Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

of Mr.. Charles Wilson and Miss Nellie
Armstrong at the residence of the brides
father.
The wedding was brilliant one. and
the young couple left for the south.
where they were to stay till the next
May. On their return they were to oc-
cupy their house on the island in Can
tonville. Mr.. Wilson had furnished it
thoroughly, and man had been left in
charge to see that nothing was damaged
during the winter. Cir IL
With the LIST of May came the young
couple, and quite grand reception was
given them on the island. Every dav
was occupied in receiving visitors, so
that it was three weeks before Charles
had chance to call his wife's attention
to the letter accompanying the deed of
the island. One morning they awoke to
find a heavy southeast storm beating
| upon the island.
"No visitors to-day, Nellie" said
Charles, as he looked out upon the bay,
and we can have a chance to look over
that curious letter that came with the
deed of the island
"What do you wish to look at that
for; do you expect to find anything more
than we have already seen? ?"
eyes, Nellie, am free to confess that
[ do. 1t has been on my mind ever
since we came to our island home. The
first night we slept on the island I had a
dream, and in it I saw that letter very
plainly, and something seemed to say,
Study that letter; there is more in it
than you seem to see.' And I have been
waiting for time when you and 1 could
| could look ut it together -
After breakfast they repaired to the
library and sat down to the table to study
over the letter and if it contained more
than at first appeared. More than an
hour was spent before anything was
found, when Nellie suddenly said:
81 have it; read the first letter of each
line: Find my money in the caves ,"
"Sure enough" said Charles, "but
there are no caves on this island that I
know of, and l have searched it pretty
thoroughly"
"There must be, for L know Uncle
Eben had lots of money, and no one
knew what he did with it. His son
only had about 100000, and he was
said to be worth five times that amount"
"WeI, perhaps there is something
111O1C III IuUoI, LIEU
try the last letter of each line, and see if
there's anything in that" Sc they again
took the paper and read: cat same
time your husband"
Then they stopped and had hearty
laugh over the matter. The island GER
tainly had been the means of their mar
riage, and if it was true in this respect,
it might be in the other.
The rain ceased to fall toward night,
and Charles was so impatient to hunt for
the cave that In spite of the high winds
he assembled the bluff and began to search
for some signs of the cave. He found
nothing there, however, and returned to
the house to get warm and to think the
matter over little. After half an hour
he started out again. This time he
started for the base of the bluff. Arriv-
ing there he began a systematic search,
pulling away the bushes and removing
such fiat stones as seemed to cover any
thing that looked like an opening. He
finally came to large stone, weighing
perhaps half a ton, which seemed to
move as he jumped upon it. Looking
carefully about it, he found it was nicely
balanced on another rock below, and he
thought it would not be much work to
roll it off, if he had lever Remember
ing a large stick he had seen on the shore
a short distance from where he was, he
started for it. AS he jumped from the
rock ne saw an iron bar lying on the
ground, partly covered by the bushes
that grew in such profusion about
there. 81 guess I'm on the right track
now, thought Charles, as he pickedit up.
Ac la oil +ho
easily, and with little effort he sent it
down from it's position into the water,
few feet below, leaving an opening of
about three feet by two. This was the
cave, sure enough, and into the opening
went Charles. 1t was large room,
partially natural and partially cut by
man. The foul air warned Charles not
to go in further, and he at once sought
the open air and returned to the house
to tell Nellie what he had found
Both were very much excited over the
matter, and it was as much as Charles
could do to dissuade Nellie from going
back with him to explore the cave-a
thing he proposed to do before he slept.
Taking q couple of lanterns and as
much dry wood as he could carry, he re-
turned to the cave and went in. He
found the air much improved, and so did
not build his fire. After careful search
he discovered place in the side of the
cave which looked as if it might be a
door, Getting his bar he soon had a
large stone removed from the wall and
this disclosed another large room. A
pair of steps led down somewhere, but
Charles could not see the bottom. The
place was damp and the steps badly
rotted. SO he did not attempt the descent.
Tying line to his lantern, he proceeded
to lower it down into the darkness.
About two yards down it suddenly went
out. He drew it up, relighted it and
tried again, with the same result.
"Well, there's bad air enough there
said he to himself as he drew it up again.
He then proceeded to make large fire
in the cave, and when well agoing, he
took large burning log and threw it
into the inner cave. It burned mo-
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