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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1884-3-27, Page 3Continued from 2nd. page t3ieating ruadetnoisclic by a scornful gesture, "ather beloved Needle's Point, and you and I will take the boat round to Sugar Scoop beach, It will be mad- ness to run the batteau up on those rocks." Snowball starts to her Seat, defiance flasbiug in the azure eyes, flushing the rose.piuk cheeks to angry crimson. "Yes, Johnny," she cries out, "put cane ashore at Needle's Point ; put mo ashore here, anywhere , but rabid " wildest wrath Banning upon Rene -"1 keepthe basket.No matter what you do, or where yoa put me, I keep the lunch basket." "Qh, stow all that ;" says the bad- gerecl but pacific Jobuny, " Sit down, Snowball ; do you want to upset your- self and your precious laugh basket into the bay? Let her alone, Rene ; its never any use fighting with her ; you know she'll have her way, if she dies for it. I'll land you at Needle's Point or en top of Chapeau. Dieu, it you like, Snowball, only, for goodhness'sake, don't make such an awful roar." " Very well," says Rene ; " it is you who will repent, not L The batteahi is yours. If you like to scuttle her—x His shoulders go up for a moment ex- pressively ; then he Pulls out his book, and relapses into dhguity --and Shake- ,13peare. "y guess it won't be so bad as that. It will bo high tide when we get there, andI'll mauage to run her up,', Thus hopefully, Johnny, and thus, in silence, the rest of the voyage is performed. Chapeau Dime -so called from its fauoied, resemblance to a cardinal's hat --is a mountain of ponderous propor- tions, as to circumference, though wroth- ing remarkable as to bbigkt. Its base is the tenor of allrttarirtsrsand Boasters ---rock- bound, beetling, undermined with soubeu reefs; a spot marked dangerous ou all charts ; *place to be given the widest possible berth on a dark night or a foggy day. Many, many good :drills have laic their bones to rest tturevcr iu tlheseething reefstlaat entirely a'hapeeu Dieu. But the mountain k f.uuous, the country* round, as a place for picnics, berrying parties, anit the like, though anxious parents tremble a little, even in the sunniest weather, at thought of their yams„ people them For sudden rr,,'e1uatle have been known tori ee.aual gay ple.asure•boat-:. with their merry crews, have genes down in one tlrk:h«deahl minute. to be seen no more. There is but one safe lau;liug-place-Sugar Seclald be:tcll .but Snowball will none of it ; so, per- force. they must try the more dangerous Needle's L>oiut. They reach it ---a black jagged ledge, the s,titely cliff tieing starer above, bun. dreds of feet -a black, perl.tu,lieahle r wall of reek. It is an anmiter; n .uui•nt, ;t>t Johuuy steers the Ilault«.da -at, igi« hc• twweou two sheets of whit, omitting foam, it.; llotte,ih grating on the its"I:, i!s it goer,, Rut there is ne .;care, anal the lad ie an expert. and the 1 retty 1iWo haat slips in lib, a wihitae .at ale. anal k safe inside the churning foam. " You've done it," , ays Ilene, " Init M,you're a fool to have risked it. old boy, • and :s. fiWel. t titute you :are likely to have gettiu e her off with the ebb tide. How. ever, it ie vorr louktiit. Make her fast, as far out as year can. We Will have a wade for it, and she will be wet to the elbows -that is mine tr:afuat." This last brotherly Snowball does not hear, being busy with her tiu pails anal basket. But idle overtakes him .at this point. " Now then ! hasn't he done it ?" tho exclaims, triumphantly, "auyl,(xdy eoukd do it. I could do it ---oven you could do it, though you can't do much. hurry up, Jolmnv -you naaast be famished, L ate sure," with exaggerated sympathy and affection. " You've had the whole work of beingiug us here, and deserve your luncheon." Which is unjust to Reno, who has helped manfully. A oontemptuous glance, however, is hits only retort -he, too, is hungry, and silence is safest, un- til appetite is appeased. Snowball is anytning but berries, ne says -no more will I. Eat it yourself -or better still, keep it for your breakfast to -morrow." Without a word, mademoiselle puts back capes, pie, sandwiches, etcetera, in the basket, covers these provisions with exaggerated care, then sits down a little way off, her sailor hat tilted well over her nose, her hands f tided in her lap. So she sits for a long time, Johnny ex- tended in a melancholy attitude on the grass near 1'v. So long she sits indeed, that his su ..cions are awakened; he rises on his elbow and peers lender the hat. Big, silent tears are raining down -big, clear, globular drops, chasing each other, and falling almost with a plash !-they look large enough -on the folded. hares. "Hallo !" cries Master John, ta!, •.:,, aback, " you ain't at it again, are you ? What is there to cry for now ?" ; creeper sobs; bigger tears. "Say.— cau•t you," fretfully. " I wiscll von wouldn't. You never used to be a .:rw•-baby, Snowball. Stop it, can't you. What's the matter now?" • ".3 hiiuy!" a groat sob. "Jo-ohn-ny!" another. " Yes," says Johnny, " all right. What ?" "Jo-ohlluy I I hate Rene!" The vindictive emphasis with which this is brought out, 'staggers pacific Johnny. There is a pause. " Ohl I say. You mustn't, you know. Not that there is any love lost," sotto voce. " I -I," increase of sobbing, " I al- ways did hate him. I• always. shall. I would like . to get a boat and go away,' and leave him here forever, and ever, and ever l" "By George ! And then, all at once, Johnny throws himself baaok on the furze, and laughs long and loudly. "So," he gasps, "it is crying with rage you are, after all. Wasn't it Dr. Johnson who liked a good. hater? He ought to have known Snowball lc- donald." My name isn't Macdonald ; I wouldn't have a name he "-ferociously pointing -" has ! If ever I get off this horrid`, abominable place, Johnny, do you know what I mean to do ?" " Not at present," returns Johnny, who is immensely amused. " Some- thing tremendous, I guess. What 2" " I mean to write to Mr. Farrar, Monsieur Paul, to come and take me away. I belong to him he brought me here. 1 wish he hadn't now. Auy- where would be better than where he is. And I'll go away, and I'll clever, NEVER, NEVER speak to Retie again!" All this is, as the reader ]oust know, long anterior to the days of "Pinafore," else Johnny might have asked just here, with his customary grin," What, never?" And Snowball, with a relenting inflec- tion, Haight have safely responded, " Well, hardly ever," and so truthfully expressed her feelings; for, having revelled this powerful climax, and got- ten to the very tip-top of the mountain of her indignation, she proceeds, with great rapidity and compunction, to come down, "Not that I wouldn't be dreadfully sorry to leave papa, and you, Johnny, and even olid Weesy and Tim --and Pere Louis, and Mere Maddeleua, and Stier Ignatia, and Iuuoeente- I)esereaux, and----' "Oh, hold on 1 cries Johnny. " That list won't end until midnight if yon name all the people you know. Besides, it will be all nv use -you will only waste a sheet of paper and a stamp for Rothiug. Mousieur Paul will not take you." e Why won't he ?" But she asks it as if the RS5111 f A `•' • were rather a relief. ".Because you don't belong to hien-- not really, you know. In point of fact, old girl," say's Johnny, smiling sweetly upon her. "you don't seem to belong to any one. I guess ou sprung up one eight n wvI u o e) lore a1�1 b ' yourself, Ig y likela mushroom." " I must belong to the people who pay for r*e." says Snowball, rather crestfallen, " wbouv(.•r they are." " Yes ---whoever they are ! I should admire to know. So would you, I dare say. Papa, doesu't--air. Farrar may, but he doesn't tell -only you don't be - king to him, tied lie won't take you •. You're " a wv ay l;o to fixture for lifer on Isla Petdry ix, like old Tim and the light- house. When Weesy dies -thin can't go ou living forever -and I grow up and get rich. and am captain of a slop, I'll take you with ruts as cook, Yon ain't Half a bail coo::, Snowball --your allele - dumplings are ' things to dream of.' I wish I had a few now." "Art you huugry, Johnny ?" eagerly. "If you are -a---" Her hand is in the basket in a nirnncnt. I'in not hungry for anything you have there. No, thaiks, I won't take it. You will keep all that for yourself, as Rene says." ",Tuhnny,"-in a drooping voice .- '" lrlet.ie don't nlentiohi Ilene. I eau't bear the sound of bis name. Oh, dear mo;,' --a *Imre deep, deep :sigh---." I don't sees why some people ever were born !" " What than Iin,at airy. Should nature keen oto alive,, It I find th" world so weary When 1 awl I,tlt tweutyffvo7 chants Johnny, fined laughs. It is a physical impossibility for this boy to remain d... ,'n,lent. After a fashion, he is trying to enjoy being shipwrecked on the top of this big bare mountain. Reno glances round, in wonder at the singing aid laughing. " Would anything make these two serious; for five nnimites 9" he thinks, with :a cout,;ml4tueu1,sltrug. " Singing! snot they inay never leave this hideous desert alive." " Let us sing seine more," say's Snow. ball, waking up promptly to ba4dness. " Ilene looks as if he didn't like it. Lot us sing -let us sing the evening h -inn." " Pious thought - let us," laughs Johnny. And so to aggravate further the dark anti silent M. Rene, these two uplift their fresh young voices. and sent them in unison over the darkening waters. "Ave Sanotissima 1 We lift our souls to thee, Orapro nobis, 'Tis nightfall on the seal WWatcii us while shadows lfo Tar o'er the water spread; Hear the heart's lonely sigh— Thine, too, hath bled." Snowball glances at her foe. He stands and makes no sign, and his dark thoughtful face is turned away. A little pang of remorse begins to shoot through her, but she finishes her hymn "Ora, pro noble, The waves must rockour sleep; Ora, lister, ore, Star of the deep 1" "'Tis nightfall on the sea." It is Ib. deed nightfall now. The sun has dip. ped long since into the waters of the Bay Chalette, and gone down -the long, star -lit northern twilight is paling to dull drab. The evening wind comes to them with all the wide Atlantic in its salt breath. "And you have no wrap," says Johnny, compassionately. Snowball has shivered involuntarily in her thin dress, and he sees. it. He is in blue flannel him. self, and is the best provided of the three, Rene being clad in white linen, which he greatly affects in summer time. " It doesn't mattet," Snowball an: ewers. " Never mind ane." But her voice Hounds weary, and she leans spiritlessly enough against the rough bole of a big tamarack. re' Suppose you lie down, and take a nap," suggests Johnny, ; " it will rest you, and it's of no use sitting up." We're in for it to -night, anyhow -better luck to -morrow. I'll fix you a bed before it gets any darker." But there is nothing much to "fix," as he finds. There is only dry, rough, furze, and long marsh grass and hard penitential branches of spruce and cedar. With these he does, the best he can ; he piles up the furze, strews it with the long tough grass, twists the little spruce branclioei -..a ;mooa, sort of arbor, and the best he can do is done. " There you are," he says, " there's a bed ,and board for you. Rosamond's Bower - Bofrm's Bower •-"- not to be named in the !same day. Turn in, and don't open your peepers till to -morrow morning. Let us hope it will be your last, as well as your first night, camping out. I'll go and shake up Rene, before he is tra?isniogrifiedintotbe rook against which he Las leaned so long. Good- night, young 'un !" • Good . night, Johnny," responds Snowball falteringly. She is afraid, but she would die rattler than say so. Afraid of snakes, of hears, of ghosts, of the wind in the treetops. the sound of the sea, the awful silence. and loneliness, and majesty of night. She creeps into her bower, but sits peering out -such a pale, anxious, pretty little face, in the dim starlight. She can see the boss standing to. getller, and still ever gazing over the bay. Will Rene ever stir ?" site thinks, "ire looks as if he could stand there forever. And how cross he did look. I -wwislh--I hadn't made Rene Iliad !" The admission Coons reluet•tntty-.- even in her own plied. but having male it, she is disposed to descend to still deeper depths of the valley of humili- ation. "It is all lily faulte-Rene as right -it is always my fault I I must he (horrid. I wonder everybody don't hate me as UNRQHAL A art Two, Took Worinuanshilliltrabdity, WIioroTA ti M11tABE &s CO. Nos.204aac1206 West naitimore Street,naliIXwxe, 80,11? 1fO(dvenuo, New York, J. Doupe & Co > EI , OGTSTI:ll'R EVRRYTRING FOR ii (JHEAF GOODS!t I#yon want the best value for BUTTER & EGCS well as hila, Maybe they do. only they dou't like to show it. Yes, l always do want illy own way, and snake u tibio if I don't get it. I give Julhnuy no peace of his life. I tight with Rene from morni,g till night. anti 1 don't belong; 'to anybody -1 suppose I stn too hateful even for that !! I wonder why I ever was born• --I wnntier it I will uli ani be horrid as long as I live ! I wielder," draggingly, "if•--Dene-t-would forgive, Inc if -I gged his pardon. anti pro- mised never to do it any Where ?" The "it" is rather vague, but in Snowball's penitent mind, it stands for all the enormities of her life, t41:s many to be particularized, so she " lumps " them! The brothers meantime, '-land. with that seaward gaze, that take's iu the blue black \vorld of water,. The night wind sighs uraauld them, the surf laps, with a li••;tr-e, ceaseless mot and Ova` It, over the sunken surf. far bellow. lease is very hale iii the light of the. Stare. ▪ "You look used up already. ''Id. chap," Johnny fiefs ; "take a s-n'a7e, why don't you, and forget it. It 1111 11,4 fretting. Sorrow 1114F abide fair a aright, but joy cometh with the merino ! Something like that was Pero Louie' text last :Sunday. 3t fits iu new, 1 think 111(ko a meditation off it, 01.1 lagan, aid cheer up!" " If we get off before our father COMA Ihnrne I shall not care'," returns Rene, moodily ; "it is that that worries ate, Johnny I" e ()II ! we will--navchr fear. We arcs sure to get off to.niurrow--Onletthiu;; tells 1414' SCh, Don't cross your isri'Ii • t before yon clime to them. Turn in like a good fellow, and let us try to forget it. Ten as sleepy es the dust' !" A great yawn indorses the st;iteineut. Rene glances behind Dian. " What Bane you (IOW With Snow.. ball ?" " .Biz'.:+'e1 her up as well as, I was, able. Twisted some boughs to bread: the wind, and gathered moss anti (sass for a beta, It's the best I could (10." " ILti she had anything to e;at?" "'Woultdn't eat anything \vitesn you tvoul,ln't, " says Johnny, lnalie'i4haasly ; " nearly cried her oyes out into the brarg:aiii. 1''eels pretty- badly, let hue toll , • _'. •„STrs,”.r,. 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