The Delta independent., 1913-04-04
uoopyEa1LL IAAsl by ". ADuieion \ Company)
SYNOPSIS.


Eben Hammond. leader of the Come out
ssr religious sect. offers TO assist her
financially II she will remain. She de-
ellnes. Kyan Pepper. widower, offers mar
Fiase' and is Indignantly refused.
CHAPTER II-Capt. Elkanah Daniels.
leader of the Regular church. offers ke-
aiah place as housekeeper for the new
minister, and she decides to remain in
Trumet.
CHAPTER III-Keziah takes charge of
Rev. John I1llery. the new minister. and
gives him advice as to his conduct toward
memhers of the parish. Ellery causes a
roA..iro
CHAPTER Iv-Ellery's presence is Dit
terly resented by Eben Hammond leader
OF the meeting. Grace apologies for her
guardian and Ellery escorts her home in
the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond; Eben's
son; becomes hero by bringing the pack
Ellery nnds Kezah writing a letter to
some one: inclosng money In response 20
demand. She is curiously startled when
Informed of the arrival of Nat.
CHAPTER WHAT calls on Keziah. and
It develops that they have been lovers
since youth. Daniels demonstrates with
Ellery for attending "Come-outer" meet
CHAPTER vI-Ellery is caught by the
friends.
CHAPTER vII-Ellery meets Grace
while walking in the fields Sunday. and
learns that she walks there every Sum
day.
CHAPTER vIII-The clergyman takes
dinner Sundays with the Daniels. Anna
self TO make impression on him. She
notices with vexation his desire to get
away every Sunday at a certain time.
She watches him through a spy glass.
CHAPTER IX-Nat again importunes
Keziah to marry him. He says he has
had a quarrel with his father. who wants
him TO marry Grace.
CHAPTER X-Ellery asks Grace to
marry him. She confesses that she loves
him. but says she fears to displease her
and asks time to think about it. Elkanah
Daniels tells Eben about the meetings be-
he % will MAKE make Grace eHa % choose fiDef between him
and the preacher. Grace finds him in
faint, following the excitement of Elkan-
abs visit
rSII CHAPTER XI--Just before he, he dies dies
Eben eXacts promise from Nat and
Grace that they will marry.
CHAPTER xII-Kezah breaks the news
to Ellery and later he receives a note
from Grace saying she is to marry Nat.
and asking. him not. to try to see her
marriage with man who turned out to
be a good for nothing: and who was re-
her love for Nat. whom she cannot marry
because the husband is alive. Ellery sees
In In the ss,Sy story a lesson In devotion to duty ~,
duties.
CHAPTER XIII-Captain Nat sails for
Manila to be gone two years. He says he
and Grace have decided not to marry un-
ill he returns.
CHAPTER XIv-Nat is overdue. and 1t
Y feared that he has been lost at sea:
Keziah gets letter from her husband
saying he is coming back. Grace goes on
. visit to relatives of the Hammonds.
CHAPTER Xv-A vessel flying distress
signals Is discovered off the coast. Ellery
man is found suffering from smallpox. the
rest OF the crew having deserted
CHAPTER, XyI-He is taken. to an
covered that he is Keziah's husband. El-
iery, left alone in quarantine. Is found
wandering in delirious condition by
Grace. She takes him back to the
fhanty and sends for help.
CHAPTER XvII-Keziah and Grace
nurse EIery. who is suffering from brain
report that Grace and Eliery are engaged.
News comes that Nat has arrived safely
in Boston.
CHAPTER XvIII-The story of the
wreck of Mats vessel comes out and a
to appear.
ors OF a crew from a British vessel
cast away there in the latter part of
the eighteenth century.
On the first of these islands, the
smaller one, the Sea Mist had been
wrecked. Driven out of her course by
. typhoon. she staggered through day
after day and night after night of
terrific wind and storm until, at last,
there was promise of fair weather.
Captain Nat, nearly worn out from
anxiety, care, and the loss of sleep,
had gone to his stateroom and the
first mate was in charge 1t was three
o'clock, the wind still blowing and the
darkness pitchy, when the forward
lookout shrieked a warning. Breakers
under the lee!" Almost the next in.
stant the ship was on a coral reef,
full of water, and the seas breaking
over her from stem to stern.
Morning came and showed little
patch of land, with palm trees and
tropical vegetation waving in the
gusts and green in the sunshine. Cap.
tain Nat ordered the boats to be low
cred. Much as he hated the thought,
he saw that the Sea Mist had made
her last voyage and must be aban.
doned. He went to the cabin, col.
lected papers and charts and prepared
to leave. The ships money, over ten
thousand dollars in gold belonging to
the owner and to be used in trade
and speculation among the East In.
dies, he took with him. Then the
difficult and dangerous passage
through the opening in the reef was
begun.