Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 March 1896 — Page 2

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(Copyright, 1896, by Stone and Kimball.) SYNOPSIS. Adam Weir, Lord Hermiston, first the Lord-Advocate, and then the Lord JusticeClerk of the Senators of the College of Justice at Edinburgh, has married Jean Rutherford, last heir of her line, upon whose estate at the Scottish

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he resides when court is not in session. He Is noted for his severity, and has become famous for the "hanging face" with which he confronts criminals—while his wife is of a mildly religious type. Their son Archibald combines the qualities of the two, but hag been brought up by his mother almost exclusively. She inspires him with her religious views, so that unconsciously he grows to resent his father's severity and roughness. His moiher having died, Archie continues his studies, having little in common with Lord Hermiston, with one of whose fellow justices and friends, however, a scholarly gentleman of the old school, he forms a close friendship. At the trial of one Jopp, for murder, Archie Is especially offended by his father's coarse remarks, and, brooding over the exhibition of what seems to him savage cruelty, he attends the execution. As the man's body falls, he cries out: "I denounoe this God-defying murder."

PART II.

PART II.—(Chapter IIL Continued.) Prank Innes dragged him from the spot. The two handsome lads followed the same course of study and recreation, and felt a certain mutual attraction, founded mainly on good looks. It had never gone deep Frank was by nature a thin, Jeering creature, not truly susceptible whether of feeling or inspiring friendship and the relation between the pair was altogether on the outside, a thing of common knowledge and the pleasantries that spring from a common acquaintance. The more credit to Frank that he was appalled by Archie's outburst, and at least conceived the design of keeping him In fight, and, if possible, in hand, for the day. But Archie, who had Just defied—was it God or Satan? •—would not listen to the word of a college companion. "I will not go with you," he said. "I do not desire your company, sir I would be alone." "Here, Weir man, don't be absurd," said Innes, keeping a tight hold upon his sleeve. "I will not let you go until I know what you mean to do with yourself It's no use brandishing that staff." For indeed at that moment Archie had made a sudden—perhaps a warlike—movement. "This has been the most Insane affair you know it has. You know very well that I'm playing the food Samaritan. All I wish is to keep you quiet." "If quietness Is what you wish, Mr. Innes," said Archie, "and you will promise to leave me entirely to myself, I will tell you so much, that I am going to walk in the country and admire the beauties of nature." "Honor bright?" asked Frank. "I am not In the habit of lying, Mr. Innes," retorted Archlo. "I have the honor of wishing you good day." "You won't forget the Spec?" asked Inoes. "The Spec.?" said Archie. "Oh no, I won't forget the Spec."

And the one young man carried his tortured spirit forth of the city and all the day long, by one road and another, In an endless pilgrimage of misery while the ether hastened smilingly to spread tht news of Weir's access of Insanity, and to drum up for that night a full attendance at the Speculative, where farther eccentrio developments might certainly be looked for. I doubt if Innes had the least belief in his prediction I think it flowed rather from a wish to make the story as good and the scandal as great as possible not from any Ill-will to Arohie—'from the mere pleasure of beholding Interested faces. But for all that his words were prophetic. Archie did not forget the Spec. he put In an appearance there at the due time, and, before the evening was over, had dealt a memorable •hock to his companions. It ckanced he was the president of the night. He sat in the same room where the Society still meets—only the portraits were not there the men who afterwards Bat for them were then but beginning their career. The same lustre of many tapers shed Its light over the meeting the same chair, perhaps, supported him that so many of us have sat In since. At times he seemed to forget the business of the evening, but even In these periods he sat with a great air of energy and determination. At times he meddled bitterly and launched with defiance those lines which are the precious and rarely used artillery of the president. He little thought as he did so, how he resembled his father, but his friends remarked upon it. chuckling. So far. in his high place above his fellow-students, he seemed set beyond the possibility of any scandal but his mind was made tq—he was determined to fulfil the sphere of his offence. He signed to Innes (whom he had Just fined, and who just Impeached his ruling) to succeed him in the chair, stepped down from the platform, and took his place by the chimney-piece, the •hlne of many wax tapers from above illuminating his pale face, the glow of the treat red fire relieving from behind his slim figure. He had to propose aa an amendment to the next subject in the case book. "Whether capital punishment be consistent with God's will or man's policyr*

A breath of embarrassment, of something Kite alarm, passed round the room, so daring dkJ theee words appear upon the lipa «f Hermiston *8 only son. But the amendment was mt seconded the previous question was promptly moved and unanimously voted, and the momentary scandal smuggled by. Innes triumphed In the fulfilment of his

prophecy.

He and Arohie were now

become the heroes of the night but whereas everyone crowded about Innee. when the meeting broke up, but one of all bis companions came to speak to Archie. "Weir, mas! That was an extraordinary nld of yours r* observed this oourageous member, taking htm ooaSdemlally by the arm as they went out. "I don't think It a raid," stfd Arable, grimly. "More like a war. II saw that poor brute hanged this aorntmt and my gorge rises at It yet." "Hut-tut." returned his oompaafon. and, dropping his arm like something hot, 1M

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sought the less tense society of others. Archie found himself alone. The last of tha faithful—or was it only the boldest of the curious?—had fled. He watched the black huddle of his fellow-students draw off down and up the street, in whispering or boisterous gangs. And the isolation of the moment weighed upon him like an omen and emblem of his destiny in life. Bred up in unbroken fear himself, among trembling servants, and in a house which (at the least ruffle in the master's voice) shuddered into silence, he saw himself on the brink of the red valley of war, and measured the danger and length of it. with awe. He made a' detour :ln %'the glimmer and shadow of the streets. c&ine into the back stable lane, and watched for a long while the light burn steady in the Judge's room. The longer he gazed upon that illuminated window-blind, the more blank became the picture of the man who sat behind it, endlessly turning over sheets of process, pausing to sip a glass of port, or rising and passing heavily about his book-lined walls to verify some reference. He could not combine the brutal Judge and the industrious dispassionate student the connecting link escaped him from such a dual nature, it was impossible he should predict behaviour and he asked himself If he had done well to plunge into a business of which the end could not be forseen? and presently after, with a sickening decline of confidence, if he had done loyally to strike his father? For he had struck him—defied him twice over and before a crowd of witnesses—struck him a public buffet before crowds. Who had called him to Judge his father in these precarious and high questions? The office was usurped. It might have become a stranger In a son —there was no blinking it—in a son, it was disloyal. And now, between these two natures so antipathetic, so hateful to each other, there was depending an unpardonable affront and the providence of God alone might foresee the manner in which it would be resented by Lord Hermiston.

These misgivings tortured him all night and arost) with him in the winter's morning they followed him from class to class, they made him shrinklngly sensitive to every shade of manner In his companions, they sounded in his ears through the cur-

"WHY SHOULD I COMB TO SEE YOU?" rent voice of the professor and he brought them home with him at night unabated and indeed increased. The cause of this increase lay in a chance encounter with the celebrated Dr. Gregory. Archie stood looking vaguely In the lighted window of a book shop, trying to nerve himself for the approaching ordeal. My lord and he bad met and parted in the morning as they had now done for long, with scarcely the ordinary civilities of life and it was plain to the son that nothing had yet reached the father's ears. Indeed, when he recalled the awful countenance of my lord, a timid hope sprang up in him that perhaps there would be found no one bold enough to carry tales. If this were so, he asked himself would he begin again? and he found no answer. It was at this moment that a hand was laid upon his arm, and a voice said in his ear, 'iMy dear Mr. Archie, you had better come and see me."

He started, turned round, and found himself face to face with Dr. Gregory. "And why should I come to see you?" he asked, with the defiance of the miserable. "Because you are looking exceeding ill," said the doctor, "and you very evidently want looking after, my young friend. Good folk are scarce, you know and it is not everyone that would be quite so much missed as yourself. It is not everyone that Hermiston vfould miss."

And with a nod and a smile, the doctor passed on. A moment after, Archie was in pursuit, and had in turn, but more roughly, seized him by the arm. "What do you me&n? What did yon mean by saying that? What makes y(ra think that Hermis—my father would have missed me?"

The doctor turned about and looked him all over with a clinical eye. A far more stupid man than Dr. Gregory might have guessed the truth but ninety-nine oat of a hundred, even if they had been equally Inclined to kindness, would have blundered by some touch of charitable exaggeration. The doctor was better Inspired. He knew the father well in that white faoe of intelligence. and suffering, he divined something of the son and he told, without apology or adornment, the plain truth. ''When yon had the measles, Mr. Archibald. you had them gey and ill and I thought you were going to slip between my lingers," be said. "Well, your fatter was anxious. How did I know It? says you. Simply btnsause I am a trained observer. The sign that I saw him make, ten thousand would have missed and perhape—perhaps, I say, because he's a hard man to judge of—but perhaps he never made another. A strange thing to consider! It was this. One day I came to htm: 'Hermiston.' said I. there's a change.' He never said a word. Just glowered at me (if ye'll pardon the phrase) like a wild beast. 'A change for the better,' said And I distinctly beard him take his breath."

The doctor left no opportunity for anticlimax nodding bis cocked hat fa piece st antiquity to which he dung) and re-

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hard. There was never a wink of change in his expression without looking to tbe right or left, he mounted the stair, passed close to Archie and entered the house. Instinctively, the boy, upon his first coming, had made a movement to meet him instinctively, he recoiled against the railing, as the old man swept by him in a pomp of indignation. Words were needless he knew all—perhaps more than all —and the hour of judgment was at hand.

It is possible that, in this sudden revulsion of hope and before these sysmptoms of impending danger, Archie might have fled. But not even that was left to him. My lord, after hanging up his cloak and hat, turned round in the lighted entry, and made him an imperative and silent gesture with his thumb, and with the strange instinct of obedience, Archie followed him into the house.

All dinner time there reigned over the Judge's table a palpable silence, and as soon as the solids

were

The ring at sarcasm had died out of his voice as he went on the plain words became Invested with some of the dignity of the Jnstlce-cest. "It wcmld be telling yon if yon could say as much." the speaker resumed. "But ye cannot Ye've been reading some of my easss, ye any. Bat it was net for the law In them, it was to spy out your felther*s nakedness, a fine employment to a son. You're splairging you're running at latrge In life like a wild nowt. It's impossible you should think any longer of coming to the Bar. You're no fit for it no splalrger Is. And another thing: son of mines or no

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Jtz licfe* "Distinctly** with raised eyebrow^ ha took his departure, and, left Archil speechless in the street.

The anecdote might be called infinitely little, and yet its meaning for Archie was Immense. "1 did not know the old man had so much blood in him." He had never dreamed this sire-of his, this aboriginal antique, this adamantine Adam, had even so much of a heart as to be moved in the least degree for another—and that other himself, who had insulted him! With the generosity of youth Archie was instantly under arms upon the other side: had instantly created a new image of Lcrd Hermiston, that of a man who was all iron' without and all sensibility within. The mind of the vile jester, the tongue that had** -rstied Duncan Jopp with unmanly insults, the unbeloved countenance that he had known and feared for so long, were all forgotten and he hastened home, impatient to confess his misdeeds, impatient to throw himself on the mercy of this imaginary character.

He was not to be long without a rude awakening. It was in the gloaming when he drew near the doorstep of the lighted, house, and was aware of the figure of ha father approaching from the opposite sifcr Little daylight lingered but on the fi%art being opened, the strong yellow shine ©n the the lamp gushed out upon the landing an|quated shone full on Archie, as he stood, in tht^a marl old-fashioned observance of respect, to yield precedence. The Judge came without haste, stepping stately and firm, his chin raised, his face (as he entered the lamplight) strongly illumined, his mouth

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to his feet. "McKillup, tak' the wine into my room," said he and then to his son: "Archie, yqr and me has to have a talk." 'f

It was at this sickening moment tha Archie's courage, for the first and las time, entirely deserted him. 'I have a: appointment," said he "It'll have to be broken then,-' said Her miston, and led the way into his study.

The lamp was shaded, the fire trimmed to a nicety, the table covered deep witty orderly documents, the backs of law bey' made a frame upon all sides that was gf broken by the window and the door.

For a moment Hermiston warm1 hands at the fire, presenting his Archie then suddenly disclosed o] the terrors of the Hanging Face. "What's this I hear of ye?" he arf

There was no answer possible to "I'll hae to tell ye, then," pursue

miston. "It seems yw against the fathejr*-bf oC his Maijeettf tfifet in the p$ order of the Count"** bye which, It would appv airing your opeenions iiinl* In' Society," he paused then, with extraordinary bittera "Ye damned eediot." "I had meant to tell you,' Archie. "I see you are well hj "Muckle obleeged to ye," sal ship, and took his usual seat you disapprove of Caapital Punii he added. jjte "I am sorry, sir. I do." said Ar "I am sorry,-t©Oi said his lf"And now, if you please, we shall ar-!v*«»1 this business with a little more^par-J teecularlty. I hear that at the hanging of Duncan Jopp—and, man! ye had a fim client there—rin the middle of all the riff: of the ceety, ye thought fit to cry out* "This is a danmed murder, and my gorg rises at the man that haangit him.*" "No, sir, these were not my words," cried Archie. "What were ye'r words, then?" asked the Judge. "I believe I said 'I denounce it as a murder!' said the son. "I beg your pardon— a God-defying murder. I have no wish to conceal the truth," he added, and looked his father for a moment in the face. "God, it would only need that of It next!" cried Hermiston. "There was nothing about your gorge rising, then?" "That was afterwards, my lord, as I was leaving the Speculative. I said I had been to see the miserable creature hanged, and my gorge rose at it." "Did ye, though?" said Hermiston. "And I suppose ye knew who haangit him?" "I was present at the trial, I ought to tell you that, I ought to explain. I ask your pardon beforehand for any expression that may seem undutlful. The position in which I stand is wretched." said the unhapply hero, now fairly face to face with the business he had chosen. "I have been reading some of your cases. I was present while Jopp was tried. It was a hideous business. Father, it was a hideous thing. Grant he was vile, why should you hunt Viim with a lien ess equal to his own? I' was done with glee—that Is the word— dkl it with glee and I looked on, God hel me! with horroi "You're a young gentleman that does n» approve of Caapital Punishment, Hermiston. "Wed, I'm an auld man tha does. I was glad to get Jopp haangit, and what for would I pretend I was nae? You're all for honesty. It seems you couldn't even steik your month on the public street. What for should I steik mines upon the bench, the King's officer, bearing the sword, a dreld to evil-doers, as I was from the beginning, and as 1 will be to the end! Mair enough of it! Heedious! I never gave twa thoughts to heedlessness, I have no call to be bonny. I'm a man that gets through with my day's business, and let that suffice."

son of mines, you l^ve flung fylement in public on one of the Senators of the Coallege of Justice, and I would make it my business to see that ye were never admitted there yourself. There is a kind of a decency to be ohservit. Then comes the [COXTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.]

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