Show all right said kent sobe ly newspaper r pictures slie she had seen of them the fat gentleman with penetrating blue eyes and a clean shaven face was senator smith of 0 texas the roly poly III man till with black eyes and A a grizzled beard was senator E elway iway ot of maine and the tall smooth shaven shi lvell man limn with red hair was senator james of oe new york 11 mr levine said senator smith wo linao eliav o found that you had carried on so many or er transactions that we finally dually decided to choose three or four sample cases unit and lot let our case stand on oil those JUCkS jackson call crippled dear charlie spoke quickly to ono one or of tile the bucks alio rose nud took tile thu empty chair by charile Ch arilo lie ile began to tall talk tit at once charlie interpreting slowly and carefully 1 I itin am n blood many moons ago tile the man mail levine found me ine drunk tit in ali tho snow isnow lie ile picked tile me up and kept me in ills his house lionso over night when I 1 wita was sober lie red fed me ate then ile IH maue made tills this plan I 1 wits was to gather half liala it dozen half breeds together lie he could trust in tile the spring lie he would conto up to the reservation and talk to us its I 1 did tills and ile ie cattle came we were very hungry when lift ito met the woods und and lie gave us ug food and nio nii then lie ho told us lip lie wit ans going it to get tile big fathers tit at Washing toll to let its sell bell our pines so we c could las lime have leY and food never bo be li bengry inri tiny anny inora never I 1 rhen lien lie said lie he was getting that done lie would iny us its it little imry elvry month to go through tile woods and chop down domi tile best trees tiers tile the nig ilig father will let whites get lead dead aind down don timber out of indian woods lie ho said but not let whites cut tiny so we e say yes es and though thoi iRli ful fuu bloods tire lire very ery mad when we cut down don big greeg wo we do it tor for ciany moons knowis we do it tind in winter white nun inen haul it to sawmills sim mills livery every little while levine comes up there and we ive have it a council and tell him everything that hill pens all about things marshall and other whites do and lie he pays us theli lie tells us that tile tip 1119 will let gifted d bloods sell all their pine lands funds but not full bloods blood so tile alien we c engree when he wants M inta any full fall blood land to rovena uny any full blood 1 Is 4 inured and anve e liae have done tills now per perhaps hap twenty twant tit times ties 11 tile mixed blood and charlie charile eti sir tool too up tip it a paper 1 I lav here mr 10 lcmae ville a statement of your our dealings with lip luke lake cit city y Luti lumber lher company you nil have had by h bliem during the past six or eight years of aptt of pine one himber I 1 lud find that you aro are holding lands in fit tile name of 0 lydan dudley and her fattier father anios allies dudley these lunda lands legally belonging to full bloods amos dudley Is 18 also alio purchaser of land from full bloods its is la IS norton sr through you lev levice the rose quickly gentlemen lip exclaimed surely you can call ind find enough counts against 1110 without including dudley who lias has never heard of tho file matter you mention I 1 commissioner jumel jubile 4 saoko for tl alie to first tone suppose we iva go on oil with tho the witnesses witnessed before we oven open lily dig with mr levine Jack jackson 1110 these to tell charlie c called old susie and old old of tile lio death of her daugh ter lor from fital littlon it ind III cold this thill sold tier bior FIll anio llo daughter having it to levine for it alve d dollar bill mid and a t dollar watch silo held out tile tho watell toward luward levine tit in one trembling old hand 1 I und find tills in dress when site she lend dead silo astrof strong g it take hiir ter days daya to lo lie die I 1 old I 1 pray hent h ent spirit take I 1 freeze I 1 I 1 no 1 me I c not no I 1 I 1 till fill die ilk she young silo I 1 linao gilve tittle little ally she tile die suddenly silo flung tile watch tit at feet ind and slink trembling into lier her chair there ans ns silence for a ino moment went in III ut at tile tho open window cume came tile of it ii street cur ciu lovitte desired cleared his throat tl Pat all this b h dramatic of course coarse but boef ut make we me tile murderer of tile tho squaw 9 no I 1 but you killed my illy fa father therl shouted t challio jackson and I 1 1 lie hurled forth tile the story lie had told lydia years eurs before lydia sat bat with walli tier lier hands clasped tightly tit in tier lier lup eyes fastened lu ili horror on calit rites face it seemed to lydia that tile noose was fastened closer round found johns neek neck with every word that wit was 4 uttered suddenly Sud dehly site r prang to tier her feet stop charlie I 1 I 1 stop III I 1 she screamed you yon shant say any mo morel senator elway rapped on tho the table youre out of order miss dud dudley ley lie ho exclaimed sharply lydin ila biad forgotten to bo be embarrassed ans sed 1 I 1 cant help it it if I 1 auto am silo sho insisted 1 I wont have charlie jackson picturing mr levine as it elend white while I 1 have a tongue to aptak with will I 1 mr air levines not a murderer lie ho tic be lies iles been as much to me us its my lily own fattier father ever since my mother died when I 1 was a little girt girl lies iles understood tile me ns its only my illy own mother could you think lie ho could murder when lie could hold a little girl on ills his knees and comfort tier her for tho the death of tier lier little sister bister when lie ho taught tier lier how flow to lind find god when oh I 1 know lies hes robbed tit alie indians so ling liaa my own fattier father it seems and so has pa ila norton and so tills luia kent and till all of mom lire are dear people till nil been wrong but think of the lie temptation mr commissioner I 1 supposing you were poor and the wonderful pines lay up there so easy to take youre covering a good deal of ground and getting away front from the specific cage case miss dudley said SH smith InIth of course what you say exonerate mr air levine what you say of tits his character cliar acter Is interesting but there remains the fact that lie he has been proceeding fraudulently tor for years in his bis relations to tile indian lands you yourself dont pretend to justify your acts do you mr levine leine lydia sut sat down all and levine slowly rose and looked thoughtfully out of tho the window tile legality or illegality or of tile hie matter tills lias nothing to 0 o jo with tile the broader ethics of tho caw though it I 1 think you ou will ind find gentlemen my illy ads tire lira protected by law lie said the virgin land lies iles there inhabited by a degenerate race whose one hope of salvation lay in ani amalgamation alga with the white race an ali ignorant government when land was plenty and the alie tribe was larger placed certain restriction s on the reservation when land decanie became scarce and I 1 tile tribe dwindled twill died to a handful those became wrong it wu inevitable that tile whites should override tit bliem clil knowing that lint the ethics ot of illy nets acts and lid those of other people would bo be questioned I 1 went to congress con gresa boget to ret these theao restrictions removed if another two years could have elapsed before these investigations ila had been begun tile fair air name of 0 lake city nover dover would have been smirched smirch i ed levines hand on tile back of 0 its ills chair tightened as lio ito looked directly tit nt billy norton once gioro lydia cattle caino to her feet oil air levine levano silo sho exclaimed dont dollt put all tile blame on really its ita my lily fault ile ho have ilone flone it it if I 1 agreed that it was right oh it 14 till nil my lily fault ll 11 bic t lic repeated brokenly till nil tho trouble I 1 hulls come t to 0 luke lake city I 1 hilly ditty norton jumped tit up blamed nonsense I 1 ito ho begun beglin when interrupted film impatiently ito io scitt spitted ed norton then gently to lydia II 11 ay aly iy dear you mean that knowing what nn nil would mean to tile people you ou ilove ove you bucked backed young oung norton in instigating one yes yea sir mir tattered lydia can you tell us ua chyl asked elway still till morn more gently lydia twisted tier hands zaroui fort ably and looked nt at billy go ahead lyd 11 he sai baia 1 ren rans S it was waa right silo elie old finally because bucit amor ainor you know because no watter nutter whether the indians were good goo or bad wo we had made promises to timi airn and ami they depended oil us 8 slie lie tt used struggling for words worda 1 I did it because bc causi I 1 felt to the country like my ancestors ance ator storm did in tiro tile civil war and in ili tile lion to to tako take care of america to keep it clean tie no matter liow how ft aart I 1 I 1 bo be led by lovo love of country and see lice illy people doing abing tiling thing contemptible soi thoin hang that tile tho world would remember va us forever and nd not try to stop it no matter how it hurt trembling so that the elltion nt at her throat threat quivered she looked nt at the three commissioners ond and sut but down 1 I suggest that wo we alburn nd for lunch said smith alaa dudley you need riot not return while her father paused to speak to rent kent unit and levine lydia inadi her escape site expected solin john levine to toino boino honio with tier her fattier to supper ond LIM for the first aline lu in tier life jno ald tild riot not want to meet tier lier b bes ee loved loma friend but she might havo have tpaul herself tills anxiety for amot came home alone levine wits wag bufty tira tia sa bald I 1 it to L uyllas odtus pain and chent levine did riot not come to the co colage stage before lio lie returned to washington which lie lid did tile week following the hearing and then nil all thought of tiec ter status with him was waa swallowed up in astonishment over tile the revelations that came out early tit in september when dave marshall and the indian agent were called before the cominIs commission siou dave marshall was the owner of tits the last chance I 1 the last chance where hus bussies hussies sies lay in ili wait like vultures for the indian youths took their government allowances took their ancient indian decency and cast them forth to pollute their tribe with drink a mill id disease tho the last chancel chance I 1 T th headquarters for the illegal selling of whisky to indians indians indiana were taught to evad uie the law to carry whisky into tile the reservation and where in turn the bounty fur for their airiest vaa pledged to marshall mai shall lla last chance the main source of dave mar wealth I 1 aven lake city wits was horrified I 1 1 these revelations people began to remove their moile money y from ills bank and am for it a time a run wits was threatened then dave resigned as president nna tho the run was wai stayed staged the drug store stord owned by dave was boycotted the women of the town begun began to cut ilar alar gory gery and 11 iviry TO nil CONTINUED |