Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-06
CHAPTER xxxxn
He Drove Out the Man,

"CORRY to trouble YOU at this hour.
Oyour Honor. but had to come and
tell you what has happened"
4 What Is II. .Joshua?''
There has been n fearful outbreak
Iof lawiessness in Douglas this evening
breaking Of shop. windows. looting of
the houses Of well.to.do people, as.
snuits IT,. and outrases Of all kinds"
what IL the reason Of it!'
Mob reason. and YOU know what
that Is. your Honor. They say justice
In the island is corrupt. II you are
rich you get whatever you want. If
you are poor you get nothing. A
guilty man and guilty woman have
been allowed to escape. Why? Be.
cause the man belongs to a family Of
the big ones and is friend Of the
who say that?'
"Old Qualtroush and Dan Bal.
dromma.
"1,aldromma.? II his step daughter
has escaped what has he to complain
Nothing, but that's not the worst.
sir"
"what is?"
THE governor has telegraphed for
soldiers from across the water. They
arc 10 come over BY the first boat In
the morning. It's n frishtful blunder,
sir. ~. ,'..., ...
Beads Of perspiration were rolling
down from Joshua's bald crown;
'There'll be bloodkhed. md Manx-
men won't stand for that. They've
been their own masters for a thous-
and years. The Governor cant treat
them As II they were Indian coolies" :"
"What do ~you think ought to be
donA4S ,t',. . ..f y
""That what I've come to say, sir.
/ had gone to bed but couldn't take
rest, 70 1 got Willie Dawson to drive
me over. 7rhe people may be wrong
about justice, but the only way to
pacify them is to prove IT,
How .,F. q.
THE guilty man In the case must
give himself up
Give himself up?"
Joshua took off his colored spec
tacles and wiped the damp of them.
where he was. He can't be far away,
"wen:"
He ought to be told to deliver
himself up to the courts to save the
island from ruin. And II he won't he
ought to be denounced
"Denounced?"
1T will be terrible ordeal
know that. sir. Your friend. Your
life long friend. Pity! Great pity
For a perccptible time Stowell did
not speak. Then. in voice which
Joshua had never heard before, he
said.
Go home and 60 to bed, Joshua
I'll see what can be DONE
Joshua had gone. the door hat
al Lok ht,p, aurl a Scheo1s
dying away down in the drive, bu
Stowell continued to stand IN the hall
candle In hand and stiff rs statue
4 At length he returned to the dining
room. put the candle on the table ant
sat before the empty hearth. =
, 1t was all over. The plan he hat
made for himself was impossible
There could be no resigning in secrc
and stealing away from the island
lie had done harm to something. III
had done harm to Justice. II Justic
fell down what stood up? The mai
who took the law into his own hand
was a criminal. and as a criminal h
ought to be punished.
Punished? The shock was terrible
Was he then to give himself Vp? II
confess publicly?
He saw himself pleading guilty T.
having broken prison. He heard tn
whole wretched tale of his relation T.
the unhappy prisoner. and of his try
ing and 6ondemning her. coming ou
in open ourt. He heard the howls o
execration from the people who ha'
hitherto loved and cheered him.
lis there no .other way" he aske'
himself.
He saw himself in prison, in prisol
clothes, in the prison cell, on th
prison bed. Above all he saw .anothe
Deemstcr going upstairs to sit on tn
bench while he lay in the vaults be
low.
He thought Of his father and hi
family-four hundred years Of tn
Ballamoars and not stain on tn
name of one Of them until now. H
thought Of Fenella,the cruel sham
he would bring on her. Granted h
was guilty, and deserved punishment
had he any right to punish Fenell
also?
The clock on the landing strucl
one. An owl shrieked in the planta
tion. He got up and strodc about tn
room. The impulses of the natura
\ man began to fight for safety.
! He laughed in scorn of his owl
weakness. but at the next moment
mocking voice within him seemed t
say.
"Go on. Go on! Issue that war
rant. Lot the unhappy girl VIII
trusted you be brought back and ex
ecuted. Let the friend who loved 70,
be arrested and tried and sent to jai
for the crime you have committed
Go through all that duplicity again
Let the whole community be sub
merged in anarchy as the consequenc
Of your sin. But remember, when 70,
come out Of 1t all. you will be devil
and your soul will be damned"
That terrified him and he sat dowl
by the empty hearth once more
After n while he found his hands we
! under his face. lie heard soft
/ caressing voice pleading with him.
! Victor, my darling heart Re
sist this great temptation and peace
! will come to you. DO the right ant
| no matter how low sou may fall In thu
eyes Of men; you will look upon thu
face Of Cod
1t was Fenella's voice--he wa
sure Of that. Across the mountain
and through the darkness of the nigh
her pure soul was speaking to him,
The candle had burnt TO the socke
BY this time. but a new light came t.
him. For more than year he hat
been n slave, dragging a chain Of sir
i h.L;rl him Al cypry sfen in hi