Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-05-16

forc-an opinion however, which was
not shared by the doctor. Then, begin
ming with the deans unwOnted de-
meanor on the Saturday, and the
abrupt manner in which he sent his
children away, she related the whole
story Of the last Sunday, and the sub
stance Of the extra ordinary sermon he
had delivered with his dying breath.
Lillian listened quietly without any
Interrogation whatever; but when Miss
Mackenzie came to the dying mans
terrible confession, her marble stiffness
left her and she burst into tears and
wrpt silently till the end of the story,
mumurng under her breath, THANK
God. oh, thank Cod she fell that
her brother was III some measure re-
stored 10 her by BIS pcnitrnCc
IL" Gelu'S affair were in perfect Or
dtl, H. h.tH made every preparation
for death. The bishop was Co-eXecutor
with Lillian, Of a will he had made
some time previously, by which he left
haIf his properly to Henry Eyerard,
and thH other half to his two children
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they shOuIG be of age, when the boy
in consideration of his infirmlty, was
to receive two thirds Of the children's
molcty and the girl one
Certain lcgacicS were to be deducted
from the whole amount of his prep
crty; and, by codicil, added on the
day before his death, there was to be
a further deducation of five hundred
pounds, which was bequeathcd to
Ben jamin Lee, only sor Of Alma .Jud-
kins, widow, formerly Of SWayncStOnc,
and lately deceased in BclminSter."
The said benjamin Lee was further
recommended to the interest and pro
lection Of my beloved tWin-sister,
Lillian Maitland"
The terms of IhS statement were as
yet unknown to any one except the
solicitor and the bishop, who had that
morning acquainted himself with
lhem. He had made This early inuuiSi-
zion into the deans temporal affairs
in consequence Of finding in the study
Il Sealed packet addressed TO himself,
3lS executor, an ease of my death be
fore | have time to lay ii before th"
magistrates myself" dated on the day
before his death, duly signed and wit
messed, and containing Il full ana de.
tailed account Of the death Of Bcnja
min Lee, "to be read Immediately
after my DEATH chat Justice may he
done as soon rs possible to those
have WrOngrh"
The bishop, who had with natural
reluctance undertaken the manage
mrnt Of the deans affairs only upon
his earnest solicitation, and under the
consideration that in the course of
nature the dean would olltlivc him,
now wished most heartily that he had
had sufficient strength Of mind to re-.
sst his importantly on the subject.
He wished ii doubly when, on that
very morning, the clergyman who had
heard Alma confession. and taken it
down at her request in writing, to-
which she affixed her signature, con.
iidcd the circumstances to him, and
asked his advice upon the subject.
Both the bishop and Mr.. Strickland
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dead mans disgrace, though the latter
had been Solemnly charged to do SO by
fine dying Alma, and summoned to her
dcath-bed for the express purpose Of,
clearing Evemrd. The bishop, even
after reading the written confession.
still held to the theory of insanity;
but, after the coincidence Of the two
independent confessions, there was no
longer any room for doubt, and he felt
1t his duty to communicate at once
with the Evorard family, and take in
slant stops toward clearing Henry
Evcrard's character, which he did ac
colrllngly Nevertheless. Mr. Strick
land was glad to share the RESPONSE
hlltty with him.
But of this Miss Mackenzie. Of
course, knew nothing and without had
enough to tell her auditors. She ended
by putting into Iilan's hands Il re-
port taken in short hand of the deans
last sermon, which Henry and Lillian
peruscd together.
Evcrard passed a long, long time
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When he entered the silent, Swallowed
chamber, from which the summc" airs
were excluded, ana across the gloom
of which one or two long golden rays
Of sunshine strlycd through UNI
guarded ehinks, and where the air was
heavy with that indeScrihable some
thing that we dare not name. and
laden with the rich perfume OF flowers,
he stood still, With a spaSm at his
hcart,a MI feared to raise the hand
krrchicf from the vriled face.
And when at last he found courage
to gaze upon the beautiful and placid
features pale with the awful pallor
that only comes whom the spirit has
tloWn, he who had looked upon death
in the course Of every day duty so
often and under SO many painful cir
cumslances, realized for the first time
the ley horror and ilTeconcilahlc en-
nifty Of death. a sharp pain, like the
contraction ot iron wires, clutchcd ut
his eyes, which filled with those Scald-