Show for far tho the balt TIED JO THE STAKE J A a OX ol llanas DAYS DA ys I 1 ay mill A 0 G PAI FAD tHOCK I 1 PART SECOND CHAPTER CHAFT EIl VIL VII if anything was wanting to oom coin blehi alia drabo liy by her fears fear the tight might before cho miling mis irig toll a b ea were we to 6 a P I 1 lie of for or father ember by abo to which ahe bad listened liate ned and nj her bet heart sank enk lila leal lead in her baom ul si she ao tier steps homo word ard she sh understood well enough th tb 0 jenae ranj ot of conscience cone cionco that mado made his bis knowledge of the decil of blood weigh upon br husbands I 1 mind macd as heavily us as fuel ruilt guilt but she know also that whilo while his hia hotter bettor aa u yet revolted from the lota lidra f ci a i I 1 of blood atonement lo 10 till still hold bold fut fast his faith io in the iho lottor dy M k whole anil and sit binco ha bid bad been brought to look upon po pygmy as something sanctioned if i not commended commanded by god rho kid hid goodro good ason to fear cir that lia might como come in timo time to believe it his hil duty to obey connace even to lo tiro cho shedding of blo bloda Icia i nor words still rang ja in be her or ears 11 soared in a not net whose meshes arnoot bo be broken there was u no hope lor for her hatband none for or herself bar telf and nd most mol bitter b lher thought of til all none for or her child what would bo be Win winfied fato fate if death should deprive her ol of her mothers protection would her father snori fico her as others on OD evary tuo of them ahem were sacrificing their daughton daught cn I 1 she shuddered and nd tried to put away the thought her child hor her only one her bar beautiful darling og it we WM a cruel deed to bring her hero and yet jet then thought the ilia unhappy mother 1 I meant right bod knows I 1 did will ho he forsake me utterly in bath this ui timo time of cotest coed then she oho the words that hid bad given bor bar strength and nd comfort atthe first when thou through th tho bateu awill I 1 will be with thee and through tho the floods they shelf oot lot overflow thee when thou thon gast through the firo bra though ibal not be burned neither shell the iho name flame kindle upon then thee A calm toll oil upon her bar portar boi spirit pint as she alio tre ro peeled to horse horbelt if tho the unfailing tho the mighty ono one who raoof is able to deliver all who put their trust in him lot chose who doubt tho the book iu in which uis his pram toes kosro are written explain it if they can why they have hava comforted comfor tad cho desolate end and despairing everywhere nail and always it they are ara not to one lidi hat said goda good tidings spoken afresh to ovary soul rather than tho the moro more dying echo of words uttered chuu con a DM ago lather esther dil did not doubt but lil lilwall aall of us she forgot too often the tio presence ol of the divino divine helper As she continued her walk homo home ward with a stop and a more bringht bri nghe tarald over in ia her mind the plant plans that she had formed and dismie wd a score of 0 times time during tho the last twenty four houra hour for escaping from the ho valley valle with her child mrs mn nye had bad said 6 that taut companies comp iDica 0 of f california Calil omitt emigrants stop hero here on oa I 1 choir h air wy way evory every summer it if so no might it oot not bo be possible to got get out of 0 the country under their protection she hid bad money put away safely double tho amount sho eho would woold need to take her homo home by the way of call bornio bomi and she ebo need not cot ther therefore eforo eloile her hue bus binda banIa suspicions by asking him tor for so BO largo a slim bum tho the money she bho brought with her jihad giai most moat ol of it been in his hia hands handa since they camo came to salt lako and she bho must leave it behind her it if she ho made good booi gooi her bar escape but the she did not give giro that a wood thought her flight supposing u posing flight to bo be po goable sible Able w would cost her tat far dioro moro th than the tow few thousands thou fand she ho had brought to tho the te territory for it i io 1 l V volton tho the loss of the lover loiter of glicr r boulb t tho father ol of her children ilia iho L who notwithstanding the tha kult gulf that file t separated them was still etil unspeakably dear to her an A his hil few aw rose up before her her revolution roo lulion faltered is as it hid bad done anne many times kimoi the night before while the she shaped her bor plina plans as ho he slept benido her but uvo him it if I 1 romain miili s she ho thought again igafo and i most maet at t least make the attempt to so UTO vo my child from a fate far worse than death winnis winnia it is il true trae was only niao years tears old sod od the evil day might bo be far off but she was growing too beautiful tor her own or her mottoes pence of mind whore a young girl with IL fiur fair foo face we VM aill liko n a lamb i ia a tho the dolra den dea twice during the iho past pait winter esther hid had seen beon meta mere children of fourteen to the endowment house home in spite of their awo terrors and their mothers moth cra tears and table to bo Beill baled Ool to hoary boded molues mambert of the ho priesthood who hod bod half score of wives wire already anything was better than to list such euch a tato late for her own darling and since she ehe was waa convinced that her hasi has band wu was now BO am in ia the power of tho the church that ho be would not a at dare to withhold hit child if ordered to sacrifice fico her tho the only hope hop left to the wife ind and mother was out of caping co by flight and thu this hope hung on a very slander thread esther either had bid heard beard of many who hd had agada the aft attempt empt tad lad met their fate fata at the hands of the destroying angels before reaching the bordera of 0 the territory T 0 others had bad been followed two and three hundred miles outside ol of tho territory and aad finally overtaken nd killed but a few had succeeded Buco coded and their success encouraged her to believe that mcabe wa po aible at any rate she eho would try there were no perils she ebo would it nol bolto 0 dare to no hardships blie aih would not endure winnies wake fake this thia was waa bar final resolve rea olvo as she ebo drew near hear her homo home whoa when raising her eyes eye she ahe saw aw her daughter to meet her the little girls checks were brigand fla ined sod she looked frightened and as she ibe caught her mothers hand and clung clang to it for prot protection estion ca I 1 mamma pa punted as 01 toon moon as s she be could speak who do yon think u kt oai hoibo that dark man that came to ECO vis s in new york ork and nd persuaded ded papa to go to lo utah bah I 1 wn was in ia the room who alica a lo be came tad and papa pap made me go lud ilia div give 0 him my hind hand mod od lie ho hilj haild mo lim test fast and lisnok me IDO I 1 was wal so BO afraid of of him I 1 felt fell as ir if I 1 should die I 1 did indeed mamma and he ha would not cot lot let me ao go but hold held my hand baad and ad slid oid I 1 had bid grown a large girl and he my hir halt and ad said how pretty I 1 wn was ind and that hit h be meant to as uk k pip papa for or me by tad and by tod and ha be know knew pipi papa would give moto to hi pap looked oil 1 I 1 centi tell you bow boirye he J looted but he be vas u as pilo ra toll a to cs be used ased to be when he ha was tick sick and nd he bo never maid aid one word I 1 tin ran out of doors as hi he let po fo my head I 1 cant be help it if tape does mo me for I 1 coz could or got t ty stay in 10 the bouse soother husli deor dear topeat lower yol p aps will not punish yn yen arid add y you on wont let him gato g ajro mo IBS wy I 1 7 to that dreadful wa mani 21 t no never esther either spoke poke with an n that surprised herself as she licad the beall trembling hind hand that lily lay inbar in br own ova with will a firm clasp she would pavo FITO lot lor child she could bavo her uste rusl love IOTO mado made her strong enough to faco face cho whole mormon PrIe prier bood and nd in III her hert heart phe eho defied them I 1 she would wonlu avor 0 abr winn night lit anil and day da until the tha hour came as aa abgill it como when they bonu fit fl from this thin per po the bytho way wy but daentl would bl be a thousand timo buttee than such alfo all to lok k ferrata too it if they remained narwood ards which anywhere would have been taken as barm lem leaa pleasantry lid had only too much me ia thorn whoa hero athor ii thor remembered with aa biver of 0 fw fear sud loathing t tho ho which liis his baleful eyes w acro e r 0 eliol on her beautiful child aa well ui an on hero felt when ah aho latt taw air liim him tie ile boa been their evil til genius from rom the fust cret no one elso else could have influenced N aldaco ak he bo hail had and now hn his pow er brover over him would be bo greater grealer than ever it if harwood should belci ked tor for mo me to an well wall MI as Wi tinie would dare to refugia him biro I 1 wonder she ab asked aked berela bitterly 11 1 al ebo lo 10 1 bid I 1 a thought little ol of he ahr to 0 oc c u any n y a in personal dragor her fears rd hid all 11 been for idd and child and DI men even now of ati ei d daiil ia bof lor a inocent seriously olle thought that the ilio ioie dame lato fate the dreaded dawd ed for or might befall herself lier and yet facts had como come to within the p pon aa tc left weeks that might have aroused brou trou al her bar tears A adar deir beig bb r of thare wr was giant on a al gion in tile the I 1 etring ii pring lane anil I 1 I 1 peri obed dyste piously on lie his any ito wit the it was whispered a about out that ho he did not obey counsel but a c 1 corer explanation of at bis big disappear once was TUB afforded when it came ito to light that his young youn aad oa bea wife wi wai scaled to og one 8 L high gh in illi bority lai soon as he wim was out of the tha territory Torti tory it win was isan la in that a wira hll had YIO tio moro more of safety tile glnn a aby by one elto alto it if she eho was waa coveted by bj onest the be rulers of the bo people and either dither W Wal laoc 4 1 in a tho the prime ot of her stor idus bobiy y might well veil have trembled for or gerulf her sill As AB they walked homeward together II 11 mad in ia hand the iio mother and daughter formed si ai perrett 0 as any ever pal a fail WI VV vivinne inne tin as c chad 11 ildi ida lt lovcI hlaS a brown curls curla violet eyes ayes avid dimpled chick and chio chin covet appeared so 0 winsome wins otna as aa nhan contrasted with the tha graver beauty of her mothers face both wora too fair to look upon for their own safety well oby may either pm that pa n who walked beside bab alo bu bin children it the would aronld them to day while perils of which aho be was cOris dous lay by before them perils penk of which the she know knew not nothing 0 ng were thickening around wo men as pure ch ildren children as innocent being lay dy iter after dy day to tho I 1 ho Moloch sot bat up op in ia these thee vall valleys dys aan A mn cr cruel it el si j de doity a tb r a mor dolbas as 03 the cho grave reigned over the petiole people and in big hands as he ha himself declared as olay cloy in 10 the hands handa of 0 tho the potter families vera broken up homes mida made des ulato husbands huiban dj robbed of their wives and nd parents ot of their children to furnish victims for the uri ologia altar hel had reared will either nail and berchild her child escape or will they share bare the fate or of the thom around them T TO hiis wt M 1 |