The Washington critic., 1888-05-26

cts caused him to repent,
though he had never done any
thing bad, and in the weakness of
dying he gave his child to his relative
to be her trustee and the trustee of
little fortune.
The poor dancing teacher thought
the word bishop" covered regen-
crate heart.
The bishop was merely capitalist
in marriage fees.
Some Of the school-boys called him
Old Yoke-f-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 breeehman on his horse
when he meant breeching.
This is considered reasonable hui
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 Gar
rick Howton often repeated to him
self looking at Eunicc with the three
fold passions of love, avarice and su-
perstition.
Often when an old man falls in love
it seems to him like holiness, when it
is only foolishness.
In that way Garrick threw him
self back into his natural state,
before he became an avaricious
scoundrel, or self-frightened
hypocrite. He got to believ-
ing in the religion he practiced
upon. He feared night solitude and
ghosts. lie believed that his mon
strous passion was sacrifice on his
part for the sake Of securing Eunice's
soul.
81 should be the DEVILS prize with
out her." mused Garrick Howton.
"The children have tied in wedlooks
of despair, the uniformed souls have
manacled TO selfish fends, the head
strong schoolgirls | have made the
legal slaves of hideous skinhints,
and who have in few months
awakened to everlasting repent
ance and horror, would troop into
my lonely home amongst these noun
tains and drive me crazy with their
curses. / should go mad But
Eunice, Eunice, she will guard my
door and warm my heart and bring
other angels like her from Heaven 10
my relief"
1t was plain that the bishop was
becoming slightly hysterical.
Wesley Howton had been notified
by his father that he must 60 Wes
and establish his own congregation ot
the Zionskites.
He was sent to the garret to study
the discipline and Scriptures.
One day Eunice stole up into the
garret, while the bishop was marry
ing one-eyed man of sixty to {
mountain maid of eighteen, and she
met different scene there from til,
penance and prayer she had eX
pected.
Weasley was rugged out in suit o
| theatrical clothes taken from Eunice'
parents trunks, and was executing
| jig.
The bishop had told Eunice that il
the said trunks was the DEVILS ward
robe. The young people locked tn
door and examined it.
What places are garrets for rail
and love How it drops upon tn
roof How it goes pit-a-pat in tn
heart How the heart Is rainin
suddenly through the eyes and tn
roof is beating with the palpitation
of the wind
Old men seldom 90 to garrets. Ba
old men like Garrick Howton neve
| do.
Next week Wesley Howton wa
to start for Indiana and be an apostl
on the Wabash.
His trunk was packed and hi
ticket for the stage was to De paid TO
over the great National road fror
| llagerstown.
Fifty dollars fare p exclaimed TIL
bishop, rs he walked his upper porch
"what a sum of money But th
next week it shall be made up out @
Eunice's fortune, which will then b
mine, with her fadeless beauty, til
death do us part"
AS he looked, there came clou
of dust up the Leitersburg road fror
the south, where somebody was driN
ing hard.
at looks like runaway couple,
exclaimed Garrick Howton, reachin
for his eyeglasses. But the shade c
the North mountains, where the su
was going down, put belt of black
ness upon the landscape, like tn
moons total eclipse. When the soun
of the wheels came to the door an,
Garrick heard a knock, he descende
and found strange man in the pan
lor, which had no lights.
"Sare," the stranger said, 81 hav
re honair TO say Eat l am in loave
But ze lady is too leetle; she have nc
zegrand age. 1t will be all re same
because she loaves me and her fathai
have so much shame he nevair wi
say nothing. l give you fifty dollar
to make me her husband %
"Fifty dollars - the bishop
avaricious heart responded. at
Wesley's whole fare. The goo
demon must have sent this ma
here"
Then the business piety returning
the bishop spoke aloud
"What are the names of the parties
Marriage, my brother, the apostl
says, is honorable in all-HebreN
xiii, 4. see not that it may not !
honorable in thee"
"Ze names are on certifcateswe hay
filed. .Ze fee ] pay you is extraorC
ipaire, Monsieur. For zc fifty dollar
we make two demands Au premser
zat you marry re bride veiled A
seeOnde, Eat you sign two certificate
for us, to protect re lady and m
meme."
"The age of the bride 70 asked Ga
rick Howton.
"What mattair zat? You hay
made re wife at fourteen, many
tune. My bride, is sixteen, sair
Come, re money !"
He felt the bankbill in his hand an
II dried up his compunctlons of hear
he felt quill put IN his fingers al