The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14

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'fsck! Jack! Mr.. Rokewood, sir, what
are you doing?" cried Mr.. Brown,
VIII had returned to the shop to find these
wSporing over the message and forgetful
of IN else, although a woman was stand
inathere by the counter with penny
lail on it ready for her intended pur-
lchlse, and two boys were clamorous for
rockets.
| eco and get the rockets, Jack" cried
| III. Brown, ard then he went to see what
be woman wanted. She looked so used
be kept waiting that he felt obliged to
| attend to her at once. She, however,
with her forth country habit of expecting
tohave hAr wishes OWNED, did not speak,
bu, pushed her penny nearer to him.
Heaeld Up square of soap.
soap she exclaimed. contemptu--
ousl,, ''and mother washed o. MondayP'
He hterogatively touched a jar of trea-
Gle.
''rrsclei and me nothing to put it in -
Foile again, he pushed a screw of pepper
to be. She grinned, and, saying 81
though I'd have to tell yer" took it and
disap eared. Then Mr.. Brown went to
the window, and there was annoyance in
his fac
'Fogive me, !" said the squire, 81 did not
think What was doing. | only wanted to
| know that BOY of yours really could
have such weil-trained ears as you said"
'Squireshave to be forgiven, and this
! squire prmised not 10 err again, SO Mr..
| Brown tok up the message and read it.
He, too, boxed amused, but methodiCally
wrote it at on its sheet of pink paper. put
| itinto itsournt sienna envelope, addressed
it to Robrt Fairfax, Esq, the ROkewood
Arms, ah told the boy to take it there at
once. Ind never let me find you read
! ing the tlegrams off to any one again, or
it will btworse for you" he added.
"Did h really read it? L suspected he
was embarrassing himself at my expense, y
said thesquire but Mr. Brown assured
him it Vas not so.
Five minutes after the boy had gone a
bright, handsome, fair-haired young fellow
of eighsen or nineteen, with sketching
folio Strapped to his back and large
white UMBRELLA under his arm, came hur-
riedly in and asked if there was any let
tiers &c Mr.. Robert Fairfax.
"NCletters, sir, but a telegram came for
you sfew minutes ago. l have sent it to
the i'm"
"Ch, but / don't want to 90 all the way
bacI to the inn; am late for my effect
dITeSuE. 10 YOU Inlnk you COuIu tell me
whit the telegram said ?"
4 could write it out again" replied Mr..
Brwn with much dignity. He did so,
AMI handed the copy to Mr.. Fairfax, who
red his sisters message. smiled, and
without bestowing one glance on those
wlo were watching him with such amused
interest. or knowing that they were doing
it went to the desk, filled up a telegram
form with the words, Patience, idiot /!
Litter sent Will meet six train, handed
tito Mr.. Brown with the money for it,
ard departed. His telegram was addressed
to Miss Agnes Fairfax-Agnes was there
fGe his sister. Somehow or other Mr..
lakewood became a partaker in this tele-
gam, too, and the consequence was that,
bling in the neighborhood of the sta
ton that evening with nothing particu-
lar TO do, he found himself sufficiently
Interested in Agnes to hang about
II the lane through which she must pass
when she left the station. OF necessity
she must be a foot passenger, for there
we're no tlys or omnibuses at Selswyke.
lie did not 90 quite so far as the station,
but waited on the rough cinder path out
side, leaning against some untrimmed rail
Ing and gazing far down below on the bay,
where q spring tide seemed 10 be trying
t6overtake some fishing boats drawn up on
the sand bank to be out of the way. He
counted seven of them. Half a crown a
year was the sum which he, as lord of the
manor, received for each boat to which
the privilege OF escaping to this bank was
accorded. Selswyke bay, and the village
of the same name lying in a ravine be-
tween two great cliffs, were hemmed in by
asemi-circle of high bills, which, with every
variety of gently undulating line and
lovely curve, slOped down to the seashore
Before the railway had been made any
one living at Selswyke might easily have
persuaded himself that it was a little
world intended to be sufficient to itself, and
that no one ought ever to wish to leave it.
Nothing could lie seen of the greater world
lying beyond the hills which closed it in
on every side but one. 1t had its own
seven or eight miles of sand, ending alb
ruptly in almost insurmountable barriers
of rocks fallen from the high cliffs which
jutted out at each extremity of the semi
circle. 1t had its own church and its
manor houses, its own meadow and corn
fields, It's woods, its pastures, and sweet
secluded ravine through which fresh
brown streams from the hills forced their
way downward to the sea. 1t had, too, its
own sky, and almost its own sea, for what
sea could be perceived by the inhabitants
OF Selswyke was all but framed in by the
high cliffs at each end of the little bay.
Before the railway came the only visible
sign OF great world beyond its own bar
riers was an occasional steamboat or sail
ing vessel. Sometimes the knowledge that
this other and wider world had links that
bound it closely to Selswyke was borne in
on the inhabitants of that place by the
harsh sounds OF the speaking trumpet
from a vessel as it crossed in front of the
bay, and then some mother or wife, whose
thoughts had for a long time been travel
ing by water, hearing this, would drop her
work cry, "Oh, there's my poor dear
PeterW or John, and hurry away to 9
point where she would be clearly vis BILE
to wave a large white sheet or tablecloth
TO show that Peteror John was not for
gotten. Even the railway for some time
did little to dispel the sense of isolation
A train suddenly made its way out of high
hill on the southwark side, it rolled to the
lower level of the station by its own impetus
it always stopped.at Selswyke, but rarely
deposited a passenger there. Some
times, but not very often, it took one OF
two to the market at Scorton, but most o.
the Selswyke bay folk were wholly un
reconciled to the iron monsters approach
viewed it with alarm, and refused to in
trust themselves 10 its power. 1t only
stopped a minute or two, therefore, auc
then steamed away into a deep cutting il
the cliff on the north side, was lost Il
view, and the connection with the outside
world broken.
The squire now began TO watch the bill