The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-09-06

ready to shoot him down at the first
sign of breaking loose. Out of man
they made an animal A keeper lay
helpless on the stone floor and an ami
NAL walked out into the night and the
storm.
There was a new lover at the cabin !
on the hill above the slate quarry
Mary's father would have it SO. The |
young man came and went but it was /
few words he got from the girl. She /
had promised the man in prison that /
she would be faithful, and the father
could not move her. He coaXed, argued /
and threatened. She was silent and
fearful. but she was determined. On
a Sunday night when the harvest
moon rode high and clear, but a gale
was sweeping over the land and anger
ing the sea, the quarryman left his
cabin to walk on the shore. He had
feared for long months that the tide
would come in above the mark some
day and dig and bore and delve and
unearth that thing from its grave and
leave it exposed on the sands. All
that day he had been uneasy as he
listened to the bowling of the gale and
the booming of the surf.
Ten minutes after the father left the
house the daughter followed him. A
feeling that she could not resist inn
PEELED her. The lover whose love was
not returned was left behind, but pres
emily he rose up and took the same
path down to the sea. The quarry
mans fears had been realized. The
waters had rushed far above the wet
| spot and dug into it and swirled about
| It. and had at last fastened their
| fingers on the body of the victim and
hove it out to view. 1t lay there with
| the foam sweeping over it at every
seventh wave. The sands had pre-
served it from decay, and the quarry.
| man cursed in his throat as he bent
over and recognized the features.
1T is him! 1t is hiN!" screamed
the daughter in the fathers ear; and
| her shrill tones were carried far out to
sea by the bowling gale.
AYE, the missing mamie was
quicksanded!" exclaimed the lover as
he came plodding over the sands to
stare at the body.
You knew it," screamed the girl
as she pointed at the dead and then at
her father. You knew it all the time,
and yet you never said a word! You
hated him. You wanted his place
You have sent a man to die in prison
and broken a girls heart. May God
never forgive you!"
Another man came ploddinS oveI
the sands. He came to the trio anc
spoke no word. He saw the object OF
) the sands and knew what 1t was, bu
> he made no exclamation. For that ht
. had been sent away for life. For tina
: he had been changed from man to al
! animal Mary heard him breathin!
|. hoarsely at her elbow, and she turne'
4 and put her hand in his and laid he
v head on his shoulder. On the SAM
g dunes behind them men on horses an
o men on foot suddenly appeared. The
O had guns and shouted to each other a
they caught sight of the convict.
n Come, Mary" said Black Sam, a
s he lifted the girl in his arms and ca
Il ried her over to boat beached b'
o yond the reach of the surf With
@ heave of his giant shoulders he shove
@ the boat into the water and then hel
10 her for a moment. The big whit
N moon stood fairly out to sea, and he
n simmer made broad pathway acros
ID the heaving waves. That pathway b
N gan millions of miles away and SCENE
r to end at the dead man on the sand
r. The men hurried down from the dune
At and aimed and fired their rifles at II
ct figures in the boat, but their bulle
ID flew harmless. Then they looked
ur the corpse on the sands and shoutt
a ! to the convict that he was an innocel
,s. man and should return to stand b
Of fore his fellowmen, but he did not loo
as back.
nd Straight out into the heaving, tro
oh bled sea-straight into the path of Il
I'D moonlight-straigh for that Unknov
cd that human souls visit never to retur
ir. sailed the boat and the lovers, al
NO they were presently hidden from sig
ed by the tossing pillows and no man SO
m them again. Somewhere they foul
rest and peace.