Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-06
practical joker would choose toindulge in such

practical joker would choose to indulge in sucl
a propensity.
| looked into the boat and there were
trunks, bags and desks in the greatest disor
der, evidently hurried off without packing OF
care. The man in charge only knew that they
came down in wagon and were sent off in
his boat, and that was to grant receipt fol
them.
For some little time racked my brain in
a vain attempt to guess at some clue to this
extraordinary circumstance. / then took the
| spyglass, and looking toward the shore, saw
Harley coming off to the ship in another boat.
In few minutes more he sprang over the
side, looking like man bereft of his senses.
Throwing number of small coins into the
boat, he just looked at ME wildly for an in
slant, saying: Get under weigh as soon as
you can, Ingram - and hurried down the
companion stairway.
followed, to tell him to go into my cabin,
as the one he had occupied was filled with
cargo; but he had already gone into mine and
bolted the door and in answer to my knock
only replied d. Come down after you have
As soon as had got the ship we'll outside.
Ems Tmnen was quite tXspts8ts the agcK; went down
again and after knocking two or three times,
Harley unbolted the door. He was pacing up
and down just three steps each way. His face
was deathly pale, with an occasional flushing
over for minute or so, as he clenched his
hands and seemed almost in convulslon. l
did not speak. 1 knew not what to say. L
took his hand for an instant and pressed it.
He drew his hand away hastily, and contln-
ued his walk to and fro. Then he spoke.
''They tell us there is God. How could he
in mercy allow this ?" He struck his fore
hood and conE nm tho 1iftlo sofa
Again 1 took his hand. "Calm yourself,
Harley. Whatever may have happened, bear
it like man-like the man / know you to
be-
''Ingram," he said, IT came out of the
house with you to see you off to-day, when
you left Mrs. Van Dusen and if you remem-
Der, after you bid Susette good bye, she went
up stairs. I have not seen her since. shall
never see her again-I never can see her
again ~
He paused and it flashed across me that he
had made some discovery as to his wlte's con-
duct or character which had at once made him
determine to leave her. Possibly the express
sion of my tell-tale countenance indicated
of this, for he looked up at me sud-
denly.
''Poor, poor Susette how can she bear this
She will think me scoundrel; and oil ! that
is hard to bear. But better even that, than
that she should know what 1 know; that
which her mother dare not cannot tell her
Ingram ~ said he, starting up 81 have mar
ried my own sister-my own mothers child ~
"Good heavens! Harley: do not say that.
1t cannot be, Some misconceptiOn of some
thing you have heard"
'There is no misconception. I made the
discovery ten minutes after you quilted Mrs.
Van Dusen's. l am her son !; though she
knew it not, till showed her miniature of
my father when he was young"
''Thank God for his mercy, Harley, that
you were not later in making the discovery"
He paused for some seconds, and then re-
piled: "That is true. 1t was wicked to doubt
His mercy"
He seemed calmer now and gradually
gathered from him all the attendant cir
cumstances. Intimate as l had been with
Harley, merely knew from him that he did
not remember his mother, as she had died
when ha- -wa1 an infant; and that he had been
brought up by anoshar- lady till he Weptt, Weptt,rtte te
been somewhat retcent. 81 had a letter from
my father" or II must write to my father
by this mail,'' was generally all the reference
he made to the subject of his belongings so
that was as totally unprepared for the IN
formation he gave me now Of his antecedents
as l had been for that connected with the
unhappy, miserable events of the day.