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•VrfplH O I THE FISHERMAN'S BBIDE. f- SYNOPSIS OF PBEVIOUS CHAPTEES. CHAPTER 1 —Preparations are made for the marriage of Nelly Hartsom and Aaron. Nelly is kind-hearted and gentle, but she had thoughtlessly inspired the love of Saul Meghorn. CHAPTER 2.—Saul Meghorn with feelings of disappointment and revenge retires up the sides of a cliff where in nis agony he ^witnessed the bridal procession to the church Sn hot anger regretting that he did not kid map Nelly, when he had a chance, and force Sier to marry him. CHAPTER HI.—Nelly and Aaron are in their cottage home, happy in their honey •moon, but a cloud has arisen upon the thorizon. Saul Meghorn had taken up his •abode near by. Nelly had met Saul sever •al times, as he prowled around the neigh •foorhood, which made her very unhappy, •and Aaron was also miserable having learned from the landlord of the inn, that Saul and Nelly had previously been love with each other. But, sadly enough, neither Nelly nor Aaron confided their utories to each other, and hence the cloud •darkened. CHAPTER IV.—A quarrel ensues between the husband and wife Aaron swears that •she shall 'be sorry for what she has said, and rushes away Nelly is immediately sorry enough, begs and prays for his re turn and night comes on with Aaion still absent, and Nelly in grief and despair, awaiting his return. CHAPTER V.—A terrible storm is raging, which seems to take on an excess of fury on the jutting cliffs where Saul Meghorn had taken up his abode. Saul Meghorn comes borne and has his old servant, Dorcas, dress •a wound on his shoulder he says he received •on the rocks, after which he goes ont again In the storm. Deepgang is a large cavern in the cliffs, which the inhabitants of the Village believe to be haunted, but we find it this evening, inhabited by two of Saul Meghorn's old pals, Simeon Foulkes and Mat Yawmans, who are relating stories of their villianies, when a signal is heard and by an* ingenious contrivance a section i. the rock swings aside revealing a passage •from which steps Saul Meghorn. CHAPTE VI. "Dame Rullocks stood at the door of tier cottage, gazing out to sea, when tier attention was attracted by an object horrying swiftly up the craggy ^pathway from below, as it drew nearer ehe saw it was a woman bareheaded, •her long black hair flying behind her •with the haste she made for the wind .had fallen at daybreak. "Gracious mercy!" cried the old woman—"i can't be—yes, it is—it is —m Nelly, my dear girl!" and with a step forwards, she caught in her arms he unhappy creature, panting, white as death, and as cold. She uttered no sound, but grasped he dame with hands at were bleed ing from the cruel rocks, and hurried her into the cottage. Shaking all over, holding by the table to steady her limbs, with clench hands and chattering teeth, she stood before the horrified dame. She opened her lips, but the power of speech was evidently gone, as she put into the old woman's hand a scrap of paper, then stood with fixed eyes glar ing at her as she read by the light of he lamp— "Nelly, you will never see me again in this world! I know all your deceit a wickedness. I can bear no more. "When you get this I shall be gone for •ever!" Th good soul dropped the paper, as she clasped her hands, and the tears started from her eyes. "Tell me, dear Nelly—come, come to me, dear!" and she turned to the wretched creature who stood as if turned to stone beside her. Strong convulsions seized upon her a while one an for the doctor, a long half mile away, the rest helped •the dame, or, for the most part stood ^terrified in dumb amazement. W at tis it? W at ails her?" "Where be Franklen? "Who's been to their ,place?" "Ho came she here?" These were but a few of the ques tions put, and which none could an tswer. •The dame ad thoughtfully put •away the scrap of writing but, alas! Tally's remorseful ravings soon made •concealment impossible. I have been wicked!"—"I killed liim!"—"Oh! come back, Aaron—hus "band dear, come back, and I'll never, never say such things again! Come back! come back—I'll tell you every thing, dear—everything, if you'll for give your poor Nelly!" Such was the substance of her ex clamation varied by shrill cries and 'fearful struggles, which they with diffi culty overcame. The doctor who had been called in, a been told of the circumstances, first assured himself at the note was in Aaron's handwriting, and then aft examining the patient expressed grave fears for her recovery. One fearfnl conviction was borne in on the minds of all: Franklen's fcoat was gone—the nets and other appurtenances remained in the little stone hut he ad built for their shelter but the at and oars were gone. went off just in a passion like, a said the elder of the two young Rullocks—who kept up the search longest-^as they slowly return »-.ed homewards. "Ay, and at awful night needed all fUsa man's coolness and thought," added he younger. Neither spoke of at which was the inevitable conclusion: ,F. Jthey paused as they came to the door of the cottage, and heard the plain itive voice within, in at incessant iL«%aiI, which since her violence ad jtfsabated the bereaved creature had I W ceased. Th time was at a when life would succumb to the new trial, or the p1f acuities be restored by the new impe Ijktus given. O a bleak, ungenialmorninginMay, Jj^tNelly Franklen became a mother— feWtill unconcious of her loss, unawaken «ed from at mysterious swoon into |f»which reason ad fallen though the i/jfew words she ad uttered gave more -token of coherency.- A girl." *&&>*** he same tender hands waited on jher as ad done in her first agony of igrief—-the good doctor and the dame, Wit a gossip or two, without whom f{ jtsuch events are not duly honored.^ checked himself in the exclamation, as he handed the child to the dame, who, in her gave one glance at the newly-born, and turned her eyes up wards with a gesture af horror and dis may The gossips approached one busied herself about the young mother, the others ad turned to the child. "Merciful "Heaven save us!" "Hush!" uttered the dame, in an authoritative whisper, iudicating the bed and its occupaut by a sign. A clear, calm voice spoke form the bed, rational as any in the room "I is dead?" she said. A faint cry seemed to answer the mother's question. "Bring me my baby. Dame Rullocks hesitated, as she looked at the medical man signed at she should comply. The newly-made mother clasped it in her arms turned her languid eyes upon its infant face, then uttering the words— "My husband!" a glance round told her he was absent—she burst into tears. The first she ad shed since at terrible night. CHAPTE VII. AFTEK THE STOKM. She was saved to life, and from worse than death those blessed tears seemed to lift from her heart the icy numbness of debpair, which ad op pressed it. At first she took but little notice of the new claimant on her love. In her yet uncertain state they carefully guarded trom her knowledge the strange visitation entailed upon the hapless innocent it was not difficult, for the child was quiet to a miracle— sleeping for hours at a time, and, when it woke, would lie with its eyes wide open, fixed on vacancy, but seldom making any sign till some one came to take it up "I beant natural-like for a"babe to be so quiet at times, and at strange look in its syes Dame Rullocks shook her head. or lamb, she said softly, "it be right enough, never fear—it be right enough it's just the weight of her trouble like, poor soul and no wonder, is't, Kitty? the wonder be, I think, how she come thro at all. Many were the consultations, at tended by due head-shaking and con snming of snuff, held over the singular disfigurement of the child, by the doc to who had attended the mother and a brother medico, whose greater ex perience and allowed skill yet failed to devise any remedy. They ad propped her in the bed with pillows one afternoon, and the curtains were drawn back from the windows, at she might feel the warmth of the spring sunshine, which was making everything bright and glad without when she said— "Give me my baby. Please a off at shawl it makes her so heavy for me." The dame hesitated for a mo ment. She saw the time was come longer concealment was impossible she was only glad they were alone. With more of animation in her pale face an she ad yet displayed, the young mother took her child in her arms, and laid it tenderly before her the dame still left a corner of the cov ering unremoved. "Nelly, dear!" she began but the young woman ad thrown the shawl aside, and, as she did so, uttered a cry— "My baby, oh' my child, my darling! what have you done to it? "Nelly, lass, she'll grow out of it doan' thee, my child, doan' thee vex the doctor says The mother heard her not Clasp ing the wrist of one hand tightly in the fingers of the other, she swayedtoan fro above her infant, and cried and sobbed vehemently. I know, I know!" she said, in brok en accents "oh, baby dear! baby dear! what shall I do for you—oh! what shall I do? at evening she would a with her child to none. How shall we pretend to reason, or say this or at is natural, or con a to it? The very thing which they had feared to shocK her with, studiously ad concealed, lest, sudden ly beheld, it might even unseat her reason wholly, was to restore her sudden^ to action, to reconcile her to life, endear to her the one whom at very affliction would alienate from the regard of others. After breakfast Nelly announced her intention of getting up, asdeeidedly as though she anticipated the vehement opposition which was immediately raised. "Dear heart, not for the world!" cried the dame. I must! I am quite strong!" was the firm reply. "Nellv, dear, better wait a bit, suggested Meg. "Iwouldn'tfor the world help yon to suchathiug, "added the dame. Bu Mrs. Franklin was obstinate. I have tried you all long enough," she said 1 am strong, and its time I went to my own place." She stopped a moment—"And there's my child to see to "At least, wait till the doctor comes he will look in to-day, he said so, and hear what he says," urged Meg. So far, the invalid yielded she would not a with the infant meanwhile. The doctor came, and heard with out astonishment of his patient's re solve. Perhaps he ad some experience in the moods of the sex. offered uo objection to Nelly's resolve, rightly judging opposition would work more a an compliance, and at oc cupation was the only balm which could just now avail her wounded spirit. _, CHAPTE VII. WIDOW. Tw years have passed. A group stood at the cottage door of Dame Rullocks just as in a times there ad often stood such a group, in bright summer and golden, a evenings. Bu one was gone, who ad a a time so stood, and the dame, beside deeper furrows a a paler cheeky wore A her side stood the young woman we have known as Meg Stratton she was Rullock'swife of a year past and, judging by appearances, even should his brothers decide on celibacy, the noble name of Rullocks would not fail of representatives. a the dame's handsome daugh ter, stood just within the door, an in fant of some, months in her arms a small urchin just beginning to walk, clinging to her gown. The dame was speaking, but she ad hardly finished before her impetuous daughter broke in— "Well, mother, I can't see it. I am as fond of Nelly Franklen as any of you though, of course, living away in town, I couldn't do for her as you and the rest did. Bu I can't see it. It' like a flying in the face of Providence, I call it—shutting herself up, a moaning and pining away to a ghost, and making at poor child, no bet ter." "Nay, a I think she's cheerful enough with Ida, said Meg, gently. I found her the other eveniug singing to her as she laid on her lap, and the dear little thing imitating of her, in her sweet, quiet way they didn't seem pin ing." "Ho does she manage at all?" ask ed a "She works day and night, I be lieve," and Meg "man a time before daybreak To says he's seen a light in her window. She does a deal of work for the shops in town, you know, a the men's things, and then she knits and nets, too so fast and well the best she gets in the ladies' work, baby things and a a enough it must be. Up the broadest pathway at led from the beach, across the downs, to wards the Rullocks cottage, came the young widow and her child. The mother had carried her little girl up the ascent, but the moment the to was reached it evidently begged to be set down, and ran towards Meg, who advanced to meet them. Nelly came with her up to the cot tage-door, and was greeted affection ately by the others but they did not ask her in, nor invite her to share the meal then preparing. It had been done so often, and so invariably declined, at it ad ceased to be repeated. "Your eyes look tired, my child," said the dame "you work to hard by candle-light—you should give yourself some rest." I rest all to-morrow," said the widow, in a low voice, which was strange, at first, to those who had known Nelly Hartson, but had long ceased to be so. "Sunday? yes, of course, so we all do," said a quickly. Mother and child were dressed in deep mourning, of the cheapest mater ial, but made and put on with taste and neatness. In at brief time what a change ad come upon her—once the beauty of Sandcombe village' W at does she say? asked a when the little girl, unmindful of the advance made by the other child, had timidly approached her, and, touching her hand, lisped out some infantnie request. "She is asking you to sing," said Nelly, without a change of voice or countenance. "She always does to any one she sees for the first time." Mother as she was, a was some what taken aback by this request, and at a loss how to reply but Meg, more accustomed, lifted the child in her arms. "Shall I sing to Idy? I can't sing like a a but I'll sing about the robin, shall I? The child clapped its little hands, and a faint blush stole out upon its cheek. Evidently the robin was an old favorite. The song was sung Nelly the while looking on gratefully at the good hearted performer. The child sat a in silence, evidently drinking in the sounds its head half turned aside, one small arm laid around the singer's neck. There was no need to bid her a the good friend when the song was ended. The kisses on the lips of the kind woman came trom the little affectionate heart. "Ay, how sorely she is changed!" ex claimed a as they disappeared from sight. "Think of at being mer ry Nelly a so "Bu she's very beautiful still," said Meg. •'Ugh! I don't know she made me shiver like nigh a graveyard—and at poor child! how awful! did you no tice?" "Yes—mother, did you see? just coming as it wras last year this time." "Ay, it be a mystery, surely it wants but ten days to the child's birthday." "And it's two years since he was lost?" asked a "Yes, to-morrow."' "Well," said a "it seems a pity she couldn't have settled again, and. made herself and at poor child, a comfortable home. I would have been better an pining their lives out yonder alone." The dame sighed. "Ay, I wish she could ha fancied my lad, poor Dan! he was right set upon her and she'd have made him a good wife, and he would have stayed among us the Lord's will must be done!" "She'll never marry now, I sup pose?" said a "Nelly isn't the girl to take a an for his money or there's one, if I'a not mistaken, has been long set on having her, and would make a lady of her, and not a bad an neither." "Hi at lives down at Deep gang?" said a W at is his name?" "Meghorn." "Mercy me! if she refused our Dan, she wouldn't surely take up with at dark, stern-looking fellow." The dame shook her head! "One musn't judge by looks, a Saul Meghorn did the a of a Christian an by them poor souls as run upon the Shark's Teeth last fall a when the brig went to pieces on the rocks under the fog bank—when the signals wut blown over—you mind it Meg—he went off himself to help them ay, he be a good, Christian man! "It' a pity Christ'n men can't look it," responded her daughter. 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