The herald., July 20, 1883, Image 6

About The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890

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CAUGHT BYA WHALE.
"The-r-e «he blo-o-ws! The-r-e
blo-o-w-s!"
For three weeks we had been eagerly
waiting to bear that cry, for we were
cruising for whales in the seemingly
bound leas expanse of the Pacific Ocean,
and up to this time bad not seen a single
spout. You may imagine that we were
almost tired of waiting for our first whale.
"Ay! ay! where away?" shouted the
ma!e, fairly leaping from the deck as he
bailed the lookout who had uttered the
cry and, "Where away?" shouted the
captain, too, as be rushed out of the
cabin,
"Two points for'ard larbo'rd beam, sir!
Sperm whale, beading to wind'ard, 'bout
three miles off!"
"Ay!
ay! keep your eye on bimf Don't
let hi.n get away! (.'all all hands, Mr.
Pease! Put that helm hard a starboard!
htand by to brace roundjthe yards!" were
the rapid orders that the captain shouted
out. And then again to the lookout,
"Let up know when we he for him!"
"Ay, ay, sir»" came down from the
lookout arid the next moment,
"Steady! Now we have him, right
ahead, sir! The-r-e bio-o-ws! The-r-e
blo-oo-ws! Movin' rather lively, sir!"
"Steady as you head now!" shouted
the captain to the man at the wheel.
"Get the boats ready, Mr. I\ asc!" and
?n the same breath he started up the rig
ging with his glass to get a look at the
whole.
The Pho riix was by this time moving
'owards the whale at the rate ot about
rive knots an heur, a"d prepartions were
speediiv made for lowering the boats.
Hut the whale having sounded, it was
hall an hour before we again heard the
welcome cry from the lookout at the
mast-head. "There blows!"
Long-winded old dog!" we heard the
••a plain muttering from his perch on the
foie-vard. It was evident that his pa
tience. as well as ours, had touched its
•lowest ebb, when we again heard the in
spiring cry, which was followed by,—
"There be is, sir! four points ofl' the
'ee-bow."
"Ay! ay! we'll be right in his suds the
next time he rises!" exclaimed tne cap
tain. "Think we've run about far
enough, Mr. Pease?"
"I think so, sir!"
"Haul up the mainsail then, and lay
the main-yards back! Ease down that
helm' Steady now! Let that jib sheet
flow out a iitt'e. Now hoist and swing!
Are you ready?"'
"Ay, ay, sir!"
"Lower away then."
A!! three boats, the captfin's and the
first and second mates', splashed on the
water at the same moment. "Out oars,
boys," was the next order, and we shot
forward in a spirited and friendly race
for the monster in the distance.
My shipmate, 'Rier Garvin, and my
self were in the same boat, the tirst
mate s. We were from the same old
fishing village in Massachusetts, and
had been iads at school together to-
irether, too, we had come on* on this our
first voyage. JRut while
111
size and weight
I was a "little chap," 'Rier was a tali, i
bony, light-hailed young fellow, lathy I
and left-handed, but muscular, and one
of the strongest and most tireless swim- i
mers I have ever known. At this time
he was not far from twenty years old-- i
my senior by just a year and a month. i
'Rier was a strong oarsman, and he
had, when a spurt was needed, a knack
of half-rising from the thwart, placing
the palm of his right, hand at the end of
bis oar-shaft, and thus throwing his I
w hole weight into his stroke. In a hard
tussle he more than made up fo my own
lighter strokes. I
As boys we had both practised a great
deal at throwing the harpoon—mostly at
jiosts or hay-cocks,—for going on a whal
ing cruise had always been a pet scheme
with us.
There are certain games and feats to
which every boy's mind naturally in
clines. This of throwing the harpoon
was one at which 'Rier excelled.
In fact, it was quite a sight to see 'Rier
poise his long body for a east of the
harpoon. He c?ould throw to a remark
able distance. A standard harpoon,
with its connecting line, is no plaything
but "Rier—with plentv of room to swing
was good for a preftv sure rising cast
of eighty, or even a hundred feet.
As the captain had predicted, we
were right in the whale's "suds," the
next time he rose. The old chap broke
water scarcely two boat-lengtlis from
the second mate's boat. But we, though
fully abreast, were outside of that boat,
and to Mr. Parsons' boat-steerer be
longed the first cast.
'Rier was one of our harpoom-rs, or
buat-steerers. and lie was that day to
make his first cast at a real whale. He
rose up balancing the iron pole in his
felt hand. "Xo use." said the mate.
•'They have ihe tir-tlick at him."'
"Av, do theyyelled 'Rier. Then I
sa.v "bins bend to it and that Img left
arm come hack".
It was quite in defiance orders and
lustom but tlie next instant his har
poon described a mighty curve in the
air* ten feet over the inside boat, arid
struck with a dull sound clean to the
"hitch'' in the as yet disturbed wlale.
"Avast there! What are ye about'.''"
shouted th' second mate and the next
instant, stung to the quick, the big lev
rhaii fluxes in the air and down he
went.
"Puli*- boys! screamed their boat-steer
er. "We II be caug'it- in tut? bight of
their line!" and they had barely time t'
shoot clear when our line became 'ant
and began to whiz around the io.'ger
head.
It is a mazing to what a depth whale?
will often go when harpooned. A diver
even in armor, cannot bear the tremen
dous pressure at a greater depth than a
hundred and sixtv feet. But a whale
will sound to the depth of more than
half a mile straight down.
Instances are related by old whale
men of whales running out six thousand
Jeet of line at a single downward pinnge.
It seems as if the pressure at such an
enormous depth must crush the great
spongv creature like dough beneath the
baker's roller and why it does not, I
have never Heard satisfactorily ex
plained.
But thiR, our first whale of the Phoen
ur iiint wumc
\fi
LLIC ULWU-
x, did not {le&g&d to a varv jyeat dis- *.1,evt
tame beloro the line Burtclenly slacKenwj.
He's rbiinir, ,b«v»,
mate and he laid hold of flu lame.
"Back water. Stand by there, to gtv®
hiRight°ahead
of the boats' bows a great
black shadow presently r«»M up w it ha
heaw swash! and the next moment we
were"deluged
w i
"Forward!{quiek!" shouted Mr. I ease,
as he stood in the bows, lance in hand.
Our boat was almost touching the
monster's black side, when suddenly lie
seemed tilled with fury, and thrusting
his "reat "case" half out of the water,
with a snide uuward "clack' of his
long jaws, he crnflcEed our boat midway
Its length!
Even we in the stern* had barely time
to leap out into the water, where a mo
ment later I found myself whirled and
sucked down into the vortex caused by
the whale, who had again gone down
beneath us.
Halt stranded, I at last eime up, tan
gled in our line, and belore I could fair
ly see, was hauled into the captain s
boat, which had cut from t»«e whale and
come to pick us up.
Two ot our fellows were there before
me and a min.ite later, Mr. Pease, the
mate, and one more were pulled in.
Then someone shouted,—
"Where's 'Rier?"
We looked at the splintered planks
and debris of the broken boat, but Rier
was nowhere to be seen nor had any
one seen him since the whale crushed
U8»
"He stood right in the waist,"said the
mate. "He'd no time to jump. He was
right in the swing of the w hale's jaw."
"Crouched like a turnip then!" mut
tered the old skipper low voice,
"The Lord have mercy on him!"
Mean while, fie whale—as we heard
from the whirring of the loggerhead in
the second mate's boat—was goim: down
again. Four tive minutes passed, be
fore he turned to rise—s long, indeed,
tl at I had quite given up all hope of
seeing my shipmate agiie, and had even
thought how, on mv return home, I
should best break the" heavy tidings to
his old father and mother.
The whale rose near the second mate's
boat, and his harpooner promptly bu
ried another iron in his side, causing
him to sound a third time—when they
saw in the swirl left behind him a large
fragment of our boat, banging to which
was something tnat rooked nxe tne arm
of a jacket.
Hooking on to this, fhev hauled out
the body of'Rier—dead, astl.ey thought,
and as we all thought for .« ne minutes
for he lay perfectly limpat unconscious
bmod oozing from iris iiwSe. mouth and
ears. He seemed, as be lay there, to
have been crushed death.
Immediately the whaie rose a fourth
time, and was lanced repeatedly from
both boats. He sounded once more, but
only a short distance, and upon rising
he atence went in his death flurry
wheu from his mouth were ejected grr at
masses of matter, the remains of «.«juids,
octopi and other Uir^e marine creatures
upon which the sperm whale feeds.
If was astonishing to see the velocity
with which tf e great creature
n ade the descent The fric
tion of the rope attached to the har
poon was such that, unless kept con
stantly wet, it would char the gunwale
of the boat, while a man stood ready to
cut the line in se it should frui or
k:nk, which would possibly be fata! fo
boat ant! crew—and, perhabs, lose the
wha'e beside.
In 'he exeireuient attending the kill
ing of the wna'e. 'Rier was for the mo
ment forgotten. But we now pulled
alongside the second mate's boat, and
apt. Cox. jumping into it. felt of the
body, an i opening the soaked, torn
jacket, p'acrd ins hand over the heart.
Then he turned to Mr. Pease.
"Rear a hand hei» said "I think
I can feel a flutter of life in him."
Ail the way back to the ship, as we
towed tne whale's carcass, they were
roiling 'Riers body on the thwart and
trying to get the" water out of him.
There seemed little chance for hope,
but as they were hoisting him aboard,
he suddenly gasped.
The dector then took him in charge,
and with wirra blankets, much chafing
and plenty of hot gin, they at last
brought the poor fellow back to life and
consciousness. But it was nearly a fort
night before he was out of the sick bav,
and on his legs again.
From what he could tell us a»d what
we had seen, it was pretty certain that
when the whale crushed the boat, it had
cauiiht "flier in its inouti., together with
that L'reat fragment of the U at's bottom,
which had probably kept the monster's
jaws a little apart and so saved him from
being quite crushed.
He said thar he felt himself seized and
held as if in a vise, and that he really
thought the whale had swailo ved him
The water surged and irurg'ed over
him and ho held his breath. But in a
moment or two all grew dark and he
felt a terriole pressure, as of tons'
weight, on ids lungs, his heart ar:d his
brain.
Then lie tried to strfree: but he
could neither stir n- breathe. His
breath seemed forced o| his bod v.
His head seemed about to burst and re
ports -ike those 'if muskets rutin in his
ears. Tois ua* the last he could recol
lect, and iie knew nothing more till he
was restored to consciousness aboard the
ship.
One of his legs was badly bruised, as
if a Delaying pin had been jammed into
it, clean to the bone. This was no doubt
occasioned by one of the whale's teeth
for these sperm-whales have large,
n.und teeth of the finest ivory.
Probably no man, either "before or
sime, has ever descended to such a
tlept.ii in the ocean as did our amateur
harpooner- and his ease must stand out
as a unique example of how far a human
being may go down into sait water and
sn5 \iv tiie awful pressure.
i-ronitheway the line was coiled, it
was not possible to de'ermine precisely
how deep the whale went but it could
not have been much less than six hun
dred feet, and may have been nearly or
quite a thou,••and.
'Rier was nicknamed "the man the
whale swallowed," and was so known
during all the rest of that vovage, and
the mate, who was always laughing at
what he called "murcles," said he be
after that.—Youth's
u
}n Joner'
CoaipaiuiujU
.ll'NK HOSES.
Pro n
UWSprin|I*MS. »d»«»'^tli',l.n
breatl
wealth
Tli'c'fweet brMlh ol Juno, madeo.lor-
"'"rVban
R'hi!h
spray and vvater All
three of the boats were at close hams,
and three harpoons flew out on the m-
surrounded vine
which surrouiiuci* v,a-L-and "lhe case :s uomv-i.
cottage fanned the flushed ^d Miss Marga.et.
to\cd witk the stray ringlet ot ^ee
"ir' who stood with downcast ees
{tL"\d
and tremulous np?
"And what does n'
querietl a tall young man
love that.
"She says
toward the
who bit his
lantl's eyes once more dropped btiuatn
their long lashes. ..
"I tit.n't reallv Know, ". .. r«t..rn.
the girl. "You" know "hen poor matu
ma died five vears ago. when I wa. .4
I promised her to do as auntie said for
10P vears and so auntie ™J™'
mv "guardian till I should be -b
marrietl before that time with her con-
be
"And if vou marry without her con
sent. what then?'' ill N eruon pies
sec
the little hand he held, ami looked be
seechingly dcrwn iiito the sweet hu.e,
but its owner shook her head.
"I cannot listen to that, she said
solemnlv. "I love you, Wiil, but 1 an
not break mv promise to my uying
mother. But. oh dear. Aunt Margaret
is so hard-hearted, and I am afraid «he
will not consent, and five ytrfirs seems
almost a life-time."
She p'u ked a ruse, and tor
a prervimablv coniirmed spinster 10. a
^:'er of the deceased fatlierof R«ise ano
gnardian of the iatter, and by her side
in close proximity waik.-d a weli-tlrvssed
man of middle age. with a square l*ce,
antl a drooping bl:i k u.eustatdie &s yet
unt'i:i'i el bv the fiestsof time.
"Ob. yes thai auntie's athnirer,"
answereti lb.se ind:tf»*ient.y, as tin- ma
ture couple sauntered slowiy towar 1 tht:
young lover.-. "He sings in the choir of
her chur'-n and thev reallv seem fond ot
eat n other. I wish thev would marrv
perhaps auntie would grow intire leni
ent towards us. I have never met him
as yet."
Wih Vernon regarded the approach
ing pair with some ••uriosity. Miss Mar
garet Maitiand, whom he had always
considered as a species of man-hater.
was not of the tvpica! class of old mauls.
Instead of being !t ai: aid scragg.\ shr
was woii-preserved and plump, though
the short curls beside her round ace
showetl (itrav threads tf silver.
"Mv niece, Mi«« Maitiand, Mr, Ilogers
Mr. Vernon said the elder Miss Mait
iand as they came face to fa e.
Mr. Rogers lifted his hat from h:s in
tensely black locks.
Kxtremely happy to make your ac
quaintance," he said, with a sort of
"ready-roadt'' smiie, as Rope thought,
W neath his heavy moustache, and then
he grasped Will's hand with a vice-like
grip.
"This is a beautiful place,--anti the
most harming roses I ever Faw," said
Mr. Rogers, lookinsr from side to side
over the flowery expanse.
"Yes, indeed, *e are extremely fond
of flowers, roses especially," re"'.lined
the happy spinste with "an a i pealing
look at her nie •?, for to the exquisite
taste of the latter the place ov.ed its
flora! charms
"A love of flowers evinces the truest,
sweetest woimnhood," said Mr Rogers,
bis jet moustache again showing symp
toms of a smile, while Miss Margaret
simpered and made a futile attempt ut
blushing.
Mr Rogers picked a soft blush rose,
and held it playfully up to the cheek of
the ladv in whose good graces he appar
ently stood so high. "A'low me to fas
ten this at vour throat,he said, and
Roi=e shrank biushir.gly hark at the I
tioid stranger's fa i.iii:m.y with her here
tofore prudish aunt, the latter submit- I
ting to the adornment with pleased smile, i
though she winced as a thorn concealed I i '. .' 'j'
in the spray of green le ives pierced hei
skin as be fumbled awkwaidlv at her
neck. But she noiv infliction with he
roic fortitude, amply repaid by the bland
smib of the donor.
Ion't you think Mr. Kogei«. a very
agreeable man?" (juestionetf Miss Mar
garet of her niece the next day, Mon
thly, as thev sat upon the piazza, the
former full of serene happiness-, the lat
ter somewhat downcast.
"V-e-s, I suppose so, auntie," was the
reluctant admission.
"Humph! you think there i« no one in
the world but Will Vernon," retorted
Miss Margaret, notat all pleased. "Now
Mr. Rogers is a man of some si ability
lit! is a member of the church and
lar of soeutiy."
"Why are you so set against Will Ver
non.' You have known him a number
of years, antl Mr. Rogers i# almost a
stranger."
""•Urn"""uroelMhetaltet dte
nitv not unmixed with a certain
^.^^d^VdlaS iilust waitfi^eyears"
pouted Rose, little p.eased With her
ttUn
!'he ^e'is' ditlerent with m," te-
1 fte
by any
youup* in."* shi* wis
fo.ir ami twentv 'lockinc il»«n np«"
th
to maiden l^ide hi*, aa e.pre^.nn
of anxiety bVndinc will, the
ihonein ins dark eves.
that I must wait that she
cannot conscientiously give her const nt,
and the girl turned her blue eve.,
inistv with un«iicd tears,
handsome face of her inver.
lip with vexation.
••How long are we -v
after a moment's silence, as
means, i
uh( ee yeiin
'Hn. other's antecedents is
"..ossom/
of
three nr
when
other's anxeceuf..io .s not as necessary
w n earlvvo-Uh. But one thine Rosa
Hn? (she alwavs called her h-alind
iitlu -, P(iji»*t llifig
I wavs
to impress
lipnI',
getica
Hose .Mait-
ly
d,
i
that'n'se must be pr"sse«!. thorn and all,
I that Mr. Rogers fastened at my neck ves-
tP
A
,,.
ot
1
vear with its changing seasons had
and gone, and again the roses
nd about tlie Ma-.tland cot
tag*
ret —M
I i
v come ai
ar
Dioomc'l ilieuim .........
t«"e Upon
4he
f1!
n.t-MisM
v
1
1
1
its crim­
son petals asunder wuh trembling fin
gers. scattering the beautiful leaver* upon
the ground at her feet, tne aiternoon
sunshine glmt'.ng through the trees and
falling iiere and there in sight
"Of course, this is final," said \\d.
moodily, •'and we can dp nothing but
wait and pray 'hat the years may glide
by as rapidly as po-s'bie. biu hark,
,-ome oil" is coming down ihe walk. It. s
your Aunt Margart *. and, a® I -e.
gentleman with her."
Tfie ,ook of vexed moodines- ..:t'. i
foi a moment from Wiil Vernon's face,
and gave pla-e to an annw-d expression.
Sure enough, down the it.se-lined
pathway came
Mjss
Margaret Mmtland,
piazza sit Aunt Marga-
Ma.trand stib-with a stiange-
worn look u| on tier taee. One year
i had tiinit* the work of a dozen ordinary
ones Tt.e little ringlet" at ner temples
i were almost white, and her faded eves
looked hoikw and wan. Her cheeks.
I which bnf.ire nvaa those
of p. -e in .umpness if n in vouthful
freshness were pinched and sunken, antl
the fiantls that Mr. Rog rs had preyed
with such .•xub.-raut anh-r. intchtdeie
i tither nervi.'usiy.
I I sown the garden walk stro.led a
vouthfu! pair—Will Vernon and his
prettv sweetheart. Time hud dealt more
i leniently with them, th
-are cested upon
|o'h i
fa/es.
"It was just a year ago
uaret, in the fullness ano
heart, pp-sented K
'Aiiy
walked
street,
sadlv, as
1
a pil-
It was Miss Margaret's turn to become
indignant. "I here aro some natures
that do not retjuirea life-tune to analyze.
Mr. Rogers is one ol tint kind. Kvory
.ook and action show.-* it. I would trust
my life in bis keeping."
For a moment the lost art of blushing
.Tli'1 ned to her at her inadvertent re
"nark while Rose regartled her curiously,
"Are you engaged to Mr. Rogers'."' sbti
uieried, as tho momenta iv flush died
1 didn't marry. He's
Uiotht r's tui.v brother, you know, and
i has no hiidren. and sim e itis wife dietl
he's fctemt-U fu take to me este.t iallj*.
Fie s'iid !,t- ti give rrie a tK«use and take
i me into busings if I'd marry. «'an't
ji.ii ouv that old she-drngou off s me
way'' I'beiieve the reason Mr. Rog is
wanted her was because he thought *he
had ai. ^ir moiu-y ani 1 had y u
His iooh did not belie -.is vvortls us he
stood there, lithe and stn-ng in his man
hot'd. ami she went up and placed tier
hands in his iymg soft'.v
"I know, W'.ll, it is not my monevyt.u
want .'lit I cannot marry wit (sou* Aunt
Margaret's consent."
"Weii." lie rt-turm d, "if sou ething
cannot be done, 1 shall go to hina.
wan*
go ft
hiiiK
Vncie RotU
can tri.-'
so. am! 1
one."'
IUe ope Wleili
a of year
.d
bt-ttet
Rut she was spared this, and after he
received his *cntenee, -ten years at
hard iabor, -she would sit hour after
hour with hi« picture before her and
weep bitter tears wrung from her
widowed heart, sdie did not relent,
however, n regard to Rose and Will
Vernon.
"Vou are better off never to marry,
Rosalind,"'she would sav. "You never
can trust tht men, tfiough I believe
oftentimes they are more sinned against
i than sinning."'
stepped upon the piazza, Will
somewhat dejectedly down the
Aunt Margaret shook her heat!
the young girl came and sat
then «fie said in a voiee
I 'l'f aii .-Id-time .'isivc
ring:
"Rosalind', I n.ive a favor to ask of
you. it is now a year since Mr. Rogers
I asked me to be his wife, and though
must believe him unworthy, I should
I like to v sit the prison workshop where
ges out bis life. I suppose it is
but it seems so bard for human
•e kept vear after year, tlc
lreedoin, of com '•mionship
and of the pure sunshine."
ht worked her thin bands nervously,
while the young girl regartled her pity*
be tlru
justice,
bcincs to
prived of
iniilv.
on know how fond he was of roses."
,n
^1,,r
,a
was the yoan»rK'
hard-hearted
"'J have p
Rost^
cause m,.i
'id up to tier throat.
1 lit re is a iittle s -ar here that tie un
wittingly made. Alas, there is a deeper
scar on my poor heart."
She had grown so into thit way of be
moaning her cruel fate that she "had lost
all constraint before her niece.
"If you would go w it mt* wo would
take a lot of flowers and give them to
the poor convicts, l'be ladies' fiuwer
mission Would furnish credentials thai I [iHbit
would insure our admission. Will you !jft.
go with mt I cannot go alone, am! it,
seems as though 1 must set poor Mr.
Rogers at his work. 1 wiii io see how
his eyes will 1 ght up when fie sees the
roses lit loved so well."
l'oor Aunt Margeret's voi«e was filled
with a pathetic earnestness as though
her tender heart were breaking, but it
Wl-
W
^y should
I!t+"E-IliVf*,
Again the
each *'t lier at
most glaj!gyi
"If yon "win,
"Although we are
we have arrived
caution as to each i
kable 8
by Thri
Wi]1
with'
f'
!d
mindi. "I want vou to
',1 HI1 thai
this Mr. Roger
It. was bittt
Mait and viei,,
merits cofiy
armetl with nn-'.
ted then.-xpiy,.
formatorv jnr
I') ^11 Kogr*-.
his transgr»
"Vou will h,
of the men,"
tici*\ as he
room win-re
or
uo'-ers know of my farmer aversion
indliTt rcnce rather--to flowers. lie wor
ships them, and. really, 1 am tun
partial to them than formeriv.
have been my ear.v tr-nrug,
ed apoi
more
It must
she add-
i cannot Account for
wav. And. bv the wa-.
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u
were vM.rkinj:
them Miiilc,}
flowers ami th
others seemec
"W here is
1
asked li,
him in the rue
I hat s liitu
SoleS
(:U
shoe-
and ilusc looKt
rated. b'it Aur
to have recou
ness. for she
nit and taker, a
he turned tii.
Article of
a whir
lit the
ind the
to can si
oi&e of
li Few
If the chai. ..
was great the
even greater
o his
sh(»)
flowi
hidd.
bled
in .•«.!
bad r.
their
nioast:
a certain
:!.eir young
Mint Mar
j..y of her
."•M to us.
jde tif mis
said Rose,
spot where
And what a terrible exam
piaced coiiiidence teat w:s^,
as thev paused at the
the in'ro'i-icti- n had tak"n [-iace.
'An she is 'ist as ob .urrtte a.- »*\er in
icgaiti to our n.avnage. 'm.'I yt-ur g\er
non. w topping oti a rose with is light
cane, while Rosalind clasped hey bauds
together and walked slowly about.
I As she made no answer the young
n an on?:nued"—
"I'liteilyou what, Ros* I've got to
wait hair years mere beft-ic 1 .an claim
you I am going away: Tnc-e Roife wants
"me to settle h«-re new. lie asked me
vi».-rdav
AS I did
urpriset
is. It
i the w
to be I
leering
1
rue I hi
.. most o
ie day
dull, in
as out
»ant an
ive tht
0 do wi
ich took
ng" W
1 of th'
alady.
alize'wl
that I
si MS Wl
i» hrist
"r and 1.
ci eil 1
former.
shears had d(r,.
lb- ycuwled
ni/' ihe v,
lio-tj presell'•
him. for A m
.! v I ,(V k iir.c
tlow'us nj.un
""'rsed r1..1
he res'iiiiOii
glam towa'i
piMs
"He s a hard
low tone, ano'
for A"
..ot!
ma'an
i,,,
eider
from
t-ii le.
Miu:.
—!*kts .«
Wttrang
It a tri
have bt
J«e,.8es
•ed. V
the
root.
»ed G"
•f the w
fti of
i fed liar, i
I si,aii ..
iut my
Aunt Murp1:
reached hf.jr.e
when K.'sal
liame to
hat! regainei::
looks, save i
few wr.i.kier^^^
«r othei
.A Itu-h lau
"So ,I"R'S
vilie nain
"Yes, poor
i
4cough
Ai m.
try to
Wast«
ekidm
aients.
en, is
pre tha
arise
If,.
gone.'"
the first
answ.r.
the i.a". was
that, never':.1
lion, i'ii -f
alwiv« fan-.'
'hingllie uii.Vf
a dodor t:.'
atn'ijf d, ar.':'
that i't- tin-:
tt sides tak-.
fumse.J.
a.
vt
Wi.a
rpi'l.o
In­
They waiKid slowly back tow.Ad the
house, where Aunt MargRret sat aioue
with her grief. Th" one ove-Hliair of
her life hat I proved a misetable fadure
When the autumn leaves began to fall
ami while preparations were alr adv
under way for her ap rtflciiing nuptials
a bif.w worse than death came to her.
Her dignihed, mature lover, Mr. Rog
ers. of whose business little was known,
exiept that he spent the greater portion
of bis time in tlie city whose smoke
couid be seen nd whose bells and
wh'stles could be heard from the Mait
iand cottage, was suddenly anestel,
charged with burglary. How she sur
vived the shock she herself could nev
tel
1. ii" had perfect ftith in his inno
cence. but she daied net visit the curt,
room while his trial was in progress for
fear that she might be called
upon as a witness.
If. Th
re tort
ality it
.. of its
Jetl
»ttis sh
Who
re5 ill
^Lians
jS by
ie, pne
jonimo
Vpre ca
,Ut
sait nsh,
th(
vegetalia'P "j tirst'
!t.iwed 'he fio1'•_ me
0
better. as I w
nnd after t"'!(:i-"
S4"emedj
that he ir.'.:s-
my
e
meats alM. i.^.andtl
gnod, as tie 'f.the ft
another doc'-t-r. \Vrh
o! the advice ^Qg o
given, find Mr-"' M)w
ail kuaisofp^'",,! him
eluding ovMi-rs
ani
thing l"r yo*i
3-er
to-
tio. tor: s»
r-(\
lis sul
milk. frc'" than I
he went 1o rethe
tioued lii:« wa
hin-'M if liel them
mWc Brig!
and !re"h
air
""Jj'5
s]
better upon
!lj,v
another d"'w- "'^ed
of t,, ""*r s wc
too much int:-*yand
cut oil the !*•'.
ami he dk'd"!f
'tis nit
Warn
leurr
i was
Vu„."-.Souier'-
What KIO*^
he A .txat"-"'*
that
Kr
I'ei ".ap
this or any
dilapidate
,,!H
.jtlerfu
ics tin
lis bet
Vii,
a deft ^nent
^ainer,
as it is in
tains, eiid)nUin'V -^ops E
as the "lk't,,lBf! is
„n ..r.
1
lev is pi«lU lib inci
small farmed .1 ,.^
re
it
wdf a hink i
vears ap» "lBi "V, ^ay i
„, .|f.,.inner*. .}»
value lm»'5r of
scatce (.nc ?nplet
mark her
plac' fartP'"''irift1RyNov.*"'1-aT
i,,r,.v«yrl»5"
fight's
v
«rm
them a
liancy
ncription-
of ni'."".if this
TMf.,.'jbow
-like
lh
-b-'^al, tt
N" "from
un
^.
Gomof
lit
•ircti i'litff^ien/
Sn
lsv"^. aealtl..
tines, so is"
ng
civil
strife,^
Hercules'''^'
8 1
ll
y-f
hit*
Tlic Uurn-, colfl
a i e s i n i
ewei