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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-4-7, Page 7LOVE AND VENGEANCE AMONG THE SMIJGGLERS THE Mo$T FasOmerniq OOEAN Bomar= SINOi9 Til" PAYE OB • Coosa AND Maii,X:ATT. CHAPTER XXXV.- (Coneintinn,) Numerous torches were lit, andstuck different crevices of the sea cavern, so th there was a tolerable light throughout t wlace, The bide brought in a quantity eed and white foam, and theRiftot r rather uncanny ' rode t ally by her anchor, as the lieu of midnight drew near. Then Dolan nude an affectation of speak ing about the night•watchea, and the guard of the opening to the ravine and en the plateau where a man had been stationed in lieu of J ph, whose constant post it had been. ' "All veli," was the reply and thea one of the mend %daed " Nobo y has come into the cave but Mrs. Wagner, since the sun set," "Mrs Wagner 1" exclaimed Dolan. "" Yes, captain, but that's all right," "Oh 1 yes, Mrs, Wagner. Ha ! A boat here 1" Dolan was on the deck of the Rift and ho at once stepped into a boat and went toward the steps leading to the inner cavern. These steps and the passages beyond it and the inner cavern were now quite deaerted, for the whole of the Brew were in and about the cutter. One solitary link was burning at the end of the passage leading to the ships, and Dolan paused at that and listen. ed. " I do not hear her," he said. "" I did not see her come in, but the guard would of course let her pass and she could easily make her way along the dark shadows and I not see her, as I was not looking for her. Well, she has come to meet her doom and it is as well here as elsewhere. Better per- haps—much better. Maria 1 Maria, I say, are you here ?" There was a suppressed scream and then all was still. "` What on earth does she mean ?" cried Dolan as he snatched the torch from its niche in the chalk and ran toward the great cavern, in which there was no lamp lighted now. Dolan held the link high above his head. For a few moments a confused mass of shadows alone met fids view, and then they seemed to arrange themselves into a human form, and crouching down and trying to hide something by holding her hands over it he saw Mrs. Wagner. There was a small, black box, the lid of it was open and the contents strewed about upon the floor of the cavern. It would ap- pear as if in the fright at hearing the voice of Dolan calling upon her, Mrs. Wagner had dropped this small, black box, which she had been carrying, although it was rather large so to do, and then when it fell no do ebt the lid had burst open and the con- tehteS had fallen out on the floor. There ere leveral toys, such as a little child of a 'nit two years old might have pos- sessed. Th a were several articles of chil- dren's hil- dr ne e weari g apparel and a little white beaver hat, with pale blue ostrich feathers, In fact, there appeared to be pretty well the whole paraphernalia of a child's out of door costume. ,,� And all these lay about, and Mrs. Wag- ner, with cries and screams, was making fu- tile attempts to gather them together and hide theni from the eyes of Dolan. But most futile, indeed, were those at- tempts, inasmuch as he could not fail to see every one of the articles that fell from the small box, and as he stood there, with the link in his h end, and glared at the wretched woman, his fa krew livid with rage, and a baleful fire shot from his eyes. She looked up at him in terror. She had never seen him look like that—at least not to her, and she felt all her danger. "" Mercy ! Have mercy upon me, Dolan. It was for your good—ail for your good." His rage was so great that for the mo- ment it only vented itself in a hissing noise. Then she, still on her knees, implored again his mercy. "No—no 1" she said, "you must not think that it was to betray your secret— your long -kept secret, that I was taking this box—to—to—to--" " To whom?" bellowed Dolan, with a roar of rage that echoed through the cavern, like the meaningless howl of some wild animal. "To whom ? To whom ?" "The admiral." " Clifford?" "" Yes --yes. To save yon. To make terms for you. That is it—only for you— only and wholly for you." It was with a positive yell of fury, then, that Dolan sprang forward, and with a plunge of his foot, rather than a kick, scat- tered the contents of the black box over the cavern, "" Wretch and spy 1" he cried, "" I know yon—I know you now. You would pur- chase your own safety by betraying Yue. I • know you now 1" "" No—no 1" Oh 1 no." ,"" Yes I say.Yes,a thousand terrors , "Dolan— in mercy 1 Oh !I will tell all 1 No no, do not kill me—oh I do not. I did not mean ! I will tell you all, Dolan, if ever you felt for me a moment's affection, i spare me now." "` Aff t'o Ha ! h 1 Aff tion 9 - Dolan shuddered, and, with his arms out. fn stretched, he strove to leave the spat. He trod r upon portion ton o atn fthede dress v'- p g of hi 1 he tin' and he recoiled a sin. s o g ee Get out—oh, get out !" he said. "Do orawl about my. feet, No, no—don't d r that, It is so dark, andyet I can e o eyes. Help 1 Lights 1 o, no t canyon must see this sight, No, no, no I" s Tho link lay smouldering on the floor o the cavern, It was just within hie reach By a stretch he got hold of it and he though as he had seen frequently done with links that by waving it rapidly through the ai the smouldering embers might be fanne again into a flame, "So, so !" he said. " We will see 1" He whirled the link round and round The red embers at its head glowed agai and then a little flickering flame burst fort which he humored by 'holding the lin about and turning it downward. The little flame grew longer and the linl was in a blaze. Then Dolan tried to turn his eyes upon the object at his feet, but he dare not, Some terrible convulsion kept him from doing so and yet chained hint to the spot. "Dead 1—she is dead 1 It is but another and I have looked upon death so often, why should I fear it in her—I who have killed others ? She is not the first—not the firat 1" "" Hoy 1" shouted a voice ; " Dolan ! Cap- tain Dolan 1 Hoy 1 Where are you ?" "" They call me. They call me, now 1" " Captain Dolan!" "That is Bowline. I know that voice. He must not see this sight. He and they must not suspect it. Hilloa 1 Hilloa 1" „ Hoy !„ "Hold 1 Not another step. What would you ? What is it ? The time has not yet come. Hold! What would you ?" Captain Dolan strode forward, and held the link so that the shadow of himself fell upon the dead body on the floor and faced Bowline. " Qh, there you are, captain 1" "" Well, well. What is it ?" "Why, here's Miss Grace has come into the cave by the entrance in the ravine." "Grace ? Grace ?" yelled Dolan. "Yes, and it appears that the Philistines have got hold of Gerald and she wants the men to sign a kind of paper that he was forced on bored the Rift and that he was dragged upon the deck and that he did not fire at the king's ship." " Grace—Grace—she here ?" " She is. You may hear her now. Hark, that is her voice, She prays and calls upon the men to save Gerald. They mock her. Do you not hear ?" "Perdition 1 Ah 1" Her fair hair streaming in disorder around her -`'her dress torn by the briars and wild vegetation of the path in the ravine—Grace Morton, as we may now properly call her, entered the cavern and gently knelt down close to the feet of Dolan. "Here me," she said. " Dolan, you hear me. I have come to tell you of your doings and to ask you to do one act of justice for your soul's sake. Dolan, you have in times past called me your child. You know I was not so ; but some spark—some slight feeling of affection for me might remain with you. For that—for justice sake—for gratitude— that I have come to warn you that the sec- ret of this cavern is discovered. I ask you to save Gerald by declaring his innocence. Write it—write it here. It is written. You will put your name to this paper. You will admit that Thomas Wright turned false witness, Dolan ! Dolan I you see I kneel to you. I pray to you to do this. I have left a new-found father—I have left dear friends —to kneel to you, Dolan. It is but a little act but oh, it shall weigh heavily against the evil you have done, Say that he is in- nocent—write it. Here 1 here ! I implore you, Dolan, for you know that it is the truth 1" Dolan drew a long breath, and the "" ah 1" that he uttered was so congratulatory that it seemed, indeed, to come from his heart. "" You will do it ? You will save him ?" ".S'top 1 .Answer me—answer what I shall ask of you 1" "" Yes, Dolan." "Gerald—where is he ?" " In prison." "" Accused—accused ? By a letter—by Thomas Wright—of piracy—of inciting us nit 0 you e f t r d n h k, In. the fluttering wkndentitatwind whi was se rapid/7 rising end whioh was soen lelsiw into the 900r4 with all its fury -the stood by the landing place, where Capte Morton, of the Nautilus, had first seen t admiral, severel'pereon,e, There waif the admiral himself, sever naval officers, and there was Captain Mo ton. A, amall throng of idlers were close band, looking old=with apparent wonder some prooeediegs they could not comer hend. The boat of the Nautilus was waiting fo Captain Morton &t the foot of the steps, an some miles out at sea there burned a bla light on board some • vessel, which was. ev deutly beating on and off in the roads. That vessel was: the Spray. And no w, with a bright flush upon his fao and a sparkle about the eyes, such as he ha not known for 'many ,a long day, Captai Morton descended one of the steps leadin towed his boat, and holding out his hand t Admiral Clifford, be said "My dear friend, we shall soon mee again, I see. the boat of your, ,schooner i near at band now, and you may depend tha the Nautilus will not be many feet behin the Spray in the attack upon the • pirate nest." The admiral pressed the hand of Captai Morton, as he replied "I should not be well pleased to be o this enterprise without you, Morton, and fully 'comprehend the feelings with whin you go on it." "Yee," added Morton, and' the crew o his boat heard his words, ""yes, I go in th cause of all nations and of all ships. Th Nautilus will be close "in the wake of th Spray." "Thanks, Morton, thanks 1 Here is m boat." .A boat which had been signaled for from the Spray schooner now dashed up to th steps and both the• admiral and the captai descended there together. The Nautilu lay at about a mile out ; and the Spray a about double that distance now ; but that space was rapidly decreasing, as with a long tack she was beating in to meet her boat. Then the admiral turned to ono of the of- ficers that were with him and said: "Are you sure, Mr, itrongways, that Mr. Anderson bas taken possession of the ravine ?" " He will be in possession;' admiral, with- in half an'h5`ur of this, time. "That will do ; and now,' gentlemen, I do not order you on this duty. I go myself, more as a spectator than otherwise, for I shall let Mr. Greene, of the Spray, fight his own schooner, and not interfere with him, but I shall, of course, be glad to have you with me." " And we are glad to go, admiral," was the reply. The two boats pushed off together and were soon pulling toward their respective vessels. Captain Morton waved his arm to the ad- miral, as the American boat shot off at an angle toward the Nautilus ; and then the blue light gradually began to die away on board the Spray, but still it shone sufficient- ly to indicate her place in the offing. There was a feeling of deep joy and seren- ity, now, about the heart of Captain Mor- ton. He folded his arms across his breast and kept his eyes fixed upon the admiral's house, which, dimly outlined against the night sky, he could see, as he each moment receded further and further from it. " She is there 1" he thought. " She is there ! my own dear child, saved to me at last throurh so many perils 1 She is there 1 my darling treasure ! Oh, would that there were but one other in this life, to share with me the joy that now sits so serenely at my heart—her poor mother ! No, no, that/nay not be. We shall not all meet again until we meet in heaven 1" Little did Captain Morton think that Grace—in the depth of her affection for Gerald and in her small experience of the worst villainies of which Dolan were capable —had conceived the idea of revisiting the smugglers' haunt on Gerald's account. eh to re in he al at at d e - 0 d n g 0 t s t d s' n n I h f e to y e n s t And now the blue light died out on the deck of the Spray, and the admiral's boat was nearly alongside of the schooner. "Boat ahoy 1' was the cry from the deck - watch, ""Flag 1" was the response; and then a couple of lanterns at the gangway showed Lieutenant Green in uniform, with his drawn sword in his hand, with which he ceremoniously saluted Admiral Clifford, who returned the courtesy, and then shook hands with Mr. Green. " Only an amateur on this occasion, Mr. Green, and a passenger, that is all. I bring some volunteers with me, though. all of whom you know ; and we want you now to e so good, in a few hours, as to completely out out the nest of pirates commanded by the man Dolan, and who carry on their prac- ices with the cutter Rift." b on—of being the worst of all ?" r "" Yes ! Ob, yes 1" "And he is in prison— in a fair way of t condemnation ?" " Alas, yes ! Oh, Dolan ! you see me here—here at your feet. I love Gerald—with Y all my heart. I do love him 1 I love Heaven and 1 love Gerald. It was poor Ann, who died here in these caverns, who taught me to love God 1 And Gerald, too, I love. n Dolan, do this act—save him ! Let me carry i to the admiral yoitr evidence for hit".. It is t down here on this paper—in a few words. if Dolan, you will do it ?" " Not if a thousand devils—well, that don't matter. No—no—no 1" Y He yelled out the negatives with awful m vehemence and Grace recoiled from his, awful gaze. " We should be rejoiced, admiral ; but as et we have not fallen in with the rascals." " They are there." " There, sir ?" " Yes ; there in the bay—in the cliff." Mr. Green looked at the admiral, and very early committed the irreverence of whistl- ng slightly ; for he thought, at the moment, hat Sir Thomas Clifford's reason must be a ttle—just a little—on the wane., " Yes, Mr. Green, in the cliff. I will tell ou elf about if you will only come below." "" Certainly, admiral, certainly. You com- and here, sir, Where shall we go ?" " A o, I will not command ; but keep on red oft' at the entrance to the bay in which the smuggler vessel was supposed, by Cap- in Gray, to sink." "Yes, admiral." - Lieutenant Green save tb e"Youcsaid yon did n1 Mercy !het 1 mum l " No 1 I have you both now, and my a der l He willkillme. Oh God, have mercy f heart's desire is satisfied. Gerald a felon 1 to upon me now 1" ! you—you—ha 1 ha 1—and you were safe— Dolan sprang upon her with a yell of hate You had then escaped me, and you have1 and rage. He struck her on the head with come back into the toils again 1 Yon—fool 'd the link. A thousand bright sparks flew that you are—yon are mine now, not as a o from it and it was extinguished. Site grasp- daughter—ha !- not as is daughter ; no, so ry or- ers ; and then he and the admiral and the fficers who had come with the latter, de - ended to the little main cabin of the Spray ed hisrm—she clung to him and screamed no I. aloud. hen there was one half•stffled cry ; Room 1 came the sound of a gun at sea. and all shoos still,save the heavy breathing Dolan started. of Dolan in his rage. What is that ? " Dead—dead—dead 1" he said " Is she Boom! from shoreward came another gun, ex dead 1" and this hater one sounded as from the top e He stood in the darkness and listened, of the cliffs. " Eh ? What ? Go on. 'What ? What " Betrayed 1 We are betrayed 1" shouted say you ?" Dolan. "` Betrayed by this girl. It is she ey Tho moan was not repeated. He bent low who has told the secret of our cavern in the down to listen, and then he felt with his cliff—she and Gerald. "Revenge 1" to where, to the surprise of Mr. Green, the secret of the cavern in the cliff was fully ex. plainecl. " " That's it 1 Yes, that must be it !" he claimed ; " and it is so easy, too—so very "There was its success." " So simple, Why, we must have had no es not to see it 1" "It was never suspected and so never eked for," added the admiral. "Its very, nplicity has been its safeguard .front the I that to the last; but the Rift is lying 1 hands, lower and lower still. Something " No 1" cried Bowline "By the heavens sit his nuc , , i shall farm fir ere now at anchor, I have not the rotnotest • t hot and damp met t h above us,Dolan yon h ll not 1 the "Is it blood? Is it blood? Maria l speak! girl 1 th Only a word 1 speak 1 speak, I say 1" Ah 1 you oppose me, villain—wretch! do the admiral and Mr Green carne upon, the leek, the wind had, ver much increased, and they could see the little yaeh't Nautilus scudding along ath greet rate, although littshele eft tonly he carriewlad.d a fereaail, and Was " Make for the hay," said Ur. Green, " We shss nd," "4 flit mallore wfind ater,lewisir," said hSr. Boyle, , " Very likely, Mr. Royle, but we are going to look for ear old acquaintance, the Rift,' ",Lord, sir } you ^ don't ,think of lifting her, do you? 'For I begin think afterll+she g to h "' that « ells! must have gone down. We will see about that, I intend to tread her decks to • night, if Tcan." "Yes, sir. Mad. Pooryoung fellow 1", said Mr. Boyle to himself. "Why there is nothing at all in the bay but a trembling sea, that will knock us about like a ,cockle - shied'. The Nautilus now shot ahead of the Spray and made its way close to one of two ppro• montories, which, being on the weatl'or- bow, shielded her from the full force of the wind, and she rode easily and safely. Then the Spray dashed into the bay, and, as Mr. Royle had observed, there was such a tumbling sea in it that while the wind was not really so powerful there, from the reac- tion against the cliffs and the protection of the promontories, yet there was, in the sea- man's phraseology, much more water. A rocket, then, landward, sprang up into the night air, and Lieutenant Strongwaya, who bad been on the watch for it, approach- ed the admiral and said ; " Lieutenant Anderson sir, has taken pos- session of the ravine." " That will do. Now, Mr. Green, I don't think we need wait except for the signal." " A signal, admiral ?" " Ah, yes ! I forgot, My man will hoist a lantern on the old signal post near the edge of the cliff, and below that, in a right line, will be the month of the cavern," " There sir, is that it ?" "Yes; that will do. One white light." As if ascending in the night air to the height of about twenty feet, by its own mere volition, a white light rose from' the verge of the cliff. " Now, sir," said the admiral, "I leave all to you." "Admiral, may we follow up our track?" " How do you mean ?" " Why, sir, when we left off fighting the Rift in this very bay, she had the last shot at us ; and there is a piece of now wood in our bulwarks where she hit us. We owe her one for that, sir." " Do as you please, Mr. Green. But fire one gun as a signal to Lieutenant Anderson that the attack is about to commence." A few moments, and the boom of the first gun, which had so shocked Dolan in the in- ner cavern, awakened the echoes of the bay. With a sharper report, an answering gun from shore. " The lieutenant has the small twelve - pounder from his battery," said the admiral. "I want to catch these fellows without the lose of honest men's lives, if I can ; and I told him to make a display of force. Now, air, go in." The crew of the schooner were placed at quarters, and the guns shotted. Surprise and expectation were upon every face ; foi no enemy could they see, and the Spray seemed to be only intent on her own destruc- tion, by sailing into a bay, around the whole shoreward segment of which there seemed to be nothing but cliffs. " Bill," said one sailor to another, " the skipper has been a knocking of his head { agin the bulks, I take it. Eh ?" Its orders, said Bill. " Ay ay ; but there's an end of the Spray." " It's orders." " Sir 1 Bill, what a cat's -head you are, to be sure. You haven't got no ideas," " Loundings, there 1' shouted the lieuten- ant. " Quarter less three, sir I" " That will do. Iirail up, Mr. Royle. Down anchor, and let her awing 1" " Ay, ay, sir. And in time, too," mut- tered Mr. Royle. " Why, we are going stern on to this big cliff, with the light on the top of it 1" " You see it ?" whispered the admiral. " Something, sir." "I fancy there is a difference. Look, Mr. Green." The admiral bad been looking through a night•glass, which he now handed to hie lieutenant, who looked long and curiously at the portion of cliff below the light. Then he said : " It is well done, admiral. I can see no. thing but chalk." " It is well done. One shot will settle the question, Mr. Green. Fire at the chalk, as it seems to be'about a line or two over the water's surface." The Spray had some eighteen-pouud guns and one twenty-four. It was the twenty- four wentyfour now that Lieutenant Green had point- ed to the cliff. You might, as the saying is, have heard a pin drop on board the Spray as Lieuten. ant Green pointed the gun, as the crew thought, against the solid face of the cliff. " He'll bring it all down with a run," said Mr. Royle to the steersman. ", Ay, ay, sir.,, SOLDIERS' SUP,ERSTITIONr . Ven*ed!ertfes Pull ltredgA•aitf 'RRubbAtse ree$- A Med Outten, As to whether the Confederate eoldier Was any more superstitious than the Federal I neither admit nor deny,' but 1 thiuklithe ,'.•,. i ably' re'aijed'to un:.eequal extent on, th same in regard to battles ptb sides. We may laulh aro.them now, but w a Onceaceepted men wiped our faith o them. Ole f retin stancetp pome undermy Oiler - nation r- V&�t f waa at.�'uni Mill. T was then serving with an 4labanta Tegiineet,'and ,the morning of the day on which we were mak. ing our coffee at the early oairtp Are i. hes d a sort of groan from a comrade, and wig turned to look -at' him' I' noticed that he was staring into his coffee-pot with something like terror, while hie face was deathly pale. " What; is it ?" I asked. "I shall be killed to -day," he groaned out. "Fudge t We don't know that even a single musket will be fired," "I dreamed last night," he whispered, " that Ilooked down upon a sheet of water whose surface was covered with bubbles, and amid them I saw my own dead face. I shall be shot before night.", I ridiculed the idea and brought up others to assist me, but the only reply to our rail- lery was a sad shake of the head. He was a believer in dreams, and he certainly felt that his last day had come, in place of eating his breakfast he scribbled off a letter to his mother and intrusted it to a comrade. VARIETIES, A grand dinner in China includes a vast number of courses. Nighteen or twenty would be respectable, but the number may reach two hundred. This year is the fourth centenary of the establishment of the. British Navy, the first .l'ong'ish mari•of-war, the Great ,Ha. •, having been launched. • in the year 19, being the second year of Fleury VII. The cravat got its name from the Cr ats a regiment of whom, all throttled in cravats, arrived in Paris in 16QQ, and set the pew fashion in neck awathings, When Beall I3rummel assumed the guardianship of fash- ion in this country, it was not considered fitting that a gentleman should travel with fewer than eighty cravats and an iron for smothing them. There are five qualities of meerschaum used in the making of pipes. The beet is known by its facile absorption of the nico- tinejuice of tobacco, which gradually devel- ops into a rich brown blush upon the sur- face, and when this process is well advanced the pipe becomes almost invulnerable with- out being hard. A specimen of this kind has been sold at Vienna for fifty pounds, al- though it was not very highly carved. The Phaeinnceutische Rundschau gives this recipe for an excellent disinfectant. Four pounds of crude sulphate of iron, or two pounds ofsulphate of copper, are dissolved in hot water, to which two ounces of sulp- •hurie acid are added. Mix with the solution, while still hot, eight ounces of carbolic:acid, In a little time we got the order to march, filter, and put into bottles. When this pow - and before noon my regiment was thrown erful remedy cannot be applied in its fluid fowardto uncover a portion of the Federal state, dry saw -dust thoroughly moistened line. The first missile sent at us was a solid with it may be scattered over the floor of the shot from a field -piece, and it struck the places to be disinfected, young soldier in the chest and cut him fair- Electricity has in its time played many ly in two without injuring another man. parts, but to apply it to a conductor's baton Not another man was even wounded for the has at any rate the superior meritof novel - next ten minutes. The night before Burn -4 ty. After the recent maneeuveres of the Ger- side crossed at Fredericksburg a Second- man army, a serenade was given in honour Lieutenant in a Virginia regiment received,' of the emperor, and twelve hundred exeout- with hundreds of others, some mail from the. ants took part. It was pitch dark, and of regimental bag I carried the pack of course quite impossible for the bandsmen, twenty or thirty letters over to the officer' to see the conductor's beat. But science quarters and handed it to this Lieutenant. suggested an accumulator on the music desk The top letter was for him, and on one end connected with a poorly -covered wire se - of the letter was a red.stain. It looked like cured along the conductor's stick, from the blood, but was probably ink. He no sooner tip of which there shone a tiny electric saw it than he became greatly affected and light. said : the milk -cart is not much used in Mexico "I shall be the first officer out of the regi- but in place of it the Mexicans drive the. ment killed to•morrow." cow into town and milk her where the mar— I heard a dozen officers ridiculing him, ket for milk is best. The scene at the lecher -- but he became silent and serious, and finally is or milking place is a peculiar one indeed. walked away by himself. We were down The calf is driven in with the cow, and, on the right, where the first Federal attack after it has coaxed the milk down, it is tied, was made. Our regiment was using a long to the cow's neck, after which her hind.feet., and deep land furxow as a rifle pit, and the and tail are securely tied together so that, advancing line of blue had just come within switching, kicking, or running away is im range when a bullet struck the Lieutenant possible. Don Jesus—pronounced "hasus" in the head, killing him instantly. It came —begins to milk, while all the senoritas are from the front and was probably from some at his elbow, demanding their supply first, sharp -shooter, but it was afterward agreed and that in the sweetest and most persua. that the officer who was killed was, perhaps, sive language that mistresses and maids are the least exposed of any. accustomed to use. Though peculiar, this There was a superstition in my regiment system has its merits, inasmuch as the ar- that any one who went into battle with the tide vended is entirely free from extraneous foot of a rabbit tied around his neck was mixtures of water and chalk. Goats and safe. 1 f This was all right, and rabbits'feet donkeys are al o ' gs milked. were at ee high premium for two or three _ - weeks. My brigade was then pushed ahead on a reconnaissance, bumped up against the Arguments. Yanks, and we not only got severely thrash- It is seldom that we hear an argument eon - ed but we lost a good many men. Out of ducted in a thoroughly truthful manner. the seventy men fn my company I presume Whatever be the subjeet, whatever the abil- that thirty had the talisman. It so happen- ity to discuss it, wl�{atever the views held, ed that the three killed belonged to thi- lucky set, and next day rabbits' feet took a 1 in nine cases out of ten the effort of the con - decided fall in price, testant is to bring all the proofs, reasons, and I was for a time a Brigadier's orderly. His supposition was that he would be safe rom bullets as long as he rode a chestnut horse. In the first battle into which I fol- lowed him his chestnut was shot, and, of course, I hustled to bring him up another. 1 truth that they are seeking, but victory. Mine was a coalblack, and the only one Defeat means for them mortification and un - which I could get for him was a roan. He mingled regret, '. hereas, if they were truth - didn't seem to notice the difference until seekers, it might be the one who had been the action was over, and then I got a ter- overthrown that would rejoice, for he would rible rating. In the second battle he had a have gained a knowledge if some new revela- cheetnut, and even before our line came un- tion or new method that had never dawned upon him before. testimony that he can find to bear upon his own side, to refute all objections, and finally to triumph in having silenced, if not convinc- ed, his opponent. Such an effort conduct- ed in such a spirit can result in no accession of truth for either party. Indeed it is not der fire a bullet crippled the horse and an- other hit my superstitions General in the thigh and left him to limp through life on a short leg. I personally knew other officers who felt safe on roans, bays, blacks, and even whites, but they sooner or later dis- covered that they had pinned their faith to a rule which had exceptions. I remember that just before Grant attack- ed Lee in the Wilderness, and while I was at brigade headquarters, a hen, of which there was a large flock about the yard, scratched up a steel button. A sergeant of cavalry at once dismounted and secured it, and when I asked what use he could put it the relation existing ; but, if you cannot ex - to he replied : press yourself in ladies' company without "I will drop it into the ear of my Colo- profanity, you had better follow your nel's horse just before the next battle, and friend." not harm will come to either of them." "But what fetish can there be in a steel button?" Youth that Bids Defiance to Age. " O, it isn't so much in the button as in the hen scratching it up before my eyes." There are some people who turn grey but ""But why not try it in your own horse's who do not grow hoary, whose faces are ear and take care of yourself ?" furrowed but not wrinkled, whose hearts To be lucky it must be given to some- are sorely wounded in many places but are body else." dot dead. There is a youth that bids de! I laughed at him, and he got so mac' that fiance to age, and there is a kindness which we nearly came to blows. I met him a week laughs at the world's rough "rape. These later, having a sabre cut on his head and are they who have returned good for evil Shocking' Profanity. Dr. Sundel was a society -man who liked to air his Latin. He had taken an acquain- tance to call on Mrs. Parvenu, and the man had never called again, and, when the lady saw the doctor, she asked him about it. "Ah, doctor," she said, " Where is your friend ?" "Not my friend, madam," cor- rected the doctor ; "" he was merely a quon- dam acquaintance." " Sir," exclaimed the lady, in horrified amazement, "I don't know The lieutenant pointed the gun. The Spray asked him how the fetish worked. _ h i conot Navin but because arned ribs as alesson of right- Must have been a crowin hen which ,y have no evil in only lightly pitched stem and stern as she ,g them to return upon others. Whom the rode to her anchor, and the gun pointed scratched it up,"he replied. The Colonel gods love die young, from her larboard bow. The death -like and ltwenty veof our men were kill the day af- ecause they nver a cold�ey die young stillness on the deck was then broken by Y Can His Wife Explain ? the clear voice of Mr. Green : " Ready— fire 1" With a stunning report the twenty-four pounder was fired and awakened all the echoes of the bay. The ball tore through the canvas covering of the sea cave, and there was a crashing sound then and load Tribute to a Wife, Robert J. Burdette publishes in the March Lippincott's a paper of reminiscences enti- tled, "Confessions of a Reformed Humorist," b full of the gentle pathos which has always screams of rage and pain. A dull glare of tempered and purified his work, and breath. light came through the opening in the thick ing the fondest love for his dead wife, to h double. sail cloth and then the crew of the whom he pays the following tribute in dos- n Spra seemed in a moment to comprehend ing the whole affair ; and they raised a cheer, " As I close this paper I miss the loving which mingled with the echoes of the gun. °elaboration that with so much grace and b That cheer was answered by another ; delicacy would have better prepared these • h and. then, standing close in by the bows of , pages for the reader. The first throb of the Spray, could be Been the Nautilus, with ' If entry ambition, my earliest and later enc. Captain Morton on her deck and the flush eesses, so far as I have been successful, of excitement on his brow, whatever words of mine men may be pleased " hurrah ! Well done 1" he shouted. to remember most pleasantly, whatever of Y .Lieutenant Green waved his hand to Cap- earnestness and high purpose there is in my , ain Morton to keep out of the line of fire ; life, whatever inspiration lever had or have or he fully expected a return of his shot from the cavern, (TO BO,00NTINTJzD.) " t understand," said the agent; "that you want a burglar alarm in your house." " I did talk of having one awhile ago, ut I've given it up." • "They are a nice thing.' "Yes, I suppose so; but they wouldn't w?my case any, I am not lasing anything o"You—you— ?" " I simply leave my pocketbook in the am o' nights instead of my bedroom, and I aven't missed a dollar for weeks." Bloodshed Averted. Little Man.—"I n nderstand, sir, that ou have called me au unmitigated liar;:", Big Mang'" No, I didn't use the word unmitigated.' " �I.ittle .Man.--"Theu 1 accept your apo- ogy," Not a sound—not a word—not a sigh. I have set my life upon all this 1 I will kill Dead 1 she is dead 1" her—her—you—all 1 Devils that yon are, hi Ile strove to move from the spot, but he 1 am mad—mad—mad 1" trod upon something soft, It was an arm of A wild cry aroso from the sea cave at this th the wretched woman, which, in her death moment, as a round shot came with a crash sit agony, was outstretched upon the door- through the sail.:loth that closed the en. ha Dolan recoiled from it as though a serpent trance to the cavern and tore its way over to ubt," " Then we have this villain, admiral, iu s own trap.'' " We have indeed ; and thank God that ere are only those there who may well ffor with him. Capbain Morton's daughter s been rescued from him ; 'but that is a ng story, which you shall hear the full ad stung nim the deck of tiro Itift, 1r°m sterni to stern 1 lin three men in its r "" that ? What is that t ogress. hush 1 noo Well, well, I said I. would, and it is done. She CHAPTER XXX V1.—Pity; SPRAY ,' Inc only other outlet from the caverns, old, wheys fault was it that time?" is adimr- Orr,Ns y ,• l lain Si'xotttT Doon To rrrs °Avn v except by rho sea- that outlet from the top able, and well. portrays a sportsman's own was betraying me. She would have killer me. flanged me in chains. First, the ctrl f' n` g b of the cliffs to the Ueaoh. 1 think,, there- feelings on such occasions. Quoth Donald, —she would have sold me to that strauge It was about an hour atter aimed on that fore, Mr. Green, that when the find their " Well, he wasn't more than a hundred man in the ecttogo, for a thousand pounds, mock eventful evetiiti, 'wino the incidents "Y it's ` g nest discovered they will be only too glad to ,q+trds, and it s not my fault you missed him, and now it was Gerald—what di'] she want of which—iii connection with Dolan and his surrender." and it wasn't the fault of the stag,, for he these things but that she mighr, hulentify secret home in the cliff—we have already' "" Let them fiYht admiral if they like. stood still enough " and it's not thefaultof him to the admiral? Of course Oh of related, that an unusual' bustle was evidenWe have the rascalssurelynow." the rifle, for I keit well it's a right good doltrse, and I have killed her ; she lies dead at the hit of coast not far from Admiral Sir The heaving of the Spray on the agitated • o '1' t a ' u g think" now,—dead at my feet," !Thomas Clifford's residence. a `p r g od ove , s I'll jut levo it It 11 to " it sea each insi"s"t became greater, and when over to find out whose fault it web. .,ieutenaitt Anderson, with a strong party stalker to a gentleman who after a series of of his men, has by this ilius possession of inexcusable mtsseb, remarked: "" Well, that enters into my work and makes it ' worthy of acceptance I owe to the greatest, ' 1 best and wisest of critics and collaborators, a loving, devoted wife. And if ever I should 1 win one of the prizes which men sometimes pe Be Left Him to Think Over It. give to those who amuse them, the wreath od (should not be laced on the 'ester who I1? e It has often been a sportsman s fate toJ miss and marvel at what seemed nuaccount. laughs and singgs, but on the brow of her di wlto inspired rise mirth and the song. Many people of fine sensibilities, when ap- aled to on behalf of the victims of some iousform of cruelty or oppression, stop their ars and exclaim that they really cannot mi- me to listen to such harrowing details, : This is only another way of saying that their aginatiou is outraged by the recital, while their hearts are callous to the reality, Men and woinen are not like loaves, blown about by every wind, or like clay, receiving and retaining whatever impress is made up- on the;", They have an inward force, en- tailing titer": to control to a large extent the influences that bear upon them—to welcome some, to resist others, end not only passive- ly to receive, but actively to digest and to assimilate that which they receive, so that itbeoomes a very part of thtimselves.. artienlars of at my house to•tnorrow. ably easy shots. The reply' given by his Whatist ? Ht.h! g 1? g Ym noise. 11Yave killed her 1 X11 Doii "My dear ehildren," said Deacon Bucrag, addressing the scholars," "can yon tell why you come to Sunday' school ?" "Cause of r pas would wollop its if we diln't," promptly responder,' a small scholar, Ivlr, S. A. B. Trott, of Beritnida, has a newlyhatched turkey whieh has four legs and four wings. A fashionable woman's cheek makes a fine billboard: for cosmetic advertisements.