The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-23
THE DEEM STER
BY HALL GAME
Condensation by Caroline Ticknor

The scene Of this story is laid in
the Isle OF Man, two centuries ago,
and it is filled with the weird super
stltions Of the Manx people
'Thorkell Mylrea, the Deemster. was
violent, cruel and crafty Judge, who
| dWelt among the sturdy fisher-folk
dispensing whatever justice suited his
purpose. Being accustomed to bending
oil others to his will he was bitterly
disappointed when his scholarly son,
EVAN, refused to fulfill his worldly am
billions and retired into the ministry.
In anger, he cast him off and took into
his household his illegitimate son,
Jarvis kerruish, a worthless fOp-
Those qualities of strength and lead
ership which he longed to see in his
son, EVAN, the Deemster found in his
daredevil nephew, Bishop Of Man Dan
was handsome, fiery young giant,
who excelled in every manly sport, and
EVAN and his lovely sister, Mono,
adored their stalwart cousin, whose
wild exploits among the fishermen
gave the Bishop much anxiety From
time to time Dams impulsive nature
run away with him and he committed
some reckless act that he sorely re-
| penleO later.
In moment of thoughtlessness,
when bounded for a debt, which he
feared would worry the Bishop, Dan
forged his cousins name, feeling sure
that Evan would willingly have adj
vanced the money, and EVAN, being
| confranted with the signature, de-
cared it TO be his own, telling a tie to
| save his cousin from prosecution.
| Dan DrOmOt pXnroSSiOTIc nj SORROW
and gratitude were checked by Evans
announcement that Dan should be
from this time stranger to himself
and sister. Crushed and Inundated,
Dan rushed to Mona's home and
sought his cousin in her room, where
he acknowledged his fault and protest
! cd against being estranged from her.
Mona assured him that nothing
! should ever estrange them, and Dan,
deeply repentant, hurried away, en-
Counterirs in the hall Jarvis Kerruish,
who seeing him emerge from his
cousins room, promptly reported to
the Deemster this evidence of Dams
improper conduct towards Mona.
The Deemster, whose feeling for
Dan had changed to jealous hatred.
in turn conveyed this intelligence to
Evan, doing his best to convince him
that Dan had treated Mona dishonor-
ably. An excited interview between
Evan and his sister followed in which
i Evan mistook her innocent protesta-
tons OF love for Dan for a conirma-
ton of her lovers guilt, and dashed
away to avenge her supposed wrong.
He found Dan ready to beg forgiveness
for his past fault, but in blind passion
Evan took no heed of his words; &C
cused him of being the basest of
scOundrels and babe him depart from
the Island.
Dan protested his innocence. but
when he found that Evan believed him
to be so base, his own wild passion
famed up and he, in turn, cried out
that there was room for but one Of
them in the world"
A mortal combat followed, near the
edge Of a cliff, and Evan, almost over
come, threw his dagger into the air
and reeled backward, falltg otr tte
precipice to his death. Then Dan
realized what he had done and was
overwhelmed with remorse.
i was Christmas Eve, and Mona
waiting for Evans return, had terri
BILE presentiment of his fate. AS she
tried to Danish her fears, Dan climbed
in through her window, Frustrated
himself before her, and confessed his
guilt.
Filled with grief for her brother,
horror at Dams confession, and APP
rrehension for her lover, Mona told
Dan that he must give himself up to
justice and that by so doing he should
atone for his sin. He pledged himself
to do as she wished, and while she
protested her undying love for him, he
babe her passionate farewell and
vanished into the night
Returning halfdazed to where
Evans body lay, Dan found that his
fisher friends had planned to take the
body out to sea for burial. They en-
tarked upon Dams boat and he re-
luctantly allowed them to carry out
their plan; owing to their unskilled
sewing of the canvas about Evan 5
body, the covering slipped apart and
the corpse was washed back to land.
Despite the fshermen's protest that
all would be prosecuted if they re-
tNrnt Dan insisted upon their doing
so. Evans body having been washed
ashore was brought to the church
where the Bishop had just finished his
Christmas service. He and the Deem
ster looked upon the face of Evan and
realized the tragedy; and the latter
haunting his brother with the fact that
if Dan were proved the culprit, the
BishC< must pronounce judgment on
his own son.
Dan, who had crept back in the
darkness, witnessed the midnight bur
ial of Evan, and after slipping away,
narrowly escaped death when he fell
into an old mine-shaft where he re-
manned for some time a prisoner.
Meanwhile his fisherman friends were
arrested as implicated in the murder,
but during their arraignment in court
Dan appeared pushed his way through
the crowd and announced his guilt.
He was placed in a dungeon under
the Bishops jurisdiction, and his faith
er, bowed with grief, visited him and
offered him the means of escape,
which he refused.