Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-01-14

cruel waves was in her ears, and the
vision Of Cigars face shut out every
thing else
as this how have guarded my dear
lords ehild?D asked conscience sternly.
absorbed in my own sorrow have for
gotten that Ulva's childhood is past. and
allowed woman's heart to be won and
broken.
AlLthat wild night she held the striclz-
en- girl in her arms; but she dared not
ask her whether she could have loved
Edgar.
The whole Of the sleat- ma Vrecken
was reused by the fatal ending OF the
brave young Englishman. In the few
visits which he had paid to their huts
with Viva, his hearty, simple goodness
had disarmed every prejudice or sense of
strangeness, and the romance Of his
rescue had had its influence upon their
minds.
They had admired him when he
walked beside their OOlava, and some
had foreoasted love and marriage be-
tween the "bonny par" They be-
mOaned his untimely fate, and dreaded
its effect upon their lady, and with the
earliest dawn they were out searching
all round the hinty shore They found
the boat and they found the furs, but
not poor Edgar.
There were two men who slept none
that night, although they passed 1t in
very different scenes
/ Sircombe spent a night of blood-1urd-
Z ling horror in his own study; Kenmore
wandered among the rocks in the storm.
In the morning the heart strings of
/ each man tngged at him till he had 10
/ steal TO Lady Inchcape's rooms and try
| to see her. They m at her door.
Each started at the spectral appear
/ ance of the other.
Sircombe noticed the drenched and
I StOrTn- bfaa ten condition Of Kanmora and
/ he staggered back against the doorpost
in an-agony of guilty terror
! you've been-yOu'Ye been wandering
/ about all night2" whispered he.
@Ay, Mr.. SircOmba," said Kenmore,
hoarsely, averting his eyes from the man
who had tempted him to act the sneak
/ -And-speak OUT almost screamed
/ Sircombe-@what have YOU found out
| found, 1 mean?"-the amendation be ng
I due to KenmOre's curious glance. For a
/ long minute the old Highlander did not
speak; he was scanning the changed face
/ Of The secretary, and for the first time
/ 1t was entering his mind to suspect MIR.
SircOmbe.
what should l find, but dool an sor-
/ row for Draw young man cut of in his
I prime? But whist"
The door was opened by Lady Inch
I cape's ma d, Mary. that thoughtless, az
I fectiOnate girl, who had once through
I her bungiing, contributed to Lord Inch
ca pes suspicion Of his innocent wife
4 merely wished TO inquire how the
ladies had passed the night said Sir
l cOmbe, glaneing past her.
"NOt well, ! fear said Mary.
Z grlevedly; ~the shock Of the accident
has been dreadful. Neither one has lain
down; I wish 1 had known, I would have
waited up But my lady's always that
way"
Lady Inchcape had heard the NUT
tered collO4uy, and came herself to the
door.
Lady Viva is very I'll, she said. in
carefully chosen phrases-%the exposure
yesterday, added to the une Npeeted acct
dent has cOnr buted to prOstrate her
compile ely. She is now lying on my
bed very feverish. I must trouble you
for some medical assistance, Mr.. Sir
. cOmbe-
So jealousy she strove TO hide poor
| Ulva's secret! But both the men before
her OWNED it, and oh, how it tore at
their hearts.
kenmore strobe away with a sense Of
sutfocation, and a cry from his inmost
soul.
~Oh, Captain Edgar, if ye were but
back again, wad gle We my hearts
blood 10 buy your love for Oolaval7
But Sircombe's soul was writhing in
the pangs Of jea .ousy. and he was glad
that Edgar was dead-Or dying.
He Ventured to plead with Lady Inch
Z cape for a 81 hit of the sick girl, shat he
might examine her medically" but
I earned for himself one of my lady's
naughty refusals, and had TO content
himself with compromising and sending
Viva medicine for feyerish cod, and
retiring TO his own business with raging
spirit.
Another day passed; another night
fell. This storm was succeeded by a
/ perfect calm. This night the fisher peo-
pie all went to rest for there was no
longer any hope Of recovering Edgar's
body. SircOmbe had sent an account OF
the accident to the authorities on the
mainland, with a brief and obscure ac-
count of the attending circumstances;
but Kenmore had not been one of the
crew who manned the boat.
] Kenmore had not slept, had scarcely
broken bread since the catastrophe; for
his heart was br aking over Viva And
now that a suspicion of Sircombes had
come TO haunt him, he wandered from
the tower TO the shore, round and round
the cliff paths; into every Granny and
cOpse, like a restless wrath; pursued D.
phantOms
About two o'clock of the night he flung
himself down by q trickling rill to rest
and drink. The water ooZed from a
cleft in the cliff, pure and spark ng from
the living spring sea ed up in the cod
heart of the rock The place was close
down by the sea beach which here
! formed a natural haven, small but Sc
cure. The wide Atlantic stretched be.
fore the little bay;-it was a solitary
spot, wild and mysterious.
The summer sky was white and silvery
with broad moon; Kenmore could see
objects far and near, with those keen,
practieed eyes, as if it were MONDAY.
As he sat, too weary and sOrroWfnl tc
think anymore, with his back bra ed
against the rock, he heard a loDg-drawn,
I GuiVering sigh at his very ear.
There was no terror in his mind as he
looked round, and then stood up TO see
better, for there was so much human
distress in that sigh that his instant i'm
pulse was to help the sufferer
But no mortalwas visible.
Great horror fell upon old Kenmore
His heart melted like wax within him,
his knees knocked together. the ha.r OF
his head stood I'D.
He ,Ouglt that he was in the pres.
ence Of a spirit-the spirit of drowned
Edgar had come back 10 haunt him for
the simple hate he had borne him while
he was alive
The deVOut Highlander most certainly
believed in ghosts; had he been asked by
3 modern skeptic if he believed in the
supernatural, he would have said, lifting
his bonnet reVerenLly: @WeeI I hope
sae."
He now fell on his knees and called OF
God 10 deliver him. in tones that echoed
far and wide through the rocks An
answer was instantly vouchsafed, but
an answer that perfectly eonfounded
him
@Kenmorel Kenmore! am close beside
vou-behfnd the rOclylB called a human