Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-22

come to the gateway and axe a seat on
some of the stones, Eli tell you, that is if
you care to hear it,
II do care,' was the grave reply; Il
want very much to hear the story"
Maybe you're some kin to the Pearl
OF Monkton-tha what they call Mrs.
| COLBY hereaboats. It's d matter OF
thirty years back, sir, that there
was wreck off Monkton rocks, that you
can see from here, sir, now tides low
Cruel rocks they are, and many 3 wreck
they We seen, the more the pity You see
them, sir?"
Il see them"
well, sir, this one wreck, thirty-three
years ago, there was nothing washer
ashore but bit of a girl-baby three OF
four years old, with q skin like a lily .eat,
| and great black eyes. Hiram Goldb1
found her Oh the rocks. He was boy OF
twelve years, strong and tall, and he
carried the child in his arms to his
mother. You may see the cottage, sir.
the second Write one on the side Of the
| hill
81 see it,
We'll, Hiram took the baby there. and
Mrs. Colby was the same as mother 10
it-a good woman, God bless her soul
the Widow Colby"
Is she dead, them"
Aye, sir, six years agone The babg
| was telling you of, sir, talked foreign
lingo, and was dressed beautiful in rich
clothes, that must have cost power ot
money. But never would Hiram or the
widow sell them, putting them up care
fully in case the child was ever looked
Tor. She was that pretty, sir, and that
dainty, that everybody called her Pearl,
though she was not like our girls, but
afraid, always deadly afraid of the SEA.
| have seen her cIench her mite of hand
and strike at it, for she had bit of a
temper IN her, though nothing to harm
When Hiram made his first voyage.
Tor they were ali seafaring men here
abouts, and there was nothing for lad to
do but ship, the Pearl was just little
washed out lily, fretting until he came
home again And it was so whenever he
went, tor they were sweethearts from the
first time he nestled her baby face on
his breast, when he picked her up
from the wreck. She was sixteen when
they were married, as near as we could
guess; Hiram was a man of twenty four
She prayed him to stay at home then, and
he stayed year, but he fretted for the
sea, and he went again, thinking, s'pose
that his wife would get used to it, as we'll
as all wives hereabouts must do. Blu,
she never did never. 1t was just pitt
able tosee her so about, white as a corpse
when Hiram went away, never looking
at the sea without a shudder like death
chill. All through the war it was just
awful, for Hiram enlisted on board a
man owar, and Pearl was just shadow
when he came home the last time"
after the war2''
OF any account, and so went away
again, after staying at home a long spell
Well, he never came back 'Twasnt nc
manner of use telling Pearl he was lost
she d just shake her pretty head and say
He'll come back Not mite of mourn
ing wonld she wear, even after his owl
mother gave him up and went IN black
for, sir, it stands TO reason he's deac
years ago."
ut locks So"
"Of course it does; nobody else doubt:
it but Mrs. GoIdbys last words were
I'm going to meet Hiram,' and they say
the dying know. But even then tina
didn't make Pearl think So She wore
mourning for her who lad been the only
mother she knowed of, but not weeds
, Weeds was for widows, she said, and she
wasn't widow"
but the stone?"
+ "Weil, sir. I'm coming to that. A yea
ago, sir, fine gentleman from Franc,
came here hunting for a child, lost OF
this coast. He'd heard of Pearl by hap
pen chances, if there is such, and cam,
here. When he saw the clothes, he jus
tainted like woman"
{ ''She Was related, them"
The strangers voice was husky, but tn
sea air was growing chill.
Her father, sir"
she took her away?n
He tried to. He tod her of a splend
\ ed home he had in New York, for het
t followed his wife and child, SIR, to th
g city they had never reached. He wa
rich and lonely. He begged his child t
? go, but she would not. 'Hnam will com
here Tor me, she said, 'and he must I'm
me where he left me.
5 "On what has she lived!"
Sewing, sir, mostly. The cottage wa
old Mrs. Goldby's, and bless you, Pear
!, Gid not eat much more than bird, an,
S her dresses cost next to nothing Blu
there's no denying she was very poor
. very, and yet the grand home and big for
tune never tempted her. So her fathc
2 came on and on to see her, until April
An he died, sir, and left our Pearl all Iii
| fortune and the grand house in New
1 York. But she'll not go, sir, she'll di
i here, waiting for Hiram, who'll neve
GOMEZ
i The stranger lifted his face that ha,
!, been half hidden in his hand and said
e "Ihere was shipwreck in the Pacif
!. Ocean, Davy, years and years ago, an>
!, one man was saved-saved, Davy. by say
| ages who made hin a slave, the worst O
) slaves! But one day this sailor saved thu
f life of the chiefs daughter, who was il
r thecoils Of a hugh snake, and the chief re
;. leased him. More than that he gave hin
3 choice spices and woods and sent hin
r aboard the first passing ship. So the sal
lor landed in great city, sold his pres
g ents and put the gold in safe keeping
Then he travelled till he reached the sea
port town where he was born, and com
inr there at sunset heard the e+oru y