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With a watchman, unknown to the trainmen, on every train, the officials hoped now to solve the mystery in a very short time. The old engineer, McNally, who had found the rock in the cañon, had boasted in the lodge-room, in the round-house and out, that if ever he got the "ghost-sign," he'd let her go. Of course he was off his guard this time. He had not expected the "spook-stop" in open day.
The upper story of the temple will, when finished, be used as a lodge-room for the Order Lodge and other secret societies. In the body of the temple, where it is intended that the congregation shall assemble, are two sets of pulpits, one for the priesthood, and the other for the grandees of the church. The cost of this noble edifice had been defrayed by tithing the whole Mormon church.
Her body might be occasionally in Eden Place, but her soul was always in a hired hall. She delighted in joining the New Order of Something, anything, so long as it was an Order and a new one, and then going with a selected committee to secure a lodge-room or a hall for meetings. There was that about her that precluded the possibility of simple membership.
No true Odd-Fellow crosses the threshold of his lodge-room but he feels he is treading on more sacred ground than the busy marts of trade, or in the office or counting house; he feels that he is coming home where dwells the purest principles of humanity friendship, love and truth. But there is more in the workings of this order than the social. Its object is to touch humanity in all its phases.
He walked away from the garden with Offitt, and turned down a filthy alley to a squalid tenement house, called by its proprietor Perry Place, and by the neighbors Rook's Ranch, to the lodge-room of the Brotherhood of Bread-winners, which proved to be Offitt's lodging.
Much as one might enter a lodge-room, the two radicals showed their faces at a port-hole in a door, after which they passed guards with masklike helmets. In a few seconds they found themselves in a brilliantly lighted hall, very large and commodious except for the heavy pillars which supported its low ceiling. It was half filled with men. The elder Ernol had no use for formality.
Poor mother says benevolence is all very well, And your efforts would yield her delight, If they did not take up so much of your time, And keep you from home every night. "Father, dear father, stop home with us pray! Poor mother's deserted, she said, And she wept o'er your absence one night, till away From our home to your lodge-room I sped.
He adds, that he continues to receive the cordial approval of the Commissioners for the manner in which he performs his duties, and says, "I take care to be so far master of the business committed to me as that none shall be able to eclipse me in that respect."* At the same time he states he is taking great delight in Freemasonry, and is about to have a lodge-room at the George Inn fitted up after his plans and under his direction.
'It means running the country as easy as a four-wheeled bogy on a down grade. We can't stop to inquire now, or they'll turn against us. I've forty Chiefs at my heel, and passed and raised according to their merit they shall be. Billet these men on the villages and see that we run up a Lodge of some kind. The temple of Imbra will do for the Lodge-room. The women must make aprons as you show them.
Grosch, in his Manual, makes the following declaration: "The descendants of Abraham, the divers followers of Jesus, the Pariahs of the stricter sects, here gather round the same altar as one family, manifesting no differences of creed or worship; and discord and contention are forgotten in works of humanity and peace." How do they manage to worship so lovingly together in the lodge-room?
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