Evening journal., 1922-09-11
tcouttn.ea From Our Last Issue,
n GiIuilt HoImeTO

ewes widened, with Jaw dropped; tn
dim. pink light upon his skin lost
tint as the blood went from Lnca
Culien's face, and Barney knew tha
he had recognized the voice.
"Direct voicel" some one gnspet
In awe; and others whispered II
Were hearing a direct voicel-
That's her voicel-I knew herl"
Bennet Cullen had recognized 4
and dropped down into his scat
astounded; his mother knew the
voice; and Jaccard; most certainly
of all Lucas Cullen continued in the
conviction that one dead was speak
ing
II am going to tell the account OF
Lucas Cullen and his family and OF
myself and my son" said the voice
clearly and steadily. at begins far
back: vet is brief enough"
So far, even TO Barney, the voice
seemed TO proceed from no located
source. He had believed his mother
present among the yelled women at
the left of the rows whore the lights
had gone out; but such was the
quality OF her tone that II seemed
not enunciated from one spot but
pervasive throughout the room
Every one was silent
THE beginning" continued the
voice, twas when I was child in
the Michigan forest. My father was
the man whose spirit just now was
here holding the Book OF Mormon
whose cabin Lucas Cullen entered TO
quarrel with him and kick the Book
of Mormon from the doorway. My
father was Richard Drane- He
cleared farm IN the woods. mar
RED a Gentle girl from Big Rapids.
and was living an honorable, useful
life when he crossed the path OF
Lucas Cullen who recently had ar
rived to make his fortune IN the
forest"
The source OF the voice was dis
covered. II came from that dark
ened end OF the room where Barney
had supposed his mother to be: and.
as people craned about or stood 70
sc the speaker. she arose and. hav-
cast off her ven and the dark
eoai he had worn. she stood little
cfart dressed all In white.
Mrs. Cullenl-Agnesi-M Oh
ser Culieni-She's herei-That's
shs-Why did she-How changedi
How could Il be-"
II seemed TO Barney that every
one must recognize that she was be-
fore them In the body; yet so strong
had been the spell OF the illusion
that a few still saw her as a phan-
tom. Lucas Cullen did
hn urOLa an Parr.ox~ 49,
ognized that her deliberate, careful
words wre being recited from re-
hearsals within hersef repeated
through years OF waiting for such
moment
My father" she said. had aban-
doned farming 10 take out lumber,
cutting from land he had home
steaded and from surrounding SEQ
lions which he bought. You could
buy timber land cheap In those days;
but there were men who thought I
It foolish to pay the government
anything at all for the great trees
on state lands. They bought one
section and set up a mill and cut
over the square miles all around.
Lucas Cullen was one of these men.
Ny father bought from the govern
nent five hundred acres OF standing
imber which he found that Lucas
Cullen was cutting. This caused
.rouble for Cullen when my father
asked for a refund on his purchase
money.
But Mormon Drane-whatever
lies Cullen told against him-ihad
one wife only. She was my mother.
Cullen spread about lies. One OF !
the lies, which proved IN the end the
most dangerous, was that the Nor
mon had lust for the wife OF anoth-
er iumberman. Henry Laylor."
As she spoke. Agnes Cullen came
Forward and showed herself more
plainly IN the light. No one--not
even Lucas Cullen. in his guilt
clouded conscousnese--believ her
Z phantom now.
Lucas Cullen told the lie about
Richard Drane and Laylor's wife
only 70 harm the man who had
made him trouble and TO iujure a
rival: for Henry Laylor had built
! mill only a few miles from cullen's
rear a little place called Galilee.
Neither would let the other drive
i'm away; so they fought TIL Henry
.aylor was burned out; and. as you
ave just heard. ne was killed.
Lucas CulHn had that fire set;
le met near Gslllee man in his
ay-Quinlan-and sent him 20
light shavsngs upward from Lay1or's (
,in- When II was known that Laylor
- trfrfe-F Ts-0oe Cr,ff.- .afN ~ha.
he man who had set the FIRE was
be Mormon Drane who wanted 20
~ Laylor 20 get his wife II was ]
savage. iustrul lie OF the sort
rhich excited men ike 70 believe; T
sey went 70 get the Mormon and '
inch him. then Lucas Cullen I
artiy 20 save Drane from being v
nurdered, let Us think. but partly q
-lso 10 stop suspicion gT1ng1nS to b
is guilty self-rnade a great play
OF Justice and for trial FOR tho Nor n
non and stopped the iynching-and
oer5ured Richard Drane into the 7
eel where be died-uy father-for p
crime which Lucas Cullen and bis II
man Quinlan had done.
Is u not so. Lucas cu1ien7 Stand n
up and deny 81. II not soi-
She stopped and waited for an
answer; but Lucas Cullen neither y
stirred nor replied. =,
My father cld not die for many
years" Barney heard his mother 9,
Lay. Ny mother worked constant q
' TO get my father free. She died \
vhen I was a young girl. and Itook =
- the useless attempts. changed .
az name and came 10 Chicago 20
rntch Lucas Cullen; he left Chicago q