Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-08-22

sight, with the last rays OF sunlight flaming
on her sails; but for Blllys perturbation |
could not account, SO turned inquirDg
glance to him.
"Suthiu' l. the wind out yondern was his
answer whats sloop doing on that ratch
| close in by the polnti BE dangedl but
| there she goes again" as the little vessel
| swung of a point or two farther from the
| breeze shat was breathing softly up channel
| "Time TO sup, lad, for the both OF u.s. he broke
| Off, shortly.
Indeed, was faint with hunger by this
Tine yet had no stomach TO eat thus close to
tho dead. SO, turning into gate on our left
| hand we crossed two or three fields, and sat
down TO sup off Blly's biscuits, tho mare
standing quietly beside Us and cropping the
short grass.
Tho field where we now found ourselves
ran out along the top Of small promontory
and ended without fence of any sort, at the
| cliffs edge. As | sat, looking southwark, l
could only observe tho sloop 10y turning my
! head, but Billy, who squatted over against
me, hardly took his eyes off her, and between
| this and his meal too busy to speak
word. For me, had enough to do thinking
over the late tight; and, being near worn out,
/ had half a mind to spend the night there on
the hard turf; for, though the sun was now
V. n
exceeding warm; and albeit, as | have said,
there breathed n light breeze now and then,
twas hardly cool enough to dry the sweat off
me. So stretched myself ont and found it
vary nlensant to lie still. nor when Billy
stood nm and sarn+ered off towards the far
/ end Of tbe haadland did stir more than to
turn INV bend and lpzilv watch him.
He was gone half an hour at the least, and
fine .l;v bv This time was 50 dark That I had
lost .iGbt Of him when. RISING ON my elbow
+, IooI around I noted c,riou. red Glow
nj n noint where tha turf broke Off not three
hundred wards behind me. and n thin smoke
curling mo il, if. as it seemed from the very
fsoe Of the cld below In a uinute or so
fine sp,uke ccospd almost but the shine
aooif,.t tho sl,v continued steady. thourh not
very strong .Billv ba, lit n fire. " guessed
and u,as rron,riro IN on and Iooi, when |
sniad n biocl, form cravylinr towards me. and
presently saw ,r,yas Billv himself
Co,,,i,c clo.a he baI+ed p,t fincor to his
lin md haosoned then brran to lead the
y,ov b.cl. .. hab Ind come
1'boucb+ "tba.a oro ouonr doi,gs - hu+
Lost Molly +o browse and crent ofto,, him on
bard.n,d 1,nnoe He turned his bend once TO
,,.l,a e,,,,a voe following, md +bon scro,n-
LsJ ON nuic,,ar but softly towards the noint
where tba rad GLOW was shininq
Once moro ho uulled mas indced about
+y,.jve ,,cos' distance from the edpe-and
ofta, co,.idarin., fo, a second Loran ia NOVA
n,,oir o,Iv now H.. worked - i,ttlo to tha
rirbt And soon saw the intention Of This.
for inst hero the clitfs lin wa. cleft by ifs
snr,.-ve,.v like thar in Scawfell which we
were used 10 call the Lords Rake. only nar-
roy.r-that ran back into the field and
shely.l ont gently at the ton. so that n man
nirht oo.il1 sorartle eo,ne v.ov down il
tbough how for / could NOT then tell And
TWAS from tbiSfissure that the rlow came
Ao1r the riobt lin of this Billy led me.
sLirt,ng il hva connie of ward, and wrirrlinc
ON his hauv like n hlindvor,n CRAWLING
closer now for TWAS hard TO see him aqaiust
the black turn. | stopped beside him and
strove 10 quiet the violence of my breathing
Then. after a minutes pause. together we
u,llei Ourselves to the ed:-e and poered over.
The descent of the l1liy was broken. some
eisht feet below rs hy q small LEDGE. slopinr
oitvorl. obout six feet las | puese, and
screened by branches of the wild tam,1.isl,.
AT the bocl, i'm nm anrle of tho solid rock.
WINS now SET nan pierced with holes, and
! full Of burnino charcoal: and over this a man
in fine rebel,' uniform was stoopinq.
He Ind a small uaner parcel in his left
houd ond was Il,O.in,, nj the charcoal with
all his nirht Holding my breath. | heard
him clearly. Int could see nothing of his face
for nj, hazel, was towards lis. all sable ayains,
fine Glow The charcoal fumes rs they roe
cbo,,od me so tbat was very near a fit of
cor.hin, when Rillv laid ono hand ON nv
sboulda, and with the other pointed out tc
seward
, LOOKING that way. saw a small light shin
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