Show vy J john ff 0 hn da afa 4 aa it ff ham A 04 tale of the teo te 91 thi ca A bovel by briant young IW by briant ghun young ss fh installment j broin rom at doek when the disy arrive veo bilat wits WAX to observe ob erv my quitting my loom of knowledge I 1 was wai very thankful for be b it known it WB was very far trout roni being belai pleasant to in be confined in it it small room oom encompassed on oil all sides by thick walla of and rock anti and gold having no living companion but 0 shrewd young indian lint hut then all must havu havo an aud anti and this was wa puts of the th lori arhl pi laday day the aged man mail who had fis BI as my catle rul ile on my lay farst addias ion tu to the places add who I 1 had not seen since appeared and coming up to roe me exseo extended ded hta his hind hand un oil ilia his lind hosid in ili th tho 9 sold t anner or of to which I 1 responded ia i a 11 I 1 kad had done in bo be arp laatu noe this ahli form of sal aal I 1 had learned my lessons as z yell hell zi a tho tha malton I 1 have written of aad I 1 corridor conal dbr it vry effi vt aa amply bwy of 0 p an 4 iia he addressed pip p I 1 noticed antl alef after curiously ux anilu aluir up my lay little clook an most moat noble sir lr I 1 point hither to conduct theo thee to the of the wile atio who hill falu would have thep grace griep it with thy presence abot th great deliberations libe rations in hi which they arp now en aarti it vor struck me being very plo gular that list they would elih wh my presen ceat ilia tilla learned but ut lie as I 1 had become itou tome 4 ui tit nud everything extraordinary inary I 1 merely bowed bilwood in od umpired prepared to lo follow him I 1 j was through the parne fame it id which I 1 had that lapful room roolin to tile the council bull IN an J puy thought tt it wits waa used for where wp u foud nud the throe three grave chears alj taud 4 tb lbs natives assemble dt who ad thy th y aw ma made way for of 1 U 11 rue nie sp afla 4 faint whisper ale one nue parsed through the iho halt hall and nd the hoa dpree me enter cuter parr arose a ap ver profoundly rofo bowed bowd ap lb had I 1 lit in apa vered in fit ilia iho ive ive aphis abl vyt vay own tc addressed had 11 d f been P op I 1 jovial nature this would aou g tip DO appa made me milte put hut I 1 to took it it in bo be that I 1 till abow sud nud dey wa iva ij fence I 1 milde inda m my way 14 to athla dias arta I 1 wg poly beadet be a te doll tle like nadi bool stool 04 ui lei areat areat annd flit laid to me ma stranger ranger i I 1 apoy atiq tal thy y baule lauio of 1 y sal as I 1 could lyl wall john I 1 tho good and nd mighty nt lihty tilt till has seen y a lire hither know thou ha abou art aft P hill tit taso lh eadd second gultice isu anca f abts faau pr of no color tant hm has ever tafile hall aston aaron amor amer fame ceroo into my tilled mind and as an bui hatt vj n fit to tobe behave hito man ld r arnd daj ati thou uial epry v to autho the language hint ioa joiret not ut we tta the chief ot of hnyz ya 41 1 l to believe that tt it la Is right that hou 04 bonter the circle of ili great aall ind Ht thou take upon pa thyself all pia jils vav kt we 0 may heap dpn thee alls as long longia as thou west pl or band and see ee naught of I 1 the ptsy arld keep foret that tbt which thou willet iti 6 wlllie toioi benjain trap otha vows and ud thou take upon thyself all fl tha yaw the moin the popl parl an and walli ahou on py pr FR aup F labor and ally for the gabd af pf of the plop pla Is 1 8 of f T thit bit wilt th thou 0 u give glou auto aulo u fill the 1 hu thoa thou hal lu in regard to c tha the oivier worlds ayo 1 thou help va us in fill our will wl 41 ditl d 60 BB ar cr ed fid co unclIp had wl alon gl dufilo us ui your lift it t thou houlday hould at deteo rute a fill sn any wy ray till in a ila holy IY way of 0 the me grba and mighty vast byet lT BOgi I 1 wilt tl thou 06 most air thou isken an up shepherd from tha ilia profane thou littel halt taken me A all thine ways and cu iloma thou taken mo me a perfect stran stranger grer to theo thea and aid thine not knowing know liiK but 11 wll will be b as aa the gawenus gawe nunia a korv ort of fruit that is 1 spoiled ansong tiie lite good and doth polson by contaoi with will Us its but I 1 will day in anwer answer oh ob noble Rs ra that if ahou beest ili in ili thine tulue gracious wisdom to help me to the position of which you have hava aua and it thou thickest I 1 am competent to do all the he things of which you bolli ts eak 1 I bopre tiny I 1 ant am ready to take all thine vows to accept all tile the trials anti and willing to ree rivis the friall of roy my should bould it be other thant brA which thou speak it of I 1 bay 11 1 ai aa I 1 have fluis hed a low murmur murr of approbation burst fruin froin tile bip 3 or those assembled and even the lor cordra lord dRa Ba beamed findly upon we me fruits his blit royal belgin lie he said bald in gentlest tones thou heat biant spoken once again like a 1 man str lm uger auger thou hast bast spoken as aa great and alid noble mau man if t thoo bouse of the tha sacred tbt would do thou bo be one of odua us chati aig our treeca trecca bread in englith Engli tl and mena lulf good will kind and thou ehalt be of the great oud and noble of ali the house of I 1 have hava spoken stranger I 1 will any ay to taco before thou to ti enter upon this thin our lire life that the puth path hat thou host chosen Is a hard 0 ou ethal it in bouli anti that the hillis are steep it if thou thickest that thou wilt do all that thou saye tit it alln hi well if thou that thou connot do it we will conduct thoe thee safe to the ploce pance from whence tanu camest and wilt will leave thee in the hall of dee de from wh coca thou retrace th thy y steps louelder Loud lder what maleat thou 1 10 ob h gortat and ami noble ra I 1 have dorisll cori sll red an all I 1 enva seen been klimt I 1 have seen and would see eee mure more aud and I 1 call but may liny I 1 swear before the irrean and that I 1 will preserve thine secreta secret eliat I 1 know and what I 1 will know amill puch time lime its HS the iha laud of will be nt more ala well spoken stranger atia TI enough thou anke alithe all tho vows vow and c upon thee and remember that 1 if dost taller fatter the be great and mighty will guard like when thou wilt have returned turned ro to the flesh this thin last centeno li Is rattier rather and en an Igmati cal one so will explain its ha before proc proceeding cedIng further lu in the religion of there la in no won word that the of what we cull call death as an they believe bellev fl in nothing of tile th nort norl willi albeni ape a caperoon roon dies instead of alint we cill mourning as aa applied to benj teem would mean rt tie if it sold that when whyna a pi aur pon lon dies lle returned again aud and lukes lubes up ltd its abode in an other person in IH tile the living life and it ls li fur for that they hit hibb va their yearly feast ut of which more alion till beller belief li Is alm lilar na as Is ii well to thu the buddhist and I 1 consid pr it t worthy of more than passing at 1 and why the tha lite alie meaning of it to t apa titter after my exila lulng our be heft to t them says belleve hl eve in such it thing that you 0 call ai j death what mat dr do you mean by death ileath a what you call aall a spirit tj t it 1 I a belief that yon jon will 1111 never ver see 0 ellit o tl f whet we would call earth but ta ham flipe their land of till agulto if 10 19 who you say eay are irid arid why A person it I 1 jap ao this world a haby baby it gros ars tid bud and pretty toon soon its ita a gnap V lyhal then hn the time of lite life Is pal parted sell aad hv haly then what wha t then happa II 11 villes files the th land of til T il laj been now for nna nans ralde aalde dubu what WO we would call abou about huud rd apar ave W people live iq to the he age ga of bayl y fifty ni dialing TO alIng ailo bulliv lu iott fur y years we have light oe rallon our people number awe nuna nana raide thirteen making three generations generation abdat fifty thousand people you have a goj gw we have a god slid and lu in his bis hemd where he lorei in lu in the body of the the tha animal described in the tha gardup there Is room for he lla his alve elvea ind and his muc success cess sous making roam for not more than twenty if then than according accord lot to your idea the people all die what bromes of 0 them there Is no room where tile the W 1 they cannot live around sheea walls walla and what ahw why they return to wel life I 1 so bo with your people if you have what you call and billions of men people atia buat become a of them after 1 they hey die another thing lung we the people air f cao can tell what things aro are coming coining before meaning mean ing tie the gift of prophecy and why we lve have lived before in these w willa tolls anti and halls we have lived theu then as wo we are ara elving now we have oven een the things bines once before and when I 1 saw oil oh the white man Is in com comlus comilia ilig I 1 knob ehnow bd 6 la conj conkins inS but I 1 know only breanne 1 I saw him come before therefore when a person will have hav left tills this breath will enter into the flesh again a 4 very logical and entitle en Bitle I 1 take it as this belief Is exactly my own life at beginning la Is marked out for us ua 0 a map of life with lla its regular and irregular lines linen up and down crossed alad yet smooth la Is laid out for ur up aud ami when tit nt the lines traced out on the map at tile the end la Is rag reached elied we aro are doun doua with that life anti and we enter another as the till would ai aay I 1 have ante always levei in and for this his belief b and since ray my association with will tho the tilt by views have been enlarged my mind expanded and now in my crude way I 1 would Atten attempt Pt to 10 explain what I 1 mean pursuing Pu this subject of Fi further what more la Is necessary thila than to pick up a piper of today to day ond and rad a paper which contains an item to the be effect that our respected fidlow mr narrowly escaped being shot abot today to 10 day by a duill anan who had adeaida against his life but lite he bullet of the ilia went avide ade of if it its mark slid and shot ahot who wun wax behind mr air thit that la Is WC fat aman glam to superstition ref ralva from walking under tinder a ladder because be caute it cavad la baul luck and yet lie he m meeta lets his hi death in a horrible rall road accident A loaded with gimlet fica for n certain diabes passes on its way and at a certain portion of the tha track there la Is a leisge of rock wbk overhangs ani ano seema scents about to fabilli ln and the train passes and safely by and yet a day later a train with merry passes that thai way TRY merry ubil dreu happy parent paren tv teachers and many happy bluee innocent c nt ones nud and ft heu hen th llight lot ledge of 0 took look ili id reao rea heil olied it falle fall killing blany ot of the innocent oves buea there yul yet there la Is no rate fate tim the ti brother rother or oan a ilond friend of mine had left tile the city where mother waa nan staying ing and the luct inot words ahe uttered were 11 jodie my by isyou would travel veto travel by wagon keep off the lie ile he assented but seeing an aa opportunity to lo have ft a ride cannot withstand afir temptation and starts to 0 o board it but better and wiser thoughts him ha refrained bufa fur a he bo boarded it slid and two hours litter idler he was a wangled mangled bleed lag corpse with out that precious lidd hla his mother and creator gave him anti and yet skeptics tice will say eay there Is s no fate governs governa world caeser won a world and lost it b by y one out aul hie hl life paid the forfeit the czar of nil all the Russ Rus laa sias alexander the second gus tiled as become a crar crar ty oy no indiscreet move in spite spile of his bh tit in spite spile or ull all hla his pre atins I 1 lost oat his lire life la in that certain w way sy ulu mapped PP ed put bythe by the rual map of life and yet there Is no fate god ged gave us ui life and and beauty in ili abai shape or other but lis s th n 0 so o much and when ht 1 dill did sol i bo be sald 1 4 ee hall live so BO long und that llod 14 li youri youra and at lite tie end and of the that ye are aulne in the be way I 1 shall depree decree lt aud and yet there Is 1 no fate faile CHAP nil Return luR to ahn balij tall I 1 adfred POTA od fred dered but bit a moment over ahat hat had bad ber said ind and then said mid 1 I chonk thee t and will 46 6 as as thou thickest abst 11 ta ris well stranger take him kelo breath of to my ancient guide to tu alip thom that bat bast bait been pre prepared for this hla event and prepare him fur tho light of the mighty and d timble till h abool loo good bye or adieu j thus hua and jagt ahe he old 01 chief aana back anti and 19 n atiq alwer lyer to the con command linand of u keln itelo I 1 was led away it appy seem liseno strange that T woud upon all the vows they would deem ti to initiate we ale into adato add to sacrifice all my doctrines of christianity but I 1 did not cot jadw what adventures I 1 would really alet with blit that was wan one ot of the ibo least considerations with me for the taste of gold was wan upon mo me so I 1 pro doged j aning joining their ranks then after having become conversant with the las ins and outs outa orthis damp damnable place mako make a ubold bold strike for liberty and strike for tile the states taking labing with we me all trie wealth I 1 could become possessed of I 1 wits wa now led latti into a small chamber devoid the root roof only being as an in the ha other oilier rooms but other wise tic devoid vald of adyth anything in g ostentatious hillh thy the except exception io of a small stone settee on which was loald acme curiously formed garments put there for me evidently for as BOW KB as w we had bad enter ed kd bade m me a prepare prepa re to pu put t lb them em on first however le leading tiding ari nid to a bath in ili the corner of the room which I 1 must say imy reminded me aton gly of oan u modern hotel which I 1 greatly then re led me back to i the he little room which I 1 supposed waa w 1 ad something on the order of a preparatory par alory room much after ane style of secret lodges I 1 put ul on the garments assigned me which were wera entirely of green and looked a far as hi or symmetry metry was concerned much ua lie a sheet would do wrapped around a persons body after afler getting them ou on I 1 wa va led into another room where I 1 was wai regaled witha with A goodly assortment of refresh mental meats slid u sort of fermented wine the deco clinn of which I 1 krida not after eating very heartily kelo advanced to tile me and laying his hia hand scrubs the lips lie he led me ma luto into yet an other room the walls opening for blai thou then as we catered this room was muro more gorje gorgeous ous more beautiful than any I 1 had yet seen hoing different from the others only chilly la in that it wa wax made entirely aut frely of marble ni arbles streaked ent irAy in ia white grifin arn and yellow which as ti efura betrayed no rift in its surface athla althis whole underground place was wail h succession and this yet a greater surprise than all we entered through a portal the waha wah of which vere verc I 1 should judge about three feet thick awl and cut lu in abe tie bolia rock kock as all others were As L wan ushered in I 1 looked back to see the door end and wua was in a degree surprised to see that there was none to kelo I 1 said oil oh brother where Is the lie I 1 door through whence we banit ile he looked tit at me first tit in went ment then rethought rt hought in ID halt hall amused ploy pity and answered answer anaw ered fd know ye 30 not that we wa have no doors in tile land of 11 no doors door sl 1 way nay when men wice 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