Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-10

Green. He got nothing out Of the old
lady except lamentations.
"Oh, dear, oh dear, what Is the
world coming tot"
At length, with an air Of authority,
he went to Fenella's bedroom, and found
her on her knees before an open trunk
into which she was packing her clothes:
"Fenella," he said," this is nonsense.
1t cannot be-"
I'm afraid it mus, be, father"
Look here, girl, when a mans
angry he doesn't always mean what ne
ITS better that I should, father"
The Governor struggled hard with his
pride and said:
Listen. Don't make me ridiculous
in the eyes of the whole island, Fenella.
I may not have acted wisely in relation
to Stowell and the advice I gave him
l see that now. But II SO perhaps 1t
was because l was thinking less Of the
public service than of you. II you were
father you would understand that.
But you cannot wish to leave me. You
are my child. l am your father, re-
member. What, after all, is this man
to you?"
Fenella leaned back on her heels and
her eyelids quivered for moment.
Then she said:
1--WE are told that a man must leave
father and mother and cling to bis
wife, and surely it's the same with a
woman and her husband. Victor is my
husband, or soon will be-"
Good Lord, what are you saying,
girl?"
II promised myself to him, and I
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But he's n prisoner, and If the
governing authority objects"
I'm that case I'll wait until he is a
prisoner no longer, and then-then I'll
marry him."
THAT you never shall. Not in this
island anyway. No clergyman here
will marry you to that man against
"Then Then. III IL go to him just the same"
sacrifice
You're mad. You're both mad
stark mad"
Again the Governor returned to his
smoking room. After n while he heard
n hackney carriage coming up the drive
to the porch, and then old John, the
watchman, Juggling trunk along the
corridor. A moment later, looking
through the window, he saw Fenella,
In the blue and white costume of her
Settlement (the same in which, with
so much pride, he had brought her up
to the house from the pier in his big
landau, stepping into the coach.
Then his anger and emotion together
burst all bounds. He tore open his
door with the intention of counter
manding Fenella's orders and driving
the hackney carriage off his grounds.
But before he could bring himself to
do so he heard the door of the carriage
close and saw its wheels moving away.
Miss Green came back to the house
with her handkerchief to her eyes,
saying:
"She was crying DIS II her heart
would break, poor darling!"
The Governor went slowly back to
his room once more. The masterful
man, who had never known before
what it was to have tears in his eyes,
was utterly broken. He had lost his
daughter; he was to be childless man
henceforward he was to spend the
rest of his life alone. But after while
he thought Of Stowell as the man who
had taken Fenella from him, and his
anger rose again.
Very well, he shall have it, and damned
quick too"
Two hours later Fenella was at
Castle Rushen, in the living room of
the new jailer and his wife.
II hear you want female warder,
and I've come to offer myself" she
said.
The new jailcr. who was emba IRA ssed.
stammered something about menial
labor, but Fenella was not to be
gainsaid.
"I'm a trained nurse, and have ex.
perience in managing peOple-will you
take me?'
"Well--if the Governor doesn't--
for the present, perhaps"
For good" said Fenella.
Within few minutes she was settled
In her new quarters-a large, cell-likc
chamber. of irregular shape, with a
deeply recessed window, a piece Of co.