Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-27
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TELLS HOW THE SAILOR GEoRGIo RHODoJANI
 GAVE EVIDENCE AT THE "LUG0ER INN,'

TELLS HOW THE SAILOR GEoRGIo RHODoJANl GAVE EVIDENCE AT THE "LUGGER 1NN' I CAME gradually back to consciousness amid a buzz of voices. Uncle Lovedav was bending over me, his every button glistrnins with sympathy. and his face full of kindly 1 anxiety What had happened. or how l came to he lying thus upon the sand I could not at first remember, until my gaze, wandering over my unccs shoulder, met the Captains eyes regarding me with keen and curious stare
 He standing in the midst of a small knot of fishermen, every now and then answering their questions with a gesture, u shruS "f the shoulders ora shake the head : but chiefly r'x9aN'inE my recovery and W,litin, ns l couti ace, for me to speak. "Poor boy !" said Uncle Lovejov. Poor boy 1 suppose the sight of this man frightened him"
 caught the Captains eye, and nodded fecbly.
 "Ah, yes, yes. You see," he explained, turning to the shipwrecked man, "your sud- den appearance upset him and to tell YOU the honest truth. my friend. in your present con- ditoN-in your present condition, mind YOU your appearance is perhaps somewhat start ling Shall We say, startling ?"
 In answer to my uncle's apoloretic hesi- tation the stranger merely spread out his palms and shrugged his shoulders
 An, yes. foreigner evidently Well. well, although our coast is not precisely hospit- able. believe its inhabitants are at any rate free from that reproach, Jasper, my boy, can you walk now? If so, Joseph hero will sec you home, and we will do our best for the the-foresn gentleman thus unceremonously cast on our shores"
 "Iou do not happen, my friend. to be in n position to inform us whether any-pardon the eNpfessIon--any corpse are now lying on the rocks to bear witness to the sad catas- trophe p
 Again the stranger made a gesture of per- pleNity.
 1t is evident" he continued, "that this gentleman is in immediate need of food and raiment. If such, as I do not doubt, can be obtained at Polkimhra, our best course is to accompany him thither. trust my propo- siuon meets with his approval" Il met, at any rate with the approval of the fisherman, who translated Uncle Loveday's speech into gestures. Being answered with a nod of the head and a few nasty foreign words they began to lead the stranger away in their midst AS he turned to go he glanced for the last time at me with a strange flickering smile at which my heart grew sick. Uncle Loveday fingered behind to adjure Joe to be careful of ne as we went up the cliff, and then, with a promise that he would run in to see mother Sl. passed out of sight through the archwav of Dead Mans Rock.
 For minute or so we plodded across the sand in silence Joe Roscorla was Uncle Love days " man" word in our parts denoting ability, to look after a horse, garden pig or two. or indeed, anything that came in the way of being looked after. At the present. moment came in that way; consequently, after some time spent in reflective silence Joe began to speak
 ~Youm lookingswisht,"
 "Am Joe?"
 "Mortal."
 There was pause: then Joe continued
 halae clear about thicky wreck. Likely as not twas the one I seed all yesterday tack ing about: and if so be as be right. a pretty lot of lubbers she must have had aboar Jonathan, the eoast-guard, came down f, Lizard Town this morning, and said he sss d big vessel nigh under the cliffs towards mid night. or fancied he seed her: but fnstI, Jonathan's bufiehead, and seeonal,y twa; pitch-dark so If as he swears there we ren,t n, blue light, 'tain't likely any man eoayd see, le