Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-14

alive. Still, his death would not bring
them any nearer finding the pearl. He
pinned his hope there. and shook his
head.
"Im not the Red Mask. I didn't kill
Louie Solomon. And I don't know
where the Blue Moon is"
The answer was not convincing.
Nothing he could have said just then
would have been. Whether the Jew
believed it, or any part of it, his face
gave no sign. He backed away two
steps and leveled his revolver full at
the Pearlhunter's breast, like q man
about to pistol another and deliberate
ly planning to make a clean job Of it.
The instant came when the Pearl
hunter believed the grimy finger was
about to press the trigger and he was
almost in the act of diving beneath
the muzZle when the Jew mOtioned to
one of the others and said something
in Yiddish.
The man spoken to darted away
through the bushes toward the boat
landing. The P%earlhunter breathed
again.
The man Don reappeared, carrying
a piece of rope. One at a time, he
took the P~earlhunter's hands, drew
them behind his back, and bound
them securely together. Even then,
so great was their dread Of the man
he was supposed to be, that one Of
them constantly held a gun on him.
With the knife still sticking in the
dead mans breast, they carried him
down to the boat, driving the Pearl
hunter before them. There they load
ed them in, the dead and the living,
and rowed back up the river to the
village-the second time that day the
same trip; the same boat; the same
five men. Then, a great day opening;
the greatest trade ever made among
pearl fishers along the Wabash . in
prospect; now, the day nearly done;
the pearl lost; one Of the men dead,
another likely soon to be!
What a difference in the crowd that
met them at the wharf! Again driv-
ing their prisoner before them, the
three grim henchmen carried the dead
man up the hill to a small plot of
open ground west of the Mud Hen and
laid him down upon the grass.
For the second time that day the
village emptied its houses to meet
them. Women came this time-old
women with scared faces; girls with
blooming cheeks: and children. Hard
men that had drunk to the Pearlhunt-
ar barely two hours ago came out of
he Mud Hen and stood staring at him
n sullen silence. Men from the stores
and shops came running. Men that
mad neither stores nor shops stray
yled in from every quarter Of the vii
age and iostlad about in the ever
growing. ominously muttering circle.
Suddenly, and unexpectedly, two of
he henchmen caught the Pearlhunter
md held him while the third tied the
ed mask Owe his eyes. Bound as he
vas, he had flung them loose in an in
stant and raked the mask off against
lis shoulder. But that one brief mo-
ment was enough. The mischief was
done. Women screamed; men nut
tered and swore; but all shrank back,
widening the circle.
Who started it, who said it first,
will never be known. Nobody knows
how the mob forms-a low humble;
a quick flare into frenzy; mild eyes
grown wild; stolid faces afre; a rab-
BILE: a clamOr: reason down. blood
lust up.
"Hang i'm! Hang 'im!"
CONTINUED Next WeeS,
The Filipino people number 10,350,.
$40, of which 9,495,272 are Christians
and only 8 per cent mont Christians.
They have been Christians for 300
years and have a culture and refine.
ment that will compare very favorably
with that of other nations.
There are only 6,6S4 Japanese in the
Philippines. There are about 0 1000
Japanese in California alone, or is
times as many as in the entire Philip.
pine archipelago.
English is taught exclusively in the
Philippine public schools. Two mil.
lion natives now speak English fluent.
ly, and there are 100000 English
speaking children in the public schools.
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