The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-23

At the close of his trial Dan was
pronounced guilty" and awaited the
death-sentence which he felt sure must
follow. A more dreaded fate, however,
awaited him. With a breaking heart
his father pronounced his sentence:
This man shall be cut off from his
people. From now, forever, let
no tongue speak to him. Alone let him
live, alone die"
AS the people shrank away from him
Dan passed from among them to the
south of the Island, where boat, con-
tanning supplies and provisions, was
awaiting him.
For year Dan dwelt In this boat
stunning his kind, but at last, unable
to endure the loneliness of the sea,
he erected rude shelter on a rocky
island not far from shore, where he
could look upon the habitations of
men. On the first night that he slept
ashore, a frightful storm swept away
hts boat, leaving him a prisoner on
the island.
Here, for seven years, he spent a
solitary life striving to make his peace
with God, until at last it seemed to
him the curse was lifted.
Then at his cabin door appeared a
dying priest, who had landed half
fainting from blow received from the
boom Of his boat. The priest had
come from Ireland, at the Bishop-of
Mans request, to succor the people
from a dreadful scourge, called the
Sweating Sickness
The priest told Dan that he should
carry on his own urfiniled work, con-
vey his message to the Bishop, and
help to stay the plague. Before he
died the sanity man outlined the
methods to be followed in order to
check the epidemic.
And then at last Dan knew the op-
portunity had come to make complete
atonement. Able once more to reach
! the shore, he went among the suffer
ers, ministered to their needs and
taught them how to cope with the dis
ease. Soon the epideljic was stayed,
while all the people were loud in
praise of the strange priest whose face
seemed to many a familiar one.
The DeemSter was among the last
stricken, and Dan, summoned to his
| bedside, arrived in time to ease his
! final sufferings and to be recognized
with superstitious horror before his
uncle died. Even as Mona entered the
house to reach her fathers bedside,
! Dan slipped away, and Fastening to the
Bishop gave him the dead priests mes
sage, and also the assurance that his
son lived and had made atonement for
| his sin.
And now, word went abroad that the
strange priest, proven to be Daniel
Mylrea, had been appointed to succeed
! his late. uncle as Deemster, or Judge
of the Island.
| This message read by Mona, filled
! her with hope and a belief that Dan
! should at last come to his own. Ac-
companied by one faithful fisherboy
she iourneyed to seek him out, only
to find him unconscious and i'll unto
death, in bare cabin, where he had
fallen a victim to the disease he had
so bravely combated.
Mona watched beside him until in
his last moments he looked upon her
with joyful recognition. She murmur-
ed the Lords prayer and as he echoed
the words, Deliver us from evil" his
spirit passed.
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"Hypathia," by Charles Kingsley, as
condensed by Prof w. r. Harris, will
be printed Monday.