Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-10-10
SYNOPSIS.

binIous h0cpcL VI Luc lighthouse, pacing
the gallery, discovers in the distance
ship in distance: Stephed Brand agrees
to swim to 1t. Upon reaching the ship
and kills 1t and goes aboard. He finds
the body Of dead man and strange
bundle beneath the sail. Jones, the
lighthouse keeper, lowers basket and
hauls Brand and his strange bundle
safely up. 1.-THE bundle contains a
live baby, of which Jones assumes the
care. On q part of the chld's clothing
are the initials Il Il. The little one is
placed in care of the nurse who has
charge of Stephen Brands child in Pen.
zance. They call the child Enid TIE
Wilton. lIl--Eighteen years later Con
stance Brand, daughter of Stephen
Brand, and her adopted sister, Enid
Trevillton, go to the lighthouse with an
old fisherman, Ben Pollard, in sail
boat named Daisy. They are caught in
q storm, during which they hear the
signal for help coming from the rock
They reach the lighthouse in safety and
find that two of the men, Jackson and
Bates. have been hurt. Brand sends
the men back with HIM lV--Jackson
and Bates are lowered into the boat,
and Pollard starts for Penzsnce. The
Daisy Is met by Lieutenant Stsnhope,
who Is devotedly in love with Enid. HI
has started out for the lighthouse il
answer to the signal for help. Or
meeting the Daisy he turns back to ss-
sist with the injured men. V.-From
lighthouse window Enid spies boat
approaching the rock. 1t is the Lap
wing owned by man named Lawton,
Brand discovers that 1t Is sailed by
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land, and Stsnhope returns to Penzance.
VI.-During the night furious storm
renders sleep impossible. at dawn
from the lighthouse gallery Brand
makes out a ship in great distress
VII.-Charles A. Pyne, young man
on beard, throws rope from the fore
mast to Brand, and by means of pull
ley seventy-eight people are saved be-
fore the ship sinks.
Vll1-Mrs. Vansittart, Pyne's aunt, is
strangely moved at sight of Constance.
1V-Mrs. Vansittart inquiries about
Stephen Brand and his daughter and
seeks to meet Brand, but fails.
A-Stanhope in the Falcon approaches
the lighthouse at daybreak In an effort
to Ncue Enid and Constance, but is
un 10 land in account of high seas
Brand signals news of the disaster.
Constance and Pyne become we'll &C.
quainted. NI-The Falcon puts back
to Penzance, but returns the next day,
bringing Mr.. Trail, whom Mrs Van
sittart is journeying from America to
marry. He sends messages to Mrs.
Vansittart and to Pyne, his nephew.
XII Stanhope has sIgnaled from the
boat his proposal to Enid. The food is
= giving out, and starvation threatens,
when two boats arrive---the Falcon and
another but even with raft it is i'm
possible to reach the rock. XIII
and XlV--Stanhope decides to row to
the lighthouse and signals to Brand.
not to. Sianhope, with Ben Pollard
safety and connects rope after a
desperate Struggle. XV.--Provisions
and 1ai.amatter are ferried to the light
In letter to Brand Mr. Trail
states that the Initials Il. 7. on Ends
little vest stand for Edith Trail, his
daughter, who it was thought was lost
with her mother on board the wrecked
vessel nineteen years previous. xvi
The lighthouse prisoners are taken 10
Penzsnce in lifeboat, where Mr..
Trail gives dinner to Mrs. Vansit
tart, Lady Margaret, Stanhope's moth
or; Constance, Enid, Stanhope and
Pyne. Brand arrives at the hotel later
and meets Mrs. Vansittsrt and finds
that she is his. wife. NVII-Brand
tells Censtan of her mother and Enid
Of her father. Mira. Brand goes to
Brands house where she becomes i'll
CHAPTER XVIII.
n, lady MARGARET took her de-
parture from the hotel at an
early hour. Her son went with
her. Their house was situated
on tlfeeoutskirts of the town, and, al
though Stanhope would gladly have re-
manned with the two men to discuss
the events of this night of surprises,
he felt that his mother demanded his
present attention.
Indeed, her ladyship had much to
say to him. She, like the others, had
been impressed by Mrs. Vansittart's
appearance even under the eXtraordi-
narly difficult circumstances of the oc-
casion. The feminine mind judges its
peers with the utmost precision. Its
analytical methods are pitilessly sim
pie 1t calculates with mathematical
nicely those details OF toilet, those
delicate nuances OF manner, which dis
tinguish the woman infatuated to re-
finement and good society from the
interloper or mere copyist.
1t had always been Il matter Of mild
wonder in PenZance how Constance
Brand had acquired her French trick
of wearing her clothes. Some women
are not properly dressed after they
have been an hour posing In front OF Il
full length mirror; others can give
one glance at Il costume, twist and pull
1t into the one correct position and
walk out perfectly gowncd, with hap
by consciousness that all is well.
Every Parisienne, some Americans,
n few Englishwomcn, possess this
gift. Constance had it, and Lady Mar
garet knew now that it was a lineal
acquisition from her mother. The dis
covery enhanced the belief, always
prevalent locally, that Brand was a
gentleman born, and her ladyship was
now eager for her sons assistance In
looking UP the LANDED Gentry" and
other works of reference which define
and glorlfy the upper ten thousand of
the United Kingdom. Perhaps that way
light would 'be vouchsafed.
Being little narrow minded, the eX-
eellent creature believed that n scandal
among good" people was not half SO
scnndalous as an affair IN which the
principals were tradesmen 'or worse"
She coniidcd something of this to her
son rs thew drove lOmoWord and was
very wroth with him when he treated
the idea with unbecoming lcvity.
"AIy dear boy" she cried vehemcntly.
"you don't understand the value Of
such credentials. You always speak
and act as If you We're ON board one Of
your hectoring warships, where the best
metal and the heaviest guns are all i'm
portant. 1t is not so III society, even
the society Of a small Cornish town.
Although | am an carl'S daughter