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By the peeler or "4 What me host Be;"
" Qwendolinces Marveate and other
Perplex pools. •
elHAPTER IXXVIL •
EEM 00E2 8ALL.7
Wiith the first dawn of morning, Ray-
inond swept the sea with a little, spy.glitss,
which he had put in his pocket, theprevious
day for the nee of. Mr. Stevens; there wao
one stately owl visible thet lied juot
eterted upon the broad highway of the
.A.tlantio for the western world but the
instrement white; told him that much
by showing him the streaming steers and
stripes could bring the ship no nearer,
save O his vision! The wind ha par.
tally lulled which hatklturried the clouds in
tiooke athwart the moon all night, and the
huge three -master made but little way.
It was agony to the captive to watch her
teesening hull, liee !paste dwineling inch by
inch to a mere stick of oanvate then oink-
ing altogether oet of sight; and yet he
knew well that Weigh he had caught eight.
of her from the first, she could not have
come within distance, by a mile, for any
signal of his to he de:seemed, far less
atteneed to. • I
A few hours later butstill very carte in
the morning, the preventive boat from
Marrneeth pasaedon its way. to 141191)Y
Bay.; but it, too, gave the outlynig.rothe so
wide a berth that all sig oci and ones' were
• unavailing. He had made bold, to strip
one of the precious bales df its salloloth,.
'covering, to flutter flegwise at the mouth
of the cave; but at the distance, which the
cutter kept, it couid'have .thown no lager
theri ahall3atrosie wing, /).4oreover, unlike
one placedupon the down, or even oil the,.
beech, he was in a Position where no
mortal would think of looking for a hetein
creature, or of taking any sign as made by.
man, • Foot by foot, the mittee slowly drew
• 'away, for tho; wind .was not in her favor,
and tacked and tacked, though never near
the shore, till presently 'the headland out
her off. Neither food nor drink hEid Ray-
mond taken for tWelvehours, yet the fever
of his blood ran high; and like a wild beast
in his lair, be paced his narrow Prison,
feeling desire for nothing 'save to lie iree.
The day grew on, and with it drew the
fatal time when Gideon was to put his
murdetoits.design into exeoution. 'The:tide
was almost at tts lowest, whith , was -the,
only period it Whioh the Mermaid"' Cavern
; could be reached, and which , Raymond
- himselfhad bidden his Vile remember,
appointing as it'were with his own breath,
the hour of her 'hen&
He was about to losithe beloved partner
of his• life, the.Wife �f his'yolithestill• ki,apai,:
tiful as &beide, the mother of hie innocent.
• child—nay, and thathelpfees child herself '
as well -ab the hands of ono already a
Murderer in. intent, - end, Whom neither
• beauty not beepleashese :, would helve
hairsbreadth from his entiel onrpciee,
..Tliouglita.. likeethesiee.weeld. have.. -.beim,
enough to drive some an mad in a like
position, or to tempt them' to eel& such.
meutal agony , by one teen forth tete the
Viewless air • but not, so Beymoud. If he
• could not tiaare, he might still live to. be
avenged. Sooner or.later, he woutd sueely
escape from his living grave; then eeifeless
ehildlessehe would track the wretch who
had made him desolate --ay, though' the
pursuit should lead him half Mond the
"_„,seorld;_a_nd then, lace to face:ALA.-3d .•
,risen from the - Moab to eonfrent : • hie
murderer—then, for it fewe brief ,minutese
he would taste of that nearest atipreeele-to
: joy - whteh would ' 7 then he lefe te hint.
o —revenge! Foot to foot, hand tohand•—•.:
• and, better,,: without e Weepon; for go -the'
thing would lett thelotigerhoW•he'vveule
woo that ruffian t� the combat, and beat
him backwards with eately but relentlees
force, and squeeze the life out of his lying
• threat be slow degreeol tee should come
twice to life •again, and: die three : tinies,;•
once for himself, in payment for the time .
Gideon mocked him,in the Very jaws
ce! seeming death ;; and once -•--the husband's,
breath came quick and ehat the while he
..
thought upon it—Once for Mildred; enee
once again -for the eltildi and then his 'dark'
goal should wag its way to hell Pay,
mond. Clyfferd's veins' swelled into knots;
" and lila fingeredug .into flesh of his
• clinched hands the while he thotight, epois
his great revenge. He had -never been so
near the fate of his race before, aa -when he
brooded over that grint ..picture; the curse
of the Clyffards almost came upon him.
- But as though be lisel felt that it was. nigh,
-and knew tbat if it fell /se wohldhe .pOwer•
tweeter the work of retribution, he beatit
back. as it were by force, ad compelled his
mind into other channels. He •• made et
count the puffins as they- ' stood in single
file upon thaeledgee. beneath, and mark
how often the green-eyedhaggard cornier --
ant dived within the hour, and hew long
remained before he:emerged fteen ender
water with draggled wing: • ' ' , .. • '.
Towards noon something occurred, how-
ever,which. Of itself demanded his 'Ettten-
• tion.. The little revenue -cutter once More
rounded the point' upou. its return -Voyage
to Yarmouth. He forgotat the moment
the arrangements whibh.hael been made by
• Lieetenant Carey for the eteusp,ottation of
Stevens to -Mermaid Bay, and it . Wes with
a great ory of fury that • through his glass
he discerned -the form, althoughnot the
- features, Of hie 'enemy.. The 'beat ehis
" time seethed ceming in MAO close to :shore,
so near thee his signals could not fail to .be
observed n Baymends heart had begun '
,Vto
to beat w pe•asvv
•ell Is.s passion, Vvheix.,
suddenly t course was turned to seaward,
and she made for. theoutlying pillar of
chalk which was called • the Dutohnian. •
This change of htelt at firet originateden a
fiatutal•disinelination ou the parecitGideon
Carr to apptoechthis soene of his . yester-
day's crime, where the tide Might by chance
have left Borne ghbetiy. evidenee • of it, Or
even the Whiteeblifepresented some damn.
Mg stain; but as he Continued to 'semi the
spot through the beatewain's glass, he
caught sight of eitteteoed's sigma, which
for the. moment -struck fey terror' to hie
soul, and produced the change Which we -
have almady described to have occurred in
him; and finding the boatswain importu-
nate for the possession of the -glass, he
purposely dropped it into the see, although
even through it, it is doubtful whether any
other eye bub his own could have perceived
that which had so moved him. - Nay, after
a little thought,. Gideon almost donvinced
himself that what to imagined he had
beheld was merely. the effect of morbid
fancy; ahd aethe eater drew further and
further from the laid, so his Wieked cow.
science grew lege disturbed.
Then caste the incident of Walter Dick -
son's craft being seen running dose in
shore towards Sandby, and at once all his
fears returued. If, by any miracle, Ray-
mond Olyfferd was really- yet alive, and
'what he had Seen had indeed been a
signal of his supposed victim, intelided aa a
demand for help, theect MI board the timesw
gling vaginal Could not fail 'presently to. BOO
it; hence Mt, Stevens' passionate atterapt
to indeed the drew of the teVentie MOO to
arrest toickaorell &airs°. We know that
that appese was futile, and how the cutter
kept on her way, and earned Gideon Oar
to his righteous ban in Mermaid Bay;
but Raymond only knew that -se far, at
least, the murderer's plans had been AIM-
cestiful, and that probably within that very
hour both wife and child would perish
through his oursea guile, choked by .the
pitiless tide. No mental, torture could
have been contrived by tyrant of old more
.poignent than that he was doomed to feel
when he beheld in the far distance the
cutter with itshateful burden at last etand-
iug in for theland. Scarcely, however, bad
he done we when, what should come
Ing round the eastern promontory, through
paseage, thought to be somewhat aanger-
oug, between the mainland and a (skater of
outlying fragments of it called the" Starke'
but the lugger of Mr. WalteraDielcon, eo
close to the oliffe that one who stood upon
the Beacon Down I:eighth:eve almost tossed
a biscuit on to her slanting deck. On she
came, noiselesa and shrift as a white plane
tom, steered by Mr. Walter Dickson
himself, who, with half-Bhut eyee, lay
dreamily in the otern-sheets, as though hie
Blender craft were•in no more danger than
if she were coasting upon. Telleweter.
• "They're. shuts out upon some fool's
errand or other," obeerved young Richard',
Brock, who, with two others, made up
the crew of the lugger, in continuation of
some remake galled forth by their meet-
ing with the revenue -boat. "If they bad
been off Mermaids Baythree nights ago,
instead of now, they _might done a good
• stroke a' .
"They would not have got it cheap,
whatever they got," answered his father
fromthe bow thwarte, removing hie pipe
from • hie mouth in order to give due
emphasis t� an imprecation, "Fifteen
hundred pound -worth ?; . shawls and, lace
.--where the devil are you eteering ua to.
Walter? Part, man, port or we shall be on
Gull's Castle " And, indeed, se tear to
the outlying ohalk.rook of that name did
the lugger pass, that as the old ElOaragen
gave his warning, he also kicked off his
shoes it retediness for a swim.
"Loo, mate, look 1" cried Walter Dick -
soh, sesecely conscious of the danger they
bad se narrowly escaped: " there's some-
body in Martin's Nest."' •' •
. The seention Which this exclamation
produced upon the ore* a the lugger was
most extraordhaary ; they did not indeed
startfrom their seats, aslandanaen would
have done; buteaoh uttered a. hasty. ejacu-
lation Of wrath and wonder as his looks
followed the direction of the steerenatto's
eyes to where 'Raymond could be plainly
seen fluttering his eignal, and gestioulating,
with the utmost vehemence. He was
oalling to them, tee; at the top of his voice,
en& adjuring them m return at thee to
Mermaid -Bay, -and. sive his wife' and child;
but the distance was too Oast and the
wind top violent to suffer them to batch
word he said, although they guessed by
motions that he was endeavoring to make
himself heard. . „
Who is it oried old Will Brook
savagely.. "What 'mused fool can have
risked going there in daylight, apd Without
leave or license, too, from those who Aiave
the best right to give it ?" . . •
It ain't one ofazainfolkaut alhwanswer,
•
ail his son, shading lifs eyes with hie hands,
as.he scanned the shining cliff; "Iit's Mr.'
..Bsymene, Hepburte,of thatottage.e••• • ••
'The worse for him " muttered the old
realefuriously. "Is there not e gun In the
' host? ',Pees it here, boy: - I an going te
shot a razor -bill --that le all." ,
' "No, no; none of that;"haterrupted Dick.
son; "we shield only -make bed worse by
anything of that voreee ' .! •
"Fifteen-hundred-poundeseortherefohawhe
and lace," exclaimed to other with pea:
Bien ;"the best eun I eeor made in nay life ;
apd all thee you' and. 1- and •the rest. Of • us
have in tine:world 1 Are you going to risk
9.111110, Walter' Dicks*. for a friend �f
-them hIciatect 'blue -jackets? Give me the
gun, I say." " yeeee . •
No, Will; you htil1 not do iniader-,—or
gather attempt it, • for that foyelieg-piece
would not carry .half the- distanpe. 'Tis
olear thet thierman hees. nob. been seen by
anyhodyas yetecir he Would not be playing
kw% frantic tricks yonder, in other' he let'
us know he was there. Hove he ever got'
iota the- Martin's: Nest, 1 know not; but he
is evidently alone. We have only 'him .to.
deelevithin the matter, and if we eankeep •
him quiet--" . , • . '
' There is only. ope way that mekeseall
safe;"' interrupted the 'old man glootady.
"Why he will gethalf that's there for
merely saying it. there,". ,
"Nay, nay; Mr. 'Hepburn •is a gentle.'
man, and his Wifehas been good t� my old,
woman," answered Dickson *array ;.'and
you havebeen nay , mate, Will, for these
thirty years, and one of whore I should he
Scary to have to say, That man
hanged for foe 'murder.? I have • as_,, large a.
stake in yonder goods as any manberetand
••should be equallyloath to lose it, hot there'
is blood enough on. -that Beeoch
already," . ' . ' • .
• 1` Only a coast -guardsman," mettered
one of the crew who taad not yet spoken.
• ."Very true; Flliet," ,returned DU:keen
quietly; " although„let ree tell you; it deo
not become one of your stook to talk like
that. In the heat of *a fight, one ' May
chance to get:bleed uponone's hands, and
hardly know how it came there. But push-,
Mg folks over • precipices—ay, you may
frown, and swear, too, for all •I care—oe
sheeting them in cold blond, While they are
asking es for help, like this onoi-such
things are net to my taste, nor do I believe
• thatgood men (some ofthem." • • .
"Then what de you 'propose to 'do;
Master Clear conscience ? " • inquired
Brock, sullenly. ' "Is Lieutenant Carey
and his friend, this Mr. Hepburn, to go
shares together in Our property ?"
A hoarse murmur'of .rage and .dissatis,
faction CLAW from the throats • of . the two.
Bailout who had themselves no little
intereet in the proceeds of the. late " run "
and whom this reference to the intima,CY,
between the coinrnander Of the coast.
guard and the present Esuhjeet of convex -
Elation excited to 'fury. ' •• •
e, 1 will go bail that neenee here suffers
any toes," eplied Walter. Dickson reso-
lutely. "The Saucy Sall is werth some-
thing, and 'I have a little .money at bauk;
Which, in ease. ef the Wort:it, shall be at
yoer service. Tholes -epee that suit you,
mates?" e - • ' , .
All pelnotantly allowed that under these
eirethnstatices, to far as they were con -
caned, theyhad dertitinly n� furtkier right
to corriplain, but,at theeeme time, they,
avowed their • disinclination to accept so
generous an offer,
"No, no," said Brook, twith a glean of
kindly feeling -in his hard gray oyes; " we
ain't aogoing to out our ceble•from you, old
fellbw. We're in a heavy etia ; but if we
pull together with a will, wo•riaty perhaps
keep our shirt-oollars dry yet." •
That'swell said; mate," answered Dick-
son, cheerily. "Now, my plan is this—to
get one of ourpeople t� visit the Martin'S.
Nest this very night, If X was as 118'3mnd
as I used t� , • •
"I will go," interrupted Young •Ilichard
Brea, sententithely. "There Will be
moon enough for that."
• "You're a good felicity," 'replied Diekson,
With Much heartiness; and your father
is /need of yen, Mr all that be Melia like a
Cormorant Who has just dropped a fish.
To shall visit the poor gentleman, ray lad,
• and eeplain matters. It will be hard upon
• him aa well as upon us, we may be sure;
but you moat make him see the neceseity
of being a prisoner for some time to come
at least, and more than that of his remelt:l-
ing quiet, eo that nobody but oureelveto may
know where be ia. If the 71lartites Nest
was diseovered, even without it golden
eggs, it would be a heavy blow to the good
eauee."-
"Ay, that it would," murmured the crew
as with one voice, but no longer With peev-
isle sullenness; for their confidence in
Walter Dickson was great; and now that a
little time had been allowed for reflection
even old. Will Brock confeseed to himself
that his friend's counsel had been wiser
than hi o own, as well ao more humane.
Throughout the period of this conversa-
tion, the lugger had 'been makitig abort tacks
in front of the 13eation Cliff, since it would.
have been dangerous to bring her up in
mush an anchorage; as for lauding, it was
not to be thought of at that place; nor it
could heve been done, would it have availed
for any intercourse between the crow and
Raymond, so great was even yet the force
of the wind, and the distance between the
beach and his -place of captivity, Ile could
indeed have commucated with them
(through the medium, as alredy suggested,
oesomething written and inclosed in the
cover of his 'meting -watch), but, of course,
they had no cause to suspect the urgent
neceasity of the case, and .were
to risk the peril of a disembarkation, from
which, as it, seemed to them, no goodcould
possibly come. In a few minutes more,
tha unhappy man, volibee hopes for the
rescue of his wife and °held had been lately
so flattered, had the Miseey to read their
fate (as he had. (Seery reason to fear) in a
few ill spilled words, printed with chalk
upon a board,; and. held over the sidaof
the lugger: • • •
Pashent. ,Help will come tanite.
Bet on your We do not show yourself again,
or make any more signals."
Then in spite of his reiterated attempts
by voice and. gesture to reverse this fatal
sentence, the head of the Saucy $al/ was
turned. towards Sandby ; and. iu a few
more minutes the sea was once More Soil-
less, and Raymond_ watching the cruel
foam come crawling in, and listening to
the long -drawn hiss of the rising tide with
e heart robbed of its last hope. .
OHAPThIle XXXVIII. - -
HOW- TUE MARTIN'S NEST WAS DIS‘OVEEED.
Ono . more the pale enema roe.;men
Raymond Clyffaicl in bia. captivity., and
this time it looked ' down upon him phi
-
tulle, With ..egarce, an intervening olmid ;
tipped with rays, eimh tiny :wavelet (for
the wind had dropped) broke into silver
shades; the sapphire fiea, like ohe great
i
jewel, sparkled oily from =lege to merge.
But the captive had no eyeefor itis beauty;
itwould have been the. sarne.to hire had
:inky doeknees oVerspread the ebenti. What.
ever deny senature might have • displayed,
he wodl4y• bnly have seen upou it the
'picture of a little limner •eseptied, of ell its
Inippinese by one remorseless hand, •His
mild was sorely usurped by utter vereteh.
.edisees e• the sense of desolation reigued
• eel Peeeleteefteee—teessegeeati nee] • natehinve
within him. His loiag, fast had eloubtlees
eombined wethhis late aexietiets thee to
prostrate him ; -but one whohad seen Ray-
mond thirttesix • hpurs. before, as he stood
hon. Beacon :Deem, radiant with health
and- vigor, would soardely have recognized
as with woebegone face and lack-
luster eye, he sat within ' his solitary:
preifon; It .ente nearly midnight, .but: he.
'felt pa desire for 'eleap$ eud yet ' se
eccepiedevere his theeghts, that he cialld
°""bitediybeid. fq•be ai iiakipg, conaceque
man. As. heBa w nothing, so „he. hefted
'nothing Of, what was passing around him.
It waedonly when a huge ebjea euddenly
darkened the mouth of the ettee; ited -thee
retired, leaving- it light . again, thathe
became, .optieckies that he wean:A 'alOne---
th'at there was a human being .stvinging to:
and ire in front' of the Martin'S. Nest, now '
touching tha threshold, with • his feet,. and
now leaping out again into space,•0 as to
gain a. greater • impetus, and thereby
• penetrate still I further upon his 'return.
"Can you not aliorten matters, sir'" cried
%.this ' human .spider, "by catehing bold of
me preseetly?." Thei,voice of his fellow-
creatore .aoted upon Rap:ace:al ,like e
restorative ; he leaped up from his' -costly
couell'of 'shawls and laces in ;time to seize'
his Visitor the very, next ateing of the .pen-
duliiiie. and retain him in big" grasp.
e Hold tighteme," oiled Richard Brook, for.
he-tt was who presented 'himself under
thse very peotiliar ciecumstaneee. "You
have no idea (however Maximus you may be
'to leave the Martin's Nest) . •hoW, a: body
wants te get out of it which • has entered
'Bieer this fashion: But whit's the• matter
'with you, sir,•heside. hunger and. want of
room?" • , .. •
. -"Can y� tell me any news of my wile?
gasped Rayniond:. ." Tell me: the worst at.
once, .man; is she alive or dead ?" ... '
e•- eLor .bless ydu, sir, alive and well—why
not? I saw her this very evening." . .
'• .. "God be • praised!" cried. Rey -Mond,
fervently ; wringing the man's hand who
had -brought him such blessed -tiding&
"And is my child safe too ?", .
Richard hesitated a little.'- •
"What! has that devil Stevens' drowned
.my child?" ? • :' •• •••. •
, "No, no, 'sir. - Don't cell enames. The
men you speak of is drowned hisself,..pOor
wretch, held by a stolie.orab in the Ater -
Maid's Cavern until the' tide came up.atid
Well, that's a • strange' thing to he
-thanking liecteen for, Miles& maybe, you
are-thinkingithat thechap was a meet -
guardsman, which, it • seems, he was not,
after all." • .
" He was, it Murderer in thought, it nob
in deed," retnined Raymond, sternly," as
i will tell you." - ' - • . .. •
"All in good time, sir," obeeriedthe
young man, cheerily; '4, hut first you tele
this breed and meat, and let the brandy, in
that fieskleteh up a little color into Your
cheeks: • You must be main hungry, .00
use your teeth and restyour tongue, while I
take the eggs here but of the Martin's .Nest."
With these words the young man began
fastening two of the bales to the rope of
three-inch cdWhide whiChhadbrattglit him;
a hundred feet of Which: atleast0. besides
what lie had himailf requiredlor hie deseentt
were in the hands Of, hie friends utionthe
daynabove. "Now, do not fear but / shall
return for the rest," cried he; "and when I
have cleared alLthege goods, I will still
°Oro° back and keep you company." •
"But why not take me with you instead
of the bales?" inquired Rsettnotid; with
a
whom good news and a few Morsels 'fOod
had already worked yeceiclets, and who felt
quite eqind to Any peril or exeitiod the
objeot of which shohld be to get hire On
terra /Irma.-----
"X will tell you that presently, and every-
thing eiso it concerns you to know, Mr.
ilephinel ; but dute firet, say 1 (unless it's
tomtit?, duty), and pleasure afterwards; AO
heregoes," With that the young Man step -
pea into the air with his burden -as calmly
as a title•waitet Would step from deck to
Allay,and keeping hiraself off' the rock with '
hig nimble feet,was rapidly hauled tip to
the summit of the detail above. Then
again descending, and being °might by Bate
mond aa hater& he took away more bales,
and no on till the cave Was bare. "You do
not think X Will desert you, Mr, Hepburn?"
tend the -young Man frankly, as he Started
"
with his last freight, and Bayoiona was ,
watching his movemente with wietful eyes.
"No, Richard, I do not. I can easily
unaersteud why I ecn not to see bow those
bu4nsedleuis or—ea—"
thers,"
interrupted the young,
man, Broiling; "we oliff-fowlere roake opr
living by collecting them, you know."
True to big prorcue0, Richard, Brook once
more descended, bringing with him this
time some rugs arid blankets, as well as a,
further supply of provisions. At Bight of
these Itaymona looked by no means grate -
it&
" What I " cried he, 44 ani 1 to 'stay in
this place another nigh t ? "
"Ay, sir, and :another. and another, I
tear, although no longer than I oan hell),
promise you. If I had. beep the sole owner
of what is here just now, you ahould be
free at once, for I know that fecoule trust
to your houor, and besides'It owe your
good lady a kind turn for what she did to
my Phiebe in her sickness. But there are
others who are deeply concerned inthe
matter—it's the best run we have had this
many a year, and everything meat be got
well away before we risk letting you. out. •
Even then—I'm speaking what others say,
sir, and not my own thouglits—even then,
you would do us a moat of miathief by
telling about the Martin's Nest, It is the
best place for stowage along the cease; and
all tile better for the little mischance as
happened to poor Price down yonder.
The blue -jackets think the place uncanny,
and shirk their night-watchea upon the
beacon in ooneeggence. There's Walter
Dickson up there now, holding on to this
rope as- quietly as though he was not
sitting upon the beat.of the coast -guards.,
man; though,indeed, if one should limn%
he has his answer ready: If one like's to
go bird -fowling by night instead of by day,
whittai that to the custom -house? They
will mayor trust themselves at a rope's end
to 'see What Pne about-eof that I'm thrtain.
And, by the bye,•Mr. Erephniai, how in: the
name of the devil—for is he not balled. the
Prince of the powers of the air in. Holy
Writ ?—did you yourself chance to oorne
hereV' . •
"I climbed down , by yonder ledge,"
quoth Raymond c�ily. .
"Whatl without a. rope?" exelaimed the
other with a pereeptii le shudder.: that, ia
nob humanlypossible!" .
" Yet by that meane, and no other,. did I
come hither, Bieber& although not of my
owe free will, as you 'shall -hear." Then
'Raymond narrated all the eiroumetaimes
(solar as oonsisted with his e.saunsted name
of Hepburn) 'which had brought him into
his present ineoeyenient pligbt,. To: the
details ofthe atteuipted murder this ,00ra-
panion listened with not a little excitement
and indignation; but in the- description of
the means by which the Matin's Nest.. had
-et lest been reached hie interest Was: man-
ifested'evenstill more keenly. ,
"You are the king of us all, sir!
,olaimed .• the . olifefowler enthusiastically,
whenthe tale was told. "There is not a
Man in Seudby Who could have 'got hate
Joni the cliff-topas 'you did; no nor ever
was one, I believe even When Walter Dick-
eeeetteeee—epung,.....:Heetentaisiesire: whoefiret•
discovered this place, and that In a very
ourieets manner—one which I shoitle have
thought.could', beatcele.lattee been equaled
fbottor'sytr",angene.
sii,..if not • heard your
- "And how wits that 2." inquired Ray-
mond': not that he much oared to.' know,
but because be began o feel a great -repug-
eance -to being left.alone, ane desired to•
retain hispresent einapaion with him its
• long as possible. , _I
"Wel, sire it was, when Dioksoe' was
quite a boy, about 16 Or so, and when
San dby, was not so full of kik., as it is new. :
!there were scarcely any cliff -fowlers.% then,
ter. there was a better 'eride-sthan• bird -
nesting to take to, and all hands ewe
wanted for it, so thatthe gulls had an easy
life -of it. to What they have notvt. and Were
only plagued by :ther.boya.,',Dielson• and.
• my father were playmates at that time, as.
they're workmates now; apd have been so
these -thirty. years' and more; always to-
gether,.' shrimpit' and iishin, ;or risking
their necks about the cliffs with letting one
another. down...by a bit -of rope ,stie.h as
'nobody but madeaps hena would: have
trusted theinselves to. One 'day,: While
kgookiug about in a coble, whioh, htielietee
had been pronounced 'uliseeworthy. by , the
righttalowner—in the Beacon Bay here—
Dickeon spies out this dark hole, '
" What a lot of gull's' tests there. ought
to be; in, there! ' .sayele. . ' •
"'What 'a lot• there are! ' cried 'my
father, whom I tepees hard -tell this story
about a bemired arid' fortrtiriles. What
a lot there are for I can see 'em." • -
• .W43,1i,196 Could. Tet,...at 'cant' •aontinueg.
Dickson. • •
'"What'e the good oetvishin'? ' aiswers
my father. Don't yeiesee how the .oliff
hangs -over? You might- as well wish.tO
get at the moon.' • .
• " No, Mate,' returns Dickson gravely,
ibeoaitse you ain't • got nowhere about the
Moon where yon cad stick .a stake in With
a tope tied round it, and lower yourself
down hand Over hand; let alone any stand
point such as yonder down,, where a chip
one could depend upoh—Iike yon, Brook—
might stand and hold the rope, and shift, it.
properly.' • • -
" You ain't pegoin' to try that, mate
says my fathei firmly, 'nor anything so
foolhardy.! • . • ; • • •
"'No, I'M not eeioin? to try it; I'm.
.a..goin' to „do it,' eturned Walter Dickson.
Why, think what remit, be in- that 'ere
hole, mate, in Which never 'a fowler yet has
.pall; his fingers,: be bound; what
feathers and skins, and Oil and. eggs 1. Why,
I'doube whether even that lest run, which
your father (that's my grandfather, Mr.
Hepburn), itenever tired of talking
will ha' brought more grist, to the Mill.
Only* not a; word about it to any soul,
Mind. They'd make us promise not to try
it; or, Perhapi, it 'lid put it into soine-'
body else's 1ieb.c1 to do the very aloe thing.
before us." •
' ", You needn't be a bit afraid of that
boy, ..answere ry father, grimly
enough; .'''andas for the first,.1 am not one
to bleb and 'spoil sped"; and if you're fixed
upon it; why I'm your man • for anything. ,
0 ly, you'll never use this rotten old cord
f ench & place as yon, • where you'll have
swing right '• „
s" ',No,' replies Dithsont interrupting him
8144, 'I'm not a, fool, although -you those,
just now, to call me elle.' • • '
I said "fool -hardy," replied my
father positively, and I ettyit .
• 'Well, we'll see What you say teener.
row, When you haul me.. up from yonder
hole--urider the eave of the down though
4 be, Mad for all the 'world like 'a martin's
nest—With my pookets full of fulmars. As
for the rope, Lucy Pritchard (and here my
father says Dickson blushed, for Lucy was
the young girl as he was courting then, and
whom he afterwards married), will lend.
Me that fine one which . was her reothsee
only marriage portion, andhas tome beet
any good to her, became° ahe has no son,
Luoy has often begged the, if I intic$t nee&
go fowling, to use that rope, and Oti I'll do
it toblotrow, and to keno purpose; and as
for the Stake, if you do not °hoots° to bola
me, lad, I will borrow an iron bar of the
blachrdith; so yea may please yourself,'
"Bub when the morrow Ocoee, a»d found •
Water Dickson on the Beacon DoWn,
whliaui Brock was there likewise; and
when the other, veho was too proud to ask
his help, since .it was not offered, had
thrust the bar into the earth, and fixed the
rope, then says ..nly father, 'And do you
suppose as I'm gale' to let you rielt your
nook alone, mate? No, man, no, You and.
I are a -gel& to bee this 'ere martin's nest to.
gather ; and if we Mifia it, why, even then
we shall pot be parted,' '
"Then Walter and he shook hind's, for
they was very fond of one another as boys,
as they are uow, ctithough they has their
tiffs, 'Just as yon like,' says be: the
rope is strong enough for ten ouch as we
are, and the bar won't break,'
00 Then instead of tyiug the bide around
their bodies so I and all sellable cliff -
fowlers do—these mad boys lowered them -
pelves slowly down, merely holding it in
their hands; and, work enough they bad,
wheu they got opposite this place, to awing
themselves pito it, as you may guess when
there was nobody within to help themip
as you help me. Moreover, my father
says that the birde flew out upon them in
laeudrede -just ail in the big print we've
got stuck up at home of the opening of the
doors of the Ark—and beat them with
their. wings, not that the poor timorous
creatures showed any fight, but by reason
of their excessive numbers. At last the
two boys swung themselves sufficiently far
within to obtein foothold, and my father
iustaetly began .to lay his hands on all with
life that had not yet flown away. Quiolc,
gawk!' exclaimed he ;. and Dickson, seeing
how Bauch he peeded help, and what great
•spoil there was, ran towards hire eagerly.
"'he next instant both cried out to.
gether, The Ore I ' The rope!' But
the recollection of it came too late! My
father had forgotten it at first, and now in
his excitement Walter elso let it go. So
there it swung, now near, now far, but
already ino far to be reached, and °mine
with every wing less and lege near. At
last it bung quite still, above five feet or so
beyond the entrance; and it will give you
amanotion of the extraordinary feat that
you, sir, have accomplished in arriving
here, that neither of the boys, though oliff-•
fowlers been dared venture out upon
yonder sloping ledge, and so approaqh the
rope•by your own road. If they had done
so, however, it would even then have beeu
beyond their reach.
"They were so completele trapped as
any guillemot they had ever caught in
springs. It might be days, as they. well
knew, before anybody discovered the bar
upon the" down above, and if that hap-
pened, he who found it would probably
draw up the rope, and finding nothing
-would tconceive that he who had left it
• there must needs have faelen into the sea.
It was „quite impossible to make their
voicee heard upon the olifetop, and the
Martin's Nest was 'unknown to all • exeept
themselves. Their only Imps, like yours,:
lay in attracting the notice of porno one on
shipboard; but they had no large Bail-
olbth such as you found here—nothing ex-
cept their own clothee, which could not, be
seen save at a very little clistauce.
' (To be continued.
,Terrible *ffeets of Jealousy.
Vienna papers contain accounts of a ter-
rible tragedy which oecurred there on Noe.
Leopoldine Weiss, a young operatio
singer' of 'attractive appearance and Well
knownfer her 'skill in the use of the jodel
or Tyrolean warble, had been for mire time
receiving theattentiong of a young roan
named Julius' Dworaczek. A few. days
before •• the event here to be recorded
-Dworaeseekliatteebtainedeinfeemation- that
the object' of his affections was going to
discard hiti and marry a young actor. :He
called On -her on the lith and eskech herto
take .e walk, tie he wished to erdy her a
cloak if she wished One, She complied
willixtgly, -- and said she would like 11.
cloak like that of a friend of hers whom
she proposed to visit 'first to obtain - some
particulars in regard 011ie style and the
make of the garment. •tie followed her to
the apartment of this friend, and while the
latter was hunting for her oloalein a trunk
she was suddenly startled by a terrifio
shriek, and looking up she Saw that
• Dworaiizek had masheda bottle of sul-
phone aoid on the -head of the girl,. who
immediately faintd and had to ' be taken
to the hospital. Meanwhile Dworaezek
had swallowed some epoisom from the
• effects of which he died in a. few minutes.
His victim's feet) is terribly disfigured, and
the doctors say that, although' her life may
`possibly be saved, she will lose'her eyesight
completely. '
• Curiosities of. tiluleide.
Frofessor Adler has been giving his views
on suicide • before a congregation of New
Yorkers. . He says ie is estimated that the
tendeney to suioide has trebled during that
period, ahd the increase is still going me
.%'here• are many disposing circumstances
that exert:Ade' an influence upon the fre-
quency and the manner ofself-slaughter
Attic has an influence. Theta are Many
more male 'suicides than female:, The
Weather exerts its influence. - There are
more. suioidexin hot and. in wet -weather
than in _colder or in dry weather.
It is said there are more suicides
Iin moonlit nights' than in ' dark,. nights.
Race, nationality, city • life and the
professions exert 'an influence. But all
these conditions dwindle in importance
when compared with the influence of oal-
tore. It seems like an acimsation of
modern civilization when we learn that the
frequency of suicide is greatest where
civilizatien is at its height. Among the
savage racies suicide rarely occurs. Among
the more ignorant populations of the south
of Europe and of Turkey suioide, while it
occurs, is less frequent than elsewhere. It
is to Germany_belongs the bad pre-erni-'
nonce in this respeoti- Gerniany, • that
boast itg universitiee, its eminent men of
science and philosophers, its thorough eye.
tem of poplar educaticeeele the blackest
spot on earth so fa as suioide ie.coneerned.
Monkey Witness.
, A monkey Witness is shortly to appear in
a murder trial in an Indian, court at
Sattara. A; travelling ahowman, whose
living depended on five inonkeya and a
°goat, was recently natudeted near a Village,
his troupe•being killed with the exception
of one monkey, which ran up 'a tree, and
watched the assassins bury his master and
his companion's. When all Was quiet the
monkey ran eff to the patel" of the
nearest village, aiiti made hitn understand
by screeches and signs that something was
wrong. The" patel" followed the roonkeY,
which led him to the place where his mas-
ter was buried, and the murda "was duly
discovered, The monkey ieendho kept for
the identification of the assassins, a plan
which recalls the 6Mo-honored history of
the dog of 'Montaigis.—Loraton Graphic,
Vanderbilt has three Elons, William
'Cornelius, and Frederick, neither of whom
seems possessed of the ancestral instinet
for business. Frederick, indeed, is looked
upon as a sort of black 'sheep in the family,
because he married a wemati a good deal
older than himself, but as he itherittal
112,000,000 from hi g !grandfather, the Com-
modore, the color of his wool heal gige him
. ,
no particular worry.
TVA. %%BIM GOSSIP. ,
—Old style comfort is the only getming
article
—It ia of no Use to talk to a mat; love, "
Mir to a woman when sbe is read.
—A Brantford. old clothee dealer calls
himself" The crazy man from Heartilton."
—To business men—If you want 'to be
the architect of your own misfortuue flo 110.
adLre‘41 Hiseeien's Babies" hag reached the
extraordinary sale of 160,000 copies, and,
the demand for it continues.
—.A. recent writer says that conversation
is the very life of literature, because it is
probably the most effective advertisement •
in selling &hook,
_Bacon is thirty cents a pound ; but that
did not preVent. the wolves from carrying
off all the Sheriff's pigs the other night.--
Battle/era (N. W. T.) Herald.
—"Boy, I'll • teach you to tear .your
pants," said -an isate parent swinguig a, #
strap, "I'll teach you." "Don't hit nie, pa,
I know how already. ;wit look at 'eni."
• —Spurgeon saps that when you meet a
mad dog you should never argue with him,
unities youare sure of your logic. It is .
better to get out of hie way; and if guy -
body calls you a coward you need not
call him a fool—everybody knows that.
—At receet fashionable weddings in
England a youthful relative of Ow pride
In h
be atrse hsetry ltef
r4tIinaleold Ven
He
ed isettnicaino
f ulrlYCharles!;tlre88el
Peefea• • • • •
„ —Forty thousand dollars worth of eliew/
ing gum is Tailored in the State of Maine ,
every year. In Oxford County is a viten ••'
who makes it his business to 'collect 14E0rinie
gouinme.toRnirn
ry _year he buys from seve' to
—The Mairlis Bow -Legge& But he
Cannot Help it and you Must not Laugh et .
Him. He got Bow -Legged •ploughiug on a
Side Hill when lie was a Boy. The Tailor • •
has to Cut out his Pants with a Circular . •
Saw.—Denver Tribune _Printer. •
—New fashions for ladies were sot in the
last century by dressing dolls in the pre -
veiling mode •and distributing theiii over
Furope. The custom is believed to date
from Venice. where the Government rigor-
ously regulated dress by means of 14
set up as a pattern. •
—The editor et a city agricultural journal, ,
who knew less abOut farming than he did. '
about anything else, told a subscriber who
wrote asking "How to get rid of swami" '
to go to any respectable dentist, and uot Ito •
take gateunleas his lungs were sound awl •
his heart was &Wright. •
—In how many manly bosoms will this
simple recital of fact excite panful •
reminiscences: Dr. Casio having heard'
the famous Thomas Fuller repeat some
verses on a scolding wife was so delighted
with them as to requesta copy,' " There•is
no necessity for that," said Fuller, "since
9bu have got the original." . •
• —The large mushroom -like hats that
bother us all so witch at churaiand at tlie
Opera House are woren Cealteley licticlbetelecl
ladies; and, poor things, they are entitled
sympathy. With one of these hats mid
a "set of patent frizzes, a bald.headed girl •
ban make heraelt quite presentable.
A.plumber trent forth Le plumb
' To a kingly palace by the way,
And When his half day's work was done
. • Presented his bill without delaY. '
Thelting blought forth bis bags otgold,
nis•diamorids and his Jewelled brown,
• 'eh° plumber credit gave for them— .
And took's.. Mortgage on the throne
Mr. Sala. Yelmeeasein Atcieriecienotelong.,
ago, sayethat baggage ie maltreated here,
andthat•we have revived- au old verb to ' •
express the act of violently hurling a heavy
article from the waggon to the pevement--
to wit, "'dumping it." lilt possible that ,
he made a tour of the r *nifty without
healing the eepressman called "-the bag- •
gage smasher ?" . .
—Some one claims that -"Niagara, Ring
of the Cataracts, bears' a Celtic name."
"It was spelled.' Ounguishra' in 1641 by
the Frenoh,' and Oneogarah 1. by Red
.0etoket in 1820—of course, after the native .
,sound of the terra.- 'The name is the Irish,
Oun.e-garelle a torent stoam.' The e
first' part of. Ude the Tuscarora awum (river),
and the avon of a thousand streams."
—A writer in the Lancet Strongly. advoe-, .
cotes open carriages for dootors An
open vehicle enables the doctor to purify
'himself, even to -his hair; after quitting
each sick room, thus insuring safety not
only to patients, but also to the member* .
of his. family." Hanailten Medical: men •
nearly all use open vehicles when they visit
their patients.
• •
--A young lady who graduated from the
High School is now teaching. A, bashful
young gentienian, visited the school .the
other day and was asked by the teacher to
say a few :Words to the pupils. This was
his speech.: " Scholiast I hope you will
elways love your school and your teacher•
as much as I do." Tableau—Giggling boys •
and girl's and a blushingeohoolmelean. ••
'—Daughter (home from school): " Now;
paps, are you satisfied? Sust•look at -my
testimonial—j Political economy, Batista°.
tory; -fine "arta and musics; very ' good ;
logic, excellent." Father -0 Very much
so, my dear—especially as, regards your
future. If Yaw husband should understand
anything of housekeeping, cooking, mend- ,
ing and the use of the sewing-mathine;
• perhapa your married life, will indeed be
happy*
ItailWity Notes.
TILE LOCOMOTIVE Or 1681-1891.
1881.. . •
Axles groaning;pistonsbissing,
Tearing, wearing, b01031111 EtiaBing,. '
.1• Boisterous, blustering, screaming, sooty,
BAluwsahyins gwhaindteionugsalto8bra9r1o.0' rneipgshirt :lir, •
That's the way he does his duty. - ,
•
' silent, voiceless, quickly speeding,'
caw or water never needing, •
As be =sees thro' the dark,
Showing but a sibgle spark;
' Like a iow-worm or firefly,
• Or star twinkling in the 'sky,
soundless all his Work will bo,
moved by electricity 1 •.
Mr. Fkied, the Bonanza king, pays 01,400
for hauling his Car from New York to San
Francisco. •
At St. Paul, .Minn.; the other day Vice,.
President Oakes, of the 1\l'orthern Pacifio,
said, in referenda to the rumored intention
of the Chicago,,Milwaukee it St. Pool to
kiln an alliance With the Canadian Pacific,
that all he knew about it was what he had :
read M the newspapers. Ire would not
creditit until it was an aecoraplished fact8
lie conld understand that while the St. Fault
Mintlieota (44 Menitobtapeeplo Might regard •
•
it as beneficial to, their interests, an ali-.
aloe of that ••Pahl° strike h 4,, ' d would compel the
,,,,,,
Northern hand ;with the
Ohicago & NorthWes n, and to speedily
boild their astern on et frOM Superior to
the Montreal RiVer and Sault Ste. Marie,
whioh would give them a shorter route from
the samedterritory by 200 M 815 miles to
the Atlantio seaboard.
c--
According to an Old authority On Ffiglialt
hentlery, a man, even if he were not of
geode blood,' who oaptitred a prisoner in
combat, woe permitted to beat the shield of
that prisoner, and enjoy ita-1200 to hint and
his beim for oven .41