Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-16

surrender. Ben Fayle, atcing as spokes-
man for the fishermen, declared that
they would not surrender. Advised TO
reconsider the matter, be ~defantlY re-
turned the same answer. Finally the
constables withdrew to deliberate,
crossing the stream by a plank a few
yards below the waterfall and hating
on the grass before Martha Coolies cot
tage, where there was q wide open
space partly covered with bracken.
Here they were speedily surrounded
by the tOwns-peOple who had followed
as spectators, and here they engaged In
earnest discussion, while two or three
of their number kept watch on the
heights above. II soon became mani
fest that no immediate attack was con-
templated, the position being indeed
far too strong 10 be captured by as
sault, with slaves as the only weapons
and no possibility Of using more than
two at a time.
The constables could, Of course, have
gone away round by the mountain and
80 have entered the glen from the top,
but against this was a very obvious ob-
jection; they were not in sufficient
numbers TO divide their force, aud II
they left the road 70 the sea open they
felt that the fishermen would surely es-
cape, the direction Of the wind not en-
tering into their calculations.
Messengers were sent away In hot
haste down the glen, but what this fore
BODIED no one could tell, though it
caused grave anxiety to the fishermen,
aud especially TO George, whose spirits
were falling rapidly al the prospects OF
being caught like q rat in a trap. While
waiting the cOnstRbles strOlled about
among the crowd. Several OF them en-
deaVored 10 gain entrance into Martha
Coolies cottage, but the stout door
resisted their efforts, hard though they
tried TO break IL In, while the black cat
surveyed them from an upper
window, Martha herself Ainging deris-
i've epithets at them for their trouble.
These aud other diversions served to
pass away the time until the return OF
the messengers, whose news was appar-
emily not satisfactory, for they were
shortly afterwards sent back TO the
town again.
So the day wore on, and the afternoon
came, without bringing a change to
side. But just as toe sun was
sinking down behind the shoulder Of
the mountain, the constables, after a
heated discussion between Mr.. Narne
and Tom Wilmott, who had been inter
fering at every opportunity, were seen
to be In melton. They marched away
down the glen and all the crowd went
after them, the three paper chaps" as
Ben had unexpectedly called them,
tumbling from their perch and running
madly in pursuit.
The fishermen, crsning their necks
over the ~barricsde, could scarcely be-
lieve the evidence Of their own senses.
They stared and rubbed their eyes and
stared again. With the setting OF the
sun q sudden gloom had fallen upon the
glen, and in the gloom things were apt
20 take deceptive shapes; but no consta-
bles lurked among them. Except for
the sounds Of the wind and the stream
and the distant sea, all was silent now,
where but a few minutes ago there had
been a clamOr OF many voices.
When establishment at this marvel
had worn of the fishermen hogan to
suspect a trap and not one Of them
stirred from his post. Old Martha
COole volunteered TO reconnoitre.
She Crept away down the
glen an d presently returned with the
Information that the cOnstables had, in
gone. They had beached all the
boats at one spot and had left a party
in charge. The remainder had marched
back 20 the town. At that news there
were great rejoicings. A bonfire was
lighted in a sheltered spot aud a score
or more Of couples danced around it.
After dark the intending emigraRts,
laden with part Of their possessions,
clambered up the side OF the glen at a
part where il was not very steep, and
stealing away across the mountain
reached a secluded little creek, nearly
opposite the end of the breskwater. On
the grass, 81 the margin Of the single,
a boat which had escaped the notice
OF the constables. BY its means, in
spite of the waves which came umbling
in from the sea outside, the goods were
safely convened 70 the lugger.
Ii was suggested that the party, be-
ing now on board, should stay there,
but the idea was dismissed as impracti-
For the roughness of the sea
would have rendered towing impossible,
and, with the wind still In the same
sailing was not TO be thought
Of. The kestrel would, therefore, have
TO remain where she was.
1--WE can keep the %constables out Of
4 IS -.EN D. a. hA-fa.a
we've plenty TO help us; but the
seven OF US could never keep them out
Of the boat. No, no; the glen is the
place Tor US till the wind shifts. And
as for that, we've nothing 10 be afraid
OF. What we have done one day we can
do another. The ~constables were that
skeered at the sight Of our pitchforks,
l doubt II they'll trouble to come and
look at them again"
So Ben sought 70 cheer his followers
as he led them back TO the glen.
There was a boy waiting with 3 par
eel for George.
"Your old Sarah told me to give you
this, Mr.. George" said the boy. "She
knew you liked ~oatcakes, she said, and
she feared you would be starved up
here, so she sent you some. And you
was to be sure, she said, to eat that one
yourself,
George was touched by the old serv-
ants kindness. He opened the parcel
TO look for the big oatcake which he
was TO eat himself, and saw one Of ex-
traordiuary thickness. 1t was as thick
as four or five Of the others put togeth.
er. He broke IL across the middle and
then the mystery was explained. Ii
contained q letter from his mother, and
also letters from his father and sister.
In fact Sarah's big ostcske was q sort
family Dost-bOx. Still George was