The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-08
CHAPTER vIII.-continued.

II love Marion" she breathed softly.
Il would help you'll would help her
II l could" For a moment her pale
beautiful face was filled with a light
that might have shone from the face
of an angel Don't GU understand ?"
she continued. scarcely above a whis-
per. Il have been Strang's one great
love-his life-until Marion came into
his heart. l have lost-you have lost
but mine is the more bitter because
Marion loves you. and Strang5"
With cry Nathaniel sprang to her
side. The candle fell from his hand,
sputtered on the floor, and left them
in darkness.
Marion loves me?"
The woman's voice came to him In
a whisper filled with the sweetness
of sympathy.
She said SO tonight-in this room
She told me that she loved you as
she never thought that she could love
a man in this world. o. my God, is
that not balm for your heart, II 1t
is broken? And Strang-my Strang
has forgotten his love for mel"
Nathaniel reached out his arms.
They found the woman and for a time
he held her hands In his. while q
great silence fell upon them. He
could hear the sobbing of her breath
and as her fingers frightened about
his own his heart seemed bursting
with its hatred Of this man who called
himself a prophet of God; a hatred
that burned furiously even as his be-
ing throbbed with the wild Joys of the
words he had Just heard.
sWhsre Is Marion?" he pleaded.
Il Won't know" replied the woman
They took her away alone. The 9TH
ers have gone to the temple"
DO you think she Ia at the tenn.
pier" he inquired insistently.
mo. One Of the others came back
a little while ago. She said that Ma
rion was not there"
Where is STRANGE"
This time he felt the woman trem-
BILE.
"Strang-"
She drew her hands away from him
There was a strange CULVER in her
voice.
"Yes-where IL Strang?"
There came no reply.
Tell me-where Is her
Il don't know"
rs he at the templer'
Il don't know"
He could hear her stifed breath;
he could almost feel her trembling,
an arms reach out there in the dark
ness. What q woman was this whose
heart the Mormon king had broken
for a new love!
Listen" he said gently. II am
going to ind Marion I am going to
take her away. Tomorrow you shall
have Strang again-if he is alive!"
There was no answer and he moved
slowly back to the door. He closed
it. after him as he entered the hall
Once In the big room he paused for a
moment under the hanging lamp to
examine his pistol and then went out
side. The grove in which the castle
stood was absolutely deserted. So far
as he could see not even a guard
watched over the property of the king
Nathaniel had become too accustomed
to the surprises of Beaver island to
wonder at this. He could see by the
lights flaring along the harbor that
the castle was in an isolated position
and easy OF attack. From what
Strang's wife had told him and the
evidences Of panic In the chambers OF
the harem he believed that the Nor
mon king had abandoned the castle
to its fate and that the approaching
conflict would center about the tenn
pie
Was Marion at the temple? II SO
he realized that she was beyond his
reach. But the woman had said that
she was not there. Where could she
have gone? Why had not Strang
taken her with his wives? In a fash
Nathaniel thought OF Arbor Croche
and Obadiah-the two men who al
ways knew what the king was doing
II he could find the sheriff alone
II he could only nurse Obadiah back
into sane life again! He thrust his
pistol into Its holster. There was but
one thing for him to do and that was
to return to the old councillor. 1t
would be madness for him to go do~n
to st. James. He had lost-Strang
had won. But his love for Marion was
undying. II he found her Strang's
wife 1t would make no difference to
him. It would all be evened up when
he killed the king. For Marion loved
him-loved him
He turned his face toward Oba-
diah's. his heart singing the glad
words which the woman had spoken
to him back there in the sixth cham
Der.
And as he was about to take the
frst stop In that long race back to