Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-10

mr. isn't he ?"

! fen wears of her life, and Will. insisted on her
os ng for her comfort every penny he earned.
| It hasn't been six months since he was reiev-
ed of that burden. He's poor, therefore, as
YOU sav-poor az Jobs turkeyl"
! "Then he'll have to leave kis darling
/ Clara" sneered Miss Pedder venomously.
"He'il have to absent himself from his deary
| in order to earn their mutual bread and butter.
In short, hell have to go to sea again r
! swell, yes | suppose he will, assented
| Pedder. He can get better wages at sea
than elsewhere, He'll sail again soon, no
doubt"
terrible dangers When do you sail again for
Australian" -
SIN about two weeks-possibly in ten days,
as the ships filing up rapidly"
"Hawley is thoroughly competent to be
YOUR first mate?"
Pedder looked wonderingly at his sister a
moment, and then answered:
s'Of course. L know of no better man for
the post
Gle must be your first mate then. You
have influence enough with your owners,
hope, to turn out the present incumbent Z"
"Why, the post is already vacant. Mr.. Jar
ding-you have seen him-Mr. Jarding has
! just been called home suddenly in Ohio, on
account OF his fathers illness"
GOOD That's fortunate. You must rec
ommend Hawley for the vacant place to your
owners, and get them to engage him. The
thing can be done?"
Without the least doubt. It was under
| stood, you know, as | just now remarked
that L was to help Hawley at the first oppor-
tunity. Well accordingly suppose that he
sails with me as first mate the next voyage.
What then 7"
&, "You must leave him-not dead, but pris-
oner-on some desert island between here and
Australia |" .t..
Pedder locked his establishment.
Sc lift can be done, he said, after a pause,
sswhat next ?"
W., ,a1-o
dead, furnishing full details and good proofs.
Those details and proofs will not be difficult
to manufacture. Then you must be all kind
ness 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.
6 Possible? 1t s as simple as kissing. And
the moment you are married to Clara, [ will
take q trip to Australia for nv health and
naturally enough, stumble upon the very ISL
and where you have left Hawley effect bis
rescue tell him his wife is dead; condole and
sympathize with him like angel and con-
clude the whole comedy by becoming his wife
and ttling 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 an
/, ticipated triumph.
AS to Pedder, he twisted nervously in his
chair, scarcely venturing to breathe
, "There's just one difficulty he muttered-
7 that OF getting Hawiey on the desert island
without his suspecting anything"
" 1t can be done;" and the lips of Miss
f Pedder came together like the jaws of vice.
There's no difficulty about finding suitable
island2"
mot the least. I saw the island in nv
minds eye the moment you uttered the word,
and a glorious one it is for our purpose
g 1t will be easy for YOU to get Hawley upon
$ it," suggested Miss Peddar thoughtfully. eff
it's near your route, you can call there for
} water. Ii it's out of your way, you can be
blown there by adverse winds, or be drifted
4 there by unknown currents, or fetch up there
Il by mistake IN your reckoning or fault in
your chronometer. And once there, you can
nave Hawley seized by some rusty agent
: while he Is ashore upon business, or you can
{ send him ashore under some pretence, such
: as looking for deserter from the ship or fo1
a shlpMrecked sailor, and then sail away with
j out him"
Say no more" interrupted Fodder, with
a wild e1ultation. 81 see how to manage the
i affair from its beginning to its end.' saa
And You now see that we can undo thai
q hateful marriage ~
"Perfectly-perfectly. The affair will re-
quire little time and patiece, of course, anC
t little expenditure of money, but we are sure
to triumph. Capital glorious What a loal
you have taken from aly soul Ruiz What 3
f , genius you are !"
He leaped to MS feet and began pacing t.
s and fro rapidly, with the most extrayagan
/, signs and ordinations of ioy
d /" First to get Hawley on his island" resum
8 ed Miss Pedder muslnSly. Next for you K
l marry the pretended widow. Then for me tx
e rescue the prisoner and marry him. And fin
t ally for you and me to be happy, you in you
4 way and L IN mlne-you with Clara in New
a York and L with Will. in Australia. You com
d prehend the whole project clearly ?"
: From the first step to the last There.
0 only just one possibility of failure
: And that one?"
ga refusal on Hawleys part to accept tn,
T post offered nina refusal based upon hi,
: marriage"
y MISS Pedder turned pale at the thought.
: But he won't refuse" she soon declared
: recovering her equanimity. &C He has Ions
t been wanting just such place. Married o.
d single, he Can't neglect his bread and butter.
! "Well said, Ruth. [ think we can count
4 upon him. The post he came here to ask me
for is now vacant, and l will accordingly have
: 1t off red to him, just as if nothing had nap
8 pened." -aa =
: Exactly. You needn't speak of his mar
: riage, or seem to know anything about it.
|, | You can simply offer him the post in question
8 IN accordance with the old understanding
4 And he will accept it. He can't possibly have
+ any suspicion of anything wrong. Outwardly
and apparently we are all on good terms with
;, one another, and will remain so. Let the
e wages offered him be liberal. Possibly he
y may object to leaving his young bride 80 soon
a but the next voyage after this ONE
q Peddcr interrupted the remark by gesture
Of impatienoe. He was all oagerness now
: all determination.
That next voyage after this enc will not
: answer, he declared. Hawey shall accom-
pany me on my very next trip. To make all
r sure on this point, | will have him engaged
q this very day. In fact will see to this nor
t de seized his hat and gloves, addressed q
: few words to his sister, and quietly took his
n departure down town. The last chances the
t couple exchanged at the door were full OF jul
t bilant wlckedness. t
r The next three or four hours passed SLOWLY
to Miss Peddcr. She begiAning to fear
} that the whole project bad miscarrjed at its
very commencement. and was fretting herself
a into fever, when Pedder suddenly made his
f appearance. One glance at his vivid fiushes. al
t his dancing eyes, at his airy MANNER was
sufficient.
''We triumph then ?" she cried, throwing
3 herself into his arms for the first time in
years,
O Completely I saw my owners on the
, subject, and they sent for Hawley. He at first
[ offered some objections, as was natural. but
the high wages, the great step upward, the
: kindly interest we all manifested, soon
t brought HIM to a grateful acceptance.''
IEFa 'sSplendd! hurmured Miss Pcdder with
a ripping laugh. & knew the thing was fea-
sible. And so III two weeks more our fond
bridegroom will be blowing the sea again
6 In two weeks more Ruth ? We snall be
off in six or eight days. The cargo is fairly
J. tumblIng aboard the Flying CKjIders, to say
nothing of a fair list of passengers. The
honeymoon of our loving doves will be
abridged to six short days more, you may be
certain" .-.-.r r-....... ....... .-.
CHAPTER H.
-l.--- A GREAT STEP TAKEN.
In the midst Of the Antarctic ocean, little
off the route from New York to Australia