Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-09

dark brown locks curling all over his
manly forehead, shading his dark eyes
his smooth cheek glowed with rudy
health. With fearless activity he would
climb the steepest rocks, and was said to
be the first who climbed the noted Black
Linn, as it was then called. Well, sir, |
suppose you have guessed by this time
what were Elfne's other weighty reasons
for not marrying my lord Rosedale. 1t
1t was the very day before the young lord
made his proposals, that Elfine and Allan
had sworn, under the large trysting tree.
to become man and wife, or never marry
at all.
SWELL, Elfine told her father how the
case was. saying, at the same time, she
would never break her promise to Allan.
Her father threatened, urged, entreated-
all would not do. EIfine said she would
never marry without his consent, but she
woulc never marry any one but Allan
The father became furious, Efine more
firm and it ended in her fathers affirm.
ing that she should never more darken his
doors till she would consent to marry the
Earl ofRosedale. "That will never do, {"
cried the poor girl, sbut could bear it all,
IT my father had not cursed me and turned
me out OF his house," Nearly all the
neighbors offered the houseless Elfine a
home, but she would accept none, not
even mine, though she considered me as
q second father-and no one knows how
she subsisted the few days she was ont of
her fathers house.
"Ahout three days after Andrew had
thus tyranically dismissed his daughter.
he began to be dull in. spirit, and to repent
of having sent her away. A dreadful
storm, such as none in the village ever
remembered before, arose. That large
rock you see sir, between us and Efine's
Rock, was entirely covered by the waves,
circumstance never known before and
just between it and Eltine's Rock, one of
the village boats, with four men in it, was
thrown. The whole village was out,
watching the boat, for even the most san.
guine amongst us believed it could never
clear itself. The women were crying and
shrieking, for four men out of such village
was no trife. The whole place was in
an uproar. We were all placed on the
top of Elfine's Rock, and the crew had
succeeded in fastening the boat to an iron
ring in that middle crag, but there was no
chance of their being saved, unless some
one should descend by ElEne' Rock--run
across some sand that you see there, get
the rope, run back again, aud up Elfne'
Rock, that the boat might be drawn to
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this? The sea ran mountains high--every
wave dashed halt way up the cliff--the
wind blew. hurricane. never remem-
Der such eight. Even the boidest heart
quailed.
1.-THE only one who, It was imagined,
might venture down the rocks, was Allan
Kennedy; but hs was ill in bed, and how
was he TO get to the boat, when every
wave went over the spot which he must
cross? Destruction seemed inevitable,
when suddenly light female figure dart.
ed through the crowd, and before it could
be known who she was, had passed half
way down the fearful edge. "Elfne
Hainesford! Elfne, come back!--you will
be lost!'' shouted the seamen, but she
still kept on. "My child my Elfne p'
shouted her father.
SPY this time the noble girl had fear
lessly won her way down TO ledge OF
rocks, which has since fallen off. Stand
ing on that hazardous projection, she
| seemed being of another world her
long hair floating with the blast, and her
white arms clinging to the cliff. There
she stood, on that fearful pinnacle, partly
to recover breath, and partly to listen to
her fathers voice. 'My child my child!''
shouted he, "come back, my sweet Elfine,
and will forgive you all I" She stopped
halfirresolute, and he redoubled his cries:
but she heard wall from the boat, when
shaking her head, she again began to de
sceud. The sea became moro furious
the roaring ofthe wind-the cries Of heI
father, together with the relations Of those
/ who were in the boat--the distant growl
i ing of the thunder--were terrific and ap
1 paling. The noble Elfne regarded naught
but proceeded with fearful rapidly, nov
i springing from one crag to another--nov
/ lost in the thickening foam--again seer
on some jutting point It'll at last she came
to large platform of the rock. nearly a
the bottom. All was still now as befor,
/ il had been tempestuous. With breath
!. less silence we watched the descent O
the fearless girl, and even the sea becam,
hushed and still. as though astonished a
} the sight, while the wind whistled in Low
and and sullen murmufs. Elfne tool
advantage of this calm, and with the swift
:. ness of a bird she darted across the dr.
sand and gained the rock. The men il
] the boat had. for some time, been anxious
) " watching her proceedings. With read
5 hand they threw her the rope, and tn
: next instant she was back on the ledge
, But the calm lasted only Tor a moment
r and the sea now RACED with greater FIR,