The Huntington argus. [volume], August 09, 1873, Image 2

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*l.%TTir:*« TKOI IKLIItt.
My flrp*)'i g >t the i^uln,
Thot^ry worlteet ki|4;
And Ci**4r'* in th<' cltnk t
Bt£roi>e\o «*>oldent mind,
lie pinched Mutildi Agnes,
And spoiled her wilerfall,
And apilled nut all the? aawdont,
And wasn't aorry ’t all.
* T*11 apank Mia* K"«a this evening.
And tell her p.tpa, too;
She pound her cup of rodeo
Bight into Mabel'* ahoe.
Frc<l bit hi* tongue to a tfnI
1 dont know ahat I in bout—
I'll »rnJ for l>r. Scimorii,
And let Inin cut it out.
To morrow** Top*y*a birth day—
Sbo'a twenty five, 1 guena—
I'll have tn go to Boston
And buy her *eeption ilrtu.
1 haven't any pennies though —
1 threw them dowu th w» II*
1 Wiab 1 had a pocket lull,
l.iko Toni 'ii ai«t< r Aieli.
1 went down in the kitehen
To make poor lluptuy's ten;
And Bridget wouldn't let mo
She's eroaa as she ran ho
1 wish •A* *«t g«<t tlic in cure 1*,
An I nr'iooppin rough, ’n* chill*,
I wouldn't giro her nothing
But popper moor and pi I la.
My flog'-r** hurtin? dnfful
[ pinched it in the door;
I wish they'd get my needle -
I dropped it on the floor.
There's Topsy'a droaa to finish,
And limp* of work to do;
I guess I'll c'llect my fniu'ly
And move in gntupa'a ahoe.
I NOF.II.
Henry Parkeiison, the eluant man of'
the world, with (lie sfint/ of nn eu*\
conscience, carried nwuv from huslmnd and
child, away from the Iong-estah1i*hed re
spectability of an honored house. Marion
1 nger, the enamored victim of hi* wily
I Asci nations.
California was then a refuge for sinner**
—a stronghold, whose security of distance
invited to her shores offenders against the
laws of <*od and man. Hero had tied
this man and woman, and here had tliev 1
lives! for years, unnoticed specks on the ,
dim horizon of a world, dark in moral ol -
scanty: she loving more dearly, month hv
month, him for whom she had surrendered
much, for she had loved her child; lie,
b\tsf aid tired of the in cum trance, was
now occupied with the difficult ta*k of ar
ranging a peaceful and final separation.
At the end of live years, when Marion
Unger's beauty was at us height, when
millering and guilty happiness had mel
lowed the wild light of her eyes to tin*
sofmeis of enchantment—a penitent Mill
in sin, a strange Mending of good and c\ il ,
—the inevitable stole down like the shad
ow of death, arid Mood harrier forever to
the entrance ol any Jair in-morrow in her4
fut ure 1 i ft?.
The sour ted Harry despised arid censur
ed the woman who h id, years before, j ield
id to his • ntreaties of love ve weak an I
vacillating, hesitated to in lor in her <>t4he
separation which must .» *oii take p'ac**,
and upon which he had deteimined, lint
it must he accomplished. Family, his
already moneyed position—everything—
(Hunted to the wi-dom of a discontinuance
of this union« ami to the forming ol one
of holier siguitiancs. lie stood in need «»
the courage ol a wavering nature, when I ♦
tongtied the base lie that a mother * -uk
iies-* called him to the eastern stairs, and
that business there would make hii return
impossible lor several years 'Mcitniime,
he said. voti-* beauty him) money will se
cure you a husband." She was sitting at
the Hi >sunt till conversation opened, as l
a* he ended with wh it he meant |«»r s
esn.plimerit, she »W v r u deathly
pallor ^hot over Iht lu^e, from out which
’ ■
•*«r her
a calm but treinulou* voi«*c -aid —
• You saw fh to none into rnv former
hfe ol Content and p ace—the pen .* that
some* with right and took me »». ill
*nly could forget!—took :: e from nil that
earth avid dear and for*'di v -yes, I could
hut go—for I loved you, how dearly, let
my sacrifice rnv devotion -p <»U ?-»r m>
\ on s*e lit now to buy mu, an nhar d >ne i
woman Iftve you thought what the
term menfi*? Ho —go, hut know that voti
are vacating the highest place ol motor
«tOrth ho Is lor yon—a place in rnv nff«<v
worm- n f»iin», I *av if, and of whose
fialiiy you are a* in spalde **f j i Iging a
you nre of lUe ad yoo are about to corn
ant Weakongft ol liie world olten blun
der into It.gh places, which fk them not,
as •! w<* r,ot this you, iny |*H»r, unhappy
m*•'st-vase Kre you go, I w.»u< l direct
yoSr gaze u» a home in the lar eaat. at
whose lot el> hearth sits a man. teaching
hw son to forget hi* dishonored mother
l*ook long, lor .t m a picture that would
thrill clay les- cold than yours, then, while
Will yoar eyes are w*t with tears for the
4e**rt#d l*oy, lilt them t., tna f| guest peak
%f the .Sierras, in that shadaw of whose
*wowy cep fita tlie m *ther. *hatrt to suffer
i4e just tiut awful penally of her guilt,
aas, «.-a, is about to ha de-ertad Thi.ik
b ill moment, but not to. long, tor I ,
"•e!d sor pit? m the heart* of nwna 1
uasar eiicid to any mortal I won d
'**• ispivot the salting* »i my tongue
than betray it to inch bane use as entreaty
Go, then. Bad you a white eyed bride,
who** blood heats time to the cold deco
rum of what is called the virtuous world
hut who ran still be bought-~botigtil »n
warr.age—lor yoiir gilil. Here will you
find the true gauge and measure of your
own powers of love. Think noLOf me. as
leading an idle and dissolute life. To-day
has been revealed to me a work to be done
Tlie blood of my ancestors rri»*s out in my
beating veins for its accomplishment. I
should not be true to myself did I not use
all my ample fortune—did 1 not me all the
sifts of nund and body which t»od has
given me—for th** piirp xr. When I look
abroad on the go xl y ea-th, and weeds
choking what might perhaps hive been
flowers of heavenly bloom, I task myself,
with sloth; ay, I have a work—a work.”
I’he ad e n were said with decorum
I*arkenson thanking heaven for the hapjo
turn of ail.t r- and the *.»ru iimiioiin
rv spirit of Lady ITnger, for such wa*
the name ahe had won by he• elegance of !
manner and pride of mien. When nil whs
over—when he was, indeed, gone— tl»**
forced rejiose, the decorous courtesy. ga\c
wny to tiucon’r dlable rage. She stalled
to an I fro, a b* auiif il demon—outraged,
beaten, steppe f upon, with not the feeblest
weapon for defense. She could only dash
again the walls of her room, and cull on
heaven, till, this fury spent, she sunk into
the htillufw) of a more dangerous ni idne
Henry Pnrken-o . determine*1 to chan go (
l»*M phice of residence once again Twice
alren Iv since hi- marriage, with apparent
ly no rinse, lul l lie abandoned a prosper
oiih bti.-ncss and a plea-ant home for u*»
certainties in strange p’aces Twice, just
:i« the young wife, whom he l*»ve*| as *in
oprelv as such mnires are capable of h*v
injr, had become familiar with the unac
customed snrro undings of her i alifornia
life, had -he been called upon (o sacrifice
the few objectH of home like interests, and
now -he was to leave her garden, with it*
buds of promise, and the house wherein
their child was born. Alter a decision to
remove, came a feverish anxiety to get
away. ‘‘IJtiick, Mary. the husband
would snv; ‘ tomorrow at farthest The
air here stifles me; I am howed from short
ness of breath, and long to he on the va/
to a new locality, where I hope to stand
erect in the exh laratio i of a new atmos
The wife, observing the restless eyes
darkened by under!*ins shadow-, ami the
nervous quiver ot her strong-limbed hus
band, queried in her mini »l*out this
strange recurrence of what seemed a mi
gratory fever pulsing through » is soul.
An agricultural district, tar to the south
of the wild mining regions, l\u kcn-on
chose for his place of residence, and over
joy e«l was the wife to note bis changed
manner, lie unbent from a load which he
seemed to have left behind 11 is sleep,
which had been full of troubled dream-,
was |K*arefill, his restless eyes now fell
upon her in the benignant trnnquilitv of a
pure nffretion. Ihisinens was sought aid
found, hnppine-s once more reigned in the
household
A week, two weeks, had pissed “T« -
•I in . K»id Irs 1'aik* nson to h< r husl and.
I noticed in a window, a- I passed «l«.wn i
the street, the lenutiful face ol ti e woman
known as l.ady 1’i.ger, whom we left at
'winn-oiis I Jar She lo« • W«• 1 curiously at
me, and 1, scarcely letnemhering f«.r the
moment w hi r * I had seen her, returned
li*e g.t/e, vvtic •niething like a grr .t p |\
gather- d in the gloomy depi t •* of her
de-p.unng eye- As she glanced upon the.
f ir* ff our I «he covered li c cy«s, and.
with a -pasmod C inoveinenf, cit the w,n
<ho% I’. r creature' after a I, she cant •>(
he totn' iy «i« f rn\«.I. She most l ave a
history—a t rr ! * Ih-Iom, her whoV bear
it.g indicati • mi uncommon woman. I
have bear! that, although perfect v tem
perate, th* re are dij* w lo ti »- Ol.r li.f
approfich her when shut in her room, -he
wmrs the wretched hour* thr gii in the
tempe-tuon* wr>stfir ^s of a tortured soul,
beset bv inv -ib'e enemies, at whom, with
lip- stret* he 1 1 i . of tier while teetli, she
• J l
these occasions the low-*>r* d fellow, Jinn
can — her com pinion—stands in a .v «• of
her; bill that When s* in of tie world, she
is decorous, f i" i.f courtliness and grat e,
commanding a'most the rcspi-c: of upright
people Ah, rny husband, what a grra*
nature hi- | ere h<o a despoiled l»y some
arct» villain, who forgot tit«l he was born
of Woman* ’
bull of the-, y t, she had n-tf notice!
her husband * g.idty face Surprise, fear
horror, ha i Is I h > | upon bun. ami he
sat in (lie al-jr* ' (.♦ •« of a v» «k n*,n re, e?
tangled in tlo* puis* ^ toil* of a winked
]»s| eving that hel *V J bis wife, be had
sought to protect her !r.,m the hurtful
k sow ledge Though lie sit means of
secrecy, and had imparted to no one the
name of his new locality, yet, by some
agency, the one whooouhi destroy domes
tic bspp nees learned if, ami dngge I his
footsteps From place to place she had •
followed him. California'* anbtila charm
had wooed Ifim hack to her coast, and
■cam ly bad he, With Ins brnla, wmiblithed
himself comfortable ii a remote minin j
low if, when there Appeared on the seen*
the woman whom of all others he wished
le let to see At no time had she spoken
to him: at no lime crossed his path; vet
there was that in the awlul stillness of
her conduct that boded he knew not what.
\ wild ouihurHt oi recrimination would
tAv# been a j v to this e-pedant waiting
•or tint which he telt was gathering. to
he hurled he knew not when or where
‘ Ah'’said he, bethinking himself, “of
ati crmte nature, she doubt'e-** heeds each
A touch of wom.m'y feeling does not prove
the existence of morality, ami wives
should be panic rar a« to w th wh in they
cotnC in contact **
Fascinated by that which he dreaded,
he sought the house, nnd found her, In*
minotis in her dark surrounding*—a daz
zling object, that excited the curiosity and
comment o? people She eat like a golden
Idy in a garden of weed-. Never, in the
happy days of Ids love for her, did she
look more beailti ul than now. U.ch in
the manifold graces «• t woman, regal even
iii what lie considered her lowness, sin*
product- I m him a dim f. eling of th** l> d
time, ami there came to hi* weak, human
heart a tomb of rctn *r-e, and t»»r u mo
ment hi* soul cried out in angui-h He
stood, gazing and regretting, i'll i e wiu
downhudef shut the object of hi- thoughts
from view, Does she lo ve me still, ami
love hut to see me, or i* there Rom * v-t.g*—
fill design in her persistent course of n'ct ion,
questioned he, hu» ipie-tione i in vain —
II S resources furnished not a clue t > what
was m he, neither power t > ward oil an
uiipcndi g catastrophe which threatened
him I Inis, maddened and hemmed in i v
th*-direful circumstance** of his own crea
ting, lit resolved to shield nnd protect
bis wile, as far as in him lay, umJ lace the
criM** alone.
J!i l ire lit- l.u.l quitted llio spot, lie I.it.I
lai I his plana, un i (lie very next .1 tv be
gan lo execute tlieni. liis wile, nlia »«.
ol'i di-nt to Inn will in nil things, was to
nmlie her home witii some relatives in Sail
Francisco until Midi time tis he sent lor
l>er. At the end of n Week he wnn alone,
and determined lo live for the lust time
from his pursuing foe.
. liHuntssy's F'hit was in the hey daol
its existence The rude cradle, whose
rocking turn d dreams into golden rcali
lus, had given place lo improvements,
facilitating work and saving time. The
green of the inoiintain-side was flecked
with white tents and cabins. Furthiir
down, the fair tan,mi of Mother Earth was
mutilated |,y unsightly car.lies, in whose
damp or. c.ncts, encased in ruhlier. stood
the seatcliei tor gold Over the edges
hung the rich soil, to he melted away un
der the force ot water, that as essence
might mingle with the quicksilver, and
thus become a commodity in (tie hands ol
man. There was no law; Judge I ylicit
sat supreme, and punished with dtaerimi
■intioti and severity all offender* against
the public peace, an.l in a manner that
put to shame the slow nnd moneyed p-,,.
cease, n in,ini,-, red in more civiliz v| com
mimtties Many Were the reckless men,
horn and reared no one knew where, who
took liu trcwell* of
and left no rccor,!
I.ifc l ire Willi Henry |-,irken,nn ha
rnnsm.ioil.lv From nnd.rthc vigilof su •
fering eves, he forgot t hr r existence—Ins
wiK* jiwh), he no Ior»j^*r 'far. I :m cxi
•”r' 11 " •pint ... -ij f„ ;<.|[ j,f
•; - , .....
nlitv. and ready w.t made him a favorite
everywhere Wi',1 hi ,1 Tree, Ins mann-i
l.or.leii,1 reckless .css. IK- hold
■d his work. Mllll-cu Tit and ev. rytliing.
With a zest Hint resemlde I here phas.m'
— as t aoint-lhing new had l.itind its way
into a It•. which I.ire w n„ one It,.,- v
w l.at k.iinly had |,is eon, pan i,,ns sn*
•acted lo wring f-om 1 • a ,i |,i« „rv of
hi< pa*t lit, ai d only on these
« >S tie ten in,led that t! . *,,« | .1 ,i J.
r‘e4 *r * '* f *r him t n,e, atif.oic 1 I
their pernfcnt inquiries, abruptly quirt, I
them and, as he walked away, ugly tin.lights
obtruded (Items ves t ni l he n. vrr hi I,
him-, If from the past Had he .jnned -,
mac’, m re than others, that the whole
world should he on ha Iraek. seeking to
know what, alter all, wt, on]v an error
common to youth' Ti.ua thinking. I,e
in’tr 11 l,c rat: ling of ti.• ■ incoming stag
\ great event wa« tin* and for awhile
hnsineas was suspended, that the new
< inters might he insperted. nnd letter* and
|"t|iers from home received and pal —
larkeus.ii, Imgcrid, I,..ping to li artroai
his wile I he artistic Jehu curved the
e.irner wu|, profess,,,,,al pr,.|e, le a
su llen halt at the favorite Utcl, dropped
the r'ins, threw out the (nail-bn; and'
jauntily swung himself to tiiagruiml
front ol t he etage door, which he opened
for the egress of the weary passengers —
•' woman stepped out first I’arltenson pm
his hand, above Ins e e.. j, .ration
the awlitl reality. He trembled, Nn.l |,„
haml tell heavily to I s ,■ le. There w,s(
die Interchange of a look—no glance hut
ti at ot Lady huger could ... thrill, a. with
an electric touch, the chain that darkly
lionnd him No form (ml hen ceil,1 be‘
so pervaded with me eonscmusueie. o a
purp.se in tile The strength ol bar walk 1
ihopxo Of b«r head, (he mlu-st
in the line* of her luce, all told that the
lived for an object.
Entering the hotel, eh** pi»*M <1 near him,
the e wa* something sinister in the svrtep
of her garments, and their rustling sound
t *11 upon hi* t*ar more etarthngljr than the
wild alarm of a savage foe Hi?* new
found pith of manhood departed, lie re
sumed the harden and was weary of the
world. Hi* clouded look and changed air
challenged the attention o hi* comrade**
N* longer was he «.i e of them; no.longer
a participant in their rough j lea-i r s
f’onipletely transformed, he win to In*
Work mute, ttnintereste 1 in any thmg that
pertaiticd to himaeir or other*
Shautu-sy * Flat win-* tinted at tliehuae
of that r- lg** of auriferous graiel which, in
it* length of.n arly oil" hundred mile*, ha*
furnished the largest halt of the hydraulic
mining of California. The cr-wn of the
ridge wan the h.guest point in the vicinity;
and fr*im the base on either side a dozen
clirce.* coiidiu-te ) far* fetched waters, bur
dened » y freight of gold-bearing eirtli to
different fo; Ua of t .e Vir si. A a Parke i
*ou,on n bright morning, reached the c e.-t
of the bib, lie wa* mi hbnly aware of the
presence of Lady 1 ngcr. Her eyes were
downcast, she noovd ui-ngat a tardv pace,
and sill her drooping air be-|ioi(e a mind |
pre-oc ‘iipit«l \ i the sound of near foot '
step* she raised her head Halting, each
scanned the other, as might two warriors
arrayed for mortal cotnhai They gazed
long an 1 steadfast lie, instead of the
nttrnetiotiH which had mthrallcd his
youthful laimy , -a*.v ;i f H g s;dl beau .till
| but pale am! set, And under the Control >•(
a will that had change ! its once «|uiveriug
mobility inti a stern repo-e, and to his
i ijnefuioi.iiig eye revealing nothing Site, in
j the covert o' a «!ii»cit>line*| smtl, read aright
the lavage- that contending passion* bad
wmun oil :t countenance whose outlines
alon* were now luniiliar to her. Luslud
into a blind fury by the supreme hulaucc
of l)i»a* woman whom he had irreparably
injured, but who had disdained in reaent it
— who had never called upon him lor ai l
—never accused— never even wept or
.■'how n a weak nee* iij hi* presence —yet
who had made him more than aware ol
| something kindle.1 under the glacial »tir
taceol her heh ivior, Parkinson lo-t svll
euiilrol, ami .-.1111, in a voice ofubnost child
i?di exasperation;—
‘ Why do yon thus follow tne? 1- there
any thing I r,ui do, or give, save my heart s
blood, to wipe out this terrible «in?—which
in other men is no him"
4hy do I follow you, do you link?'
I 1 eturued she—“because ol our Vows. l>o
> •"» not remember, when, with mv bov’s
parting kiss fresh on my lips, we knelt—
you and 1 -and cm bed heaven to uitne.s*
that we were joined ia a holier mat riage
than that recogniz'd by htiiimu law; and
! dial come what may, death alone should
part Us. I Hill mindful of rny oath, and
-inee you are latter at the better success
of t e world a libertines, let me till you
1 ha: km a clast*, they are n tied lor u dis
« r uiin.'iiiug jrt igment Weak women are
their victims—such die of broken he iris *
“Since, said he, “you are nulol liial
kind, what i* lo lie the end of ti,i* drag
1 jrmg horror? *
“No,’ replied she, “1 have not been able
to die I conic of a long i.ved rare Wt
have heart.'* that beat a long 1.me; and
true hearts—true to a p irpo-c tt,„| a„
the end, it comes on a apace '
Have you nought n»y life, and do you
now k it?
4 It 1 have
hin len d me
so p<„,r in pi
I have u.h|i»
find I ha
sho. I t.nj*
ami that the
1 led Ht y
should e it
my should
and that you,
sought your |> e.
irom taking it? II
computed your
t\M So. death
•1 you 1 . -11 ier, a»
tve wished that <
«.
* .i l believe you 4
r s.,1, should b«. h
• Ibe e.iiid <•' n felon
w . tt lias
ave I been
d« itli in a
n a trill-.
1 have Mil
Imt ignom
rillrii-,
ran led bv
' 'I *im» t<> r.proa.li mv
loo
* Hfjfi,k oi what |iB>. h-i-n—tin. pi„|
H|.| r<j *>,.,|1 I.,,. fiif
V*vr ftiiliin » || IV da.*, ..j ..„kt,
term* with inr*’
■»lad v Ah! I see yon can forg.vc
\ 01 remember I have a wife, w|k>
4 Ah. ah, I remember that you haven
* K
highway in no place lor Ji»«:ia.uti ol lliii
nature l ome to my house to-night "
'Mr Duncan, ,our hmb.iud, .ball I meet
him?'
I i-re* *eorn blazed forth trom tbe-.r.
or I .ml* 1 'Ifer, .1. ,|,r aomrvrrl, -.Hir,
neither w.fc ,i„r rn .tr-., of any man am I, i
nor .Ii nil l.r till fir.| your a iilmv jhit
l"’,l"" 11 ,n*y. Duncan you will not
II-*1 (hia |dai'- tin, ttnun^. mid wlien,
(hr way i. clrar, a only trot,,
llo, place -hall guide your firotat-p. to l hr
do r or my dwelling ,\, you hop* for
|-;ac* from lo-m *row henoaf not
laii to he here "
I vK'i-oo watched t'i« retreating figure i
ol the lady, and ponilrr-tl on her word.
paa.ioi.al* and .ague th«y w*r*, t« their
burden, a» be made it out, w»* emUhtctory .
lie knew hints. If »o be the e >gro«sing c*b
jecl O.' her thought-, and lit,- cgOl;*m w i*
gratified She K»\ rtl tne -till, <r cd hie
vanity; and though this reflection an* m.i
without alloy, vet it wa- better than he
bad hoped He congratulated h m-dt
tipOti bei "• that which could ill-pi re a
lasting ntUctun upon the pa ft*; »n of
qualities* th t hud kept true to I i- nmnnrv
one who could ho|*e for no recipioc.tr
Irotn him
The day passed, and wra» followed la .•»
dark evening '«-r tin* moon ro-. late —
I’arhen-on w:»- enrlv nt I i- po t, nwai«t»*r'
the kignal. It #a< long in mutiny, ain’t
when it came, it wt- tar removed Inm the
point where h • ha I expected to -ee it. but
of 11• i.* lie o> y thought. how vague ire our
idea* of locality, when latidm irks nre n..t
to be discerned He content plated t o
ct; n- y-t the seme of guilt wa* I.Jiotl
him. The grim it.Uuenc. - < f' the night,
the circum-lUliC -, tin Mlua .i ti. the
silence, had done ther work — he
alrai-l, and ehtunk It out ol .-et vnt ;on. In
hie I*«nif watch, routinet.Co g betore dark
t t-s had e.vuiii.wi i t;p the I t tidy;'p \ he
had cowered under u u:>in■/< at the ;»■ -
Cteil hound of p.-Mi.g Hep-. and I (»W, Otl
leaving hie c<iv.-it, !.o-:nit.d like a thin,
and turned a wav l. s head, u lien he met
t.vo miner.’!, vvlo.se underground watch
ha 1 j't-' • xp • f. one ot who n ll tdied the
li - t of a d t k- antern fil l upon him. The
-ign:il in th i stance w the onl* guide
to hi- Hep.-. A trail he could not find,.
Mini, groping an.ng, he -tumbled it.to a
ittf. .-candy was be clear ol that l el. re
lie fell in 1) atio.lter. lie was conscious
tiiat he ha I widely diverged Irom his in
tended e-mr— , and mat he was in a net
work of wini e- he was also con-cioiit* of
the danger lie was in, lor he knew that the
challenge ol n un'chimin is null,
l'H !. o. a load ol I n' k -1.■ • I 1 lit- clinlh rge
c one i;nicker titan lie cxjiccied; he heard
the wliizzin.: ol the liiiHeiM -n close tluu
lie lell certain In- was woiinlrd, l ilt iliere
waa an lime in investigate—he must run.
lie iiAil lie.trii tin* i*inni'.- ol several watch*
men. a- tliev called to neb other lo ns
seuilile lor pursuit lie fled through the
darkness ns la.**i as possible, and at length
louiid himsell at hie eahiu, worn ami
wearied, hut scar e annoyed. Tliu real*
ities of hit I < wert like the shifting fan
(axit-a 111 fever dreaina— mi l in them lire
no surprint's I lie iraneiiions from hope's
summer-field to the iey winter of lies] air,
scarcely ipm-keiia the dreamer s pulse; hut
on and on he (joes, with airy tviup, into
•he grotesque realm of goblin, and (.-hosts.
I’arkeiis in awaited the Hex* " event with
the ii|iaiJii-ti>- iinlilh-rencc lit one who h 11
w .ilked lar—unsunned, unhiest—on a
weary way that had no end.
' the to iwing i lorning the t iwn w a»
startled by the announnetnent ol a sillier
rohhery. J ne joh had been done l-v a
workman. Tne blocks, lorming what was
called the “false h - tom, l.a I hern n -
moved from some halfih.z. n ol tin head,
horns, and they had ht-en cleared up in a
*' stic and thorough manner Who
r..u!il have do-.o il? In those d.i-,-, a
sluice robbery was i matter which atira-t
el inueii more attention, and was more
certainly visited with punisl..
murder. Kvrrjr man drew heavv hreatl,
for death was in the air It wa-evi'ent
from the lirsl, that a se-si,.,, „f ,.ollr,
ol -lunge I y neh-- I eil.-r known in t’alilor
"i“ «« 'hat of ..Vigilante —would
be he'd All cireti .. which soclne.l
to have nny hearm_- on tin- r,.,. |,,,nilf,j , ,
one c ineliisiim. and llenrv ..-on «...
arn 'ti almost a- soon
Jlul let no m in |ieri.-li
inIf, said the uutltorit r
the law.
a* lie awoke —
without a hear
who Itrl rnii
It w is evening. The fr a I « i - l.rie- and
*-itH \ .1, s, r* \ . , «rrVl. | d p.
■ - ' f*M ■ • i ....
lorm«* an 1 r.»Tf .»{ \ <*>»<irt • » )'i«t.rr
In ih dim and tr.,! l-ght ol a single
'• id e, the mem tiers of in ,t dr.- id ..
•• then selves rtuh v :,t, r
.
cal of the room sit He jud.-e euililrss nf
' ' " '•••• -1*v i am-. I in that the
'• served were hi- country's. The
•
!• >wir of money were sealed on a bem-ii
on oin si I • on the olhei - i! witnesses.and
!"• - nmr I he testimony w,i-. npparentl'
'lire. ! and to the |*arkenso„ I id
heen seen, the niglit previnae, lowering
under hushes, a< ,1 escape notice; hr
hul hern met, on his wnv to tl.rsluii*
hy the two miners with the dark Inaiern.
l,‘*' *.he I hat h. was accustomed '•
"liar, two hiilt-l-ho'i s were loin, I In m
hi,on to all -Ins direct testimony m-il
dll ml the fac til It he w a- ■ nijrsteii nl»
nisn, that, in H iminlh s ..le .ee, lie |,ad
never spoken of his antecedents in fa
forma or elsewhere lhai, seeking no eic
flloyinenl, and w.ihoiit an income Ire'*
Ins ris-i fitly-purclm-e I mine, vet he hid
an almnd nice of money i)l evidence'•
lefensr there was none. i'.rkens m denied
llic crime. Init co-il l not deny ihs truth *
Ihr leaiimony given. Splashed and «t» a
f 1 »*l over by the red, lell tale slnice-wa"*
—marked by hullela—confronted l-v
hojj of men who dealt not in qiwbbles of
ilie law—the long descending Jarktw.‘
threatened to Idol out from light an-1 •>*>