The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-01
FOULPLAY.
A N Ov L..
BY cHAs. READE AND DION EoUcIcAvLT.

| BY CHAS. READE AND DION BOUCGCAULT.
| She sat and covered before the no
embers. She listened to what seemed
the angry roar of the sea. What with
the stiffness of the night and her sharp
ened senses she heard it all around the
| island. She seemed enVirOned will
peril, and yet surrounded by desolation
| No one at hand 10 save her in time
from wild beast. No one anywhere
near except sick sailor, and one she
| would rather die than call singly 10 her
aid, for he had once told her be loved
her.
40 papa! o Arthur :" she cried, "are
you praying for your poor Helen p
| Then she wept and prayed, and hall
nerved herself to bear the worst
Finally, her vague fears completely
overmastered her. Then she had re-
course to a stratagem that belongs &c
her sex,-she hid herself from the dan
| ger, and the danger from her; she cover
ed herself face and all, and 50 lay
trembling, and longing for the day.
AT the first streak of dawn sue lied
| from her place of torture, and after
plunging her face and hands in the
| river, which did her IL world of good,
she went of, and entered the jungle,
and searched it closely, so far ns she
| could penetrate it. Soon she heard
| Miss Rolleston" called in anxious
tones, But she tossed her little head,
and reveuged herself tor hor night OF
agony by not replying.
However, nature took her in hand
| imperiOus hunger drew her back TO her
late place of torture; and there she
| found fire, and Hazel cooking cray
| fish She ate the Cray-tiSh heartily and
drank cucoa-nut milk out of half n
cocoa nut, which the ingenious Hazel
had already sawn, polished and mount
ed for her.
After that, HaZel's whole day was Oc-
cupied on stripping tree that stood on
| the high western prOmontOry OF the
bay, and building up the materials OF
Il bonfire IL few yards from il, that il
any whaler should stray that way, they
might not be at loss for $means to ut
| tract her attention.
Welch was very i'll all day, and Miss
ROllesIon nursed him. lie got about
towards evening, and Miss RolleS;on
ask ell him, rather timidly, il he could
put her upn bell rope.
"Why, yes, MISS" said WEIGH, THAT
is easy enough; but don't see no BELL
q, she did not want II bell-she only
wanted bell rope.
Hazel came up during this COnYersa'
ton, and she then gave her reason.
because, then, if Mr.. WEIGH is i'll in
| the night, and wants me, could come
| to him. Or" finding herself getting
near TIE real reason she stopped short
| "Or WHAT" inquired Hazel, eagerly
She replied to WeIch. "WhPn tigers
and things come to me, l can let you
know, MIR. Welch, if you nave any Gu
riosity about the result of their visit
"Tigersr' said Hazel, in answer tC
this side slap; "there are no tigers here;
no large animals OF prey exist in tht
Nv hat makes you think thar"
at is notorious na!"r"ilSis are
but am not. heard noises all
night. And little | eNnected that any.
thing of me would be left this morning
excepC, perhaps, my back hair. Mr.
| Welch, You are clever at rigging things
that is what you call iI-und 50 please
rig me IL bell rope, then shall not bt
eaten alive without creating some thtic
| disturbance"
"I'Il do it, miss" said Wcleh, "this
very night"
Hazel said nothing, but pondered
| Accordingly, that very evening piece
| of stout Irvine, with IL stone at the end
of it, hung down from the roof OF
| Helen's house; and this Irvine Glove the
air, until it reached the mainmast OF
the cutter; thence it decended, and was
to be made fast to something or some
| body. The young lady inquired nc
| further. The very sight of this bell.
rope was IL great comfort TO her; it re-
united her TO civilized life.
That night she lay down, and quaked
| considerably less. Yet she awOke sew
| eral times; and an hour before daylight
she heard distinctly Il noise that made
her flesh creep. Ii was like the snor-
ing of some great animals. This hOr-
| rible sound was faint and distant: but
she heard it between the roll of the
waves, and that showed it was not the
| Iaah n
and covered till daybreak. a score OF
times she was minded to pull her bel
4 rope; but always womunly feeling
strong as her love of life, withheld her
| Time to pull that bell-rOpe when the
danger was present or imminent" she
thought to herself. The Thing will
come smelling about before it attacks
me, and then l will pull the beIl;" and
so she passed an hour of agony.
Next morning, at daybreak, Haze
met her lust issuing from her hut, anC
pointing TO his net told her he was go
ing to forage; and would she be good
enough to make the tire and have boiling
water, ready: he was sorry to troubit
| her; but poor Welch WIS worse this
morning. Miss RolIeston cut short his
excuses. "Pray do not take me for {
child. OF course l will light the fire
and boil the water. Only | have NJ
lucifer matches"
"Here are two," said he. 81 carry
the box, wrapped in Oil-skin for /
anything happen to them, Heaven helI
u.s."
He crossed the PROSTATE palm-tree
and Owed into the wood. 1t was IA large
beautiful wood, and except at the west
prn edge, the trees were all of the palm
tree genus, but contained severa
species, including the cOCOa-nut tree
The turf ran under these trees for abOu
| d. MI \
away under the same thick shad,
which destroyed all other vegetation IL
this wood. and made il so easy TO Sc,
and travel.
He gathered 81 few cocoa nuts tina
had burst out of their pods and HllpI
to the ground; and ran on till he reach
ed "A belt OF trees and shrubs, tina
bounded the palm forest. Here hi
progress was no longer easy; bui ht
found trees covered with small frui
resembling ounces in every particular
OF look, taste, and smell, and that made
him persevere, since IL WAS most i'm.
portant to learn the useful products o
the island. Presently he burst through
some brushwOOd into II swampy bot
tom surrounded by low trees, and in
stantly n dozen large birds of the OS
prey kind rose tapping into the nj
like windmills rising. He was quite
startled by the whirring and Tapping
and not little amazed at the appear,
ance of the place. Here was very
charnel-house; so thick lay the shells
skeletons, and loose bones of fish. Her,
too he found three terrapin killed bU
not eaten; and also some fish, more OF
less pecked. "Aha! my worthy eXecu
TONERS, much obliged" said he: "yOu
have saved me that job: and into tn,
bag went the terrapin, and two plump
fish, but slightly mutilated. Before Ii,
| ,fN- J.,