The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-25

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| Mary, lest she should be alarmed: I
wrote her note, saying that should be
away on important business for the next
two or three days, and urged her to keep
| a good beart, as I might have some good
| news To tell her when next We met.
| II.
! I aIighted at Nantygolyn station, and
engaged a room at the sole inn the village
boosted Of 1t was still early in the
evening and I started after dinner to walk
as far as Eeyde q distance of two
miles to reconnoiter. The road ran along
the hillside all the way. A shower had
laid the dust and the wet foliage of the
trees that ching to the rock on my right
hand, and oyerhung the path. cleaned
lightly in the dying light. Far down on
my left ran the brawling river, just col
ored with the rain, and from all about
arose the soft steam from the moistened
earth, speaking eloquently in its grave
like odor of the sad end of the year that
was coming SO quickly. Autumn is
pleasant enough amid the gardens of
Kent, but very sad is it among the Hills.
The trees are stunted and the leaves soon
futter downward from the barring branch
es and those who have only heard the
musical signing of the wind through the
trees of lowland landscape, can have
no conception of the weired like feelings
that steal over one as he listens to the
signing of the gale among the swsying
| and creaking boughs of the mountain
| pines and birches, and its finer shrek as
it sweeps up the ravines and over the
desolate moor. The wind was rising.
laden with occasional showers, as reach
ed the brick-feld. The state of affairs
was worse than I had imagined. The
engine had been left on an exposed part
of the line, and where there was sharp
curve, causing the outside rail to be
much higher than the other. Inclining
at such sharp angle, it had been expos
| ed to the full fury of a recent gale, which
catching it at so great a disadvantage,
had tilted it completely over. and it now
| lay on its side on the embankment, with
the hindermost wheels. however resting
| on or. only partly off, the rails. 1t was
small and very light engine, and had
| beed originally intended for the Crimea
It was a wild and lonely place where
the brick-yard was situated. twas just
where the moorland commences, and
where there was nothing to interrupt the
eye as it roamed over the purple fats
strangely lit up in places by c-imsonins
CLEANS and patches of golden brown, as
the light of the golden sunset was reflect
ed from the surface Of a pool, or shone
on lighter ground of dead rushes and
ling. Beyond all was long. grey line,
which could not be mistaken for any,
thing but what it was-the bonDy, open
sea. If you listened intently you could
even catch, borne on the wind, the faint
roar of the surf on the fat, sandy shore.
Nothing could be done that night. and
en- the morning mounted sorry ami
NAL which mine host called saddle
horse, and rode off to the mines to be-
speak the services of dozen men and
three horses-all they had to spare-for
o'clock that night, and then back to
The station to put all right with the
| station.master. To disarm suspicion
took rod and made my way down to
the now swollen stream. Few fish were
| there in it, for the deadly water of the
mines had played sad havoc with the
| 6nny tribe. More time was passed IN
reverie than in fishing and tender mem
cries of the past mingled strongly with
dreams of the future. How happy
Mary and l could be in q little
cottage oraee I had my eye upon.
and which I knew could be had at low
rent. How pleasant to hurry home from
business, and find bright face to well
come me with kiss and bonny smile,
instead of my lonely bachelor rooms. All
me would it ever come to pass, [ won
dered. Surely it must some day, and
yet, somehow, could not look hopefully
forward. Perhaps it was the lowering
weather, and the dull, spiritless air that
everybody wore that depressed me and
it was absurd, yet felt as if were GO
ing to be hung, or meet with some seri-
Gus accident in the midnight abduction |
was engaged in. Vainly trying to shake
off the feeling. I retraced my steps to the
inn.
At o'clock it was already quite dark.
When | reached the bank over the line,
l saw that the men, by the light of Ian
terms, had rugged up temporary crane,
and werestugging away at the ropes, try
ing to raise the fallen engine. and prying
away with levers and screw jacks, working
quietly and well. Most of them were
brawny Englishmen, imported by Mr..
Haywood the rest were WeIsbmen.
smaller made, but wiry and strong.
| Steadily the work went on under my
directions. and all the while a soft,
unpleasant drizzle soaked US through and
through. The wind was fitful, and many
and mysterious were the sounds that it
brought out of the glens. 1t moaned
dismally through the pine woods, showing
that the spirit of the storm was abroad,
and ere long would be upon US in all its
savageness Suddenly form fitted by,
then another, and another, and three
strange men passed by the engine and
vanished in the gloom. Other eyes were
quick as mine, and saw them. We