The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-22

on me like a tiger. sIeaye me alone, ours,
! YOU DO you too mock at me y and witt
one spring, he was past me, and out at thu
door, lllkR q madmanni / followed in haste
greatly alarmed yas you may suppose, bu
! 99uld see Bnthing Of .himog There was {
INST rising, and any one would have beer
Invisible at any moderate distance; and i
| was with deep forebedings that l went IN,
! ROUNDS that night. II WhensI returned tt
my cottage. noticed a. small piece of papel
/ lying on the tioor,l 1t explained all Itrwal
q letter from Henden to Kate Ievidentl,
1 written in a hurry, and was crumpIed W
as If it had been clenched in the fingers. NJ
doubt it had dropped from Ralph's hand
though how he got it ] do not know. L
left no room for doubt. He urged her to fly
from the village before her condition became
known, and promised that he would provide
for her. Soon after, I heard more. THAI
same evening Kate Polmarthen had disap
peared, That morning hero bedroom haC
been found empty and bslle was gone
| What surprised others, though not me, wa!
| that Der father made no search after her
for he made none He knew only too vel
why she had gone HepdQn was still in the
| village in order, + suppose to divert all at
! teption from himself as he Was not aware
that the note had been found, Ralph and q
each keeping our own counsel. What neeC
to publish the certainty of her shame We
heard nothing of Ralph for three days, wher
he returned and went about his work Just a:
usual. but resenting fercely any mention o
the past LIS manner, too, 8 was quite
changed Oh ! 50 haggard and wild p, he
looked, and with dogged kind of sullenness
in place of his former light-hearted gaiety
Even to me he a. meyer spoke now, and one
or two attempts l made to draw him out in
to conversation were met with such bursts
of rage that was obliged to leave him to
himself. And now / must come to the most
painful part of my tale. You zee that the
bay below is closed in high-tide, and the
sand gets quite covered 1t was high-wa-
ter about half past eleven on the September
evening, when | was on my beat, and a
bright night, just like this. was walking
along the top of the Cliff, just where we are
now, when / thought / heard a voice down
below, Oh the beach, which was nearly un-
der water, Surprised at this, looked over
and | saw that there was a figure there, and
that he was rushing about, and shouting up.
[ could recognize the voice of Henden, and
called --',ffolloa, there p "Help! help"
he cried. Il am cut off by the tide. can't
swim. Send a boat For Gods sake help
mel" So it was. Sauntering along, he
had, suppose, waited there, and had found
himself cutoff by the rising tide, which
wonld have been the case an honr and a
half before | saw him, so that he must have
waited at least that time with the water
gradually rising higher and higher But
what was to be- done. True | had rope,
and instinctively had taken it out, but it
was only short cne about a dozen yards
long. | always carry a bit about with me.
1t often comes in useful but what good
was it now 2. [ could not descend the cliff,
and if l left my beat and went for assistance
he would be drowned long before ] could re-
turn Even while hesitated, / heard a
step behind me, and Ralph Tregarva stood
by my side. Il can go down that cliff"
said he, in the measured, logged tone he
had always used since then, though there
seemed to be an expression Of savage exult-
alton in his tone that night that made me
4 viii go. Give me that rope "
Good God!' | exclaimed, sit is certain
death y While spoke however, he had
snatched the rope out Of my hands, let him.
self over the edge Of the cliff, and was go
ing down, hand-under hand clutching at
every little bush and every tuft of grass
My head swan watching him. One slip
and he would have fallen literally smashed
on the rocks below but he seemed to bear
a charmed life, for still could see him going
down, further and further, crawling like
lizard, till he was only some eight or nine
yards from the bottom There lie stopped.
At aIc, rnalZ fhnra nd ba
lay down on it. 1t was still night, and |
could hear him, as plainly. as | could you,
sir Mr.. Henden y he called out oh,
thank God, you are come at last ? | heard
Mr.. Henden answer. Here l am How
can reach you ~ 4 have rope with mel
# | throw it to you, can you get
up here? Yes, yes; be quick, be quick.
The tide has risen up to my knees, and
lm half dead with cold Just so, was the
strange answer of Tregarva. Quick quick
10 not trihe with me; shall drown You
will not drown for half an hour yet, Mr.. |
Henden,' replied Tregarva, with a laugh.
But such laugh! 1t sounded like the
aughter of a fend. oh, for mercy's sake,
oe quick.' Mercy echoed Tregarva. Such
Is you have shown shall be shown to you.
Where is Kate PoImarthen? i do not know
do not, indeed. Quick the water is over
nv knees Liar = returned Ralph, needless
If his agonizing entreates. 4 have ven
ured my life to come here Did you think
t was to save you ?oaNo; it was to secure
ny revenge. Never shall you come up here
live Listen to me. When | heard Of her
light, l was among the first to visit her
louse. Her father found letter, from you
cling her to go, and that you would meet
Ter. She had dropped it in her hurried de-
,arture But never shall you meet her in
his world. Liar seducer! Your last hour
S come have but to throw you this rope
md YOU are SAFE Your life is in my hands
,ut had l a thousand lives, and were each
# them entwined in your one, | would give
lp all, all, to punish you. Again the
cream arose-"Mercy nercy!" ''Mercy,"
gain echoed Iregarva. Such mercy as the
ion shows to his prey, such shall you have.
You shall die, wretch-die in your sins and
IS the water mounts higher and higher
hink of her whose body and soul you have
murdered, think of me, whose peace of
mind, you, in your wontonness, have utterly
wrecked, and lien ask for mercy. Never
)h, that could forget the fearful scene that
olloWed. The wretched Henden, as the wa
er mounted higher and higher, while each
wave almost tore him away from his frail
loId on the projections of the rock, chung to
he cliff, shrieking out mingled prayers and
,Iasphemies in his agony, while the relent-
ess waves came dashing in, rearing up, I;
With hoarse boom against the rocks, while
bove all, rose the frantic yells Of Tregarva,
S he exulted in his terrors and sufferings, t
Ike wild beast over his victim The cri- i
is had arrived One mountainous wave {
anne rolling in, and while his death-shriek I
till rings in my ears, Henden was torn s
way from his hold His white face appear Y
cleaning amongst the spray for one mo- +
rent, the next he was dashed with fearful t
,rce against the rocks, and the next bleed b
lg and shattered body was borne out to sea. t
al h was re-ascending the cliff, when, los 4
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