San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
n congregation of the peculiar Zion

sklUeS.
He was sent to the garnet to study disci-
pline and thoroughly contemplate the Scrip
lures
One day Eunice stole up into the garnet,
while the bishop was marrying q one eyed
man of 60 to q maid of Is, and she met diff
ferent scene there from the penance and
prayer she had expected.
Weasley was rugged out in suit of theat-
rical clothes taken from Eunice's parents
trunks, and was executing a wild and fantas
tic jig
The bishop had told Eunice that in the
said trunks was the DEVILS wardrobe. The
young people locked the door and examined
the wardrobe thoroughly
What places are garrets for rain and Lowell
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 Weasley Howton was to start
for Indiana, and DO an apostle on the
Wabash.
His trunk was packed and his ticket for the
stage was to be paid for over the great Ma
tional road from Hagerstown to the far
west.
Fifty dollars fare!" 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 rascalr'
As he looked, there came a cloud of dust
up the Leistersburg road from the south,
where somebody was driving handsome
body in desperate hurry.
alt looks like a runaway couple" exclaimed
Garrick Howton, reaching for his eyeglasses
But the shade of tho North mountains, where
the sun was going down, put belt of black
ness upon the landscape, like the moons total
eclipse When the sound of the wheels came
to the door and Garrick heard the knock, he
descended and found a strange man in the
parlor, which had no lights.
"Sare," the stranger said, 81 have &c hon
aire to say Eat am in loave. But re lady
is too leetle; she have not re grand age. 1t
will be all 70 same because she loaves me
and her fathair have so much shame he
nevair will say nothing l give you fifty
dollare to make me her husband at once,
sareI'
FIFTY dollars." 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 parties7 Mar
riage, my brother, the apostle says, is honor
able in all-Hebrews xiii, 4. see not that it
may not be honorable in thee"
"Ze names are on certificates we have
filed. Re fee l pay you is extraordinaire,
monsieur For ze fifty dollaire we make two
demands: Au premiere, Eat you marry re
bride veiled An second, Eat you sign two
certificates for us, to protect re lady and moi
meme"
"The age of the brideg" asked Garrick
Howton.
"What mattair zat9 You have made re
wife at fourteen many a time. Ny bride is
sixteen, saire. Come, re money! Here is Ze
money"
He felt the bank bill in his hand and it
dried up his computations OF heart; he felt
quill put in bis fingers and tho stranger, with
something like q fusee, made a flame that
contained birthstone and seemed yellow and
blue.
Externally be mine, as zis papair you sign"
tho strange man exclaimed-''l mean ze lady
child, re lady, parbleu"
The voice had deep sepulchral tone in it,
and by the foreboding flame Garrick saw
person whose forehead was all in patches,
With French mustacheS under his nose and
5lackened eyebrows drawn nearly through
the temples to the edge Of a colorlesS, inky
wig.
You must give me some NAME" spoke the
bishop as he signed, although l cannot read
by such light"
81 am 70 Marquis BelIsbulb."
Bring in the LADY,"
Low laughter seemed to be circling around
tho apartment rs the uniting words were said
By thu bishops falterinS and fatigued tongue.
Loud laughter broke from the carriage win
tlows as tho scOunGr1l Grove away.
Here, Weaslcy! Eunicc! Lights! Lightsr'
exclaimed old Garrick Howton. 81 have got
my last marriage fee"
NJ voice replied; the dark mountains
through the windows showed bridal wrcatns
of stars upon their forbidding brows, like the
awful presence Of the marquis who had but
now departed with chiidhood's purity in his
false black eyes and wig.
The bishop took fire and lighted candle.
He saw o paper Lying upon the floor with his
signature to it. He read with horror that he
acknowledged the sale of his soul to Beelzebub
for L thousand years.
Ia! ha" he Cried Satan has dropped
the contract he entrapped me to sign. Tothe
firc-to the fire with it,"
A voice seemed to sound from the garnet on
tho wailing of the wind
''You signed two such certificates. You
hay: marrisd Ennice to the devil"
1t was tie picketof the Union cavarymen,
who were resting and eating supper in a
SIonll cabin q few feet from the roadSida