Show for the gall lake tribune I 1 TIED TO THE STAKE OF bays nr iny sica 9 A fil i pA nood CHAPTER XVI without waiting for any reply lie turned imil and callol called to the woman who I 1 suppo ic lind had been listening in IB t the I 1 to paa age they came boo of them carrying on her arm the clothes I 1 wore were when I 1 foil fell sick I 1 should have told you yon that abe few shingi I 1 brought with mo me from home disappeared dar edg boginy my moron en cn the plains so BO that bhea I 1 reached salt sale like I 1 was vai co CD destitute tako take this girl said the Apo atlo rua dud ke that when she bho goes forth from she carries nothing with her tint is 13 not dot her own 1 with those words ho be left all the roon room and the he women ordered me IDO to take off my oboes and stockings Bloc kings and as exchange my ay clothes for those they boy had bad brought me whilo while I 1 wed was doing abi the ilcy called me tho the vilest names sod od invaded we mo with reproach rp roach and nd abuse then they took hold or of me one buo on oa each 8 ide file sod D led me IDO out oni 0 of le he houe tiou c bidding mo me never dare show chow my iaco face there agate I 1 had eaten notting nol liing linco ioco noon DOOD of the day belore and I 1 was still weak from toy my sick aws do but bot I 1 found no one willing to into inlo we die in or giva giro too a morsel of bread many times luring during ilia day I 1 1 thou glit I 1 lie down in ahe lie orect and die I 1 bad been refused food ind and shelter EO co often that I 1 hall had no courage to ask tor for either again v olion boa I 1 rembe red yon I 1 leard beril your name while we varo crossing cros bing ille plaines plaints pla ints but never thought I 1 it was the friend who uford ed to be so ao kind to we IDO when I 1 was a title girl firl after we reached salt lule I 1 heard people pol As talk of mr wallace and his u to ifo vi he bo was not aal a mormon and to jay I 1 bougal it I 1 could reach your door you fellk e pa would not n t turn tore me away 1 I 1 will not my poor child of 0 that you my robt reit assured nau red mid bather but could 3 on all not find a friend among those rho ho came caico hero trout from your own town I 1 mis lia gray died on the ho hr lin lisband band has harriod two tiro wives since bill ce ho he has been in silt bait lalo lako J I 1 knew it donld do no good to go to hm for help still anil tho the other lat from our place ore are scattered in differ nt part vart sor ilia territory two of 0 hem remained nod in salt like I 1 was tuh ili 1 bat I 1 could coald not find filla them anc and they would have been like all the reel afraid to receive me well bessie beano I 1 will try to tle lake t tho the molo care cara of you that I 1 would nt y your 0 1 1 mother to tavo talla ol of my little girl girl it if ehe h I found her lic r wandering in tho t he greets and as I 1 think you need rest now more than anything cle I 1 will itt aunt boice male mako a bell bed ter lor you in in her room and you aint get to aleta as soon boon ati you cao cani and her ber there is one who will watch over you fir far better than I 1 can if you yon will oak nek im oh ob mrs warace Wala cc do you ua donld bear me utter if ter I 1 have been so eo wicked I 1 dared to pray tor for a long timo time I 1 kno goow w I 1 have hara broken my fathers heart and maybe killed loy roar 0 mother null and it dont meo el in to matesi too 03 though bough god gall would ever forgive orgita me bessie it if it had been your er ra door adoor instead of mine that tha tycin you hall lascomb come to tonight to night do you yoa think she would havo have put you out oat into the storm agn again uh no dal no she sha would have hur bur ri ad me in by the fire and pulled off my wet clothes sod and cried owr over we ino and pitied 1110 idorh coh low how sho she have pitied mo me and loved me ob mother mothe r I 1 and with thu bitter cry the poor child bohe br olia down and w pt anti sobbed with etli a biohn viol noo that hr eliud friend who re preached for opening na an un on healed jouni dont do akia door dear iho ho said ten tell derly bour mother othlo to 0 o fcc oa erf cry to so und make ill oak in I 1 only wanted you to renumber that the iho heavenly fit faher hor you have hava been afraid to pray to loves lores ou on a thousand tho osand times timed better than even your mother does doea 01 ahin al your jour troubled to lo and od auk ak uin to title tale caro care cf c you nod and jour our filber sod mother ile ho n ill lear bear you and do more thau than you ask come coma now sad lot one me see eso you safely in led beil at once and dont don t try to talk say oy more until tomorrow to morrow bessie rose rosa obediently and log ng to lo check ber sobs followed loll owed mrs mra wallace into on room prepared f for her ir for the first time since the no hap jpy day she fled irom her r home she be abid her tired bead u upon pon a pillow by loving lovin g hands bonds and an calmed I 1 mod sod noil reassured by the bod ad dells of an earthly friend ve laturen to pour all her arkis litls into tho the listening oar a ot f t tho h a friend above when morning dawned en cn the lit tie lie household the ibo snow enow was waa still falling mind anil throughout the he day the streets in the deserted none seeming to care to yen taro tare abroad antho IQ ure storm bessie looking pile palle and ill but wearing an au w ot ol greater quiet and conlest than might havo have been expected eat in the little aarfor parlor of of lier her tind kind answering questions with regard to her recent experiences and giving a fuller account ol of herself than kho clio had been llo able to do the tha night eight before bho said mid that lider elder harwood the people in charge ht he placed hor bar with money to defray bor bar to utah and to uko take her under his bis own ova care after her arrival but bol I 1 no fur far as a 1110 could learn leara he bo had bad not reached suit salt lako bako acl and DOW said tho the girl with a shudder I 1 never want ti see eo hun him again no hm has deceived mo me cruelly tempted we ino to forsake orsino lather father bud and mother and home rod and if he bo krould come horo hero and sod find me he would want to late ala care or of me io in the rame mine WILY way as B the iho man who dravo mo ime out oat into tho the storm to boru h yesterday you yon need not bot te ce hint him again said eaid mrs wallace Wall aeo soothingly if lie lia lias hal not croc ad the ibo plains yet it Is not likely that lie he will do in before next dext spring and by that hit time who klows you sod and I 1 may may find a way to get et back to now new york I 1 ork alessio shook her head you may got get a away wa arora ro hero cro mra wal ai 1 aca lit I 1 will trill pro pray ciery night on OD toy my knees t that h at you wa may but ilk I 1 will never live to sea boa ni ho homo a again a I 1 a am sure ol of that L T the a mot oat I 1 can a ak or hope ope for is ii that after I 1 am aca dead w word ord may lay ba t sent to ray my parents in in some way to suspense about my mj ftc fate have you yoa not written to them since mc you yoa came here 1 I ht have new never been babe allowed to and I 1 dont think that letters irom from any POMOS who might bo be suspected inspected or of beading out in an arable report are ever permitted to leave the rafort I 1 arri tory I 1 learned enough while in the louse in in aich I 1 ebent the last six rc eLii to mako make mo me certia certain that the ho mails aro are very closely watched in spite apito of that watch cb however howo vor I 1 think we will fiod fiad wit way Y t to 0 cam cot mul moni cato with willi your friends rien dB dou bont t you yoa think they ingot at least suspect that tbt you yoa v ent oft off with the Mor mormont mons no elder Ilar converts ai sai I 1 told you yon three weeks ack before I 1 did and oo DO ono one also olac io in the iho p place lace know that I 1 hal had ever at mormon meeting himself took good earo caro oot dot to bo be been in alter after they left MI ind I 1 bra m quit BUTO my 1137 meeting with lim him on the night train that carried iab in a away was wa not dot noticed by any ny one I 1 dont remo caller a person on the fit biln rest et that I 1 know the day I 1 oud bud beside onla li father owl anil ra oilier bouhl not begin to acl feet abent me IDO vt u r think of m aking boy until ilia end ol of ilia week weak when thy be ba expecting mo me home from aint marya M 91 well do not despair of being ua able in fomo way to t 0 onil bond I 1 letters t to them and to my own friends frien Ja at home borne I 1 will milio mike the ho trial A at 1 0 any 1 1 rate anil in the you yon will 1 1 1 bo be us as so alj hero bero as ai under your bour own mother mol hora 6 roof bossia tearfully her grat ret etude for the her but ant said mil it at tho the futile ino timo time rho dho earel her presence m in tho the bouse hoefl would bring birin trouble oo on them as soon oon it ws was known mrs mr wallace boal be thought of 0 this before but bat ehe bhe 1 ili I i a not nol believe that any ny attempt would bo be mailo made to 0 o domato ilia gal from her house by force and whatever I 1 it t hiving giving her ber shelter mihl might bo be ibba felt prepared to abide them before eight boio beio bo be io began to fillow ahw the effects cecota odthe inhuman treatment obo bhe had received the fever cover from which seq had barely roco recovered verea when she nhe was ported out loto into tho the stord returned with violence and by noon of the next dext day obb was to sing and raving in wild delirium 1 mr wallace react reached iod home a few h honra oun later inter ana od heard with the tha utmost the ibo story lie li WOO hid had to tell him pretty little bessie gordon bud bod been hia own f ivorite ivo as well oil pi P i bia aws when a olula and aaa her 7 parent had beta been counted am amig ng his bia warmest wara iest fri rin ondi di ne ile was moro more severe in big bia of the bra wity that thai hild had driven her into tho the street to die than rattler esther even and lis hil intention of laying tho the cano aun before president young bt at once onca this however lie hia wilo wife persi daod idid him not to do at least while 13 lay sick kick and no inquiries ware vea mado made for ler her T awo we niora more days poised developing ill the a mot meet mo t alarming symptoms in the poor girls i lacis laces there wro were no physicians in ilia place to c send for and hod had I 1 I 1 hero been her prot oton rj would not levi in ILIC bog her bunder their care knowing that ito to coun el cl 1 tho the might aau io any one called in 13 to administer to lo her a draught that would place her beyond the tb need or of aunt tunice eunice exhausted her skill as a burae in tho the sufferer s bohimir behilo an I 1 both mr dir wal beeland add his hii wile wila trio tried every ir remedy medy ol of which they led had any knowledge but the fever dan bated baled until tho the ninth day during all 11 II this time no inquiries had been mado made 23 to who was lying bick alick in their house indeed the weather bad beon bean such few or their neTh neighbor hod had code come to cheit door ito if boa bado racked there to no one knew it mrs wallace folt foil as assured now that her husband would join bee in ing roy ncy measures mca auroa necessary for the girls safety ealco but another aaa greater power was about to 10 step between her and her death tho friend so eo often as a a ibo drew draw near lit at last tho the gro firo that had burned co a fiercely in her bar out and aad white TS on and wasted bud and weaker than ihan so ao but conerious coneo ious lay hy back upon her bar pillows waiting the hour of her re release leae tho ile friends who tar her to ito tenderly B s around lor her sod and esther beul beat her efer to catch tho the lost loat whispered word joins slaves eaves saves me toll tell mother another nera here the faint flattering breath ceased and tho the tired wanderer tank kank to rest a rok ret that nono done might break goo d algell now noir colo collotti otti quitt aind tm kara that fall lilio quiet rain nin ganyl aught uh hilr bleat and nj deep thol nin ewt ahl hs fo aws ir rain caid how should we ire god a upper II if litot long day hd had DO goodnight good night alghi I 1 first I 1 |