Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-17
|THE MASTER OF MAINLY Sir Hall Caine
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house--they suited better with MS
mood.
Fenclla. She must know everything
by this time. How was he to meet her
eyes IN the morning!
Cell. He. TOO. must know every
thing now. How every innocent thing
he had done TO help his friend would
look like cunning bribery and cruel
trcachery
/ 1t was n lie 10 say that a sin could
he concealed. An evil act once done
could never he undone: It could never
be hidden away. A man might carry
his sin out TO sea. and bury II III the
deepest part Of the deep. but some day
IT. would come securing up before n
storm as the broken seaweed came, to
lie open and naked on the beach.
The sky darkened and he turned
back. On the way home he met Rob-
bic Greer. and they had to shout TO
each other above the fury Of the wind.
The farmer had been over to the Nsp.
pin tthc fields above thc Point and
| found hidden assures in the soil three
feet deep. They would lose land before
morning.
At dinner Janet did her best to make
things cheerful. There was the swcc,
home atmospherc--the wood fire with its
odor Of resin and gorse. the snow..whltc
tablccloth. the silver candlesticks. all
the old fashioned daintiness. But
Stowcl! was prcoccupied and hardly lis.
tened 10 Janct's chattcring. So Sh"
went early TO lor room. saying she was
sure he wished TO be alone--hiS father
always did. during the adjournment "
n serious case. His father again. How
her devotion to his father drove the iron
into his soul.
Il was late and the rain had begun
TO slash the window -pancs. when he
heard the front door bell ringing. After
n fcw moments he heard II ringing
again. moro loudly and insistently.
Nobody answered II. The household
must be asleep.
Then came a hurried knocking at the
window Of the dining room and n voice.
which was like the wind itself become
artirula,c. crying out Of the darkness !:
LET mo in.
1t was Cell. For tho first time in his
life Stowcll fclt a srasm Of physical
fear. But he remembered sonnet hing
! which Gell had said at the door Of the
railway carriage in Douglas on the
: day Of the trial Of the Peel fisherman
CT should have killed tho other man J
and that strengthened him. Anything
was better than the torture Of hidden
sin-anything
| Go back 10 the door--Tll open it,
he called through the closed window,
| and then he walked TO the porch.
His heart was beating hard. lIe
thought he knew what was coming. But
when Cell entered the house he was MOI
the man Stowell had expectcd-wltf
flaming eyes and passionate voicc-hu'
a poor. broken. irrcsolute creature. His
hair was disordered. his step was weak
, and shufflng. and he was stretching
out his nervous hands on coming into
the light as il still walking in thu
T. da' kness.
r II had to come and tell you. She.
guilty. She has confessed he said.
p And then he collapsed into a chat
. and broke into pitiful moaning. /
. was too cruel. He could have takel
q She had deceived him.
Did she say who q
"No?"
- II didn't ask. Some miserable farm
n hand, ] suppose--some brute. some ami
! NAL. Damn him. whoever he is. DAM
him. Damn him TO the devil and hell =
! But what matter about the man.
said Cell. ITS the girl who has da
h ccivcd me. | darcsay I'm not the frs
o either. Perhaps her stepfather didn'
: lnrn her ont for nothing. There ma
). have hecn something to say for the oil
2 scoundrcl."
. Choking with hypocrisy. Stowel
y found himself pleading for the girl. Pcr
y haps who could say?
n perhaps she had been more SHINE,
against than SHINING.
:, Then why didn't she tell x,,e?' sal,
Cell. His voice was like q wall.
''Who can say - (Stowell fel
throb in his throat and was speakin,
with difhcultyl. who can say sh
4 WASH t trying to save YOU pain
:, knowing how you believed in her AM
2 cared for her?''
= But If she had only told me-" sal,
. Cell. ~ she had only been straigh
y. with me. :"
\ Stowel felt himself on the edge o
y terrible revelations. Hut he controlle
himself II Bessie had concealed par
Il Of the truth what right had he to reves
:, it: After a moment Of silent terror h
y. asked Cell what he meant TO do in tn
o morning.
. ''Advirc her to- amend hcr plea an
is cast herself on the mercy of the Court.
: ''ies. that is the only proper cOurS
now said Stowell, and then Gell ros
j. to SO.
il
4 To be cOntin tomorrow
II ,CopDriahi. 1921. international Maoa.ine Co
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