Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-09-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CIPTION-ANO MSS 'KURD'S&  The night was quiet and starry as Jessie tripped along by the shore towards the p:sce of rendezvous. The tide was pretty full, though for some time it had been receding, and very gentle was the murmur of the waters among the rugged rocks which strewed the beach.  No fear whatever had the happy and innocent girl as, in the darkness, she ma le her way along the familiar path, every lnh of which she had trod again and again by the aide of the loved One she expe4ted soon to meet. The faintest suspicion of cots:ng treachery never crossed her mind, but he: thoughts were filled with the image oi noble youth to whom her fresh young hear; was given, with all its wealth of lose Ana tenderness.  neverl:wloo-nßtig-ithla-deg-a-ebh:teesco3l-rr-wdasaiot r before been so far from the waiting rbfuotr thea ahesrdeserted .t t tt' the sme tar! leoc, co ki:zo she felt neither lonely nor afraid, 'even thosgh she could now see the dark silent mass of the Castle standing between her and the ea-it.wu sky. The sight of it brought back to her 'bind the flying stories about the Green Lady, she smiled as she thought that if 84:AVW )e nighted fisherman were to meet her she would be considered by him that ghos:4 personage, and be tied from in terror. Ah, if she could only have known what had taken plane in that desolate Castle two nd.diti ago, if she could have dreamed that the youth to whose presence she thought she was speed. lug lay at that moment in one of its limierground vaults, consigned there to die a c, uel death, and that man whose summons she was so promptly and joyfully obeying viz,: hie murderer, what a shook of horror would skd have experienced, and how she would have tied on the wings of fear and love to bri4 the villagers to his rescue. But no angel of mercy whispered the dread secret in her ear, and forward she went with a fluttering heart, and sr straight a line as sho could follow, to Ihe black rocks. She half expected that Malcolm would Le waiting for her at the bottom of the :iron slope, rather than at the recess where they usually sat, because the way to it was ru..,zedi and in the darkness dangerous, and she thought he would be there to so port her with his strong arm to the seclu&d pllO of oonferenoe. In this she was disappointed. Malcolm was not on the slope, and the dark irregular mass of rocks lay over against her in motion. less silence. Then the fear obtruded that being late, Malcolm, deeming she did dad mean to come, had departed. Alarmed ade a little by this supposition, she leaped dowa from the bank upon the strip of sand wade separated her from the rooks, crossed it nitls • bound, and fearlessly made her way dor the rough and jagged projections. For a girl, the place was dangerous in 'Jar light, there being several gullies to druela "" a false step and a fall would cilia., destruction. In the darkness it was doJbly dangerous, but Jessie was bold and sur"9: footod, and with unerring so:muscly sn• directed her course to the now ol .se by the brink Of the Boiling Cauldron, in whl". dwpthouar.theal esaraweredokstha sio rmaswerein:eows:oe.toionu4.o4....,_:v7: that