The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
own congregation of tho peculiar Zion

, own congregation Of tho peculiar Zion
sixties.
He was sent to tho garnet TO study disci-
pline and thoroughly contemplate tLe Scrip
lures.
One day Eunce stole up into the garrot,
while the bishop was marrying ono eyed
man of 90 to a maid of 49, and she met a diff
ferent scene there from tho penanoe and
prayer sho had expected.
Weasley was rugged out in suit Of theat-
rical clothes taken from Eunices parents
trunks, and was executing wild and fantas-
tic jig.
Tho bishop had told Eunico that In the
said trunks was the DEVILS wardrobe. Tho
young people locked the door and examined
tho wardrobe thoroughly.
What places are garrets for rain and Lowell
How it drops upon the roof! How 1t 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
windl
Old men seldom go to garrets, Bad old
men like Garrick Howton never do.
Next week Weasey Howton was to start
for Indiana, aud be 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,
rs no walked the upper porch; what sum
Of money! But the next week 1t shall be
made up ont of Eunice's fortune, which will
then be mine, with her fadeess beauty, till
death do US part. The rascal"
As he looked, there came n cloud Of dust
I'D tho LeistersDurg road from the south,
where somebody was driving handsome
body in a desperate hurry
at looks like 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 tho 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 u strange man in the
parlor, which had no lights.
"Sare,n tho stranger said, ~ have 20 hon
aire to say Eat am in loave. But 20 lady
is too leetle; she have not 10 grand age. 1t
will DO all 10 same; because she loaves mo
and her fnthair have SO much shame he
nevair will say nothing. | give you fifty
dollare to make me her husband at once,
sare!"
Fifty doilarsl' tho 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 my brother, the apostle says, is honor.
able in all-Hebrews xiii, 4. see not that it
may not be honorable in Thea"
''Ze names are on certificates we have
filed. Ze fee l pay you is extraordinaire,
monsieur. For 20 fifty dollaire We make two
demands: Au premiere, Eat you marry zs
bride veiledl Au second, Eat you sign two
certificates for US, to protect 70 lady and moi
meme"
"The age of the bride7s asked Garrick
Howton.
"What mattair zatl You have made 20
wife ut fourteen many time My bride is
sixteen, saire Come, 70 money! Here is 20
money"
He felt the bank bill In his hand and it
dried up his compunctions OF heart; he felt
quill put in his fingers and tho stranger, with
something like fusee, made flame that
contained birthstone and seemed yellow and
blue.
Externally be mine, Us zis papar you sign"
the strange man exclaimed-"I mean 70 lady
ohild ~ lady, parbeu."
The voice had deep sepulchral tone in 1t,
and by the foreboding flame Garrick saw a
person whose forehead was all in patches,
with French mustacbes under his nose and
blackened eyebrows drawn nearly through
the temples to the edge of u colorless, inky
wig.
"You must give Inc some name," spoke the
bishop as he signed, although l cannot read
by such light"
81 am 20 Marquis Bellsbulb,"
Bring In the lady"
Low laughter seemed to be crcling around
the apartment as tho uniting words were said
by the bishops faltering and fatigued tongue.
Loud laughter broke from the carriage win
dows as the scoundrel drove away.
Here, Wesley Eunice! Lights! Lights".
exclaimed old Garrick Howton. II have got
my last marriage fec"
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
now departed with childhoods purity in his
false black eyes and wig.
The bishop took fire and lighted candle
He saw 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 thousand years.
"Hal hal" he cried, "Satan has dropped
the contract he entrapped ne to sign. Tothe
flre--to the fire with It'll"
voice seemed to sound from the garnet on
tho wailing OF the wind.
"You signed two such certificates. You
have married Eunice to the devil"
"Father." cried Weasley Howton next
morning, "Eunice is not to DO found. VIII
you forgive her if she has married-if she has
married met"
Bishop Howton lay on the floor dead
George Alfred Townsend in Baltimore Home
Journal.
Court Of tho Afghan Ameer.
Tho A fybon aYnear Ia hia own biol, COurf