Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-29

without speaking, when Phillip broke
the silence.
ga penny for your thoughts, Jessie.
Where are your good wishes for the pros
perity Of my voyage e?'
She looked up, and he saw she was
struggling with her tears.
My love, my darling, | must chide
you. My brave little sea-malden, why
do you weep? Jessie, | thought you
were as brave fisherman's daughter as
ever trod the shingle in storm.
"That was Ioug ago, r,4.u:. but now
-I-shape-such mdread of tie 1.-The cru
ell, treacherous sea. | fear for you, Phil
lip, I feel no good will come to you from
this last voyage
Distressed at the turn the conversation
had taken, and hardly knowing how to
beguile her mind from the idea that evil
IDENTIFY possessed it, Phillip endeavored
to turn her attention to something else,
and for that purpose, produced the bas-
kets he had made the evening before.
She uttered a cry of delight as he plac-
ed them in her hand. They had bro't
about the diversion desired
80, Phillip, how exquisite!' she cried,
''and one is for me? p
Eyes, and the other is mine. Here,
let me put it around your neck, he con-
tinued, drawing from his pocket, a fine
silver chain, on which he proceeded tc
string one of the baskets, she positively
asserting.
Now, JESSIE" said he, as he finished
81 will wear mine in the same way, ano
they shall be pledges of our love anG
faith in each other. l will replace it
when return, by gold cross, if | dc
we'll"
'Never mind the gold, Phillip, SO yol
come home safe and unharmed from thi
hateful trip. 0, never so trembled Il
say goodbye before
THAT is because your great love make
you selfish, sweet one. Cease conjurin!
up these gloomy fancies, and think o
the bright future in store for you and me
Come, let US walk out to the cliff ant
look over the sea together; afterwards
will say goodbye to your father ant
mother. Come, it will be our last wall
for many long day. putting his arm
about her, tney went over the familia
path toward the cliff.
The sun smiled down on them benig
nantly. The sky was all serene, and tn
blue waters of the bay were leaping an
dancing in thousands of tiny waves i
the golden light.
7 Off on the horizon white sales were seer
like minute dots on the broad expanse.
Phillip and Jessie stood on the eli
brow, looking silently over the waite
each busted with their ownthoughts, an
filled with mixed emotions of pleasul
and pain.
Jessie" said her lover, II would lii
you to come to the cliff every morning
until I come home, and think of my r
turn, and how happy we shall be togetl
er. l will think of you, and pray Fl
your welfare at the same hour, and
: shall be still another link to bind us
each other. You will wear the bask
always, love?"
"Always, Phillip. Your every wi:
, is command to me. Every morning
will come to the Cliff
Thanks, dearest, but l would not
too exacting. do not ask you to con
in storms.
"God grant there may be no storr
. until you return safe, Phillip"
"Amen to the prayer; but come, n
time grows short. l must see your fat
er and mother few moments.
j, They turned toward the cottage, al
Jessie never forgot how blue the sky W;
that seemed to blend so brightly abo
: their parting.
1t was all over at last; the last wor
said, the last kisses and caresses exchar
ed, and Jessie, from the summit of t
hill path, had seen her lover turn to wa
% her last goodbye.
i With tear-blinded eyes, the girl gra'
: ing the little trinket Phillips hands b
J. placed round her neck, made her way
" the cliff, and sat dumbly through
! long, bright hours, watching the mo-
~ ing water, dotted with white, dist;
= sails, thinking only that she was alo
; and wondering which of the far-off spe'
; was bearing her love from his home 9
IF her. Only as night came did she le;
i her post and seek her fathers cottage
- Long and wearisome were the d
! that followed, but in storm or sunshi
=, Jessie was always in her place on
summit of the cliff, when the sun f
lighted up the waters of the bay,
. when his broad disc dipped below
!. western horizon.
nt Her parents said but little to her
on the subject, aware of her deep alta
ite ment to the young sailor, and furtl
nit more, enlightened by Jessie's reply W
ir. gently demonstrated with, by her mot
lin ''It was Phillips wish and no n
ith was said.