Show john h cuningham 4 04 0 tale of th people 0 th A romantic romant ic shovel novel b by y briant String bam harn young copyright 1904 by grunt young ass L I 1 tv thirteenth installment continued from last m eek what aliat a delicious hazy hary feel ig arl as aa though I 1 were salling sailing otten ane limy regions oft of I 1 lie unknown no na I 1 had libit left the earth sphere and was going yilli yi lii to tile hit lieuvern heavens thu tho alir a in andyes there aro corti certain thi about iii my ph acal being la Is becoming be numbed as khouth tile alio toy icy hand of death was fastened upon me log ing g up a rending of etiny iny very being Is 13 taking placeit place pl acel it lights and fon clem dancing before ine my past lafit misdeeds rolo denla rising up again be fora ina ilia slid and then freol reid uin am I 1 front froni tile the 1116 and pains find away I 1 conr into atil na I 1 appear poll into tle a vast vaal unknown regions I 1 seem to rel fuel it buoyancy buiA Doy of feeling r f havo have never before encountered f mud aud na as I 1 step oft I 1 at xem ein to look away buck back and alid there lying on oil tile the dark hallway but faintly illumined to lii been my body slid and ats s I 1 soared away off I 1 looked down and in tittered poor earthly fool wid nd then higher and higher hl hr I 1 go soaring away aloft surrounded dur rounded by inky and thell I 1 see afe a mot of n liglin far indeed I 1 wonder liow how ishall ever neftoli it but on oil I 1 go it word ward und and upward the brighter unit and brighter and thella bluze blaze of glory ity musac find teu ten thousand sights and sounds nija to nil fill the auncy a nd I 1 ain min kneeling defoia I 1 alf he feet of it bring being with the ilia form ofa of a nobl naan but alt tile raco out icely concealed lod imil ant am paying hornat lini nica ce to tho the ti uc orless carless TI till 1 my god tile KI god of pate searchingly does lie ho eye me I 1 NO feol not lint see and then in it voice of sweet less lie says buys anti the sounds bounds are ecar exl ell and re through the vast halli hall ind find recesses recess pa of space nu as I 1 bw hisil livi heard sll them uttered before lit in the ilia hall of the under tinder ground oily of tilt thou art illy brather bro lher arise oln no moret but let thine hine life be as 11 weel sweet and pure curf as the abeln thou nov be hv tafv breath as a tin tainted as a tho the illy blooming on oil the plain thy doods did us RI willie white us ua tile the allows that rap cap tile the monn tan under 1 your bonie boine do 31 aldi your brothers bootie beono or of them tind then again allay thou see bre the tinier time when thou wall sta seu tile me not na as I 1 nm lit ID flesh alosi but HH as lie he grid thou ahall hereafter worship clo 00 thou let thine prayers be offered as thip lib or of your brothers brother be bc us jis good as they and ever remember that tho the hand or of th or of has abee in liti bli charge charee find reine remember niber that tie HS thou stories for the misdeeds thou lion done dona so DO lindt thy reward boll and ihn ii a of light succeeded succeed pil by inky anky blackn pi therall the pall of descending night ogain a or of music growing fainter and then dying away a n swift downward 16 anward courve another scene lit an I 1 aiu 1 aitt in misery in the regions region of it the infernal otie one so ninny linies I 1 seem lie I 1 b be tit at little child playing by my in mothers others irdee a lony blunk abid ngan nl am I 1 aroused bythe bylie voice or beio arise Arla tf my noble aril utting of the lome house of f this thy do tl ils di aro are recorded with the gd thy ini deeds itou hua has va wiped I 1 lied out nut lit in the waier ii purity that thau hibst dispelled by let iving all your in yur your hody cleat olea sed raed by the hand of nf of fote fate adise I 1 solute thee us as a member of the aud tribe of ahl rh lanil and look lonk ing me I 1 km ani lit in my room ahert I 1 had first awakened in ilia be cud old kelo ielo standing at the toot foot of 0 the bed bait rubbing ht hi hands across his eyes us though hough gasing on the sun SUD but merely s as a salate bal ite to me a god in the kingdom otral Q till for I 1 imd had passed the otiler three journeys CHAPTER 4 1 I dm am now fairly established lo in tho bilbo of being by bl the superstitious natives as AH more than sit an ordinary member of the tribe why I 1 cannot tell moro more tn clan that I 1 think it because of my having been a white while mail and that seems to have a viry mira marange tige effect upon them approaching more to reverence than else I 1 lime have explored most nil all the caved eav and groi grottoes toes and hall balls of this place with the ex exception eption of the room where t alier til VIEno go of their god reposes nto into which I 1 urn am not I 1 do not k know flow why any more than that thai I 1 am a finein member ber in iii spi spile I 1 a of my protestations of lit in their hanthi of in at alien race I 1 have not yet strange to relate looked ution upon the face aco of if any of their women tile the tilt till set tiling g to have a strict 1 l riot regard toi to morals but that la Is a small in to me for I 1 never did curo cure a grent deal for their society noti lety oue outdo things I 1 since altice I 1 went through thosa mysteries myat erlea upon being belu initiated into tho secrets und and rites or of their tribe one being the secret of their ayt cerious light which amounted to no more or less leaa llian long loo colla coils of wiro unwound by bv a 11 arrangement of weigh tal inuos after the for merly used in tilt hit of part parla when aud and under what they become ui of the secret of making hid stuff I 1 do to riot not know but it wua was there and as it bave ii avo them oil all the light nee needed dold even ilia he conein cou fesa ed to tn not carling caring how it was done another thing 1 I learned was waa tile secret of doors anil and as a was by t tho lie ample principle waa simple after oil all the or doors being fix ell cd in sonie places in grooves which slide down luto the ground and other places separating af ns as would port leres in a d fit w I 1 in g room thus two i fili ample uple and yet mysterious ahinga were explained it ans to me by icila K elo who high in tile the tribe owing owan to having married the daughter of ant rii tillit I 1 haq a big nian man in ilia kingdom and they were kind glad I 1 lind hod come for very vary often I 1 hall had been called upon to d deliberate with then them on an tiff airs of state being admit admitted led to chamber at ally little lime I 1 wished visited another thing I 1 ero much atten chiti was waa their religion andus I 1 paid ald I 1 too inonia am a Fal allol 1 took lucli antor tat I 1 in it the study of their rites and thore there Is no doubt la in my igind ml nd but bilat I 1 had stumbled upon a very mar elou race in A way pecullar peculiar to themselves them selven what ingenuity had haen been shown ly by their chief or pr properly overly rod goil when lie he had zed ahli handful of inen in th 4 roua people I 1 had found what remarkable foresight had lie he shown and what implicit 0 38 b had all lie ha exacted from his hia subjects to ta have them thein in ble power to such an ex tent arnt ilia bhul ho he ruled thein by ilia hla name alone iho god of fate la Is to me not the god I 1 ht Y look dooh at but really ilia hie god r have designated the god of ofFit fate li ho he does nut not control taft govern government mont of omy my people nor doaa aie control my luy actions but lie doe control my rate fitte tilt till the eternal god of fate to thee lit ili I 1 look now its abut up here in this bit cell I 1 deliberate upon thy doings and when I 1 hall had taken that mystic journey throne dothee toT liae olit ohl god I 1 f felt t abt elivd not in vain doat thou now look down upon me and ay thou hast repeated lost mine here but carry out thy will ull and when I 1 will have left tilt the flesh as aa the tilt would say will I 1 look upon thee once again and will thou thoa then theli any aay thou thon hat hast repented 10 oil gud god of fate catry carry nia me on let aline repentance be entered upon thine equality and ln fix anti and let me know that my fate is but ilia iha links of the chain that thou bait welded into tatters fetters silent yot yet not galling totters fal tera MAI ihal chain la is completed that again will I 1 enter tile lie fivek alt ah tto tito I 1 R wonderful erfal subject far beyond me but how I 1 can anyous or else CUD can believe lit ID ought auhl but fate I 1 cannot conceive when men the map of my life out and I 1 started to follow it basit fure fre seen that I 1 slay my cp inpan on aup was it foreseen that 1 I should pt 1 look ok upon tilt face of my god may hops in a dream mud aud yet a realistic dream and told tu to repent was it on the map of fate that I 1 here return to the feoli fruin from the depths of a madhouse was wai it all foreseen und why not can call the merciful god put upun upon my shoulders sho Iders all tile things or cares I 1 have borne bonx lutting letting me go through life ilia with sins and conscience stricken feel ings I 1 have but brought upun upon myself und and then if I 1 have nut not repented sair bay abat I 1 shall go to the he sal ao ltd bell of tho the christli kits methinks we have but a hell on OB earth if 1 may use ue tile the our trials and tribulations enough to wipe boutall out all sins we have committed slid and then if we not repented hall wo we go to that place it if 1 I in ill my ufa life have been amur deron imbecile or anything you may choose to cull call me have I 1 not repented by the be cons conscience clauce stricken st moments that have assailed me havo have I 1 not repented in III thu tho tortures I 1 havo endured stud why for naught but the keep ingot my being and thun must tile the say thou not go to hell P or thou shall KO go to heti hell morn sincerely have I 1 worshipped wor shipped ut at tile lie throne of the than I 1 have at tw tho of C where tier a the men mail aud and women of modernity ity have sunk down la in their full dress who or their alike and gatins nati nii and have meekly bowed their head while up tip iu in a little box the man they term lerui a minister or preacher pounds away atthe at tho gospels goi gor aud and offers up prayers in III their for the ains they have committed they poor dlf dif t fools not having strength enough to them end and thuu thou they look nt HI hini him with shining eyes as if and how an aelic and ebeo tile the sermon Is ia concluded to see that same minister later of the capol ij go eo and gossip over tea cups with fashionable ladle ladies of tile lili pariah about the ilia sins of some poor ate being instead of going and corn com furling them us ui he should properly to do heroin lii my cell with hard befit bed scanty clothing and with no itle cessar tea les yet alone luxuries to lo regale regalo 1116 have I 1 offered up prayers and when I 1 do so 10 doeu does not a little whisper rench reach tile the great bod on high surrounded by hi dories and doth not hat little whisper repeat again lie ha hath re pealed 11 atil how was my gained nut not through the influence of christ mill church not tr krough the influence of silks and satins gatins hut but simply through the influence of go same me god fate arid and how simp ly because be caune my conscience that vigil ant monitor that uever never sleeps leap hath pointed to lo me my shortcomings and my fal failures tures ant and when I 1 do return to the flesh ready will I 1 he to fight the battle of life again but not in the same way out lit in a wily way where my physical being contracted with the just dirt I 1 hall had sprung from by the purity I 1 breathed when I 1 came lu in contact with my illy malser will I 1 conie back nod and will I 1 then a guise aulse where though my sins bins be us as acir scarlet lat I 1 shall be wasted white sit as snow and the be Imperi imperishable shabie anti and impenetrable baud of nf fate pursues its way bringing down the lofty elevating the lowly and no matter the sins or crimes of those hone on earth they cannot be carried with them they cannot be ba eradicated k ty ky y the hand odthe ho gospel but they can atone alone be atoned mr for la in fate CHAPTER tha fete day of la Is approaching 1 I sa say day as to des gonte guate the time lime as used in the be tribe would consume much tinie time to 0 o will fall back on common english parlance and great abloom are being made for till this observe slice of tile tame all the factories tire am turning out as much stuffs 8 possible for or tife the thil loving finery as much as anything else ele a except capt religion bra are determined to make its it it gala event as ft itis it la tho the four hundredth of the iho discovery dl covery of 0 the te rad nod and I 1 am assured that I 1 shall loo look kupon upon the races facea of 0 the woul an of the kingdom whereat I 1 am a little anxious to iee seethe tho eventful day approach for I 1 should la alte of my antipathy to thea pr to see a female their observances of the day aie aft vry Pis credno no I 1 am assured slid this boing more than an ord luary event I 1 will sec are something far beyond my utmost expectations oh wello well I 1 nm am glad for I 1 an am becoming wearied of this contle ual hum bun I 1 I 1 drum exis euce arising au gunj 1 retiring nna jette u t beang consul co mulled or on la in the kingdom not mot that I 1 am averse to it but rin mil really glad for I 1 dearly love to impart seau ammu of my it now ledl v tu to he bete cupl nud and yet people I 1 min am informed by relo kelo who by tile the way la Is my inseparable Irm parable companion that I 1 am expected to do something for the people on that day and as a I 1 could not speak I 1 threw that aside alde connot dance so eo gave up that ides cannot sing so lind had to reluctantly part with that brilliant idea cannot in fact do anything but make a nuisance of self ao I 1 waa really at a loss i as ti clial I 1 should do when a happy thought struck me one that would raise me highly in tile the estimation of these theae people and yet make them fear me as aa I 1 put aud and it 11 amounted to no I 1 mors moro or less than RII all exhibition of shooting having luckily brought say my pistol with me having it letu to me fuel with a great deal glawe when 1 had returned from ray my mystic journey and us its I 1 was as aa 1 I flattered myself a very fal fair shot rabot I 1 determined to do tills this thing for them I 1 thereupon told kelo that on the day designated I 1 would give them they aird never seen refusing to 0 o tell him mure more on his imbor tuning we me but promising him something entirely now new and I 1 thought to myself that it would be new and as it proved later it proved too now new I 1 intended giving an all exhibition of that would astonish them as the natives being ignorant of af tile use of firearms fire armi would ascribe it to some supernatural cause atilt amt having but five cartridges loft left resolved to keep cheop guern for that da day daf f and make it a memorable one in connection with rites there bore perfumed performed I 1 was now creased la in thu the robes robea of office of tile the empire with tile the gold kaff nod mad with the office of well what might be termed as aa grand vizier irl zier I 1 in the oriental kingdoms with light duties aud and no cares carea I 1 had the same room that had bad been given TOU when I 1 was wag conveyed from the hull holl of tile the dead having requested to be allowed to remain lit in it just now a serious meance faced the tho kingdom in III thu the discovery dia covery of ufa a i ase of slowness aness resembling in its symptoms small pox tito the tilt till regarded tills this as asa a very severe threat of their god upon tile the kingdom ofed all efforts were made fol foi 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