Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-03

His voice had become gradually un.y
steady, and at last broke out again int6 g
that anguished appeal. II might have
stirred the hearts of more tender folky
but there was no pity in the faces Of his
listeners
Redfern Churchilrs desperate act Of
heroic defiance had already caused .
current Of feeling to set tin in his favor,
and now TO hear that he was innocent
was more than they could bear calmly.
A growl Of rage, hate, contempt and re-
morse broke from the spectators.
Lynch himl" shouted one man, and
mc ominous cry was taken up by q
dozen voices. A surging wave OF furi-
Gus men broke In upon tho little group
which, still desirous of keeping order,
had gathered about james Snaresbrook.
Tho news was communicated from one
to another. starting from the edge Of the
prccipice, and reaching the crowd sur
rounding the author Of this horrible dis
nster, that some Of tho searchers had sue
ceeded In discovering Redfern Churchill's
body lying, face downward, on the ledge
of an unattainablc rock. Tho sight of the
young mans body stretched there broke
down the last barrier of self control, and
nothing could keep the enraged crowd
in check.
When the townsmcn OF Deadmans
Flat returned about MONDAY 10 their din
ners and daily occupation. they were
minus one of their number
James Snaresbrook met his fate brave
ly, horrible Thought was. The measure
OF his punishment was filed; Cor he was
too late to save an innocent man, whom
his daughter loved. and he died without
one kiss or one word Of farewell from
the lips Of that daughter the only being
on earth who cared for him. She was
still unconscious when he had gone in to
sec her before starting on his last ride,
and hc had not dared to linger for an in
stant In his last moments his thoughts
were Of her; he remembered that, on her
recovery to consciousness, she would
learn tho news that her father was two
fold murderer, and at once death lost all
It's terrors.
Redfern Churchill did not die after all.
II was confidently asserted in Deadman's
Flat, where belief in such things was not
common, that he was saved by d.
vine miracle. Perhaps II may safely be
said that tho inhabitants Of Deadman's
Flat mover rejoiced SO keenly or SO CRATE
fully over anything as they did over the
return to life OF tho man they had once
gone out 30 cheerfully to hang. It was
Jack Newenham who, at tho imminent
risk Of his own life, went down the preci-
pico to recover what he believed to be tho
dead body of his friend II was no who,
finding that life still fingered, nursed
! Churchill back TO consciousness. Then
followed q long, weary, anxious time
Months passed by, and even then Redfern
Churchill was not, nor ever could be, the
same strong athletic man who had taken
that desperate leap TO save himself from
n shameful DEATH He never murmured;
he knew that, as a man sows, go he must
reap. The road that led to that awful
precipico had been chosen Of his own free
will when he first plunged rccklessly into
folly and sin.
To him, as TO Elaine, earthly happi-
ness was long in coming. Tho shock Of
her fathers shameful death was ter
rible blow 10 her; but nc last there came
day when the two turned back to love
and hope. Together she and Redfcrn
Churchill lived down the past. II was
hard work, but they succeeded. After
Tom Cairnes' death there was no fear Of
the real facts OF his disgrace being pub.
licly known. Tho man whose notes he
had taken, holding high position In
business and society, had no desire to
publish tho fact that he had been robbed
in low gambling house. A day came,
too when Redfern Churchill paid him
back to the full all that no had taken,
t .t,Il f<<.
tioning the affair. Churchill himself
felt tho disgrace 10 the end of his days
to him nothing could wipe it out. He
had committed the crime in q moment OF
desperation, tempted by Cairnes. BY an
accident he had picked up the bundle Of
notes just at the time when the gambling
fever was high upon him. There were
but dozen steps between him and tho
table, where he thought that luck. In q
second, would convert him from ruined,
desperate man TO one who would resolve
never TO enter such place again.
lyon can pay him back with interest
In an hour" Tom Carnes had urged, az
tho young man began TO put the pocket
book back into the coat from which u
had fallen. "Sowerby is in the next
room, as drunk as n fiddler; he'll never
know you borrowed 1t. Luck must
change" and so ON, until Churchill.
scarcely knowing what he did, fell.
As for the Hon. Jack Newenl,am, .
distant relative died before even hs
could leave tho bedside of his friend and
left him considerable fortune. which
efectually silenced the taunts Of Mr..
Churchill, senior, on the subject Of the
folly of marrying younger sous. Violet
went with him 10 England to look after
his new property, and all his friends de-
clarcd that there was no happier couple
In the land than the Hon. John and Mrs.
Newenham.
Rcdfern Churchill and his wife often
exchanged visits with tho Newenhams.
and the friendship between the Ameri.
can and English households was reckon.
ed by them as not the least good thing
among the many that had come into
their lives.
THE END.