The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-30
TRRRlNG SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 60 1873

from Dove tia l0II6RI ", came to meet
another Lon1nn train, The guard o.
this remembered Such- young person
going "a With him the previous afternoon
and thus 4 SSW hnW II was that valuable
time had bean lost. ) gl,..g
"Then NI'W6uted wings; fretted and
ragged through the many hours that inter
yened before reaching Dover. Again Il
was night, and again l was at fault.
spent many miserable hours wandering
down to the steamboat quay, going on
board the mail boat, searching and in
udiring everywhere with no result The
whole Of the next day, and the next, were
passed in this iruitless manner. Toward
the evening Of this, which Was the fourth
day, being In the coaee.room of1one Of
the hotels where the coaches pull up, and
being on the point Of writing 10 you both,
who should I see getting down from q
stage coach that had Just arrived from
Ashford but the man to whom all this
mischief was due. Hope returned. Iielt
sure Jeanette was waiting for him, and
come what may, / said, she shall be found.
at was abnut 2 O'Clock; the tide was
out, and passengers for the French packet
would have TO go of In small. boats to
where she lay, outside the hArbor, the
custom under such circumstances. Save
for few minutes, | never lost sight Of
the man again, but did not let him see
me, for wanted him TO guide me to her.
He took boat from the stairs, and l an
other. He went up the side Of the packet
but q lew moments before ! followed him.
Then, however, in. the coming darkness
and the crowd, lost him for a while, but
l knew he was on board, and had a con-
viction that she was. also; 30 hope never
died. When l next discovered him, he
was down in the cabin, and Jeanette,
sobbing and Ia tears, standing beside him.
"Unluckily, by that time the steamer
had got under way, had cant of all boats
from tho shore, and there was no return.
We must all three crosa, To- Calais. I
cared little for this, however my sRtlsfac.
ton was too great: Then aAsclosed my.
sell, and ! will not weary eyehi.with the
details Of what ensued-of how he 'blus-
tered and staggered at frat, and then
cringed like coward when l threatened
him with the Law; how reminded him
that abduction was Q serious crime, and
that aid would be instantly granted me
from our Consul at Calais II he did not
Immediately resign Jeanette into my
hands; of Jeahnette's misery, and her
gratitude at the rescue; for che had had
time 10 repent Of her rash act.
"she will tell you, In good time, what
she has suffered Of the sorrow. and agony
OF thosetwo or three days of lonely. Jour
neying and waiting, which this selfish
rascal did not hesitate to subject her 10,
lorsooth, because he imagined that by re.
naming couple Of days at Crewhaven,
after her disappearance, he would divert
all suspicion from himself
"Ibfought her back from Calais by the
next boat that started, but that was not for
more than eightRnd.iorty hours; for these
terrible gales allowed nothing to leave the
port for that time. You will understand
now why at first did not, and then could
not, write; why you have been obliged to
suffer the agony and suspense Of these last
nine days. We travelled with all speed
when we once started, and reached Wa
EARN tnsl put now W 9 sRs q" WIG
mother. She dared hardly meet you Til |
had little prepared the way. seized
the first horse came upon 10 the stable,
and galloping as fast"
The narrative Is here arrested by a low |
tap at the door; Amos Cover goes TO open |
1t. Reuben turns, and sees jeanette
folded in the arms Of her father and sister.
Be sure, the Joy that then ensued shut
of, at once and forever, all but the faint
cal reference to the past
Long before Amos Cover was carried |
to his last resting. place, however, Buben |
Straytor had very eifectually persuaded |
Naomi that her father was right in i'm.
agining that 1t was his eldest and not his
daughter who had been the at
traction at the old mill. With Naomi
Cover for Ills vile, Reuben Straytor soon
dropped contentedIy into farming life
aud jeanette, her roaving spirit never
tanned, married an enterprising young
trader Just as he was on the point Of emil.
grating to Canada; where in ono Of the
French settlements, she had become q
dame of considerable importance, and
where her harmless little vanilies and CO.
queteries have had iairer scope than they
could have found amid the simple folk
who peopled the FlOckshirc downs.-LOn
don t0ciety.