Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-08
CHAPTER XI
The Daughter Of Jezebel.

The Daughter Of Jezebel.
Holiness university was a square
new university with a mansard roof
two miles west of Rome on the Earl
Vile road. It was softened bit by the
beautiful campus sloping to Sinsinawa
creek, but the plaster of it's bricks was
as raw as it's curriculum, and the
bricks were as hard as its faith. 1t is
a forlorn county Of Iowa that does not
have two universities, three academies,
one seminary, and a Chautauqna, for
every migration of the early comers
brought its own theology and educa-
tion, from the church Of the Holland
ers to the Dunkards, and every variety
Of Professionalism; and each planted
the seed of dispute and thereafter, as
the fat land grew, belabored all classes
for support of the spindling institu-
tions.
The Holiness brethren were new in
the land, but strong of voice and ear
nest. Calvin university, which was an
oblong and fiat-roofed university three
miles south of town, had long since
gone to seed, rarely heard from except
on rally days in the churches when all
its sixteen faculty and sixty-four un-
dergraduates filled the edifices, and
the rally was a tremendous success in
hymn singing II not at the contribu-
ton plate. But the Holiness brethren
who had come from somewhere, no one
knew exactly where, and preached
something, no one knew exactly what,
had the zeal of the newly-inspired, and
labored in highways and byways for
recruits. 1t had a community of quite
four hundred souls gathered about its
college tract; and fifty students who
alternately farmed and studied and ex-
horted in the streets of Rome and
Earlyille. No one had a grievance
against the Holiness sect except Wiley
#. Curran, and his was because they
had taken up one of the most beauti-
full spots on Sinsinawa. AS Mr.. Cur
ran remarked, 1t was as IL some one
had first wandered down the pebbly-
footed glen and said: Brethren, here
Is a spot which nature has set apart
for the tired soul to commune in ST.
lence and find peace with God-come,
let us get a crowd and have somebody
lecture"
John Lindstrom had become one oil
the Jealous sect from the first; moth
ing but poverty had kept him from
Joining the Holiness colony up on the
hills. and his lowland cottage was
favorite place for the brethren to
gather for prayer. These Sunday af-
ternoons the children sat barelegged
and silent on the kitchen chairs, their
frayed denims washed, and listened In
that perplexed and enigmatical respect
that the young give to religion. The
first Sunday after Aurelie's prize-win-
ming was a terrifying one. She never
would attend the meetings, and the
brethren exhorted John that he cast
out the devil from her, put away this
vanity of beauty, this Romish and
heather perversion. AS If Aurelie, loV-
ing idolatrously her little crucihS
without bothering her head as to wha'
If meant, could put by Gods gift oil
grace and prettiness.
The next Sunday she ran away to
the hills and met Uncle Michigan
there by arrangement, for the old rep-
ell. eking out the scanty living by MS
bootlegging, was no more at home Win
Lindstrom than the Creole girl. Wher
they returned the old man delayed at
neighboring quarryman's house, but
Aurelie went on to their door. she
found the boys sitting. Sunday cream
on the wood-box behind the stove, ano
Mrs. Lindstrom, who cared little about
the services except to give assent te
the master, was putting the DaDy u
he'd She turned a constrained face ou'
of the chamber to see the French giri
entry. Aurelie, wreathed from heaa t'
foot in red and gold maple leaves sew
ed on twine-that was their SUNDAY
occupation upon the bluff. was 1t?
Albert. the canvasser- -peddler, was pS
the oilclothed table, his head resting oi
his palm, the shiny celluloid cum WIFI
its immense moonstone button enclos'
ing the stringy sinew of his arm. The
Holiness exhorting had tired him. bu'
he was calculating how much OF hls
miserable earnings he could contribute
to the family. Before him was soih'
prospectus of patent-dlsh- washer
with which he was going to tramp th'
towns and country with his winning
appeaI, his fatuous smile, his eterna
door-bell ringing and removing Oh III
hat to the impatient wives. He mad
faint shy affection for Aureiie IN ni'
cringing soul; her color. her life' ne
graceful courage, were like some bloom
of a tropic garden to his aridness' H'
would have loved, with a dogs love
ANYTHING that did not rebuff him, turi
him away, snarl coldly, shut the doo
on him, so crushed was he with MI
days work.
Aurelie felt the ominous heaviness o