Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-04

land by long sweep of sand beach, generally
some fifty yards or more IN width, but in high
tides or easterlv storms often quite covered
in some partS A carriage road winds round
over this beach to Willowtree dock, where
the Steamboat touches morning and evening,
on her way TO and from the city From the
dock the ground rises abruptly to the high
table land above which constitutes the major
portion of the point.
Half mile from the dock, along the har-
Dor shore, back from and above the road,
stood the old Halliburton homestead, a square,
two story building, painted dull, washy |
red and looking rather shabby and weather |
beaten without, but comfortable and pleasant |
within. Here Kit Grale and her father came
10 live now and To take a new start III life |
The ground slopes away into the road in |
front 10 which "a ram quilted path leads, |
straight from the door. The broad space on |
either hand was covered by a rank growth of |
long Wild grass, and shaded by the spreading
branches uf venerable horse chestnuts A
private lane leads up the steep ascent back Of
| the house. between the locust thicket and the
apple orchard. and then runs away back
/ through level farm lands, woods, and salt
| meadows. to the sound Below the slope in
| front Of the old house and beyond the road,
row Of great old poplars stands, and from
their cnarled roots the white sands slope
away. over which the tapping tides eternal!y
rise and fail, in their ceaseless ebb and flow
| The road skirts the harbor shore the whole
| length Of the neck, from the steamboat land
ing to the light on the bar at the inlet, And
along this road at varying intervals, stand
the four OF five houses. where are the homes
7 -14.E 1. Pa.b Nf
the neck on the lonely sound shore, Is the
dangerous hedge called Gull reef, where the
crew OF the GailowshieIds went 50 bravely TO
their death. that wild night between October
and November. twenty-One Years before.
KIT, girl, said Grale, thoughtfully and
sadly ,thev sat together on the front porch,
in the pleasant summer twilight, watching
the rising tide ripping brightly through the
foliage OF the green trees, tapping and tink-
ling on the pebbly sands with bubbhng
music indescribably sweet, Kit, girl" he
said L was Thmkin' o George Just now
Your uncle Kit. that You never seen Poor
George, The sound o the water rippln' on
the shore there makes me mournful like,
though there's no music to my thinkin' like
tee sound q the winds an waves. He were
, a true heart, Kit, If ever were one. An
was -thinkin how uncommon strange that
! | should 20 knockin' about salt water an fresh
| for twenty wear an then come back after all
an turn landsman on this same point, where
the tide an wind drove US ashore that night.
a Fit GIale had lived through her childhood
in their little obi house at the head Of Hill
I bury harbor. a bright, careless, hearty child,
forever in mischief, and giving her mother
I M Iirrls disauietn,ie bv p.r1s,nlallv getting
= aao,t IN anv craft that offered. from a six
font sow Il, old Tommy Crockels long boat
with mast and sail She took To the water
7 a. naturally as duck, and seemed utterly
/ ra-lie.;s If danger So It came about thai
r she early became experhin water craft, ant
"a by constant exercise and exposure to air anc
: -. .,,,5,-,l i,,=ars;I,ly- a hardy constitution
= 81 . ssIf ,.1iapt faalinq- Of strength that ha
y sr,,5 her IN rood stead. and viii To the en-,
A Of her life. At the age OF IA Kit was sud
le denly and roughly awakened from tn
4 thoughtless dream Of youth by the death o
"a her mother Her grief at TINS time ma
q something almost awful In It's strength. 1t
V. utter abandonment, Its wild despair, IT
- angry. even fierce, rejection Of sympathy an
In consolation And when the Intolerable bii
terness Of the pain wore OFT with time, as
e. ever does and must she came out c
| the fiery tFlai with q ne" icuhu con
eT seriousness OF duly 70 De done an
50 / character to be 1orrnel Inc "ildhe'
Of was gone out OF her laugh ana was replace
rs ny setI''a 'n',5' 'lu'I' anu ""1H amy
I'll ! spirits llH' h'i' HS' u isat au
he face, ana >G~t4tn'i h'T ho"N III 'lihe ol Iite'
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the
VI, ing nm OF Der strehGth IN MS "eihhp
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''' never Jailed hlS return home, though on
th" heart hehlni 1t was falnt Tor Tear.
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s''e SCI herself N'eiuiN I" 'ie SAME Pun -
=, AMI No" size hil Il LOOKOUT anead' d "e''u
inc prospect 10 nope Tor ana work I"f. :
thought 1t tney could h'id lhelr OWL th
aeo three years that the mortgage hah 10 II
laying ny something et'h year ahH pay
nv. the interest as II came due theS could tu
wv having the arm clear i've cohroftauiS a
easily anu give hff fathet the rest "hl'h
l., broken state required. 'a'uIS ana re
Ia 'a. iufeIy She set to Work TO BRING ABOUT
NY result Hraie had come insensihiy IN IN
81 tr"doi'is ui"eN' l" mink oi
-. more a. stronger lehu Vl'ah
'eeh a daughter to he guided and ?
as tected- He consulted her constantly, q
would follow her advice, though some OF
r. netghbors slo'k Their heads sageIy sol
IL times. And he seldom suffered by MS IA
IN hIt, for she bad strong sense ana Il
= a. mother WIT AMI though she Nne" hoIh
TO- OF farming at hFHt, she maze triendS
s,,r the best farmers on BON SIDES Of the haru
- and found them very Wiling 10 lhapaI
results Of Their long experience Ana tho'
Of their opinions dlfterei on many points
con had at once the calm Judgment winch
ravs necessary 10 prefer SLOW but safe heti