The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-26
COME ASHORE"
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.
CONTINUED.
CHATTER XIV.
(CoNTINUED.)

A BRIDAL PARTY AND A LITTLE SURPRISE.
A week passed away. Tho shadow Of the
caravan no longer fell on the green meadow
by the lake, and the struggling population Of
Aberglyn, unsuspicious of foul play, had
already forgotten both the caravan and the
owner
And if facts were to be taken into con-
sideration in estimating the extent of her
memory, Matt, too, had forgotten. 1t was
common talk now that she, the grammarless
castaway, the neglected protegee of William
Jones, was to be married to the master of
the great housei Nay, the very day was
fixed; and that very day was only two sun
rises distant, and Monk, of Monkhurst, had
in his pocket special license, which he had
procured, at an expenditure of five pounds,
from London.
Doubtless, in any other more populous To-
cality the affair would have occaSioned no
little scandal and many ominous shakings of
the head; but the inhabitants were few and
far between, and had little or no time for
idle goSSiping. The coast-guarlSmen and
their wives We're the only individuals who
exhibited any interest, and even their excite
mcnt was faint and evanescent like the
movements of fish in a shallow and I'M
wholesome pool.
Rut the really extraordinary mart Of the
whole affair was the conduct of Matt herself
Annarently cuita cure1 of her former renuor-
nance tn n union with Mopl, she made no oh
lection whatever to the nerforuance of the
ceremony, and lau.bel merrily when she was
informed that tbe dav was fixed Monk in
his grim taciturn way was militant He
cams 70 ora rro .ous+or,31,, or5 assumes, tbo
manners 81 lover Had ia heen loss baut
nm one nor+ic,lar o,,iect two tbiros NIGH
have struck him as ,.n,.io,,s. n, That Matt
tb,urb sho boJ consented tn marry him
,toadf,s,II rnrnso1 Z, ,roa, hi, ,,ne, or s.l,,t
anr other prrsc,t. and IN that She stiU
sbIuDk with ,,re;stcnt snd iII-d;s,,,i;sa5 dis-
liz, f,,cr, rs ,,-.ss,s
II vasnnu, lot,in tha month IF Auo,,st
and the weather was broken by troublous
winds and a fretfuImnon For several yveels
William Jones. in his mortal terror had re-
Trained from visiting the cave: he had never
set his f,ot therein ipdeea since tho nierbt f,f
the assassination At last he could hear the
spsnanse no Innoer
So late one windy and rainy nirbt he stole
forth WITH his milf laptern and fo,,-,bt his
wav in tba teeth of half a oaIe tn the familiar
Mace which he fonnd however WITH some
little difficulty He was neither s1lperstitious
nor imaq-inatiye Int thropgbout the Journey
he yas nrey IN naneIess tarrors Every q,1St
of wind went tbrnpcb his heart like a knife
every sound Of wind or sea made that same
heart stop and listen. Only suprcme greed
and uiserly anxiety led him on Rut at last
lie gained the cave, within which there WIS a
sound rs of clashiDy Icrions. c,arions Shrek
inc. drums beating. all the storm and stress
of the awful waters clashinr ON the cliffs
without. and boiling with unusnal screams
tl,rourb the black slit between the cave and
the Devils Caldron
Trembling. with PRESENTATION standing in
| great beads on his face, he searched the cave
| for the c,orl,se of the murdered man. expect-
| ing to find it well advanced in decomposition.
/ Strange to say, however. it had diSapneared.
| William Jones was at once relieved and
| alarmed; relieved because he was spared a
| horrible experience; alarmed because he
could not account for the disappearance. A
| little reflection, however, suggested that one
Of those tidal waves $50, 50 common mon on nj the coast
washed WASH. ava" ' TIC % from S its place s1s ss ON ss
5 IT, cse@ o,Sss sS he 4 ss5