New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-25

| Yes, Sir"
And a. yso e know what whites i'T
After each question he tilted me over little more,
30 as to give me greater sense oi beipiessne7' s"'
| danger. Dad
"Y You get me file.r He tilted again. |" Ana .,
/ Won get me wittles." He tilted me again. lou 10y,
bring EN- both 20 me-" He tilted me again. no;n
have your heart and liver out" He tilted me agsin.
was dreadfully frightened, and 30 glddy * tna' 4
clnnc to him with both hands, and said, "f you
wculd kindly please to let keep upright sur, per,
haps shouldn't be sick, and perhaps could ateho
| more" I'll "a Tho,
| the ch1rcb iumped over its own weahercock Then
he held me BY the arms, in an upright posuon on tno
top of the stone and went on IN theee fearful terms
g You bring me- tomorrow morning early, that hle,
and them wittIes You bring the lot to at that old
battery over yonder You do this and you never dare
To- say word or dare TO make dgn concerning your
haven seen such person as me, or any person, and
Won shall be let to live. You fail you go from my
words in any partickler, no matter bow small the
partickle and your heart and your liver shall be tore
out. roasted, and ate. Now aln't alone, rs you may
comparison with which Young man sm an Angel o
light. II at young nan hears the words l speak
That young maa has secret way pecooar to himself,
Of getting at boy and at bis heart and at his liver
IL is in vain for boy 90 attempt to hde himself from
that young man. A boy may lock his door, may be
warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the
clothes his bead may think himself comfortable and
safe; but that young man will softly creep and creep
young man from barmn' Of yoa at the present mo-
meut, with great difficulty. find il very bard TO
bold that young man oil OF your inside. Now, what
do you ssy?'
said that would get bin the file and would get
him what broken bits of food could, and i would
come to him at the Battery, early in the morning,
" Say Lord strike you dead il you don't y said the
man.
said 90, and be took me down.
"Now, 1" he pursued " you remember vhat youye
undertook, and you remember that young man, and
| you get home.
"Goo-goodnight, Sir" FILTERED.
"Much Of that" said he, glancing about him over
| the cold wet Hat. {" wish was frog. Or eelV
At the same time he hugged bis Sbuddeiing body in
both his arms-clasping hiInsef as to hold himt.h
| togeher-snd lmped toward the low church wall. AZ
saw him TO- picking his way among the nettles, and
among the brambles that bound the evergreen mounds,
be looked in my Young eyes Of II he Were euding Ine
hands Of tie dead people, stretching up can,ioss oy,
of their graves, TO ge' twist upon has ankle ana pun
| him in
When be came to the loN church wall he got over
| it. like man whose eRs were nurnbed and Stih ana
then turned round 10 look for me. When saw biia
turning set my face toward home and made the best
| nae of nv legs But presently looked over my
shoulder and saw him going on ngain toward Inc river
still huggng himself in both arms, and picking ma way
with his core feet among the great stones dropped into
the marshes here aud there for stePPingpiaees when
! the rains were heavy. or tie lido WAS in.
The marshes were jus, a long black horizontal line
them stopped to lock after him; and the river was
30 black; and the sky, Just row OF long angry
red lines, and dense black lines intermXed. On tho
edge of The river could family make out the only two
black things IN all the pISspect tha seemed 10 90
standing upright; one Of these was the beacon by
which The sailors soerodlike urbooped cask upon
a pole--an ugly slimy thing when you were lear ~
the other, gbhet with some chains banging 70 ~
which had once held pirate. The man Wac hmping
toward this latter IL he the pirate coming to
life aud cone down. and going back TO hook himself
up again. 1t gave a teiiible turn when thought
\ nd tho black Qaffa lifting their
gaze after him. wondered whether they thought 10
too looked all around for the horrible young man,
aud could zee no signs Of him But now wss fright
ened again. and ran bone without stopping.
The terrified Pip lost no time in fulfilling his
mission, and in tie early gray of the morning
was again upon the marches with store OF
mincemeat, a pork pie, bottle Of BRANDY, and
other comforts sor tho aesh which he had cou-
! trived to abstract from the Christmas lsrder of
Mrs. Joe Gargery. Like ravenors starving
WOLF the convict clutehsd tao provisions, and
| was eagerly deyouring his stolen breakfast. when
o sudden sound gave him = start, aod the sus-
picion rushed into his ,nnj that he wss betrayed
by mis- young caterer
"You're re not fals. inp fou brought no one with
SVs "S No. s;r, Mo-"
"Nor give 10 The ei'icc to Soilow yoaf"
"WeI." said TO- al believe you. You'd bo bat
der, young Indeed If at your tine Of life You
! could help TO hunt wrtrhed warmth. hunted as
near death and danaLas this poor wretched wor1nnt
! is"
Something clicked IN bis throat, a. f be bad works
III him like elJsk, and we' going 10 strike Aud he
81 cared hi. ragged, rough sleeve over lis e}es
/ Pityipe bis desolkion, aud watctins him 81 he
gradually settled down aion TIE PIE, i aaas bodto
say, 81 am glad VOC oIjty it..
| a. Did you speah:
81 said was glad son to,osed IL.
| rhauaes, INV boy. | %.
/ had ol.eil watched large dog Of onfs enting lie
food; and noticed deridea similarity t..wesn
the dog swsy Of eating snd tIn mans. The man took
s.rons sharp, SUDDEN bites just like tie dog. lie
svnlDwed OF satt snapped up, eNeEy mouiiisl too
soon and tes fast aud he looked sideways here and
there bile te ate, II he thought there sns dagger
Of SON ,ody coming TO take the Iie away lie was
altogether too nsetLled in lis nind it TO aPr--
ciate il comfortably, thought, 10 have auytoJy 10
due with him, with out iuakngR chop with bic jaws
ii the vtor In all Of which particulars be was very
"you won't leave any Of for biln, ssd T. timidy
sfer silence dnring which Lad fesilaled as to tie
! Ioli.epesz of Eskng the remark. There's no ,a'is
H. lie got whel that camc FROM. Ii was tie certainty
! u this iact that impeIcd ne to offer tho hini.
Leave for him Who's himP said my friend,
depJing III Liz eIuncbing Of pie-crust.
q The young man That yon spoke of That waa
oOh, ab !" he returned, with something like guG
laugh. Iliml les, yesl he don't wait no Wit
| ties"
| @I thought be looked az if he did, sad i.
Tie man stopped eating, aud regarded ne witt the
closest scrutiny aud the peate.t surprise
! Looked Wben?'
| just now ~
! Where r.
"Yonder," said l. pointing; oveI there, whers
fond hiIo nodding asleep and thought il was you"
He held me BIZ the collar and tiared at me 30, that
began think iis first Idea about cutting my throat
| 81 r.nsa. A Ill r., xou tpou. n,lv x,itb hat ,