The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-09-07
rrCyi' abroad and away. You 60 with him'"

ulHefent what port we n1nO fUr-Hampufg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp-the place signifed little
80 that he was got out Of England. Any foreign
steamer that fell In our wav, and would take us
| up, would do. | had always proposed to myself
/ 10 get him well down the river in the bOat-cer-
! tainy well beyond Gravesend, which was a crit
ical place for search OF inquiry II suspicion were
! afoOt. As foreign steamers would leave Lon
don at about the time Of high-wdtor, our plan
/ would be to get down the river by previous
| side, AMI lie by in some quiet spot until We
| could pull OF to one. The time when one would
be due where We lay, wherever that might be,
could Toe calculated pretty nearly, If W. made
| inquiries beforehand.
Herbert assentcd to this. and wo went out
Immediately after breakfast to pursue our in
vestigatiOns. We found that "A steamer for
H,m6urg was likely to suit our purposes best,
aud W. directed our thou ;h's chiefly to that
vessel But we noted DOWN what other foreign
steamer, would leave London with the Simo
tide, anil We satisfied oursalvcs that We knew
the build and color VI each W. then scptrttel
for a few hOurs-I I" yet At once surh passports
~ w,rL Necessary, Herbert to scr Stariop At hs
lodgings W. both ID what wo mad to do
without any hin leance, and whom We met
again at one clock, rcpndoi it Il NJ. l. for
my part, was popIre with passports; Herbert
had 'een S'artop AMI he VIZ moro than roddy
To join.
Those two should pull q pair u oars, we set
tied, and | would Steer; our chrgs would be
sitter, and keep quiet; as sped was not our OBJ
jcct, We should make wav enough. We ar
ranged that Herbert should not come home to
dinner before going to Mil Pond Bank that
evening, that hc should not go there at all to-
morrow evening, Tuesday; that he should pre-
pare Provis to come down 10 some stairs h lrd
by the house. on Wcdnc-diy, when h. saw Us
approach, and not sooner; that all tho arrange
ments with him should bo concluded that Mon
day night; aud that he should bs communicated
with a nm tyu until Ia IL him an
board.
Those precautions we'll undcr'too by both Of
us, ! went home.
On opening The outer door II our chambers
with my key, ! found letter IN tho box, di-
rnctcd 10 mr.-i very dirty letter though not
ill-writtcn. Il had been delivered bv hand (,f
course since left homo, aud its contents were
these.
"lf you are not afraid tn come t. the old
marshes tonight ur tomorrow night, at Nine,
and to come To the little sluict-hru,o by tho
lin kiln, You had better come. II YOU want
iniuun ,tion regarding yJur uncle Pror,', you
had much better come aud tell no one, and oe
no time. iou must come alone. Bring this
with YOU
had had load enough upon my mini before
the rcccip, Of this stang' letter. What =. do
now clul NOT tell Aud the worst wus, that
! must decide quickly, or | should mss the
afternoon coach, watch would take me down in
time for tonight. Tomorrow night | could not
think of going, for It would be too close upon
the time Uf the flight. And again, for any thing
| knew the pruiorcd information might have
some important bearing on the Hight itself.
II had had ample time Tor consideration |
believe should still have gone. llIyin hardly
anv time for Cunsidcratun--mv watch shown
mo that the coach started within halt an hour
| resolved to 20. | should certainly not have
| gone but for the reference TO my Uncle proyis
| that, coming on Wemmick's letter and the
morning. busy preparation turned the scale.
! II is so difficult ~ bocomc clearly pos5c, ,ci
| Of the contents uf almost any letter tn violent
| hurry, that had Ia Rad thu mysterious cpi,jlc
again, twice, beef re It's injunction to mo to be
secret got mechanically into my mind. Yield
| I'M; 10 it in the same mechanical kind If way,
! left note in Cncl for Herbert, trlMt him that
! A. should be- ~ soon going away, know not
| for how luns | had decided to hurry down and
| back To ascertain for myself how Ms llIyisham
was fung. ! hal then barely timo To ret my
| gre t-coIt, lock mp the chambers, aul make tor
| the coach-oilicr by the short hy-ways. If had
| taken hnckncy-chlrot and zone 10y the streets,
| ! should have missed my aim: going a. dll, |
| caught the coach iu't ~ it ctme out Of the
! yard. | WIS the only Inside p ..rus'r, i,tin;
away kncc-dccp in straw, when came 10 my
| self
II was dark before we 20, down. anil tho
| journey seemed Ion, AMI drclrv to me who
| could zoe little Of il inside and who could not
| 20 outside in nv disabled state had previous
| ~ sought IL my pockets for the letter that |
might refer to II again, but could not ind IL and
| was uneasy to think that it must have been
dropped in the straw of the coach. | knew very
well, however, that the appointed place was the
little sluiCe-h house nv the limc-kiln on thu
| marshes. AMI the hour nine. Towards the
marshcs now went straight, having no time to
spare
CIiAPTERL
II was a dark night, though the full moon rose
| rs left the iuClusel lands and passed out up,n
| the marshes. Beyond their dark line there was
| ribbon Of clear ~ hardly broad enough to hold
| the red large moon. In ~ few minute. she ha 1
assembled out Of that clear iili IN among the piled
| mountain, Of cloud.
There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes
were Yer, dismal. \ stranger Guild have found
| hem iusupportahc, and even 10 mo they were So
| Impressive that hcsitatrd, halt ncliurl 10 20
| p,ck. But | knew them we'll, and could have
| ouud my way on far darker nigh. and hal no
'Ncus' for returning, being there. So, having
ome there against my inclination, | went on
against il.
The direction that took was not that In which
my old home lay, nor that in which We had pur-
sued the ConNiCts. MY back was turned toward
the distant Ilulks A. | walked on, and though
could see the old ligh away on the spts OF sand,
! saw them over my shoulder. | knew the lime
kiln rs well rs knew the old Battery, hut they
were miles apart; so that ifa light had been burn
Ing al each point that ,ht thepwuull have been
long slrp Of the blank horizon between the two
bright spcck..
At MT had to shut some gate. after me. AMI
now and then Ia stand still while the cattle that
were living I'm the hluNcd-up pathway arose ani
Numbered down among the gras, and reeds. But
| after a little while seemed to have the whole
| tlats 10 my self
II was another half hour before drew near IN
the kiln. The lime was burning with >u,.is',
sitting smell hat the fires were made up ant
left and no workmcu were visible Hard h, Wat,
a small -touc-qulUy. ltlly directly inmvWlv,
anl had been worked that lay. a, saw by the
tools and barrow, that were lying about.
Coming up again To- the mar h lowell ont OF thi,
excavation --lor the rude path lay through it
,.w light in the 81 slulcc house. Ipurkrucd
my pace, and knocked At hrdolr w'th my hand.
Waiting for some vply, look a about me, no
tigns how the sluiee Wa ahlnduu,l AMI hrukun,
| AMI how the huu-r--ui wo,l, with a Tied roof
would not hc proof agains, the weather much
longer, II II were sn even nov. and how the mud
| and uule were cuttrd with lime, and how the
choking yapur # the kiln crcpt in a gho.tly way
toward me, Sull there WIS NO answer, and
knocked again. No answer still, AMI tried the
latch.
1t rose I'M Ter my hand, and the door Welded.
Looking in, | saw lighted candle ON table. a
bench, aul "a mattress on a trcklc bed ,tcad
A. there was a lott above, called II, there
my one HvroS' but no voice answered. Then |
looked al my watch, and, finding that it was
past nine, called again, as there anyone here ;'