Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-23

count of military commission
Eames had been the favorite of the
company in which he had served a.
/ lieutenant. and hml boen chosen as
captain and presented to be commits
stoned. Some enemy had arisen,
however and Allen. who had great
influence in town affairs. was select
ell The company paraded under
Allen. The subject WAS referred. as
everything was then. to the church.
The majority Of this bOdy, and un
fortunately the pastor with them,
preferred Allen.
This was unaccountable to Eames.
who hal fancaed himself secure in
the affections of the minister M he
was in those of the minister's niece.
Eames had made complaint to the
magistrates. who had met in Boston
and issued warrants against five per
sons who had been said TO make
wilfitl misrepresentation against
Games. and had caused him to be
threatened with accommodation
from the church punishment
which, as have hinted, was thought
IN those days to be nearly equivalent
to being turned away from the gates
of heaven
DOrothea WAS bewildered with this
terrible news. That it shoul1 have
progressed thus far, and that she
should never have heard 1t until now.
seemed incredible Her uncle usnal
ly 40 communicative, had been per
fectly silent upon the matter, IA in
deed be well might be, when he was
voluntarily helping to injure the best
beloved of his dead sisters child
The more Dorothea thought Of it
the stranger it seemed. Allen. she
knew, had considerable influence
upon her uncle, but hardly, she con
ceived. sufficient to warrant him in
thus throwing Eames out of the pale
of Christian love and charity. Be
sides. what had her lover ever dOne2
He had merely accepted a trust i'm
posed upon him by the loving hearts
of his soldiers, who had desired him
to hold the hest rank He had ac
cepted it and was naturally aveIse
as any noble man would have been
to be displaced by caprice or envy.
Then the affair with the church
had bowed him to the dust. notwith
standing hls conscious Innocence;
and. saddest of all, when Mr. Hobart
had joined the ranks of the enemy
the measure seemed too full of dis
tress Yet he was brave man, and
he knew that after the first surprise
aud bitterness was past he could raj
ly from despair and become himself
once more Besides this Lieutenant
Eanles was a deeply religious man,
and if it was Gods will that he
should be brought down in the hour
OF his pride he would bow humbly
before It,
All these things passed in review
before the lovers as they sat watch
ing the long, shining CLEAN upon
the waves. Dorothea, though deeply
moved at the unexpected course of
her uncle, was still firm to sustain
the courage and resolution Of her
lover.
BE of good cheer, Anthony
Eames," she said, in the quaint Ian
guage of the day IF God is on thy
side, what can man do to thee9" My
uncle is a good man, but he is stiff
necked, and it seems to me that at
present no good can come of enter
ing into controversy with him. Let
us rather wait until the Lord sees fit
to bring thee out of this affection.
"You are wiser than | am, Doro-
thea" answered the young man. 81
must leave it to time to settle this
question You will not, ! am sure,
believe that the trouble | feel comes
from any regret for the loss of dis
tinction which mover coveted, and
am not certain that ! merited. There
are far deeper things than these that
oppress me
"You do me justice, Anthony. ]
know that any mere earthly honor,
however pleasant in itself, would not
weigh a feather with you when honor
and truth were put in the scale against
it, And il is that very consideration
that makes me wonder how my un-
Gle can desert you ut this crisis.
We'll, don't glieve too much, Doro-
thea, believe it will come right at
last, although confess that ! know
not how"
The lovers parted that night with
a more tender farewell than ever be-
fore. Let the scorners laugh as they
will at true love, II grows brighter
and purer when bathed in the waters
of affiction Let us thank God that
this one spark of divine fire is left to
cheer us when the ashes on our
hearthstone lie cold and dark
All the next day Dorothea looked
wistfully at her uncle as he went in
and out--now conversing in low
voice with Allen, who hung around.
evidently uneasy. She longed to
step forward and vindicate the cause
of her lover,
She knew that Anthony had never
uttered the expressions attributed to
him and for which his enemies were
trying to have him accommodated
from the church. She would have
staked worlds had she owned them
upon his good faith.
In the afternoon the military com
pany again paraded under command
of Allen. Anthony Eames took his
place as lieutenant but the next
morning he went to Boston 10 repre-