The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-10

a school was organized and the primal
charm OF Tenants vanished away.
| Iars, one summer. the white and
red schoolhouse stood finished. 4 slim
young man. with a beautiful training.
arrived from the city TO take charge.
gather in recruits and generally to
modify the opinion OF Tenants thu,
teaching and teachers we're the direct
| agents Of the devil
Ihe fishing fleet had come home
earlier than usual that season; by the
end of July all the schooners were
lying at anchor with boarded rigging
and sides weathered 10 a silver gray.
their flat-bottomed dories moored in
long rows behind them. The skids
were spread with fish, cleaned and
split. drying under the hot sun. and
in the pleasant northern twilight the
fishermen foregathered to smoke and
talk
Sometimes the young schoolmaster
smoked and talked with them. in pur-
suance Of a wise pedagogical policy.
Far more frequently. however. he
apart from the village. And thereby
hangs this tale
1t was because Of the girl-the
brown-eyed daughter OF old John
Shea. Her natural cleverness attract
ed him. just as her simplicity and
straightforwardness were consider
ably more than all the world to the
young fisherman, Paul Fralic
Paul Fralic was a handsome man
and strong, with the roughness OF
his kind. but with much Of its ten
cerness as well. He had loved old
Shea's daughter as long as he had been
able 10 love anything. and Tenants
conceded his position by calling her
"Pauls girl" The more so as he
sailed his own schooner-which sipni-
fed much. And that very summer,
he-with tremor in his deep voice
asked the girl to help him run" .
little cottage that was rising near the
harbor. Then the schoolmaster came,
and before long Paul found the maid
en- was less eager to listen 10 his sea
tales or TO admire the new cottage,
where the smell of fresh-cut timber
lay sweet on the air.
And the summer wore away. Paul
was absent for days at a time. fish
ing on the off-shore soundings. At
each return he found more to anger
him. bat never chance 10 clear up
his doubts. When he visited the big
house il was TO sit outside with the
father. smoking in black silence
while the schoolmaster read or tailed
TO the girl.
Paul was n man Of few words. but
his heart was brave. Therefore he
went down one day TO the cottage
II was nearly completed and he
looked il over grimly. Then he ad-
dressed the carpenter who had saun-
tered up.
"'Guess you needn't finish this yer
shack Jest yet. Sam. Mehbe | won't
want il so soon. artcr ALL"
What's up now?" asked Sam. who
was also fisherman, and had rejoiced
in Paul's good luck.
"Wal. I'm a-goin' 10 take the schoon-
er out Boston way. n try fer a cargo
this winter. An guess YOU can leave
the house wait bit now"
The other man stared. but Paul
turned away. walking slowly toward
the village. and the cottage was left
TO the sun by day and the moon by
night. and always to the moaning
wind
The year grew on 70 autumn, and
the school was in full swing. Paul
never went 10 the big house.
He was fitting out the schoon-
err for the winter. In the i'm
tervas OF work he souga; the
bluff at the harhor mouth that
watched the troubled waters round
the Bull. Kinder cri nly." said the
village fishermen. Once he saw in
proaching with the girl. After that
he went there no more.
u was week later that the first
Of the autumn gales swept in from
the Atlantic. Now. on the day that
the storm was getting up TO seward
#.
in the morning to prepare for start
whcr the weather moderated. Gray
was the sky in the of'ing. with patches
of flying cloud-rack, while the ground
swell grumbled all along the coast,
sending great smooth waves TO rock
the vessels anchored at Tenants.
There was no cause for anyone 10
leave The harbor; yet. ms day bright
cned over the water Paul saw small
rowboat put out from one Of the
whar,es and head for the open sea.
He looked AT it curiously. knowing
that all the fishermen were busy on
shipboard and that none Of them had
any business at the harbor mouth in
the face OF big storm.
The boat--a light thing with a
single occupant-kept well under the
shore. and II was with difficulty that
Paul recognized the tall. slim figure
of the oarsman. When he did. three
things came 10 his remembrance.
T~h, Chan Nod sraa..I Tho