Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-30

OHe must KNOW ABOUT IL You nave a
sweetheart, I've heard, the policeman,
Joseph Woodman, at Tavistock'
The girl pulled at the ends of her
apron, and looking down, said, Lawk!
How folks do TALK
Is 1t true, Jane?'
Well. sir, won't deny us have been
keeping company, and on Sunday went
TO a love-feast together
That is WELL said Mr.. Jordan earn
estly, with his wild eyes cleaning.
Quick, before my daughter comes
Stand nearer No one must hear.
Would you do Joseph good turn to
get him sergeantry?'
o please, sir,'
Then run as fast as you can to
Tavistock.'
Please. sir, I dursnt. 1t be night
and it's uncanny over the moor
Then leave it, and will send some
one else, and you will lose your lover
What do you want me to do, sir? ]
wouldn't have that neither
Then run to Tavistock, and tell
Joseph Woodman to communicate at
once with the warder of the Princes
Town Jail, and bid him bring sufic-
lent men with him, and come here,
and 1 will deliver into their hands a
runaway convict, a man who broke
out of jail not long ago
Please, sir, where is he? Lawk
sirl What if he were on the moor as
/ went over it?'
Never mind where he is l will pro-
duce him at the right moment. Above
all-Jane-remember this, not word
of what / have said to Mr.. Jasper or
to Miss Barbara Go secretly, and go
at once. Hush! Here she comes
Barbara entered. "A light is in his
window she said. Then her father
laughed, and shut his hands.
So he muttered. so | shall snap
him..
When her father was composed and
seemed inclined to sleep, Bargara left
his room, and went out of the house
She needed to be by herself. Her Dos
ON heaved. She had so much to
think of, so many troubles had come
upon her, the future was dark, the
present uncertain
If she were in the house she would
not be able to enjoy the quiet fol
which she craved, in which to com
pose the tumult OF her heart, and ar
range her ideas. There she was sure
TO be disturbed; maid would ask fol
a duster, or another bunch of candles
the cook would send to announce thai
the chimney of the kitchen was out o.
order, the SCOT or mortar was falling
down it; the laundrymaid would ash
for soap; Eve would want to BIZ
amused. Every other minute she
though trifiing matter forced on her
She must be alone. Her heart yearnet
for it. She would not go to the
Rock, the association with it wa.
painful. 1t was other with the moor
Morwell Down open to every air, with
out a tree behind which an imp NIGH
Turk and boot and make mows.
Accordingly, without saying a wore
to anyone, Barbara stole along the
lane to the moor.
That was a sweet summer night
The moon had not risen, the stars were
in the sky, not many, for the HEAVIER
was not dark, but suffused with los
sunlight To the east lay the range O
Dartmoor mountains, rugged ant
grey; to the west, peaked and blacl
against silver, the Cornish tors. Blu
all these heights on this night were
scintillating with golden moving spots
of fire. The time had come for wha
is locally called 'swaling,' that is, fir
ing the windbrakes. In places half q
hill side was faxed with red flame
then it fared yellow, then died away
Clouds of smoke tinged with fire re
lection from below, rolled away be
fore the wind. When the confagratior
reached a dense and tree-like mass
of gorse the flame rose in a column, OIL
wavered like golden tongue Then
when the material was exhausted anG
no contiguous brake continued the
IRE, the confiagration ended, and left
only patch of dull glowing scarlet
ember
Barbara leaned against the last
stone hedge which divided moor from
beld. and looked at the moving lights
without thinking of the beauty and
wilderness of the spectacle. She was
STEPPED In her own thoughts, and was
never at any time keenly alive to the
beautiful and the fantastic
She thought of Jasper. She had
lost all faith in him. He was false
and deceitful What could she believe
about that meeting on the Raver
ROCK? He might have convinced her
father that he was not there. He
could not convince her. What was K
De done? Would her father betray the
man.. He was i'll now and could dr.