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


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 fifteen, a slen-
der, gray-eyed blonde, whose feet,
touch the ground as they would,
turnc d into lines of grace, and music
seemed to be playing as she walked
or moved, to such harlnonies did she
bend; while in the action of her head
upon her delicate neck and even in
the motion of her lips there appeared
to be violin music whistled by her
spirit as the upland zephyrs played
upon it and her heart desired to
dance.
The country people said that this
was because her mother had been an
actress end dancer.
Somewhere back in the undiscern-
ed past and yagueness of a larger
world it was said that Bishop How
ton had been a show manager and
that his orphan cousin had married
q French dancer who was in his
strOlling company.
This cousin had been left to Gar
rick, who had kept him down and
nearly starved him, repressing his
spirits by an avarice and superstition
which lay across each other, and
finally retired Garrick from the show
business complete failure, whilst
his ward, set free by matrimony,
made nice little fortune keeping
dancing academy with his wife.
When the parents died something
of the husbands inherited tenets
caused him to repent, though he had
never done anything bad, and in the
weakness of dying he gave his child
to his relative to be her trustee of a
respectable little fortune.
The poor dancing teacher thought
the word "Dishop" covered a regener-
ate heart.
The bishop was merely capitalist
in marriage fees.
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 breechman on his horse
when he meant breeching.
This is considered reasonable hu.
mility.
AS time advanced Garrick grew
deeply in love with Eunice, and for.
got to give spiritual restraint to his
son.
"At seventeen sharp" old Garrick
HoWton often repeated to himself,
looking at Eunice with the threefold
passions of love 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 a
self.frightened hypocrite. He got to
believing IN the religion he practiced
upon. He feared night solitude and
ghosts. He believed that his mon
strous passion was sacrifice on his
part for the sake of securing Eunice's
soul.
81 should be the devil's prize with
out her." mused Garrick Howton.
1.-THE children l have tied in we'd
locks of despair, the Uniformed souls /
have manacled to selfish fiends, the
headstrong schoolgirls [ have made
the legal slaves of hideous skinflints,
and who have in few months
awakened to everlasting repentance
and horror, would troop into my
lonely home amongst these mount
aims and drive me crazy with their
curses. l shall 90 mad But Eunice.
Eunice, she will guard my door and
warm my heart and bring other an.
gels like her from heaven to my re-
lief"
1t was plain the bishop was becom-
ing slightly hysterical.
Weasley Howton had become notl-
fed by his father that he must go
West and establish his own congre-
CATION of the Zionskltes.
He was sent to the garret to study
the discipline and scriptures.
One day Eunice stole up into the
garrett, while the bishop was marry.
ing a one.eyed man of sixty to a
mountain maid of eighteen, and she
met different scene there from the
penance and prayer she had expect
ed.
Weasley was rugged out in suit Of
theatrical clothes taken from Eunice's