,bursting heart. KO days after that,
Phillip quitted the town for Liverpool;
and in about ,ten more, Millicent re
ceived news of his departure for Mel.
' bourne. She then sent the following
note to Mr. Cranford:—
e.The time ha, now Como when I am
,released from my obligation of macre
oppertenity of clear. ,
tag myself in your mind, whatever
you. mey then decide as Lo our future.
I am ill and unhappy; do not continuo
to cheris'a resentment against me. '
'.MILLICENT CRANE,!!
.To which the following answer came:
...DEAR 4Ltss CRANE.—WIion my son
left for New York (for which port he
bailed three days since with ti; 'view
ofttatteacting business With' otir 61110
herevapowered me to open ari3 , lacers
that!•might come fer ' Hence
your note has fallen lac', my hands,
'and as it is not upoO'buiinesi matters,
take the lihuriy 'oereturniuk 4 to
,yotr. I expect 'Richard will be heme
'in about three menthe; but if yOu
I will give yeti' hii address in New
York. Will . iou *forgive my saying
that I sincerely regretted the rupture
which my 110 V) informed me took place
between y 7,11 tin/ 'hiirpeli (the nature
of which he did nut impart to me,'
for I Itulvi . no . young lady whom I
••
would rather have seen his wife.
. • 'tour ever sincere friend,
THOMAS CRAUFORb."
So'there was nothing fiii . poor Milli
cent bin to wait, ind•aliernate betv'hets
iespair *anti hope: But the present
iisappointMent 'cOmbitied with the
aiNinty Of mind shell.]: I lately erldilre
threw 'lier" . into a 'dangerou>i illness
bight her to the'brink of the
grave. ' She . 'was ill for many weeks,
and 'When she recovered, was ordered
sway fro n home, for change of air:
She • wen: t.) LiverpOol, where . smile
relations of her own 'Motliar's hied,
•
ansl t
wi 7
th Whore she luld formerly once
I 1 . . * 1
spent ft few.. eeks. Here she stayed
the • ,sininer; 'and recovered her
bodily health. But not her spirits ;
l'or . the' min-return of Richard Crauford
allecied•her much. It was the begin
ning ?if autumn before site ploceeded
bo" in'e, which she did' alone, het friends
,
iseein& her safely- the 'train, in the .
-1- ,
naornitig.and,intoa first class 'carriage*.
!iitidd'you don't get flirting and run
away, 'Nlillicent, is.)sv you are left all
laeli Li yOurself, for three or'• four
} , ours," ono of them, young like her
-
self, lughingly obseived; and Millicent
la t iu lied. a re.spansein the same jokin
spirit . ; a hollow laugh though, she' felt
it to . be in her own heart. She flirt
and •aivdv
'lieu the train arrived at a certain
.stathm] on F its route, the passengers
- vete , informed that they Must there
alight to wait • fur •a•biarich train ; so
they erincdd, grumliliiogly, ;into the
waiting4uomi Millicent, however,
snaile - herwak to a seat she" espied be-
yond . _the 'platform, a rude ' bench,
placeil.unleineath a bank ; and here
'he sat; enjoying the fino fresh air of the
aotuar.(l4; aiial . occasionally reading.
avac p . pr . eacli of a gentleman, an I
inipatieat fellow-passenger who was
strolljn4abnut, caused her to look up.
A sullen shock fefl °vet her; she,
knelect what she ditl r The hookvv.a.s
. ; •
hastily .dropped upon the bench, and
she to.ik a steg forward. F . ,,r it was
RichardCraiffora.
"ILerard !" she exclaimed, "is it
really you 1 Da we_ meet here - 1"
Retook her hand with a cool air; he
could not avoid taking it ; for she, in
momentthe impulse of the had held it
out to him, and the tone of. his voice
was very cold.
!Yeu have returned from America,
she uttered.
am on my way now, from Liver
fingylllo rqp,lipq ; "we only made the
pol:i - yesterday. You look Miss
•
Crane ' •
"1 have been very ill since you left,"
she murmured," and have been all the
summer in Liverpool with my
, •
si.ins:for ,
chaiige of air. I am well now.
.
They s'tuod facing each other, and
therilwai a Silence. He was Pie - frst
bre,k it, by saying a few formai
.
Nvordi adieu, and was about to turn
"Oh, but; Richard, you must hear
aiiis, 4 she exclaimed, a terror com
ing over herlest they were to part a
gain for an indefinite period without
an explanation. "I have lot yet had
lie - opportunity of 'justifying myself
to you:" • . .
•way.
twist tell you,'! she fey etish
11!'23ixis " .cannot l et you 'go
through life suspectiti me of impru•
denci f bigeriatos, Wick4net's: Are
you aware who it was I went Lo see in
that wretched street ? I thO't...—know
t, . • h...
s ing what you dui know—ttiat you must
have suspected him at the -time; and
that was the cause of my terror."
" You are talking riddles to ms," in
terpose() nr.CratAr4..4But I have no
wish, and tioiv n'tiright, to be made the
confidant of Your private affitirs; 4 is
too late."
(Oh; yes, yes," she utp!red in agi
tation. !! lam not alluding to—to the
relatjons between Ourselves ; 1 only
ask to bo justified. - That Bailor was
my broFIMY*"
's Your brother, gillicent P' he ejac
ulated. sta'ring at her.
" Y9s.B " saig, bursting into teare,
fruits of hor misery, Yong pent up, and
her present itgitntion. He had dis
guised himself Bs you saw—( you dl4
see him—in these wide,_ratikh clOthes,
and the black curls and whiskers."
" Do you mead 'ybttr brother Phil
tip?" he asked, rally arouSed from his
displayed indifforottee.
I have no other brother," she re
•
plied ; whom else could I mean.? Ha
Wed been in concealment ever since
that iteadful affair in London, had
been reiluce‘4 tq great straits and had
come down to ask my help to ship him
self off to Australia. Whilst he was
biding in that room in POlt, street, I
was engaged in cqllepting together
sufficient money for him. • You will
• . •
sly perhaps, that I ought not to have
visited him ; but he bad no other friend
in the world to cling to him in his dis
tress, and I believed my duty...-as my
love—lay in going to see arol comfort
him,"
" . .13ut, Millicent, though tburn is
runcli that No not yet understand--
Thy Aid, you not confide, this to me 7"
First of all. your own prohibition,
secondly---",
What prohibition ?" interrupted
Cranford, " What are you talk
of 7"
and
Millicent, thinking his irienrry ex
traordinarily oblivious, proceeded to
recapitulate what passed the ni&ht
they first received news of Phillip's
built She repeated--fur she remem
bered—the very words used by 'Mrs.
Crane. '•Mrs. Crano purposely de
ceived you l" he exclaimed. She, nev
er mentioned the subject to me. I as
sure you, Millicent, that until this mu
. •
ment, I did not know . init • that your
.biotaier was stall in his situation in
London."
" Then what must you have thouglit
of rile,'' groaned Millicent ; "of My
stolen visit's to that undesirable street,
and that strange sailor 1"
" No matter now, what I thought.
You were deeply to blanie,,Millicent; .
you oug} t not to have deceived me.'!
" Oh, Richard, if I might have tuld
you! Yon do not know how I longed
to do so;—though I believed you could
not have failed to have a suspicion of,
the true secret. And Phillip feared
that you in your high sense of probity
and honor, might deem it incumbent
on you to betray him to justice. Would
you have done so, Richard t" •
• f' No," said Mr. Cranford. " I
would have helped him away— r to get
the disgrace of his con49ct fad fr°lll
you. ,,
" That day, when yptl came pp, as
I was reading tho note ip the street,
which he, in his disguise, htid put in
my hands, I should have told you all,
Richard, for I was greatly in need of
an adviser, but for the prohibition so
falsely imposed upon me by Mrs
prAne."
!Ig.rs.Crane has much to answer for,
he returned, a grange expressicin of
bitter. arising to his quivering
I.S
lips. hq has parted us forever,
"You do not = yoy will never think
well of me again 1 1 "- she faltered.
"Yes I shall, he said, dial! think
of you again, and tftays as the best
woman who has ever crossed my path
iu life who was, and still ought to be
the dearest. But that niust not be. I
am a married man, Millicent!'
"They had been staudingolose to the
bench, neither having but now
Millicent sank down upon it. " In spite
orhe'r efforts to retain calmness, in' his
presence at this announcement; she
felt ittft color forsake her parted lips,
and hey frame began to shake as if she
liad the ague.
." I *thZflight you were irrevocably
lost to'rne," proceeded Mr. Cranford,
"and my feelings towards you were a
compound of rage and bitterness. In
New York t met with a young lady,
. •
the daughter of of our correspon
'dents there, viii 6 look my fanny—nut
y beart,'Millicent, that had died out
witft.you. Paitly in the indulgenc e
of iny admiration, partly to grtify the
exasperatidn I 'felt toward you, X mar
tied her; find have brought her 'home
to the home that wars t 9 baye been
yours. She is 'with n?o here to day."
Millicent stood up again. She ktroye
still 1:11. calmness, though she-knew
that lifels sunshine was gone forever.- 7
Tile bell was ringing fur the passen
gers to - take their places, and she offer
ed her hand, in fare Well, to Mr. Crau
.
ford.
"4w j justified in yrit heart 7" she
asked.
"Yes. Better though, for that heart,
thaeyou had not been, frir It has lodg
ed h regret that will never pass
away. God bless you. Millicent,P he
whispered, as he wrung her band in
bis—" God blocs you, my dearest, and
render your future . destiny a happy
one—happier thin Mine will be VI
• tie turned away th the platform, and
Millicent alOWly followed,- :ihe saw
him being tint a lac; , y mit!g and very
handsome, from the waiting room,
illacelier In a carriage, and follow her
In. Millicent found her way into an
other.' 4.s the train moved slowly past
rho station, Nillicent saw her book ly
ing on.the bench. She had forgotten
it, so it was lost. I,ost I what matter
ed that, or ally other loss, to a heart,
sick as' her 3 was, with its excess of
ang4ish f -
And so it is, in this - world. That
the commission of.one crime en
tail a wide field of consequence, more
than, at the time can he suspected will
pertain to it. When Philip Crane
lapsed into guilt,to stop up tie fruit.
of his reckless extravagance, he little
thought that he was involving the life's
happiness of one who was dearer to
him than even his fully- 7 his sister
Millicent. • •
THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL
Until
-- -
JOHN S. MANN, EDITORS
COUDERSPORT,
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1356
Republican Nomination.
s
For President,
UDIL7L-e7e;neiz4
OF CALIFORNIA
For Vice President,
7gezni/
OF NEW JERSEY
We call - attention to the ad
vertisement of Smith & Jon•s in anoth
er column. They have a fine stock
of - goods on hand, and Mr. Collins
Smith the senior partner of the firm, is
known as one of the first mer
chants in tho County. Give thorn a
call.
Cad The crops of this county look
better, than, for three years past. and
the weather continues most feyorable.
We feel new life and hope as we go
abroad, and see how every thing grows
and flourishes. Such a crop of irass
we • scarce ever saw in this. county.
Wheat and 'oats look fine, and the . qcra
is coming forward luxuriantly, .
Or We giye another letter this
week from Sheldon Rpsel! in TeNtign
to Kansas affairs, and we ask e_ very
man who desires to know the frolts
of the repeal of the Misso Compro r
miss, to read it.
Ur Our East Smithfield letter this
week, is more than usually internstin&r.
Of! Why have not the murderers of
Dow and other free State men in Kan
sas, been arrested ? Simply because
the Kansas bill was passed for the pur
pose of enabling Slavery to go into
Kansas, and killing off free State men
is a part of the programme.
Eyery prominent free state man in
the Territory has been indicted fur no
crime whatever, except that of being
a freeman, and not a single pro-Slave
ry man has yet keen arrested for any
offence although, they,ha.ye rubbed the,
free state men ofthei r property, burned
their dwellings, an 4 taken their lives.
Aud the Buchanan press of the states
lOok on approvingly, or at least silent
ly on this monstrous tyranny. Would
Jefferson recognize ouch democracy as
this ? Who believes it
THE SPIRIT OP SLIVERY
While the Douglas Kansas Nebraska
bill was before Congress, A. TA:Stevens
of Geol.gia spoke to the Northern mem
bers is the following characteristi'
.Lyle :
..:Well, gentlemen, you make a good
deal of . clanior over the Nebraska
measure, bui it don't alarm us at all.
We have wit pied tathat kind offalk.
You have threatened 614 re, bat you
have-never performed, You have al
ways paved
. in, and :57,11. will again..
You are a mouthing white-livered se a t.
grcourse you pill oppose the measure ;
eve eXpeded that; but wo don't pre
for your oppusitton. You IA tail,
but we don't care for. your .railing.
..ou 'will hiss, but so do adders. We
expect it of millers and we expect it
of you. You are like the devils that
were pitched over the battlements of
heaven into hell. They act up a howl
at their discomfiture, and so will you.
But their fate was sealed, and so is
yours.. You must submit to the yoke
but clop% chafe. You tried to drive .
us to the wall in 1850, but times — are
changed. " Yin] went a wool
na, and have come home fleeced. Don't
Q. be so imp`tident as to complain. You
will only be'slapped in the face. Don't
resist.. You will only be lashed into
qbediepep!'
This - is rather plainer language than
is often used by S mthern members,
bnrall of them talk in this spirit, The
comments of Butler and Toombs on
the Sumner assault, is quite as insolent
anti overbearing. We . commend the
above to Timothy Ives, F. W. Knox.
N. L Pike, Samuel H wen, and all
Others in this county who figured in
the anti-Nebraska ConVention,- held in
our Court House Feb. 20, ISSI ; .who
are no:tt! supporting James Buchanan
for the Presidency. Mr. Stevens has
drawn your portraits with a master's
hand. You have certainly caved in,''
as we expected at the time ; and if the
ether epithets so .gracefully used by
ibis champion of Southern chivalry,
may be properly applied to any body,
it is to such as you, who always submit
1.0 every outs age of the slave power .
SOMETHING DP
JUDGE IVES declines being a candi
date for Surveyor General, and a Dem
ocratic State Convention is to .be held
at Qbambersburg on the 6th of August,
to fill the vacancy thus created.—Phil
adelphia Sun, •
Mr.. Ives is not the first man who
has-had occasion to exclaim " sage
me from my friends."
This statemptit is that " Judge Ives
declines," but it will be found ho was
dragooned into that step.
In fact, we have knovyn for some
time past, that Arnold Plamer, and,
his set were doing their utmost to drive
Mr. Ives from the, ticket, but we did
not believe the State Committee wogld
be used by them. We were mistaken.
The State Committee has yielded to
the importunities of the moist corrupt
clique ollioliticians that ever infested
State.
Mr. Ives is bad enough—quite as
bad -no doubt as these vampires tepre
sent him ; but he is nol,vorse than they
are ; and if he was uct fit t. he Survey
or General, which we freely concede,
neither is either one of the Ohre
which has compassed his dishonor.
The people will take care to consizo
the wl ole of them to a safe retreat.
Who will next decline ?
APOLOGISTS
There area class of men in the
North who tire continually finding fault I
with their neighbors who happen to , I
believe iu the inalienable rights of man.
Thus, for example, we find men here
who apologize, for the infamous out
rages in Kansas, on . the ground that
the poor,dear,innocent border ruffians
were provoked by the. aggressions of
naughty Yankee fanatics. •
Tim following article from the Phil
adelphia- North American throws some
light upon this subject and st, we give
it' entire. The New England Erni ;
grant Aid Society cannot fornish . the
doughfaces with . any more arguments
against freedom. What a pity it is
that four of the five prisoners held by
Democracy. for High Treason should
have . disgraced this State by being
Pennsylvanians. 'But the love of free
dom is not confined to any particular
locality, so we suppose the fanatics
mentioned below cannot help it:
THE KANSAS CONGRESSIONAL COM
MITTEE having arrived at getroit, Mich.
will, it is said, bold a session in that
city to • examine several witnesses
Whom liolence has driven from the ter-.
ritory. • The Hon. W. A. Howard, one
of the memhers of the Committtee, in
forms the editor of the Advertiser that
a state of things !eally exists in Kan
sas far Worse . than is • represented in
the papers. The' mails are atopped
both ways, opened, searched, and noth
ing allowed to paAs that does not suit
the Border Ruffians. We have siujiiar
information also front Mr. Hugb Young,
one of the editors of the LaWrence
He'tald of Freedom, by wborifvtre wort)
Lionsyesterday.. One fact he. men-1
dons which ought to attract attention
in this region: It is that, of the five
persons -Who are in prison in Kansas,
on the charge :of high treason, f o r
merely exercising the poramimest
rights of freemen in a free country,
four are emigrants from the State of
Pennsylvania. viz : G. W. Deitzler,
frOM Schuylkill County, a W. Brown,
from Crawflird County,•Gaiits Jenkins,
from Wayne COunt.y, and Judge Smith,
from Butler County. To this hat we
may also add-the names of Ex-.GoVerqr
or Andrew It Reeder and his Secre
tary; G. P. LOwry, both ofNorth: • p
ton County, Lieutenant Gove Rob-.
er,s, and Mr. Young himself. The
latter was formerly of Coudersport,
Potter County. It will thus he - seen
that, so far from the, alleged rebellion
in I..ansas being fomented by the Ma.a
sachusetts L:tragrant. Aid Society, those
who participated most prominently in
th e Free state movements there, are
frotri Oqr own State. Mr: Brown alone
took with him two hundred emigrants
from Pennsylvama. h %%es his nOws
paper establishment which was des
myed at Lawrence by the Missouri
ros; headed by the notorious Jones.
By this ruthless act, the territory was
left entirely destitute of a free
. joUrnal.
The steam pleas Was broken to pieces
with d Itt.ke hammers so as to' be a
mere wreck ; the types and cases
thrown into the Kansas river; the stock
of paper and ink de.troyed and the
house fired. The materials were alt
taken from Pennsylvania by 'Mr: Brown.
appeal, therefore, for • aid to re
establish his paper, comes with pe
culiar force to the people of this Com
monwealth, and we ask attention to
the documents on the subject, which,
we publish today on our first page.
far The Fillmore National club of
New York, having o'er three thousa•id
members, has gone over to.the support
of Fremont and Dayton,. A,t the meet
ing of the club on Saturday evening,
June 21st., the iollowing among other
excellent resolutions, was adopted :
Resolved, That the National Club os•'
the City of New York recognize in the
aggressions ofthe South upon Northern
interests—as exemplified in the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise which
Henry Clay and his compatriots enac
ted to 'email* inviolate forever—in th%
bloody and cowardly attack upon a
Nto thorn representative in the United
States Senate, to restrain freedom of
speech, the inalienabe prerogative of
an American freeman—and in the cruel
butcheries of Free State American
settlers in the Territory of Kansas', to
facilitate the spread of an institution
that is a blight and - a curse to a free
p,pople = an attempt OR the part of the
South to form and main:AM:a sectional
party, tenets of which are •.repugnant
to the feelings of every true American
freeman.
-1110 X NAiISAS
LAWRENCE, June 10, ISM
. FRIEND M.txx : Reliable ,news has
just reached us relative to the sacking
of the towh of f)a.svottarnie. Last Sat
urday an armed mob entered the town,
and robbed the citizens of everything
they could carry ofi, taking provisions,
clothing, money, and even divesting
ladies of the rings they wore upon
their fingers. After they had consum
mated their Work of plunder they fired
the town,butthe citizens extinguished
the flames before much damage was
done. No resistance was shown by
the citizens of Osawottamie,thet e being
but few in the town; but a messenger
was sent to the Captain era con any.
of dragoOns encamped two miles south
of Lawrence, informing him that if he
did not go and protect the town, the
the citizens of Lawrence would. Tha
Capt. replied he would go, and started;
but in kpeping with all of the adminis
tration acts, they arrived just as the,'
'mob had finished their ruthless plun-.
dering, Wni in time to prevent the free
StaterneV from interfering. This has
been the Pjerce and Shannon game for
the last twa weeks—pretending an in
terposition with tho troops,by ordering
them to different points; but it has only
served as a safeguard for those ' whom
Shannon enrolled as territorial Militia
but who how are turned looseupon the
prairies to Perpetrate these fiendish_
acts upon uneffending citizens, with
the intention of driving them:out of the
Territory. To give yOu a correct idea
of the treatment that free state Even re
ceive from Shanfion's Militia; I Will re
late an occurrence which . transpired
last Saturday, on the Sante Fe trail
between Willow Springs and the Big
Stranger. I have the account from the
man himself, and from ~others -who,
rendered .him assistance in his prleeaii
ous condition. Robert/Hill froin Jae
per. Co.„ lowa, While' on his way
'Sanaa, City, met three men of whom
11 . 4 inquired it they could direct him to
a place where he could, water' his
horses. They referred him ta a farina
near by. Ili drove &wn, the men go-
ing with hirg pretending they were
thirity. After reaching the place they
requested him to say prayers, tell-
big him that ho had u . it long to live,
drawing their revolvers on bin), at the
same time - deminding his m mey. lie
handed thorn $2ll, all he had. They
then.placed his hands behind him, and
tied them together, then-tied his feet
ti tether, and then fastened bis bands
and feet together. After putting a gag
in his mouth and' fastening his hat over
his face they commenced to tantalize
him by telling him that. his hat wuul4
keep the flies from biting him• Finally
after
. senfring at him until satisfied,
they got lilt() his wagon arid drove off,
leaving him as they supposed to (lie
hy inches; bqt fortunately he succeed-
ed in getting off °tie of iris boots, and
;.114s extracted his feet. After walk-
ing about_ eleven Tiles .he reached q
house where they rem.,ved the gag and
unloosed his hands. These men ifaii
they were Alabamialis, and two gave
their names a,s Bond & Elliott. This
act of "law and order" was perpetra
ted by Shannon's Militia sent bore to
en6irce laws as ignoble" as the ones
that try la- enforce it ; and similar
outrages are committed every day in
Kansas. Men are taken while trayel
in4 the highway, - and led with a rope
arovtid their necks to the nearest tree,
and asked questions like the following
Will you lend your influence to make
Kansas' a free, or 4 slave State if
for S.Javeiy you Use; if for freedom,
you dic. Yesterday, .between .this
place and Kansa" City, a, man was led -
out and sospended s to a tree three suer.
cessive times, and his declaring
he would vote to make Kansas a free
State every time, the hangmen told,
him to leave, that, it
. was,,no use to try
to convert him ; Tearn : 3 are stolen,,
men are robbed and murdered, houSes.
are . burnt ;. the assl43sin .stained with,
blood, boasts of the murders he has.
committed, and the incendiary stalks
on the prairies with the match,
in his, hands. guerrilla warfare is
now existing in Kansas, which is daily:
growing- more and more atrocious in.,
its appeal ante, and which undoubtedly"
will result in the subjugation 'of Free
dom or Slavery. Some of the free
state men driven to desperation, have
formed the mselvei into guerrilla parties
and arc 'on the prairies ready to meet
the blood-thirsty ' Southern chivalry..
They have met ! five pro-ilavN.y inen
have -lost their lives, and eight frees
State men are urre3ted tau• mordcr, to
an;wer the chase bof , ,re Jui;e Cato
ot• the district court, a;i4ther 00 better
than LLic.ompte, Shannon has fled,
and is now on his way to St.. LOWS..
Serf think to testify before the Com
wao left hsi e ye3tetday; thaws
think ne is like the Iriliman "afraid of
justice" and bus left to evade the W
ier which he so richly deserves. ' Rob
insert, Jenkins, 13rown, and Deitzlcr
are eticamp,:d two. miles this_ side of
Lecompton %via% nothing to serve as a
shelter but Mattered tent, little larger
than a gapher's bill—in dry weath
er half suff l ,cated, in wet drenched to
to the skin ; and for what I Because
they dared to assert their rights as
freemen in Icansas. •
The Legislature will meet * onsthe
4tl; of 'July yt Topeka.- .Nutwithstand
ing-lho number arrested fur treason,
there are enough left; fora quorum. I
notice that Border' RuThanism has
struck some of the Senators very forci
bly at Washington. - The mail is just
in, and the driver reports two hun
dred Missourians - are on-their - way up
here, and says Westport is all alive .
with the ruffians Who_ are swearing
thtiy will wipe out the last d—d aboli
tionist. They drew their revolvers on
the troops yesterday, and swore they
would not disband. The troops being
but few in cumber have sent a dispatch,
Fort Leavenworth for Sumner.
•
The mail is rifled every night be—
tween this place and Kansas City, but
I want you to write; for occasionally a
letter comes through. All sorts of
rumors are aflorit about men eorning
from the East to help. some, say large
numbers are on their way, others say
Yours truly,
S..C.Russezz,.
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CuNuNtatum.— Why does " Old
Buck " remain a bachelor? Because
he is afraid of giving' iiinbrlige tit.any
of the " Doe-faces " among his sleq
friends.