"Brethren and sisters of the sacred tie, you have renewed your vows, and I can now confide my bloody plans to your heads and hands; therefore, we shall at once dispatch this sacrilegious innovator, whose very name curdles my blood, and fits me to do such bitter business as would cause the devil to quake!"
CHAPTER III.
DEACON STEW RAVES AT LUCINDA'S LOVE FOR VICTOR.
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ICTOR JUNO, after arriving at his home, discovered that his right arm was excruciatingly
painful. He dispatched his coach to the spot
where the dreadful accident happened to General Washington Armington and his lovely daughter, Lucinda, requesting his coachman to serve them to their
liking, and telling the latter to make an apology to them
for not accompanying the coach, as unavoidable circumstances prevented his attendance at that moment.
He sent for a brother physician, who discovered a neglected compound fracture of Victor's arm, which was
already swollen to alarming dimensions, and lest he instantly retired to bed, mortification might end his days
suddenly; notwithstanding this most painful condition,
which was brought about through the humanitarian act
of saving, and restoring to life, the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to
the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious
state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal
joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination
soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the
most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight.
It may be interesting to learn, that Victor Juno was a
