The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-11-01

%rebellious and not perfect with the
Lord. It's best not" he continued,
with an effort at a smile and in a
steadier tone. cit would mean so
much to mech, so very much to me
and so very little to you-and that's
no real kiss. I'd rather remember
none of that kind-and don't think I
was churlish-it's only because the
little boy-I will go after my father
now, and God bless you'll"
He turned away. A few PAGES on he
met Capt. Girnway, jaunty, debonair.
smiling, handsome in his brass-but,
toned uniform Of the Carthage Grays.
II have just left the ferry, Mr.. Rae.
The wagon with your mother has gone
over. The other had not yet come
down. Some of the men appear to be
a little rough this morning. Your
people are apt to provoke them by be-
ing too outspoken, but I left special
orders for the good treatment of your.
self and outfit"
With a half-smothered thank you"
ne passed on, not trusting himself to
say more to n who was not only the
enemy OF his people, but bent, SEEM
ingly, on deluding a young woman to
the loss of her soul. He heard their
voices in cheerful greeting, but did not
turn back. With eyes to the front and
shoulders squared he kept stif1y on
his way through the silent, deserted
streets to the ferry.
Fifteen minutes walk brought him
to the now busy waterside. The ferry,
a fiat boat propelled by long oars, was
landing when he came into view, and
he saw his fathers wagon driven on.
He sped down the hill, pushed through
the crowd of soldiers standing about,
and hurried forward on the boat to let
the old nan know he had come. But
on the seat was another than his fa-
ther. He recognized the man, and
called to him.
What are you doing there, Brother
Keaton? Where's my father?"
The man had shrunk back under the
wagon-cover, having seemingly been
frightened by the soldiers.
I've taken your fathers place,
Brother Rae"
did he cross with Brother
Wright"
"Yes-he-" The mar hesitated.
Then came an interruption from the
shore.
Come, clear the gangway there so
we a load! Here are some more of
the damned rats we've hunted out of
their holes!"
The speaker made a half-playful
lunge with. his bayonet at a gaunt,
yelloW-faced specter of a man who
staggered on to the boat with a child
in his arms wrapped in a tattered blue
quilt. A gust Of the chilly Wind picked
his shapeless, loose-ftting hat off as he
leared to avoid the bayonet-point, aud
his head al seen to be shayen. The
crowd On the bank laughed loud at
his clumsiness and at his grctosGue
head. Joel Rae ran to help him tor-
ward on the boat.
"Ti.anii you, b1.ther-I'n jus, I'D
from the fever-bed-they shaved my
head for it-and SO I. lost Ivy All
thank you--here we shall be warm u
only TIE sun comes out"
Joel went back to help on others
who came, a feeble, ~bedraggled dozen
Or So that had clung despairingly to
their only shelter until they were
driven cut.
you can stay here in safety, you
know, if you %renounce Joseph Smith
and his works-they will give you food
and shelter" He repeated it to each
little group Of the dispirited wretches
as they staggered past him, but they
replied staunchly by word or look, and
one man, in the throes of a chill,
swung his cap and uttered a feeble
"Hurrah for the new Zion!"
When they were all on with their
meager belongings, he called again to
the man in the wagon.
Brother Keaton, my father went
across, did hep
Several of the men on shore an
swered him.
Eyes" "Old white-whiskered
death's-head went over the river
cover here'-"A sassy old codger he
was"-"He got his needings, too
Got his needings-"
They cast off the line and the oars
began to dip.
The confusion Of landing and the
preparations for an immediate start
drove for the time all other thoughts
from his mind. 1t had been deter.
mined to get the little band at once
out of the marshy spot where the
camp had been made. The teams were
soon hitched, the wagons loaded, and
the train ready to move. He sur
veyed it, a hundred poor wagons, many
of them without cover, loaded to the
full with such nondescript belongings
as a house-dwelling people, suddenly
put out on the open road, would hur'
riedly snatch as they fled. And the
people made his heart ache, eve to
the deadening of his own sorrow, as
he noted their ~wobegoneness. Fol-
these were the sick, the infirm, the
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