Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-07-14
IVA FOG.

about, approaches old Jed RswsoI
aud puts this query:
"Can l hire any one to take me
across the riverer
81 reckon not,n declares old Jed,
taking out his pipe to stare at her
with establishment.
"The steamer goes into port jes'
below here ter wait fer the fog ter
lift. Thar's no gittin' across the
river ter night, marm"'
"Can you manage boa. my good
MANI"
All the lOafers smile at this.
Old Jed breaks into q mellow
laugh which sends perfect network
Of wrinkls over his brown face.
why, Teddy" he says "there
ain't nary boy of ten or up'srd
alongshore as don't know how to
handle q boat"
The lady laughs tou.
She is very charming; even old
Jed realizes that.
She takes gold p:ete from her
dainty purse and says:
"Ifyou will take me and my trunk
scruss the river this shall be yours"
The trunk is huge affair and Jed
looks at il with one eye closed and
shakes his head.
IF it wern't fer the fog. eny on
US 'ud take yer across fer nutthin'.
But we couldn't see the boats length
tonight"
The lady utters S sharp exclams-
ton, anger and disappointment
clouding her features.
A brown-faoed lad steps from the
corner Of the little red baggage house
where be had been standing.
"If you dare 10 go, ma1sm, l viii
take you" be says.
She gives him = radiant smile, at
which be fiushes to the roots Of his
fair, waving hair.
Jed and one or two Of the other
men demonstrate with him to no
pHrpoSe.
A small brown wherry is brought
up to the flight Of westher-beaten
steps leading down from oae side Q:
the wharf.
The big trunk is lowered into it,
and the lady handed down by An
drew Russell, who is thrilled by the
touch of her cool, sAtiny fingers.
He pulls OF into the fog-bAuk.
while the loungers on the wharf
make their comments.
Mighty tine-lookin' craft. that
Carries too much sail
"What can she want over the
ryere'i
P'raps she's bound fer Barring.
tons"
"P'nps. She looks like his kind
Ii is late in the evening when
Andrew Russell reiurns.
Old Jed meets him hurrying up
the village street.
Wei, yOu gOs serost all right
~Ies, l had A compass
wv hers'i i she GO"
Il can, tell yo0, is the curt n
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Hardy. the tishernlAn's daughter,
Ii Is oa,y natural that frc2ueniIy
he should roW ScrOsS in has sherry.
But Jeu HArjy does Dot Sex him
every time be go<s during the next
fortnight.
He SrAnps ,hnough s,1p Of
woodland ScrosS loSs until he reAca-
es = sheleNci vale this ss3s q RAr-
riRgtoa'S
Hene he meets the mysterious lady
again aud again
Audrvw Is SA-tAll. s.ronE. Aud
naAnly-lNNkinE,
Cars Ferns a. she calls herself.
usss all her blA ndishn,eats Il csua.
Ple,s his en,hrAllusnt.
She tells him a pretty s,OEy,
How that bet 0Rcle i ds,es mined
% make a nun q her.
That harrington bSiag hsE coGs;n
And frSSDd. she has cozse % hlm tos
PFosecshon until she can ~, oat q
the co0ntry.
she wants to 81 10 Earop,e, ~ Ss
scon A. her uncle disNoVers heF hii-
inE-p,acS he Nil klloN her.
She Is SpP&Neetly Very coandiEg
With AndNN, Who j. to- innccVnt
10 sce the hSWs in her sgOgy.
MOald he think she Was SSs she
asks, ecslUesttshly,
A0arew rcS0rns decided mega
tive, never Sace drrAning that she