Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-10-16

my DIaSted nonsense That mas Drought
you to this. Get back. Billy Fish. and
take your men away; you've done what
you could. and now cut for 1t. Carne
ham, says be. shake hands with me
and go along with Billy. Maybe they
won't kill you. I'll go and meet EN-
alone, It's me, the king, that did it,
Cor says l.. I'm with you here.
Billy Fish, you clear out. and we two
I will meet those folk. 80 -.
"'I'n a chief. says Billy Fish. quite
quiet. i stay with you Ny men
/ can go.f'1 sas~a. tss
''The Bashkaf fellows didn't wait for
"a second word, but ran off. cit was
| cold--awful cold. I've got that cold in
| the back Of my head now. There's
lump of it there
| Carnehan was shivering, and fear
| ed that his mind might go. wiped
my face, took fresh grip of the pite-
ously mangled hands and said What
happened after that?'
what was you pleased to say?'
! whined Carnehan. "They took them
without any sound. Not little Whis-
! per all along the snow, not though the
king knocked down the first man that
set hand on him-not though old
Peachey fred his last cartridge into
the brown of 'em. There was a man
called Billy Fish, a good friend OF
us all. and they cut his throat, sir,
then and there, like a pig; and the king
kicks up the bloody snow and says:
We've had a dashed fine run for our
money. What's coming nextY But
Peachey-Peachey Taliaferro, | tell
you. sir in confidence as betwixt two
friends-he lost his head, sir. No. he
didn't neither. The king lost his head.
so he did, all along o. one of those
cunning rope bridges. Kindly let me
have the paper cutter, sir. 1t tilted
this way. They marched him across
that snow to rope bridge over a ra-
vine with a river at the bottom. You
may have seen such. They prodded
him behind like an OK. D. your
eyes!' says the king. 'D'you suppose
can't die like gentleman He turns
to Peachey-Peachey that was crying
like a child. I've brought you to this.
Peachey,' says he. Brought you out
of your happy life to be killed in KAT
tristan, where you was late command
er in chief Of the emperors forces.
Say you forgive me, Peachey.'. 4
do says Peachey. Shake hands,
Peachey,' says he. Pm going now
Out he goes. looking neither right nor
left, and when he was plumb in the
middle Of those dizzy dancing ropes.
Cut, you beggarsv he shouts. And
they cut. and old Dan fell, turning
round and round and round, 10000
miles, for he took half an hour to fall
till he struck the water, and could
see his body caught on rock with the
gold crown close beside.
"But do you know what they did to
Peachey between two pine trees? They
crucified him, sir. as Peachey's hand
will show. They used wooden pegs
for his hands and his feet; and he
!, didn't die. He hung there and scream
ed, and they took him down next day
and said it. was a miracle that he
wasn't dead They took him down
poor old Peachey, that hadn't done
them any harm-that hadn't done
them any
He rocked to and fro and wept bit
terly, wiping his eyes with the back of
his SCARED hands and moaning like a
child for some ten minutes.
They was cruel enough to feed him
up in the temple. because they said he
J was more of god than old Daniel that
! was man. Then they turned him out
! on the snow and told him to go home
and Peachey came home in about a
J year, begging along the roads quite
safe, for Daniel Dravot he walked. be
fore and said: Come along, Peachey,
It's big thing we're doing. The
mountains they danced at night, and
: the mountains they tried to fall on
: Peachey's head, but Dan he held up
; his hand, and Peachey came along
bent double He never let go of Dams
i hand and he never let go of Dams
head. They gave it to him as pres
{ ent in the temple, to remind him not
( to come again, and, though the crown
) was pure gold and Peachey was starv
ing, never would Peachey sell the
! same. You knew Right Worshipfu
; Brother Dravot. Look at him nowr'
He fumbied in the mass of rags
: around his bent waist, brought out &
black horsehair bag embroidered witt
I silver thread and shook therefrom OF
] to my table the dried. withered head
/ Of Daniel Dravot! The morning sur
that had long been paling the lamps
) struck the red beard and blind. sunker
eyes; struck, too. a heavy circlet .oi
/ gold studded with raw turquoises, tha'
d Carnehan placed tenderly on the bat
tered temples. ~a
$ "You behold now said Carnehan
e 1.-THE emperor in his habit as he lived
e the king Of Kafristan with, his crown
upon his head. Poor old Daniel, tina
4 was monarch oncev'
! I chuddorad For ~ cv;Ao 20 49,.