The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 41, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 February 1913 — Page 3

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M / SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Keziah Coffin, supposed widow. Is arranging to inove from Trumet to bos‘on, following the death of her brother, for whom she had kept house. v Y a . n Pepper, widower, offers marriage, ana is Indignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah Daniels. leader of the Regular church, offers Keziah a place as housekeeper for the new minister, and she decides to remain In Trumet. Keziah takes charge of Rev, John Ellerv, the new minister, and gives him advice as to his conduct toward members of the parish. Ellery causes a sensation by'attending a “Come-outer meeting. Ellery’s presence Is bitterly resented by Eben Hammond, leader of the meeting. Grace apologizes for her guardian and Ellery escorts her home In the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond, Eben a Bon. becomes a hero by bringing tne packet Into port safels? through fog and storm. Ellery finds Keziah writing a letter to some one, inclosing money In response to a demand. ' She is curiously startled when informed of the arrival of Nat. Nat calls on Keziah, and it develops that thev have been lovers since youth. Daniels remonstrates with Ellery for attending “Come-outer” meeting. Ellery is caught by the tide and is rescued by Nat. They become friends. Ellery meets Grace while walking in the fields, and learns that she walks there every Sunday. The clergyman takes dinner Sundays with the Daniels. Annabel, the captain’s daughter, exerts herself to make an impression on him. She notices with vexation his desire to get away every Sunday at a certain time. She watches him through a spy glass. ; Nat again importunes Keziah to marry him. He sa’vs he has had a quarrel with his father, who wants him to marry Grace. Ellery asks Grace to marry him. She confesses that she Ipyes him. but say's she fears to displease her guardian. Elkariah Daniels tells Eben about the meetings between Ellery and Grace. Eben declares he will make Grace choose between him and the preacher. Grace finds him in a faint, following the excitement of Elkanah's visit. Just before he dies Eben exacts a promise from Nat ana Grace that they will marry. Keziah breaks the news to Ellery and later he received a note from Grace saying she Is to. marry Nat. and asking him not to try to see her again. Keziah tells the story of her own marriage with a man who turned out to be a good-for-nothing, ana who was reported to have been lost at sea, and of her love for Nat, whom she cannot marry because the -husband Is alive. Captain Nat sails for Manila to be gone * two years. He says he a ana G.face have decided not to marry until returns. Nat Is overdue, and it is feared that he has been lost at sea. Keziah gets a letter from her husband earing he Is coming back. Grace goes on a visit to relatives Os the Hammonds. A Vessel living distress signals is discovered off the coast. Ellery goes with party to board the vessel. A man Is found suffering from smallpox, the rest of the crew having deserted. He Is taken to an abandoned shack on shore and Ellery help- nurse him. Before he dies it Is discovered that he Is Keziah’s husband. Ellery. left alone in quarantine, is .found wandering in a delirious condition by Grace. She takes him back to the ■hanty and sends for help. CHAPTER XVl.—(Continued.) Early the next morning, Just as day was breaking, a buggy, the horse which drew it galloping, rocked and bumped down the lighthouse lane. Dr. Parker, his brows together and hiS |lps set with anxiety, was driving. He had been roused from sleep In the hotel at Hyannis by a boy with a tele--gram. ‘‘Come quick,” It read. “Mr. Ellery sick.” The sender was Noah Ellis, the light keeper. ’ At the ropes, rarly as it was, he found a smalbgroup waiting and gazing at the shanty. The lightkeeper was there and two or three other men. They were talking earnestly. “How is he, Noah?” demanded the doctor, jumping to the ground. “I don’t know, doc,” replied Ellis. “I ain't heard sence last night when I telegraphed you.” I * “The devil!” Dr. Parker swore impatiently. “Who is with him then? You haven't left him alone, have you?" “No-o,” Noah hesitated once more. »No-o, he ain't alone. She’s there.” ! “She? Who? Keziah Coffin?” “I don’t 'cal’late Keziah’s heard it yet. We was waitin’ for you 'fore we said much to anybody. But she’s there r-the—the one that found him. You see, he was out of his head and wanderin’ up the lane 'most to the main road and she’d been callin’ on Keziah fcnd when she come away from the parsonage she heard him hollerin’ and goln’ on and —’’ Y “Who did?” “Why”—the lightkeeper glanced at bls companions—"why, doc, 'twas Grace Van Horne. And she fetched him back to the shanty and then come and got me to telegraph you." But Parker did not wait to hear the rest. He ran at full speed to the door Os the shanty. Grace herself opened it. “How Is he? demanded the doctor. ’ “I think he seems a llttl4 easier; at jmy rate, he’s not delicious. He’s in there. Oh, I’m so thankful you’ve come.” “Is that the doctor?” called Ellery Weakly from the next room. “Is it?” “Yes,” replied Parker, throwing off /is coat and hat. “Coming, Mr. El“nor God’s sake, doctor, send her yway. Don’t let her stay. Make her go! I’ve got the smallpox and if she Mays she will die. Don’t you under-, Irtand? she must go.” “Hush, John,” ‘said Grace soothingly. “Hush, dear.” Dr. Parker stopped short and looked at her. However, he waited no longer, Vut hurried in to his new patient. CHAPTER XVII. In Which Keziah Decides to Fight The news was flying from house to. house along the main road. • Breakfeists were interrupted as some neighbor rushed in to tell the story which another neighbor had brought to him «r her. Mr. Ellery was very sick and It was feared he had the smallpox, ©race Van Horne was with him, had taken him back to the shanty, and inlisted upon staying there until the doctor came. At the Daniels’s house the servant (girt rushed into the dining room to yerve the toast and the story at one twoop. Captain Elkanah’s dignity deferred him for an instant and his egg Ipoon Jingled to the floor. Annabel's Qhce turned a dull red. Her eyes iaahed sparks. “Pa!" she oiled, “I—l—if you don't *» mow I*ll never—”

Her father shook his head warningly. “Debby,” he said to the maid, “you needn’t wait.” Debby departed reluctantly. After the kitchen door had closed, Captain Elkanah said: “My dear, we mustn’t be too hasty in this matter. Remember, Mr. Ellery is very sick. As so for the Van Horne girl, we haven’t heard the whole truth yet. She may not be there at all, or it may be Just an accident—” “Accident! Pa, you make me boil. Accident! Accidents like that don’t happen. If you let her stay there, or if— Oh, to think of it! And we were calling him a hero and —and everything! Hero! he stayed there just so she might-—” “Hush! hush, child!” “I shan’t hush. Pa, are you going to let him disgrace himself with her?” “No, no. Probably there ain't any idea of his marrying her. If there is—” “If there is you put him out of the church and out of town. And as for her— O-oh! And we’ve been having him here at dinner and —and I have— Oh, 1 shall die! I wish I was dead!” Then followed hysterics and agony, greedily listened to by Debby, whose ear was at the crack of the door. Captain Elkanah soothed and pleaded and tried to pacify. It ended by his promising to investigate and, if necessary, take steps ’immejitly.” Lavinia Pepper sprung the mine on her brother. Kyan was horrified. He had grown to be one of Ellery’s most devoted worshipers. One of the very first to hear of the minister’s illness was KeziaiF Coffin. Mrs. Parker told her and Keziah started for the beach before the tale of Grace’s part in the night’s happenings reached the village. She did not wait for a conveyance, hardly waited to throw a shawl over her shoulders, but began to cover the three miles on foot. She had walked nearly twodhirdn of the distance when Captain Zeb Mayo overtook her and gave her a seat in his chaise. They said little during the drive, the shock and anxiety forbidding conversation. At the ropes was the same group, larger now, and Dr. Parker’s horse was hitched to one of the posts. “You can’t go in, Mrs. Coffin," said Thophj Black. “The doctor give us his orders not to let nobody get by. I guess nobody wants to, but all the same- 1 -” Keziah paid not the slightest attention to Mr. Black. She stooped beneath hia arm, under the rope and was on her way to the shanty before they realized her intention. The living room was empty, but at the sound of her step some one came from the room adjoining. That some one was Grace. Dr. Parker appeared, holding up a hand for silence. “Hush!” he cried. “He’s quiet now and I think he will sleep. Don’t talk here. Go outside, if you must talk—and I suppose you must.” Grace led the way. Fortunately, the door was on the side not visible from the spot where Captain Zeb and the rest were standing. Keziah, bewildered and amazed at the girl’s presence, followed dumbly. “Now, auntie,”, whispered Grace, turning to her, “you want to know how he is, of course. Well, I think he r . 'll “She Must Marry Him, Or He’ll Die.” is better. The doctor thinks so, too. But why did you come here?” “Why did I come? Why, because my place was here. I belonged here. For the love of mercy’s sakes what < are you doin’ here? With him? And the smallpox!” "Hush. 1 can’t help it.. I don’t care. I don’t care for anything any more. I’m glad I came. I’m glad I was the one to find him and help him. No matter what happens—to me—l’m glad, I never was so glad beforq. I love him, Aunt Keziah. I can say It to you, for you know it—you must know it. I love him and he needed me and I came. He was calling my name when I found him. He might have died there, alone in the wet and cold, and I saved him. Think what that means tt> me.” The door opened softly and Dr. Parker came out. “He’s asletep,” he said. “And he’s better, much better. And I’ll tell you something else, if you won’t make too much noise about it—he hasn’t got the smallpox. He is pretty close to brain fever, though, but I guess he’ll dodge that this time, with care. On the whole, Keziah, I'm glad you came. This young lady," with a movement of the head toward Grace, "has done her part. She really saved his life, if I’m not mistaken. Now, I think she can go away and leave him to you and me. I’ll pretty nearly guarantee to have

him up and out of this —this pesthole in a fortnight." Here was joyful tidings, the better for being so unexpected. .Keziah leaned against .the boards and drew a long breath. Grace said nothing, but, after a moment, she went into the house. “That’s a good thing, too,” commented Parker, watching her as she went. “I wanted to talk with you, Keziah Coffin, and right away. Now, then, there’s something up, something that I don’t know about, and I rather guess you do. Young women—even when they’re her kind and that’s as good a kind as there is—don’t risk smallpox for any young man they pick; up casually.” Keziah considered. “All right, doctor,” she said, when she reached a decision, “all right; I’ll tell you the whole thing.” She went on to tell all she knew of her parson’s love story. Dr. Parker listened. “Hum!” he said thoughtfully, “I see. What made her change her mind so suddenly? You say, or you gather from what Mr. Ellery told you, that she had all but agreed to marry him. She cares for him, that’s sure. Then, all at once, she throws him over and accepts Nat. Os course her uncle’s sudden seizure was a shock and he wanted Nat to have her, but she isn’t the kind of girl to be easily swayed. But never mind that, that doesn’t count now. Let’s look at things as they are this minute. She’s here and folks know it. As they do know it they’ll begin to talk, and the mere they talk the farther from the truth they’ll’get— most of ’em. SJat, poor chap, is dead, so her promise to him is canceled. Ellery will get well if he isn’t troubled. If she leaves him he’ll go to pieces again, so she mustn’t leave. And she can’t stay without an explanation. I say let’s give the explanation; let’s come right out with the announcement that they’re engaged.” “But she’s a Come-Outer and—there’s the church.” /‘Well, I know it. But he never was so popular as he is now. And she isn’t by any means a steady-going Come-Outer. Why, Zeke Bassett and the rest have been finding fault with her and calling her a backslider. That’ll help. Then you trust me to whoop up her heroism and the fact that without her he would have died. We can do it, Keziah. Come on! I’ve tackled a good many Jobs, but matchmaking isn’t one of ’em. Here goes to tackle that.” Keziah was delighted; here was work after her own heart. But she still hesitated. "Doctor,” she said,/ “you’ve forgot ope thing, that’s Graefe herself. Would she marry him now, knowing it may mean the loss of his ministry and all, any more than she would at first? I don’t believe it.” “That’s your part, Keziah. You’ve got to show her she must marry him or he’ll die; see?” Keziah’s hesitation was at an end. Her face lit up. “I say good!” she cried. “And now I want to give you a piece of advice, your course for the first leg, as you might say: you see Cap’n Zebedee Mayo.” “Humph! Cap’n Zeb is the first man I mean to see." Captain Zeb listened with his mouth and eyes and ears open. Mm, Mayo was with him when the doctor called, and she, too, listened. “Well!” exclaimed the captain, when the plea for support was ended. “Well, by the flukes of Jonah’s whale! Talk about surprises. Old lady, whatdo you say?” “I say go ahead, Zebedee. Go ahead! If Mr. Ellery wanted to marry Jezebel’s sister, and I knew he reAlly wanted to, I’d —I do believe I’d help him get her. And Grace Van Horne is a good girl. Go ahead.” ‘fSky, doc, there’ll be a lively row, and I kind o’ like it," said Captain Zeb. There was, and it was lively enough to suit even Captain Zeb. Dr. Parker, on his calls that day, was assailed with a multitude of questions concerning Grace’s presence at the shanty. He answered them cheerfully, dilating upon the girl’s bravery, her good sense, and the fact that she had saved Mr, Ellery’s life. Then he confided, as a strict secret, the fact that the two were engaged. Before his hearers had recovered from the shock of this explosion, he was Justifying the engagement. Why shouldn’t they marry if they wanted to? It wps a free country. The girl wasn’t a Come-Outer any longer, and, besides —and this carried weight in a good many households —what a black eye the marriage would be for that no-account crowd at the chapel. Captain Zebedee, having shipped with the Insurgents, worked for them from sunrise to sunset and after. Zeb was something of a politician and knew whom to "get at.” He sought his fellows on the parish - committee and labored with them. Mrs. Mayo and the doctor’s wife championed the cause at sewing circle. They were lively, those sewing meetings, and the fur flew. Dldama Rogers and Lavinia Pepper were everywhere and ready to agree with whichever side seemed likely to win. It was by no means a one-sided struggle. Captain Elkanah, spurred on by the furious Annabel, marshaled his forces and proclaimed that Ellery, hkving disgraced the Regular Society, should no longer occupy its pulpit. He hinted concerning a good-sized contribution toward a parish house, something the society needed. If Ellery was discharged, the contribution would probably be made, not otherwise. And this was a point worth considering. Daniels also wrote to his influential friends of the National Regular Society. But Captain Zebedee had forestalled him there and both letters were laid on the table to await further developments. As for the ComeQuters, they were wild with rage and Grace was formally read out of their communion. Meantime Keziah, installed as head nurse at the shanty, was having her troubles. The minister was getting better, slowly but surely getting better. The danger of brain fever was at an end, but he was very weak and must not be excited, so the doctor said. He had expressed a wish to talk

with his housekeeper. *Tve got som» thing to tell you, Aunt Keziah,” he said weakly. “Some news for you and —and ” “Cat’s foot!” snapped Keziah briskly, “don’t start in tellin’ me news now. I’ve got my hands full as ’tis. News’ll keep and you won’t, if you talk another minute.” She could manage him; it was with Grace that she had her struggle. First, and bluntly, she told the girl that her leaving was useless. The secret was out; it had been made public. Everyone knew she was in love with John and he with her. Their engagement was considered an established certainty. e Grace was greatly agitated and very indignant. “Who dared say so?” she demanded. “Who dared say we were engaged? It’s not true. It’s a wicked lie and— Who is responsible, Aunt Keziah?” “Well, I suppose likely I am, much as anybody, deary.” “You? Y’ou, Aunt Keziah?” “Yup; me. You are in love with him; at any rate, you said so. And you’re here with him, ain’t you? If you two ain’t engaged you ought to be.” She argued and pleaded and coaxed, and, at last, when she began to think she had prevailed, Grace brought forward another objection. She had given her word to her uncle. How could she break that promise to a dying man? She would feel like a traitor. “Traitor to who?” demanded the housekeeper, losing patience. “Not to poor Nat, for he’s gone. And don’t you suppose that he and Eben understand things better now,. where they are? Do you suppose that Nat wouldn’t want you to be happy? I know he would, for I knew him.” It was still unsettled when the long talk was over, but Grace agreed not to leave the minister at present. She would stay where she was until he was himself again, at least. Keziah was satisfied with the preliminary skirmish. She felt confident of winning the victory, and in the prospect of happiness for others, she was almost happy herself. Yet each time tho mail was brought to the shanty she dreaded to look at it, and the sight of a stranger made her shake with fear. Ansel Coffin had threatened to come to Trumet, If he came, she had made up her mind what to do. The parish committeeyeyis to meet Captain Elkanah had 'Announced his intention of moving that John Ellery be expelled from the Regular church. There was to be no compromise, no asking for a resignation; he must be discharged, thrown out in disgrace. The county papers were full of the squabble, but they merely reported the news and did not take sides. The fight was too even for that. One afternoon a few days before the date set for the meeting Elkanah and two or three of his henchmen were on the piazza of the Daniels home, discussing the situation. They were blue and downcast. Annabel was In the sitting room, shedding tears of humiliation and jealous rage on the haircloth sofa. (TO BE CONTINUED.) When Fish Go to Bed. Did you know that fish go to bed in the winter? Prof. Dyche. state fish and game warden for Kansas, says: “Sure thing, fish have beds. I have seen them piled up four and five fish deep for a space at least 3 by 10 feet. Usually they find a place below a log or some kind of an obstruction In a stream where there Is an eddy. They can maintain their positions there without much effort. I don’t know whether they sleep or not, but fish will spend most of a winter In that way. “When the water gets extremely coldTtre fish become sluggish. They can move around a little, but they lose all their alertness. They can even be caught by hand. All you need to do is to cut a hole in the ice after It haz been frozen over for some time. Some fish will come to the hole for air. It is an easy ijiatter to slip your hand under the fish slowly and you may lift him clear of the water before he makes a wiggle. Nearly Caught by Old Swindle. An American in tho Spanish town of Valencia has very nearly fallen a victim to the buried treasure swindle at the hands Os the proprietors of a fashionable boarding house, where he was a paying guest. Their story was that a certain French banker had fled from France, after defrauding his clients of SBOO,OOO. He had, however, quarreled with another banker and killed him, thus being condemned to imprisonment for life. The American received some spurious documents relating to the place where the treasure was hidden and eventually the swindlers stated that, in exchange for 9,000 pesetas, the supposed banker would disclose the whereabouts of the box containing SBOO,OOO. Several days later the swindlers were cleverly caught by the police, who sent them a telegram signed by the American accepting their offer, and at the same time making an appointment. Frog Hunting In Russia. There are frogs in Russia, with powerful lungs, which one may hear barking cheerfully any summer night In the ponds of the Islands where St Petersburg society foregathers to watch the sunset. Last year it occurred to so/.ie enterprising Russians that frogs might be caught, slain, salted and exported to the French allies who appreciate these delicacies. The Yankees of the state of Minnesota, it was said, made thousands of dollars a year by sending frogs to France; why should not Russians do the same? Frog hunting began in Russia laat year, and in the end many tons of salted frogs’ legs were sent abroad. Ox Made Investigation. At a recent auction gale in Echt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a good deal of amusement was occasioned when a large ox, which she auctioneer was trying to dispose of, took into it head to walk into the auctioneer’s box, and, after /he had cleared the ofilce of officials, made a minute inspection of the books, and retired from the rostrum evidently quite pleased with the way the sale was being conducted and also with the state of,the books. It is needless to say that the officials were much more excited than the ok, and made a quick exit, while the ox walked with the utmoet deliberatoin. 1

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