The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-12
HIRAM GOLpBY,
AGED 35.

HIRAM GOLDBY,
Aged 35.
LOST AT SEA, JANUARY, 1866.
The last six was nearly completed
A strange palorg gathered for moment
upon the strangers face, and then he
drew long, deep breath, and said
''Is not ten years long time to be
cutting letters on tombstone, friend?"
"Eh, sir?"
The stone-cutter looked, shaded his
eyes with his brown hand, as he turned
his face to the setting sun.
"This is 1876 was the grave reply,
"and Hiram Colby has been ten years
under the waves"
"Wel, sir, that's the question is he
therePn
''Is he thereP Your stone tells us he
is. and has been for ten years"
Yes, sir, so il does-so it does. And
vet she has ordered it. She came over
week or so back with a worried look
upon her sweet face that have never
seen anything but patience in the ten
long years, and she said to me; You
may cut stone, Davy," she says, and
put it up in the churchyard, and | don't
want to see it. I'll pay you whatever
YOU choose TO ask, Davy," she says,
but he's not dead and don't want "A
tombstone Lor, mum, says l., he'd
a turned up in all these years if he was
not dead But she shook her pretty
head, the prettest ever seen, sir, and
said she; My heart never told me that
10,
lieve it till my heart tells me so. "
"lls sweetheart" questioned the
stranger.
His wife, sir-his loving, faithful
wife that's had property, and lonel-
ness and misery, her full share, and
might ha bettered herself
"How was thatP'
"Mr. Miles. sir, the richest ShopOwn-
er hereabouts, he waited patiently sew
On long years, trying to win her Then
he said she was free even if Hiram
came back
"Enoch Arden muttcred the stran-
ger.
I"What did YOU say, sir?"
Nothing, nothing What answer
did the widow make, Mr. MilesH'
III lIlram'S dead said she, Pm
his faithful wife Maybe YOU are from
the city sir, and have heard the story
Of our Pcarl?'
"Wbai story is that?'
"Wcl, sir, It's been told many times,
more particularly in the last year. but
you're welcome to what know of it.
There that six is done, and I'll leave
the Scripture text till morning. II
you'll come TO the gateway and take a
seat on some stones, I'll tell you, that
is, il You care 10 hear il.
81 do care, was the grave reply; 81
want very much TO hear the story"
maybe you're some kin TO the Pearl
of Monkton that's what they call Mrs,
Goldby hereabouts. It's matter of
thirty-three years back, sir, that there
was wreck off Monkton rocks, that
you can see from here, sir, now tides
low Cruel rocks they are, and many
wreck they've seen, the more the
pity. You see them, sir?"
ii see them"
well, sir, with this one wreck, thir-
'y-thrce years ago, there was nothing
-
washed ashore but n bit Of a girl-baby
three or four years old with skin like
leai' and great black eyes. Hiram
Colby found her on the rocks. He
was boy of twelve years, strong and
tall, and he carried the child in his
arms to his mother You NAV see the
cottage, sir, the second white one or
the side of the hill. ."
III see it, "
"Well, Hiram took the baby there
and Mrs. Goldby was the same as
mother TO it--a good woman, God blcS
her soul--the Widow Goldby."
'Is she dead, thenT
'Ayc, six years agone The baby
was telling you of, sir, talked foreigl
lingo, and was dressed beautiful in ric
clothes, that must have cost power o
money. But never would Hiram or tn
widow sell them, putting them up care
fully in case the child was ever LOOKED
for. She was that pretty, sir, and tina