The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-26
NUMBER l3.

anu lONe! HOW IL drops upon tn6
roof! How it goes pit-a-pat in the
heart How the heart is raining
suddenly through the eyes and the
roof is beating with the paIpitation
of the wind
Old men seldom go to garrets.
Bad old men like Garrick HoWton
never do.
Next week Weasley Howton was
to start for Indiana, ,and be an apostle
on the Wabash.
His trunk was packed and his
ticket for the stage was to be paid
for over the great National road from
Hagerstown.
Fifty dollars fare :" exclaimed the
bishop,as he walked his 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 tadeless beauty, till
death do Us part"
AS he looked there came a cloud
of dust up the Leitersburg road from
the South, where somebody was
driving hard.
ut looks like runaway couple"
exclaimed Garrick HOWton, reaching
for his Eyeglasses. But the shade
of the North mountains, where the
sun was going down, put a belt of
blackness upon the landscape, like
the moons total eclipse. When the
sound of the wheels came to the door
and Garrick heard a knock, he de-
scended and found strange man in
the parlor, which had no lights,
"Sare," the stranger said, " have
re honair to say zat l am in love.
But re lady is too leetle she haf not
re grand age 1t will be all re same;
because she loves me and her fathair
haYe so much shame he nevair Will
say nothing. l give you fifty dolIaire
to make me her husband"
"Fifty dollars !" the bishops ava
riciOu5 heart responded. at is
WeasIey'S whole fare, The good de.
mon must have sent this man here"
Then the business piety returning,
the bishop spoke aloud
"What are the names of the par
ties? Marriage, my brother, the
apostle says, is honorable in all-He-
brews xiii. 4. see not that it may
not be honorable in thee"
'Za names are on certificates we
have filled. Ze fee L pay you is ex-
traordinary, monsieur. For za fifty
dollaire we make two demands: Aw
premiere, zat you marry re bride
velIed AU Sec0nde. zat you sign
two certificates for US, to protect re
lady and moi naeDae."
The age of the bride ?" asked
Garrick Howton.
"What mattair zat ? You have
made many re wife at fourteen, many
time. My bride is sixteen. Come,
re money.
He felt the bankbilI in his hand
and it dried up his compunctions of
heart; he felt quill put in his fin
gers and the stranger, with some-
thing like fusee, made flame that
contained birthstone and seemed vel
low and blue.
Externally be mine, as zs papair
you sign," the strange man exclaim-
ed mean re lady child, re lady,
par6ieu."
The voice had a deep sepulchral
tone in it. and by the foreboding
flame. Garrick saw a person whose
forehead was all in patches, with
French moustacheS under his nose
and blackened eyebrows drawn near
ly through the temples to the edge of
a colOrless inky wig.
You must give me some name,"
spoke the bishop, as he signed, "al-
though L cannot read by such a
light"
81 am re Marquis BeIlsbub."
"Bring in the lady !"
Low laughter seemed to be circling
around the apartment as the uniting
words were said by the bishops fall
tering tongue.
Loud laughter broke from the car
riage windows as the scoundrel drove
away.
Here, Weasley Eunice Lights!
Lights ~ exclaimed old Garrick
Ho" tan. 81 have got my last mar
riage fee."
No voice replied /; the dark noun
tainS through the windows showed
bridal Wreaths of stars upon their
forbidding brows, like the awful
presence of the marquis who had but
now departed with childhOOd's pur-
ity 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 he acknowI.
edged the sale of his soul to Beeize-
bub for thousand years.
"Ha ! ha !" he cried, "Satan has
dropped the contract he entrapped
me to sign. To the fire-to the fire
with it ~
A voice seemed to sound from the
garrett on the waiIing of the wind
"GOu signed two such certificates.
NnI ha