Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-30

It bent togrttcy orcJ' he bI'07ed hdnd,crtttng." ninr hand: but the characters were rudely and innitiSt;rally formed while every here auu tnrrt. H heavy down stroke or flourish marrrH the beauty of the page. Wherever sll'!i thick lines occurred the ink had run and formed iilrEihle smear. Such as it was, with great difficulty, and after frequent trials, We ~l'clt out the letter ns follows;
 Tnr Nvir . . . Home Barbican, Plymo
 My Y :,t Jack,-Ths to hope 1t will find Yuu qui; w-li, as it leaves Me at present. Also to say that hope this voyage new Leaf will Et,,u Company. who Is q Good Friend tlIuii-;:}. as you well know, 1 did not think .;ln.:. r"urtns me" But it is for the best, ana ihi,lt. -. which I pray to Heaven may br,:a It:iHiir- Pays. Trade iS very poor. and i ]" ilt kn"" -. lt;is' Jrniy, wiro is getting oI Fu...,;.-!y with l."I Schooling. She kcaps the E,~,'.:, pl"rady wi,trh Is a great saving r,GS il, often and sis in the pnrlor He say4 nS YOU have D. no Well tO be !, :, Wave, but mi~,nIu!> Simon which tell him must b" Nr":l- |. r it was him that alvisod the fusu "u WHIl. "t aArliu&t liquor, which he never took njn:~ri. !,'nly i, $" Fond of her Books. amt S;. ya sin, W.ll t"Crh you tO write when you conn" hnuI wiiI ii 1-ilI h" great Comfort, you being away i'H, and lirv'r q word. And l am 'I". InS l,uud,'!S under her teaching, which l dar" say S!y Will let you knpw 'i it &ll ill the letter 5h,. i> "ri1.uS to g. ;.l.iiy ;yith this Simon
 
 nHtur"l in tit" office, x" that wonder h" left 1t. having D" l!stH for the sea that ever heard .. be the mit:liI4K ut you both. forgot l to tell very stranSt when he left, but what with the hurry and hu'slr it slipped my mind wonderful to me t" think of. my talking to you 50 natural distance. And no moro a: present from your loving wife,
 LUCY RAILToN. ''Jenny says =. will not alter. being more like es if it cam" from Muuny is very scarce. l wish You could get -.
 This was ali, hld small enough as thought Was the light it tI3reH- nn ti>' problem before us Uncle I.ovety },:.,. it ,v"r three or fom | times. then folded III, the vttrr and looked at me over his sIcctarics.
 1 You say this elit-thrDat f,lOw-ths Rhodo- iani as he called hhnevlf-spolir Englishf"
 As well as we do lie and tue other spoke 1 English all the timc.
 "Hm, and he spoke abuut q JtnDy, did he: | He was saying something about a Jenny l not finding husband when John Railton struck him.
 "Thcr ifs as clear as daylight that he's 1 called EilnJn nnd not Gcors,io. Also I would bet my h,itt0iiA ;h2t his name is no moro Rhod"ian than mine a3 M"thuselah." | Hrpuuscd fora moment absorbed iA thought and then resumed
 This Lucy Railton is John Railton,s wife and keeps q pubI;chouso called tho 'Welcomt Homer on the Barhcan, Plymouth Simon 1 that is to say Rhodoiuni, was in love with Lucy Ralllnn, and his conduct says she, was strang, before iea2ing; but he pretendcd to be Johl Railton's freni. and from what you say, must have had an astonishing influence over the unhappy man. Simon, We t6arn, is a scholar, pursued my uncle, after again consulting the letter and I see the word office here, whicl makes it likely that he Was a clerk of some kind, who took to the sea for some purpose O. his own, and induced Raiiton to go with him perhaps for the same purpose, perhaps for an other. Anyhow. it seems it was high time fol 1 il4i!tonjo go somewhere, for besides the refer encea s7 liquor which tally to Simons word. upon Dead Mau's Rock, we also meet with tn, ominous words 'ts;G fYss' wherein, Jasper, I fine the definite ur icia not wlihoIt mranng."
 Uncle Loreday was bcaming Wi:ll consciuu, pride in his own powers of penetration. H, acknowledged my admiring attention with modest wave of the hand. and then proceeded to clear his throat ostcntatiouSly, as one abou to play q trump c;trd.
 'As I say. Jasper, this fellow must have hat some purpose 10 drug him off to sea from al office stOul--somc strong purpose, and iron what we know OI the man, SOmo unSOdly p4r pose. Now, tho question is, What was it? Or the Rock, us you say, he charged John RailtOl with having q certain will in his possession Your father 5tarted from England with a vii in his possession. This is curious to say th least-very curlons; but I do not see how w are to connecI this with the man Simon' sudden taste for the sea, for, you know, h. could not possibly have heard of Amos Treno we1h wii.'
 :" You and aunt were tAe only people fathe told of it."
 Quite so; and your father (excuse me, Jas perl not being born fool, naturally didn't CT, his purpose apout the streets of Plymoutl when he took his passage. Still it's curious Your father sailed from Plymouth and thi pair of rasoals suiled from Plymouth-no tha there's anything in that; hundreds sail out o the Sound every week, and We have nothing t show when Simon and John started: it ma,