The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-03-19


that he must give himself up to JUS
tice and that by so doing he should
atone for mis- 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 MS
Christmas service, He and the Deem
ster looked upon the face of Evan and
realized the tragedy; and the latter
taunting 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
no fell into an old mine shaft where
no remained for some time 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 IA
Their. bowed with grief, visited him
and offered him the means Of escape
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,
however. awaited him. With a break
ing heart his father pronounced his
sentence: "This man shall be cut on
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 a year Dan dwelt in this boat
stunning his kind, but at last, unable
to endure the loneliness of the sea, ne
erected a rude shelter on a rocky
: island not far from shore, where ne
, could look upon the habitations OF
: men. On the first night that he slep'
ashore, a frightful storm swept his
! boat, leaving him prisoner on th'
2 island.
Here, for seven years, he spent
: solitary life striving to make his peace
; with God, until at last it seemed t.
5 him the curse was lifted.
n Then at his cabin door appeared
diving priest, who had landed half
a fAinting from a blow received from
; the boom of his boat. The priest hat
n come from Ireland, at the Bishep-of
A Mans request, to succor the peopl
: from a dreadful scourge, called tn
Q Sweating sickness"
O The priest told Dan that he shoul
v carry on his own unfinished work, cor
: vey his message to the bishop, an
r. help to stay the plague. Before h
5, died the sanity man outlined tn
e methods to be followed in order {
n check the epidemic.
e And then at last Dan knew the OF
l. portunity had come to make complet
g atonement. Able once more to reac
p the shore, he went among the suffel
% ers, ministered to their needs an
taught them how to cope with the di
" ease. Soon the epidemic was staye'
v while all the people were loud
d praise of the strange priest whose faC
n seemed to many familiar one.
T. The Deemster was among the la
le stricken, and Dan. summoned to h
n. bedside, arrived in time to ease h
i'd final sufferings and to be recognize
~ with superstitious horror before h
uncle died. Even as Mona entered Il
lg house to reach her fathers bedsid
n, Dan slipped away, and Fastening
n the bishop gave him the dead priest
h, message, and also the assurance TIL
is his son lived and had made atom
to ment for his sin.
IS And now, word went abroad that Il
strange priest. proven to be DAM
or Mylrea, had been appointed to su
in coed his late uncle as Deemster,
to Judge of the island.
m This message read by Mona, fill
II her with hope and a belief that d;
IN should at last come to his own. A
Oh companied by one faithful f1sherbc
a she journeyed to seek him out, on
a. to find him unconscious and i'll IN
ed death. in a bare cabin, where he HI
Ig. fallen a victim to the disease he h
re- so bravely combated.
I'D Mona watched beside him until
lis his last moments he looked upon h
Is with joyful recognition. She mi
Irt INJURED the Lords prayer, and as
echoed the words, Deliver us fro
Ut evil" his spirit passed.
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