San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27

10y their own disobedieiit impulses or the
powerful sinister influence of man, or it may
have been the childish beauty of Eunice
Howton, his distant relative, which doomed
her to become the bishops wife when she
should be old enough to receive his orders
and not bring the laws Of Pennsylvania down
upon his head. The bishop bided his time.
Eunice was hardly 10, n slender, gray eyed
blonde, whose feet, touch the ground as they
would, turned into lines Of grace, and music
seemed to be playing as she walked or moved,
TO such harmonies did she bend; while in the
action of her head upon her delicate neck
and even in the motion of her lips there APP
peared to be violin music whistled by her
spirit as the upland zephys played upon it
and her heard desired to dance.
The country people said that this was be-
cause her mother had been an actress and q
dancer.
Somewhere back in the undiscerned past
and vagueneSs of a large world it was said
that Bishop Howton had been a show man
aser and that his orphan cousin had married
a French dancer who was in his strolling
company.
This cousin had been left to Garrick, who
had kept him down and nearly starved him,
depressing his spirits by an avarice and su-
oerstition which lay across each other, and
finally retired Garrick from the show bust
ness a complete failure, while his ward, set
free by matrimony, made a nice little for
tune keeping dancing academy with his
wife.
When the parents died something of the
husbands inherited tenets caused him to re-
pent. though he had never done anything
bad, and in the weakness of dying he gave his
child to his relative to be her trustee and the
trustee of a respectable little fortune
The poor dancing teacher thought the word
"bishop" covered regenerate heart.
The bishop was merely capitalist in mar
riage fees.
This is considered reasonable humility
Some of the schoolboys called him Old
Yoke fi-noki, because he yoked so many
couples.
What education he had picked up avarice
and illiterate associations had chased out Of
his head; like an old country Dutchman, he
could spell joists for his barn joyce and talk
about the freedman on his horse when he
meant breeching.
AS time advanced Garrick grew deeply in
love with Eunice, and forgot to give spiritual
restraint to his son.
Al seventeen sharp, OH TtiTTlck 11OWUOu
often repeated to. himself. looking at Eunic0
with the threefold passions Of love, avarice
and superstition
Often when an old man falls in love it
seems to him like holiness, when it is only
foolishneSS.
In that way Garrick threw himself back
into his natural state before he became an
avaricious scoundrel, or self frightened
hypocrite. He got to believing in the reli-
gion he practiced upon He feared night
solitude and ghosts. He believed that his
monstrous passion was a sacrifice on his part
for the sake of securing Eunice's soul
II should be the DEVILS prize without her"
unused Garrick Howton. 1.-THE children 7
have tied in wedlocks of despair, tho I'M
formed souls | have manacled to selfish
fiends, the headstrong schoolgirls l have
made the legal slaves of hideous skinhints,
and who have in few months awaked to
everlasting repentance and horror, would
troop into my lonely home among these
mountains and drive me crazy with their
curses should go mad! But Eunice, Eu.
nice, she will guard my door and warm my
heart and bring other angels like her from
heaven to my relief and comfort"
1t was plain that the hypocritical old
bishop was becoming slightly hysterical
Weasley Howton had been notified by his
father that he must go west and establish his
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