among them."

"Will they lose all their cattle, Ludlow?"

"The cattle are safe enough," he laughed. "The men that are doing this
transporting will take the cattle. None of our Mormon friends will ever
see a hoof from Beaver Island again."

"But it seems robbery to drive them off and seize their property."

"That's the way King Strang took Beaver from the Gentiles in the first
place. Mormons and Gentiles can't live together."

"We can."

"I told you that you were a poor Mormon, Cecilia. And from first to last
I opposed my family's entering the community. Tithes and meddling sent
my father out of it a poor man. But I'm glad he went before this; and
your people, too."

She drew a deep breath. "Oh yes! They're safe in Green Bay. I couldn't
endure to have them on those steamers going down the lake to-night. What
will become of the community, Ludlow?"

"God knows. They'll be landed at Chicago and turned adrift on the world.
I'm glad they're away from here. I've no cause to love them, but I was
afraid they would be butchered like sheep. Your father and my father,
if they had still been elders on the island, wouldn't have submitted, as
these folks did, to abuse and exile and the loss of everything they
had in the world. I can't understand it of some of them. There was Jim
Baker, for instance; I'd have sworn he would fight."

"I can understand why he didn't. He hasn't taken any interest since his
second marriage."

"Now, that was a nice piece of work! I always liked Jim the best of any
of the young men until he did that. And what inducement was there in the
woman?"

The light-house keeper's wife fired up. "What inducement there was for
him ever to marry Rosanne I couldn't see. And I know Elizabeth Aiken
loved him when we were girls together."

"And didn't Rosanne?"

"Oh--Rosanne! A roly-poly spoiled young one, that never will be a woman!
Elizabeth is noble."

"You're fond of Elizabeth because she was witness to our secret marriage
when King Strang wouldn't let me have you. I liked Jim for the same
reason. Do you mind how we four slipped one at a time up the back stairs
in my father's house that night, while the young folks were dancing
be-low?"

"I mind we picked Elizabeth because Rosanne would be sure to blab, even
if she had to suffer herself for it. How scared the poor elder was!"

"We did him a good turn when we got him to marry us. He'd be on one of
the steamers bound for nowhere, to-night, instead of s