The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-01-28


fore any medical advice could be afforded
, him. -s ...-- .... .r- a
RI IN moonlight night, some weeks aftel
the interment, Mary Lee stood upon th'
, grave Of Robert Ashley.
q The proud Eagle" she soliloquized
"wba condescended to come to earth only
for garbage, now lies wbar ! have lane
wished him to be. Robert Ashley has ut
his deserts, an nae tear has wet the cheeA
o Mary Lee. Na-that tear shall only b
the clammy rbeum that oozes from tht
closing e'e O. death, and only makes tbt
cheek O. the heart broken mair dry. Didl
no say, that hated the connaeh worm
Ay, but i, wha have nae love for mOFtal
on earth, could love that creature now, Soz
it will nestle in the heart O. my destroyer
cen whsr have nestled. Fear nae guile
now, ye brawnet reptile-tbat was wasted
in my ruin an blaid will be your repast
as it has been my vengeance. Thrice have
| lauched in triumph; an ! would hneh
my lood LAUGH again, if Robins ears sWaI
open to heart; but have yet anither vie
ftim, and my last shout shall be Ger the
fate O. the remainin' rsfter O. the ruff tree
To- the auld Castle. Then shall be the
weird o. my hatred fulfilled an the staff
o. the stern wizard, wha guides me on
through the dark ways O revenge, be brok-
en- an east en- the waters o. the Solway. +"
As Mary was in the act of pronounciUg
the last words of her speech, she was inter-
rupted BY voice, apparently that Of a
man. 1t was GerstendOrf, who had not
been in these parts for many years. He
seemed in great agitation, and spoke con-
fusedly, and as if in fear Of being over
heard.
"Wbat brings ye here, man, wi that
craven look, and these broken sounds p
inquired Mary. I
What may that be to you, mein gut
child DOnner have no power left to
look after ssnein safety, and by returning
the knabe, Hector Ashley, to the house Of
bis water. get radiance Of the outlawry
against me and mein crew Y'
Hans Gerstendorf," is this The faith
pledged to me laugsyne, when / put into
your band twa hunder siller merks, as the
apprentice fee O Hector Ashley, and the
reward O. eternal silence as to bis birth and
lineage This may be German troth, but
it belangs ma to the honor O. Galloway.
"The faith, Snd the promise, and the
covenant" replied the German, s.beloDg to
the men who live under the laWs-Teufel
are not the sharks and the hounds, by the
sea and BY the land, smelling for us, and
baying for US land dossna the hang-tief
Sand on the lang sands O. Leith, to make
langer, by twa inches, the craigs @ the nj
rate and his gangf Ha ! mein gut Maria,
what is the troth to the life, the breath, and
the soul that kensna repentance for ten
Thousand crimes? One chance is left. and
that is, to tell Peter Fleming the secret O.
bis parentage, and bis history, from that
day when kidnapped him 1t the Fisher
man 3 Cairn, and left his cla'es on tho
stones to beguiie bis father Once 10 the
Castle and we are safe"
The resolution, intention, or wish, thus
expressed by the German, deeply affected
Mary. For some time, sre fephed not
her band was on her forhesd, and she was
apparently musiBg in deep thought; at last
she started.
"Weel, weel," she said, in a choked
voice-''wecl, since it is rs ye say, that
your lives are in danger, let your way be as
ye wish. But war are ye concealed y
And, as she put the question. her eye
watched the looks of the German.
NV men are amang the high bent that
grows on the drifted sand, twa miles doun
the coast. But wha is now the proprietor
o The Castle?' for maun cell Peter the
name Of the man wha is to be his enemy
and we may have to fecht our way to head.
quarters"
"Thcre is naebody in the house." an
swered Mary.
"Blut that is the good tidings," eiac-
ulated Hans, in Joy. "Hurra, then, for
the Castle !" And be dashed through the
willows that Overhung the burial ground,
where they stood. l'.
On that night, three hours after, inteTli-
was said to have been given by Mary Lee
to the prOcura or fiscal Of the stewartry,
that the outlawed pirates lay in the sea bent
at the banks Of the Solway. A band Of
armed men repaired to the place, and Hans
Gerstendorf and his men, among whom
was Peter Fleming, 10 other than Hector
Ashley, were seized and put in irons, and
carried to the jail of Dumfries. The un-
happy men were afterwards removed to the
jail Of Edinburgh, tried, and four Of them,
including Fleming, condemned to be exc
cuted on the sands of Leith, for the crime
Of piracy on the high seas. They were
executed accordingly
A new family came to occupy "The
Castle far renewed in relationship to
the Ashleys. Mary Lee continued to live
on, for many years, exhibiting the same pc
culiarities Of cb9racter--the same silence
the same scOrn of social relations. Her
desire of revenge was satisfed-but that
satisfaction was no more etfectual il its as
suagng consequences, than revenge is gen.
orally found 10 be. II even added to her
moroseness; for the evil which she had re-
moved, bad been the only good she ever
enjoyed, and the thirst for revenge which
she bad ndulged, when slaked by the blood
Of all her enemies, eft her nothing to wish
FOX 10 the world. She took no interest i'll
passing events, and as she increased in
years, her faculties decayed LlIterly, and
towards the termination Of ber life, SIZE fell
into temporary fits of insanity-whicb, bow
ever, did not conceal from her al her sor-
rows, for her lucid intervals were periods
Of misery; all her recollections seemed
painful as the soaring iron Of reused con
science ; she never displayed symptom Of
remorse for the dreadful vengeance she bad
taken on the head and house Of her seducer;
but the wild laugh would break out only to
settle again in the stare of idiocy. So much
for our legend.
CURIOUS ANAGRAMs.-Below we give
nu mber of very curious and ingenius ana
grams.