The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-13

could but know tits an assault on the credible
lily of Bible narrative, SO powerful, direct, 50
specious and so charged with learning that
published it will work incalculable harm. 10
doeth Gods Service, whatever the world may ny
OF him, who destroys this monograph 1t Is bst-
ter far that one should suffer martyrdom rather
than uncounted thousands perish in the ruin Of
their faith Against Alice Edmunds, personally
have no case. But her work is of satan. The
nobility of her life weighs not in the scale Of her
purpose.
But you curious to know how gained pos
session The explanation is simple. 1 tsld you Z
woman took it. That woman Is my daughter
Margaret! On the afternoon of the loss, just ~
night closed in, Margaret fastened homeward-
the day you left the mountains-with q thick
package under her arm. 1t was wrapped in folds
of stiff paper and securely tied. She came into
my study, with merry laugh, exclaiming: "Sse,
papa, what have found in the street. picked
little hole in the bundle, just enough to see
that Tve got some blank sheets of writing paper.
hadn't time to open It, was in such hurry
to get back and help Nellie about dinner. Give
me half the reward papa and the dear girl
tripped away lightly.
Slowly united the package. Luckily for me-
Margaret's fingers exposed only the blank side Of
the typewriter pages. What read brought duty
and inclination into awful conflict Duty won;
you know at what fearful cost to my peace Of
mind And when Margaret asked me in her pretty
way at dinner, Papa, am to have my reward7'
heaven gave me strength to reply playfully,
Yes. dear, the package is worth three dimes
and here they are in advance
The weeks of awful wrestling that followed
brought my malady to its climax. The night
sent for you precipitated the fercest battle of my
storm driven soul. nearly confessed all. had
strength to resist, although afterward feared
had given you dangerous clew And now, In
my death and in the burning of this manuscript,
religion will profit immeasurably. One day, in
the clear light of the hereafter, Alice Edmunds
herself will forgive me.
Goodby. dear old Ned. commend my children
to your keeping and care. How can express my
love in the thought of past kindness and solicit.
ude for me and mine7 We shall meet again one
day. Until then long farewell.
CALVIN TErLow.
The extraordinary case Of DIR. Tetlow
Is told, but it may be Of interest to
know that Burke Johnson fully recov-
cred from his attacks and is now
prosperous business man In the city.
Tom, who afterward came to know
him well, found, upon cautious inquiry,
that he had not the slightest recollec-
ton Of sending the note and therefore
no knowledge of his part in the trag-
edy. Alienists declare that this form
Of temporary insanity is by no means
uncommon.
AS to Alice Edmunds, Tom and ar
ranged SO that the monograph on the
"Great Stone of Thebes" found its way
back to her study without the least sue
picion Of the method of its return, and
when given to the press in SO far from
Ae>,S<SotevSnO orcS,~,nto oSosV <o,<u ,,v,Nns
mining faith in the newer light of pres
ent day criticism it is regarded as,
conservative statement of what candid
scholars, from Lernormant to Sayce,
fully credit and teach.
A final question remains-was DIR.
Tetlow himself insane, or did the
growth of his malady so warp his men,
tai processes and distort them that,
without being actually out of his mind,
his subsequent conduct followed a
course repugnant and impossible to
any healthy SOUL however narrow in
doctrine?
Personally firmly hold to the latter
view, and some years later, in reading
up an important case, discovered cor
roborative proof In two distinct in-
stances in the records of Jurisprudence,
cases where papers Of the highest val
ue were distracted by persons Of hith-
erto unimpeachable character and
standing, because those persons feared
the effect on the morals of the commu-
nifty by publication. refer to the Men
den robbery from the study of cler-
gyman in Chaplain road and to the loss
of the famous Salvador manuscript
from the British museum.