The Crucifixion of Philip Strong

Philip found by the side of his unconscious wife

e. Milton is not big enough to hol

n Milton there is danger of two funeral

threaten the life of an innocent woman. There was with it all a feeling of intense contempt of such childish, dime-novel methods of intimidation as that of sticking a knife into the study desk. If it had not been for its effect

d thinking perhaps you had left one of your windows down at the top and the curtain was flapping,

u carry up

, still feeling that strange, unaccountable knowledge of some one there, a man stepped out from behind your desk, walked right up to me

stened in

all that! It isn't likely that

s. But I felt compelled to read what was written, and the man held the papers there until the words seemed to burn my eyes. He then wa

wife had in some way fallen asleep and dreamed at least a part of this stra

e yet. Philip, I am almost dead for fe

nife, which was still sticking in the desk. "Evidently the saloon men think I am a child to be frighte

his is the work o

have no other enemies

nnot bear the thought of living here in t

ay any slight anxiety he may have had for himself, "do

e killed? Is there any bravery in staying in a place

confidently. "And I don't want you to b

nd as you go back and forth to your meetings in the dark. I am growing nervous and anxious ever since the shooting; and when I was startled by the man here to-night I was so weak that I fainted. But I am sure that they do not care to harm me; you are

ty, but that of his wife as well. For, think what he would, he could not shake off the feeling that a man so cowardly as to resort to the assassination of a man would not be over particular even if it should chance to be a woman. Philip was

f Milton as soon as possible. But he finally decided that he ought to remain; and Mrs. Strong did not oppose his decision when once

us presence strengthened her, and she began to tell him that he had b

that there is any man. Confess,

gnantly. "Do you think I wrote those letters

man get into the study and nei

nd he may be in the house yet. I shall not rest easy until y

distance behind Philip, one armed with the poker and the other with a fire-shovel, while he pulled open closet doors with reckless disregard of any

ss a mystery to Philip. However, the letters and the knife were real. He took them down town next day to the office of the evening paper, and asked the editor to publish the letters and describe the knife. It was too good a piece of news to omit, and Milton people were treated to a genuine sensation when the article came out. Philip

a present of a silver-mounted pistol; then I would manage the shooting myself. And as for being careful about going out evenings, what is this town thinking of, that it will continue to license and legalize an institution that makes its honest citizens advise new-comers to stay at home for fear of assassination? No. I shall go abo

he man had refused each time to see the minister, and he had gone away feeling hungry in his soul for the man's redemption, and realizing something of the spirit of Christ when he was compelled to cry out: "They will not come u

n the wealthy residence portion, and not more than two or three blocks apart. Down in the tenement district there was not a single church building, and only one or two weak mission schools which did not touch the problem of the district at all. The distance from this poor part of the town to the churches was fully a mile, a distance that certainly stood as a geographical obstacle to the church attendance of the neighborhood, even supposing the people were eager to go to the large churches, which was not at all the fact.

again very carefully. He talked with the different ministers, and the most advanced Christians in his own church. There was a variety of opinion as to