The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-03-04

: traught yesterday, as he composed Il in
the inner OF inner Offices. This demon
OF cracking French and restless hands
would stop at nothing. NJ. Mondet pic
tured himself being picked up for dead
presently. As the blow did not fall In
simultaneously. be amended the picture
with the sorry thought that be was to
De played with before being dispatched.
This IS the little man who tells YOU
that Saint Pierre IS in no dange-who
SCOTS at those who have already gone
Constable informed his hearers. now hold
ing up the Frenchman's arm. as a referee
upraises the whip Of a winning fighter.
He says there Is no more peril from
Peiee than from an old man shaking ashes
out OF his pipe Yesterday l proposed to
wager my ship against VI. Mondet's rolled
top desk that he was wrong. but there
was a difficulty in the way. Do you not
see. dear friends. hat il l won the wager,
l should net be able to distinguish be-
tween NJ Mondet's rolled-top desk and
NJ Mondet's cigarette case in the ruins Of
Saint Pierref You would not think that
such a small white person could contain
50 much poison"
There had been a steady growing from
the mountain.
-Ahr' Constable suddenly exclaimed
-Pelee speaks again Ugh, get in
there ="
Constable's irritation against the entire
tribe Of editorial opinion breeders must
have found an instant vent at last. NJ.
Mondet was chucked like a large soft
bundle into the seat Of his carriage and
the door slammed forcibly. corkipg the
viais OF his wrath In any Of the red
oiooded zones. a stranger who performed
such antics az the expense Of a portly
and respected citizen would have encoun-
tered a quietus quick and blasting. but
the people Of Martinique are not swift to
anger nor forward at reprisals.
Come Constable yelled, in a voice
which jerked up his hearers. -who has
use for my ofer7 Who goes to Fort de
FranceTs
A few came forward, perhaps a dozen I
n all, out OF the fifty or sixty who had
istened- Half in anger. half in admira-
which he did not seek to understand.
ie ran his eye a last time over the dusty.
stiied crowd which he had failed u
o move. !,
From their eyes. sullen. startled and !.
'itiful, be glanced beyond to the place :
shere Cd Vulcan lay. muttering his az >
MES The sight completed the circuit Of e
ending voltage. made him think Of Lara o
With furious zeal he grappled the work s.
I hand, forced his way out Of the crowd. 81
rossed the Roxelane and hurried toward
be Hotel des Palms. His physical en- n
rgy was imperious. but the numbness Of :.
Is scalp was a pregnant warning against :,
he perils Of heat. The city was silent y
Rough to act like a vast sounding board u
oices reached him from far behind. from
e narbor front to the left, from shut kI
Iops and houses everywhere. Al the BE-
tel, after much difficulty. he procured ~
1des and a small outfit for the journev ~
the summit Of the mountain IL was =
ter midday when the party ID into
orne Rouge The ash-hung valley was '
hind, and Constable drank deeply Of m'
E clean east wind from the Atlantic IN
iere was a rush Of bitterness. too. be- all
use Lan was not sharing the priceless OF
tunes Of sun-lit vitality. All the i'm to
sus of his mad enterprise was needed
. TO turn the point Of bereavement l..
I force it into the background again. "a
E party pushed through Ajoupa BouiI- na
q to the gorge Of the Falaise. the north :
I'd bank OF which marked the chosen ma
il to the summit tur
And 0 they moved upward 10 the I'D,
LIST OF the old glory Of Martinique. The ans
X Trades blowing evenly in the heights "a,
ed the eastern slope Of the mountain s,n.
II Of stone-dust and whipped the blast 49,
down into the valley toward H
shore Green lakes Of cane filed the 70 {
eys behind. and groves Of c~ocoa-paIms. hap
Instant and 80 orderly that they looked life
a city garden set with hen and Is 3
ash
'orthward. through the riffs. gIistened +,
sea steeLblue and cool. Before them 49,,
e the huge. green-clad mass Of the -
ntain. its corona dim with smoke and .ne
ed by storm Dow in the southwest um'
the CHASTITY pail, the hidden. tortured cnal
tranced under the cobra-bead Of the bols
ster and already laved IN its poison. and
be trail became very steep at two ing
sand feet, and this fact, together with IN a
baek-thresh Of the summit disturb ho,e,
forced Constable to abandon the
ais 1t transpfred that four Of the
J natives felt It their duty. at this III
, to stay behind with the mules. A TO e
later, when the growing from the mom
; uptuned face Of the great beast 49,
My arose to a roar that twisted the -
and outraged the senses Of man. =
looked back and found that Inen
one native was faltering behind. in know
Of three. ship.
scination for the dying Thing took An
Of him now, and drew him on. Con- thin.
was conscious Of no fear for bis to IN
Of a fixed terror lest be should souo,
physically unable to 20 on to the ac.
He found himself tearing up
and stufing the shreds IN unsee
lrs, to deaden the horrid yibrati Jns. neatn
the linen remaining. be fllg<3 his ton
) shutting his jaws together D Il,
wheels Of a wagon are blocked on Mr,
titanic disorder placated bis own
yelled In Il, unconscious Of passing "ohna
He did not realize that he was mrs
but knew well from the contour time Z
slope, learned intimately In past as mu
that he was nearing the Lac des -Sml
It's, which marked the summit level.
'anges, violent changes, we're every
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