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VOL.XXI NO.5 DECEMBER 3, 1919 GZ 2 Gordon Young Author of “Dangerous Men," “Gaboreau the Terrible,’’ etc. I HAD been arrested on the eve of a State election, revolver in hand, a chamber empty, by the body of emamm James H. Thrope, millionaire lum- berman and candidate for governor. I, Don Everhard, was tried, convicted and sentenced! to death; which, in Cali- fornia, meant to be hanged. From the day of my arrest until this, I spoke no word of defense, I offered no ex- planation and I made no statements. The time has come when I may tell my story. Here itis: IT orm JAMES THROPE was one of the (ea) men—and there are many of his “=< kind—that I instinctively hated. And by hate I mean Hate. There are, I believe, certain tenets in theosophy which Copyright, 1919, by The Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britain. MEGMGOO (0) account for instinctive hatreds as old en- mities carried down from a former incarna- tion. But I know nothing of theosophy beyond that, and I have always found, ultimately, sufficient reasons for hating such men without putting the responsibility on some vague life that I may never have lived In ages past. | Thrope was the sort of man that, had he been a Democrat, I would at once have declared myself a Republican. Had he been a Republican, I would have been a Democrat. I mention this because he was a powerful politician and a candidate, at the time this story ends, for governor. He was a man of powerful body, dominant personality, robust and more vigorous at sixty-five than most men in the earlier years of manhood. I believe that he was generally considered handsome. His face was covered with a short, neatly trimmed black beard. | He had married rather late in years and £5,fe) S|