Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-03
old earth, leaving her to find her way home

solid earth, leaving her to find her way home
in terror.
The explanation of all this was, in MATHS
opinion, very simple William Jones was a
bad man, and went to s'visit the fairies.n
Eyes" she cried, land every time he goes
the fairies give him summat, and he brings
it homen
Each time you followed him.v asked
Brinldey, thoughtfully, .'he disappeared at
about the same placer
YES. said Matt; ';and tho light and him
sunk right down and never come up again.
The result OF tho information thus coinmu-
nlcated was to leave the young man of the
caravan far more curious than ever He de-
termined to turn the tables ON William Jones,
and to watch his movements, not in the day
time, but during the summer night, waiting
for his appearance in the immediate neigh
borhood of the Devils Caldron.
The first night he saw nothing-it was
stormy, with wild gusts of rein The secorrl
night was equally uneventful Nothing
daunted, he went for a third and last time,
and lay in the moonlight ON the cliffs, looking
toward the village.
The night was dark and cloudy, but from
time to time the moon came ont with sudden
brilliance ON the sea, which was gently stirred
by a breeze from the land.
He waited for several hours. About mid
night he rose to go home. As he did so he
was startled by the sound of oars, and, living
down, perceived a small boat approaching on
a silver patch of moonlit sea. The occupant
of the boat was solitary man.
1t approached rapidly, making direct for
the Devils Caldron. Lying down on his face
and peeping over, Brinklsy saw it stop shor.
just outside the foaming passage, Will tho
man stood up, stopped, lifted something
heavy from the bottom, and threw it over
board. Then, after watching for a moment
q dark object which drifted shorewartl, right
into the Caldron, he rowed away until he
reached sheltered creek close to the scene of
the swimming adventure. Here he ran the
boat ashore and leaped out.
The next minute Brinlley heard him COM
ing up the cliffs.
Trembling with excitement he lay down
flat on his face and waited. Presently the
man emerged ON the top of the cliffs, within
n few yards of Brinlsley's hiding-place. just
then the moon flashed brightly out, and
Brinkley recognized himl
1t was William Jones, carrying on his Shout
ders something like a loaded sack, end dang
ling from his left wrist horn lantern
He looked round once or twice and then
hurried toward the sandhills Brinkley fol-
lowed stealthily. The moon now went in,
and it became pitch dark. Presently Jones
paused, set down his load, and lit the lantern;
then he hurried on.
For fifty or sixty yards a coarse carpet Of
greensward covered the cliffs; then the sand
hills began. Passing over the first sandhill,
Jones disappeared. Quick as thought the
young man followed, and, peering over, saw
the light in the hollow beneath; it rose higher
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sandhill, where itpaused. Crawling on hands
and knees, Brinkley slipped down irto the
hollow and then crept upward halfway up
the mound; he found huge rock, behind
which he crouched and peeped.
As he did SO William Jones, light in hand,
seemed to dive down into the solid earth and
disappear.