The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-01-05
fWhoIe No. 1906.

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it's only seven miles from the Cape t5
Faiern0.Y ra aee M tT9 qH @
sBut the 6e1eni tniies, IN this sfofInl
are worse than seventy In good wealth.
er5 These coasts are dangerous, Tres
siiiau." ica
Louder shuddefed as BE Surveyed
sea and sky. aai
"But about yonf father, 5aspprf''-
said EressiHaR, who had become deepz
~ Interested in his .cOmpanfOil,s story
'.What did he do after yoaf mOtheFS
deathE'' - r4aF.a
II remained at the old lodgings
with our single old servant a montfF
OF more, my father visiting me sew
eral times, and expressing anxiety as
70 what he should Do with me. Al
week after my moth6ris death, he told.
me that his brother was dead. A.
month later his father was killed by
being thrown from his horse. Ny
father came into riches and hOnors by
these deaths. At last, deciding torff
himself Of me, he took me down to
Brighton, TO my old grandmOther.q
Her sons were dead, she had given up
keeping dodgers, and was grown miss
erly. He promised her hve hundred
pounds year to keep me, and t5
keep also the secret Of my paternity,
soiemnly promising to acknowledge
me some day as his son and heif.-=5
The Old woman agreed to carry otftJ
his wishes. She would have done
anything for money. I never saw
my father agaiR. went to school,
grew uPf and at the age Of twenty-efef
came into HIy grandmother's money!
the fruits of years Of saving, she dying
at that time. Ny father had deliber.I
ately abandoned me. / Gid not know
where to seek him, If I had wished to-.
took my money and CAME abroad.
| had been two years on the Conti-75
nent, and had spent my littls fortune
when met you. The rest you
knew" va ri
san odd, romantic story I But
why did your father aoandO6 yUu?'t :
'i,Fhat be mighe be freed Of encuir.
hrance to make a grand MARRIAGE
From what my grandmother said at
different times, I concluded that my
father was in love witf-a titled lady
before my mothers DEATH No doubt
he married this lady. IF be lives,
this lady's son may be his aeknowl-
edged heir. Ny father has Utterly
disOWned the son of his first hasty
ilI-starred marriage. / have fancy
that / shall meet him some day. 49,
Jasper's brow darkened' to deeper
blackuess However, stand 40
chance OF ever receiving Justice at his
hands. f" r7
what was your fztheFis fiame,
Jasper?N asked Tfessilian.
LOWder's face darkened. He BIZ
his lip sayagely.
"What fhavs told you about myself Z.
learned from my own observation, or
from chance words of my parents and
grandmother. My mothers maidsn-
name was Jeanette Lowder. st our
London lodgings, my father bore the
name Uf Eowder. l don't know hi5%
real name, bat 1 should know his
face anywhere. although I have not
seen him in thirteen years. Ny
mother was actually married. Tres
silian, but I never heard my fathers
name. The Clergyman who married.
my mother was dead the witnesses
also. When my grandmother was
dying she tried to tell me the story
She had put it of too long. All that
l could understand of her mumblings
was the name Of Devereux. Z shall -
never forget that name-sDEVEREUXP
Probably that was my fathers name
my own rightful name. But as l.
should never ind him if Z sought
him, and he would repulse. me if : did
find him, 1 stand no chance of inner. -.
iting his property. He may be deed.
he may have other sons who may
have succeeded him. It is all q ulys-
terry, but the prominent truth is that
I am an outcast, poor, disOwned and
friendless."
He leaned over the bulwark, the
spray dashing over hiy faoe Yto.
lently.
.Tressilian's heart warmed TO bin.
s'My poor friend P' he said. "Must
| say again you are not friendless -
while l live? My father has inhu-
enco enough to obtain for you a gov
eminent appointment. This tangIe -
may straighten itself out some day
But if il don't, you are rssOlute
enough to mako your own baPPi=T
ness"
He grasped Bowder's hand, and
looked with warm, bright eyes, full Of
sympathy, into LOwder's lowering
face. .-..r 49,.
There had been atemporary lull IN I
the storm. But as the two stood
theref the tempest revived and swept
over The sea iu nnaddsBed rage.
There was no time for talking now.
The wind rose so high that words
could scarcely have been distinguish
I'd. The storm that bad gone before
had been but play to this awful out
burst. The vessel drove on, Greaking
and groaDing, q nUre cookie she'll on
the pillows.
-11Otu6E Ot 4t6IClSS WatlGu bu0
Captain. 'It's all up with as, sig
uoFes. can't make oUt the Cape in
his darkness. We shall 60 on the
rocks. st. Anthony save US P'- ,-rrsH
The seamon echoed his cries.
The two young Ehglishmen, COM
pretending their peril, clasped hands
in silence. aEr
For the next moment it seemed as
IF Pandemonium reigned.
Then noise ike the report Of a.
cannon suddenly doomed through the
storm. The little vessel shivered,
and careened upon her
side.
She had struck upon a rock.
A moment later the crew and pas
,engers were struggling in the wa
.ers.
A few moments Of buffetings and
1Ossings, Of vain struggles and agon-
zed, Involuntary prayer, aud then
Jasper Lowder felt his senses slip
rom him, and became unconscious. e
When be came to himself, be was
'ying upon a rocky beach of the
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