Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-08-03

but it is the best thing for the community
as he will ruin all the other niggers'' and
the conversation dropped without further
comment
1t was about dusk when very black, but
handsome young woman approached a cabin
on Mr.. Wilson s farm and inquired of an
elderly cOlOred woman if Allen Davis lived
there ''Yassllm, and UNI his mudder what
do you want wifi him." CT want to see
Mr.. Davis on very important business and
| must see him now.'
Though uneducated, the aged colored lady
realized that the woman addressing her was
not the ordinary plantation colored woman,
and that she came bearing some important
message for her son. High strung, we'll
educated colored men in the South live in
a semi state of dread owing to the dis
position Of the whites to regulate ''smart
nggers,' and the mother suspected some
thing was wrong.
AS soon as possible Allen was found and
introduced to the young woman. Without
disclosing her identity she told him of his
coming fate that night and warned him to
flee. He recognized in the voice of his good
angel a refined and cultured woman, and
wondered how she could have heard such
news. He was about to treat it as fairy
tale when the young lady as far as possible
threw off her disguise and told who she
was and how she had gotten the news, which
more than convinced the young colored man
that to save his life he had to fly and fly
fast
''You will 60 tonight, almost now, won't
you?' she piteously pleaded with him.
"Never mind your mother, she will be pro-
vided for, but before we part you will
promise me you will not disclose my identity
TO oth 1o
sufficient funds I have brought you this, -
laying a roll Of bills in his hands, AS
the young man stood there half dazed, the
woman seized him about his neck and all but
smothered him with kisses, and as the hot
tears rolled down her cheeks, she exclaimed
Il have done this because [ love you as I
love no other man. Write me, my name
will be Nancy Johnsing. God bless you.'
Before the young cOOred man could realize
what she had done and said the young woman
lost in the darkness and he stood almost
transfixed to the ground. He told his mother
of the expected trouble, she had suspected
as much and she helped him to hurriedly
get his things together and he too was soon
lost in the darkness, and "God bless you,'
again he heard
The mob surged about the cabin that
night and after searching high and low
Tor their victim and finding no trace OF
him told the mother, eff your smart niger
ever shows up again here we will burn him
at the stale' The young lady's father
said the next morning he was glad that the
mob did not get Allen, but he could not
understand how he got the news unless
some one had told old Wilson, and again
the conversation dropped without further
comment.
In a Northern city years thereafter on
a glass door to one Of the Offices of great
building lettering thereon read like this:
ALLEN DAVIS WILSON
Attorney at Law
Walk In
In his school debates Allen Davis was
very brilliant talker and gave much evidence
of being natural born lawyer. He studied
law when he went North and after being
admitted to practice he rose in his profession
by leaps and bounds. He was still col
ral 1,,+ ,;~rI+ ho,