The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26

is, it must wait till morning. After
good sleep he
Il beg your pardon, Mr.. Manning,
but my business cannot wait, and as
for sleeping, this man cannot sleep un
der my roof, humble as it is. This is
my roof, you understand, the only one
1 have. He has slept under my roof
before and"
The man broke off for his voice was
growing hard. He concluded in his or
binary repressed voice, 1T is all mat
ter between US two. Will you step
outside. sir?"
II don't think | will" suffered
the doctor, after a despairing glance at
his new friends.
Say, look here. Tom" blurted Man
ming, "Ballou and / have been coming
here good many years, and I never
knew you to rear up and butt in after
this fashion before. You'd better go
out by the pond and cool off Doctor
Wallace will probably give you a few
moments in the morning for your-your
business" The New Yorker spoke with
the acerbity of one rebuking the pre-
sumption of an inferior
''Will you come OUT persisted the
guide. gazing straight at the clergy
man. The mans eyes famed now in
the dusk.
Manning and Ballou. with an angry
grunt in unison. started toward the
mportunate Woodsman. But he
Strengthened his shoulders bent by
many years of duffle toting, and faced
them unflinchingly.
Don't touch me-" he said, and there
was a grim menace in his low tones
/ that checked them more effectually
! than a shout or an oath could have
i
| lou. l call you to witness that | have
given this man the chance to talk our
| business privately. 1t is for his good
as well as for my own pride and peace
of mind that / have asked il. | still
/ say he must talk with me. Will you
| come outside, sir?" His calm persist
| ence in the same query began to seem
| dark and OminOus.
No" mumbled the clergyman, hud-
ding with the obstinacy of a trapped
| creature He shuddered as he booked
| into the blackness framed at the door,
| He edged toward the light on the table.
Then l appeal to you as gentlemen
| have known in these woods year by
/ year for a long time" said the guide,
/ turning to his employers. He realized
how his presumption must have an
gered them. You have never before
| seen in me anything except patience
and courtesy, have you? Thank you.
! sirs. l don't blame you for the stand
you are taking against me now. but
| il is because you do not know.
would not have told you. but coward
| forces me. When | was three years
| married and just getting together our
/ first little home-awful poor. sirs-we
thought to help out on housekeeping ex-
| pense by taking a boarder, my wife
and /. He was a theological student.
| And-well sirs, all there is to tell he
| took nay wife away from me-my wife,
| gentlemen-' For the first time in
| their knowledge of him Manning and
BallOu heard Tom Billiards. voice break
| into cry, a wall of sudden woe. "All
1 was working and struggling for on
| Gods earth. Took her away never
saw her again. That's all, l never
saw her again-and the bonds that
| was fool enough to think God tied they
cut asunder, and l knew nothing of
il until il had been dOne.s The goddess
of the lawyers may be blind, gentle
| men. but those with long ladders may
whisper in her ear. And this" he
swept his hand around HIS little cabin
this is all I've got for home, and you
know how many years I've been here
Shut your eyes. YOU gentlemen, and
think of your own. And that's why
want to talk to his man privately. GOO
forgive me for saying so much here
but | had 10 make you understand
Wfll you come. sir?" His voice in the
query had the same calm. ominou:
/ evenness.
NO, | win not" screamed the clergy
man. Physical exhaustion accentuat
ed his natural timidity This remorse-
less insistence was maddening.
You'd better wait, Tom" urged
Manning, stammering in his sudder
agitation. This unwilling of a TRACED,
shocked him. This stern call to th'
night outside made him apprehensivi
of consequences. In the morning"
81 cannot sleep" broke in Ballard
land he shall not sleep until we talk
You two have known me. L am not {
thug. / am not an assassin. / am no
: butcher of sheep. But l say 10 you
and all here take warning, that man