Wichita eagle., 1888-10-05

The bishop had told Eunics that In the
said trunks was the devils wardrobe The
young people locked the door and examined
the wardrobe thoroughly.
What places are gafrets for rain and loyei
how it drops upon the roof How it goes
pit-a-pat in the hearth How the heart is
raining suddenly through the eyes and the
roof is beating with the palpitations Of the
wind
Old men seldom go to garrets. Bad old
men like Garrick Howton never do.
Next week Weesiey Howton was to start
for Indiana, and be an apostle on the
wabash
BIS trunk was packed and his ticket for the
stage IVES to be paid for over the great Ma
tional road from Hagerstown to the far
west
Fifty dollars farer' exclaimed the bishop,
as he walked the upper porch; what a sum
of money! But the next week it shall be
made up out of Eunice's fortune. which will
then be mine, with her fadeless beauty, till
death do Us part. The rascalI"
As he looked, there came cloud Of dust
up the Leistersburg road from the south,
where somebody was driving handsome
body In desperate hurry.
at looks like runaway couple, exclaimed
Garrick Howaon, reaching for his eyeglasses
But the shade Of The North mountains, where
the sun was going down, put q belt OF black
ness upon the landscape, ike the moons total
eclipse. When the sound Of the wheels came
TO tho door and Garrick heard the knock, he
descended and found strange nan IN the
parlor, which had no lights.
s'Sare,n the stranger said, 81 have re hon
ARE to say Eat am in loavc. But ze lady
is too leetle; she nave not ze grand age. It
will be all 70 same; because she loaves me
and her fathair have SO much shame he
nevair will say nothing I give you fifty
dollaire TO make me her husband at once,
sarer'
Fifty doIIa-sr' the bishops avaricious
heart responded at is Weasley's whole fare
The good demon must have sent this man
here
Then the business piety returning, the
bishop spoke aloud and most unctUously:
What are the names Of the partiesl Mar
riage, NY brother, the apostle says, is honor
able in au-Hebrews xiii, 4 I see not that it
may not be honorable in thee
''Ze names are on certificates we have
filed. Ze fec 1 pay you IS excraordinaire,
monsieur. For 70 fifty dollaire we make two
demands: Au premiere, Eat you marry ze
bride yelled! Au second, Eat you sign two
certificates for Us, TO protect &c lady and moi
meme"
The ago of the brider asked Garrick
Howton-
What ma1tair zatl You have made "a
wife at fourteen many time. Ny bride is
sixteen, saire. Come, ze money! Here Is 70
money!
He felt the bank bill n his hand and it
dried up his compunctions of heart; he felt
quill put in his fingers and the stranger, with
something like fusee, made a flame that
contained birthstone and seemed yellow and
blue.
Externally be mine as zis papair you sign"
the strange man eIclaimed-''I mean re lady
child, re lady, parbleu."
The voice had deep sepulchral tone in it,
end by the foreboding fame Garrick saw a
person whose forehead was all in patches,
with French rnustaches under his nose and
blackened eyebrows drawn nearly through
the temples to the edge Of q colorless, inLy
wig.
You must give ne some name" spoke the
bishop as he signed, although I cannot read
by such light"
81 am re Marquis BeIlsbulb."
''Pring in the ladyw
Low laughter seemed TO be circling around
the apartment as the uniting words were said
by the bishops faluering and fatigued tongue
Loud laughter broke from the carriage win
dors as the scoundrel drove away.
Here, Weasley! Eunice! Lightsl LightsE'
exclaimed old Garricz HowJon- x have got
my last marriage fee"
No voice replied; the dark mountains
through the windows showed bridal wreathS
Of stars upon their forbidding brows, like the
awful presence Of the marquis who had but
cow departed with childhood's purity in his
false black eyes and wig.
The bishop took fire and lighted a candle.
He saw . paper lying upon the floor with his
signature to it. He read with horror that no
acknowledged the sale of his soul to Beelzebub
for thousand years.
''Ha! HAP he cried, Satan has dropped
the contract ne entrapped me to sign Totbe
fre-to the fire with it,"
A voice seemed 10 sound from the garnet Oh
the wailing Of the wind
You signed two such certificates. You
have married Eunice to the devil"
Father cried Weasley Howton next
morning, 'Eunice is net TO be found VIII
you forgive her If she has married-H she has
married mel"
Bishop Howton lay on the floor dead
George Alfred Townsend in Baltimore Home
Journal