Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-12-07


along the cliff road
A young man stepped from a light.
| hooded vehicle, which he had been
driving. He caught up the little girl
and pacified ner
My mother my mother! she cried.
And where is your mother?" asked
DR.. Hubert Salveson, the young Thors-
| by DOCTOR for he was the man with
the capoted vehicle.
"Yonder, yonder,' cried the child;
''she is going to jump into the tide.
| She tried to take me with her
| Hubert Salveson paused a moment.
The girl might be rumancing, but
again she might not. However, there
was no hesitation as to the young doc
tors action He reached the height
Of the lighthouse cliff, only in time to
see the watt of white dress go over
/ the cliff.
| Here, hold my horse.' he called
( out to Vida, for he had been driving
alone by himself. The girl sprang to
the mares head. AS he rushed after
the vanishing drift Of white, Hubert
| Salveson recalled the time when his
| brother and he used to come bird-nest
| ing there-his brother to sit on the
! cliff top and name the eggs. He re-
membered the lodges Tney were In
| series, if he mistook not-one below
| the other. thick grown with gorse and
| heather. He doubted if anyone, with
the worst intentions in the world,
could leap far enough out to fall clear
into the tide beneath.
Nevertheless he let himself down,
his fingers gripping the lodges OF
rock. He felt for the next shelf with
his feet, for he was married man
now and had no right to play fast and
loose with his life.
Presently he was on firm standing
ground, and could catch glimpse OF
the creepy phosphorescence far be-
meath, where the breakers fell, flood
ed white, and retired roaring sulkily.
For the space of a long minute he
could discern nothing distinctly. Then
on the same ledge, but little beneath
him. he made out a lump, huddled and
indistinct. but plainly human. Living
also. as he found the next moment. 1t
was however, altogether impossible
for him to lift up Mrs. Romer higher
than mis- head. and Vida could not as
sist him He therefore called to her
to go and fetch assistance wherever
she could find it.
Jump in the trap and give the
mare her head" he shouted There
is no time to lose!"
1t was a pity for all the world, ex-
cept perhaps for the being of this
story that the help which Vida
brought back was no other than her
own uncle, Dr. Thomas Romer OF
Torshy. man likeminded with his
brother Jacob, and the particular
enemy of DR.. Hubert Salveson
And from this ill-omened meeting
flowed many things
Among others DR.. Thomas Romer
wrote to his brother that his wife was
definitely mad. and that she would
really be much better in an asylum
where she could be taken care Of She
suffered from suicidal if not homici.
dial mania. The advice jumped alto
: getner with Jacob Romers humour
Tom was ready to assist him, on the
usual terms as arranged between the
brothers. But what to do with the
!, child was the question. Tom Romer
called her young wild cat, and
steadily refused to charge himself
with her on any terms.
j. After the brief adventure Of the
Poor Side" Of Thorsby asylum, the
: removal to certain distant depend
ency of the great CORN properties IL
Scotland, was planned. So that there
wife and daughter could be kept vel
> under the eye of the husband ant
., father. without being allowed to sho"
: themselves too much in public.
: Jacobs scheme. as vaguely outlin
> ed in his head was simply to isolate
al loot I, ierI,t ~
, lease him Of the burden. AS to his
:. daughter-well, he would see. For the
present there was no need to Dispute
u himself about her.
;. But by this time he mad take1
; James Kahn, an adventurer of whom
u no one knew even the nationality. al
:, his confidant and second-in-command
e And James Kahn thought he knew
u quicker way to rid his master OF nj
= = burden And at the same time clea
= his own way to the heirship OF the pos
;, sible Incubus millions.
He imagined therefore the scuttlin|
', of The Good Intent, and the abandon
~ y, ing of the woman and child on tn
:, night of the storm The crew wer
~ first sent off by themselves, while tn
20 captain and Kahn landed with thei
j., | DOdI 1dIl uel uONu LIE COtISl--oliS IA
= two OF them saved. Kahn did not los
i, sight Of his accomplish till he had see
j.; him safe on his way to the Argentin
Republic, with a couple of hundre
pounds in his pocket-the payment c
5, which he grudged, but considered
:, good investment
=, After that James Kahn felt secur
~ ~ till he saw the girl he had counte
~ ~ dead stand by the door of Dick FIJI
~ mans cottage at Glebe End Mordecs
was once more at Humans gate, an
g what is more he had daughter wit
r. him-though only an adopted one.
a, CHAPTER XII.
~ Choirs and Christians.
IN In spite Of being Kinks" and thre
~ ~ churches dwelled in unity-that i
40 for the most part. To remark thu
Al competition was severe is only to sa
that they We're Scotch and Presbyte
ian. But the usual truck-and-barte
sporadic discomfort was ruled on
After all they were almost equal
Wit, L~,