Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-06

OOQ dlOnG klCWS W11dC we SuOu1Q
have done without your help. and I
am sure you advise for my good, as
you think; but, if youcould only know
whatI have suffered. and how much
more dreaded what might come, you
would not speak as you do-lndeed
you would not!''
and how cans5 thee be sure"
said the dame, speaking very grave
ly, vet kindly too; chow canst
thee be certain but that, in trying to
escape what thee sayest is SO hard,
thee mayst not get into worse dangerY'
at cannot be worse!" exclaimed
Nelly: ssnothing can be worseo
The good woman held up her hand
eprecatingly, as she said
'sDo not speak so; it does indeed
grieve me sorely to hear thee rebel
thus against the DEGREES ofProvidence
OH bitter cause have to remember
the like words, many years ago, from
one, like thee, did believe that worse
could not be.
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.
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 q 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 she was
going to London; and now the word
seemed to have shaped itself into her
inevitable goal.
"And why not?' she thought, as she
huddled among the hay in the bottom
of the wagon, and shruulS, even there,
into as small a space as possible. II
have heardi it is a great place, and that
even next-door neighbors know moth
ing Of one another; besides, people who
want work 60 to London, and seem all
to get on, Yes, there we can hide our
selves, and there shall, perhaps, get
somethingfor us both to live by-only
never to meet with him-only to be
safe from the horrible"
.'Hie!- Whoal- Gee-whotp'
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 ordinations, the
man stopped down to the canvas
opening OF the wagon. r
II zey, missus! here be a blaze some
wheres!- lookee-th sky's al afame,
like-there it goes, bangl phew!-
there'll be s tnpowder, surely-eh! see
there!-wha5 a blazep'
She had put forth her head and be-
held far, far away over the hills IN
land, towards the coast, q 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, 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 fercer
combustible
cts by the Point, near about, :"
said the man, "but that be no beacon
fire, not it"
Chow it does burn! Oh, it is very
dreadful said Nelly, for the moment
excited beyond the memory of her
own situation. "But tits very far off.
Hal what was that?" she cried, as
loud explosion burst upon the air,
and rolled from hill to hill, like thun-
der.
cit be 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"
''Deepgangw 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 muf-
fled oars, prowled in and around the
secluded inlets, and deep CLASSY
creeks, overhung by the tangled brake
and craggy Businesses of Deepgang;
nine times had the mate returned dis
appointed, delayed by some excuse
plausible in itself, yet provoking Yaw
mans to the most emphatic express
ion of his opinion and disgust more
forcible than elegant.