The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-11-04

lie heard the subtle irony, the cut
ting rcproach, the wide charity and
the honest assumption of punishment
deserved but as he stumbled back to
his seat after somehow bidding his
strange guest adieu and admonishing
her in some vague way to do some
thing impossible he breathCd easier
for the departure.
One can commit many heinous sins
in this life and escape the punishment
for such iniquity, a. the preacher well
schoolcd in the facts of life, as in the
theo ogical assertions he promul-
gated, knew extremely we'll
lie poured himself out glass of
clarct to steady his nerves after Cor
isande had gone ana sat for a long
time pondering over medley of
thoughts which swan in his head
In his zeal for duty and his over.
weening desire for notoriety, the Rev.
DR. Manistcr had organized an insti-
tuition "The Society for the Persecu-
tion of the Ruined. Ia this order he
had enrolled a number of young men
whom he used rs spies and decoys to
ferret out for him the secret retreats
of the unhappy victims of his OWE
seN's debauchcry, whom he relent-
lessly pursued with "a vengeful pur-
pose, hunting them down like verit-
able bloodhound, until no had the
glory and cclat of seeing them brought
/ to the bar of justice (sicl through his
| instrumentality.
/ II was TO this work Of his that Cor
/ isande had referred in her remon-
/ stranccs, but they were soon forgotten
by the busy and ambitious preacher
] 4 ,,f4 ,,f I.
/ ishcd the phantom of Corisande from
his memory. lie awol,e in the morn
/ ing 20 continue his crusade against
SIN as vchemontly as ever, for, having
put his hand To the plow, il was no
time 10 draw back from the effects of
. a sicllly sentiment
So, as always happens in life, the
woman paid the penalty Tor a num-
bcr of years her beauty won her
friends and she found ncpcnthc where
all others find H. i'm the elixir that
| Bacchus distlls for some OF us mer-
cifully enough But no one can trace
such lives very far Change of name
and place, neccssitatcd by wanin 9
youth and altered circumstances, lead
| gradually TO nameless grave.
As for the preacher, he waNcd eX-
cccding great and rich. and after a
full vcll-roundcd life died with the
applause of the world ringing in his
ears.
! have heard II on authority, though
from source which / cannot explain
very definitely, that after death had
moved down tho woman with his
scythe in the grim valley where he
makes his shamblcs, her released
spirit was pcgplcNed about the way
which would take II TO It's destination
In her pcrpleNity She addressed an
cidolon that She met. asking it the
way TO what she deemed her future
abiding place
"Ah,' tho eidolou Is reported as
having said 10 tho woman, in response
to her question, "it Is hell thar YOU
have come from. SO YOU cannot be go.
ing thither, for one cannot always be
/ cursed
BY the same way that tina woman
went the preacher followed and he
had taken the precaution TO haze his
passport Ia the Celestial regions all
ready vised before he closed his eyes
when the last sands of the hour glass
fell
He, awakening spiritually after,
ward, addressed the cidolon, request
ing him 10 point the way to the bode
of the saints.
Il see, monsieur answered the
cidolon, that you are "a tribe misin-
formed, as most people are when they
awaken here
"You See" he said, you have JUS
arrived from the very Mace r which
you were asking. You will find sealed
orders awaiting you at the office OF
tho Warden OF Destiny"