Widnes Examiner. — 1892-06-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BELL AND FIER PUPIL.  Such a reception as this from the man whose I hand he had hoped to clasp in friendship and brotherly sympathy, staggered Dick not a little. For a minute or so he stared, open mouthed, at the pugnacious and warlike Cuddy, but could find I no words to express the astonishment and anger he felt. And still Cuddy stood direct in his path and "glowered at him," as he had phrased. it. "Ye dinna mean it? Ye're not in earnest !" he gasped, in agitated appeal. Cuddy nodded hie head emphatically, "Ay, that aw do Dick ma lad AW'm none given te wastin' words, an aw mean every one o' thorn that aw said." "But why? An' do ye think aw'll stand tamely aside, and hey' ma lass taken fra me in sic a fashion ?" asked Dick, his anger rising at what he took to be the unreasonable obstinacy of the elder INViddrington. - _ _  "Come what may, no free trader shall, we ma leave, make up to wor Bell." Dick's face brightened suddenly, and he broke into a loud lamfli.  " Oho ! Set's' the winds that way, ma' hearty ?" he exclaimed, in a cheery tone, " Wey, then, just to oblige ye and to quiet yer pious scruples, aw might mebbe be induced to give up ma occupation, an' to take to yours." " What ?. Give up the srmugglin'? But ye've been for (loin' that of tees an oftens ?" replied Cuddy, incredulous.  Dia relapsed into gravity. "So aw hey, but never the same determination. It's not the free-tradin', but the mischief it leads one into; the Ciefyin' o' the law, the desperate deeds," here Dick shuddered as he thought of the shock he had experienced when he found poor Innes's body, " them's what aw turn again now ! There wes a thing happened te me one night— afore aw loft those parts aw mean—a thing that set me on thinkin' it out ix is reasonable way, an' aw swore then that never inure would aw cast in ma lot and become onc wi' such dare devils,lsuch heartless, godlessi cheps—not that aw'm settin'mysel' up ce be any better than the others, mind ye, only it nrowt me face to face wi' what the smugglin' might lead me to. Aw'll tell thee all about it, Cuddy, an' thou can judge for thyser !" The men sat down upon one of the hillocks of sand and, produced their pipes, preparatory to the hearing and the telling of the tale. As Dick declared in short but graphic words his flight, his refuge, awl the horrible discovery he made in the wood; Cuddy puffed away in silence; only nodding his head in approval of his friend's disgust, and shaking it in sad deprecation of the evil ways of the smugglers. When Dick finished 111.3 narrative, Cuddy kept silence for a short time. His face was stern and implacable. "All' non thou sees why aw (Enna choose to follow a calling that needs to be defended we murder and trect,hery. Face to face, and hand to cause he wes only Qne again' a crowd,' that makes ma gorge rise, obnainotyl, ai ns car g 31 12fuatirt(fi fight, Inaoybammlryi a would string him up by the neck Cuddy,icould not help respcetin' for;, his honesty, however angry escape the vengeance of the God who looketh upon " The murderer all' the blood-thirsty man canna the earth, an' sees the evil wrought there. Persecute them even so with Thy tempest ; and make them afraid wi' Thy storm." ()0' :lkyesignificance at his companion. There 1 in the tone which caused suspicion to leap to life within Daglish'e got with lu, An' poor Lutes, a fellow that one ani;LintDssudiadc. kre lno  • ffiT,