Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-12-30

I midnight, as he was coming home from
the lodge in Surry, he saw n man enter
the grave yard with a pick and shovel.
/ "He wus tall" said he, "and he had
/ light hair and terrible long light beard.
And this morning as | come along tew
go down tew the store fur a chew of tew-
bacco, / seed that Mrs. Godfrey's grave
looked like it had been dug intew. So |
! thought I'd just come and tell yer"
Toggins and drove up to Surry in a
great hurry. And sure enough to behold
We found the earth soft and fresh above
Mrs. Godfrey's last dwelling place, and
when, after some consultation, we de-
cided to dig down for the coffin, and
fathom the meaning of the suspicious cir
cumstance, we found the box broken
open, The lock priced off OF the casket,
and the wedding ring that Jeane remem-
bered to have never known her mother to
remove from her finger, gone.
Toggins was in great CONSERVATION.
Il have often heard" he said, ''of
graves being opened and searched by
! thieves, for jewels buried with the corpses.
but somehow there's something queer
about this
"Becidedly queer said l. $50 queer
\ that We'd better not say anything about
it. For though there's not been much
! harm done there's really bat slight value
to a wedding ring still it might worry
Mrs. Toggins"
So we returned home and said not hing,
contradieting all report that the grave
had been meddicd with. But | did some
! thinking. A lighth haired man with
large blond beard seemed to mingle with
everYt thing that occurred OF an unusual
nature OF late, and to harmonic in de-
-eripton with Dadamia's Buttercup man
the porgyman. began to have a curious
idea that ! chung to tenaciousiy.
Meanwhile ferreted out all that could
possibly CLEAN about the Weber claim,
quest toned Jesne more infinitely about
her mother and the stranger on board
"rhe Maine, and waited for develop
ments hat | felt sure were coming
Jeane had said that the miniature OF her
mott Honora, had been in a setting
made OF two military buttons, and-Ora
Buck had married an officer. After all
little Diadsmis was liable to he an
heiress, thought.
That afternoon black cIoud. strangely
shaped, passed over Newbury Neck, ac
companied by currents OF wind that
shook the house until one was reminded
OF the night that Disdamia was born.
This WAS followed by II heavy rain storm.
Diadamis had fall.n ssie.n carly ,nut
terir,g at interval. in her stumhpr.
"Nr and Mrs linn will got wet must
tax. ,euauumbrpils =
Hollis vas tain TO he vorrIrd abaut
her.
ou,r brain - too act i've - he said alt
may h. a r,.turn of her fever
Rut J.arezsrnIled n, hjz f,srs
"she u no ra,ne in storm wilf l.ave ma
in .i,us. ~ n.ace and NOT sncb a tr.y
~ th...,varIdas fnrcas
Nr. C.-t.- and 4oili. ,,o, ,ur,s i,
sjttir5,r, u;,b tho rhjld but ,o-nigbt
.Jesne Womb do it herself
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said Io,tis ~, ,r,,,,. 49,. 49, IN stay
s,yaka Tor ,yeeksu
"Sou.ense said Jrsr.. .Brautv sl.,n
for me The wizard Edison SAYS we
.leep too uuch. Tint it,s relic W.
keep Of barbarian. Two hours are all
that's ntedfuI. Resides lis a mother'-
place to nurse her child. feet as wide
awake ss an owl,
She had her way as usual. Toggin. re-
tired. ard Mrs, Carter went to sleep IN a
room n, xt to mine She had been no for
many lghts and her slumber VA. ali the
deeper for it. could hear her regular
breathing and old age snore long before
| closed NV own ewes. II WINS fierce. say
age piptt United any human being or
animal Obliged TO weather il The rain
sheets slashed against nv window psne..
and tho ,,ilIo,, ,raes brushed and groanad
ON tbareof ahove my head Ithoucht Of