The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-18

hension for her lover. Mona told Dan
that he must give himself up TO JUS
tice 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 a passionate farewell and
vanished into the night.
Returning half-dazed TO where Ew-
ans body lay. Dan found that his |
fisher friends had planned to take the !
body out TO sea for burial. They en-
barked upon Dams boat and he reluc-
family allowed them to carry out their
plan: owing to their unskilled sewing
of the canvas about Evans body. the
covering slipped apart and the corpse
was washed back TO land.
Despite the fishermen's protest that
all would be prosecuted If they re-
turned. 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
bishop must pronounce judgment on
his own son.
Dan. who had crept back in the
darkness, witnessed the midnight
. burial of Evan, and after slipping
away. narrowly escaped death when
. he fell into an old mine shaft where
! he remained for some time prisoner.
. Meanwhile his fisherman friends were
: arrested as implicated in the murder,
e but during their arraignment in court
Dan appeared, pushed his way through
: the crowd and announced his guilt.
0 He was placed in dungeon under
the bishops jurisdiction, and his IA
> Their, bowed with grief, visited him
n and offered him the means Of escape,
i which he refused
:. 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,
r however, awaited him. With break
u ing heart his father pronounced his
- | Spul6llce. lHlS Abuu Sioih w III Vs.
from his people. From now
forever, let no tongue speak to him
n Alone let him live, alone die"
IS AS the people shrank away from him
le Dan passed from among them to thu
D. south of the island, where boat, con
tanning supplies and provisions, wal
Is awaiting him.
10 For year Dan dwelt in this boa
s. stunning his kind, but at last, unable
Is to endure the loneliness of the sea, h
d. erected rude shelter on a rock,
t. island not far from shore, where h
ly could look upon the habitations o
d. men. On the first night that he slep
n ashore, frightful storm swept hi
i'd boat leaving him prisoner on tn
tie island.
n. Here, for seven years, he spent
d. solitary life striving to make his peac
lis with God, until at last it seemed
lis him the curse was lifted.
on Then at his cabin door appeared
err dying priest, who had landed hal
a fainting from blow received frol
* the boom of his boat. The priest ha
an come from Ireland, at the Bishop-o
ed Mans request, to succor the peop
ex- from a dreadful scourge, called tt
he sweating sickness"
to The priest told Dan that he shou
ay carry on his own unfinished work, co
OK vey his message to the bishop, al
err. help to stay the plague. Before
ss, died the sanity man outlined Il
he methods to be followed in order
IAN check the epidemic.
IRE And then at last Dan knew the o
adj portunity had come to make compile
ing atonement. Able once more to rea'
de- the shore, he went among the suffe
to ers, ministered to their needs al
taught them how to cope with the d
'ow ease. Soon the epidemic was stage
cw- while all the people were loud
uld praise of the strange priest whose ia
i'm seemed to many familiar one.
lat The Deemster was among the Ia
,me stricken, and Dan, summoned to
ON, bedside, arrived in time to ease
and final sufferings and to be recogniz
'om with superstitious horror before
uncle died. Even as Mona entered
ling house to reach her fathers bedsi'
IAN, Dan slipped away, and Fastening
en- the bishop gave him the dead prizes
ish, message, and also the assurance II
his his son lived and had made atol
to ment for his sin.
ans And now, word went abroad that
strange priest proven to be Dan
for Mylrea, had been appointed to S
|, in coed his late uncle as Deemster,
to judge Of the island.
him This message read by Mona, fl
nor her with hope and belief that L
'een should at last come to his own.
hich companied by one faithful fisherb
sta she journeyed to seek him out, o
ma to find him unconscious and i'll u
she'd death. in bare cabin where he
ong. fallen a victim to the disease he
rive so bravely combated.
'llnd Mona watched beside him until
MS his last moments he looked upon
pas with joyful recognition. She n
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