Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY 9. 1911

ney once took to Italy. You shall learn the sweet
Tuscan Dearest, which is the very language of love.
We will read together the gentle ovesongs that Petrarch
wrote to his Laura and the Sonnets that Dante
posed in memory of his Beatrice. Thither went the
great Poet John Milton when he young. | met in
Florence who had known the youthful Milton when
he went there with his flowing brown locks and his
genius for music, and had heard him play the
organ. Oh, Penelope, | am starving for music, and
only the sweet tones of voice reconcile me to the
barrenness of this desert settlement
Penelope listened spelbound. She had, from the first
when the rather mysterious young schoolmaser
appeared in Wanbridge, felt powerful drawing him.
There no lack of strength in the tall sinewy frame
but at the time there refinement such as she
had before and though she had not been in
way forward she was too natural to hide that she
liked him.
She repeated the words of Ruth "Whther thou goest
l will go; and where thou lodgest will lodge: thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God
Christopher r1sked being but what he next did
gave only additional proof that he was wholly human
at best that secret be kept to ourselves for
season. said he, he gazed with rapturous eyes at
Penelope's glowing face Il will speak to thy father in
due time; but l fear Mistress Peckhams venomous
tongue. So | will not accompany thee to thy home
The rain has ceased the storm has passed 1t must
have done great harm. God bless thee'
THE tornado had indeed wreaked terrible damage.
During its passage the old minister passed away.
Several cows which had clustered under an ancient
maple had been killed The lightning, striking the
chimney of Mistress Gabraiths cottage, had entered
and played all sorts of FRANKS Several barns had
morning stood proud and promising were laid flat.
During the height of the storm of the tinkers chill
dren had been seized with fit. Indeed scarcely a
household failed to report untoward result OF that
Hateful day.
panic seized the community With one consent the
blame for the tragic laid to the school
master. Everything suspicious about him was made to
bear out the theory; even the qualities that had
hitherto served in his favor arrayed against
him. Stories of wtchcraft told and everything
seemed to confirm the terrible rnor that the school
master had made compact with the devil Before the
day done messenger was despatched to Samuel
Sewal who then was known for his zeal in hunting
down those suspected of witchcraft
The schoolmaster had lived lonely. life in VAIN
bridge He had associated only with the minister, who,
like himself graduate of Oxford, though not of the
same college. His somewhat naughty and distant man
ner, kind of arstocratic superiority, had kept the
parents of his pupils from approaching him too ia
miliarly The children themselves restraint IN
his presence, though he kindly ana oughtfu
of them 1t therefore strange that Christopher
unconscious of the real danger that threatening
him.
Penelope had fully intended to tell her father of her
happiness; bit he put her off saying, Daughter,
have something very weshty on my mlnd cannot
listen to you now. And indeed she had not found 1t
very easy breach the subject she quite
tent to postpone it.
Parson Prendergast was buried on Monday after
the weather being very sultry. Only the minis
and elders from the settlements able
to be present After the service ended Mr.. Sewall
who had ridden down from Boston looking exceedingly
stern summoned some of the chief into the minis
study where his unspoken still lay the
deal table and after clearing his throat put before them
the discriminating circumstances that had made 1t to HIM
a matter of doubt that Christopher Creighton had
been inulgng in illicit dealings with the powers of evil
Sewall was learned man, and he fortified his argu
ments with many references to similar events that had
taken place the old country He cited what the Rev.
John Hgginson of Salem had told him about the
Leicestershre who had given his soul to the devil on
condition to be famous preacher He had no doubt IN
his mind that there similar cases, and after
fortfyng his position he cited with great solemnty the
dctum of Sir Matthew Hale in similar that, ITO
condemn the Innocent and to let the Guilty go Free
were both an abominaton before the Lord
1t was resolved that should be taken to collect