The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-02-16

One Of my yearly dooties. Sit down
sit down. Glad to see you. Fill
your glass. mean get out some
thing to eat and drink, Margorie.' -
"I have, pa," said Margorie,
"Don't you see the pitcher" And
she handed him a glass.
Sweet ciderr' said Mr.. Garnet,
contemptuously. "Well, boys and
girls and women and dominies like
it, I suppose. How is religion
comm on? Pretty brisk?''
Robin answered the best he could,
and cast an anxious glance toward
the store closet.
"Sit down. Sit down dominic -
said Mr.. Garnet. "Make yourself
at home. I've wanted to talk to
you a good while. They say you
can drive the devil from folks
Now, tell me, how does he get into
emp Tell me that9'
Mr.. Garnet was very far from
sober, and Robin thought it the
best to humor him.
"When Satan enters a mans heart,
it's through sin, sin, of couse," he
said.
"What kind of sin?" asked Mr..
Garnet, in thick, tipsy voice.
"Many. Murder, theft, lying,and
drunkenness amongst others" said
Robin.
"Look here, young man." said
Mr.. Garnet, trying to rise, 'Ive got
plenty of hard cider aboard, know.
Now, if Satan is in me drive him
out. / want to see him. Come
now; go at it. I'm a good Method
ist."
81 think 1 had better take my
leave, Miss Garnet"
But before the words were out of
his lips the door of the store-closet
opened softly. The lamp was sud
denly blown out; a smell of brim
stone filed the room, and an awful
figure stood before them. Silas had
possessed himself of a box of
matches, dampened the ends, and
rubbed them over his face and
hands, and with two other punches
blazing in his hands stood before
the Mortified Mr.. Garnet, his head
tied up in a silk handkerchief, and
table cloth draping his shoulders.
"You want to see me, here l an"
he said in hollow tones. "You rep
rebate, look at me-
Margorie shrieked; Robin was
bewildered; old Mr.. Garnet sank on
his knees.
"Oh, dominic, keep him away"
he cried. "Oh, what am I to doY
"Soften your hard heart" replied
Silas. Don't drink so much cider,
aud let your daughter marry the
man of her choice, or I'll come and
fetch you next Christmas" and
fourishing the flaming matches, he
dashed out of the door.
"Get up, Mr.. Garnet" said Robin.
"Get up, sir; sit in this chair. Miss
Garnet, will you light the lamp2-
Be calm, be calm and he held the
old mans hand in his.
Dominic" gasped Mr.. Garnet,
"you won t raise him again! There,
don't speak; listen: why do you
suppose he came?'
Robin was very wrong; he con-
fessed this afterward, but he was
very young also, and in love himself
with a girl who was far away, and
Silas was his friend; and insteal of
making an explanation of the facts
he merely answered,
81 think he told you himself why
he came.
81 know it isn't right to drink too
much. I'll swear off," said Mr..
Garnet. "But about letting Margo-
rie have Silas Weld, why, his grand
father and my father, they went to
law about the three acre meadow,
and my mother used to say she had
no opinion at all of Mrs. Weld, his
ma"
"They are all dead, 1 believe, "said
Robin; "all gone to their account"
eyes," said Mr.. Garnet. yes
that s true. A year-the old boy
said he fetch me in year, If L
didn't let Silas have Margorie.-
Dominic, what's your opinion of
Silas?"
'He'l be good to your daughter"
said he. IL"
Oh, how wrong he was again, He
repented it afterwards in ssckcloth
and ashes; but he finished the sent
snce with:
"If 1 were you. Mr.. Garnet, after
what you've seen, 1 would not tempt
Satan"
A week from that day Mr.. Gar
net surprised the temperance lodge
by taking the pledge, and shortly
after Margorie and Silas were mar
ried,
1t surely was not his fault, but
the young minister's fame was great
ly increased by report that he had
driven the devil out of old Mr.. Gar
net, and the temporary sojourn
which a Methodist minister makes
in any place was a pleasant one for
Luckden and for himself.
Over and over again he had told
himself that he had been accessory
to a very disgracefull sort Of trick,
utterly unworthy his dignity; but
Silas and Margorie were happy, and
old Mr.. Garnet was a temperance
man, and Robin, never made con-
fession.
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