The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-12
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8 "a. GU IMAM Co.'s.
zeal, his incurable passion was partly
the cause. Fortunes had been made
q win great rapidity in Sydney; and
Seaton now conceived wild hope OF
acquiring one, by some lucky hit, be-
fore Wardlaw could return to Helen
J. Rolleston. And vet his common sense
i said - was aBsrich as CEmSuss how
could she ever mate With me, a sfaIned
man. And yet his burning heart said,
Try.
And SO he worked double tides; and,
In virtue of his University education
had no stiobbfsh notions about never
putting his hand to manual labor: he
would lay down his pen at any mo.
ment, and bear hand 10 lift chest, or
roll cask. Old White saw him thus
Il multiply himself, md wassso pleased
that he raised his salary one-third. s.
BE never saw Helen Rolleston ex-
\ cept ON Sunday. On that day he went
1 to her church, sat half behind pillar,
and feasted his eyes and his heart upon
her. he lived sparingly, saved money,
bought a strip of land, by payment OF
| e10 deposit, and sold IL in forty hours
| for Sl00 profit, and watched keenly for
| similar opportunities on q larger scale:
and all for her. Struggling. with q
! mountain: hoping against reason, and
/ the world ~ - - = III
White q Co. were employed to ship
/ a valuable cargo on board two vessels
chartered by WardlaW and Son; the
Shannon and Proserpine.
Both these ships lay in Sydney har-
| Dor, and had taken in the bulk of their
cargUes: but the supplement- was the
cEeami for WardlRWs in person. had
wRrehouSed eighteen cases of gold dust
and ingots, and fifty of lead and smelt-
ed copper. They were all examined,
and branded, by. Mr.. White, who had
duplicate Keys of the gold eases. But,
thscontents as q matter 0e habit and
prudence were not described o1tside;
| out were marked Proserpine and Shan
| non, respectively; the mate of the Pro-
serpine, who. was in Wardlaw's conf
dence, had written instructions TO look
carefully to the stowage of all these
cases and was in and ont ofthe store zone
t'afternoon inst before closing, and
measured the cubic contents OF the
! cases, with a view to etowage in
the respective vessels. The last time
he came he seemed rather the worse
for liquor; and Seatou, who accompan-
led HIM, having stepped out for a min
ute for something or other, was rather
surprised on his. return to find. the
door closed and 1t struck him Mr.. Wy
lie (that was the mates name) might
be inside; the more SO as the door
closed very easily with q spring bolt,
but it could only be opened by key
of peculiar construction. SeatOn took
out his key opened the door, and
called to tae mate, but received no re-
ply. However, he took the precautIon
10 go round the store. and see whether
WYIie,. rendered somnolent by liquor,
might not be lying obliYious among
the cases; Wylie, however, was not 70
be seen, and Seaton finding himself
alone did an unwise thing; he came and
contemplated WardlaW's cases Of metal I
and specie. fbden viii go too near the |
thing that causes their pain.) he eyed
them with grief and with desire, and
could not restrain q sigh at these mate |
rial proofs of his rivals wealth; the |
wealth that probably had smoothed /
his way to General Rolleston's home,
can pave the way to hearts, ay, eVentb |
hearts that cannot be downright /
bought. This revery, no doubt, lasted /
longer than he Thought, for presently I
he heard the loud rattle of shutters GO.
ing up below; it was closing time; he |
ters, and then went out and shut the /
door.
He had been gone about two hours,
and that part OF the streetso noisy in |
business hours, was hushed in silence,
all but an occasional footstep on the 1
flags outside, when something ,myste-
'rious'Occnrredi In the Warehouse,SnoW
as dark as pitch. sS-l-fs 2 49, ssssF
AT an angle of the wall stood two
large cases In vertical position, with
smaller cases lying at their feet= these |
two cases were about eight feet high, \
more or less. Well. behind these cases I
suddenly flashed feeble light, and the I
next moment two! brown and sineWy /
hands appeared on the edge of one OF
the cases,-the edge next the wall; the
case vibrRted and rocked a little, and /
the next moment there mounted on the
top Of 1t not a cat, nor a monkey, as |
might have been expected, but an ami
makthat'in truth resembles both these
quadrupeds, viz: y sailor; and need we
say that sailor was the mate OF the
Proserpine. He descended lightly from |
the top OF the case behind which he /
had been jammed for hours, and lighted /
a dark lantern; and went softly CROP /
ing about the store with 1t.
This WAS a mysterious act, and would
perhaps have puzzledt the lproprietorS |
OF the store even more than 1t would a
stranger: for stranger would have said |
atonce this Is burglary, or. else arson. |
but those acquainted with the place /
would have known that neither Of I
those cFim6s was VerY-practicable. This i
enterprising sailor could not burn down |
z
ing himself the first thing. and indeed |
he could not burn il down at all; for /
the roof was Hat, and was in fact one /
gigantic iron tank, like the roof of Mr.. |
Goding's brewery in London, and by q |
neat coutrivances OF America n origin, |
the whole tank could be turned in one |
moment to a shower bath, and drown a |
conhagralion in thirty seconds or
therea bouts. Nor could he rifle the
place; the goods were greatly protected
by their weight, and II was Impossible
to get out of the store without raising
an alarm, and being searched
b But,not to- fall into the errbfo wfi--
ters who undefrate their readers Curl
oaity and Intelligence, and SO deluHe
them with comments and eXplanations,
did, leaving you TO CLEAN his motives
as this tale advances Bis jacket had
large pockets, and he look out of them
a bunch OF eighteen bright steel keys,
numbered, a set of new ecreW-drivers,
. dask OF rum, and Two ship biscuits,
He unlocKed theleigh cases marie
ed Proserpine. &c, and, peering in with
his lantern. saw the gold dust and
small ingots packed in parcels, and
surrounded by -AGstFalian- wool -of-the
highest possible quality. It was a lus-
cions sight.
He then proceededetpa heavier task;
he unscreWed, one after another, eigu-
teen OF the cases marked Shannon, and
the eighteen SO selected perhaps by
private marks, proved to be packed
the gold, viz Ia pigs, or square blocks,
three, or in. some cases four, to each
chest. Now, tlles6 two ways Of packing
the spacie q nd the baser uefail rahnset,-l