Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-07-15

bled To board wrecks, before he should derse The
first benefit from them. and there were now no
means of accesst the helpless boys. Vain were all
ATTEMPTS to reach them. Urged by the distress OF
the wfetehed mother, several OF the peasants attach
ed themselves to ropes, and strove to wade out 10
the rock but the fierce surf whose violence was now
Increased by strong wind, drove them back bruls-
ed and bleeding upon the shore. The sun set IN
deep bank Of heavy coudsth the cry OF the sea-gulis
was heard at intervals between the rushing of the
mighty winds and the wild dashing oil the cruel wa
ters and every thing porended icaru! STORM
Higher and higher rose the waves, yet the brothers
still cling together on the rock Thu waters cover
ed their graceful forms as with veil of diamond
spray and their beautiful faces, and long fair curIs
heavy " ith moisture, were sill seen above the boil
ing surge, when suddenly vivid flash oil lightning
i,Iumined The frmament-a loud crash OF thunder
stunned the senses Of the fearful gazsTs on the beach
aud the next moment the waters swept IN triumph
over the Swscar Rock. he beautiful and gentle
boys gone
Il was late on the dark and stormy evening when
Mr. Vaughan turned his course homeward. With
all his desperate courage, he lacked moral strength
and rather would he have faced an armed man, than
thus encounter darkness and tempest, when alone IN
the presence Of his maker. lie pushed rapidly Tor
ward. trusting to his sure footed and well trained
steed, whose lefty hue and singular doclty had III
duced the superstitlous peasants to class nm win
the swauhy Malek, myrmidons OF The wizard
Lord of Dunrayen. The night was intensely dark,
but Vaughan knew that he might trust to the am
mails sagacty, and he therefore stayed not his speed
for rocky pass or rough foothold. But ere they
reached Duniaven Cliff, he was led to doubt the sa-
gao,y TO which he had trusted. The lights which
he believed to be those of Dunrayen Castle, were
cleaning on the right hand, while the horse seem
ed resoIuley bent on pursuing the lett hand path
AT length yielding TO the lmpetuous temper which
characterized HIM when not under The control oil his
profound assimilation, Vaughan drove his spurs
into the creatures sides until the rowes were dyed
in blood. and wheeling him suddenly rount, dashed
furously onward in the direction of the lights
Maddened with pain, the noble animal pushed Tor
ward at thetop Of his speed, until he reached the
very brink of the cliff, when, perceiving his dan
ger, he suddenly stopped, and his rider was precp-
;ated his head, sheer down precipice, at least
an hundred feet in height.
Vaughan had been deceived even as he had otten
deceived others The lights which had led him as
tray were the torches Of those who were watching
for tho moment when the waves should fling back
upon The shore the bodies of tine hapless children
bleeding and senseless, bat not lifeess body, he
was borne 10 the castle. Crushed out Of the very
se nbance of humanity he still retained spark of
the vital principle, bnd although all speech and mo-
ton were gone for ever, he yet awoke to conscious
ness He heard the words of all around him; they
spoke as if in presence of The dead, for they knew
no, lha, his ears drank in every sound. He listened
the denunciation of those who had hated l,im--he
caught the sounds which told of bitter retribntion for
a life Of crime, and, at eng h, slowly and painfully
did his tro ublcd mind gather the awful dnss Of his
children fate Therehe lay, like tampled worm,
unable to utter sound, the deep and bitter
means of agony, while coldly ard careesSly men
talked of the death-the fearful death of his darling
hoys The thrcud of life, tenacious though it SEEM
ed was TOO trail TO bear such fearful vibi alton,
and ere the morning dawned, all that remained of
the stately beauty of the Lord of Dunraven, was a
frightful mass of disfgured humanity.
The bodies of the twins, still twined in close
embrace, were cast ashore, the next day, on Sa int
Donats manor, and The clasp Of paterua love which
evon the waters had failed TO discover. unbro
ken when they were consigned 10 the burial place
of their ancestors One shroud, one coffin, and one
grave received those who had been united in birth
and in death while borne the same bier were the
rnutilned remains Of the last Lord of Dunraven.
Malek, the indicative Arab was never again
seen in tlamorganshire, but dumb boy, answering
to his description, found to have begged his
way to London, and there in that sink OF vice and
misery all trace Of him was lost for ever. Deprived
of the means of expressing his wants. except by
sigus and habituated, tromhi childhood, to crime
his career was doubles one of vice and misery,
and, in all probability, was soon al an end. Mrs
Vaughan weak mind was completely ovrrpowered
by tie terrible shock it had sustained; and she sunk
into state of mental mbccii,y, which, while it
dark ened the mirror Of memory, left her the capac-
ty for enjoying childish emusements. BY the kind
ness of the heir-a,-law, she removed from Dun
raven Castle, and spent the remainder OF very
long life. surrounded by toys and paythlngs, such
as would have charmed an infant, apparently quite
happy and contened, though necessarily kept under
guardianship as a confined lunatic.
Such is the Tradition Of the last Of the Vanghans,
and surely the sins The father were visited upon
the chi dfen in the fearful retrbution which awaited
the spoiler of the seas.
NorE-Trefer the curious reader to Crosses An
au,ses Of EegIand and Wales, 9Th vol, for the
dillon on which the foregoing tale is founded.
Brooklyn, Il. L.
The following lines written by the Rev. e.
Wolfe have been copied by friend as appl'ca-