Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-03
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THE FISHERMAN'S BRIDE.
CHAPTER XXXII-CoNrINUED.

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phised her friend; and the other went
on-'V e did get place at last, and,
hungry as the dear child was, she
was mo e tired, for she fell asleep
with the Mt of bread i'll her hand; and
oh, how we did both sleep that night!
1 never felt a bed SO welcomes
Next morning my feet were SO
worn and blistered, could harry set
them to the ground, and when told
the woman of the house how it was,
and the hurry l was in to get to Lon
don she said there We're market carts
going back to Deansholme, which was
the next town thirteen miles on the
road, so there was chance.
II was glad to pay something for 1t,
and when we got out at Deansholme,
and had a rest in the fields Just out
side the town, was able to get on q
bit again.
81 had bought something at Deans
holme to eat on the way, and with
another lift from a good-natured farm
ing man that pitied the child trotting
along, we slept that night at I for
get the name of the place, but | know
how glad | was when they told me it,
was but fourteen miles to London"
'You felt as if the worst was done
when you got here?"
eyes, / had heard so much of Lon
on, and how work was always to be
had for the seeking.
Agnes Chaunce smiled sadly, and
shook her head.
~ cannot tell you," Nelly went on,
show different it all seemed, the near
er we GOT to the towns; there was not
so much as adrop ofwater to be had,
scarce, without paying for it; and
where, in the cottages, the good wom-
en- would ask me to wash my lace and
hands, and make the dear child clean
and comfortable, there was not, even
where We slept, the chance OF wash
nor brush, without the money-eh,
dear!"
EYES," said Agnes, again slowly
shaking her head; nothing without
money, everything for it, she added,
with q little sigh.
'I knew by this" Nelly contin-
ued, chat I should have to
make the money / had last out the
more carefully, and we set out early
to walk the rest of the way. And it
was that time got such a dreadful
fright with losing the child"
"LOst her" exclaimed her listener.
''It was in the latter part of the
afternoon, the road was very firing;
so dusty, and straight;and comingto a
piece of green common, | was glad to
sit down, under the side ola hillock, and
rest a bit Ida had dozed, with her
head in my lap, and |, after a bit,
dozed too, III spite OF myself, for L
meant to be getting on.
cit couldn't have been long; but all
at once | woke up in a sudden fright.
and yet all with no noise either, and
the child was gone"
An exclamation burst from the
lips of Agnes. and she leaned for
ward in her anxiety to hear more /,
II was on my feet in a moment. -
Nelly went on. II rushed to the top
of the hillock; looked all around,
but could see nothing, only a donkey
grazing a good way off on the COM
mon.
81 cried out, | don't know what
screamed felt l should go mad. [
ran across to another hillock little
distance of, and something higher
than the first, and just as [
reached it, a man ran across from
clump OF trees jumped on to the
donkey, and was off at full speed; and
then, a long wa.F off; [ spied some
dark figures moving over the heath,
that [ could just make out to be more
people and beasts. [ guessed in
moment they were gipsies, and they
had carried away my dear child.
ooh! | can never tell you what / felt.
Z believe in another moment | should
have dropped dead, for, as l ran
down the hill to rush after the
wretches, my knees shook, and my
breath stopped when all at once [
heard the dear pets voice crying out
to me, and saw her coming towards
me from among the trees.
"Youmay think how Irushed to her,
and had her in my arms IN minute;
eh, dear, it was like getting back my
life again.
"The fact was, the poor thing had
wandered away from my side, looking
for flowers, and all at once coming in
sight of the gipsies-they had a fire
lighted behind the trees-she was
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furze bushes till they had rode off.
''But [ was in such a tremble with
the fright, that l could not set for
ward to walk again, SO rested with
her in my arms, till a cart came along,
and the man gave us a lift, and very
kindly would not take a penny Of me;
and so we came to the place they call
Brentford, and he left US there, and
advised me to stop for that night, as
it was a good step to walk; though, for
that matter, he said, all one as Lon
don, in manner of speaking.
"Iwas so glad to hear that, and so
thankful that the terrible fright had
not been real, that | felt as though
all was to prosper us now; and
we made a hearty supper, and
slept well, though the bed was
poor one, and they did charge very
high indeed for it.
) "And the next day we came into
London, Oh! if could have dreamed
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