The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-21
CHAPTER L
now THE CURSE BEGAN.

a liza almost uniformly in low and
p si+,,stions. They are embedded IN
- their appearance is gloomy and
alsocboly. The vegetation grows rank
80 them. The drive is oVergrown
~ waals and MOSES, and lichens cling to
Ills Carne's Hold possessed none OF
- features. 1t stood high up on the
~ a hill, looking down into the val
~ the Dare, with the pretty village OF
-".sford nesting among its orchards,
- thu bright stream sparkling in thes sun
Mime. e..
.iJ,ng about its architect ire, for the term
kuoid1 that the country people applied to
!. was now q misn Jmer, for the pomDaru-
Is ~ Essex had battered the walls or the
limited houss, d mad called IN the ald OF
- ~ finish destruction. The whole of the
o,ont house was therefore subsequent to
H. date: 1t had been added to ID en-
80 MANY times, and each of its owners
III followed out his own fancies in utter
<;sregard of those of his prede 'essors; con-
raonently the house represented medley
4 diverse styles, and, although doubtless
IN architect lral monstroslty, was plctur-
<sone and pleasing to the eye Of men ignor-
mi of the canous OF art.
There we're no large eeS near 1t, though
4 cump ose a few hundred yards behind
Il and took away the effect of baroness 1T
B Monld otherwise have had. The garden is
4 eli kent and bright with flowers, and it
WAS clear that no blightlng influence hung
hver them. nor, it would be thought, upon
IL girl VINO, with straw hat swinging in
nne hand. and a basket, moved among
mem. But tie country people for SIX
miles round firmly believed that curse
Law on Carne's Hold, and even among the
. bounty families no one would have been
willing to give a daughter in marriage
Il an owner of the place The family
now simply called their abode the Carnes.
Carnesford, now good sized village, had
cnce been tiny hamlet, an appanage of
Barnes Hold, but it had long since grown
but Of the leading strings, and though 1t
It'll regarded the Carne's with something
d its Old feudal feeling, it now furnished
suit or service unless paid for so doing
[aruesford had grown but little of late
5ears, and mad no tendency to crease.
There was work enough in the neighbor-
hood for such of its Inhabitants as wanted
% work, and in summer cart went daily
With fruit and garden produce to Plym-
euth, which lay about twenty miles away,
De coast road dipping down into the valley,
And crossing the bridge over the Dare at
CaroeSford, and then climbing the hill
again to the right of the Hold.
Artists sometimes stopped for a weeks
4 sketch the quaint old-fa,hioned houses
h the main street, and especially the mill of
hiram Powlett, which seemed to have
hanged in no way since the days when its
owner held it on the tenure of grinding
slch corn as the owners of the Hold re-
Blurred for the use of themselves and their
planners. Often, too, in the season, a
SHERMAN would descend from the coach
it stopped to change horses at the Carne's
rms and take up his quarters there, for
"A bere was rare fishing in the Dare, both in
be deep still pool alb we the mill and for
hree or four miles further up, while sea
Eout were nowhere to be found plumper
nd stronger than in the stretcn of water
1et"een Carnesford and Dareport, two
lilies away.
Here, where the Dare ran into tho sea,
EaS fishing village as yet untouched, and
Utmost known even by wandering
{purlsts, and offering indeed no accommo-
Pauon whatever to the stranger beyond
nat ne might, percnance, OBTAIN in the
nshermen's Gotta es. The one drawback to
Aarnesford, as its visitors declared, was the
am 1t certainly ralned often ere, but the
flllagerS scarcely noticed it. 1t was to the
}aln, they knew, that they owed the bright
reen OF the valley and the luxurious less of
II garden crops, which always fetched the
" price Ii Plymouth market; and thew
We're SO accustomed to the soft mis-
rought up by the southwest wind from
Yer the sea that they never noticed
neither 1t was raining or not
strangers, however, were less patient, and
young man who was standing at the door
the Carne Arms just as tue evening was
<oSng at tie end of day in the begin
lg OF October, 1850, looked gloomily out
the wea her,
One does not mind when one is fishing. II
muttered to himself, shut w en- one has
lce changed Into dry clothes one does not
ant 10 De prisoner here every evening.
no.uer DAY IKE this, and l shall pack up
traps ans get back again on board
ne turned and went back into the house
Y. entering the bar, took his seat in the
.'le ssnctum behind it, for he had been
=! ing III the house for a week, and was
wv privileged parsonage. 1t was a
Tug uItle room; some logs were blazing on
nearIn tJr although the weather was
!. colu' IL was damp enough to make fire
ea'aht: Three Of the landlords particu-
crohles were seated there-Hiram Pow
~, Vne miller, and Jacob Carey, the black
nIIu, ana old Reuben Claphurst, who had
Va tue village clerk until his voice bee me
tuln and uncertain a treble that the
car was obliged to find a successor for
ele down, Mr.. Custom" the landlord
u as his guest entered. 'Fine dav it has
r 0n tor nsnlng, aid nice basket you have
vi ~ Deem well enough for fishing, land
~ h out would rather put up with a light
sa odaAeI, and have a little pleaSanoer
ne sentiment evidently caused sur
winch Jacob Carey was the first to
we expression to ~ w
hni tou DON'T say, now. that you call this
/ 4 a p-easant weather, sir? Now l call this
tHo % % GOOD weather as we could expect
IN 19 am mr?I week of October; warm aud
"a ~ ~ a l IN every way seasouable.n
Il ~ ~ may be all that" the guest said, as
o Mv MS pipe, "but own / don't care
- tt aVlng the rain trickling down nv
81 T0n IN 81 breakfast time to dark"
8 IA roj1 Us errnen about here look on a lit
& smsr -L as good for sport,n Hiram Powlett
a No doubt it is; but 1 am afraid
zS1 bed - poI much of a sportsman. I
Id tS w ue fond of fishing when was a lad,
i a 1gnt should llke to try nv band
4 Eept % Ut am afraid am not as pa
b 1bod Sch Vas. l don't think sea life is a
81 f an";a LOT That sort of Ting"
&ilor NJ now that you might be a
|z d bold a1 unl' ton, though l DIDN'T make
las sorna+s ~ ask. Somehow or other the Q
II ~; 1ietning about your way that made
3dn;t' =, you was bred up to the sea. I
u We h ~" ", Tor can't recollect as ever we
,N Sle fishing before ''"' '0s LULU
kinl Mr.. Cru SION laughed "T DON'T