The modern devil, his play between the false and the good; . e enthrall thy heart to-day;Life is too brief for aught which breeds contention,Love and forgiveness is the better way. CHAPTER XV The Divorce Bureau The kindest and the happiest pairWill find occasion to forbear;And something every day they liveTo pity, and perhaps forgive. —Cowper. ONCE more I visited the little glade from whose friendlyseclusion I had witnessed the rage of Satan at the escapeof Artful. The red and golden glories of sunrise were touching the grimwalls of the Castle of All Evil, as I reached the spot to which Ihad b
The modern devil, his play between the false and the good; . e enthrall thy heart to-day;Life is too brief for aught which breeds contention,Love and forgiveness is the better way. CHAPTER XV The Divorce Bureau The kindest and the happiest pairWill find occasion to forbear;And something every day they liveTo pity, and perhaps forgive. —Cowper. ONCE more I visited the little glade from whose friendlyseclusion I had witnessed the rage of Satan at the escapeof Artful. The red and golden glories of sunrise were touching the grimwalls of the Castle of All Evil, as I reached the spot to which Ihad bent my steps, and soon the sky was a dome of blue velvetmottled with fleecy clouds. How long I stood regarding the scene, as nature bloomedafresh, I know not, but letting my eyes fall on the path in frontof me, T saw one Belial by name, in earnest conversation with theArchfiend. They were seated upon a little knoll near my retreat,and their words came easily to my ears. We must do something, said Satan, to make up for thereverses of the last few , SiiiU. Ill iili Jfi Modern J)-iil Ciiji//i-ii//it. , by ir. W, Jlonstoa. I saw Belial and Faultfinder approach a home. 833 Seei^.riid. THE DIVOECE BUREAU 335 *Have yon formed any new plans ? inqnired Belial.^^Xothing definite, replied the Archfiend. FArLTFIXDEE EEDEEMS HIMSELF Jnst then a fiend bearing a sealed note came on a rnn to wherethe plotters were seated. Satan tore open the missive and read: ^To His Satanic Majesty. Greeting: III are been stirring up trouble in the home lives ofmen and ivomen, and have succeeded, during the last year, in hav-ing four thousand six hundred and sixty-nine divorces granted inone state alone. It striltes me that this is a matter worthy of yourmost serious thought. If we can break up homes at this rate, weare doing a great deal to retrieve our losses in other faithful servant, Faultfinder. **This is the very thing we want,- said Satan with a is ag
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