The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-10

ing down into the sweet eyes. The moon.
just rising, glittered on something which
unnoticed by her, had escaped from the
folds of her neckerchief-a golden circle,
with the portrait of a man within.
Faith" said Kyle Grifiths, in tone
which strove for steadiness, you're wear
in grand new trinket since L saw you
last. Who gave you that?"
He spoke too suddenly. With a quick
frightened gesture she snatched away her
hand, as if to hide the bauble. With a face
deeply, terribly red, the red of cowardly
consciousness, she stammered out
'I-I-it's nothing-father's-I mean 1
bought it
Without word Kyle loosed her wrist
and rose up. Without word he turned
from her; only when he had gone ten steps
he came back, and said very hoarse and
low
Faith Morgan, you have told me lie,
an you know it, I cant say if it was for
the first time, but I can say it shall be the
last I wondered''-and his voice sank
deeper sti.l-"that you should shrink when
took you in my arms while ago. I won
der now you dared let me do it, wi ths I mans
face lying between my heart an yours. Go
to him now, as you will; 1 want no wife on
whom I cant depend in word an deed
He was gone the next moment; and Faith
sobbing bitterly with grief and anger, went
home to find Philip Dsubigh at the garden
gate waiting for her.
He had been courting her for the last two
months; and she-had coquetted with him
/ Flirting is not an amusement confined to the
upper ten. l have heard of young Pata-
gOnian squaw who was as finished an adept
/ at 1t as any Relgravian beauty; and Faith,
an only child and the prettiest girl in a NIL
wch, had been wonderfully fond of try ing
her fascinations on the weaker" sex, till the
i arrival of n new first mate fer her fathers
! favorite vessel, the vessel he had command
. ed himself until he was admitted to a part
nsrship in the firm of Denbigh & Co, his en-
ployers. Kyle Griffiths, big as a giant, true
., the light of day, and masterful as he said
himself, had "cut OUT all the rest in no time
and won Faith for his own undivided pro-
. perty. She never even cared to look at anv
one else when he was by; and, I believe
loved him as entirely was in her nature
with most wOrshipful affection; but when
Kyle was away at sea and young Mr. Den
bigh came ia Amlwch-Mr. Denbigh, who
was what she called gentleman: some one
who wore fine clothes, and had W hite hands
and curly moustache-and when this hero
testified Immediate and violent admira-
ton for herself, how could she help going
back to the old habits?
Sho did not help either. Mr.. Denbgh
made love; and she smiled and fiirted, all un-
conscious in her fattered vanity of what the
neighbors were saying, until just three days
before Kyles return, the suitor brought mat
ters 10 crisis by a declaration. They had
Il tiff about photo of Faith, which Denbigh
had stolen and put in his locket; and he had
brought her a fine gold loeket with one of
himself in it, and begged her to accept it and
take the donor into the bargain.
Followed wax kening for silly little Faith,
and the confession, 'But I am engaged -
Followed anger (from the gentleman) and
tears (from the LADY,.
} Followed tremendous scenes of masculine
woe and anguish, and feminine contrition
and soothing.
: Finally Dsnbigh left the house. determin-
and Faith remained with the Iocket, which
| she had at last consented to keep and wear
as some small salve to the givers wounded
affections. She loved Kyle far, far better
than his rival; but Phillip Den5igh was 50
: handsome and sweet-spoken, it would be
5 downright cruel to refuse him such triie as
hanging the trinket round her neck for a day
or two; and no one need ever know.
, Nevertheless some one did know-now
; and the sweet-spoken gentleman got saw
age snubbing on this aforementioned even,
; ing.
Kyle will hear 1 refused him, and come
back. He'll never leave me so. He must
Ere rl,o
beauty, that night.
He did not ask pardon, however, nor come
L back The Olinda sailed three days later
and Faiths two lovers sailed in it. Kyle
had beautiful black retriever, which he haG
been used to leave behind to ''take care O
his Iassie love while he was gone" He tool
= it with him this time; and Faith nearly wep
her lovely eyes out, that she had been too
proud to own her folly and seek reconcile
alton before he went. Patience! it would b.
s back, and she would be : good-so good an,
meek. He must forgive her then.
Eight weeks all but two days-when tn,
v sun went down n stormy grandeur, one cold
L evening, on the Irish Sea. 1t had been blow
Y ing great guns all Gay, and for many day
/ and nights before; and the waves had wrest
Y led terribly WIN Il crazy bdIduc hlCH VIII
a creaking timbcrs and leaking pores, Will
strained and naked masts bending beneath
=, the gale, at every lurch they seemed like t
: bury themselves in the foaIn-crested wave
k tumbling mountain-high around them, haC
striven like a living thing TO weather tn
l cruel storm.
o Where ,cas she no,g7 The huge breakers
e crested still with foam, turbid and purple
[ stained, dashed themselves, meaning an'
IL roaring, against the gray and iron-boun'
k cliffs of the Welsh coast, tiingihg up grea
fragments of timber, torn and twisted scrap
e of sail-cloth, and battered, shapeless things
q too awful in their piteous mutilation for an!
IS human name, against the pitiless rocks, onl!
4 10 suck them back again into the black ano
! boiling gulf below. Above, great storm-ren
cIopds. black too, but fringed with fire, wer
?: gathering thickly over the threatening Nau' u
;. and low on the horizon the sun, like blood
red hand, pointed from between them L