Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-03
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atcly refused to belieYe any Ill of the
cay, Gcnorous-hearted youth, and the
man she had learned to know so well,
whose devotion she no more doubted
than that the stars would fail TO
shine. Time went on, and his strange,
sinister silence caused Kathleen to
grow slowly to believe that Hugh had
sot forgotten her, but that he had lost
his life perhaps in ON winter snow
storm or among the wild population
Of the mining camps.
Kathleen was still very beautiful,
and no one had ever entered the
tuary of her innermost feelings.
No one knew that her lavish dona-
tons to church and schoolhouse came
from a desire to get rid Of some of the
wealth which had stood between her
md Hugh, and caused him to run des-
perate chances TO elualize their for
tunes.
How she hated this wealth.
Her father had aged greatly Of late.
1t was because he SO earnestly desired
1t she she finally consented.
So James Duncan was coming to-
night. Prominent and ambitious, he
would take his seat in congress in the
winter and she -.
Time to turn back" cid Marcus
said.
Just ten minutes moro! Toward
the reef" Charlie pleaded.
Katherine was reckless, and they
sped on.
Thsn the light failed suddenly, and
when Marcus turned to speed back Il
sudden flaw drove the catboat in to-
wards Fryins-Pan reef.
Run towards the front" Katherine
urged, while Charlie sat pale and trem-
bling in the bottom of the boat.
Lord have mercy! It's too late!"
Marcus said, as the currents seized the
boat, and the wind drove it ~furiously
forward, while the sky blackened and
the storm burst.
The breakers leapt and tossed and
tumbled On Frying-Pan reef, and the
lights on the lightboat lurched and
went back and forward with the roll
ing of the ship.
A boat was lowered from the light
ship, and a man, finging a coil of rope,
sprang in. Charlie sat with her face
covered, but Katherine, holding the
tiller, saw the slow approach and des-
perate risk of their rescuer. She could
not afterwards recall how it was done,
How he reached them and guiding the
catboat over the very edge of the reef
through a boiling sea of tumultuous
breakers, brought them in safety to the
lightboat.
There are strange fatalities which
human reason can neither account for
nor circumvent.
How was it, and why, that having
gotten them in safety on the deck, by
O slip of the rope James McNair should
have been crushed against the shil
by the impact of a billow, driving tht
catboat with irresistible force against
him?
Stretched on deck, ghastly and mo.
%tionless, a thin trickle of blood oozint
from his mouth, and the light Of /,
lantern fell full on his magnificent
head and form.
"Hugh! Hugh!" Katherine walled
throwing herself upon his breast.
"Kathleen!" he whispered.
There was a long pause, then Nc
Nair motioned to the men to take thu
fainting girl down in the cabin.
lie passed away, fighting his las
fight alone, before Kathleen came to
consciousness of the wild nights work
She's been abroad for the past year
, with her father. Just gotten back
, The wedding is to take place mex
month. Jean Duncan is o lucky dog
, Miss Katherine is a beautiful woman
no end of blue blood-and money. Sh'
, will be the a in Washington thi
winter. They are going TO do no enc
of entertaining. explained Charli,
Cumming at the Clubs. Rhett Ro
man, in N. o. Times-Democrat.
3 Old Jones-Do you play cards &c
: money?
Daughters Loyer-Y-yes, sir; but
Old Touoc-WplI let's have n pam,