San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
THE MYSTERIOUS WIDOW.


,, Brunswick was the populous place it is now,
there stood on the sea coast, several miles
from where the city of st. John now stands,
little struggling sort of village, composed
principally of fishermen's cottages. Little
better than huts they were, and a rough, un-
polished but honest and hard working set
were their occupants In winter, when the
snow was piled high and the freezing winds
blew piercingly cold, the inhabitants of NJ
met in some one of the cottages, where, with
dance and song, they beguiled the evening
hours, as happy as though they knew nothing
of the bustling busy world shut out by their
native hills. And in summer the pleasant
moonlight evenings were spent in sailing over
the bright waters of the bay, or in wandering
in pairs through the dim wholesome sturdy,
sun Drowned youth whispering in the ear of his
inamorita the "old, old story" Everything
flowed on in that little seacoast village for
years and years in the same calm, monoto-
nous way; almost forgotten by the inhab-
itants was the fact that there existed any
other world but the little one in which they
lived Sometimes, it is true, rumors would
reach them of the bold manner il which the
revenue was cheated by the smugglers of
Eastport; but the honest fishermen, secure in
their rockbound retreat, cared little for this
At length, however, the inhabitants were
aroused from their stagnation by quite a lit
tie romance, of which the following is brief
summary:
Standing ON a bleak, desolate sort of emil
nence that projected somewhat from the
mainland was a little ruined stone cottage
1t had formerly been built by one of the fish
ermen, who, finding he could not reside in
such a cold, cherries spot, had deserted it,
and the hut had long been without an in
mate. 1t was ever here the wind blew cold
est in winter, and ht q the suns rays fell
hottest in summer. The summit of the
dreary hill was crowned with stunted spruce.
dwarfed and blackened by the intense frosts
of many winters. Over the rocks below
broke, with dull, sullen roar, the waves Of
the Bay of Fundy; and oftentimes, in the
spring, the tides would rise so high and so
rapidly as to entirely surround it, cutting it
off like an island from the mainland Tho
inhabitants had very appropriately named it
Bleak Point
Such was the state of things when, one raw
spring morning., the news went flying
through the village that "Bleak Point
shanty" had got an occupant. A low,
black, rakish looking schooner had come up
the bay the night before; boat had put Off
from her, leaving a woman on Bleak Point
Then it had returned to the schooner, which.
before daylight, was off and away.
OF course, everybody was all aglow to dis
cover who she was, and what a woman hardy
and courageous enough to live in so lonely a
place could look like. This curiosity was
soon satisfied; for after tho first few days tho
new conner did not seem disposed to conceal
herself. Let them rise as early in the morn
ing as they pleased they would find her up
before them strolling about among TIE rocks.
This wonder was still further augmented at
finding her young and eminently handsome,
with a healthy brown face, and the bright
| est vivacious black eyes in the world The
young men of the village could speak of
nothing but her beauty; and the hours they
should have spent in catching fish were
| wasted il devising schemes to catch her
The ladies OF the village, were, however, alb
| soIuteiy scandalized by the utter Indifference
which she manifested in regard to dress-and
indeed her garments generally looked as
! though she had jumped into them She dis
| pensed altogether with hat and bonnet and
! wore IN its place a silk handkerchief, knotted
under her chin after the fashion of the French
women. Still, oven the jealous village bellies
were obliged to own that nothing could have
set OF better the dark bright style of h
beauty than the rich, brilliant hues of he,
head dress
For a time the villagers held alOof fro
the new conner; but finding their reserve
was met with careless Indifference on her
| part, they soon began to change their tactics.
a few OF the village maids and matrons
! called at Bleak Point gh0Utv and tHCurI
shocked beyond measure at the universal dis
order reigning without and VIII, they. left
on the whole, rather favorably impressed by
its mistress. >. There was a. wicked twinkle IL
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