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8YNOP8IS.
CHAPTER I-Mrs. Kesiah Coffin, sup
posed widow, is arranging to mov trora
Trumet to Boston, following the death
of her brother, for whom she had kept
house. Grace Van Home, ward of Capt.
Eben Hammond, leader of the "Come-out-er"
religious sect, offers to assist her
financially If she will remain. She de
clines. Kyan Pepper, widower, offers mar
rlag, and i Indignantly refused.
CHAPTER II-Capt. Elkanah Daniels,
lender of the Regular church, offers Ke
zlah a. place as housekeeper for the new
minister, and she decides to remain In
Trumet.
" "Hum hat" barked Captain Elka
nah. "Ahem! Mr. Ellery, I trust
you're being made comfortable. The
parish committee are hum ah
anxious that you should be. Yes?"
The minister sajd that he waB very
comfortable Indeed.
"It isn't what you've been used to,
we know," observed Miss Annabel.
"Mr. Langley, our former pastor, was
a sweet old gentleman, but he was
old-fashioned and his tastes were
queer, especially in art. Have you
noticed that 'fruit piece' in the dining
room? Isn't it too ridiculous?"
Then she changed the subject to
church and parish affairs. They spoke
of the sewing circle and the reading
society and the Friday-evening meet
ings. "The Come-Outers are so vexed with
us," tittered Miss Annabel, "that they
won't even hold prayer meetings on
the same night as ours. They have
theirs on Thursday rights and it's
ns good as a play to hear them shout
and sing and carry on. You'll enjoy
the Come-Outers, Mr. Ellery. They're
a perfect delight."
And as they rose to go Captain El
kanah asked:
"Is there anything you'd like done
sbout the parsonage, Mr. Ellery? If
bo, it shall be done immejitly. How
are you satisfied with your house
keeper 1"
"Very well, Indeed, Captain Dan
iels," was the prompt reply.
"She's a character, isn't she?" gig
gled Annabel. "She was born here in
Trumet, but went away to New Bed
ford when she was young and grew up
there. Her maiden name was Hall,
but while she was away she married
a man named Ansel Coffin. They
didn't live together very long and
weren't h; ppy, I gwess. I don't know
whose fault it was, nobody knows
much of anything about it, for that's
the one thing she won't talk about.
Anyhow, the Coffin man was lost at
sea, and after a while Bhe came back
to keep house for her brother Solo
mon. She's an awful odd stick, but
she's a good cook, I believe; though
I'm afraid you won't get the meals
people such as ourselves, who've been
bo much in the city, are used to."
Ellery thought of the meals at his
city boarding house and shuddered.
Pie was an orphan and had boarded
for years. Incidentally, he had worked
Captain Elkanah Daniels and HI
Daughter Mado Their First Formal
Call.
his way through college. Captain El
kanah cleared his throat.
"Kezlah," he commanded. "Hum
ha! Kezlah, come in here a minute."
Kezlah came in response to the call,
her Bewing in her hand. The renova
tion of the parsonage had so far pro
gressed that the could now find time
for a little sewing, after the dinner
dishes were done.
"Kezlah," 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," raid Mrs. Coffin shortly.
"Yes. Well, that's all You can go.
We asst be .coins, too, Mr. Ellery.
Please consider our'nouse at your dis
posal any time. Be neighborly hum
ha! be neighborly."
"Yes," purred Annabel. "Do come
and see us often. Congenial society
Is very scarce In Trumet, for me espe
cially. We can read together. Are
you fond of Moore, Mr. Ellery 1 I Just
dote on him."
The last "hum ha" was partially
drowned by the click of the gate. Ke
zlah closed the dining-room door.
"Mrs. Coffin," said the minister.
Bhan't trouble the parish committee.
Be sure of that I'm perfectly satin-
fled."
Kezlah sat down In the rocker and
her needle moved very briskly for
moment. Then she said, without
looking up:
"That's good. I own up I like to
near you say re. And r aw giatr mere
are some things I do like about this
new place of mine. Because well,
because there's likely to be others that
I Bhan't like at all."
On Friday evening the minister
conducted his first prayer meeting.
Before it, and afterwards, he heard
a good deal concerning the Come
Outers. He learned that Captain
Eben Hammond had preached against
him in the chapel on Sunday. Most
of his own parishioners seemed to
think it a good joke.
The sun of the following Thursday
morning rose behind a curtain of fog
as dense as that of the day upon
which Ellery arrived. A flat calm in
the forenoon, the wind changed about
three o'clock, and, beginning with a
sharp and sudden squall from the
north-west, blew hard and steady. Yet
the fog still cloaked everything and
refused to be blown away.
"Goln' out in this, Mr. Ellery!" ex
claimed Kezlah, in amazement, as the
minister put on his hat and coat about
seven that evening. "Sakes alive!
yon won't be able to se the way to
the gate. It's as dark as a nigger's
pocket and thicker than young ones
in a poor man's family, as my father
used to say. Youil be wet through.
Where in the world are you bound for
this. .night ?'
The minister equivocated. He said
he had been In the house all day and
felt like a walk.
"Well, take an umbrella, then," was
the housekeeper's advice. "You'll
need it before you get back, I cal'late."
It was dark enough and thick
enough, ii all conscience. The main
road was a black, wet void, through
which gleams from lighted windows
were big vague, yellow blotches. The
umbrella was useful in the same way
that a blind man's cane is useful, in
feeling the way. Two or three strag
glers who 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 to the right, into the way
. ailed locally "Hammond's Turn-off."
V short distance down the "Turn-off"
Lood a small, brown-shingled building.
Its windows alight. Opposite its doer,
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
iiornbeam Mr. Ellery stocd still. He
was debating in his mind a question:
should he or should he not enter that
building?
As he stood there, groups of people
emerged from the fog and darkness
and passed In at the door. Some of
them he ha 1 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
hair and chin beard, who walked with
a Blight 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,
Then he threw the door open and a
stream of yellow light poured over
the group.
The young woman was Grace Van
Horn. The minister recognized Iier
at once. Undoubtedly, the old man
with the limp was her guardian. Cap
tain Eben Hammond, who, by common
report, had spoken of him, Ellery,
as a "hired priest."
The door closed. A few moments
thereafter the sound of a squeaky me-
lodeon 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, sung with tremendous enthusi
asm:
"Oh, who shall answer when the Lord
Bhall call
His ransomed sinners home?
The hallelujah chorus was still ring
ing when the watcher across the
street stepped out from the shadow
of the hornbeam. Without a pause
he strode over to the platform. An
other moment and the door had shut
behind him.
The minister of the Trumet Regular
church had entered the Come-Outer
chapel to attend a Come-Outer prayer
meeting! CHAPTER IV,
In
Which the Parson Cruise's
Strange Waters.
The Come-Outer chapel was as bare
Inside, almost, as H was without. Bare
wooden walls, a beamed celling, a
raised platform it one end with a
table and chairs and the melodeon
upon It, rows of wooden settees for
the congregation that was all. As
the minister entered, the worshipers
were standing up to sing. Three or
four sputtering oil lamps hut dimly
Illumined the place and made recogni
tion uncertain.
The second Terse of the hymn was
Just beginning as Ellery came In. Most
of the forty or more grown people in
the chapel were too busy wrestling
with the tune to turn and look at him.
child here and there In the back
row twisted a eurlous neck but twist
ed back again as parental IIW
tugged at lte ear. The minister tip
toed to Vk corner anl tqok his
etanirrn TronY or a Tacrtrccerfea. -
The man whom Ellery had decided
must be Captain Eben Hammond was
standing on the low platform beside
the table. A quaint figure, patriarchal
With its flowing white hair and beard,
puritanical with its set, smooth-shaven
Hps and tufted brows. Captain Eben
held an open hymn book back in one
hand and beat time with the other.
He wore brass-bowed spectables well
down toward the tip of his nose.
Swinging a heavy, stubby finger and
singing In a high, quavering voice of
no particular register, he led off the
third verse:
"Oh, who shall weep when the roll is
called
And who shall shout for joy?"
The singing over, the worshipers
sat down. Captain Eben took a fig
ured handkerchief from his pocket
and wiped his forehead. The thin,
near-sighted young woman who had
been humped over the keyboard of the
melodeon, straightened up. The wor
shipers relaxed a little and began to
look about
Then the captain adjusted his spec
tacles and opened a Bible, which he
took from the table beside him. Clear
ing his throat, he announced that he
would read from the Word, tenth
chapter of Jeremiah:
" 'Thus saith the Lord. Learn not
the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for
the heathen are dismayed at them.'"
"A-men!"
The shout came from the second
bench from the front, where Ezekiel
Bassett, 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 Baptist, a
Second Adventist, a Millerite, a Regu
lar, and 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 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 wat
a buzz of whispering and, in front,
many men and woman 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 darl
corner. Then hi3 lips tightened an
he rapped smartly on the table.
"My friends," he said, "let us bov
in prayer."
John Ellery could have repeated tba
prayer, almost word for word, year:
after that night. The captain praye
for the few here gathered together:
Let them be steadfast. Let them b
constant in the way. The path thej
were treading might be narrow and be
set with thorns, but it was the patl
leading to glory.
"Scoffers may sneer," he declared
his voice rising; "they may make r
mock of us, they may even come intr
thy presence to laugh at us, but thein
Is the laugh that turns to groanin'."
And so on, his remarks beoominr
more personal and ever pointing like
a compass needle to the occupant 01
that seat ir. the corner.
"0 Lord," prayed Captain Hammond
the perspiration in beads on his fore
head, "thou hast said that the pastort
become brutish and have not sough'
thee and that they shan't prosper
Help us tonight to labor with this ont
that he may see his error and repent
in sackcloth and ashes."
They sang once more, a hymn thai
prophesied woes to the unbeliever
Then Ezekiel Bassett rose to "testify.'
The testimony was mainly to the ef
feet that he was happy because he had
fled to the ark of safety while then
was yet time.
Captain Eben called for more testl
mony. But the testifiers were, to us
the old minstrel joke, backward ii
coming forward that evening. At ax
ordinary meeting, by this time, the
shouts and enthusiasm would hav
been at their height and half a dozer
Come-Outers on their feet at once, re
lating their experiences and proclaim
Ing their happiness. But tonlghl
there was a damper; the presence of
the leader of the opposition cast a
shadow over ttie gathering. Only the
bravest attempted speech. The othere
sat silent, showing their resentment
and contempt by frowning glances
over their shoulders and portentous
nods one to the other.
The captain looked over the meet
ing.
"I'm ashamed," he said, "ashamed
of the behavior of some of us in the
Lord's house. This has been a failure,
this service of ours. We have kept
still when we should have justified our
faith, and allowed the presence of
stranger to Interfere with our duty
to the Almighty. And I will say," be
added, his voice rising and trembling
with Indignation, "to him who came
here uninvited and broke up this meet
in', that it would be well for him to
remember the words of Scriptur', 'Woe
unto ye, false prophets and workers
of Iniquity.' Let him remember what
the divine wisdom put into my head
to read to-night: 'The pastors have
become brutish and have not sought
the Lord: therefore they shall not
prosper." "
"Amen!" "Amen!" "Amen!" "So
be it!" The cries came from all parts
of the little room. They ceased
abruptly, for John Ellery was on his
feet.
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TRUSTF.K'S SALE.
By virtue of thp power of sale con
ained in a certain deed of trust made
y A. Mathews to the undersigned
rustee, dated Nov. 17th, 1911, and
luly recorded in the office of the reg
ister of deeds for Buncombe county,
C, in book of mortgages and deeds
f trust No. 84 at page 433 to which
eference is hereby made, and default
laving been made in the payment of
he indebtedness secured by said deed
f trust whereby the power of sale
herein contained has become opera
ive, the said undersigned trustee will
n Friday the 15th day of August,
912, at 12 o'clock, noon, sell at pub
ic auction for cash at the court house
'oor in the city of Asheville, county
f Buncombe, N. C, the following
inds and premises, situate, lying and
eing in the town of West Asheville,
ounty of Buncombe, State of North
'arolina adjoining lands of R. M.
)eaver and others and more partic-
larly described as follows:. Begin
ing at a stake in the south margin
f Poplar street at its intersection
ith the old Haywood road, and runs
.ith the east margin of said road
outh 28 deg. 13 min. west one hun-
red and tWleve feet to a stake in
aid margin of said road; thence
orth 63 dog. 30 mln. east one hun
Ired and seventeen and ore half feet
o a stake in the west margin of a
ew street thence with said new street
orth 27 degree east one hundred
nd eleven and one half feet to a
tairo In thp south maririn of PoDlar
treet; thence with the south margin
f said street south 63 deg. 30 mln.
.est one hundred and fifteen and one
alf feet to the beginning.
This July 16th, 1912.
W. E. SHUFORD, Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE.
By virtue of the power and author
Vaehovia Bank and Trust Company
ty conferred upon the undersigned
iy a certain deed of trust executed by
Vm. E. Tyack and his wife, Katherlne
,'elson Tyack, dated July first, 1911,
aid deed of trust being recorded in i
he office of the Register of Deeds of
luncombe county, North Carolina, in
look No. 82, at page 205, reference
o which is hereby had; default hav-
ng been made In the payment ef the
lebt secured by said deed In trust.
he same being now past due and un
laid. and request having been made
y the owner and holder of said debt
bat the undersigned do execute the
owers of sale contained in said deed
n trust; the undersigned Wachovia
lank and Trust company will on
Hominy, August 19, i12, at twelve
'clock. noon, In front of the court
louse door In the city of Asheville,
ounty of Buncombe, North Carolina,
ffer for sale at public auction, for
ash, to the highest bidder, the fol
owing describe piece or parcel of
and, situate, lying and being in the
Ity of Asheville, N. C, and bounded
vnd more particularly described as
ollows, to-wlt:
Beginning at a stake at the Inter,
lection of the southern margin of
Vston lane with the western margin
if RavenBcroft road, and runs thence
with the southern margin of Aston
iane. south 83 deg. 60 mln. west
123.7 feet to a stake; thence south
1 deg. 35 mln. West 76 feet to a stake;
henoe north 83 deg. 50 min. east 292
'eet to a stake on the west margin of
Ravenscroft road; thence with said
margin of said road north 24 deg. 48
urn. east 86.6 eet to the beginning.
Containing .522 of an acre more or
'ess, and being Lot No. 14 of a plat
if the Kavenecroft property.
This the 16th day of July, 1912.
WACHOVIA BANK ft TRUST CO.
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