Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-10-23

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riers away"
Il don't fear them or their wal
rant Hope said, earnestly. "Yo,
must know something of this matter
Cowper. conjure you by everything
you hold dear to answer few Ques
tions. We have always been friends
For Gods sake, don't refuse to an
swer me-"
What Is its" the Mormon asked
uneasily. BE quick. The very rock,
nave ears and the trees eyes,"
What has become Of Lucy Fer
riere"
she was married yesterday e
young Drebber. Hold up. man. hole
up, you have no life left In YOU"
Don't mind me-" said Hope, faint
~. He was white to the very lips
and had sunk down on the stone
against which he had been leaning
Married, you sayg"
Married yesterday-that's what
those flags are for ON the Endowmen,
House. There was some words be
tween young Drebher and young
Stangerson as to which was to have
her. They'd both been In the party
that followed them, and Stangerson
had shot her father, which seemed 10
give him the best claim; but when
they argued 1t out In council, Dreb.
ber's party was the stronger. so the
prophet gave her over to him. No
one won't have her very long, though,
for saw death in her face yesterday.
She is more like a ghost than a wo-
man. Are you on, them"
"Yes, I'm OF, said Jefferson Hope.
who had risen from his seat.
His face might have been chiseled
out Of marble. so hard and so set was
its expression, while his eyes glowod
with baleful light.
Where are you going?"
Never mind" he answered: and,
singing his weapon over his shoul-
der, he strobe of down the gorge and
so away into the heart of the noun.
tains to the haunts Of the Wild
beasts.
The prediction OF the Mormon was
only too well fulfilled. Whether il
was the terrible death of her father
DR. the effects of the hateful marriage
nto which she had been forced. poor
Lucy never held up her head again.
but pined away and died within a
month.
Her scottish husband, who had mar
led her principally for the sake OF
Iohn Ferrier's property, did not af.
ect any great grief at his bereave-
nent; but his other wives mourned
'ver her, and sat up with her the
light before the burial, as is the Nor
non custom.
They were grouped round the bier
n the early hours of the morning.
vhen, to their inexpressible fear and
stonishment. the door was flung
pen. and a savage looking, weather
eaten man In tattered garments
trode into the room.
Without a glance or a word to the |
owering women, he walked up to |
he white, silent figure which had |
nee contained the pure soul of Lucy
'errier.
STOPPING over her, he pressed his |
ps reverently to her cold forehead. |
nd then, snatchng up her hand, he
ook the wedding ring from her
nger.
She shall not be buried In that"
G cried, with fierce snarl, and be-
IRE an alarm could be raised sprang
own the stairs and was gone.
So strange and so brief was the
oisode that the watchers might have
'und 1t hard to believe 1t themselves
: persuaded other people of 1t, had
not been for the undeniable fact
lat the circlet Of gold which marked
Or as having been a bride had dis
Dpeared.
For some months Jefferson Hope
1gered among the mountains, lead
g strange, wild life, and nursing
his heart the fierce desire for ven
,ance which possessed him.
Tales were told In the city of the
eird figure which was seen prowl-
6 about the suburbs, and which
united the lonely mountain gorges.
Once a bullet whistled through
window and flattened
Ielf upon the wall within a foot of
m.
On another occasion, as Drebber ,
ssed under cliff, great bowlder
ashed down on him, and he only .
capped a terrible death by throwing
mself upon his face. &
The two young Mormons were not
lg in discovering the reason of
ese attempts upon their lives, and
I'd repeated expeditions into the Z
In the hope of capturing
killing their enemy, but always
thout success.
Then they adopted the precaution
never going out alone or after
,ht-fall, and of having their houses '
arded. I
After a time they were able to re-
these measures, for nothing was
her heard or seen of their oppon-
!, and they hoped that time had
,led his vindictiveness.
Far from doing so, 1t had, II any :,
ng, augmented It. The hunters u
nd was OF hard, unyielding ma 8
e, and the predominant idea OF re-
lge had taken such complete pos O.
ion OF 1t that there was no room
any other emotion. b
lie was, however, above all things "
lctical. He soon realized that even
own iron constitution could not
nd the incessant strain which he
s putting upon II. Exposure and
mt of wholesome food were wear o.
!, him out.
I he died like a dog among the ii
untains, what was to become of p
revenge then? And yet such a Ii
lth was sure to overtake him IL b
persisted.
Ie felt that that was to play his
'my a game, so he reluctantly re-
ned to the old Nevada mines, there
recruit his health and to amass r
ney enough to allow him to pur- "
his object without privation. m
lis intention had been to be alb
It a year at the most, but a COM "
alton of unforeseen circumstances
vented his leaving the mines for
lrly FIVE.
It the end of that time, however,