The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-13
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Barney ssaed into tho face OF
tncas Cullen who stared at him
NTH eyes widensd. WITH Jaws
IHopped. the dim. pink iiehs upon
b. skin lest tint a. the blood
INIT from Lucas cullea's face. and
1 hrney knew that he had rccog.
slacd the voice.
Direct voicoi" someone gasped
II awe, and others whispered Il.
Were hearing direct voices--
That's her voice--I knew herr
Rennet Cullen had recognised II
ard dropped down into his scat,
4 sstonished: his mother knew the
toice. and 1aecard: most certainly
Lee all, Lucas Cullen continued In
ne conviction that one dead was
4 speaklnE.
Il am going 20 ten the account
e Lucas Cullen and bis family and
% myself and my SON said the
yNlcc clearly and steadily. 1T DO.
gas far back: Yet Is brief enough. ["
SO far. even to Barney. the voice
scented 20 proceed from no located
/ present among the vclied women
A the len 81 the rows where the
nshts had gone out: hut such was
I the quality OF her tone that Il
seemed not cnuncatcd from ono
spo, but pervaslve thrnogt the
! room.
The beginning continued the
VOICE. was when I was a child In
| the Michigan forest. My father was
the man whose spirit Just now was
hero holding the Book Of Mormon
whose cabin Lucas Cullen entered 70
quarrel with him and kick the
Book Of Mormon from the door.
way. My father was Richard
pFNne. lie cleared a farm In the
woods. married Gentle giri from
BE Rapids. and was living an hon
crahlc. useful life when he crossed
the path 90 Lucas Cullen who re-
~ntly had arrived to ulake hls for.
tune In the forest"
The source OF the voice was dis
severed. II came from that dark.
sned end Of the room whore Tor.
ney had supposed his mother 10 be.
srd. as people craned about or
svbd 10 SEQ the speaker. she arose
Ard. having cast Off her yea and
|,he dark coat she had worn. she
stood little apart. dressed all In
white.
Mrs. culient-- Agnes, - Mrs. oil
nrr Cullen She's hcrc'--That's
shcs-why did she--fIow changed
How could q be-"
II seemed TO Barney that every
enc must recognize that she was be-
fore them IN the body. yet 50 strong
had been The spell % the Illusion
thai a few still saw her as 4 phAn-
torn Lucas Cullen did.
when she spoke on. Barney rec
c<nized that her deliberate. careful
words were bcing recitsd from res
kearxais within herself repeated
thru years OF waiting for such a
moment.
-My fafher,- she said. had nhan-
<oued farming 20 take out lumber
cutting from Land he had hcuae-
headed and from surrounding sec
hons which he bought. You could
Wy Lrlotr mDl cNraP VA l4l'@H
hyg but there were men who
2oughf II foolish 10 pay the gov
eminent anything a. all for the
great trees on the state lands They
bought one section ard set up a
mill and cut over the square miles
al around. Lucas Cullen was one
Of these men. Ny father bought
ffpm the government five hundred
acres % standing timber which he
fossnd that Lucas Cullen was cut
ting. This G. used trouble for Cul.
kn when my father asked for re
f1ni On his purchase money.
~But tho Mormon Drane-whaf-
I ever Hes Cullen told against him
lnd one wife only. She wis my
mother. criien spread about lea
One az the lies. which proved In the
end the most dangerous. was that
the Mormon had lust for the wffe
of another lunbcrman. Henry Lay.
ior.~
Al she spoke, Agnes Cullen came
forward and showed herself more