Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-22
prize into the schooner, together with every
 thing useful or valuable OH which they could

prize into the schooner, together with every thing useful or valuable on which they could lay hands.
 Night closed this busy and guilty day with the pirates, and when a new sun arose on the lonely African bay, no vessel was to be seen floating on its bosom l. was de- serted. The pirates had. during the dark ness of night, scuttled and sunk their prize, with the bodies of her murdered crew, and had themselves put To sea, in order to get IS fast and far away as possihle from the scene of their guilt.
 
 It was about twelve years after the occur renee of this tragedy, that the stage coach dt was then the only one) that passed thro' Newarton, in the south of Scotland, capsl- zed at an abrupt turn of the road, about a mile and half west of the riiiase above named. whereby several passengers were more or less injured.
 Amongst the sufferers on the occasion above alluded to, was d gentleman, an out side passenger, who was so seriously injur- ed that he had to be carried to the nearest house This was neat little cottage of the better class, with slate roof, small ofnamen- tai garden in front, and enclosed by a neat iron railing. It was the residence of Mrs. Evandale, widow lady, in decent. though not affluent circumstances, and her daugh- ter, very pretty young woman of about six and twenty years of age.
 Being of kind and benevolent disposi- ton, Mrs. Evandale eagerly opened her door to admit the disabled stranger, who was car ried by some countrymen who had witness ed the accident from field in which they happened at the oment to be working.
 The wounded man having been carefully laid out on couch. messenger was in- sta an,ly despatched for medical man.
 For several weeks he lay in very preca- rous state, but robust constitution and skiltul medical aid finally triumphed, and he began gradually, though slowly, to re- cover. A fractured limb, however, kept him confined to bed, and threatened to do so for some time to come.
 IL was at the end of about ten days after he had been brought to Mrs. Evandale's, and when he first began to rally, that the stran- ger sent for his kind hostess, and, after apo gizing in rough and blunt sort of way for the trouble he had given her, insisted on her acceptin. five guenas. and agreeing to make further remunerations for whatever longer time his injuries might compel him to continue an inmate of her house.
 This was the first time Mrs. Evandale had had proper interview of her loiger. and the opportunity enabled her to perceive that he was fine looking man, of swarthy com plexion, and having altogether the appear ance of one who had seen much of the world, and had been exposed 10 many climes his age seemed to he about forty.
 Six weeks after. the stranger was still an inmate of Mrs. Evandule's. He was now rapidly approaching entire convalescence, although still unable to walk without the aid of crutches.
 During this period, degree of intimacy had taken place between him and Mrs Ev- andale and her daughter, which placed them on comparatively familiar footing with each other. and it was when this understand ing had grown up between the parties. that the stranger gave. for the first time, some- thing like history of himself. His name this, however, he had mentioned before was Stanley, William Stanley. His pro- fession. the sea which he said he had fol- lowed since he was boy. That, la,terly, It titu tlstu tUe CutttUiItu Oi AhiFit' can ship, trading between Boston and Can ton In Cai"a. That having realized an in. dependency Tn that employment, he had now returned 10 his native country, from which he had been absent for five and twenty years, 10 spend the remainder of his days in the qui. ct enjoyment of the fortune he had acquired.
 He told, too. of the wondrous sights he had seen, and Othello-like, of the dangers he had passed; and ano,hsr Desdemons was won hy ,i,a s,;--;ug ,a1es.
 Margaret Evandale gazed on the manly form of the seaman, and listened to his sio- ries of savage lands. of wild adventure; to his thrilling descriptions of the mighty tenn pests that career over the face of the great deep, heaving the ponderons pillows to the sky. and tossing the huge ship to and fro, as il 1t were the playtainy of a child, til her admiration of the bold and daring spiri. by which these scenes had been hraved, had passed into deep and intense love.
 The knowledge that their inmate was, or had been, seaman, gave him an addition al interest, in the eyes Of both Margare, Ev- andale and her mother, for they had had a near and dear relative, son to the one, and brother to the other, who Lad followed the same profession, but who lad becn lost 8. sea. i, had never been ascer,ained exactly how. He had beea captain and principal ow- ner of the vessel he sailed in--,he M,nerra, of Fairhaven-which never returned from tho voyage on whicl. she last proceeded.- Nor had anything ever since been heard of either the vessel herself, or of any of her unfortunate crew. Little wonder was it, then, that the widows heart should warm to Captain Stanley, who so strongly remind ed her of her long lost and most beloved son.
 Little wonder tha. Margaret Evan.lale should associate with this person, the ten. derest recnlleciions of an adored brother, and should thus rivet the attachment she had formed for him on other grounds.
 In as far, too, as his hold and hoisterous nature would admit, did Captain Stanley in turn, become attached to Margare, Evandale. Net it was odd that such attachment should have sprung up between them. for they were of the most opposite tempers and dispositions imagined-M Margaret being gentle and timid. Stanley. fierce and impetuous. Such appa-