Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-07
BY Eden Phillb0ttS

said. but not such righteous man as you nor
Set such aedlsss creature as me- For WIN
edRess aud goodness hs eften alike ~ pfsNs.
ness I'll await you. and I'm Nery hopeful yeuH
iaFn ne solna good laFning, for I'm wililns 10
do better. and we'll know you're tho man 10
guide the II sou VIII
II could $50 his mind working as II his fore
head was made II slass but Id got him
eatched, Yau zee, and. though ha did make one
effort TO fla another meeting place, ! wouldn't
have il, but said II must he there or nowhere,
II you eau put me right, then I'll come 10 your
chapel later on | promised him, aud be very
good advertisement for your fallh, because what
I say ! sticks lo' but MUS, have tell rrst
whore there won't come none between us. and
that's the very place, And why not
"ita had nothing to say, but ha looked up IN
the sky again and he VAS torn In Two about H.
A. last, however. hu ordained Ia come, beeauss
a soul was at stake. aud believe lac viii come
icmma. Aud II he don't then wen get on him
some other way. But for the minute what
you've got TO do Is this; You've got 10 drink
your teu, then you've got ~ come up 10 tho
Hunting Horn along with me And III open tho
door aud let you in' Then YOU go M TO the
top wear this old white rubber raincont Of mine,
and stand at the parapet and look down when
you see me aud Henry sitting below, He'll
damn soon catch sight OF you. and then we'll
bee how he shapes"
Iemimas eyes grow round,
You want him TO think I'm dead jacob
he's a murderer. aud now his III OF madness IN
over there's no doubt rcmorse IN eating the
wretch alive, But when he sees your ehostey.
than dare say you'll feel you've had revenge
worth talking about. and, after that. when the
bcnstiy nin Il at his last gasp. YOU may may
not decide TO come down aud show mercy. But
that's for you To say. and II you prefer that
You want his neck broke. or anything like that.
shall be only too pleased TO obligo you
Well Jemna hadn't much time to think
-.
felt that jacob had hit on a clever way TO make
IIenry's punishment TT his crime. So she went
through the dusk along with him and put on
his white coat, that had ghosty sort of CLEAN
In the dark, and got In tho tower and climbed
out TO the flat roof and waited Then Jacob
heayed up the wood and stones again and
sitting smoking his pipe. so calm as a reformed
sinner should be, when Henry Bird como along.
Clegg could see by his eyes. like a frightened
horses. and the sweat on bA brow. that IL had
cost him parlous struggle to come. and first
thing Henry did TO ask Jacob to walk in
the wood. because he said tho sound of the
Hunting Horn distracted his mind. But tho
horn was blowing very low that night. and only
off and on. so clegg thought they would bide
there, and invited tother to say the word in
season and tell him what he did ought to do
to be saved.
With mighty effort Henry began his preach
irg. and he was just forgetting his own horrid
crime for a minute and warming to his work
when he lifted his eyes to the tower and saw. sc
White as owl, woman's shape standing mo.
tionless there with her hands lifted, though
calling on heaven. Jemima hadn't no need 10
make a sound. for the sight Of her was more'n
enough-as Jacob knew it would be.
Henry crumpled like dead stick and his
words stuck in his throat. He fell, as though
he'd been hit over the back Of the head and
dropped at jacobs feet where tn y walk
ing up aud down, and clutched hold OF his leg
with one hand and pointed up at the tower
with the other
Gods Justice! What's that?" he yelled out
And Clegg looked where he pointed, but shook
his head and lied
II don't see nothing" he said
"On the tower looking down at us!"
Nothing there vowed Jacob "What do
you think you see?"
And Jemma stood few seconds more bit
she knew by the scream that Henry had marked
her, and then she sank slowly out or sight
Henry Bird collapsed altogether and fluna
himself on the ground. while the other man
carried on the farce.
There's more here than meets the eye SEEM
ihgly," he said. Anyway, there's more than
meets my eye; but il you saw something, twas
either living creature else ghost, and,
whichever 1t may be. I'll damn soon find out"
He ran to the tower pulled down the wood
and flung open the door for Jemima to walk
out.
But, while she and Jacob had arranged the
next scene very careful, they'd forgot there was
another party to it. And he didn't fall in with
their plans by no means for, instead Of biding
where he was and facing Jemima when she
came from the tower as they expected the
love-mad man found he'd had enough. Indeed,
ne rose up and fled so soon as Jacob left him
and never saw Jemima again. Thus he was
gone when she came FORTH and. as there GER
tainly weren't no catching him that night the
woman went home with Jacob to Cleggs
mother. And the next day she was back in
Thorpe, with her secret still hidden, until that
happened which blazed all abroad and ended
the fearful affair, and made nine days won
der for us all.
For now Henry Bird did something more out
or the common and it the turn of Jacob
and Jemima to be good bit surprised at his
next step. Jemima had meant il he'd only
llstened to tell the man how God Almighty
had saved him from being murderer and so !.
on, and there's no doubt, If Henry could have@'
waited and gone through with it, she'd have
forgiven him, because out of his evil actions
had sprung good for her But Bird little knew
he'd seen living woman When Jacob opened
the tower the other believed his number was
Up no doubt, and his crime to be discovered;
SO his mind broke down under the strain Of
his own dreadful actions and he thought the
time was come to pay for 'em. Therefore he
went straight home and cut his throat in the
shed where he kept his bicycle and there he
was found afore noon next day.
1t all come out then and few went so far
as to say that Jemima never ought to have been
Sd fearfully revenged on the man, though most
people was glad to believe her when she said
she had meant to let him off and forgive him
his SINS
The affair cast gloom all and gave
the unrighteous good opportunity to scott. but
twas brought in suicide whilst of unsound
mind'-a. very right and proper verdct-and
it was just another of crossed love bring
ing out hidden evil and proving how nature
may be stronger even than religion when there's
a woman in the balance.