Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-08

over the prophets shoulder-a face.
white as death in its terror, that told
him all he had heard was a lie.
And when you have done with my
people," continued the king, you will
go among that other race, along the
mainland, where men have thrown off
the restraints of society to give loose
reign to lust and avarice; where the
indian Is brutified that his wife may
be intoxicated by compulsion and
prostituted by violence before his
eyes; where the forest cabins and the
streets Of towns are filled with half
breeds; where there stalk wretches
with withered and fearless eyes, who
are in nuwise troubled by recollection
Of robbery, rape and murder. And
there you will find whom you are look
ing fort"
>Strang had risen to his feet. His
eyes blazed with the fire OF smoth.
cred hatred and passion and his great
voice rolled through his beard trem-
ulous with excitement, but still deep
and rich, like the booming of some
melodious instrument. He flung aside
his hat as he paced back and forth;
his shaggy hair fell upon his shoul.
ders; huge veins stood out upon his
forehead-and Nathaniel sat mute as
he watched this lion OF a man whose
great throat quivered with the power
that might have stirred a nation-that
might have made him president in.
stead of king. He waited for the
thunder of that throat and his nerves
keyed themselves to meet Its bursting
passion. But when Strang spoke again
1t was In q voice as soft and as gentle
as a woman's.
Those are the men who have viii.
fed us, Captain Plum; who have GOV.
cred us with crimes that we have
never committed; who have driven
our people into groups that they may
be free from depreciation; who watch
like vultures to despoil our women;
wild wifeless men, Captain Plum. who
have left families and character be-
hind them and who have sought the
wilderness to escape the penalties OF
law and order. 1t Is they who would
destroy us. Go among my own people
first, Captain Plum. and find your lost
property II you can; and If you a
not discover it where In seven years
not one child has been born out OF
wedlock. seek among the Lamanites-
and my sheriffs shall follow where you
place the crimc!"
He had stretched out his arms like
one whose plea was of life and death;
his face shone with earnestness; his
low words throbbed as il his heart
were borne upon them for the inspec.
ton of it's truth and honor. He was
Strang the t%ragedian, the orator, the
of a legislature, a governor.
a dozen juries-and Of human souls.
And as he stood silent for a moment
in this attitude Nathaniel rose to his
feet, subservient, and believing as
others had believed in the fitness of
this man. But as his eyes Travelled
a dozen PAGES beyond. he saw he
young girl %gesturing to him in that
| same terror, and holding up for him
to see a slip Of paper upon when
she had written. And when she mad
caught his eyes she crumpled the pa
per into q shapeless ball and tossed
it Just over the landing to the ground
below the stair.
81 thank you for the privileges of the
island which you have offered me-
said Nathaniel, putting on his nat,
and | shall certainly take advantage
OF your kindness for a few hours, as
want very much to witness one OF
your ceremonies which | understand
is to take place today. Then. II
have discovered nothing. shall return
to my ship"
GRO BE CONTINUED)