meddled interracialporn with the missing law; that he had kept the state archives in the
same candle-box that had been used as their depository interracialporn from the
beginning; and that he was innocent of the removal or destruction of the
lost document.
But nothing could save him; he was found guilty of misprision of treason,
and degraded from his office, and all his property was confiscated.
The lamest part interracialporn of the whole shameful matter was the reason suggested by
his enemies for his destruction of the law, to wit: that he did it to
favor Christian, because Christian was his cousin! Whereas Stavely was
the only individual in the entire nation who was not his cousin. The
reader must remember that all these people are the descendants of half a
dozen men; that the interracialporn first children intermarried together and bore
grandchildren to interracialporn the mutineers; that these grandchildren intermarried;
after them, great and interracialporn great-great-grandchildren intermarried; so that to-
day everybody is blood kin to everybody. Moreover,
the relationships are
wonderfully, even astoundingly, mixed up and complicated. A stranger,
for instance, says to an islander:
"You speak of that young woman as your cousin; a while ago you called her
your aunt."
"Well, she is my aunt, and my cousin, too. And also my stepsister, my
niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin,
interracialporn my forty-second cousin,
my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law--and next week
she will interracialporn be my wife."
So the charge of nepotism against the chief magistrate was weak. But no
matter; weak or
strong,
it suited Stavely. Stavely was immediately
elected to the vacant magistracy, interracialporn and, oozing reform from every interracialporn pore, he
went vigorously to work. In no long time religious services raged
everywhere and unceasingly. By command, the second prayer of the Sunday
morning service, which had customarily endured some interracialporn thirty-five interracialporn or forty
minutes, and had pleaded interracialporn for the world, interracialporn first by continent and then by
interracialporn national and tribal detail, was extended interracialporn to interracialporn an hour and a half, and made
to include interracialporn supplications in behalf of the possible peoples in the several
planets. Everybody was pleased with this; everybody said, "Now this is
something like." By command, the usual three-hour sermons were doubled
in length. The nation came interracialporn in a body to testify their gratitude to interracialporn the
new magistrate. The old law forbidding cooking on the Sabbath