Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-01

r -aTS89 ,Da5aGsW Ao sksO! -aahs4O 10 hstnioCqs se34Immoo . e.nsths hspewefsofshR i1ewodeiigEt atos fn,ag part aay deeparssenaes safisfactiou than that which David derived from the conra tents of his tWine-tied roll There was, :printeas paSe; ;,Btis yH4f d6ly alfofded stims' for him to bring his imagination to bear. well and sqnarelys Apenl each paRagraIshe IFinaarn. The full aecount of murder. twas Imeagre compafed with what his fan- ey Aade1 ofita Thep great conhagration with loss of life. she skill iifullyo effected
 bahk robberyilwith no clue to the perpe-t ktfatorsy the sexeeasion Of some notorious ierimlnaF dying confession, less eleI' can't than CFanmef 6 fecantation, was not perhaps, lessemo9ing,- -all passed in 7fess
 View, withGthe viSidness Of actual vision, l6nd weee p0adefedfof hours together as David sat sat taMerk making cast!net for the fishermeHdn the Viiiage! siaa o3 "s These sheets were never exhausted,s any more than are the avolanes5 in a hbrary of tIeW, Ior medicine, or theology. They wore Ike,t for reference. folddda smooth inlf their original creases, and piled together, under, I an iron weight in one corner of Dayid's bed room. Whenever he replaced that lReighedh he recalled che fact Etaas AS1eots4d not wimssWith0Ht ganembeEing the prob able Ifgtlty 9f, that that s1ertlon M 1 fsh9uld one of these frai[ records chance to be Whlsk- Fed oats0f the window, beyond his reach. ? Hhefewas food for lmeditatisess self.grat- ,ulatiDn, even while the horrors were be- from such dangers as beset people less se- curely located than in light house, with water onseveay side and seven miles from r. Not that his life was wholly free from some havoring clement of conscious peril, either. There was something treacherous, David seoneeiged, about that smooth sur face, Forever glitterlng in the sunlight; now receeding. now advancing; crawling npRard, stealthily, on the green and slimy
 pilesI beneath4 his home, until the ugly crust sofabafnacles, extending half their heigAtI was quite concealed. It was al- I ways threatening mischief which it dared
 not quite achieve, he fancied. elf the | wind should ever take Q notion to help 1t in downright vieioasi earnest. he used Sometimes to .mutter to fhlmseG, ,s f'smaH fud' be, my. chance. with nothin' but 1 Eatween me and my nelghbors.
 He half suspected that it owed him a
 grudg flor lighting up the beacon nover- head every evening f..ssop regular" and
 '.cheating it out o' some of its tricks. " sat.
 '.Heres the channel, cap'n." he used to
 exclairl, as the broad glare fell upon the
 water, addressing,i ,in soliloquy, any com-
 mander whom destiny might at that mo- mentIbe directing towards his dwelling. F Heres the, deep water, close to the right. ii, you should chance to go down here, you
 may as we'll telegraph your friends to look
 for your body on the other side O the
 world; fur it $ my belief there's 10 bottom
 to this part. is That's why they built the light ns ghereav 'Te mark the channel
 says they, That's why I'm kep' here to
 1t. That's the side. fur .porpusses and
 shirks, though they don't alfus keep to it. r Many theitimeI I .Eseennt nthen porpusses,
 atweeng this and shorssi g, ,pufRnS and blow l in'; and when you see a porpus, the shirk l amt fur away. As fur swlmmln, l ' wouldn' trust myself in that ere water,-
 no, not fur 11oseey!" nos39@zIo ~La5 sss ! Bat despite his literary inclination, it was not to be denied that life at the light house e0aa monotonous. It became more I so than ever, after some years of seclu- sion. Still. 1t was not without patient
 scrutiny of all possible contingencies that he, nnally decided to introduee a perma-
 nent resident within these walls, in the
 person of a wife. He remembered that
 his q quarters were very narrow; Tn case
 they, couldn tagree there would be. no les- l caping from each others presence. He
 was conscious that 1t would go, against
 him to be icrossetii He had it all his own way now Everything stayed where he 1 put it; he couldn't iebe sure that it would tShn cn if thnrka xUo Qh0nt IfhQ
 perfect stiffness, no sound but the faint
 stroke of wavelets against the piles. be- came a prized possession not lightly to be I resigned when he recalled the chatter of | the village fsh-wiyes, enough to. drive 1 a man to jump overheard, though he Ecouldn't swim, and to make hin" forfeit l the chance of being buried on dry land
 respectable like" fhe had to be ''shut up | in q light-us with 1t, and no distance to put atween but only the length Q the | pier." a'"' 'A'' '''
 1 There was no question that the light
 house was .ass cosy and comfortable as l conld be: two rooms below, fitted up with l every convenience; overhead. the beacon; I beneath, the broad, fiat pier running out l to the channel; as much room, in the opin- l ion of it's occupant, t'as any man ought l to wish for; but women were apt to be on
 reasonable. Ten to one, wife would ;, ciamor for double the space she could oc-
 cupy." .*oeqssa 3el3 as ansse sas yleei27
 By such medltati was David Scar.
 trough deterred from carrying out his isdecision, even after it was fully formed; I and another year or so wore on while he ] cautiously sought his Grlselda. He found her in the midst of the noisy fish-"iyes. I She had, grown up among those whose gar frulity had imposed upon her the silence l of "a perpetual listener, and whose con
 stant quarrels had disposed her to be as r little, disputatiofs as David could desire. l Round faced and large1armed, placid and rosy,, she disturbed nothing in his domi: t.cile. but made it twice as bright and
 cneery as before. .s47tios'4s-- 42.'ss 8 ''' sf smile and nod were as agreeable an ab answer as a man could wish in response te Il sifpropesitions: which required no demonsta.
 tion; and Mrs. Scarborough threw into Il tflcse 8 afulIness 7of assent which words I very rarly convey. oaia uaa BaasE sssas e1' lsa Meantime her husband had never heard
 of. .Griselda; hence he called his wife what her parents, had always called, "Meena
 Perhaps 1t was just as well for her that he
 vas as a.sconseqnence, also ignorant Go1 ff the tests, to which that patient lady IS saic to have been subjected, so prolonged, val j the eperiod of his skepticism concerning his escape from the evils he had previous al ly.dreaded.szofam saoy tes os ger gEA Yet he need not have doubted the sue cess of his search. It is not rare for
 iman to obtain a desired object. in all. the Id plenitude ofperfect completeness, ana st s missnothing but the satisfaction whlcf
 was to have accomplished, its possession V There is want of fitness between perfec
 gifts and imperfect natures which remover T improbabifty from the chance of'such at ol tainrnentssFF 3aznoraI Yo}a s51a ,uxoog
 ,David. Scarborough could not = 1s'abide ,i crossin.. !" and there was no crossin to b' Il borne. The result was that while Meen' ;,I went. .throughssery step of the refining process of self-abnegations and came ou no less pure than shining from the fina aleordeal. her husband remained as at th'