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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Known to Pharaoh and the modern Children of Israel as the Prophet Elias, Frank," explained the notary. "I have heartily indorsed his good work. Furthermore, he knows well how to keep a secret and how to train others to keep one. Tasper Britt went to bed this night without one inkling of what was about to happen.
He knew it was up to him to be the first man in Egypt to come in contact with Tasper Britt that morning. Stage-driver Jones had an early breakfast, for he had to be off with the mail. Mr. Jones had been up late, for him, and he was grouchy. In the matter of the warfare on Pharaoh his mood seemed to be less assertive than it had been the night before. Mr.
The wanton luxuriance of the hair would have stirred envy in any baldheaded man; but Tasper Britt exhibited a passion that was more virulent than envy. The man who came forth was "Prophet Elias." It was the newcomer, the religious fanatic, the exhorter against oppression of the people by usury, the fearless declaimer who named Tasper Britt in diatribe and was setting the folks by the ears.
The onlookers were considerably surprised by Britt's silence; they wondered what controlled his tongue; but they were not in doubt on one point every man of them knew that when Tasper Britt wore that expression it meant that he had settled upon the method of his revenge in the case of one who had offended him.
"And I'm keeping you on," stated the cynical Usial, speaking for his brother's benefit, "because you're a self-operating, red-hot gad that is helping me torment yon pirate with texts after I had run out of cuss words. Go ahead, Prophet! Shoot anything. It's a poor text that will not hit him some place." Obediently, the fanatic began to mouth Holy Writ in orotund. Tasper Britt raised his fist.
Tasper, you sit down there in a comfortable chair and let me rub on some optimism anodyne where you're smarting the worst." When Mrs. Harnden came into the room a half hour later she looked promptly relieved to find Mr. Britt in such a calm mood; when she had hurried out he was acting as if he were intending to kick the furniture about the place.
But he was Tasper Britt, in looks, as Britt unadorned ought to have been. There was something like subtle reproach in his sticking to nature as nature had ordained. And the folks of Egypt had been having much to say about Usial Britt putting this new touch of malice into the long-enduring feud between twin brothers even though he merely went on as he had been going, bald and gray.
Just think of our own good state making a hideous exhibition when we're all trying so hard to get back to peace!" "Must have law and order," Tasper insisted. "Will Governor North tell those soldiers to shoot and kill?" "Sure thing! His oath of office obliges him to protect state property. I've just been reading proof of an interview he gave us this afternoon."
In the meantime, also, Tasper Britt and a hired girl had become fixtures in the Harnden home and the hired girl was quite in love with Vona and in entire sympathy with her stand; the girl brought to Vona's room the tidbits of all the meals and offered to put tacks in Britt's doughnuts if that would help matters any. Vona was entirely serene in her companionship with her father and her mother.
The animal was gone. Standing there, bitterly conscious of what had happened and acutely aware of what was likely to happen with those three miscreants on the trail of the treasure that they coveted, Vaniman accepted his full measure of responsibility. He did not excuse the passion which had prompted him to open his heart in regard to Tasper Britt.
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