The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-04

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tQH Waa'dHt hase sass muHlcr llawlev, /
safP9seg Jh8f WauE3u'l make h,m your
husband. And, ou she other hsud, ii
wouldn't da ute any good il ya8 were &c
k.H Clara AsmaE
Egi ibefr 3s waft I.Bka, al uua9juE
thai marriage
felief started ioxagls bis SISTER. o. il
eIetrifHl.
DO FDa mean H' IU never consent to
that gfJs having Hawlcyt no olga quit
between them al broad as the ocean III
undo that uariagp, or de-
softly Where g. kaies
he referred To- their single servant
she's out for the day, answered Miss
Peidef, arising aud planting herself in s
chair. There wac little 10 DO, sou know
az ! did NOT expect You home 80 dinner,
Then 10 enc will hear as.
iio draw q chair nearer 20 that Of be
sister and Eat down beside her
What's yaur idea he ask ed iu 8 whisper.
Ny idea is ia separate them, 10 turn
their iavc to hate, 90 dig a pit beneath
tbeir feet that will remain open forever
But how
WIN. llawley il poor, isn't hc2
Certainly there u no mistake about that.
His mother was q helpless Invalid for the
last ten years pf her life, aud VIII iusis-
ted on her using for her comfort every
penny be earned. IL hasn't been six
months since be was relieved of that
burden, Hes poor, therefore, as yea say
poor A. Jobs turkey
Then he'll have to leave his darling
Clara, sneercd Miss pedder venomously.
enormously. Hen have 10 absent him
self from his deaIy la order 10 earn their
kANAAi Afitk tuAAtiH III FllhiA ilA u
have 10 20 10 sea againg
Wen, yes; | suppose he win assented
Pedde. lie can get better wages at sea
than elsewhere. Hen sail again soon, 10
doubt
thought as much. And the sea is fall
of terrible dangers. When do yon sail
again for Australia
In about two weeks possibly in ten
days, as the ships filling up rapidly.
llawley is thoroughly competent to be
your first mate.
Pedder looked wondering at his sister
q moment aud then answered:
OF course | know no better man for
the post
lie must be your FIRST mate, then. You
have influence enough with your owners,
! hope TO turn out the present incumbent
Why, the post is already vacant. Mr..
Jarding has just been called home sud-
denly to Ohio, on account of his fathers
illness
Good That's fortunate. You must
recommend Hawley for the vacant place
TO your owners, and get them to engage
him The thing can be done.
Without the least doubt 1t was under
stood YOU know, as | Just now remarked,
that | was TO help llawley at the first OPP
p0rtunity, Wen accordingly suppose
that he sails with me as first mate on the
next voyage. What them
You must leave him not dead, but a
some desert island between
here aud Australia!
Pedder looked his establishment.
IN 81 gan ba 1apa no uafI after "a paugp
what neNty
You must come back and report that he
Is dead, furnishing full details and good
proofs. Those details aud proofs will not
be difficult to manufacture. Then yon
mist be all Kindness and sympathy to the
young widow, as she will suppose herself
to be, and in less than year thereafter
she will be your wife.
Oh, If this thing were possible! sighed
Pedder, beginning to look relieved.
Possible! Its Us simple as kissing.
And the moment you are married to Clara
! viii take trip to Australia for my
health, and naturally enough, stumble
upon the very island where you have left
Hawley; effect his rescue; tell him his
wife is dead condole and sympathize with
him like an angel; and conclude the whole
comedy by becoming his wife and settling
in Australia. You'll thus have your Clara
on this side of the ocean, and / shall be
happy with Hawley on the other.
She was smiling now, with every sign
Of anticipated triumph.
As to Pcdder, he twisted nervously in
bis chair, scarcely yenturing to breathe.
There's just one difficulty, he muttered
that of getting Hawlcy on the desert is
land without his suspccting anything,
II can bc done, and the lips otMiss Ped
der came together Ike the jaws OF a wise.
There is no difficulty about finding a
suitable islandt
Not the least. ! saw the island in my
minds eye the moment You uttered the
word, aud q glorious one 1t is for our
purpose.
1t will be easy for you to get llawluy
upon it suggested Miss Pcddcr thought
fully. II it, near your route, YOU can call
there for water. IT It's out OF your way
you can be blown there by adverse winds
on drilled there by unknown currents,
OF fetch up there by mistake in your
reckoning or & taulti IN your chronometcr
Aud once there, you can have Ilawey
seized by some trusty agent, while he is
ashore upon business, or you can send
him ashore under some preteucc, such a.
looking for dcscrter from the ship or for
q shipwreckcd sailor, and then sail away
without him
Say no more, interrupted Pedder, with
wild eEultalou. ! see how % man age II
from it, beginning To its end.
Mud you now see that we can undo
that haleiul marriage.
Perfectly, perfectly, The affair will re.
quirc little time and patience, OF course,
and a little expenditure Of money, but
wc are sure to triumph. Capital glori-
ous' What a load you have taken from
my soul, Ruth What a genius you are
lie leaped 10 his feet and began pacing
"a and leo rapidly, with the most eNtraga.
gaut signs and EXPLANATIONS of i0y.
FIRST to get Ilawley on bis island, re-
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