The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-07
"A Ii FOR LOVE

''Will no one go off for her? VIII
no one go off for my child, my only
child ?" shrieked the miser, wringing
his hands, and running to and fro in the
crowd.
But all turned away. There was
scarcely soul present who had not suf:
fered at the hands of the hard-hearted
money lender.
ooh for the love of heaven-you
who are fathers, think of me Ny
daughter will perish if you do not 90
for her, Townsend? FL give you any
thing, anything in reason"
"Ge for hsr2.a NJ I..1.I4 = said the man,
WIN knocking litdgh, shaking off the
miser; ''alI your gold would not tempt
me out on that boiling sea. Besides,
amt | a father, too-and think you I'll
sacrifice my life for another? No, no,
old hulk, you must take your gold and
carry it to some other market"
ooh she will die, she will die my
child for whom have saved all Peter
Jones, will you go if | give you hun
bred pounds %
Not for ten thousand gruffly said
the person addressed
4 will give thousand to any one,
eagerly said the miser-''a thousand
pounds! | know you will go for thou
sand pounds, Simon, and he seized one
of the spectators by the button of his
shaggy jacket ooh, go! and the
blessings of broken-hearted man will
go with you"
4 can't think of it, for I'd never re-
turn to enjoy your money. No, old
man, said he, in a more feeling tone
than the other had used, "your daugh-
ter must die"
"Must die! Oh, no she shan't die.
Take all am worth, good sirs," he said,
lifting his hands imploringly, "but re-
store me my daughter. Only-only |
hope you'll spare little for us to live
on, if it's no more than a beggar en-
joys"
'It's no use, old man." said the last
speaker 1.-The whole world would not
tempt us to put out to sea in a tempest
like this. It's a hard lot you've got to
bear and pity your daughter, for she
was sweet angel. But the packet will
go to pieces in half an hour, and so,
you see, there's no more hope"
The father heard the speaker in 81
lence. Then he turned and looked out
at sea, where few minutes before the
outline of the stranded packet might
have been seen through the approach
ing twilight, almost buried in the whirl-
ing foam that howled over the bar on
which she lay; but now darkness had
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knowledge of her position was derived
from the sounding of her minute guns
booming across the sea.
The old man groaned, and, sinking
upon board, buried his face in his
hands and rocked his body to and fro,
occasionally paHsing to listen to the
guns or to gaze seward and then re-
Stunning his position, moaning continu.
ally.
Five minutes might have thus passed,
when a young man burst through the
crowd, and shaking the old man by the
shoulder, said
"Mr SIZZLING, they say your daugh-
ter is on board the packets that SO p
Eyes, good, youth, and you have
come to rescue her" he exclaimed,
starting up with eager joy; but when
he recognized the speaker, he said, in Il
tone of disappointment, "Its Harry
Martin? Oh, surely, young man, you
have not come to triumph over my dis
tress2,
:'Heaven Forbid was the fervent re
ply. Il come to aid you, if, indeed
mortal can, in an extremity like this.
Let bygones be bygones. Only answer
me one question, for nothing is to be
lost; will you give me your daughter
if | succeed in rescuing her?
There was a monentary pause, and
the mucles of his face worked convul
sively. All pressed forward to hear hi,
answer, for the fury with which the ole
miser had pursued his daughters lover
and the declaration that he would rather
see her dead than married to the young
man were known to every listener.
At length he gasped:
es, yes; 90 at once. Only save
her, and she shall be yours"
The youth paused no longer, bu
dashed tlA ugh the crowd. In a min
ute his bdat, was afoat, and accompa-
MED by a solitary individual-for bu
one fisherman, and he under great obi
cations to the young man, could he per
suaded TO risk his life with her lover
he set forth.
The boat rose CALAMITY on the waves
shaking like duck the spray from he
sides, and for a few minutes was seeI
momently cutting the outline of tn,
gloomy sky as she attained the SUNNI
of the billow and then she gradual,
passed into the darkness and was seer
no more. For more than al hour thu
crowd remained ON the beach, almos
incredulous of the lovers success, ano
yet lingering in the faint hope that h
might return with his precious freight
That he had the good wishes of all wa
evident from the eagerness with which
they strained their eyes into the gloon
to see if he was returning, and the audi
breathed by more than one of the wo
men.
Apart from the general crowd stoo,
| the fisherman whom the miser had las
appealed to, surrounded by a few kin
dred spirits, who were discussing wit
him the chance of the young mans re
turn.
cit is madness to attempt it," sal
the fisherman ''but when / found h
would go, l insisted that he shoul
make his conditions with the old ma
before he ventured; for, you see, if hi
daughter was once restored to tn
usurer's arms, mighty little gratitud
would he have for her preserver, an
Harry would stand as bad chance a
ever. Between us, I think she though
as much of the young man as he did G
her, and if her father sent her away
as | more than suspect, to drive Marti
from her thoughts, her present DANCE
seems something ike the retribution G
q higher power as a punishment for hi
conduct. But, bark was not that
halloa z
Every eve was turned seward i
which direction the fisherman had ind
Gated he heard the hail; but nothin
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