The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-26
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by cHAs. nEADE AND DION noUcloAvLr.
"Did I? then have NEST brains when

"Did I? then have mcst brains when
"Ay," said Helen, land other strange
lhings.-Very strange and bitter things.
One | should like to ask you about,
what Oh earth you could mean by it;
but perhaps you meant nothing after
ALL"
"I'll soon tell you" said Hazel; but
he took the precuutiOn to add, PRO
vided know what it means myself"
She looked at him steadily, and was
o6 the point of seeking an explanation
so boldly offered; but her own courage
failed her. She colored and hesitated.
~ shall wait" said she, "till you
are quite, quite well. That will be
soon, hope; only you must be good,
and obey my prescriptions. Cultivate
patience; it is II wholesome plant; bow
the pride of that intellect which you
see n fever can lay low in an hour:
aspire no more beyond the powers OF
man. Here we shall stay unless Pro
violence sends us ship. have ceased
to repine; and don't you begin Dis
miss that problem altogether; see how
hot it has made your poor brow. BE
good now, and dismiss il; or else do as
l do,-fOld it up, put it quietly away in
u corner OF your mind, and, when you
least expect, it will pop out solved"
10, comfortable doctrine! But how
about Jamie w AUS AedudCueS! anu
WHY are the signs of hard thoughts so
much stronger in his brow and face
than III Shakespeare? Mercy on us
there is another prOblem.J
Hazel smiled, we'll pleased, and lean
ed back, soothed, silenced, subdued, by
her soft voice, and the exquisite touch
of her velvet hand on bis hot brow; for,
woman like, she laid her hand like
down on that burning brow to aid her
to-
to him lust then that this admonltlon
delivered with q kind maternal hand,
maternal voice, came from the same
Young lady who had flown at him like
Il wild cat with this very problem in
her mouth. She mesmeriZed him. pro-
blem and all he subsidized into COM
placent languOr, and at last went to
sleep, thinking only of her. But the
topic had entered his mind too deeply
to be finally dismissed. 1T returned
next day, though in "a different form.
You must know that Hazel, as he lay
on his back in the boat, had often, in II
hHlf.drOwSy way, watched the effect OF
the sun on the boats mast: 1t now stood
Il bare pole, and at certain hours acted
like the needle of a dial, by casting II
shadow on the sands. Above all, he
could see pretty we'll by means of this
pole and its shadow when the sun at
tuined its greatest elevation. He now
asked Miss RolIeston to assist him in
making this observation exactly.
She Obeyed his instructions, and the
moment the shadow reached its high
est angle, and showed the minutest
symptom OF declension. she said,
Now" and Hazel called out in a loud
voice =
"NoOn!"
land Iorty-nine minutes past eight al
Sydney" said Helen, holding out hel
chron0meter; for she had been SHARP
enough to get it ready OF her own &C
cord. Hazel looked at her and at the
watch with ,,maZement and incredible
'Whnt ?" said he. Impossible. You
can't have kept Sydney time all this
while"
And pray why not?" said Helen
"HnYe you forgotten that once some
body praised me for keeping Sydney
time; it helped you, somehow or other
to know where we were"
"And so it will now" cried Hazel
exu!tinGly. "But no it is impossible
We have gone through scenes that-you
can't have wound that watch up with
ont missing day"
"ludeed but l have" said Helen
- i[ut wind my watch up! Why, it
was dying, should wind my watch up
See, i requires no key; II touch or two
| of the fingers and it il done. O, | AN
remarkably constant in all my habits
and this is. an old friend l never
| neglect. Do you remember that terrible
night in the boat, when neither of us
expected 10 see the murning,-O, how
good and brave You wcrt!-wcll, re
member whiting it up that night.
kissed it, and bnde it good by; but
never dreamed of not winding it up
because | was going To be killed.
What! am l not to he praised again, as
was ON board ship? Stingy can't nf.
ford TO praise one twice for the same
thing"
"Praispdp cried Hazel, cxcitedlyf
"worshipped, you mean. Why. we
have got the longitude by means o.
your chrouometer. 1t is wonderful! II
is providential 1t is the finger o.
Heaven! Pen and ink, and let me
work it out"
In his excitement he got up without
assistance, and was soon busy calcu-
lntinS tho longitude Of Godsend Isle.
CHAPTER Nj.
! "TnpTc." said he, Now the latitude