.
Grated and re-co~robor0tei until 'hev
/ resolved themselves into dedait,
name.
To this day in tho lonely ranches
OF the West. the name ~ The Dante
Band. or the Avenging Angels. is 4
sinister and an ill-omenei one.
Fuller knowledge ~ the organiza-
tion which produced such terrible re.
suits served 70 Increase rather than
10 lesson the horror which II inspire I
in the minds OF men
None knew who belonged % tn :
ruthless society. The ramPs 81 the
uqrticipators IN the deeds NJ blood
and violence. done urd"r tho name y
religion. were kent PROFOUNDLY secret.
The very friend 10 whom YOU com
municated your m'sgivings ~ 10 the
prophet and his mission migh' b. one
~ those who would cone forth at
night with fire and e-'o~1 10 exact a
terrible reparatio". He7re every man
foarad his neighhor. apd r0~e smoke
~ 'he things which were nearest his
heart
10 b. t0ufiuuetl