The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-10-25

And seaPd his dark vow with sigh and @
kiss.
"Irena," he said, with a whisper so bold,
That it sent the first chill to her love-strick-
en- soul,
"Thy father possesses vast store of wealth.
And also enjoys amazing good health.
Many years he may live and keep us apart
With a moth blighting secret concealed in
thy heart.
You see on my finger a magical ring,
With conceaPd in its gema sharp, death
dealing sting.
Now, should l so will it, thy father would die
Without pain or anguish, suffering or sgh.'
With one mighty effort she tore her apart,
And sped to the house with load ON her
heart;
She enter'd the threshold mot stopping to bow
And heard the dire warning" Remember
thy voww
When the time roll'd round for the Squire
to be home,
Twas source Of much care, he neglected
to come.
One morning his horse was found tied at the
gate,
Which proved that the master had met an
i'll fate;
And the horse was return'd, that the fact
should be seen
That the deed was the work of conscience
struck iend.
His neighbors joined in, and search of a
week,
Found the body aAoat in the Mahonng
Creek.
No wound was found on it, but the right
hand was black,
And his limbs and his face were q mottled
lilac.
Twas a mystery profound how the good
Squire had died,
But Jury conjectured that it was suicide.
Carl and Irena were welded that date
And the former took charge of the fathers
estate.
Another great mystery, unsolved and
profound!
No papers or wealth could be heard of or
found.
Or only few pounds could be found, at the
best
A little ready cash locked up in the chest.
The houses were old, and as for the farm,
To make it of profit required a strong arm,
A good resolution, hands willing to work
| All of liies duties Carl Weber would shrk.
He grew much discouraged in time very bre
And his face was picture of woe and o.
grief.
He treated Irena most shamefully i'll,
And often did threaten himself he would
kill.
He left her one morning abused and in pair
And he never returned or was heard of again
! lrena in sorrow was given one Joy,
The image of herself, blithe little boy;
| That the name of her father to the future
should go,
She had the boy christened as Kindaru
Blob.
As years glided on, years full of turmoil
Ofsorrow and care and of tear whiten'd toll
Old Ayrey, meantime, in the grave had laiC
down,
Aud old Knife gone to the happy hunting
ground
To Irena many hills in her pathway arose,
TheWars ofthe Nations disturbed her repose
The soil worn out-the farm had growl
poor
And she often had prayed the clean vol
from the door"
But her son had waxed strong, and the pillow
and the hoe,
He held with the will of his grandiathe
Blob.
One dark, stormy night she went to her bed
A very strange ache in her heart and he
head.
She soon was asleep, and a curious dream
On her halEwaking senses did ftfully gleam
She dreamed that she went to the cellar a
night,
On an errand, but forgot to take with her
light.
When she got there, most strangely to say,
The cellar was lighted as brightly as day.
The floor seem'd cover'd with whiten'd men
bones,
While the source ofthe light was two rows O
stones
In the side of the cellar, upon its south wall
Cleaning like gems in an enchanted hall.
She counted the brillants-she could not tel
why
"Nine stones from the corner and min
stones hight"
As she finish'd the counting, the cornor-ston
light
Trembled moment, like bird on its flight
Then fell from its place with a crash to tn
ground,
With a reverberation, or thunder-like sound
The shock on her nerves, did a sensation
make
That set her upright on her couch and awall
The storm out of doors was bowling anC
roaring
While torrents of rain in its midst wa
pouring.
The dream of the night had impressed he
mind SO,
With the dawn of daylight to the cellar sh
did go
And now a strange sight that her sense
dismayed,
The storm of the night had a sad havo
played.
A dark pool Of water and debris around
Revealed the fact that the wall had washe,
down.
In a large excavation, her eyes did behold
Some bundles Of papers and a great box q
gold.
This was the wealth of Squire Kindaru
Blob,
Which his hands had laid by in the year
long ago.
Possessed Of much wealth Irena grew pool