Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

the storm. the crying of the great white
seas, while ont us far rs the eye could see
through mists and bursts of rain. 1t was
later in the day before any one began to
inquire about lselin, 1t being chen full
time that she was either seen or heard
Of
1t was Mr. Sanghurst who came into the
room and startled us with his tone.
HAS anyone seen lseln - Aud somehow,
without knowing why, there was one out
one seen lselin ?" And nobody had.
What day it was How fun and how
fearful Mr. Sanghurst had his horse
saddlad and went galloping through the
storm to the next house. lselin's words
and looks of last night may have rushed
over him with new force and all the men
on the place were sent up and down the
shore and into the town. telegraphlng and
lnQuiring, and all in vain, while work and
play and almost life itself seemed sus-
pended in the house, and still the storm
ragged on.
At nightfall Mr.. Sanghurst came home.
There was not a trace of ISelin. | myself
had been out battling with the tempest AS
far as the place she had shown me the
day before, but the cradle WtS Il boiling
pit of foam and spume that no one could
apprOach-Only on II jag of rock there was
caught tiny shread of hlue wool, Il rag
of lselin's skirt 1t might have caught
there the day before, IL She climbed aud
Skipped about the rocks, hight us Il noun
tain noat. But all that could certainly be
known was that she was gone and that
her long waterproof cloak was gone with
her, They reasoned with their white
faces and laItering tones, that she had
gone out into the storm last night. for her
bed had not been slept i'm as vet they
hardly dared state the supposition TO
themselves that dOubtlpss : lup tide some
wave some wash of the sen had svpnt
her in ms she ran along the shore i'm the
sudden fury with which she had seized
her clork and ran ont. | hardly dared
look mt Mr. Snnrhurst he did not keen
still a moment. whiteas ashes and restless
as a leaf in the wind. out i'm the storm and
in again twenty times AN hour after the
dark set in
And what a night il was The tempest
rcsounded through the black heavens and
The house rocked and trrmbled the hnve
waves poundinp ON the shore sent a thrill
through every timber: the scream of the
breakers made us start and SILVER: sheets
of rain slammed AGAINST thp eastern windows
with II force that made the heart every now
and then stand still in A sense of
sutIocntion. Through if all we heard
far off "A faint repeated minute gun
And to think Of mis- little creafure
out in ali this tumult of the ele
mrnts We could NOT think of If W.
could do nothing. but we rould NOT sIeen
we did not think of separating for the
uirbt when the clock struck ) we we're
Sill i'm thp drnwInT. room or gnino and
Gaming nhnnt The hnuse nearly everv
room in The honse was ijohtpd and one
after another The searching parties had
returned, drcnched and worn and unsuc.
cessfuI Al lenGth Mr. Snnghurst ' cane IN
for the last time lis mother Went ont to
meet him: and Miss Fuirwpnther stnrted
M and took his hand and led hlm to a
with storm and darkness And inst then
know moi why or hnlv nprhn9s moved
hv n sudden blast of cold AR from an
oneuinV door nprhans Inv the common i'm
mise Of orr 0verstraiurd nerves we all
turned to one OF the lone windows and
there. cloaked To her feet her hood thrown
back and nh her hair tivin0 in The ram n
little form leaned apains ri he frame ION" as If
blown there. and n little white face
messed AGAINST the nnnn wild and ebnst(
lv with wide.oneu ayes fixpd i'm a SORT of
horror-not becuuse of the storm or anv
of its fatal nnssihilitieS hnt hacnnsa III
Miss Fuirwent her there LEADING MIR SnnU-
hur.t tn his chair She cnI1ld NOT cnntnin
herself ~ seq Won Huu nustn't thint
| don't see Won ~ mined her voice above
the gale.
"Iseliu Iseliul,', cried Mr. Sanphurst
at is her shirt ~ cried his mother .It
is not Iselin. 1t is a little ghost"
But almost before any one smoke Miss
Fairweather had left him. and MIR SANG
hurst had dashed through the omen door
in the hall. and round the piazza. and had
crashed The little Ghost and hrnnftht har
in among Ms. strupglinD and fierce
"What in the world is ali this fuss
ahont ~ She evclnimad hraathIassIv
"Oh, Iselin p cried the mother wiring
inc her hands as if She lomantad ber Ia.
mentinr, Won have GIVEN ne snch -
fright, We feared Won had oone ont
we feared Won had DESTROYED yourselfWor
been lost in the storm
"Whnt sbonld I destrov mvself for -,
cried Iselin' "Recanse c1uid not dastrov
Miss Fairweathers hona bnVe ~ Iittis
shirt You must have thon1ht I was a
fool Well ;; she continued tbr"winu
Off her cloak. Il will tell Won the trnth
did 90 ont 70 lie down in The cr,dla and
let the waves cover meMhnt If stormnI
50 | was afraid-and ran hack and
went mn into the west nitric and STAYED
there till if should he nIeasant AGAIN
do so hate a storm And / thought ,t last
| would come down and gat Somath,nD ~
eat. and have a breath nf air and fnnnd
ali this TODD, and the house lighted AS if
there were .,oin,, tn he - yedding and -