The Red Cloud chief., 1878-01-24

death. and his hands and lips were quiv-
ering.
MARY. my dear. are you coming?"
he asked.
mo. she isn't" put in Mark. "Do
YOU think she'd rest without hearing my
news? l tell You again that YOU came
back too soon. Five minutes walk and
talk on the shore, and then it will all be
over"
Then il will all be over. dear" said
Mary. going to her husband.
You don't want to grieve me, do
you?" he answered. "Come with me.
Mary"
mo, I must go Il the shore first"
she replied. Indeed. / should like Il.
1t is such- strange news Mark has that
it makes my heart throb and burn, and
the night air may cool it."
"You win tell me everything" said
Oldworth.
Yes, dear. everything" she an
swered.
wei, of course ] shall come with you.''
LAS you like" calculated Mark. who
during this brief dialogue had been
waiting with a look of sullen impatience
on his face.
So these three went forth into the
night.
The white, panic-stricken moon seem.
ed to be flying through the sky. follow
ed by great masses of clouds. As these
three came to the shore you could hard
~ have told which was the louder. the
winds voice or the seas. The spirits of
the ocean and the storm seemed to be
holding some wild revel. The black,
huge, fOam-crested waves came with a
sound of thunder against the land. and
the Kissing spray, blown up like smoke.
dashed in thief ace of the two men and
the woman. When they were fairly on
the beach Mark turned to OldwOrth and
said, in a voice which was quite audible
through the roaring of the wind and
waves:
"LOOk here, now; I'll be frank and
abOve-bOard with you. l loved this girl
q long time ago; we were playmates to-
gether, and it's rough on me that she
should love you better. Come, now, do
not be greedy! let us have five minutes
to ourselves to say goodbye in, and l
will never again cross your path or hers.
This l swear"
Oldworth turned to his wife and SIM
ply asked:
do you wish it?"
She murmured family: "Yes, it will
be for the better, l suppose"
So he held her with his arm for q mo-
ment, while he kissed her lips lovingly;
then he let her 90 and walked aside,
turning his back to the sea.
The Yves hurrying through the
heavens, and all around OldwOrth the
shook and clamOred. At times he
seemed to hear footsteps coming and
going near him, and at times he SEEM
ed to hear a sound of singing through
the storm; but these were only sick fan
cies. He. waited five minutes; he wait
ed ten; then he turned and went nearer
to the sea, but his eyes could not dis
cover that for which they looked.
"Mary!' he called, at the top of his
voice. MARY, my darling, where are
But there came no answer to his call.
Wind and sea laughed him to derision.
And overhead the moon fled faster than
between the great spaces of black
OldwOrth searched the beach in all
then he went to it's extremi-
ty. where two sailors were lOunging to-
Have you seer a man and woman
pass this way?" he inquired.
I'VE saw you and another man 90
with a girl some minutes back"
N of the sailors. .'They GER
lainly have not come up this way. Now
[ think of it, they can't have got around
any other way, because the tide is high |
up Over the rocks"
why, you must be drunk, Bill, to
talk like that" cried the second sailor. |
Don't you know the gentleman was
married to her to-day?" Then he
urned to OldwOrth: ..Never mind
sir. They've only gone higher
up. I'll be bound well find them fast
enough. What might the mans name
,e?"
How, in heavens name, should that
lelp you?' returned Oldworth. desper-
Itely. THE mans name was Mark
shaw. and he vas a sailor"
'Mark, Mark! Why, that's our mater
both men together. well, Wen
10 all we can" And they went down
o the sea. And while Oldworth stood,
that the horror which he sus-
could not really be, and won
lering what he should do next, the |
nen returned bearing something with
hem.
Its a wOman's hat, SIR" said the
.cond sailor, the one who had reproved
is companion for what he deemed his
speech. ..But don't you
AXE on, sir; more hats than n get
Town away this weather."
THANK you. l know that hat" re-
lrned Oldworth, with awful quiet in
is voice. Then he turned from them.
Take my arm, won't you, sir?" said
ne sailor who had last spoken, observ-
q that Oldworth seemed hardly able
, control his steps. This sailor was
nown on the Annie as ..Jim. the pig-
)n-hearted." ,
THANK you," rejoined Oldworth,
king the mans hand. II know YOU !
lean well, and 1 shall not forget you.
cure a sailor. Is there any boat do I
On think, that could follow and find q
lem? Can they be all the way down
It? Down at the very bottom of the {
a? Why. l thought just now l heard t
r laugh. Don't you think she might q
u past us? / shall find her again =
day" .
He pressed his hand to his forehead
If trying to collect his thoughts; then ,
cry, which those who heard will never q
rget. broke from his lips and rang y
rough the storm. High up it went, &