Now that he wished to return to parochial work, the richest prize in the whole list, Tecumseh, was given to him--to him who had never been asked to preach at a Conference, and whose archaic nasal singing of "Greenland's Icy Mountains" had made even the Licensed Exhorters grin! It was too intolerably dreadful to think of! An embittered whisper to the effect that Tisdale was the Bishop's cousin ran round from pew to pew.

This did not happen to be true, but indignant Tecumseh gave it entire credit.

The throngs about the doors dwindled as by magic, and the aisles cleared.

Local interest was dead; and even some of the pewholders rose and made their way out.

One of these murmured audibly to his neighbors as he departed that HIS pew could be had now for sixty dollars.
So it happened that when, a little later on, the appointment of Theron Ware to Octavius was read out, none of the people of Tecumseh either noted or cared.