Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-20
CHAPTER NNXI
Victor! Victor! My Victor!

! StOwcll in the Deemstcr's room. at the
end of the second day of the Court OF
General Gnol Delivery.
| AS for you. what have you TO rc-
proach yourself with: SO far as this
case is concerned you have done
nothing that is wrong or irregular. The
girl was guilty. You gave her a fair
trial. The law required that she should
be condemned. You had TO condemn
her. Then why take things so tragic
ally?"
But Fenella %
''She will get over il. Of course she
will. What sensible woman Is going
to throw away the happiness OF life
time because of something that nap.
pencd before she came on TO the sccnc!|
"You heard what she said, sir: >,
II did. and thought it nonsense. !
heard what you said also. and Thought
it madness. What a rrovidcnt,a'
escape. Thank God. it is all over!
The miserable case is at an end Let
us think no more about It..
An inspector of police came into ,he
room TO say that Miss Stanley had lrll
the castle at the close Of the murIer
trial and asked him to tell her father
that she was going home by. tram. me
Governor. with knitted eyebrows ana =
frown. dismissed the inspector, anu
then said TO Stowell. as he turned 10 go
"All the same | am bound 10 say
the whole thing has been unfortunate
-damnably unfortunate
Stowell continued to sit for some
minutes in his robes after the Eover.
nor had left him. Joshua ScarH game
with glass of brandy, =. u
Take this your honor. it VIII
strengthen YOUR nerves for your drive
home. could see you were not well
when YOU arrived this morning.
Stowell had drunk the brandy ana
was setting down the tumblcr when tne
inspector came back TO say that aIter
tho murder trial he had liberated Dal
Baldromma. but had just been compelled
to arrest somebody else.
who else:' J..
: MIR. Cell. The gentlemen seems to
, have gone clean of it. sir. IL the lose
of his case, | suppose.
Ever since the court had risen he had
been demanding to be allowed TO see
the Deemster and threatening what no
would do to him. SO TO prevent Ins
advocate from doing mischief the
, police had put him in the cells. :,
; ''Set him at liberty ut once. SAID
. Stowcll. A.,
n Before your honor leaves thu
n castle?'
INSTANTLY .., a.,
Il The inspector being gone with tnt
- mention Of disobeying the Dccmstrr
= command in order to insure his safety
y Joshua Scarf proceeded to read Hcli
u conduct BY quite a different light.
Il was casy TO see now that Mr.. Cell ha'
been the girls fellow sinner and there
: fore the cause Of her crime.
pity. Great pity said Joshua. a
he helped Stowcll to unrobc. But sue
n connections always begin to end badly.
IS There were still few of the spec
u tators nt III" gate. waiting to see IN
u DcemStCr away. and when he came ou'
II with his white face. another wave
sympathy went out to MN.
n "They've been putting the young CO.
= into the shafts too soon--that VIVA
it is. tell thee.
1t Driving over the harbor bridge IN hi
'r automobile Stowcll began to feel peter
The fresh air from the sea. after tn
- close atmosphere OF the court -hous'
brought the blood back to his BRAN
and he thought he saw things NOR
clearly. :,
The Governor had been right. II
couId nor have acted otherwise withou
bcing false TO his oath as n judge. An
if the miserable fact remained ina
hc should never have been the judge !
This case at all. it was Fcnclla herscl
above everybody else. who had thru'
him into the furnace of that position
surely she would remember this. an
i, would plead in her heart for him:
Half a mile beyond the town h
passed the Governors big blue landau
and realized that by some half-col'
scious impulse he was taxing the ron
to Government House instead OF II
direct way home. SO much the better
lie must see Fcnela at the first pos
| ,jh,c moment. and find out what h
| fare was to be.
| Ills spirits rose as he bounded alon
| Granted h" had done wrong IN IN" lir
instance. terribly and cruelty wron
| hadn't he had many excuses:
J If Bessie Collstcr had told hi
I everything. surely Fcneya would s.
this. TOO, and seeing il, would undc'
stand:
Presently, driving at high speed.
| realized that the half conscious III
| t,mlsc which had carried him on TO Il
road TO Government House was swecl
ing him on 10 the rocky shelf on 4
| coast along which hc had driven wi
| Fonclla on the day hc took his oath.
| How fortunate. What was thar s
| had said. then. as they sang together
| the fuIlncSS Of their JOY over tn" IN
| of the engine and the boom of the sea ::
| that love. what she called love. nrv
u died and never changed. and If she low
Il anybody. and anything happened
Il him. she would fight III" world for hi
ol even though he were in the wrong.
| Even though h" We're in the wron
She would do it now lie was 81,
| she would. Yes. the first shock of
, wretchcd revelation being over, $
I would sce how he had suffered. and h
4 he had striven to do tn" right, and tn
II then everything would be well,
Thus. az he few over the roads,
built himself up in tn" hope Of Fcnelii
forgiveness. But NJ be approached Go
crnmcnt IIous" his heart failed h
again. Something whispered that
excuses he had been making for hi
self were no better than II pretensC
that FcnolA would SEQ him now for
first time >as the man he really vi
not the man she had imagined him to
And thcn--what would happen the
ii III
III As soon rs the trial was over q
III Bessie. weeping bitterly, was tai
II back TO the cells. Fcnclla had LETT Gas
Rushcn. She was ashamed. Rem"
i bering her wild outburst under the
"a torney Generals examination, she v
n rcproaching herself bitterly. Whatc
I Victor StOwcll had done, what ri
had she to dcnOuncc him: She of
5 others. In open court too.
And then Cell. Although nobody {
had understood her. lie had done so.
might have been living in fools pa
Il disc hut was il for her to reveal
:, awful truth to him? In public, too, {
at that narrowing moment!
u To escape from the pain OF self