The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-09-07

stanu, dm gong TO tell
you something which l have told to
but two other human beings. 1t is
the story of another mana man from
civilization, like you, who came up
into this country Of ours years and
years ago and who met woman. as
you have met this girl at oxford
House, and who loved her as you love
this one and perhaps more. 1t is sin
gular that the case should be so SINH
lar, m'sieur, and II is because Of this
that l believe our Blessed Lady gives
me courage to tell 1t to you, for this
man, like you, left a wife and two
children when he came into the north.
M'sieur, pray the great God to for
give him, for he left a third child
unborn"
Jan leaned upon his hand so that it
shaded his face.
ut is not so much of that as Of
what followed that am going to tell
you, m'sieur," he went on. ut was
beautiful love on the woman's part,
and 1t would have been beautiful
love on the mans part II 1t had been
pure. For her he gave up everything,
even his God, as you would give up
everything and your God for this girl
at Oxford House. M'sieur, will
speak mostly of the woman now. She
Eas beautiful. She was one Of the
three most beautiful things that God
ever placed In our world, and she
loved this man. She married him, be-
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him, to follow him to the ends Of the
earth, as our women will do for the
men they love. God In heaven! Can
you not guess what happened, m'sieur?
A child was bornv
So fiercely did Jan cry out the
words that Thornton jerked back as
though a blow had been struck at him
from out of the gloom.
"A child was born" repeated Jan,
and Thornton heard his nails digging
In the table. THAT was the first
curse Of Coda child! Carton, beasts
Of carrion, that is what we call them
beasts of carrion and carrion eaters,
breeders of devils and sin! My God!
That is what happened. A child was
born with the curse of God upon himr'
Jan stopped. his nails digging deep
er, his breath escaping from him as
though he had been running.
'Down in your world he would have
grown up a man." he continued, speak,
ing more calmly. 81 have heard that
since. But here it is different The
curse never dies 1t follows, day after
ga An oh
more unfortunate than the wild things,
was born one of them. If the winds
had whispered the secret nothing
would have come near him. The In
dian women would sooner have touch
ed the plague. He would have been
On outcast, despised as he grew older,
pointed at and tainted, called names
which are worse than those called to
the lowest and meanest dogs. That is
what 1t means to be born under that
curse-up here"
He waited for Thornton to speak, but
the other sat silent and moveless across
the table.
''The curse worked swiftly, m'sieur.
1t came first-in remorse-to the man.
1t gnawed at his soul, ate him alive
and drove him from place TO place
with the woman and the child. The
purity and love of the woman added to
his suffering. and at last he came to
know that the hand of God had fallen
upon his head. The woman saw his
grief, but did not know the reason for
1t. And so the curse first came TO her.
They went north-far north, above the
Barren Lands, and the curse followed
there. 1t gnawed at his life until-he
died. That was seven years after the
child was born
The oil lamp sputtered and began to
smoke, and with a quick movement
Jan turned the wick down until they
were left In darkness.
"Msieur, II was then that the curs'
began to fall upon the woman and thu
child Do you not believe that about
the sins of the fathers falling upor
others? 1t is so, II is so. 1t came ir
many small ways, and then the curse
It came suddenly-like this" Jan'i
voice came In n Kissing whisper now
Thornton could feel his hot breath al
he leaned over the table. and in thu
darkness JAMS eyes shone IKE tive
Goals Of fire. ut came like this!' pant
cd Jan. "There was a new missioner
at the post--a-a Christian from th'
south, and he was great friend to thu
woman and preached God, and she be
lieved him The boy was very younI
and saw things, but did not under
stand at first. He knew afterwarC
that the missioner loved his mother
beauty and that he tried hard to vii
it-and failed. for the woman unit
death would love only the one to whom
she had given herself first. Great God
II happened then-one night whel
every soul was about the big fires
the caribou roast and there was no on
near the lonely little cabin where tn
boy and his mother lived. The DO
was at the feast but he ran home Wit
bit of dripping meat as gift for hi