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

\ = ltU5UIltg Lue ltEAtuDuSe
keeper This is my card, producing tht
regulation paste board, on which simon
reaa, Lieutenant John Hayerill, Il. NJ
S. Vigilance.
Simon, VINO had a profound respect for
the Queens uniform, and whose interest
il WIS. as we shall see later, to ingratiate
himself with the officers of the Preventive
Service, knew that the Vigilance was a
revenue cutter, and prepared to treat the
newcomer with all due respect and defer
| ence.
s'You must pardon my intrusion" con-
tiuued Haverill. who had by this time,
with SimOn's assistance, removed his
rainsoal<ed outergarments. Il am not. !
/ know. making the orthodox society call
Il have been dining tonight with TN old
! friend Of mine, of whom | had not heard
for several years, and of whose where
a6outs ! knew nothing until few days
ago
"A boat was to have awaited me in the
cove on the other side OF the
Headland, but in such a storm, know
they would not dare put off from the
| ship. The chances are that she has run
out to sea, for | suppose that Captain
| Billings, little as he knows OF the coast,
has no especial craving TO be court-nlar-
tailed for allowing his vessel TO drift on
a lee shore
u am afraid you will fnd cur accom-
/ modations none of the best, sir, but we
I will do our utmost To make your stay.
I until the gale abates, as pleasant us DOS
sible. Won't we, iass5" turning and adj
! dressing Meg, who he here introduced as,
! MY daughter, the pretfiest, cleyerest
! and best little girl in the world, though
say it, as didn't ought to-
The warm words OF praise spoken by
4 her father. brought a vivid blush to Mar
garets dimpled cheek, and John Have
rili, who had so far scarcely noticed the
/ girl, thought that among the highest and
| best born in the land, he had rarely
seen more beautiful woman and NEIL
tally wondered how such an exotic could
! possibly flourish amid such sterile sur
roundings.
He was not by any means the first to
whom had occurred the same thoughts,
for Meg was far from being the kind of
woman usually associated In ones mind
( with lighthouses and such like.
Her face was one that even the casual
observer would not be likely soon to for
get 1T was not that any one feature
/ with the exception perhaps of her eyes,
4 which was Of Heavens own blue,) especi-
4 ally riveted the attention, or that she
could lay claim to what artists term a
classic cast" but rather that from the
/ golden crowned head to the dainty we'll
arched foot, there existed the most per-
! feet harmony.
There was scarcely young fellow in
! the parish who had not fallen madly in
/ love with her, or woman who did not
\ cordially hate her.
She was inundated with amatory
! episrles, and the receipt of sonnets to her
i eyes, her hair or her lips. was of such
| frequent occurrence taat the novelty had
I long ago worn off. and these effusions
were as calmly consigned to the flames as
/ a lump Of coal.
Some of them, however, had yet the
4 power to cause her, unsophisticated
4 rs oh IL
! by reason Of the dire calamities predicted
/ and wild threats therein contained.
/ One young farmer, a short time before
4 the opening of our story, i'll burning
| verses. purporting $50 the heading said)
to be addressed TO her heart, and which
1 were principally characterized by bad
/ spelling and general idiocy, declared his
/ intention, in the event of her continued
/ GOODNESS, TO cast himself from the wild
/ crag's towering height" In case the
/ kind heart OF some Too susceptible reader
4 be inclined to mourn tie fate of this hap
/ less youth, we hasten to assure such that
/ he did not carry out his awful resolve,
/ but married Jane or Kate, or was it Bes
4 sies we forget which, and settled down
into 4 respectable and ultimately sensible
member of society.
At supper John Hayerill strained every
nerve TO efface the bad impression he had
/ evidently made upon the girl by his IN
| ceremonious advent.
He was ut all times a good and enter
! tanning conversatlonalist, but tonight he
fairly outshone himself and was posi-
lively brilliant.
He discoursed to Margaret of foreign
/ lands and gayeties: told of hair-breadth
i escapes and perils by land and sea, and
| withnl seemed to treat her with such an
air OF deferential respect that, when she
i retired for the night. her original opinion
4 Of him had undergone an entire change,
4 and she thought him the handsomest and
1 pleasaDtest man she had ever seen.
Simon was the first tc break the silence
/ following Margaret's withdrawal from
| the room.
BE you acquaintedin these parts,
| sirs7' he asked.
We'll. / may say, not at ALL"
replied HaYerill. with the exception
/ of two families who live eight or ten
! miles from this, and the old friend and
/ schoolfellow whom l so unexpectedly dis
/ covered to be in this neighborhood
sThe Hermitage he calls his place, and
the man OF the world / knew ten years
ago is, now indeed, veritable hermit
Il suppose, however, if we stay much
longer on the coast | shall make some
! more acquaintance"
Is the Vigilance going TO be long
hereg" enqrired Simon.
Until we break up the smuggling
gang or find we are unable to do SOL re-
] pilcQ IldNeIiit, Inc latter. very pro "a
bly,, for ! understand they number
amongst them many wild and daring
| spirits. to whom the presence of a reYe-
nue. cutter seems to be an additional
incentive to lawlessness.i
Human nature remarked Simon
human nature. The more we are told
not to do Il thing the more we do it, and.
as you say, sir, there be some daredevils
amongst EN-, sure enough.
1t was only last winter they shot and
killed young coast guardsman, and
never a man of 'em has been caught vet y
We'll" said Hayerili, 1--WE are, I'M
derstand, especially instructed TO leave
no stone unturned in hunting down the
perpetrators Of that very murder you
refer to.
1t would seem that the young fellow,
who was respectable, even highly con-
nected, left home under a cloud which
has since, IN a measure. lifted, and it now
transpires that ne was more sinned
against than SHINING and was in reality
but the dupe oil a designing scoundrei.
into whose power he had evidently fallen.
~ heard the whole story at the time we
Were ordered down here, and il was said
remember, that his relatives would move
Heaven and earth to ayenge his death.
Il, for my part, would like TO see the
murderer or murderers brought TO Justice,
but hope there won't be any more blood
she'd
After a couple of hours further con.
versation simon intimated to Haverill
that if he were so inclined he could now
! retire everything bpiuO in rpadinecq