Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-03
HIRAM GOLDBY,
Aged -.

LOST At SEA, JANUARY, 1866.
The last six was nearly completed. \
strange pallOr gathered for a moment
upon the strangers face, and then he
drew a long, deep breath, and said:
"Is not ten years a long time to be
cutting letters on tombstone, friend?
"Eh, sir2'
The stone-cutter looked, shaded his
eve, with his brown hand rs he turned
mi, face % the setting sun.
This is 1876 was the grave reply
'aud Hiram Goldby has been ten years
under the waves.
..WcU, sir, that's the questions he
there
is he there? Your stone tells us he
is. and has been for ten years
eyes sir, so il dOes-SO IL does. And
vet she has ordered il. She came over
a week or so back with a worried look
upon her sweet face that | have never
seen anything but patience in the ten
long wears. and she said 10 me: You
may cut a stone, Davy,' she says, and
put il up i'm the church-yard, and don I
want to see il. III pay you whatever
YOU choose 10 ask. Davy,' she says, but
he's not dead, aud don't want a tomb
stone Ior, mum, says l, he'd a
turned mp in all these years II he was not
dead But she shook her pretty head, the
prrtticst / ever seen, sir, and said she:
NV heart never told me that he was
dead Dlvy, and III never believe it'll
my heart tells me so.
ellis sweetheart questioned the
stranger $500,
Iii, wife, sir-hiS loving, faithful
wife. that's had property, and loneliness
and misery, her full share, and might
ua' bpttcrcd herself" %
How was that2'
"Nr. Miles. sir, the richest Shopowncr
herrabuut~, hc waited patiently Tor
seven long years, trying 10 win her.
Then he said that she was free even II
Hiram came back
"Euurh Arden muttcrcd the stran-
ger. ,,
"What did YOU say, SIR
"Nothfug. nothing. What answer did
the widow make, Mr. Miles,
"'If IIiram's dead, said she, I'm his
faithful wife. Maybe You are from the
city. sir. and have heard the story OF our
PEARL
"What story Is that
"WcH. sir. It's been told many times,
NOR. particularly i'm the last year, but
ygv'r. welcome To what ] know of II.
There. tult six is done, and III leave the
Scripture text tin morning. II you'll
come o. the gateway and take a seat ON
some of tine stones, I'll tell you, that l.,
fl Won care Co near It,
IL do care, was the grave reply; Il
want very much to hear the story.
.Nayb. You're some kin % the Pearl
of Nonkt1n-thut'S what they call NrS.
GoIihv hprrJboutS. Its a matter oil
tri~tv-thrcc years back, sir, that there
vg- "a wreck oH Moukt0u rocks, that you
can Srcl from here. sir, now tides low.
Cruel rocks they are, and many wreck
they've seen, the more the pity. You
see them, sir?
"I see them.
"Weu. sir. with this one wreck, thIr-
fv-thrrr wears age, there was nothing
y-,sheT ashore but a BIT of glrl-baby
three or TOUR wears old, with skin Ike
a Irlf. and great black eyes. Hiram
GnIIbv found her on the rocks. lie was
"a boy OF Twelve NtsttSs HNiH''- '''''N ''''.'
and he carried the child in ms arms to
mi, mother. You may see the cottage.
sir. the second white one on the SIDE oil
the hill.
81 see it.
"Wcu. Hiram took the baby there,
and Mrs. Goldby was the same as a
mother % it-a good woman, God bless
her soul-thc Widow Goldby.'
els she dead then?'
cave. sir, six years agOne. The BABY
I was telling YOU Of sir, talked for
rign lingo, ard was dressed beautiful IN
rich clothes. that must have cost a pow
or 1f money. But never would Hiram
or the widow sell them, putting them
mn carefully in case the child was ever
looked for. She was that pretty, SIR,
and that dainty, that everybody called
her Pearl, though she was not ike our
Urls but afraid, always deadly afraid OF
the sea. | have seen her clench her
mite Of a hand and strike at it, for she
mad bit of temper in her, though moth
ing TO harm. .
@When Hiram made his first voyage
for they were all seafaring men mere