The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-16

cult task save for one who was familiar
with every promontory and every little
bay, to bring up in the spot wanted.
NO wonder THEN that he found himself
at the first attempt running night into a
reef over which the water dashed in
spray. They were alarmingly near the
rocks before becoming aware OF their
danger, and only escaped by the skin OF
4 their teeth.
The next effort was more successful,
and the boat ghded smoothly into asandy
cove that ran we'll back from the outer
rocks almost indeed TO the edge of the
woods that here fringed the shore.
Now men, quietly, Tor your lives"
her well out of the way Of others attempt
ing to land here, and you Davis" adj
/ dressing the COXswain, take four men
around the base OF that cliff, and make
The summit as quickly as you can.
station your men so as to command
| the approach TO the shore, and let me
! know at once whenever you see or hear
! anything suspicious By the way" he
| continued = do not use firearms unless it
be absolutely necessary; and now make
| all the ha ste You can. IL wants but ilf-
I teen minutes of midnight. and II the
cargo is TO be run tonight depend upon
| it they will soon be stirring.
/ Davis and his party having departed on
| their mission, Hayerill gave his atten-
/ tion to his own immediate command. in
1 structing them ii the landing were at
1 tempted here to allow The boat or boats to
be unloade1, and then when the SNUG
glers would naturally be off their guard.
to strike a decisive blow in the event Of
! their refusing to surrender.
There are moments in the lives of all
men when the mind seems to go back, as
| it were, within itself, and scenes and
incidents we have deemed long ago for
gotten, will return to memory with
startling vividness.
Such an experience had Haverill, when
after making all necessary preparations,
he withdrew llttie from his men, and
sitting down on the edge OF a boulder, al
lowed his mind to wander where it
would.
He smiled at the triAing Significance OF
some of his recollections. For instance, he
caught himself thinking of his first fight
at school, OF the consequent thrasning by
the irate master, of his first holiday with
its bright anticipations, doomed like all
such dreams TO be but half fulfilled He
thought of the high hopes he had cher
| ished, when on leaving school he had en-
tered profession in which he had hoped
to win renown and glory and he thought
somewhat bitterly Of the tate that had
be still Lieutenant" Haveriil And SO
he kept on dreaming aud thinking, till
suddenly recalled TO the present by
small piece of rock. which disiodged from
the cliff overhead, had fallen close behind
him and bounded with a splash into the
water. Instantly ali hands were on the
alert, fearing they had been discovered.
Their alarm, however, was allayed III
few minutes by the appearance of one of
Davis party returning with the intelli-
gence that the tramp of q body of men
could be heard on the road about a mile
back
Tell Davis to allow them to pass I'M
challenged. but to follow up, keeping at a
sufficient distance to avoid discovery, and
that | shall be about a mile behind. It
would seem that our information was
after all bonafide, and that Larrick Cove
is to be the Rendezvous.
by the way he continued. asthe man
turned to ga tell him also to assure
himself, before starting in their wake,
that there is but Que party of them. If
he should get sandwiched between two
bands, you fellows would find yourselves
in a pretty pickle, or l am much mis-
taken"
Slowly the minutes dragged while
waiting to allow the smugglers time to
get sufficient distance ahead.
As the noise OF the surf effectually
drowned all other sounds no Indication
of their approach could reach Hayerill,
and he had therefore to be guided solely
by Davis information and an approxima-
/ ton of the rate at which they were NOV
! ing.
Assuming that twenty minutes would
bring them abreast of his position, he
thought fifteen minutes more should
/ place them at least mile ahead.
His repeater had just indicated the first
quarter past midnight, and he deter
mined to move at the third Exactly at
a quarter 10 one O'Clock he gave the order
to march. A few minutes sutficed to
4 reach the highway, which here ran par
! allel with the shore and about 200 yards
back from the edge of the cliff. Instinc-
/ lively each man stood stock still and lis
tened. TO the south 1.-THE direction the
smugglers and Davis party had taken)
all was silent as the night itself; but from
rising and falling with its fitful gusts.
came the measured hoof strokes of u
! galloping horse.
Get to cover, men, quickly cried
Haverill, and scarcely had the last man
made the shelter of the timber when horse
and rider appeared i'll sight
Little could be seen or learned of either,
excepting that ths latter was enveloped
in long cavalry cloak and that the ami
NAL, evidently a magnificent one, was be-
ing urged by whip aud spur to its utmost,
ere they had swept past and disappeared
i'll the darkness.
Again the order to march was given
and the Blue Jackets pushed rapidly for
ward. Minute after minute passed aud
still there was no sign or SOUND ahead.
Two O'clock had come and gone and ii
looked very much as IL their tramp was
TO be lnterminable, and that Davis had
mistaken for smuggters an itinerant band
OF gypsies. To crown all they had now
reached a point where, after taking a
sharp turn TO the right, ana for nearly d
quarter Of mile running almost at right
angles to the course they had been pur
suing, the road branched off The one
on tue right, to all appearance the most
used and best, continued straight on in
land, while the way to the left, which was
little better than bride path. inclined
shore ward
No one had been left here to tell them
which TO take, and Haverill approached
the solution OF this dilemma in anything
but an enyiable frame of mind, anf
roundly and forcibly mathematical Davis
stupidity.
Realizing that every second was pre-
clous, he no sooner discovered that hi:
men were unanimously III favor of follow
ing the road leading TO the left, than he
Immediately took that course. Slower
progress was now made on account of the
unevenness OF the surface, and as they
advanced the declivity became at every
step sleeper and more difficult TO de
scend.
Il am afraid we are on the wrong tracl
tuls time, said Haverill, addressing q
marine he was engaged assisting TO his
ieet, who had very abruptly, and withou
any vollJlon, taken recumDent position
But