Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-05-24

wc came ON an irilfnense ueai or os0 psaee ana
jewels. besides over $500 in coined money.
There were two more left behind, they aid,
6Sss | ssSs,, ;r to Sag s4ss of sSdd :nd or M
been impossible but for the iron ladder they
found ready fixed for Master Tingcomb's d.
scent In the hole that could mot b seen
from the beach, the shelf hiding ~ was tockle
moored, and now left high and dry BY ~
tide Doubtless, the arch rascal bad waited
for his comrades to return, whom 1Att
Soames and had scared out Of all stomach
to do so. His body was nowhere found. The
sea had washed II of; but the sack they ~.
covered. and found to hold the choicest of
Delia's heir looms. Within an hour the re-
manning coffers and the money bags were safe
In the vessels hold.
The sun was setting as Della and stood On
the beach beside the boat that was to take
her from me. Aboard the Godsend could
hear the anchor lifting, and the men singing,
as, holding Mollys bride, held out my hand
TO the dear maid who with me had shared %
many peril.
"1s there any more to conner she asked.
'No,n said I, and God knows my heart was
heavy; nothing to come but FAREWELL"
She laid her small hand In my big palm,
and, glancing up, said very pretty and de-
mure:
"And shall ! leave my bcsti wilt not
come, too, dear Jackp
"Delia!n stammered. What Is thisl I
thought you loved mo not"
And so did j, Jack; and, thinking 70,
found loved thee better than ever. Fie on
thee, now May not a maid change her mind
without being forced to such unseemly, bra
zen wordsr' And she heaved mock sigh.
But as stood and held that little hand, I
seemed across the very mist OF happiness to
read sentence written, and spoke It, per-
force and slow, as with another mans mouth:
''Delia, you only have l loved, and will
Lowell Blithe would be to live with you and
to serve you would blthely die. In sorrow,
then, call for me, or in trust abide me. But
go with you now may not"
She lifted her eyes, and looking full into
mine, repeated slowly the verse we had read
at our first meeting:
''In a wife's lap, as in grave,
Mans airy notions mix with earth.
Thou hast found it, sweetheart hast
found the Splendid Spurr
She broke off, and clapped her hands to-
gether very merrily and then, as tear
| started:
| But thou'lt come for me ere long, Jacki
| Else am sure to blame some other woman.
| Stay"-----
She drew off her ring, and slipped it on my
| little finger
There's my tokenl Now give me one to
weep and be glad over
| Having no trinkets / gave my glove, and
she kissed it twice and put it in her bosom:
81 have no need Of this ring" said ], for
! look,n and drew forth the lock had cut
from her dear head that morning among the
alders by Kennel side, and worn ever since
over my heart "Wilt marry no man till
| comep
| Now, that's too hard promise" said she,
! laughing and shaking her curls.
| TOO hardr
'Why, of course. Listen, sweetheart-n
true woman will not change her mind; but
oh! she dearly loves to he able to. So, bat
ing this here's my hand upon it-now, de
Jnckl and before all these marinersl-well
then, if thou must
watched her standing in the stern and
waving till she was under the Godsend's side,
then turned and mounting Molly rode inland
to the wars.