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Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932

"Wild Youth, Volume 2."

There's plenty of evidence. She run away from me to go to him.
She stayed with him a whole night on the prairie. I want the divorce,
and I can get the evidence. Everybody knows. This is the Lord's
business, and I mean to see it through. Shame has come to the house of a
servant of the Lord, and there must be purging. In the days of David she
would have been stoned to death, and not so far back as that, either."
A moment afterwards he was gone, slamming the door behind him. His blood
was up-a turgid, angry flood almost bursting his veins. He now made his
way to the house of the Methodist minister. There he announced that if
he was disciplined at Quarterly Meeting, as was talked about in the
streets, he would go to law against every class-leader for defamation of
character.
By the time this was done the evening was well advanced. He did not
leave Askatoon until the moment which coincided with that in which
Orlando left Nolan Doyle's garden and took the trail to Slow Down Ranch.
Orlando would strike the trail from Askatoon to Tralee at a point where
another trail also joined.


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