Axithor of Capn Eri, Etc. Mustrations by Ellsworth You: ng SYNOPSIS. Coffin, move from Mrs. Keziah arranging to ton, following the death of her brother, for whom she had Kept house, Kyan Pepper, widower, offers marriage, indignantly refused “apt Elkanah Dan. jels, leader of the Regular Keziah a place as h ousekeeper for the pew minister, and ides to remain In Trumet, Keziah takes ch arge of Rev, John Ellery, the new minist and gives him advice as to his et toward members of the parish, Trumet to she de CHAPTER Il1—Continued. “Keziah,” he commanded. “Hum-—— ha! Keziah, come in here a minute.” Keziah came in response to the call, her sewing in her hand. The renova tion of the parsonage had so far pro- gressed that she could now find time for a little sewing, after the dinner dishes were done. “Keziah,” said the captain pompous- ly, “we expect you to look out for Mr Ellery in every respect. The parish committee expects that-—yes."” “I'll try,” said Mrs. Coffin shortly. “Yes. Well, that's all. You can go We must be going, Mr. Ellery. Please consider our house at your dis posal any Be neighboriy-—hum be neighborly.” purred Annabel “Do us often Congeninl gearce in Trumet, cially, We can read rou fond of Moore, Mr » on him.” The last “hum-—ha" ywned by the click of the closed the dining-room ‘Mrs. Cof {00, time ha! ‘Yes’ and is very come iety espe Are I just gee soOC for me fin,” said the mi trouble the parish I'm perfectly shan't i Be sure of that satis fled.” Keziah her moment, looking ‘That’ hear are new pl: sat down in the rocker and moved very br Then she for a gald, without needle iskly up I like to there this well, s that 8 good own it And | do up am glad like Because the; you say some about there's likely to be o like at all” because I shan't . minister conduc ! Before a Root Outers : Eben Hamr him in th of think about alive! Way as a nigger's young as my father wet through re in the world are 3» bound for and coat “Sakes Cd f he to ones 1 Ju Whe this night?” The minis he had been in felt like a walk “Well, take an umbrella, th the housekeeper's need it It was ter equivocated He said day and 1 th } all he house all en,” was “You'll I callate.” and thick The malin void, throug? adv vice before you get back, dark enough enough, In all cons road 8g a black which gleams from lighted windows were big vague, yellow blot The umbrella was useful in the same way that a man's feeling way. Two or three strag met the minister carried lanterns. John Ellery stumbled on through the mist till he reached the “Corners” where the store was located and the roads forked. There, he turned 40 the right, into the way called locally “Hammond's Turnoff.” A short distance down the “Turn-off” stood a small, brown-shingled building its windows alight. Opposite {ts door, on either side of the road, grew a spreading hornbeam tree surrounded by a cluster of swamp blackberry bushes. In the black shadow of the hornbeam Mr. Ellery stood still. He was debating in his mind a question: should he or should he not enter that building? As be stood there, groups of people emerged from the fog and darkness and passed in at the door. Some of thera he had seen during his fortnight in Trumet. Others were strangers to him. A lantern danced and wabbled up the “Turn-off” from the direction of the bay shore and the packet wharf It drew near, and he saw that it was carried by an old man with long, white balr and chin beard, who walked with a slight limp. Beside him was a thin woman wearing a black poke bonnet and a shawl. In the rear of the pair came another woman, a young woman, Judging by the way she was dressed and her lithe, vigorous step, The trio halted on the platform of the building The old man blew out the lantern. ience was wot hes blind the cane !s useful, in glers who stream of yellow light pouree over the group. The young woman was Grace Van The minister recognized her Undoubtedly, the old man Cap- in Eben Hammond, who, by common , had spoken of him, Ellery, as a “hired priest.” The door closed. A few moments | thereafter the sound of a squeaky me- at once, leodeon came from within the building It wailed and quavered and groaned Then, with a suddenness that was | startling, came the first verse of a hymn, suug with tremendous enthusi asm “Oh, who shall shall call His ransomed anawer when sinners home?" orus was still ring across the | The hallelujah ch ing when the gtreet of the he strode watcher tepped shadow | Without a pause | tform. An- | from the over pla other moment door behind him The ministe church had chapel to a meeting! Trumet Regular | Come-Outer wt rn prayer- CHAPTER IV. In Which the Parson Cruises Strange Waters. J] was as bare thout. Bar ceiling, a In | e set with thorns, but It was leading to glory. “SBcoffers may his volce rising; may make a mock of us, they may even come into thy res ence to laugh at us, but theirs *s the laugh that turns to groanin'.” Fhe | his remarks more and ever pointing like needle to the occupant of that seat in the corner “O Lord,” prayed Captain Hammond, the perspiration in beads on his fore head, “thou hast said that the pastors become brutish and have not sought thee and that they shan't prosper Help us tonight that he may see his error and repent in sackcloth and ashes They sang once more, a hymn that prophesied woes the unbel Hever. Then Ezekiel Bassett rose to “testify.’ The testimony was mainly to the ef fect that he was happy because he had fled to the ark of the pute sneer,” he declared, “they 80 On, personal "” to gafety while there Captain Eben called for more mony. But the testifiers were, the old minstrel joke, coming forward that ordinary testi- backward in evening. At this time, would have and half a their feet at meet! ing, and their the by enthusiasm been helght experiences and proclaim happiness But tonight damper; the of over the gat thelr there was a presence the leader t thadow the opposition hering. Only The resen attempt« g speech, sat sile nt, showl 1g tment Over their shoulder entous port nods one over the meet the of in the 18 been a failure id BRO« us Lord's house This b nave still + melodeon | for ! was all As yrehipers hree Or dimly getters the w look at him the back | ipers | took a fig pocket he thin, | ho had the | worsh ol ~ i lod ec shipers look Then the captiain me } The relaxed a little and be about. wor egan to | { his gpec which he | Clear | that he | Word, tenth | apter of Jeremiah i Learn not | beathen, and be not | signs of heaven: for | fismayed at them." | 1d justed tacles and opened a took from the table besit iim announced the ing his roat; he wonld ct read from “*Thus saith the Lord of the the are Pe he way dismaved nt the heathen “A-men!” The shout from from the front, lassetlt, clam digger and fervent re ligionist, was always to be found on meeting nights Ezekiel was the fa- ther of Susannah B. Bassett, “Sukey B.” for short, who played the melo deon He had been, by successive seizures, a Seventh Day Japtist, a Second Adventist, a Millerite, a Regu- lar, was now the most energetic of Come-Outers. Later he was to be come a Spiritualist and preside at table-tipping seances Ezekiel’'s amen came second | where Ezekiel | the ben and was so sudden and emphatic that it startled the reader into looking up. Instead of the faces of his congregation, he found himself treated to a view of their back hair Nearly every head was turned toward the rear corner of the room, there was a buzz of whispering and, in front many men and women were standing up to look Ezekiel Bassett stepped forward and whispered in his ear. The cap tain’s expression of righteous indigna tion changed to one of blank aston ishment. He, too, gazed at the dark corner. Then his ligs tightened and! he rapped smartly on the table.’ “My friends.” he sald, "let us bow in prayer” John Ellery could have repeated that prayer, almost word for word, years after that night. The captain prayed the few here gathered together: them be steadfast. Let them be constant in the way. The path they Let ¢ came from all room “I'm Not Crying,” She Gasped. worker amiled well, of Scripture tention judged.’ ” He sat down. There was silence for a moment and then a buzz of whis- pering. Captain «en, who had heard him with a face of iron hardness, rapped the table. “We will sing In closin’,” he said, “the forty-second hymn. After which the benediction will be pronounced.” The Regular minister left the Come. Outers’ meeting with the unpleasant conviction that he had blundered bad- ly. His visit, Instead of tending toward better understanding and more cor dial relationship, had been regarded as an intrusion 80 that old bigot was the Van Horne girl's “uncle.” It hardly seemed pos. sible that she, who appeared so re fined and ladylike when he met her at the parsonage, should be a member of that curious company. When he rose to speak he had seen her in the front row, beside the thin, middle-aged female who had entered the chapel of iniquity”-he there 1s another verse i would cali to your at- Judge not, that ye be not She was looking at him intently jamp over the speaker's table had shone full on her face and the picture resnained in his memory. He saw her «yen nnd the wavy shadows o halr on her forehead. He had taken there was a behind him “Mr. Ellery” “Mr. Ellery, maj a moment?” He wheeled in 8 “Why! . Mi exclaimed. “Is it “1 felt, vou and-—explain I came here to-night Oh, 1 wish hadn't. What made you do {t7” “1 came,” began Ellery, somewhat stiffly, “because I well, because 1 thought it good to do.” There but a fow rustie in why vou?’ ‘that 1 an so sorry she sald, must sce you you might be a thing was a bit his laugh tend terness In And a little did not tone, from to soothe unmistakable his companion his feelings “Thank you,” he sald did not “Perhaps it find it s0. Good The gir] detained him Away after with cause | felt that “I came you,” went on Grace and nervous haste, you ought not be to mis- for what he my uncie have hurt He to everyb hight. He wouldn't elings for the world man and good only knew vou wouldn't-——you does the good he does wouldn't hardly of him.” “I'm not judging “It seemed to boot was on the “1 know, but you mustn't. You other leg.’ do judg: see, he thoy fun of hin you ple who aren't fit to tie his against when what | ow ongregation would say if they kr to 8 ComeQOuters' moet and them ins igted On Seeing Come Outer girl home John Ellery sw allowed hard A of Captain Elkanah Daniels stately Miss Anns bel rose He hadn't vi and before his mind's eye thought of with msel in nnection impromptu of a d: distress reac “Poseibly your Uncle Eben might be somewhat-—er-—surprised if knew you were with me. Perhaps he might have something to say on the sub ject. “1 guess he would. very soon he We shall I ran away and left him with Mra. Poundberry, our housekeep- er. He doesn't know where I am. 1! wonder he hasn't turned back to look for me before this. We shall probably meet him at any moment.” Fifty yards away the lighted win: dows of the Hammond tavern gleamed yellow. Farther on, over a mgged moving fringe of grass and weeds, was a black, flat expanse--the bay. And a little way out upon that expanse twinkled the chain rattled. Voices shouting exult ingly came to their ears “Why!” exclaimed Grace in excited wonder, “it's the packet! She was due this morning, but we didn’t expect her in till to-morrow. How find her way in the fog" uncle.” She started to run toward the house, know 1 must with the umbrella, but him “No, Mr. Ellery,” she urged earnest. ly: "No, please don't, pow. Thank you. Good night.” A fow steps farther on she turned. “1 hope Cap'n Elkanah won't know,” she whispered, the laugh returning to ber voice “Good night” (FO BE CONTINUEDY she stopped MADERD, SUAREZ | HOT T0 DEATH Deposed Mexican Officials Slain in the Night, NO CAUSE TO INTERVENE. Tragedy Suggests the Favorite Mex can Method Of Wi Removing Prison Allowed To See Bodies. dows Not Madero, ex SUATEZ, © 11 =hot dead Nitiie escort military ympatiilzers GOV. 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