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a mean well 4 she said sadly; you have
been IA a true friend to me and my child
! God alone knows what we should
have done without your help: and I
am sure you advise for my good, as
you think; but, if you could only know
what have suffered, and how much
more dreaded what might come, you
/ would not speak as YOU do-indeed
you would not!'
And how canst thee: be sure
said the dame, speaking very grave
! ", yet kindly too; shoW canst
thee be certain but that, in trying to
/ escape what thee sayest is SO hard,
thee maystnot get into worse danger?"
ut cannot be worse!'. exclaimed
Nelly; mot thing can be worse!'
The good woman held up her hand
deprecatingly, as she said
do not speak 50; it does indeed
grieve me sorely to hear thee rebel
thus against the DEGREES OF Providence
oh! bitter cause have / to remember
the like words, many years ago, from
one, like thee, did believe that worse
could not be-. ss. v
Nelly had chosen the evening in
which to- start, and Rachael had, in
private, conceded with her. It was
getting dusk, and the child, after pratt
Ting of the wonders she had been
shown by her kind friend, soon fell
asleep. t:fa
Her mother whom many anxieties
forbade to seek such relief, sat keenly
awake to every sound, or, rather, for
the sounds which rarely broke the
stiffness.
| They were winding their way among
green lanes again, then they toiled
slowly up a. hill, and again as SLOWLY
descended into valley. ..
Rachael had informed her that the
wagon would go to town some seven
miles distant, as she believed, on the
road to London.
| Nelly had once said, and quite upon
the spur OF circumstance, that shewas
going to London; and now the word
seemed to have shaped itself into her
inevitable goal. H.
| "And why not?" she thought, as she
huddled among the hay in the bottom
OF the wagon, and shruuk, even there,
into as small space as possible. II
have heard it is great place, and that
even next-door neighbours know moth
ing OF one another; besides, people who
want workgo to London, and seem all
to get on, Yes, there we can hide our
selves, and there I shall, perhaps, get
somethingfor us both to live by-only
never to meet with him-only to be
safe from the horrible -" ~
''Hie!-Whoa!- Gee-whotn' ..
! A loud exclamation from the driver,
and a sudden jolt of the vehicle as it
came to astand-still, broke the course
Of her meditations. .-...'..
''Hey! Lauk-a-mussy! Phew!" ut
tering a variety of EXPLANATIONS, the
man stopped down to the canvas
| opening of the wagon.
ri zey, missus! here be a blaze some
where's! -lookee-the sky's all ahame,
like-there it goes, bang! phew!-
there'll be gunpowder, surely-eh! see
there!-what a blaze!!' E..
| She had put forth her head and be-
held lar, far away over the hills in
land, towards the coast, a lurid glow,
that, reflected from the horizon,
spread upward to the skies above
them, and seemed to increase in an
ger and intenseness every instant,
while, at intervals, a deeper flush, and
the white mass of smoke that rolled
out and partially dimmed the fiery
glow, seemed to announce some sud
den impetus or kindling Of a fiercer
combustible.
cts by the Point, near about"
said the man, "but that be no beacon
fire, not it." uS
GLOW it does burn! Oh, it is very
dreadful" said Nelly, for the moment
excited beyond the memory of her
own situation. "But it is very far off.
Ha! what was that?" she cried, as a
loud explosion burst upon the air,
and rolled from hill to hill, like thun
der
sIt be a blowing up, that" he said:
then, slapping his leg he cried, "Why,
If it bean't over at Deepgang, I'm a
dummel! Ay, and for a pot, it be
they wicked smugglers at their tricks
again" =
"Deepgang!" She echoed the word,
and fell back beside her child, within
the corner of their poor refuge.
% CHAPTER XVII.
- THE BEACON FIRE.
Nine days had the Daredevil ridden
at anchor in the bay; for nine success
sive evenings had her boat, manned
by the trustiest OF her crew, with NUT
fled oars, prowled in and around the
| secluded in1atS and 6oo,, ri Soy,