The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-17
JEW BIooMF1E1D. PA, TUESDAY, AUGUST II, 1880.

there 1t had stuck, for who could say
what would be the end of such hope
less attachment? Hopeless, in so far
that there was no chance of the girl
ever being released from the convent,
which, she now intimated to Harry
Martin, she cordially hated. She was
an orphan and had a lot of money, and
though she had not taken the vow as a
professed sister, you might just as soon
expect shark to leave hold of yonr leg
when he had once grabbed it as the
priests and sisters of Santa Agata to let
poor Miss Dolore out of their clutches.
There was nothing to advise Martin to
do but to cut the whole affair; not to
see the girl again, but just keep close by
the ship until we got our sailing orders,
which most of us were hoping for every
day. It's thing sailors have to do, all
the world over, for one can't marry
everybody, and it's astonishing to find
how in short time you don't want to.
"But you should have seen the fury
Martin got into when 1 suggested this
everyday course to him. He talked
about honor and Christian feeling ex-
actly as If hadn't got either one or the
other. Upon my word if he hadn't
been my senior officer and such an old
chum, and such a big fellow, too,
should have knocked him down for
what he said. AT the same time was
sorry for him, for by this time L saw he
was in earnest in the affair, so when he
had quieted down bit 1 said to him,
What do you say to rescue?'
" He jumped as If he'd been shot, and
seized me by the hand. Do you really
mean it, Jim? Will you lend hand
to help her out?'
care you going to marry herY' 1
asked severely; for it's all very good
fun rescuing the young lady, only good
ness knows what we're to do with her
Afterwards. You may be sure st.
Michael's will be rather too hot to hold
her or US if our share in the matter gets
wind. You won't be able to marry
nearer than Lisbon, and don't exactly
know how you're to get her there,
either, unless the boss gives her pas
sage, which perhaps is little too much
to expect. 1t might interfere with the
efficiency of his first officer.
"Poor Martin stood speechless, for
though he had jumped at my suggestion
and evidently had considered the posi-
bility of rescuing Dolores from her
prison, his plans had here evidently
stopped short. He had not reflected
that the English Consul would never
marry them in the teeth of the Spanish
authorities, who would probably tear us
to pieces for meddling with one of their
ewe-lambs.
swell, Martin may be very smart
officer-indeed, there is no doubt about
that-and he may have been a redhot
lover, but he certainly was not much of
a strategist. So while was maturing
the plan, in which was now almost as
much interested as he, I set him to
write to the lady and formally offer her
marriage, to be arranged for and carried
out as soon as ever she could be convey
ed safely to Lisbon; always provided
that she herself could elude the vigilance
of the sisters and join her lover outside
the convent walls on an appointed even
ing. Back came her answer through
the medium of the old Carmen of the
market, a frie ndly old hag who carried
vegetables up to the convent every day.
The escape would be difficult but not
impossible. Carmen was to leave GER
tain doors and windows of the back
premises unlocked, and Dolores was to
slip out at the time appointed. But,
oh were the English senors certain
that she would not be caught afterward,
for she knew that if she were the penalty
would be death-or next door to it.
Meanwhile had been laying out
the whole plot, and very prettily had
dovetailed one thing in with another.
There was an old Irish woman married
to Portuguese Jew fruit merchant who
lived in the Jews portion of the town.
I had heard her tongue going one day
like mill clapper, as passed by, and
there was no mistaking her accent. /
often used to stop and have chat with
her about the beauties of Queenstown,
which she upheld against all corners.
What her religion was / never dlscov-
cred, for she held the priests in as great
detestation as Captain Cripps himself;
while she spoke with high disdain Of
her Jew husband and his religious exer-
cises, though she allowed he had more
religion than Protestant But she