The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-16

boot had stepped on an inch wide ledge
Under his weight the film Of ston
which formed the substance Of the ledg
had scaled of clean and sharp like
knife cut.
"And see, ," cried Henrietta, "there'
the mark where his other toe slipped
There aren't any hobnail scorings there
but there's shiny red line. made by {
copper toe CAPT.
"1t's our friend Gains spoor, right
enough" exclaimed Guthrie. ave
must push on and find him. Ten to one
those numbering brogues Of his have
brought him to bad grief over a slip.
perry bowlder somewhere.
Now the fact that the farmer should
have been wearing such uncouth foot
gear needs word Of explanation.
TO DR.. Things amusement and Cap.
tain Colepepper's wrath, he had come
aboard the ketch at Bristol in precisely
the same bucolic attire in which be had
first made his appearance at the little
house in Shaftoe street.-hobnailed
boots. yellow CATERS tight overcoat
and hard, square bowler hat, all COM
plete. When this unseamanlike rig out
caught the shippers eye he had nearly
exploded. "You haymaking oxr' he
had roared. "D'you think I'm going to
have my decks knocked into sleeves by
those internal stubble mashers9 Take
them of your feet, sharp, or take
yourself off the Eurekal And I'm hang.
ed If care much which you dol" And
SO Cain had to ship a pair Of smooth
soled shoes instead, and the headgear
difficulty was satisfactorily settled by
a callous squau, which took charge Of
his stiff hat in the Bristol channel.
But to the rest Of his attire he stuck
like man on the surface and beneath
it. Indeed report said that he was so
much attached to the yellow leather
CATERS that he invariably slept in them
at night With these trifes however,
the captain did not interfere. "Might
as well try to make sewing machine
into sailor as that fellow CAIN. (" he
declared resignedly. $50 let him stick
to his rig, and then Jones'll know to
stow him in the regular landsmen's
locker, if he gets down there
Now, Cain was not an emotional
man, but the separation from those
inch soled boots touched him, for 1t
was like losing part of himself And
so, as he was not allowed to wear them
on board. ho hung them up. in the ca
boose and there anointed them daily
with copious libations of grease with
all the devotion Of a niger to fetch,
and when the Eureka ran into the an
chorage at Piper's cay and word was
given for all hands to go ashore the
farmer replaced his feet in their favorite
coverings again, mounted the tightly
buttoned fawn colored overcoat and,
with borrowed felt hat of Tom Jelly's
to replace the one he had lost, was in
all outward respects the same individual
who had fled from the unkindness Of |
that "tarrible hard man Abel at the
instigation Of Zusan Pierce. Such attire
In such climate was provocative Of |
laughter, but the wearer was not sensi-
tive, and the shower of chaff which was
rained on him seemed only to have the
effect Of confirming him in his love for
the uncouth habiliments Like child's
headless and armless doll, they were all
the dearer for being despised.
Thus 1t was therefore that the red
copper streak and the parallel scorings
told plain tale to the two people from
the Eureka, and with the certain
knowledge that the farmer had gone
before them they hurried on oyer tho
powders at their best pace.
The going was still very bad, and 1t
got worse as they proceeded. Indeed as
nimble footed though he was
stumbled and foundered among the
rocks, he wondered how the clumsy
somersetshire man had managed to get
over the ground at all. The reason of
his absence seemed in the light of the
rock scorings clear as daylight now.
He had slipped somewhere and disabled
himself. His shipmates were sorry for
lin, Of course, but at the same time
hey confessed to one another that it
erved him right. A man of his build,
hey agreed ought never to have gone
rapesing over such an abominable OBJ
tacle track.
ave shall not be able to carry him
Jack the way he came" declared Hen
ietta. "We couldn't tots Miss Dolly
'erself over them rocks, let alone Cain
4aversha, and she isn't half his weight
r near it. We shall just have to drag
lin down to the waters edge somehow
nd then bring the boat round from the
eureka for him. Eh2 But what's this,
hough2" she cried. awe seem to have
ONE to the end of the roadr'
They had reached turn in the path.
he steep cliff walls of the gully drew
ogether from either side and met one
mother, and the tumbled. honeycombed
at their foot ran no farther.
he arm Of the sea which had followed
ne windings Of the gully so far tapped
he foot Of 40 foot precipice
GAS the worthy Cain is not fly,
bserved Guthrie, II don't see that he
IN have got along there. He must have
1rned back again. Perhaps he's got
mined in some Granny and we've pass
| him on the road. We must keep
etter lookout on the way back and give
ngue as we CO.. 9
But Henrietta had pulled herself up
, to little spire and was peering ca !
'rly forward.
1--WE haven't got to the end yet, sir,
ter ALL" she reported. "There's a =,
It'll down below there that seems to r
nd round bend"
About yard or SO from the waters
ge there was break in the cliff
hich offered three foot path, at any q
te, round the next angle. What lay
yond, they could not Of course tell, I,
It they resolved to find out. A conven-
Mt assure helped them down, and in +.
other couple Of minutes they were
spping briskly along hard, level foot v
tn.
Better travelling, this Henrietta" y
claimed Guthrie thankfully, land
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