The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-03
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1870.
RBR-TIDE.
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aa4 QsOme cnap. tnat, SAID Jethr0
he's nice company, amt hep
~ bit her lips and made no re
tHv he man was silent. and ther
caat ed. He's quite cut me ou
iale int he? / don't s'pose you
care a1ything about that, though
bet tier looking than I be. and
dare av he knows q great deal more
rou Joy, Miss Grant"
70" said Flora, you are for.
eck yourself. What right have
ak in this way to me?"
citing myself Good Lord
enough to make a man forget
when you drive me mad? just
IL while. It will do you
When he first came here /
out it. l don't now, after
seen this afternoon. Good
l-bye. Jethrol"
lar, was it not? that when he
Flora bent her head upon
Il and cried. Singular, toe,
hro Butler, instead of at once
to his work in the field,
lazily along the cliff after
n, and finally came upon him,
actedly, of course, sitting upon
stone on the beach below.
ol'' be said, grimly, taking q
a him.
ii" replied Arthur, "Jethro
Isn't it. I've heard of you"
Is my name" said Jethro.
Ihen . though his heart and head
were III hot with some feeling that
was ranlIling there. he added, you
seem 20 like your own company better
than yoI. do Flora's."
t4 &c Sk91 rkhnw
sharply.
'0h, nothin'l I'm gettin that way
myself ltely. | didn't used to be,
R0llestoh regarded him for an in.
slant ia silence. Then he said. You
don seem to like me very much?"
INC replied Jethro, dryly.
"Wtg? ?"
"Toa had better ask Flora why.
Sue ca tell you as much as / can
about s She knows why / don't like
you. all knows why / hate you"
"Jsthro," said Rolleston, suddenly,
as Eel new light had broken in him,
ever known or thought that
& vas 5.otting any hope of yours. even
though I knew it to be but delusion,
Z should have left this place long sgo,
/ nave 40 reason to be other than
gaur friend, and have never had.
Wal said r. replied Jethro. Il
like for that; but it is too late
COO late,
How do you krow2 Tell me that
sou love Flora l5rant-assure me of
bag log for you-and | am gone to-
morrow"
Its too late, 1 tell you" said Jesh-
he -cely. Haven't [ seen it?
D / watch her while ago, drink
ID % your words with all her soul?
Sha ght have thought of me once,
hul 4 all over now"
NAV deceive yourself" said
Arta r. You are not certain that
she es not like you still"
III NJ, he replied ut has been a
sort fate. I don't know about such
thilg but | am beginning to believe
81 3e tiny"
9 e aised his arm and pointed over
iba pa sing sea.
Lok therel' he continued; tits
ebb tide. All my life has been one
greet ell b tide-everythiDg going out,
unlh5ne coming In. 1t was ebb-tide
when i vas born. It was ebb-tide
when you was thrown on shore to take
away what was dearer to me than lite.
Tive ched every hope and ambition
ever nad to drift out to sea beyond
UT reach. Nothing has ever been
except DEATH a flood tide may come
in ana ring that some day."
He said this in a tone of such utter
desolau0n, like man whose life fate
bad rendered one long, sad future,
tbHt aileston' 9 heart was touched in
pity
II would help you if I could. Jeth-
70. Can | say anything TO her that
would urn the scale for your"
no. 4 should hate you worse than
I DO now if you did, I've begun to
feel better toward you since I've sat
here Don't make it worse"
Ebi. thought Rolleston, lis one
ot lie pEoblems that try mems souls.
Flora ) dearer than all the world to
mes yel aere is a man that has loved
her az lis life. His claim to her had
grown q ID before mine was born"
A wild crash from the cliff above
startled him, and both men leaped
tie3r their lives. A great rock,
loosaaad by the washing of the rains
rornd &. came tearing down upon
them Lie a mass of solid iron Quick
as they mad been, they had miscaIcu-
ted its Erection. Striking against q
smaller tone upon the beach below,
ii suod My altered its course, and
hurljr Is victims into the sand be-
meath stopped and lay with all its
crnshin weight upon them.
T. Jeth~o, said Arthur, as soon as be
could collect his stunned senses, ARE
you killad?"
He eo I'D not see him, but he heard
his voice risirg family from the other
side
No not killed But. oh, my legs
They zone, think.
Gomez
YES mashed I can't feel 'em.
Are gou hurt2"
don't feel so but I'm fast"
will become of us? Have
Wa die here?"
"60d znows"
Bat bere was help at hand. Old
SiIaa work at his nets, far down the
Dcaeu, had heard the crash and seen
two figures disappear. He came run
ming toward them now, and in a few
minutes was on the spot.
Are you both alive?" he shouted.
Answer somebody"
les yes, alive, both of US, came
from Be captives, cheerily.
'E God I'll have you out of
thers ln minute. Keep up your
courage men,"
He started away for help as fast as
bib ola egs would carry him, and in
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