The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-03-02
who have in a few months awaked to

me crazy with their curses. L should
60 madl But Eunice, Eunice, she
will guard my door and warm my
heart and bring other angels like her
from heaven to my relief and COM
tort"
1t was plain that the hypocritical
old gentleman was becoming slightly
hysterical.
Weasley Howton had been notified
by his father that he must go West
and establish his own congrega ton
of the peculiar Zonskites.
He was sent to the garnet to study
discipline and thoroughly contem-
plate the Scriptures.
One day Eunice stole up into the
garnet, while the Bishop was marry
ing a one-eyed man of sixty to a
maid of eighteen, and she met a diff
ferent scene there from the penance
and prayer she had expected.
Weasley was rugged out in a suit OF
theatrical clothes takentrom Eunice's
parents trunks, and was executing
a wild and fantastic jig.
The Bishop had told Eunice that IN
the said trunks was the devils ward
robe. The young people locked the
door and examined the wardrobe
thoroughly.
What places are garrets for rain
and love! How it drops upon the
roof How it goes pit-a-pat in the
heart! How the heart is raining sud
denly through the eyes and the roof
is beating with the palpitations of
the wind!
Oldm seldom 60 togarrets. Bad
old men like Garrick Howton never
do.
Next week Wesley Howton was to
start for Indiana and be IN apostle
on the Wabash.
His trunk was packed and his
ticket for the stage was to be paid
for over the great National road from
Hagerstown to the far West.
"Fifty dollars fare!" exclaimed the
Bishop, as he walked the upper
porch; "what a sum of money! But
the next week it shall be made up
out of Eunice's fortune, which will
then be mine, with her tadeless
beauty, till death do us part. The
rascal"
AS he looked there came cloud OF
dust up the Leistersburg road from
the south, where somebody was driv-
ing hard-somebody in a desperate
hurry.
cit looks like a runaway
COUPLE" exclaimed Garrick How
ton, reaching for his eyeglasses. But
the shade OF the North Mountains,
where the sun was going down, put a
belt of blackness upon the 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 O. strange
man in the parlor, which had no
lights.
"Sare," the stranger said, / have
re honaire to say Eat | am in loave.
But re lady is too leetle; SHE have not
re grand age. 1t will be all re same;
because she loaves me and her fathair
have so much shame he nevair will
say no thing. l giveyouffty dollaire
to make me her husband at once,
sare!"
Gritty dollars!" the Bishops avari-
cious heart responded. "It is Weas-
ley'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 ofthe parties?
| Marriage, my brother, the apostle
saws, is honorable in all-Hebrews
xiii, 4. l see not that it may not be
honorable in thee"
''Ze names are on certificates we
have filed. Ze fee l pay you is extra
ordinare, monsieur. For re fifty dol
laire we make two demands-Au pre-
miere Eat yon marry re bride yelled!
Au second Eat you sign two certifi-
Gates for us, to protect re lady and
moi meme"
"The age of the bride?" asked
Garrick Howton.
"What mattair Eat? You have
made re wife at fourteen many q
time. My bride is sixteen, saire.
Come, re money! Here is re money"
He felt the bank bill in his hand,
and it dried up his computations of
heart; he f. q quill put in his fingers,
and the stranger, with something like
q fusee, made a fame thatcontained
birthstone and seemed yellow and
blue.
Externally be mine, as zis papair
you sign" the strange man exclaim-
ed. 81 mean re lady child, re lady,
parbleu."
The voice had a deep, sepulcher
tone in it, and by the foreboding
fame Garrick saw a person whose
forehead wrs all in patches, with
French moustaches under his nose
and blackened eyebrows drawn near
ly through the temples to the edge
of a colorless, inky wig.
"You must give me some name"
spoke the Bishop as he signed, cal
though ] cannot read by such a
light"
~ am re Marquis Bellsbub.
"Bring in the lady!'
Low laughter seemed to be circling
around the apartment as the uniting
words were said by the bishops fall
tering and fatigued tongue. Loud
laughter broke from the carriage
windows as the scoundrel drove
away.
"Here, Wesley! Eunice! Lights!
Lights!" exclaimed old Garrick How
ton. 81 have got my last marriage
fee."
No voice replied; the dark noun
tains through the windows showed
bridal wreaths of stars upon their
forbidding brows, like the awful pres
ence of the Marquis who had but now
departed with childhood's purity in
his false black eyes and wig.
The Bishop took fire and lighted q
candle. He saw a paper lying upon
the floor with his signature on it. He
read with horror that he acknowl-
edged the sale of his soul to Belize
bub for q thousand years.