HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-6-4, Page 2A Man's Pitiful Hate and a i aged woman, with the anxious look' girls hidden by the undergrowth of. ashore, and we met him coming up to pointed to the body
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in her eyes so usually aecotnpauying the grove ;hast he hastened back to the lighthouse when we were going 'Take hit» down to the air --get
Woman s ,Elateful Pity. deafness ; and her first aot, npou 1 the lightlioutle, quietly " tel,l;et1 iota t dowel. He asked somethiug about it, water—do alt that you can to revive
seeing the strangers, was to rase° ani the passage and changed hie coat for' and I told him we,3 just been up,but him. I shall say uotbitzg to any one
tteem. it was Bryce ;\.l istroug o'd•faeitiouell eatetrlitupet to her ear, r a 8ou'west jacket hinging upitu a peg,
who wag your enemy, will she, iu a :saving at the same time : i took the batelstona hatillke chief from
hard, restrained voiea. 'But If you! 'Eecuae nisi but 1 teen% .hear a; its pocket :and bound it carefully
have cause to complain of him, 1 have word wsthout my trumpet. Did you i around the lower pert of hot face,
tt was so everlasting hot and glary I nor are yon to say that I washere.'
didn't advise hint to try it. He smiled 6 Then elle fled down the s.airs and
in a conceited tort of way, as if lie into the wood, body and soul alike
knew a lost the best, and went on," sick rind overwrought.
more. Re wag engaged to a young Want be see my husband ?' • and pulled a big tarpttultu hat, found 'Dili lou see anything of him, Alwyn mutely and minutely obeyed
girl before he abautlo ed her for the ; IIIc, Ma"ata , but we'd like to go l abs° hanging upon the page, well over Toth. ?' her parting tulttnottons, ar;d when
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ke of Atealiug your love and ber. up iu the lighthouee, if you've no ob— his forehead. 1'hui accoutred he 'I saw a stranger to the woods,' his enemy once more stood, pale and
wealth, and titat tri wet oatled Leila jeotiouse replied ele, Alwpn, addtug . eat down upon i 11.1 sunny doorstep of replied Captain Alwyn, briefly, and ttemulous, but safe, before hire, be
Orandou. Your %atone le great. no i ,sere been bora several bines before, the house. his face lesions upon his then with a bola leap d')wu the fade Said :
doubt, but what is it to urine 2 Yau S but I always caw Captaiu Bruce--', handl, a+ if eufferin4 from toothache or the rook reached the ;sands, and i 'I didn't eters sit suer you died ua
ate t; mat) ; you teen atrnggle, you , your heeband,1 suppore ?' , and aliiverinez with z.s iunadental ague.
can resent, you au* revenge, or, at 'Yee, he met with an aeoident yea A slow told careleee stet) orat,liled
Ieovert t S p� g of the fieltl-
least, you can go out iota the world, terdav, cud is cauiivati to Itis. bed non the rano dried twigs
1 he world if you like, and so and my daughter,she • gone off to get path, and fierce joy eliot:e lir the
forget, „bile I•—a girl—what is left help ; and we've tient for d•'hn to downcast eyes of tbo man who sat
to ale but to sit dome, disgraced, tar -
kept along theta to the spot •where there or n 1. It was all the cams as
the boats lay. A few moments later a murder. You may take any re-
he eat sullenly upon a boulder waehed vonge you like, or can get a chance
on three sides by salt.water# a light for. You owe your life only to e
'ttntixen's pity, tool that. pity is so full
tigure spraug to a pJtiee beside linin.
oowe home and see to the light ; but waiting for hie: prey. The step came " 'Mist, Crandon !',ettplaitued he, t of ascus*, i '$ ai bitter se my bate.
niehed, set acute and ab.udened, the j jme, end on, paleed, and, a shade T fell upon 'Yee. I meet know s,ba you kumsv What will you do 9'
jeer and scoff' of those who envied mei h eee in bed and eau t e e$m onlyband nor the sunny elope a, the fort of the ofthatmatt,' 2' Bryce Armstrong stood fora 1110—
foot. I went up in the ,Intern this step.. Captain Tann did not sates his `What masa y went glaring et his enemy with iln
morning to put out the light, and I ., head, but groaned impatient! There ie ua time f ,r fol! answer po:eu1 rage slid revenge ; tut the
before, my whole life blighted, and
yet withont the privilege of completer,
or eveu of open suffering—boom' to sea that the curtains was awful darty, .Good rnorotust, air. 011* 1 dee the me, God bearing yon. Did you meet craven heart +:%Rhin was more power -
affect o'treleeeness at►d gayety and,: and so I took them down and am go— llghthea4-a rto ked a (inflated, outs-- , Bryce Armstrong to the woode ? fol in
iia tear than ail oilier ewttioua,
ease, no matter what may lie just be -1 ing to wash 'em, and I don't know Ding ewe, whose totes thrilled over 1 'No.' and after a little he petaled pact with
ueath the surface. No; your wrongs.; but it'll be kind o' hot tip there, the the hardy seerneter nerve,' ait the den -But you met. Yost know where he an impatient gesture and come mut.
your •uffsrnisge. are nothing to mine. into blazing so fierce right onto the tist'a file over an inflamed tooth. Half l ie 2 Something has leappeued be tered, unheard woe; o and was gone.
and by their merit I claim this men gla
ss ; but yon can go up and sea, if Owning ap. he muttered, civilly: 'tweet, you 1 apt
Telt rue, °ain Alwyn. Captains Alwyn followed slowly.
me toy octet, Toni 811411 not touch yon ve a mind to, 'you've been up Yes, T euppnse eo. I'm just able*. % 0h, do sot keep sae in suspense ! His friend* were already embarking,
him. Clete, tet iii retreat ltafeata he before, mister, eo yoti ll know how to crazy with the tonthaoh•, lied ohtlle; ll!er r»ai*uer wee tie imperraue, her and he stepped Silently into) the boat.
ss.
[tees u' lift the trap at the head of the stairs, into the b irgeiii, but I'll go up.` l eyed No eearoliiuer, hor.veice 90 Dano As *hey !aft the chore! they sate that
She tltiietty withdrew from the cud shut it when you're all it,, or you Ile ro e Si he spoke, and lett Vial tretittg, that Captain Tomelieenk he. the tiohaauer else) wasgetttrsit under
rook, and, retreating lust within the won't have room to stand,' way, keepinghis bandaged face tor/eel; fare thorn AS he had never shrank : way, Anti preeentty stood off on her
shelter of the grove, stood watching 'Yes, yeti, I know,' replied iter, Ale. ee 11111011 311pne'ible from the telt,' before mortal, and hie face was more own tittetitterer,.ere.
than guilty, his manner- almost cow-. llelf way !'tine Lila Crandon, for
artily, as he nought to evtlde the en—tine aril tripe, spoke to Captain Al.
quiri,og eyes eo reoelutely bent two t wyn. who set silently beside her.
the passeugere of the schooner as wyn, cheerily. 'd'e'll teko a look up slight, fox f.toots roan wlmo followed
they cem0 ashore by menus of a life l there some of ue. Miss Leila, I •u him, eaarceiv noticing the surly
boat. Tee plait site milled Bryce pose you'll go in alta sit dnwn with gentle, for whose infferint s he felt tit,
.s.rrostrong }sneered beside a figure re. eirie - _..' a ne alley, and whoett eervices he ex- hit». '
y p lIe ha„ felt viler latae and my
01111111g mem some shawls piled on 'No, no,' hastily interposed Leila plated t,) repay, 'a 'Tie was plug to the lighthoueQ,' •amity, Iwoirtfer wt.ieli will mum the
'leek. Up et Otte figure Captain as the deaf women stood patiently Litho,/ the try as be ranchedf ' your brother said,' resumed L ile,: deepest, or fast the longest ?' said
impossible to distinguish the features until some one should agaiu address to pees term, end then followed iip in *'And he did Dot go beyond, - or we! 'Crud prot ct sue from the lasts now
Tone's eves filed bun
Rtit but it woe
y• looking from one to another, waiting Tom stood aside, allowed the visitor we, (thing bing the ailedof every word a rho
sheltered beneath a .Molt veil.
her. 'I won't trouble her with her to the lnntorn, dropped the ►c•ittle, I must' 'owe been !lira. You remained t told ever,' replied Alwyn, andthen
'It ie --it must be --his wife. He siok husband. I'll *it down in the sled etond upon. it, ,Blinded by tile,°;tt the lighthouse, you must have met boll) elapi{•d into that silence ao
would not be hendiug over another woods and wait.' exaesaiva light after the darkues, of Win there. Did he go up into the ?;nude mare eloquent than words.
woman in that fashion—not quite t There's a real pretty s int just the peeve, and toiled icy the eon. !lighthouse ? Did you lie in wait for
yet, surely; gala Ila. meotiauieally beyond here, where shoe° fitment summate heel of ttie plata, the vieitar hiui there ? Anawer.na, 4aptnin
Obeying Lrtln s movement. 'But eve , grow you like eo much, said one of pieced hitt bed fora moment before " Alwyn :)'
en se, you 'could excuse and abetter! the girls, shyly. 'And I'll go dawn Iui eye:., geapinsf eland far hrea',II as 8 'I will not tweeter von, :Mie Oren—'j
him, I suppose. You women are so there with you, if you've a mind to, , be did et), dolt. Why should 1 2 Are yen the ;
forgiving.11 don't want to go no in the lantern.' In that ninnient the liendkerohief kenpur of that wotnau'e husband 2'
'Forgiving, do you Dail it ? If I = ',;'bank you,, replied Leila,, cardial- born from Captain Tome flat way Ile pointed as be spoke somas the
could choose I would rather one I ly. 'I should like, of all firings, to ewiftty b;)ntnl R0reee Bryce Ann.,: little reach of water to the aobooner,
loved should strike we dead at his gather time lin°ma, and we may find etrong'a mouth ; iu the ',text hie arms ; stoutest whose low bulwark now loan.
feet than forgive me in the spirit I Game ferns. .Don't wait far no Capt. were forcibly ben; bellied his back ; till a billing figure, locking toward
forgave that man 1' acid Leila, with 1Alwyu, ale will look for our !lower/' anal pinioned there by a hit of rope,
1` the shore. At sight of him Lithe ,
such a concentrated acorn in her and pick our why back to the party afterward secured to one of the Lion , Draudon'e face strew hard awl cold,
voice that it roused the roan beside at our leisure.' bracee of the frame of the !'intern. and slim twittered, half aloud
her to a momentary forgetfulness of 1 Caplaiu Tot° acquiesoe.i with a' So far neither had spoken, and al. s lit b., 'nue. Why does not she 7
his own hurt. anent bow, and as Leila and sten- though Artuitrong .tru sled do -nee. ' look on; fur him ? Why ehould I ?'
'Yes,' said he, steadily regarding now friend passed on to the woods be et01y, it was in silence ; nor did to She turned to leave the rook, then
her, 'I believe your pity would bo; you' tate lighthonee, be, with his know hie ..isnilaut until, lei he say suddenly turned hack, 'mteweung her
harder to bear than your Irate. But 1 brother and the two remeiniug girle, Annie henna and pnatiue oonvuleive- ' own question ':
mluat bety lnot do the work for dotre before I can rest.'e that I beg;tu the secant of ,111 Iigut•hnuie' 1y upon theboated iron door. his en— 'Bo;nu/e le is our enenn�•, hi' hCe
Stairs. env stood briars biro. 1110 hat ren)ov lie snored from our veuge:ence. That
'Thank God he is not coining 00 t They terminated close beneath the emir the f'10.1 nuc,vorod•, mot sant : ti why you obeli. not berm trial—tl►at c
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shore He remains beside hie wife, iron trapdoor, and the elder ,3.lwyu, t 'Yon !:now uui now, don't you le why I, lanai know tliet he is sofa
ae a loving husband should, said raising it upon his brawny shoulders,
Leila, in a voice oddly compounded clawbereti up into the I:utero), fol.
of relief and soma. 'Captain Alwyn,
you will not attempt to go out there ?'
'No, Miss Crandou ; I can wait a
few hours longer after waitiug many
weeks and mouths. If ho stays
aboard the schooner we shall not you kind n' sick—so hot and glary ?'
tweet to—day. Will you rejoin lire. • 'It does so,' responded Maria, put -
Alwyn ?' ting her Bands, over ler eyes, while
He offered his arm and led Leila Tom Alwyn, leaping up the last step,
back to the shaded nook, where Inc closed the trapdoor and stood spun
sister-in-law sat, plseidly i{nitting and it, laughing maliciously.
chatting with such members of the The effect was, indeed terrific%
toinpany as chose to rest rather than Through the unourtained windows
ramble. Leila seated herself, and poured the fervent rays of the midday
Tom threw himself upon the grass sun, and striking the prisma and
beside her, drew his hat over his eyes, lenses of the Fresnel lamps in the and tell Mrs. Arm.' rang where you
and seemed to doze. centre of the place, were co}leoted in -are, and how 1 !aft you. Good -by.'
Prsently some of the others joined to more than ono focus of concen- As he spoke he raised the trap,
trated heat and light, equal to burn- passed down, and shot beneath the
ing—glasses of prodigious power. bolt that held It in place. Then he
The walls, ceiling and floor of the ran quickly down stairs, locked the
little chamber were all of iron, and outer door, and replaced the1 th
from each of the heated metals radi-
ated a glow, as if fira lay close be—
hind. Even the floor was burning
beneath their tread, and after some-
thing less than a moment of im•
prisonment, one of the girls turned so He joined them, and led the way as
ghastly white that Captain Tom bast- speedily as possible away from the
Bryce Armstrong, apparently reading i ened to open the scuttle and lift her lighthhuse, for his strained ear fancied
aloud. down the stairs into a cooler atmos•
Leila heaved a sigh of relief, her phere
companion one of impatience, but ,A man wouldn't live many min -
neither spoke, and the little party of utas there !' exclaimed his brother,
five or six climbed the pretty wood-' following as rapidly as gallantry to
land path towards the lighthouse, the
bright dresses of the girls shining out
from the evergreen shadows like the
plumage of stray tropical birds. Be—
yond the wood lay a barren, rooky
field, with the path to the lighthouee
running through it, and as they em—
erged upon this the climbers, for the
first time became aware of the in—
tense heat of the day, from which
they had hitherto beau sheltered by
the grove. It had been warm during
the sail, in spite of the fresh breeze ;
but now, at about two o'clock, when
the wind took its noonday siesta, and
the sun had reached its height of
fullest power, his rays beat down upon
the bare rooks and the unshaded
lighthouse with a furnaoe-like glare
exceeding anything Leila, at least, re-
membered having felt before. She
grew sick and faint, and, arriving at
the. lighthouse, declared that she
could not think of ascending the stairs
to the lantern, but would wait in the
dwelling -house below while the others
went up and returned. Captain Tom muttered a reply and
The knock upon the door was an. strode away, but no sooner, were the
swered by a weary -looking, middle- figures of his brother and the two
I3ryae Artnstrc.ug ?' from you. Where is he 22'
& ctavul.iv0 rtnrt, a chaugoof owl 'lith:ill not tell you,' replied Alwyn,
leveed by the girls, silo exclaimed l or, a hnilow tnuninur from the ban. -sullenly, btu, his uuconstuoua {trance
aloud as they were landed upon the dagetl mouth said that ho.del, and told for firm, and Leila s quick brain
iron floor beside their guide : Alwyn, with a gleam of satisfied re caught and translated the glance. I.
"Oh, my 1 oh, fury ! Aiu't it hot verge ill his ;'yes, cautioned : •ile is up there 1 3�ou have onirap
np here I Oh Maria ! don't it make 'Your life would be very annul! pay- pod lune into that furnace they told N
wont for the debt yon owe me ; but me of, and you have left him there to
1 ;tw not going to take even that ; 1 die.! Oh, shame, shame 1'
-ten only going to bays you here for a She spreng away as ole spoke, and
while—au hour or eo, I ;lope, for this Alwyn did not try to stop her. Slow-'
is the last plaoe they will thli►1{ of ly he followed, Swift as a doe elle
searching after our report of it. It is fled the I tb t11 11 the
warm, jolt a little, isn't it? I hope wood and across the barren field
where the sou blazed down ea
a too {y pts , tong
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them, including Mr. Alwyn, who
proposed a party to visit the light-
house. Leila, too restless in mind to
be quiet in body, accepted the idea
eagerly, and Tom silently rose to ae-
oompeny.her. Both, as they came
out in sight of the cove where lay the
schooner, glanced eagerly in her di-
reotion. The languid figure still re—
posed upon the shawls, under an im•
promptu awning, and beside it sat
the step of the tower, the latch of the
locked door in her hand. The key 2
Yes. she had seen Alwyn placing it
upon a nail in the passage of the
house, as they Dame forward to the
door—that and a hat ; but, no matter
now—the key ! the key ! Yee, here
ley, a it wee, just as she had seep it in that
hat and the jacket upon their pegs in unconscious glance, and in another
the House•passage, resumed his own, mment it was fitted to the look, the
and Doming out, found Leila and her bolt turuod heavily, the boor lay op -
companion just coming toward the en, with the dirk stairs beyond, and
house from the woods. at the head the heavy iron trap—so
heavy for her feeble strength ; but
inch by inch, she raised 11, placed her
shoulders beneath, bore it up and laid
to hear the muffled cries of his victim it back against the wall, gasped as
reverberating down the hollow of the she breathed the first wave of the
great heavy stone tower, and he
dreaded least Leila's ear should catch
the sound. Were she once removed,
he had little fear of immediate dis—
covery, for the deaf wife of the light.
hoose—keeper could hear nothing, he
himself was confined to bis bed, and
nobody else was nn the house or
likely to visit it, as both their own
party and the one from the echooner
had already done so.
the other lady would permit. 'Mrs.
Bruce hadn't ought to take the cur-
tains down such weather as this, if
they were dirty.'
'That's so. I'd ha' thought she'd
he'd (blown better,' declared fair Ma-
ria, with much asperity, and the little
party hastened down to the outer air.
Mrs. Bruce was no where to be
seen, ani! Captain Tom, looking the
door of the tower, was about to hang
the key upon the nail whence he had
Been ib taken, when a glance toward
the bay, shining almost at their feet,
made him pause, turn suddenly green-
ish pale, and hurriedly say to hie
brother :
'Go on with the girls, Mark, and
I'll wait for Mies Crandon and Sally
Burt.'
'All right ; but don't lett Miss Leila
go up into that furnace. It would
be the death of her,' said kindly Mark
Alwyn, with an anxious glance in
the direction Leila had taken.
Half way through the grove they
met Alwyn, senior, coming to an-
nounce that the tido was going, and
it was necessary to get under way
without delay.
'The schooner can wait a while
longer,' added he ; 'for her little boats tion, through her brain, and in an
instant she had torn oft the boot and
applied the little" heel 'so sharply to
the think plate, that it shivered bo
neath the stroke., and the froe air
came twitting through in a life giving
torrent.
deathly heat, then sprang forward to
the prostrate figure lying es one dead
close beneath the concentrated mays
of the Fresnel
She snatched the bandage from his
mouth, but the cord binding the arms
was so stubburn for her little fiugore,
and the man showed no sign of life !
She could not wait to mill help ! The
windows.? They were immoveable t
She doubled her fist and smote one
of them sharply, but the thick glass
was stronger than that puny v'eapon.
She glanoed about her—nothing in
eight, and she stainped with vexa—
tion The clink of the brass heel upon
the iron floor shot, like an inepira•
can get off at any time. Did that
gentleman go up into the lighthouse,
Tom2'
'What gentleman, Mr. Alwyn ?'
asked Leila, whose keen eyes had al-
ready told her that, although the
slight figure lay among its wraps upon
the deck of the schooner, the one
seated beside it had disappeared.
'Why, the fellow—the fellow that
didn't coma ashore with the others
at first from the schooner. He hailed
the boat a while back, and was set
The senseleiss form stirred as the
delicious wave shote upon his lips,
and the slow tread of a man's foot
below gave additional assurance of
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