Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-12-26

provide way of escape for these
men are responsible for the loss Of
sixty-three lives, and for this they
shall one day answer at the bar OF
Cod
Whereupon Mr. and Mrs Hector
McKill hastily seized their hymn
books and hurried from the Kirk Of
the Valley And two mornings after
wards John Fowler found on his
manse table letter from the solicit
tor of incubus, Romer & Company
The letter informed him that he had
laid himself open to an action for
| libel. and requested the name of his
| law agent John Fowler had none,
| hut he made an answer with his pen,
and the answer ran as follows:
| Il specially declared in my sermon
| that took nothing to do with appur-
| tioning blame before human tribunals.
And. as for the others, shall be
wholly satisfied to meet your clients
/ at the bar which alone I named, on
the great day when all wrongs shall
be righted and all crimes punished"
John Fowler heard no more OF the
action for libel.
When Vic elbowed his way outside
the throng, he found Janet Fowler
looking for her father. She was a
plaln-faced girl with beautiful eyes,
and she always had on her shoulders
the burden of the valley manse. Gen
orally Vic Morris, his head full of Vida
Bryan, paid little attention to Janet.
She was, of course, full Of questions
as to her father.
EYES," Vic answered. "Mr. Fowler
was well--Mr Fowler would be up in
few minutes. The men in the west
workings were saved. How did he
know? Well, he, Vic Morris, had been
down"
Then Janet Fowler began to cry, not
noisily, but, as her little sister Violet
said, severely Janet Mackaposh
Fowler (Mackaposh-McI what
for does the water run down your
cheeks into your neck? You'll take
the starch out of you lace collar
and them"
, But as soon as Janet Fowler knew
that it had been to bring up Vida
!; Bryan that Vic had risked his life
she stopped crying quite suddenly
| and went home, dragging after hel
the most unwilling Miss Violet, who
, thought that it was Gust luvvly to see
, SO many people, an the lamps al
) lighted, an the carts. an all!"
She was no longer anxious about
hei father. Neither were Tim ant
: ALI and Raft. They were much ex
} cited, on the contrary. to see Mr.
, Morris. They hurrahed as he came
!. up the garden, where Tim-of the age
!, Of nine, who had his head filled will
/. "the gallant acts Of British soldiers,
l CLEANED out Of prize book Of Raft:
! decorated him on the spot with thu
$ capsule of gingerbeer bottle by wa!
8 Victoria Cross. They we're all disap
! pointed. however, when Vic Morris
3 went to his own room to escape thei
5 attentions. 1t was mean of him no
to stop and tell them all about !,
i But when Vic Morris got there. h
: went to his window and looked ava,
4 up into the CORN woods, through
). long, green alley-way of trees. Hi
:. chamber at the Valley Manse was s
g high that he could see right over tn
L houses Of Kirktown. through the va
b ley of the CORN water as through
e telescope and so across where 1t turr
+ ed. at right angles to little cottag
= on the edge Of wood In the gable
end of 1t light had begun to burn.
/! So he had saved Vida and sent he
G home, and she had never even thanl
r ed him for it.
e CONTINUED In next issne.)