The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-31

waves.
!" Look here, now. III be frank and
above board with you. loved this girl
long time ago; we were playmates
together; and It's rough on me that she
should love you better. Come, now,
don't be greedy; let as have five min
utes to ourselves TO say goodbye IN, and
then will never cross your path or
hers. This swear"
Oldworth turned to his wife. +" Doyou
wish itP" he asked. y.
She murmured family: "ies; Il will
be better l suppose"
So he held her with his arms for a
minute, while he kissed her lips loving
| III; then he let her 90, and walked aside,
turning his back to the sea.
The moon was hurrying through the
heavens, and all around Oldworth the
night shook and clamored- At times
he seemed to hear footsteps coming
and going, near him, and at times he
seemed To hear sound Of singing
through the storm; but these were only
sick fancies. He waited five minutes ;
he waited ten; then he turned and went
nearer to the sea, but his eyes could
not discover that for which they were
looking.
"Mary!- he called, at the top Of his
voice" Mary, my darling, where are
you?"
But there came no answer TO his call.
Wind and sea laughed him to derison,
and overhead the moon fled faster than
ever before between the great spaces Of
black clouds. Oldworth searched the
beach in all directions, then lie went TO
its extremity, where two sailors were
lounging together.
Have you seen man and woman
pass up this way? ?" he inquired.
We saw you and another man 90
down with girl some minutes back, "
replied one of the sailors. They GER
tainly have not come up this way. Now,
| think Of it, they can't have got round
any other way, because the tide is high
up over the rocks"
What, you must be drunk, Bill, 70
talk like that" said the second sailor.
"Don't you know the gentleman was 70
be married to her to-day?" Then he
turned to Oldworth: I" Never mind ninl.
sir, They've only gone higher up. III
be bound wei find them fast enough.
What might the mans name be p'
g How, in heavens name, should that
help you?" returned Oldworth, des-
perately. "The mans name was Mark
Shaw, and he was sailor"
"Mark, Mark, Why, that's our
mattel cried both men together, swell,
Wen do all we can"
And they went down to the sea, and
while Oldworth stood, feeling that the
horror which he suspected could not
really be, and wondering what he should
do next, the men returned bearing some
thing with them.
{" It's woman's hat, sir" said the
second sailor, the one who had reproved
his companion for what he deemed hi:
inconsiderate speech. /" But don't you
take on, sir; more hats than one get
blown away this weather."
"Thank you. know that hat, !" re-
turned Oldworth with awful quiet in his
voice. Then he turned from them.
stake my arm, won't you, sir?" said
the sailor who had last spoken, observing
that Oldworth seemed hardly able K
control his steps. This sailor wa:
known on the Annie as sJim, the pigeon
hearted"
- Thank you," said Oldworth, taking
the mans hand. ~ know you near
well, and shall not forget you. You're
sailor. i there any boat, do you think
that could follow and find themP Car
they be all the way down yetP Down a
the very bottom Of the seaP Why,
thought just now heard her laugh
Don't You think she might have rum ~ \
} us? / shall find her again some day
not tonight, perhaps, but some day. :
He pressed his hand 10 his forehead
as IL trying 10 collect his thoughts; then
cry, which those who heard will ncv
er forget, broke from his lips and ran
through the storm. High up 1t went,
far over the wind The dead must hav,
heard II. Then he fell senseless 70 the
ground. The sailors, good hearted mer
both, bore Oldworth back on theil
, shoulders TO the inn Medical aid wa.
, procured, but all that night he ravec
dciriously. Very early next morning,i
the first low light, the bodies Of a mar
and woman clasped in each other''
arms were washed ashore. The sailors
, identified the mans body as that d
their first mate, Mark Shaw, Of Tho
schooner Annie. VIM. Grant farmer
in Kent, swore 10 the woman's body Il,
being that Of his daughter, who had beer
married only the day before. The two
had decent burial, side BY side. Old
worth lived, but reason never returned
} to him. He Is Troublesome patien
and dangerous one" say his keepers
whenever the wind is high and west
erly."
Baked in their efforts to propagate
their theories by the instrumer tally D
clubs and newspapers, the German
Socialists have lately endeavorcd 70 con
vey their doctrines by means of song
but in this they have again been thwart
ed. The Hamburg police have just for