The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-19

eiS Nailsu from misplaced Venemence 10 maudlin tears. Tn short, the evi- deAce which he gave of alcoholic intoX- icatlon were so abundant and promi- nent that the wiser of his auditors sat amazed and covered with shame. He was conscious of his short-com- lngs, and that added to Ghis misery. But he passed through the ordeal, and as the week progressed he gradually re- sumed his normals1balancesa and took pains to convince the suspicious mem- oers Of his flock that doubtless his con- dltion had been due to overstudy.
 So the next SaturdayAmorning found him n histusual buoyant, hopeful, up- lifted, self-Ieliant condition. It is not to Joe assumed that his experience of week ago had left his mind for a mo- ment;sit had haunted him ceaselessly, | and its pondering. had only brought deeper perplexity. A fixed purpose | one of those fatal impulses to which even an intelligent willfmay lend its | function-fhad already found lodgment l within him; he would again traverse the. route@of the week before. seek to encounter again the disreputable stran- ger, and then and there,l at whatever cost.4find a solution of the mystery.
 Suddenly, as before, and almost ex- actly in the same spot, ,Ahe was startled by theA familiar sensation, sweet and pervading,Atof an immediatei and pal l pable presence; and there confronting him, as before, was the same human | wreck, with the same besotted face | lighted. up with the divine flame of love for one. of its kind above all others. In a moment. all unconscously every l thnnobt ba one, that is hoiest of all--a fine glad ness at meeting the one in all the world whom the heart holds fondest. Again
 were passed the greetings of delighted surprise; again the invitation; again the mutual hand-pressure of sympathy and affection
 But this time the Gladness was deep l CT than before The men fingered
 together in friendly commonplace talk;
 they coulds not separate, even had the idea of separation occurred to either. j Both were glad to the very marrow. Each hung upon the lips of the other,
 learning nothing, but hearing every
 thing; and finally they linked arms in
 the most natural fashion and strolled thus away. No eyes had they for the
 wondering stares of all whom they met lilCS WCIC8 Wiiply SulliClCil CdSli oiieo
 the other, one in mind and soul, insepa-
 rable though the heavens should fall to
 hurl them assunder.
 Thus linked and bound, they went
 their needless way, happy in union
 which both felt was reunion; and not
 questioning nor understanding the des-
 tiny which drove them on. Gone alto
 gether was Holliwel's thought of the | fa,, ff,- uyb "
 was his recollection of the agonies
 which he had suffered from even a
 shorter encounter with his repulsive
 companion a week ago. He could think
 only of his infinite satisfaction in bath
 ing his soul in the sweet companionship
 of the one in all the world whose friend
 ship filled the measure Of his wants.
 All logic and the power of self-exami-
 nation were astray, and the sweetest
 and greatest of all earthly forces-hu-
 man sympathy-held his soul in thral-
 dom.
 Had not the city been large, the scan-
 dal of the young cIergyman's conduct
 that day would have taken swift wings
 and a voluble tongue. It is the histori-
 ans privilege to draw the veil at his
 pleasure; evil needs 3ho human aids to l
 is best concealed or most condoned
 finds the heaviest punishment.
 On the following Monday, no minister
 having appeared to fill HolliwelFs en-
 gagement, and no explanation having
 reached either his flock or the keeper of
 his lodgings an outcry was raised, and
 the town was soon agog with police dis
 coveries announced fashily in the af- | hod been picked up where he had begun it,
 broad and shining, with his meeting of
 the outcast. His clerical garb, his
 clean. high brow, the rude contrast between him and his associate had started the tongues hinged under the
 eyes that had seen the beginning. , And such an associate!-lower and
 meaner than those even who live by , the earnings of outcast womanhood; a hanger-on of the more disreputable
 drinking saloons cleaning their spit toons to gain liquor and a morsel tc eat; formerly, before having sunk SC low, noted in a way as a garroter of skill and daring, with a hard peniten- tary record for his years. Thus, with the requirements of the press Loyalty 1T mind the police gave noisy chase, anG  dark and devious ways.
 One thing was learned beyond all pos
 isble doubt-the two men. suddenly be-
 come fast friends and boon fellows could never have had past aequaint ance. To the vulgar mind-prevalent
 it is almost unnecessary to add, in MT , | Holliwells own congregation-this meant merely that the young minister was essentially possessed of depravet , inclination, and that simply the acci |, dent of congenial companionship and z
 convenient opportunity was required tt r develop his bent. All this, of course and necessarily, ignored that wonder full mystery called by some affinity, bu ' known to the wise by wisdom rather , than by terms, and better thought of by sacred introspection than discussed by
 the use of words which the idle may
 appropriate and abuse.
 f On Tuesday afternoon, three days af n ter the second fatal meeting of the two l young men, a crowd, which had the ad Q vantage of the police in point of oppor l tunity, surrounded a grotesque figur' 1 mounted upon a small box in the mid S dle of disreputable street which would - never have dared clamor for it's thor n oughfare rights. Little difference i S made to the residents whether the the S oretical traffic guaranteed by charte