The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-01-02

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him to take her out OF .'this rabble'
and come and amuse her in q corner.
He remembered subsequent meetings;
various gracious acts of condescension
on Nina's part; and FINAL. one special
evening on board a yacht in regatta
time, when hey had sat together in a
corner of the upper deck in the lee Of
the chart house. with a perfectly pre-
posterous o egging them on. and
the faint strains of Caressante pulsing
across the silent water from the COM
modore's yacht hardly; and Nina had
nearly-almost-all but-and then ac-
tually-capitulated.
She had gone back on her word
three weeks later. ii was true; but he
drew consolation even now from the
memory of something which had slip
ped through her long lashes and rolled
down her cheek even as she dismissed
him. a memory which had carried
through many q black hour.
1t was over episodes like this that
his mind fingered. Other and less sat
! the review.
He fell asleep and dreamed from
the natural perversity of things Of
roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
When he awoke low voices were
~conversing near him. Farther away
he could hear the regular breathing of
i Master Hopper. who, with youths
ready ~amenabillty to natures W an
odynes. was slumbering peacefully.
II can weeI understand, Mr.. Emit
wistle." observed Mr.. Wilkie in meas
ured tones, that no decent body would
Episcopalian Kirks"-
Amos Entwistle's heavy voice agreed.
He commented with heat upon in
diligence In vain repetition and other
heather practices favored by the An
glican community and related with
grim relish an anecdote of how his
own daughter, lured from the Wes-
leyan fold by the external fascina-
tons of the new curate, had once privi-
ly attended morning service at the par.
ish church-to return shocked to the
foundations of her being with horrifc
tales Of candles burning on the altar
! in broad daylight and the Lords Pray
err repeated four times in the course OF
u single service.
But what | couldna thole," contin-
ued Mr.. Wilkie, who had been charac-
teristically pursuing his own line of
thought in the meantime. would he
no tae belong tae the kirk of the land.
A chapel body. I could never endure
the disgrace of it,"
Entwistle demurred vigorously. 1t
was no disgrace to be chapel folks.
Sturdy independents We're proud to be
able to dispense with state aided, spoon
fed religion. Disgrace indeed. Were
not Mr.. Wilkes qualms on the sub
ject of dissent due rather TO a banker
ing after the i~eshpots, the loaves and
fishes, the
well, perhaps no. exactly a dis
grace" continued Mr.. Wilkie, dlsre-
garding the latter lnnuendo. ''but a
kin o. stigma like. Man, it's an awful
thing tae walk doom the street and
meet the minister O. the parrish. and
him pass by and TAX no more notice
of We than il We were a Plymouth
brother or an original secessionist!s l
mind vince when l was in a Tyneside
pit / sat under Mr.. Maconochie-him
that gave up a grand kirk in Paisley
tae TAX q call tae DOR wee bit Presby-
terrain contraption. Jarrow way. Now.
although Mr.. M~aconochie's kirk was
my kirk and him DOR minister. l used
tae feel far more up.ifted If l got q
good day frae the minister O the Eng
fish kirk-Go lightly or some Sic hume
an ~Episcopalian. ! Gamma imagine why.
but there it was. ! loot it was just
orthodoxy. He was the minister o.
the kirk o. the land. and Mr.. Macono-
chic, being, for him, on the wrong side
of the boarder. was not. Gin | had
met yon felly Golightly trapesing loon
the High street o. Jedburgh things
would haze been gey different, for
then
The point at issue. Entwistle's deep,
patient voice ~asscveIated. was this:
Should a man who was an independent
allow himself or his BARNS to have
aught 10 do with church folk on any
pretense whatever?
He was answered in the darkness by
n third voice. Denton. the hewer-At-
kinson. the retired Salvationist. shov-
eled and wheeled away in a tub what
Denton hewed-had awaked from an
uneasy sleep and vas listening to the
conversation. OF all that little band