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In the midst of all this talk and work they left and ran up the hill to the Tabernacle, where the crowds were gathering to hear Dr. Eggleston. It was a novel sight to these four girls; the great army of eager, strong, expectant faces; the ladies, almost without an exception, dressed to match the rain and the woods, looking neither tired nor annoyed about anything looking only in earnest.
And Frank's mother breathed into his ear her good-by counsel and blessing. And Atwater was bidding his girl farewell, when a man came bounding along the platform with a paper in his hand the marriage license. "Too late now!" said Atwater, with a glistening smile. "We are off!" "But here is a minister!" cried Helen, "Mr. Eggleston!
Eggleston, of Ellington, Conn., preached in the afternoon. Notice was given of a permanent series of weekly prayer meetings to be held on Friday evenings, and at the first of these, May 21, a committee, consisting of Henry C. Bowen, Richard Hale, John T. Howard, Charles Rowland, and Jira Payne, was appointed to make arrangements for the formation of a church.
"Belmont Eggleston was then about twenty-five, very handsome, very talented, full of chivalric enthusiasm, and as refined and tender in sensibility as a woman. We met accidentally at a farmhouse, where a sudden shower drove us for shelter, and from that hour neither could forget the other.
"Major Randolph," said the Confederate chief, "I yield to your superior knowledge. We must retreat." A few hours later the Confederate forces, checked but not beaten, were retiring southward towards Virginia. Eggleston, his head sunk in thought, rode in the rear. As he thus slowly neared a farmhouse, a woman a girl flew from it towards him with outstretched arms. "Eggleston!" she cried.
"She certainly regards you and Mrs. Palma's opposition to her marriage with Mr. Eggleston as the greatest misfortune of her life." "He is utterly unworthy of her affection, is an unscrupulous dissipated man; and it were better she should die to-day, rather than have wrecked her future by uniting it with his." "But she loved him so devotedly."
She felt it dimly all the while that Dr. Eggleston was speaking; she felt it sensibly when they sang; she felt it in the chance words that caught her ear on every side as the meeting closed bright, fresh words of greeting, of gladness, of satisfaction, but every one of them containing a ring that she could hear but not copy. What did it mean?
"You will not take it amiss, madam, if I remind you that the account with Mr Eggleston must be the first that is settled." "If you mean the arrears of this last fortnight or three weeks, I believe I must desire him to wait Mr Delvile's return, as I may otherwise myself be distressed for ready money."
"Oh, would you?" says Eggleston, real eager. "But but what are your views as to our treatment of aliens?" "My programme is quite simple," says Mr. Hubbard. "I would stop all immigration at once, absolutely. Then I would deport all persons of foreign birth who had not become citizens." Eggy gasped. "But but that would be unjust!" says he. "Why, it would be monstrous!
DAVIS: Agricultural Education in the Public Schools. EGGLESTON AND BRUÉRE: The Work of the Rural School, pages 193-223. HOWE: Wisconsin: an Experiment in Democracy, pages 140-182. Country Life, pages 200-210. FOGHT: The American Rural School, pages 254-281.
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