The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-10-18

SA0 AOAH Will pOWu0T IOr Clo con.
ISOLATION of Israel! They're lynn out
over there in the slough now, as many
as amt gone to glory. 1t made me
Jest plumb -~murderous!"
The younger man uttered a sharp
cry of anguish. what, oh, what has
been our sin, that we must be proved
again? Why have we got to be chas-
tened?"
"Then Brockman's force marched
in Thursday afternoon, and hell was
let loose. His devils have plundered
h town, thrown out the bedridden
that jest couldn't move, thrown their
goods after 'em, burned, murdered,
tore up. You come up from the river,
and you amt seen that yet-they
amt touched the lower part Of town
and 10Y they're bunkin' in the tenn
pie, defacin' it-that place we built
to be a house of rest for the Lord
when lie cometh again. They drove
me acrost the river yesterday, and
promised to shoot me if I dast show
myself again. I sneaked over in a
skif last night and got here to get my
two pistols and some money and
trinkets we'd hit out. 1 was goin' to
cross again tonight and wait for you
and the wagons"
do you know, Bishop, I've thought
that he might mean us to save our
selves against this Gentle persecu-
ton. Sometimes I find it hard to
control myself"
The Bishop grinned appreciatively.
$50 I herd. The Lutte of the Holy
Ghost got too rambunctious back in
the States on the subject of our
wrongs. And so they called you back
from your mission?"
"They said I must learn to school
myself; that I might hurt the cause
by my ill-tempered zealand yet
brought in many"
II don't blame you. I got in trouble
the first and only mission I went on,
and the first time I preached, at that.
When I said, Joseph was ordained
by Peter, James and john a drunken
wag in the audience got up and called
me a damned liar. I started for him.
I never reached him, but I reached
the end of my mission right there.
The Twelve decided l was usefuller
here at home. They said I hadn't got
enough of the Lords humility for out
side work. That was why they put
me at the head of-that little organ.
ization I wanted you to join last
spring. And it's done good work, too.
You'll join now fast enough, I guess.
You begin to see the need of such
doin's. | can give you the oath any
time"
mo, Bishop, I didn't mean that kind
OF resistance. 1t sounded too prac
tical for me; I'm still satisfied to be
the Lutte Of the Holy Ghost"
You can be a Son of Dan, too"
Not yet, not yet. We must still
be a little meek in the face of Heay.
en-"
You're in a mighty poor place tc
practice meekness. What'd you cross
the river for, anyway?'
why, for father and mother, OF
course. They must be safe at Green
Plains. Can I get out there without
%trouble"
The Bishop sneered.
BE meek, will you? Well, mosev
out to Green Plains and begin there.
It's a burned plains you'll find, and
Lima and Morley all the same, and
Bear Creek. The mobbers started out
from Warsaw, and burned all i in their
way, Morley first, then Green Plains,
Bear Creek and Lima. They'd set fire
to the houses and drive the folks in
ahead. They killed Ed Durfee at
Morley for talkin' back to EN-"
But father and mother, surely
"Your pa and ma was druv in here
with the rest, like cattle to- the slaugh-
ter"
you don't mean to say they're over
there on the river bank?"
"Now, they's a kind of a mystery
about that-Why they want throwed
out with the rest. Your mas sick
abed-she amt I've been peart since
the night your pas house was fired
and they had to walk in-but that
amt the reason they want throwed
out. They put out others sicker.
They flung families where every one
was sick out into that slough. !
guess what's left Of 'em wouldn't be
a supper-spell for a bunch of long
billed mosquitoes. But one of them
milishy captains was certainly partial
to your folks for some reason. They
was let to stay in Phin Daggin's house
till you come"
/, "And Prudence-the Corsons-Miss
Prudence Corson?"
ooh, no! So she's the one, is she?
Now that reminds me, mebbe I can
. guess the cute of that captains par,
TALLY. That girls been kind of look.
In after your pa and ma, and that
} same milishy captains been kind OF
) lookin' after the girl. She got him to
let her folks go to Springfield"
"But that's the wrong way"
"Well, now, I don't want to spleen
| but I never did believe Vince Corson
| was anything more'n a hickory Saint
and there's been a lot of talk-but
you get yours from the girl. If 1 ainV
been misled, she's got some ready for
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