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Again I suggested, maybe the workers were not yet sufficiently educated to run the industries, they might need some help from the present masters. "Just a little more education," I ventured And John Colver laughed, the first ugly laugh I had heard from him. "Education by the masters? Education at the end of a club!"
Their voices silent, their horses falling quickly into the pace set by the big black, Rogers and the other men followed. The other half of Rogers' men, headed by Colver, were several miles behind Deveny's horsemen when they reached the South Trail.
And after that he asked John Colver, who sat on his right hand, to recite some of his verses. John and his friend Philip, a blue eyed, freckle-faced lad who looked as if he might be in high school, told stories about the adventures of outlaw agitators.
Said Carpenter: "It is not such a bad thing for a cause to have its preachers go to jail." "Well," said the lad of the blue eyes and the freckled face, "we try to keep a few outside, to tell what the rest are in for!" Later on, I remember, John Colver told a funny story about this pal of his.
John Colver was in the neighborhood, and wanted to know if Carpenter would meet him. "Who is John Colver?" asked the prophet. And it was explained that this was a dangerous agitator, now under sentence of twenty years in jail, but out on bail pending the appeal of his case to the supreme court. Colver was a "wobbly," well known as one of their poets.
Guess it was the same in David's time as in ours the women did the heft of the singing? Then she began singing, husband and son helping. 'Why don't you all sing? she asked, 'aint you got religion yet? My, if you heard Elder Colver you would be on your knees and get converted right away. The mistress said they did not know the words of the hymns she sang, when she became curious to hear us.
Guns in hand, they alertly watched the men who were with Deveny, plainly determined that there should be no interference from them in the tragedy that seemed imminent. Rogers and his men, and the riders who had come with Colver, were also watching the Deveny group.
Colver and his men fled up the valley, following the trail taken by Deveny and the lone horseman, and when they had gone two or three miles they saw a rider coming toward them. They raced toward him, for they saw he was in trouble; that he had lashed himself to the pommel of the saddle, and that he was leaning far over it, limp and inert.
Who's with me?" "You're shoutin'!" declared Colver. "It's time for a new deal," muttered another. "You're doin' the yappin'," grimly announced a big man who was close to Rogers; "we're followin' your lead." "I'm jumpin' for the Star then!" declared Rogers; "to put Harlan wise to where Deveny's headed for. We're leavin' the herd here until we find out what's goin' on.
N. P. Colver, of Detroit, had appointed the Sabbath to meet the friends in our school-house, for the purpose of organizing a Baptist Church and of ordaining brother Campbell to take charge of it. I told all of our people to be sure and attend it with me.
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