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COPYRIGrMT 1914- /P CHAPTER XVII-Continued. And so with each new arrival. ie aeither turned nor moved at any one's entrance, but left it to Mr. lack to do the honors and make the best of a sit uation, difficult, if not inexplicable to all of them. Nor could it be seen that any of these men-city officials, promi nent citizens and old frier:ds. recog nized his figure or suspected his identity. lcyond a passing glance his way, they betrayed neither curiosity nor interest, being probably sufficient ly occupied in accounting for their .own presence in the home of their once revered and now greatly ma ligned compeer. Judge Otrander, at. tacked through his son, was about to say or do something which each and every one of them secretly thought had better be left unsaid or undone. Yet none showed any disposition to leave the place; and when, after a short, uneasy pause during which all attempts at conversation failed, they beard a slow and weighty step ap proaching down the hall, the suspense was such that no one but Mr. Black noticed the quick whirl with which Oliver turned himself about, nor the look of mortal anguish with which he awaited the opening of the door and his father's entrance among them. No one noticed, I say, until, simultaneous ly with the appearance of Judge Os trander on the threshold, a louid cry swept through the room of "Don't! don't!" and the man they had barely noticed, flashed by them all, and fell at the judge's feet with a smothered repetition of his appeal: "Don't, fa 'ther, don't!" Then, each man knew why he had ,been summoned there, and knowing, .gazed earnestly at these two faces. Twelve years of unappeased longing, of smothered love, rising above doubts, persisting in spite of doubts, were con centrated Into that one instant of mu lual recognition. 'Phe eye of the fa ther was upon that of the son and that of the son upon that of the father and for, them, rt least in this first instant of reunion, the years were forgottem and sin, sorrow and on-coming dooit effaced from their mutual conscious nese. * Then the tide of life flowed back int< the present, and the judge, motioninj to his Son to rise, observed very dis tinctly: I "Don't ta an ambiguous word, my rBon, and OU your lips, at this Juncture 'may mis'ead those whom I have called here to Iear the truth from us and the truth only. You have heard what hap pened 'here a few days ago. hlow a long-guarded, long-su ppressed suspi cion-so guarded and so suppressed that I had no intimation of its ex * atence even, found vent at a moment of public indignation, and I heard you, yous Oliver Ostrandr, accused to my f(ace of having ill some1 boyish 1t of ~rage struck down tihe lnanl for whlose 'death another hlas long since p~aid the penlalty. Tis you hlave already been told." "Yes." The word cult sharply through tihe silen'e; but the tire with which the young man rose and faced them all showed him at his best. "But surely, 110 persc-n presenlt believes it. No One can who knows you andl tihe principles in wh-lch t have been rais9ed. This fellow whom~ I beat as a boy has waited bln to star't tils damnable re .pert. Surely ho will got no hearing from unlprejudiced and intelligent T 'ho police have listened to him Mir. Andrews, who is one of the gen tienmen present, has heard his story and you see that he sltandis hlere silent, my sonl. And thlat is not all. Mrs. Scoviie, wvho has loved you like a miother, longs to belhove in :.our lnne ~cence, andi cannot." A low cry from the hall. ; it died away unlh'etded. I'~And Mr. Black, hecr hlusband's coun sel," continued the father, iln the firm, lowv tones of one whoe for inany long 'days and nighlts had schooledl hiimself ~for the dulty for this hlour. "shlaresq her feeling. Hie lhar tried not to; but hc does. They have found evidences-you know them; proofs which might not have amounted to much hlad it not been for the one mischievous faci which has undermined public confi dence and given point to these attacks I refer to the life we have led and tht ,barrlers we have ourselves raise, agaisiat our mutual intercourse. Thea have Undone us. To the question, 'Whr b )ese 'barriers?' I can find no answe Stthe one which ends tIls struggle ~';fSccambing myself, I ask you to do a s14: To Out bf the past comes a voice V''tL'voice of Aigernon Ilitheridge, d4 Sg-vengeance for Ils unltimel I:t will not be gainsaid. Not sa Sfd'ith th6 toil we have both pai Y'ii t~~' eara of suffering and repreo 'i-"-pmIndful- of the hermit's life .,~ p f the pleart disapp"'in e itrgye~v bow.e,.its cry for put 4n 't insistent, Gentleme SQi11r it is tfor me' to er ~ o J cb ~ oville was, the4 atfoic whil lollou , C.D Rhoaes DODD MEMO y colapAy . look here!" And with one awful ges turo, he stood still-while horror rose liko a wave and engulfed the room choking back breath and speech from every living soul there, and making a silence more awful than any sound or lo they all felt, till his voice rose again and they heard: "You have trusted to appearanceb; you must trust now to my word. I am the guilty man, not Scoville, and not Oliver, though Oliver may have been IL the ravine that night and even handled the bludgeon I found at my feet in the recesses of Dark iollow." Then consternation spoke, and mut tered cries were heard of "Madness! I is not we who are needed here but a physician!" and dominating all, the ringing shout: "You cannot save me so. father. I hLted Etheridge and I slew him. Gen tlemen." he prayed in his agony, coin ing close into their midst, "do not be misled for a moment by a father's de votion." 11ls lifted head, his flashing eye, drew every look. Honor confronted them In a countenance from which all reserve had melted away. No guilt showed there; he stood among them, a heroic figure. Slowly, and with a dread which no man might measure, the glances which had just devoured his young but virile countenance passed to that of the fa ther. They did not leave it again. "Son?" With what tenderness he spoke, but with what a ring of desola. tion. "I understand your effort and appreciate it; but It is a useless one. You cannot deceive, these friends of ourn-mnen who have known my life. If you were it. the ravine that night, so was 1. If you handled John Sco ville's stick, so did 1. and after you! Let us not struggle for the execration of mankind; let it fall where it right fully belongs. It can bring no sting . keener than that to which my breast has long been subject. Or-" and here his tones sank, in a last recogni tion of all he was losing forcver, "if there is suffering in a once proud man flinging from him the last rag of re spect with which he sought to covet the hideous nakedness of an unsuspect ed crime, it is lost in the joy of do ing justice to the son who would take advantagq bf circumstances to assumE his father's guilt." But Oliver, with a fire which noth, Ing could damp, spoke up again: "Gentlemen, will you see my ia ther so degrade himself? lie has dwelt r I t Ii "Gentlemen, Will You See My Fathei So Degrade Himself?" so continually upon the knowledge which separated us a dozen years agt that he no longer can discriminate be tween the guilty and the innocent Would lie have sat in court; would he have uttered sentences; would hi have kept his seat upon the bench fo a1' these years, if he had borne witti in his breast this secret of persona guilt ? No. It is not in human natur to play such a part. I was guilty-an I fled. Let the act speak for ite r' The respect Cue my father must no -be taken from him." Confusion and counter-confusion -What were they to think! Alanso: B ilack, aghast at this dread dilemme Y ran over in his mind all that had lei him to accept Oliver's guilt as provet 1and then, in immediate oppos tion t it, the details of that old trial and-th Ijudge's consequent life; and, voicin -the helplea~s confusion of the otheri observen with forced firmness: 1 "We haive heard much of Olj#4r' Y wandqrings in the ravine on that: tata a night, but nothing of yours, Judge Oi - trander2 It Is not eno)xgh foi' 90pi a say that you wer'e tre; 'y a-ti r prove lt1 soclated WIPt thi 1 '_Ai fth * guilty-bad out' .. separation o through his crime and not througg my own, I should have been proered for such a contingency, and not ovep whelmed by it." "And were you no prepared?" "No, before Oclt* The gesture accompanying this oath was. a grand one, convincing in its fervor, its najesty and power. - But facts are stubborn things, and while most of those present were still thrilling udider the effect of this oath. the dry voice of District Attorney An drews was heard for the first time, in these words: "Why, then, did you, on the night of Bela's death, stop on your way across the bridge to look back upon Dark Hollow and cry in the bitterest tones which escape human lips, 'Oliver! Oli ver!' You were heard to speak this name, Judge Ostrander," he hastily put it, as the miserable father raised his hand in ineffetual protest. "A man was iurkng in the darkness behind you. who both saw and heard you. He may not, be the most pre possessing of witness, but we cannot discredit his '.tory." "Mr. Andr'ews, you have no children. To the man who has, I make my last appeal. Mr. Renfrew. you know the human heart both ..j a father and a pastor. Do you find anything unnatural in a guilty soul bemoaning its loss rather than its sin, in the spot which recalled both to his overburdened spirit?" "No." The word came sharply, and it sounded decisive; but the ones which followed from Mr Andrews were no less so. "That is not enough. We want evi dence, actual evidence, that you are not playing the part your son ascribes to you." The Judge's eyes glared, then sud denly and incomprehensively softened till the quick fear that his mind as well as his memory had gone astray, van ished in a feeling none of them could have characterized, but which gave to them all an expression of awe. "I have such evidence," announced the judge. "Come." Turning, he stepped into the hall. Oliver, with bended head and a dis couraged mien, quickly followed. Alanson Black and the others. cast Ing startled and inquiring looks at each other, brought up the rear. Deb orahi Scoville was nowhere to be seen. At the door of his own room, the judge paused, and with his hand on the curtain, remarked with unexpected composure: "You have all wondered, and others with you, why for the last ten years I have kept the gates of my house shut against every comev. I am going to show you." And with no further word or look. scarcely even giving attention to Oil ver's anguished presence, he led them into the study and from there on to that Inner door known and talked of through the- town as the door of mys tery. This he slowly opened with the key he took freim his pocket; then, pausing with the knob in his hand, he said: "In the years which are past, but two persons beside myself have crossed this threshold, and these only under my eye. Its secret was for my own breast. Judge what my remorse has been; judge the power of my own secret self-condemnation, by what you see here." And, entering, he reached up, and pulled asida the- carpet he ha~d strung up over one end of the room, disclosing amid a number of koosened boards, the barred cell of a condemned convict. "This was my bed, gentlemen, till a stranger comning into my home, made such an acknowledgment of my sin im possible!" I CHAPTER XVIII. Later, whon the boards he had wer al reove, teycame upon a pacet f cosly ritenwords hidden in te frmewok ofthebed. IIt read as follows: Whosoever lays hands on this MS. w ~ill already be acquainted with my crime. If he would also know its cause and the full story of my hypocrisy, let him read these lines wvritten, as it were, with my heart's blood. I loved Algernon IEtheridge; I shall never have a dearer friend. His odd ways, his lank, possibly ungainly, fig. ure crowned by a 'head of scholarly refinement, his amiability when pleased, his irascibility when crossed, formed a character attractive to me from its very contradictions; and aftem - my wife's death and before my son -Oliver reached a coinpanionable age, ii Swas in my intercourse with this man 1 3, found my most solid satisfaction r' Yet wve often quarreled. His dog. -matism frequently ran counter to my iviews, and, being myself a man o1 a quick and violent tereper, hard words I sometimes passed between Us, to be .forgotten the next minute in a hand, t shake, or some other token of mutual esteem. These dissensions--if sucli I they could be called--never took plac< ri except In the privacy of his study 01 , mine. We thought too much of eact I -other to display our differences ol I, opinion abroad or even in the presence of Oliver; and howeve~r heated ouw s arguments or whatever our topic w( ginvariably parted friends, till one fate ful night. O 0.God! that years of repentance s s elf-hatred and secret immolatlan cai inoer undo the deed of an Infuriated pottin IEternity may console, but li n ,&kever make me innocent .of bE e 1~dt my heart's broth~r. ?, deiad 4OtinUsual word >t y. nearer right thah twe bad Y ' y times before; but for some r* A I found it harder to pardon bin. For thee 'first time in our long ao qutaintance, I let Algernon Etheridg leave me, without any atiompt at con ailiation. If only I had halted iere! If, at aight of my empty study, 'I fad not Conceived the mad notion of waylaying hi1 at the bridge for the hand-shake I missed, I might have been a happy man now, -and Oliver-But why dwell Upon these might-have-beensl What happened was this: Disturbed in mind, and finding my self alone in the house, Oliver having evidently gone out while we two were disputing, I decided to follow out the impulse I have mentioned. Leaving by the rear, I went down the lane to the path which serves as a short cut to the bridge. That I did this unseen by anybody is not so strange when you consider the hour, and how the only person then living in the lane was, in all probability, in her kitchen. It would have been better for me, little as I might have recognized it at the time, iad she been where she could have witnessed both my going and coming and faced me with the fact. John Scoville. in his statement, says that after giving up his search for his little girl he wandered up, the ravine before takin'g the path back which led him through Dark Hollow. This was false, as well as the story he told of leaving his stick by the chestnut tree in the gully at foot of Ostrander lane. For I was on the spot, and I know the route by which he reached Dark Hollow and also through whose agency the stick came to be there. Read and learn with what tricks the devil beguiles us men. I was descending this path, heavily shadowed, as you know, by a skirting of closely growing trees and btishes, when just where it dips into the HIol. low, I heard the sound of a hasty foot come crashing up through the under brush from the ravine and cross the path ahead of me. A turn in the path prevented me from seeing the man himself, but as you will perceive and as I perceived later when circun stances recalled tt to my mind, I had no need to see him to know who it was or with what intent he took this method of escape from the ravine into the fields leading to the highway. Sco ville's stick spoke for him, the stick which I presently tvtyped over and mechanically picked! 'up, without a thought of the desperate use to which I was destined to put It. Etheridge was coming. I could hear his whistle on Factory read. There was no mistaking it. tt was unusually shrill one and .had aIlways been s cause of irritation to, me, but at thit moment it was more; it roused ever) antagonistic impulse withbn me. H4 whfrtlng like a galliard, after a part Vng which had dissatisfied' me to sucit an extent that I had come all this die tance to ask his pardon: and see hii old' smile again! Afterward, long aft erward, I was able to giare anothei interpretation to his show of apparen self-satisfaction, but then I' saw noth ing but the contrast it offered to in. own- tender regrets, and my blood be gan to boil and my tempest rise to suel a- poit that recrimination took th4 place of apology when in another ma ment we came together In the oper space between the end of the bridg4 and [Dark Hollow. (TO BE CONTrI'N1.1 The Unity of Life. 'Ehese is nothing, I think, tha brings home to one more conclusivel: the unity of life, and therefore thb unity of knowjle~ge of that life, thai the attempt to study any particula subject by itself and confine yoursel to. it alone. You find very soon tha you. cannot do so. No aspect of lif< can be separated from the rest and und'erstood even in ahy small degree without some knowledge of the res of life. No part of life- stands alone Every phenomenon of l'ife is the re surlt.. not of one or two- causes alone but of the interaction- of innumerabli causes. To get near the understand ing of only one item you. must be abi< to estimate more or less truly all thi forces that make life, and the objet tive of life. As with the eddy of river, to estimate it you must knoi not merely the edd-y, but much alai of the rIver, its volume and its speed tihe density of its waters, the configi ration of its banks and its genera directIon. The observation of th eddy only would lead you into tb wildest fallacies.-The Atlantic, Worked Beth Ways. A story is told by President Poir care of an old peasant who was ver superstitious. A neighbor said to hit one day: "That potato you gave me to carr In my pocket as a cure .for rheumi tism has had a wonderful effect. haven't had a twinge since you gav it to me." "There!" exclaimed the peasani triumphantly, "I told you a potato Ca ried in the pocket was a cure for 'rhet matism, and you wouldn't believe-me. "Yes," the other admitted, "and th really strange thing is that it mus have been exercising its influence o: me before you gave it to mne, for never had a twinge before I began ca rying it." Pelt His importaince, Many of the New York playground have .swings in which the kiddies Oea pull .themselves up high - above t1; ground. One little boy drew, himsel up, and . gazed around 'delig tdly "Oh, I can see a,bird; anid t~r leaf that I Oan almost touch h1i'-" Sfolded' Ws arms proi3'Oq feel jti~f a ip Mild Lrsv Compound Corrects Stuborn Case of Cons Iation. An important duty that devolves on parents Is the. regulation of their chil dren's bowels. Health in later life do ponds in large measure on early-train. Ing and a child should be taught from infancy to regular habits. When from any cause the bowel be comes congested with stomach waste a mild laxative should be employed to, open up the passage gently and carry off the congested mass. A most effec tive remedy for this purpose Is the combination of simple laxative herbs known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Mrs. W. D. Bulls, of Reed, Okla., used Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for her baby boy, Harley Buren Bulls, and says "It did him more good than any thing we have given him. His bowels are very stubborn about acting, but they act easily every'time I give him Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin." Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin contains no opiate or narcotic drug and is a splendid remedy for children and older people as well. It has been on the market for more than twenty-five Looking to the Future. "I guess I'll make a lawyer of Josh," said Farmer Bates.. 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