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THE MASTER OF MAN :-: By Sir Hall Caine
An Outspoken and JVleving Study of a Deep Sex Problem by the Noted Auther of J'The
Manxman,' "The Deemster," "The Eternal City," "The Weman Theu Gavest Me," Etc
TJIIB BEGINS TUB STORY
Viator Btewcll, ten of the Dccmtter
t Chief Judge of the Isle of Man, it
hottdteme and of fine nature. Te tave
Mi chum, Alkk Ocll, ten of the
Sneaker of the Mania Parliament, from
an tsenpnde, Victer takct the blame of
' walking with Beaie Cellittcr, a pretty
veatant girl, euttide tchoel bounds, and
it tent home. Ocll foltewt and admits
the blame. The girl it dismissed from
ktr position as maid and shipped . home
te her hard stepfather, who is a tenant
of the Speaker. The Uce boys dawdle
and hatw a geed time until Victer falls
in love with beautiful and greathearted-
Fenella Stanley, daughter of
the Governer. This cicttcs his ambi
tion and he studies hard for the law,
es does Ocll. Fenella, after graduat
ing from college, where she imbibes
advanced ideas en the rights of women
and the wrongs they suffer from men's
laws, takes a pett for teven years at
the lady warden of a Londen inttltu inttltu
Wen, at the it net turc of her feeling
toward Victer. Victer and Alick go
holidaying te Douglas, a town en the
Jtle. Bessie meets Victer at a dance.
'She gctt home late and Dan Baldremma
cart her out. Going back te town, the,
mettt Victer, who taket her te hit
rooms. In the morning, contcience centcience
ttricken, he wendcrt hew he it te get
both himself and Bettle out of the
trouble into which passion hat plunged
them. He decides te marry her, after
the hat taken some education at a se
questered school. Fenella cemis home
and his love for her is profoundly re
newed. She leads in the .woman's
rights movement en the Isle and retains
Victer te defend a woman who had
murdered her hutband.
AND HERE IT CONTINUES
ASA sequel te the Melltah the talk
uV. during the dinner was of the ancient
customs nnd old life of the island.
The Deemster, who could hnve told
most, enld little, but the Governer
sneke of the riots
of the Manx pcople
(especially the
copper riot when
they wanted te
burn down Govern
ment Ueuhc), and
Janet of the" roy rey
stcrers nnd huff
sters of the Atliels
who kept race
horses and fought
duels her mother
in her girlhood hud
seen the blue murk
of the bullet eh the
dead forehead of
one of them.
Such Hweetnesx.
BUCh'nebllltv. the
Bien, the women and the nutnnerH! Fe
nella joined in the talk with great ani
mation, but Stewcll was silent and in
Jiain. Hern they were, his family and
rlcnds, without a suspicion that some
.day, perhaps seen, he would bring
.quite another atmosphere into this
house, this room. Visions of the mill,
the miller, his wife and his daughter
.rose before him, and he felt like a
traitor.
Hut it was net until they went into
(the library (it was library nnd drnw-'ing-roem
combined) that he knew the
ifull depth of his humiliation. The
Deemster, who wns by the fire, asked
Fenella te sing te them, and she did se.
titling at the piano, with Dr. Clucns
(who In his youth had been the best
'dancer in the island) tripping about
her with old-fashioned gallantry te find
the music and turn ever the leaves.
"This is for the stranger," she said
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said fenei a. And mm nc e
ever her head she walked by his side
(the doctor having gene en), taking
his arm unasked and keeping step with
him.
"I wns just wanting a word with
you."
"Ys?"
"It's about your father. Yeu must
really ceme back te live with him."
"Has he asked- "
"Net te say asked! 'Victer doesn't
come te see me very often' that's all."
"After this case Is ever I'll "
"De. Yeu can't think hew much It
will mean te him."
On the way back te Ramsey, with
the lamps of the deg-cart opening up
the dark read in front of them. Stewcll
was silent, but the doctor talked con
tinuously, and always en the same sub
ject. "I've Been something of the ladles In
my time, Mr. Stewcll, sir, but I really
think yes. sir I really de think"
and then rapturous praises of Fenella.
They rang like joy-bells In Stowell'"
car, but struck llke minute-bells-also.
When he closed the street deer te his
chambers he found n large envelope In
the letter-box behind it. Bessie's pho
tograph 1 As he held It under the gas
glebe in his cold room the pictured face
Save him a shock. Beautiful les,
ut there was something common in
its beauty which he had never observed
His' first Impulse was te hide the
photograph out of sight. But at the
next moment he tore open the cedar cedar
weed frame en the mantelpiece, re
moved the portrait It contained, inserted
Bessie's in its place, and then put it
te stand en the table by the side of
his bed. .... .. ...
"There! That snail be tne iasi icr
I see at night and the first I sec in
the morning I" ..,,. m
But eh vain and foolish thought-!
With the first sleep of the night an
other face was in his dream.
CHAPTER XII
The Death of the Deenister
The Deemster had net Intended te
sit at the next Court of General Jail
Delivery, and had already arranged for
the second Deemster te take his place,
but when, next morning at breakfast,
he heard from Fenella that Victer was
te plead, he determined te preside.
"I must hear Victer's first case at
the General Jail," he said.
"We shall have te be careful, then,"
Mtld Dr. Clucns. "Ne excitement.
Your Hener! Ne mere heart strain."
On the morning of the trial he wns
up early. Janet heard him humming
te himself In the conservatory as he
cut the flowers for the vaae in front
of his young wife's picture. When he
was ready te go she helped him en
with his overcoat, turning up the cellar
and putting a muffler about his neck.
And when young Rebbie enme round
with the deg-enrt he stepped up Inte
it with surprising strength.
And then Janet, who hnd smuggled
a brandy flask into the luncheon bas
ket at the back of the dng-rart, steed
with n swollen heart and watched the
old man as he went off in the morning
mist, with the awakened reeks caw
ing ever the unseen tops of the trees.
Three hours Inter, the Deemster ar
rived at Castletown. The sun wns up,
and there was a crowd at the castle
gate. All hats were off as he -passed
through the juilge's private pusnage wuy
te the dark rebing room with Its deeply
reccsseil window. The Governer, in
general's uniform, wns there already,
for he sat also in the high court of
the Island.
A few minutes later they were in
It Man's Lav Toe Hard for Vie
Weman in the Case? It Cen;
tcience Enough Punishment
fet Him,, While She Payt
. the Legal Penally?
In Thh Franh) and Gripping
Story the Man, at Judge, Sits
in Sentence en the Girl Tried
for Their Sin.
When the court adjourned for lunch
eon, the case for the Crown was ever,
and It almost seemed as If the rope
of the hangman were already about the
prisoner's neck.
Stowell did net leave the courthouse.
He sat in his place with folded arms
and closed eyes. Temmy Vendy, the
jailer, looked In en him sitting alone,
and presently returned (from the direc
tion of the Deemster's room) with a
plate of sandwiches and something in
a glass, but he sent back both un
touched, When the court resumed It appeared
te be still mere crowded and excited
than before. As the Deemster took his
seat, he saw that his son's face was
strongly Illumined by the sun (which
was new streaming from a lantern
light in the reef) and that It was pale
and drawn. Immediately behind" Vic Vic
eor a lady was sitting it was Fenella
I Stanley.
Then Stowell rose for the defense.
There was a hush, and the Deemster
found himself breathing audibly and
wishing that he could pour something
of himself into his son himself as
he used te be In the old days when Ged
had given him strength.
But that wes only for a moment,
Stowell began slowly, almost nervous
ly, but was seen speaking with com
plete command, and the Deemster, who
bad been bending forward, leautA back.
He did net intend te call witnesses.
Neither would be put the prisoner into
ttiA box. Hn would content himself
with the evidence for t'r.c Crown, Hcl
knew no mero about the crime than
the jury did.
The accused had told him nothing,
and degraded as they might think her,
he had net thought It right te invade
the Ranctity of a woman's soul. That
she had killed her husband wan clear.
If killing him was a crime she was
guilty. But was it a crime? Te an
swer that let the jury fellow him while
he did his best te piece together, from
the evidence before them, the tern man
uscript of this peer creature's story.
Then followed such speaking as none
could remember te have heard In that
court before. Flash after flashi of
plritual light aeeraed te recreate the
stages of the prisoner's life. First, as
the child, who should have been happ)
as the birds and bright ea the flowers,
but had never known one hour of the
love and guidance of her natural pro
tectors. Next, as the young girl, pretty
perhaps, with the light of love dawn
ing en her, but betrayed and aban
doned. Next, as the deserted creature,
hfflvlnff out her disgrace with "WalttJ
only wait! My gentleman will come
back and marry me yet!" Next, as the
badgered and shame-ridden woman,
with all hope gene, saying te her de
spairing heart, "What de I care what
happen te me new? Net a toss l ane
then marrying tas me mil ruver ii
hunted deg) the brute who afterward
had beaten her, brutnllzed her, cursed
her, taught her te drink, and brought
her down, down, down te
what they saw. '
Kill him? Yes, she. had killed him
there couldn't' be a doubt about that.
But if she had three wounds en her
body, nnd he had only the. wound from
which he died, was it net clear as
noonday that she had been the victim
nt n ttinritnrmia nRsmilt. nnd had struck
back te save her, life 7 11 se ner ac
was net murder and the only righteous
verdict would be net guilty.
Fer the last passage of his defense
t3tnti.nl! fnrnd full nnen the JtirT, and
speke in n ringing nnd searching veice:
"Leng age, in Galilee, out of the
sunrcme compassion which ichu n....
ferleness the trnnsxresslens of one
who hnd sinned much but loved much,
It wns said, 'Let him that is without
sin among you cost the first stone, .we
have all done something we would fain
forget, and when we lay our heads or.
our pillow we pray that the darkness
may hide it. But does anybody doubt
that if the nll-Bcelng Justice could enter
this Court this day another figure would
be standing there in the deck by the
side of that unhappy woman a man
in scarlet uniform perhaps, with deco
rations en his breast, and that the
Deemster would have te say te him,
'Yeu did this, for you were the first.'
Mercy, then mercy for the beaten, the
broken, the scapegoat, the sinner."
People said afterward that Stowell
was a full half minute In his seat before
anybody seemed te be aware that he
was no longer speaking.
The spectators had listened without
making a sound; the jury (a panel of
stolid Manx farmers) had sat without
moving a muscle; the prisoner hud
raised her head for the first time dur
ing the trial and then dropped It lower
Mian hafarn and hnr shoulders had
Shaken as if from Inaudible sobs; the
Governer, who had nil day been draw
ing geometrical patterns en the sheet
of foolscap in front of him, had let
his pencil fall and stared down at the
paper, nnd the Deemster had looked
up at the lantern light from which the
sunlight (it had moved en) was new
streaming upon his face, showing at
last a solitary tear that was rolling
lowly down his cheek te the end of
bis firm-set, mouth.
Then there was a rustle, as If the
windows of a room en the edge of the
sen had suddenly been thrown open.
The Attorney General was speaking
vnin. After the defense they hnd just
listened te (there being no evldcncn te.
rebut) he would waive 111s ngnc 01
replrthe Crown desired justice, net
revenge. At
The Deemster's summtng-up was the
shortest that -had ever been henrd from
him.. There were .legal reasons which
Justified the taking of human life, but
the cases te which they applied were
few. If the jury thought the prisoner
had willfully killed her husband thr.v
would find her guilty, If they were
satisfied from what they hnd heard that
she had reasonable grounds for thinking
that a felony wns being committed upon
hpr which endangered her own life they
would find her net guilty.
Without leaving their box the Jury
promptly gave a verdict of net guilty ;
and then the Deemster In a'leud, clear,
almost triumphant voice, said :
"Let the prisoner be dlschnrgcd."
A few minutes later there was a
scene of excitement en the green within
the cnatlc walls. The spectators, being
turned out of the courthouse with diffi
culty, were waiting for the chief actors
In the llfc-drnmn te remc down the
stone steps, nnd from the private deer
te the Deemster's room.
Wonderful!. He snatched Mi
nut. nf tKn law. nt riaath. alT"'
Deemster's n Brand man. but ha'flN
In Im InnVlnv in hla laimlat" "1
nlive. that was a sneeeh that 1
have been dear te a father's hi
though!" t W.
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Te be continued tetaerrew ,;
(Copurleht, Ml, InirmpHenal MegatWt '
Plava Prank an Pellet
A joker telephoned te the police '$ -
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n ninrK mm mnrnmi lusl mere bid dwuvail
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a smashup n: Twentieth nnd rjpme
streets, in which a number of persons
hnd been hurt. Policemen were hurrlecf'
tn the corner In three patrol wageaa.
When they reached Twentieth aad'
Spruce streets they learned that thers;
lind been no sort of accident then,!-
'men iney organ 10 nuiu ier me jeasr, '.ii
They couldn't find him. v
'trrr.j
Fenella sang "Allan Water" and "Annie Laurie" m
(cutting deeper than she knew), nnd
then followed a series ei old Manx bal
lads, some of them like the wailing of
tne wind among the rushes en the Our
fflKhs, and seme like the dancing of the
water in the luirber before a fresh breeze
enn summer day.
TIiph the doctor brought out from a
'ui'heaid n few faded sheets Inscribed
Itelicl Stowell," and Fenella "ang
Allan Water" and "Annie Laurie."
Aim then the Deemster ceci liin eje:,
nrt it seemed te Victer, who sat en n
hassock, by his side, that his father's
piue-vclned hands ticmbled en his
"And this is for myself," said Fc
Win. dropping Inte h deeper tone as
he tang;
ss than the weed that grows beside
i, thy deer
"n less am I."
Victer wanted te fly out of the room
ml burst into tears. Hut Just then
'ne clock en the landing struck, und
fenella rose from the piano.
n len o'clock! Time te go upstairs,
Iwnister."
. The old man seemed te like te be
controlled by the young wriuian, nnd
leaning en her arm, he bowed all around
. w ? H,tnMy wuy, and permitted him-
'nif0 "f lc(1 f'em the room.
.J hen the Governer (being n privi
leged person) lit his pine with a piece
"red turf from the lire, nnd Janet
"lilspyred te the maid who had ceme
wk for the coffee-tray:
ej that-Mr. Victer's night-things
tf laid out. Jane."
,.! i t v',cter himself was In the hall,
..I?111 tl"J uwter with overcoat, and
Jeur" T0U take ,no back t0 town wltn
.,'1crt?lnly. if you'll wait at the ledge
i.,f leek ' n the cowman's wife."
i-.J),n1r.'"Ut,' this mischief you are
v-uuing," Jt wns knells
viiaiairt).
coming
the llnt'fni nvnlnl.iA.1 ntt.l Vlnlnt
Mid: ' '
ln''T'lctrti,8vthat icnse. It comes pn
"jen. i must see the peer wenmn again
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the courthouse. It was densely crowd
cd, and nil rese as they entered. But
nt. that moment the Deemster was con
scious of one presence only his own
youth in wig and gown (himself as he
used te be forty years before) In the
curved benches for the advocates im
mediately below. It wns Victer.
Then the prisoner was brought In
n forlorn -loeklne creatiire of three or
four and twenty, net without traces of
former comeliness, but new a rag et a
woman, Ill-clad and slatternly.
When nsked te plead bhe said neth
ing, therefore the customary plea 01
net guilty was mnue ter ner, ana wun wun
eut mero nde the attorney general em
barked en the history of her crime.
It wns net a case for refinement;
the crlme was palpable; it had no re',
deeming feature, and for the protection
of life in the island It rnllcd for the
pTtrMnin npnnltv nf the InW.
Then, with the usual long pnuses, the
woman's story was raked out of the
witnesses her neighbors In tbe low
streets that crept under the Castle
walls, the police and the doctor. She
had been an orphan from her birth,
brought up at the expense of the pop
ish by a woman who had ill-treated her,
Ah n vnune Hervant clrl she bad been
"taken advantage of" In the big house
she lived in. ncrhans by the feet
man, mero probably by en officer of
the regiment tncu garnseneu in me
town. Finally she had married the
dead man, lived a cat-and-deg life
with him (there was a dark record of
drlnK anil asenuusj ana at iesi suiDeeu
him te the heart in a fatal quarrel
and been found stnnulng ever his Deily
with n tabic kulfe In nrr hand.
Htewell'fl cress-examination consist
ed of three questions only. When the
dead man was found bad he anything
in his bend? "Yes, a poker," said
the policeman. When tbe prisoner wns
arrested were there any wounds en
her? "Yes, three en the head," snld
the doctor. Weru there any wounds en
the dead man's body except the heart
stab from which he died? "None
whatever."
,"Abl'' said the Deemster, and be
icm JworKftie.piu sev
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