Show John Ramsay s revenge I 1 I 1 S by LEONARD LE CROSS I 1 i s copyright 1916 by W Y 0 chapman its true then asked tile lie deacon its quite true that my lily wife tv wil was ou on the ho stage before I 1 married tier her replied the young minister thou then raising ills head III 1 I am not prepared to discuss mii mi i further no need to snapped tile lie deacon tin the church wants your resignation 1 you have it replied the minister the alie deacon was flu flustered dont you want to suy say anything an thing inores more lio lie raised yes I 1 will tell you the story replied tile tho in minister fulster you people think beci because tuse a woman lifts has been tin ail actress she Is thereby unfitted for work us its it ministers wife sirs mrs and I 1 yere vere born bom lu lit tile pie saine ellige ll Lige ge site left home hoine lit in girlhood with mth ili her r parents they died unit and she was forced to support hensell in ili theany that site she could hest best boy hy acting sh she had 1 a I natural gift Is there anything degrading lit in honest work 1 I dont say cay there Is and I 1 dont say 0 aint the deacon answered the story Is that you went to X new CW york to find tier lier and reformed tier her and married tier her the story Is true in this regard that I 1 went to new york found it her e r and infirri married ed tier her well well not wont you after the quarter you rou deed not have ille after today the contract trends reads till 1111 the ind end of nf the quarter and while youve received L I 1 P 1 11 I dont say there Is and I 1 dont say there aint as we aint going to go back on it cop exact we require you till we can call get inathe r minister answered the dea on putting on ills his hut which meant until they could got get on nil aher minister clie cheap tip small dinall falls was I 1 small minded mean avar lelous place john linndsay Ila lin rosay nisay lind known unit that ut lit tho the beginning but lie hall had tin had to leave his first harge when lie brought back pretty boiu ora weir from new york as aa ills his wire miff people would not tolerate in the parsonage a woman who had run away from her home as gossip falsely said who ho hall been saved according to lying reports by the man who tied once boon her sweetheart since then jolin john irain any had had to give up two charges tor for the same saine reason humor followed him lying tongues pursued ahlm well dear asked his wife as he went neut slowly upstairs the same mine story nora lie he answered dejectedly she put tier her arms about his neck 1 I am it a burden to you she elie said it if it were not for me john you need omer never have left grayling I 1 have ruined your life you have made iny my life dear dearest cst no he un answered for tho the first few weeks nil had gonn swimmingly then the scandalous stories had find begun to spread nora era had been cut by the townspeople they had bad looked the other way when john passed along the street tile situation lia biad it become unbearable there was nothing to do but leave nora sold paid john that evening 1 I have decided to give up the ministry let us go west and make ourselves independent then well have nobody to tear and then I tIch inquired nora you know I 1 cu c tilt ild have made a good deal of money meney upon the stage 1 then ill start a church of my iny ow own n answered john grimly 0 0 0 0 10 there were too many churches la in small falls they jostled each other upon the main street and lit in tho the suburbs suburb there were ivere per perhaps hoila a dozen of them I 1 em unit and most of them were ein empty fity the ministers struggling along on a hare pittance partook necessarily of ME lie narrow views of their flock controlled by the well to do hard minded men who used these to td advance their own interests five years after john Ilna Rain says disappearance hv h lind been quite forgot tell arn john aa ani ills wife registered at the he hotel they found hardly a soul they had ever seen when they bought the finest house in alie town it however there was a d fluttering in tale tow among social lea leaders le ders adera their wealth seethed to be unlimited As a matter of fact john Ital had 11 cool million lit in the goldfields gold nelds fields und and meant to devote halt half of it to lila ills durose pu rose when the story went about that john ramsay was the lie discharged minister e eury body began to leavo leave cardi out of curiosity sirs Itai lisay who biad been snubbed tom found 1 herself it social light in small falls the local newspapers were full of tic lie ceil county lit of tile hie popular minister who flood glun given up the to go into buil business liess only illy man it doggedly refused to in acknowledge hlin that was cru ford lie he was the richest man in ili town lonn find in 1 gen genered erid ills his word law however something happened that wilt tho the deacon post pest hasto haste to johns house it was nil an incredible titor ru bior that had gono gone through squall falls lal ls this I 1 licar hear about your our giving I 1 salaries to the small fulls falls inkuls lie demanded its true deacon de and it ought to interest you ou said haiti jolin john every minister lit in fulls falls will be paid it 11 huli i nry ary of thirty dollars in week out of j I 1 ile ho capital fund as long us its liu lie holds holda I 1 i ollice here no matter what tits his deno denomination uil flints Wl lints ints the game I 1 dont see it hald aid tile deacon youre simply paying it if into tile church funds do you ou suppose well pay out lucent u cent ot of salary if you do does uny any of tile the churches pay lla its ministers thirty dollars a weeke or twenty live five asked john i warmly well the gallie mc you aint throwing your money away for noth ing in ure are you iou inquired the deacon its ita tills this said john when I 1 was your minister you insulted my lily wife und mid drove tile mo uway away because she find biad been on tile hie stage not flint you ou have any i principles UK ill stage or about anything ain except money nin making kIng hut it milled your purpose you and a small gung gang of you have gota got a hold on christianity you have nur nar rowed it nim turned its love into gall you have used it to keep the town hard find and money bound like yourselves so s that your ways your views your doctrines your worldliness should bo be iden titled with the divine teach ln lii well deacon ended the ministers in small falls no in mutter titter who they tire are or where blui k coin efroin are going to bo be free men ineil free to preach and tench according to j their hearts they fire arc going to to open their churches to all they are gullik ilni ul ni t to accept till all who camu to them seeking I 1 lie truth they tire are going to accept 1 men like you von deacon because somewhere lit in your system there esthe I 1 nubit of it soul walting waiting to bo be sayed saved and allot ini im going to be bocour your minister because lunkley biks lias consented to retire on oil it a pension bekin be kin or ta alie ae breaking i of tile deacons grip upon small falls was tile the sensation of tile lily day 1 though hough it ft never got into the lie newspapers but people begun began lo 10 to fly that of a real revival end maide itself manifest in small dinall falls falig tile empty churches now proved none too many for the throngs that crowded every sunday and there liero Is it w weary ell ry careworn money crushed rinn muti in woolly many it 11 country parmo parsonage nage bodoy wife who lias taken heart because of john Ilam says scheme who knows that if not in ills his lifetime sometime 1 the shackles will bo be broken |