The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-09-09

When she spoke on, Barney rec
words were being recited from re
hearsals within herself repeated
through years OF waiting for such a
moment.
My father" she said. had aban.
/ doned farming to take out lumber.
cutting from land he had homesteaded
| and from surrounding sections which
/ he bought. You could buy timber land
/ cheap in those days; but there We're
men who thought it foolish to pay
the Government anything at all for
/ the great trees on the 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. My father bought from
the Government 500 acres Of stand
/ ing timber which he found that Lucas
/ Cullen was cutting. This caused trou-
bic for Cullen when my father asked
| for a refund on his purchase money.
But the Mormon Drane--what-
ever lies Cullen told against him
had 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
Mormon had lust for the wife of an
other lumberman, 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-cloud
| ed consciousness-belie her a
| phantom now.
Lucas Cullen told the lie about
Richard Draue and Laylor'S wife only
| to harm the man who had made him
trouble and to injure a rival; for
Henry Laylor had built a mill only
few miles from Cullen's near = little
place CALLED Galilee.
Neither would let the other drive
him away; so they fought till Henry
Taylor was burned out; and, as you
have just heard, he was killed.
Lucas Cullen had that fire set: he
met near Galilee a man in his pay
/ Quinlan-and sent him to light shaw
| ings upwind from I.aylors mill. When
it was known that Laylor was killed,
Lucas Cullen said that the man who
| had set the fire was the Mormon
Drane. who wanted to kill Laylor to
get his wife. 1t was a savage lust
ful lie Of the sort which excited men
like to believe; they went to get the
Mormon and lynch him; then Lucas
Cullen-partly to save Drane from be.
ing murdered, let us think. but partly
also to stop suspicion swinging to his
| guilty self-made a great play for
| justice and for trial for the Mormon
| and STONED the IVnChinp-aOd Der-
| jured Richard Drane into the cell
where he ded-my father-for crime
which Lucas Cullen and his man Quin-
/ Ian had done.
''Is 1t not so, Lucas Cullen? Stand
up and deny it, if not So"
! She stopped and waited for answer;
but Lucas Cullen neither stirred nor
replied.
my father did not die for many
years. Barney heard his mother say.
my mother worked constantly to
got my father free. She died when
l was young girl, and I took up
tho useless attempts. 1 changed my
name and came to Chicago to watch
Lucas Cullen; he left Chicago and
built his house at st. Florentin; and
l went to live near there.
THAT was the summer before his
daughter married, when he had her
friend, the marquis de Chenal, as his
guest at St. Florentin. So De Chenal
happened to meet me one day; he left
Lucas Cullen's house several times
after that to find me. He attracted
me, too. I thought he loved me-"