The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-26

other man, who was mCnding u torn
sail and stopped now TO look nt his
work II mind rs ii 'twcrc Yesterday,
how the great ship came swirlipS on
the rocks, aud the noise oi the storm
and the sen in the awful blnckmess,
for the light was ont, rs We mind, and
old Jack Dorr, the lghtkeepcr. lying
on his death bed IL were visitation
of misfortuncs all in body, that
night.
"And you never heard any thin,
Eonald?"
Hear? What should hear 2"
asked the older man, looking mp SITS.
piciously. al heard the crash of the
ship on the rocks, and the roar Of the
breakers, and the sound OF men s
voices, but whether they were praying
81" rpr''" ~" 'Tor.al could tell. What
.-o.a vas tLere to hear?'
The younger man looked thorght.
lul for moment as if he were rovoly.
ing some idea in his mind. He was Il
bron1ed, sinewy fisherman Of fine pro-
portions and that air oil adventure
which belongs to those who "go
down To- the sea IN ships lie evi.
IDENTIFY thought better OF what he was
going 10 say aud merely volunteered
IN answer to his comrades question
the conservative remark;
"Ihat storm was the worst ] ever
was in, here or anywhere else. "
at were the only night, too, in the
the history OF Black Beach light
house that the light was ont" SAID
Ronald. "'vc heard it s,id that foul
play was suspected, bus say, where
wa, the motiyc?'
"Wrcckcrs?' suggested the other
man, wno was known rs Tom Guild.
'I'vc heard il limited.
"Thcrc were more than n hint
twcrc "A kick, but there Wa, not bit
of proof, then or since. And there
were never but one living man in these
parts TO answer to the description, and
what he took from the wrccA no other
mnn wanted" "
"Iou mean Ralph Bargcnnt?'
al do.
"Ie picked mp the child, but why
dill he not send her TO her iolks?'
How could he? They were all
drowned !"
"Hcr father aud mother were
drowned, man, but there must have
been some kin living IN the foreign
country they hailed irom?'
ASK him, said Ronald, sig.
nihcnntiy. ".She's going to lead him
now; muylikc she'll be going to those
same pnrts herself with her husband.
Look yonder OF the beach; she amt
bad looking, though not as rosy rs
some, but she amt TO cay sickly.
They DO say Bargenat is moral sooi
to her.
"HeI better he, or there's plenty
here would know the reason why,
said the younger man hotly ns his
eyes followed the direction Of Ron.
aids and saw two forms reclining one
to the other, walking slowly along the
beach. The ocean was as calm as u
pond, and no hint OF shipwrecl or vio-
leuce hovered between the blue above
and its reflection below.
''She never liked 10 walk on the
beach with me, 4" thought the young
man "she always said she hated the
sound OF the waves. Perhaps II / had
been landsman %"
No, Tom, she was not for you, good,
honest fellow that you were and are.
lou are not the only one TO carry the
lame bird, wounded love, IN the shel
ter OF the heart and make no sigu.
Tom knows as he sees the two togeth.
er that come veal, come woe, they
will ever bo mates. Aud his generou,
nature is great enough to DO glad.
Ronald had finished his sall.mend'
ing and was now disposed to talk
Tom fingered to look hi, last on th,
lady OF his love, while yet TO love hel
were no sin.
They tell queer tales of that nigh
when tho foreign vessel was wrecked