The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-10-05


own congregation of the peculiar Zion
sixties.
He was sent to the garrett to study disci.
plino and thoroughly contemplate the Scrip
lures
One day Eunice stole up into the garrett,
whio the bishop was marrying n ono eyed
man Of 90 to a maid Of Is, and she met diff
ferent scene there from the penance and
prayer sho had expected.
Weasley was rugged out In n suit Of theat-
rical clothes taken from Eunice's parents
trunks, and was executing a 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
the wardrobe thoroughly.
What places are garrets for rain and Lowell
Eow it drops upon the roof! How it goes
pit-a-pat in tho hearth How the heart is
raining suddenly through the eyes and the
roof is beating with the palpitations of the
| wind!
Cd men seldom go TO garrets. Bad old
men like Garrick Howton never do.
Next week Weasley Howton was TO start
for Indiana, and be ON apostle on the
Wabash.
His trunk was packed and his ticket for the
!
tional road from Hagerstown to the far
west.
Fifty dollars fare!" exclaimed tho bishop,
us no walked the upper porch; "what sum
of money! But tho next week it shall be
made up out of Eunice's fortune. which will
then DO mine, with her fadeless beauty, till
death do us part The rascall'
As no looked, there came a cloud of dust
up tho Lcistersburg road from the south,
| where somebody was driving handsome
body in desperate hurry.
at 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 black
ness upon tho landscape, like tho moons total
eclipse. When the sound OF tho wheels came
to tho door and Garricl heard tho knock, he
descended and found strange man in the
parlor, which had no lights
"Sare," tho stranger said, 81 have 20 hon
afro to say Eat am in loave. But re lady
is too leetic; sho have not 20 grand age. 1t
will DO all 20 same; because she loavcs me
and her fathair have so much shame he
nevair will say nothing. l give you fifty
dollairc to make me her husband at once,
sare!"
"Fifty dolarsls the bishops avaricious
heart responded. "It is Weasiey's whole fare.
The good demon must have sent this man
here" ~ $3.50.
THEN the business piety returning, the
bishop spoke aloud and most unctuously:
''What arc tho names OF tho parties9 Mar
riagc, my brother, the apostle says, is honor
ablo in all--Hebrews xiii, 4. SEQ not that it
may not be honorable in thee"
re names orc Oh certificates we have
111I g. II a.. ll...s
monsieur For re fifty dollairc VIC mako two
demands: Au premiere, Eat you marry 20
bride yelled! Au second, Eat you sign two
certificates for us, to protect &c lady and moi
meme"
"Tho age of the brideg' asked Garrick
Howton
"What mattair zata You have made &c
wife at fourteen many time. Ny bride is
sixteen, saire. Come, 20 money! Here is 20
money!
Ho felt tho bank bill In his hand and it
dried up his computations of heart; no felt
quill put in his fingers and the stranger, with
something like q fusee, mado q flamo that
contained birthstone and seemed yellow and
blue.
Externally be mine, es zs papair you sign,"
tho strange man exclaimed-''I mean 20 lady
child, 20 lady, parbleu."
Tho voice had n deep sepulchral tone in it,
and by tho foreboding fame Garrick saw q
person whose forehead was oil in patches,
with French mustacbes under his nose and
blackened eyebrows drawn nearly through
tho temples to the edge of u colorless inky
wig.
''You must give mo sono name" spoke tho
bishop as he signed, although l cannot read
by such light"
~ am ze Marquis Bellsbulb'
"Bring in the ladyr"
Low laughter seemed to be circlinS aroa-ld
tho apartment as the uniting words were said
by tho bishops faltering and fatigued tongue.
Loud laughter broke from the carriage win
dows as the scoundrel drove away.
''Here, Weasleyl Eunice! Lights! Lightsr'
exclaimed old Garrick Howton. 81 have got
my last marriage fee."
No voice replied; tho 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 childhood's purity in his
false black eyes and wig.
The bishop took fro and lighted n candle.
He saw paper lying upon tho floor with his
signature to it. He read with horror that he
acknowledged the sale of his soul to Beelzebub
for thousand years
"Hal ha!' he cried, "Satan has dropped
the contract lie entrapped mo to sign. Tothe
flre-to tho fire with it!'
a voice seemed to sound from the garnet on
tho wailing of the wind.
"You signed two such certificates. You
bavo married Eunice TO tho devil"
"Father." cried Wcasley Howton next
morning, "Eunicc Is rot 60 DO found. Will
you forgive her IL she has mar:ied-if she has
married mes"
Bishop Howtea lay Oh the floor dead
George Alfred Townsend in baltimore Homo
Journal.
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