Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-07

woman, to whom knowledge of the truth
seemed to be thus suddenly and strange
: " given.
"She might happen to come round,
but they're all sadly afeard she won't, -
replied the other.
"She's lying at Atkinson's, by the
shore. They went there with her for
readiness, when they got her out"
SCOT her out! What coined to her?
Is she drowned? Ny Phoebe! My own
bonnie BARN ~
"You tell her--tell her kind said
one of the men to the other.
"No, tell me any way, but tell me
quick I nivver till few minutes back
knew any different than that she was
lying safe in bed there, inside the
house. [ nivver went to bed myself: I
dropped asleep by the fire."
eye slept last night" cried both the
men, astonished. eye could sleep?
There was that wind at our end of the
town, that I was afeard it would fling
our chimbley down, I was, indeed, and
there was dirty weather out at sea. I
saw your Phoebe when she first cam out.
though somehow or other / lost her
after. We were all hurrying down to
we could, when all in the wild of the
night down ran figure by us, and at
the first go off I RELY thowt it was a
spectre, but it was your bonnie Phoebe,
poor lass? 'And what's the guns ali
firing for so terrible, Mr.. Duncan p she
said, said she to me, 'and what can all
them lights be about?' [ think myself
she nun just ha' said that because she
was SO terribly anxious-like, for she was
tied to know why all that was being
done, her girl born and bred by the
sea; SO [ said, said I: s'Honey, it's a
boat-a fishing boat has been drove
ashore, and is laying there wreck, and
with that set up great shout, and afore
and liver I could tell her not to be
| frightened-like, for the sea had gone
down bit, and Douglas boat had put
out to try if aught could be done, she
ran off the harbor, hardly able to steady
herself in the wind. So I ran after her
as quick as I could, and cried: "Honey,
it's none O. the ST. Aiden's lads as is in
that boat. It's one O. them Penzance
boats; David Trevethoe owns it.
"I knowed it was. [ felt it was
from the very beginning cried she,
quite despairing, and with that she ran
the faster, and then I knowed as how l
had done wrong, for of suddenly l re-
marked that she and him had kept COM
pany together the year afore, AMI that
my missis had once or twice tellt me that
she believed they were lovers STILL"
CAY, ay," cried Elsie, impatiently;
"but go on; nivver mind that; just tell
me what she did,"
"Poor lass! she stood by the pier
holding on agin the wind, and wet to the
skin she nun ma been, for whole water
was coming down all the time, and
when Douglas boat CAM back she ran
along for to meet it. and when she heard
that David and all aboard with him had
been drowned, she ran past livery lady,
and threw herself into the water"
"But they got her out again, you
said?" cried Elsie.
"Ah, but they were long about It;
God only knows how it will be with her.
Yell 60 to her"
Gay, at once, cried Elsie; "but how?"
They placed her in an armchair and
carried her quickly to cottage just
above the beach. A crowd was already
collected by the door, Way was made
for Elsie, and she was at once carried to
the room where poor Phoebe was lying.
At the entrance woman met them who
shook her head and said: "Better not
come in here"
"My BARN is dead p cried Elsie; "let
me see her at once"
No one made any further opposition.
On a large table in the centre of the
room lay two dead bodies. David
Trevethoe and Phoebe were lying side by
side. For long time the old woman
stood supporting herself by the. edge of
the table, and looking at the girl she had
brought up from childhood. At last she
turned to the sailors who had carried her
there, and said: "Them two was
sweethearts; [ did not like the notion Of
her going right away from me who had
been like a mother to her, to wed
a stranger down south. [ nivver favored
the marriage, and nivver let this young
man come within my doors. I kept her
in the house for three days afore he left.
She fret sore about his going away, poor
BARN. She cried herself to sleep when
he sailed but she nun ha' heard the guns
firing and have jealoused it was him
that was in danger. That made her run
out in the night. Poor thing, she had
put herself away in her trouble at losing
him the Lord above us all forgive her
for what she has DONE
Then she stopped and gave the girl
whom she had loved so much a long
farewell kiss, and then, after a struggle
unseen by all, she looked at David
Trevethoe There he lay, cold, still,
and with all his busy schemes for better
ing his own fortune brought to this
abrupt and terrible conclusion. "Poor
young man. said she, ''it was early for
| him to die p
cit was SO, said a bystander, "and
maybe he would be alive now if he
hadn't took fright at the weather and
put back here It's but one boat in
twenty as could have run in safe, in
such wind. He never should have
tried it; he knew set the boys always
has to come in here, when it's anyways
rough
ssMavhe whatever he had done II