THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. AUGUST 20, 1879.
at present V I nm at your mercy: you
are doubtful, hesitating, but the scales
weigh a little in my favor, do they
not!"'
Oh, no. Indeed, I have never
thought seriously of marrying you ; I
only dislike to refuse you."
" That last Is an admirable frame of
mind ; preserve it ;" aud, as they had
left the beach and were within hearing
aud observations, the conversation
ceased.
Archie and Jack appeared the next
day, summoned by an Imperative tele
gram from Mrs. Grant.
" Now, boys, you must exert your
selves; I've done all I can," said their
sister. " She is obstinate and odious
would not tell me anything."
" Perhaps It is all a scare," exclaimed
Archie.
" You are very much mistaken. Papa
is devoted to her and icy to me. There's
no time to lose. We are so intimate
with the Montgomery's, you can be con
stantly at the cottage, and chance will
throw opportunities In your way."
" Whose turn will It be to speak
first V" cried Archie. " I'll throw up a
penny; heads win, tails lose. It's
mine!" with a glance of despair.
Archie clung pertinaciously to Mrs.
' Page's side on the piazza, sot next her
in the omnibus which took them to the
Lathing-beach, walked home with her
through the shady lane after the bath
ing. She was delighted with the gay young
fellow. At length he showed a little
claw : " Mrs. Page, we are all very much
afraid you are going to marry papa."
" Would you not like me for a step
mother?" and she smiled deliclously at
him.
His tender heart melted : " Like you I
who could help liking you '( But"
aud he hesitated" we don't want a
step-mother : step-mothers are deucedly
in the way."
An Involuntary smile appeared on
Sirs, Page's face : then she sighed.
The good-hearted fellow felt compunc
tion as he heard the sigh.
11 Hang It I" he burst forth, " Gerty
set me at you. She expects me to be
-disagreeable,but who could right a dove V
It will be dangerous to marry papa ; we
shall be in love with our step-mother."
" Jack," he cried to his brother a few
moments after, " I made a perfect mess
of it began to Hatter and all that. She's
au angel I"
"She Is destablel" returned Jack;
"I hate your purring, coaxing women.
She shall have a piece of my mind, I
cau tell you."
Mrs. Page appeared to have a com
prehension of danger, for she avoided
Jack Lee skilfully for two entire days.
He shot fierce glances toward her at
the dinner-table, glared at her from un
der his bushy eyebrows in the ballroom,
and when she came up dripping from
her bath she could scarcely stagger past
him, his sarcastic eyes were so over
powering. She avoided the plazzp,, and on the
third day had hidden herself with a
book behind a rock, when, bristling aud
pugnacious, he appeared :
" Pardon my intrusion, but I am ex
ceedingly desirious of seeing you, and
alone."
She bowed stiffly.
" Mrs. Page, we have been told of my
father's proposal, and that you think of
accepting him. The idea is very dis
agreeable to all of us to all of us," he
repeated firmly; "In fact, we can
scarcely think well of you. It puts you
in a most suspicious, really odious,
light."
Mrs. Page did not look dovelike at this
moment ; her light brown eyes flashed
indignantly at him.
" There is but one object in marrying
my father," he resumed after a mo
ment's pause ; it is a transaction com
mon enough in Mohammedan countries.
You are purchased with a million of
dollars ; I think that was the sum men
tioned?" , Her lip quivered like a child's, indig
nation and tears strove for the mastery,
but cry she would not : he never should
have that satisfaction.
" Mr. Lee," she exclaimed, " I don't
know what you think of your conduct:
I think it is cowardly, dastardly. You
are afraid of remonstrating with your
father, but you hurl cruel, insulting
words at me, a poor defenceless woman.
I admire your father, I am even fond
of him, but I was far from consenting
to marry him. Now I think I will.
What his entreaties could not effect,
your insolence has"
She rose, and with a Juno-like air
swept away.
" Et tu, Brute V" exclaimed Mr. Lee
senior to his son William, who had
walked frora the station, and was regis
tering his arrival in the book in the
office.
" Not at all, my dear father ;" and he
took his father's arm and led him away.
" I only came to see that you had fair
play. Marry whom you please and as
you please. But What Is the lady's
name!"'
" She is a Mrs. Tage a widow."
" Ah 1" exclaimed William, and his
cordiality to a degree vanished.
"Let me introduce you," said his
father.
No, I am dusty and tired: I'll make
my own way. They say she Is staying
with the Montgomerys."
Mrs. Tage began to be very weary
with all these complications. She felt
hemmed in, beleaguered, by the Lees,
and was taking a brisk morning walk
on a dusty highway toward a neighbor
ing town, In hopes to escape them for a
time. Some one, however, was in swift
pursuit ; she felt that it was a Lee. The
footsteps gained upon her.
" Alice 1 " exclaimed a full, melodious
voice; and William Lee seized both her
hands. " Alice, Is it really you ?"
Mrs. Tage trembled and grew very
pale. He placed her on a large stone
which stood conveniently near, and sat
down beside her. " Alice, where were
you ? I traveled over Europe In search
of you. Will you forgive me, my dar
ling, my suspicions, my anger, my ab
surb jealousy V"
Mrs. Page closed her eyes and tears
rolled down her cheeks.
At this juncture Mr. Lee senior,
breathless with his chase after her, came
up. He felt that this was a scene, and
waited for explanations.
" My dearest father," exclaimed Wil
liam, rising aud seizing his arm, "she
loves both of U3, but she promised to
marry me first. I am sorry," he con
tinued ruefully.
" Dear Mr. Lee," said Mrs. Page, seiz
ing his other arm, " you are so like him
your bearing, your smile, your tones
really, if I could not have married
William I must have married you."
A cloud passed for ft moment over
Mr. Lee's face, but during his seventy
years, whenever there were heroic, un
selfish qualities to be displayed, he was
never wanting.
" My dear," he said in that pleasant
voice so like his son's, turning with
kindly courtesy toward her "my dear,
it is best as it Is more natural, more
appropriate."
" And to think it was papa's favorite,
William, that broke oft' the match, after
all I" cried Gerty.
An Adventure Among Savages.
CONCLUDED.
WE HAD not long to wait, before
the dark cordon of naked forms
came closing up around us, with a slow
and measured movement, for it was
evident they thought we knew nothing
of their approach. They were within
thirty yards of us, the Irishman con
spicuous by his peculiarity of figure aud
gait, when I touched Dick, the boat
steerer, on the arm, and gave the word
in a whisper, " Now I Make an end of
him!"
At the same time, I brought my own
gun to a sight, to send a second bullet
in the same direction, in case the first
one missed its mark. But there was no
need. The report from Dick's musket
was followed by a yell a veritable Irish
yell aud Barney fell in his tracks. No
further sound came from him ; but the
sonorous wail of many savage voices
attested the astonishment and awe of
the natives, as they seemed, for the
moment, to hesitate in their attack.
A sudden thought struck me. There
was a hideous idol fixed against one of
the posts in our prison, directly front
ing the door ; and I bethought me of
making it still more hideous, by smear
ing it with phosphorus. We all had
friction-matches in our pockets, and
Dick, in particular, being a famous
smoker, had brought about half a bunch
on shore with him.
It was the work of a moment to rub
the face of the idol with the luminous
substance in which the match had been
dipped. Its great circular eyes, and
hideous grinning mouth appeared as if
shooting forth flame, and the effect was
startling, even to us who understood the
cause. ' .
It was at this moment that the boldest
of the barbarians rushed up to the door
and threw it open from the outside. We
stood at bay in the darkness, reserving
our fire, in readiness for the worst. But
a single glance into the building was
enough for the leaders, who thought
themselves, as indeed they were, the
bravest of their tribe. They saw ouly
their god glaring at them with fiery
eyes, as they thought, and breathing
flame from his capacious jaws.
" Jurawarra I Jurawarra !" was yelled
from a score of savage throats, in most
discordant concert ; the cry was taken
up by an the rest, and there was a general
rush for a view at the terrible object,
though no one ventured to approach it.
The first assailants had fallen back a
short distance, and stood with eyes fixed
upon the fiery apparition, spellbound
and awe-stricken, still repeating the cry
"Jurawarra!"
" Now Is our time ! " said 1, seeing that
the back side of the building was left
entirely unguarded, and knowing that
our operations were well covered by the
Interior darkness. " Kick hard, and
make an opening !''
It was but the work of a moment to
force a hole through the dry bamboo
sides of the house. Save a slight crash,
which was effectually drowned by the
shouts of the barbarians, M1I9 was done
without noise. Indeed, what had added
to the sense of awe and mystery, was
the fact that no sound had come from
the biiilding, but the report of the single
shot which had killed Barney.
We passed quickly into the opeu air,
and struck a beeline for the water-side,
guided by the roar of tli6 tide on the cor
al reef. No natives crossed our path ;
every one, women aud children includ
ed, had rushed to thecentreof attraction,
joining in the everlasting shout of
" Jurawarra!" and we had no difficulty
in avoiding them all.
As we reached the beach, a light flush
ed up on the seaward horizon, and as
soon as we recovered breath and looked
steadily for a little time in the direction
of the light, we made out the outline of
the ship's sails against the dark back
ground !
There was little prospect, at that dis
tance, that we could make ourselves
heard by hailing. On the other hand,
we should only hasten the approach of
our enemies, who, for the present, were
bewildered by a phenomenon, which
must have appeared to them a miracle.
But the luminous effect of the matches
would not last many minutes. The
savages would discover our absence, and
recover from their fright.
" In this direction our boat lies," said
Dick, the boatsteerer. " It's thereaway
we landed."
" Yes; but she may have been carried
away up among the cocoanut groves,
and we may almost as well look for a
needle in a haystack, as hunt for her in
the darkness."
A brilliant flash lighted up the sea, re
vealing the ship not more than a mile
distant, and almost instantly followed
by the smart report of her old six-pounder,
the very voice of which we seemed
to recognize.
The situation was tantalizing enough ;
to knoV that friends were so near, and
yet to have no means of reaching them,
or opening communication. The report
of the gun, too, would draw the atten
tion of the natives. Already the bur
den of their song had changed from the
single exclamation, "Jurawarra!" to a
confused clamor of guttural sounds,
showing that they had partially re
covered from their terror'and were in
vestigating the cause of the strange ap
paratlon. " Let's all shout," suggested Dick,
"and try to make them hear us on board
the ship, I see no better way."
" We can do better," I said. "We can
fire a musket. They could not tell our
voices from the others ; and if they
could hear us, they can certainly hear
the Kanakas now. One inuBket, only
Tom, fire yours off the rest of us hold
our fire, and be on our guard."
Tom raised his old flint-lock, and fired
in the air. As the report died away, a
long-drawn "Aho-o-o-oy 1" came from
seaward,sounding above the monotonous
roar of the water rolling over the coral.
"Hurrah 1 a bout!" And in our ex
citement, we all halloed to the full
stretch of our lungs. Loud voices,
several of them, came back In reply,
and preseutly, we made out the boat,
which had approached as near the reef
as the officer dured. Up went a boat
lantern on a waif-pole, showing what
seemed little more than a mere spark of
light.
She can come no further," said I,
" there is but one course for us to rush
out on the reef and go to her, through
the breaker. We cau do it, if we keep
cool and seize the right moment for the
start."
"Here come the savages V" said
Tom.
Sure enough, they were approaching ;
some of them bearing torches. There
was not a moment to be lost.
" Look out now, when the next one
breaks, and I'll give the word. Never
mind the guns, throw them away into
the water, so the Kanakas wont get
them. All ready V Now!"
It was a fearful risk, but no one
hesitated to run it. Braced up for the
worst, we met the next roller at just the
right moment; and passing through it,
found ourselves still four in number,
and not seriously injured, though some
what bruised, and nearly strangled by
the brine, for the struggle had been
a hard one. Our cries were answered at
once, and scarcely a minute elapsed ere
we were alongside the boat, aud ready
hands were dragging us over the gun
wales. . But by this time, the line of the
beach was alive with the natives, and
numerous torches, made by burning a
species of oily nut, shed a glare upon
the wild scene.
Laying off at a safe distance, we saw
them crowd down to the beach until the
entire population who were able to walk
must have been present. And among
th em, to our great relief, appeared our
two comrades, who had been left in
charge of the boat. They were still
guarded, but did not appear to be hurt.
Somehow, I felt that they were safer,
now that the Irishman was out of the
way, and that we should have no diffi
culty about effecting their ransom.
But nothing could be done for them at
the moment, and I gave the word for
the already overloaded boat to return to
the barque. Keeping then under good
working still, we held our position until
day again broke.
It appeared that the mate, soon after
we left, had stood off shore to make a
long board, intending to be close In with
the island at nlghtfull; but the wind
slacking, he was so far off at the time of
the surprise of the guard and seizure of
the boat, that he knew nothing of that
transaction, and did not regain his de
sired position with the ship until long
after dark. He had since kept the signal-light
constantly aloft, and as the
night advanced, had sent the second
mate with another boat to reconnoitre,
becoming uneasy about us ; and had also
fired the slx-pounder, as before related.
We succeeded, the next day, in ran
soming our two men for a few pounds of
tobacco, and other articles of trifling val
ue; and having got them safely on
board, we opened a regular fire from the
old gun-currlage, under cover of which,
we landed and took off our boat. The
savages took good care to keep out
of range of the gun, aud we had no de
sire to kill or injure any of them. The
renegade Barney was the instigator of
all the trouble, and it was a satisfaction
to us to know that he got his deserts. I
firmly believe it was his Intention to
have destroyed us all, and then to have
captured the barque, if possible. He
was bad enough to do it, but too coward
ly to wish to run much risk himself, and
for that very reason, was unable to in
spire his followers with courage to act
promptly. His whole management of
the business showed an indecision which
marred its success, and proved our safe
ty. Followers will never be bold with
out a bold leader.
Our two men, when attacked, fired
but a single shot, which slightly wound
ed one of the natives ; but, deciding that
resistance was useless, threw their guns
into the sea, as the rest of us did after;,
wards, and submitted at discretion! The
wounded native and a few others .were
clamorous for their blood ; and, for a
time, their lives seemed suspended by a
hair; but the ransom party finally pre
vailed, aud the prisoners were placed in
confinement, but not otherwise Ill-treated.
It did not not appear that these
people were desirous of killing any
white meu. Their cupidity was the be
setting sin, as Is the case of most South
Sea Islanders, but they would never
have done us injury, but for the influ
ence of the white scoundrel and coward
Barney.
We did not Btay to make a trade for
the anchors and other articles ; nor did
we see what disposition was made of the
beach-comber's body. It was probably
carried off outside of the reef and sunk,
according to their usual custom.
Exploring the Prisoners' Cells.
The Virginia (Nev.) "Chronicle"
says : As they now have a pretty rough
lot of customers at the county jail, it
was yesterday thought worth while to
overhaul all the cells in order to see
what was going on among the prison
ers. Sticking into the under side of a
bench they found a large Jack-knife,
which had been ground to a sort of dag
ger point, making it an ugly weapon.
An ordinary case knife was found which
had been sharpened till it would shave
like a razor; also, a case knife which'
had been made into a saw. A Chinese
opium pipe was found rolled up in
some blankets, and several lots of opium
were brought to light, one lot being
found in the possession of a white man.
In one of the Chinese cells was found
an opium pipe, manufactured in the
jail, which is quite a curiosity. It is
constructed of a soda bottle, into one
side of which has been drilled a hole
but a little larger than a common pin.
How this small hole was drilled into a
substance as hard as glass is a mys
tery, but it is said there is a way of do
ing it by means of a stick, greased, dip
ped in fine dust or sand, and whirled
rapidly between the palm of the hands.
Several tliioknesaes of paper passed over
the bottle to prevent it cracking when
held against the flame of a caudle in
smoking, and a stem was fitted in the
neck of the bottle by splitting a stick,
cutting a groove in it, and then fasten
ing the halves together by wrapping
them with a piece of ticking gummed
over with a paste of chewed bread. This
rude pipe showed signs of having given
frequent solace to its owner. He prob
ably missed it sadly. Some of the opium
confiscated was found secreted in
queer places.
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