Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11


CuaPrERs l. AND II.-Mrs Sidebottom, whose
maiden name was Pennycomequick, and her son
Captain Pennycomequick, who had taken the
name i,y special license, sitting together con-
siderfnT wavs and means. With ambitious no
mons and eXtravagant tastes she finds it difficult
70 live on The G4OO annually, which is her income
Roth she ana her son are reckoning upon the pos
sihe fortune that NAV be theirs on the death of
wealthy relative, Jeremiah Pennycomequick
cbaif. brother to Mrs. Sidebottoml, whom they
have inst entertained at dinner, but who Is dis
Hnsted with their overdone professions of interest
h his welfare. Living with him is niece Salome
CIusworth. one of two sisters the elder one having
LETT his roof tc marry a french manufacturer.
toward the fatherless SalOme, and something of
tenderer feeling springs within his breast. A
casual Joke from Captain PennycomeQuick with
reference to Salome and himself reveals to him
HIS heart and, as he meets her in his own home
after the Sidebottom banquet he dare not meet
CHAPTERS III. AND IV.-Jeremiah Pennycome-
quick, unable to declare his love for his niece.
leaves his hou.e at midnight, for composing
draught of fresh night air. As he walks bv the
by man on horseback, who told him to '.(Iet
back, Holroyd Reservoir had burst" The
old man enters the hut of the locksman on the
embankment, the only shelter from certain death,
which seems at hand.
CHAPTERS V. AND Win his perilous position
Jeremiah encounters the full force and volume of
the food, which bears down all obstacles, pianos
pigs woman's corpse with a dead child in her
walls of the hut. He is Joined by another terrified
man, anxious to save his life, but regretting in a
half-maniacal way that he had lost his bullock,
which he might have sold the day before. Jere-
mIah wraps round his half-naked form his own
overcoat. As the hut slowly but surely crumbles
away, Jeremiah reaches a tree top to which ne
clings. His fellow sufferer declines to leave the
hut and as the tree passes Jeremiah sees the hut
dissolve like lump of sugar in boiling water ana
disappear.
CHAPTERS VII. AND VIII.-Mr. Jeremiah Pen
nycomequick having disappeared from view, ap-
parently drowned in the flood, his relatives, the
Sidebottoms take possession: Salome taxes the
liberty of telegraphing to Philip Pennycome-
quick, and he receives the message as he is on his
way to Mergatroyd. In the same compartment
of the carriage is young lady who turns out to be
the wife of the French manufacturer, twin sister
to Salome. Philip is not impressed with her
Frenchified coduettish manners, and when the
train stops, unable to proceed further for the
food, he considers it nuisance to act as guide
and friend to his somewhat Objectionable com.
panion.
CHAPTERS IN. AND X.-Philip Pennycomequick,
accompanied by his companion, arrives at last at
the house of his uncle, and is met by Mrs. Side
bottom. As all the hotels are full, he decides to
not been found. Soon after his arrival another
search is resolved upon by the villagers, this time
by means of a local superstition-the loaf and the
ca ndle. A loaf of bread with lighted candle
stuck in hole in its side is sent the stream, the
idea being that the body of him they sought would
be found by some mysterious occult power which
impelled it on its way. And strange to say the
light floats toward certain portion of the flood.
and stopping suddenly the light is eXtinguished.
The searchers continued their quest. and the dead
body Of a with his face dreadfully battered is
found. SalOme and Mrs, Sidebottom arriving on
the scene they declare that the body is that of MIR.
Jeremiah PenuycomequicK, for his great coat
containing his cardcase is found upon it. The
body is conveyed to the house.