People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Page 3

0-1 E OLD, OLD STORY. Where broad fields hold the summer’s gokL And the sunshine glads the day; Where the boys and (iris in the swathes and swirls Are raking the new-mown hay. There are tender sighs, there arc melting eyes, And a thrill at the touch of hands; Tor doves will coo and youth will woo As long as the old earth stands. 'Where the spindle’s song the whole day long Through the factdry ward is whirled, Whose slaves ne'er see fields glad and free. Nor list to the voice of bird, There ore tender sighs, there are melting eyes Ard a thrill at the touch of hands; Tor doves will coo and youth will woo As long as the old earth stands. And land or sea, or slave or free, It counts not where nor when; And weal or woe, this truth we know, Where’er there are maids and men. There are tender sighs, there are melting eyes And a thrill at the touch of hands: For doves will coo and youth will woo As long as the old earth stands. —Nixon Waterman, in Banner of Gold.

MATT TALE OF A CARAVAN

BY ROEIERT BUCHANAN.

CHAPTER XV.—Continued. Doubtless, in any more populous locality the affair would have occasioned no little scandal, and many ominous shakings of the head, but the inhabitants were few and far between, and had little or no time for idle gossiping. The coast guardsmen and their wives were the only individuals who exhibited any interest, and even their exeitement was faint and evanescent, like the movements of a fish in a shallow and unwholesome pool. But the really extraordinary part of the whole affair was the conduct of Matt herself. Apparently quite cured of her former repugnance to a union with Monk, she made no objection whatever to the performance of the ceremony, and laughed merrily when she was informed that the day was fixed. Monk, in his grim, taciturn way, was jubilant. He came to and fro constantly, and assumed the manners of a* lover. Had he been less bent on one particular object, two things might have struck him as curious: (1) That Matt, though she had consented to marry him, steadfastly refused to wear his ring or accept any other presents; and (2) that she still shrank, with persistent and ill-dis-guised dislike, from his caresses. It was now late in the month of August, and the weather was broken by troublous winds and a fretful taoon. For several weeks William Jones, in his mortal terror, had refrained from visiting the cave; he had never set his foot therein, indeed, since the night of the assassination. At last he could bear the suspense no longer. Suppose some one else had discovered this treasure, and robbed him? Suppose some subterranean change had obliterated the landmarks or submerged the cavern! Suppose a thousand dreadful things! Tired of miserable supposition, William determined, despite his terror, to make sure.

So late one windy and rainy night he stole forth with his unlit lantern and fought his way in the teeth of half a gale to the familiar place, which he found, however, with some little difficulty. He was neither superstitious nor imaginative, but throughout die journey he was a prey to nameless terrors. Every gust of wind went through his heart like a knife; every Bound of wind or sea made the same heart stop and listen. Only supreme greed and miserly anxiety led him on. But at last he gained the cave, within ’vhich there was a sound as of clashing legions, clarions shrieking, drums heating, all the storm and stress of the awful waters clashing on the cliffs without, and boiling with unusual Screams through the black slit between the cave and the Devil’s Caldron. ( Trembling, with perspiration standing in great beads on his face; he searched the cave for the corpse of the murdered man, expecting to find it well advanced in decomposition. Strange to say, however, it had disappeared. William Jones was at once relieved and alarmed —relieved because he was spared a horrible experience; alarmed because he could not account for the disappearance. A little reflection, however, suggested that one of those tidal waves so common on the coast might have risen well up into the cavern, washed away the body from its place on the shingle and carried it away in the direction of the Waldron. “In which case,” he reflected, “them coast guard chaps would find it some lay among the rocks or on the shore and think it had been drowned in the way of natur’.” Satisfied that everything else was undisturbed, he retired as hastily as possible, sealed up the entrance to the cavern and ran hastily home. The morning of the marriage came—a fine sunny morning. An open dogcart belonging to Monk, and driven by one of his servants, stood at William Jones’ door, and close to it a light country cart, borrowed by William Jones himself from a neighboring farmer. The population, consisting of an aged coast guardsman, two coast guardsmens’ wives and half a dozen dejected children, crowded in front of the cottage. The bridegroom, attired in decent black, with a flower in his buttonhole, stood waiting impatiently in the garden. Despite the festive occasion he had a gloomy and hang-dog appearance. Presently there emerged from the door William Jones, attired in a drowned seaman’s suit several sizes too large for him, and wearing a chim-ney-pot hat and a white rosette. Leaning on his arm was Matt, dressed in a dress of blue silk, newly made for her, out of damaged materials supplied by Jones, by one of the coast-guard women, a light straw hat with blue ribbons to mataa, and a light lace

shawl. Behind this pair hobbled William Jones’ father, whose v »ostume waa nautical, like his son’s, but more damaged, and who also sported a chimneypot hat and a white rosette. The crowd gave a feeble cheer. Matt looked around and smiled, but mingled with her smile there was a kind of vague anxiety and expectation. It was arranged that Monk should drive Matt in the dog-cart, while William Jones and his father followed in the commoner vehicle. At Pencroes, where the ceremony was to be performed, they were to meet with one Mr. Penarvon, a country squire and kindred spirit of Monk’s, who had promised to be “best man.” Monk took the reins, while Matt got in and seated herself beside him, the groom getting up behind, and away they went along the sand-choked road, followed by Jones and his father. The day was bright and merry, but Matt never thought of the old proverb: “Merry is the bride that the sun shines on;” she was too busy examining the prospect on every side. All at once, as the bridal procession wound round the edge of the lonely lake, she uttered a cry of delight. There, standing in its old place by the lakeside, was the caravan. Monk looked pale—there was something ghostly in the reappearance even of this inanimate object. He was a man of strong norve, however, and he speedily smiled at his own fears. As they approached the spot they saw Tim standing near the vehicle in conversation with two strange gentlemen—one a little man in black broadcloth, the other a tall, broad-shouldered fellow wearing a light overcoat and a wide-awake hat. Directly the procession approached, this group separated, and its three members walked severally to the road, he with the wide-awake hat standing in the center of the road quietly smoking a cigar. As the dog cart came up he held up his hand. Unable to proceed without running him down, Monk pulled up angrily. “What is it? Why do you block the road?” he cried, fiercely. “Excuse me, governor,” returned the other, coolly. “Mr. Monk, of Monkshurst, I believe?" “That’s my name.” “Sorry to trouble you on such a day, but I should like a few words with you.” “I cannot stay—l am going to be married!” “So I heard,” said the man, lifting his hat and bowing with a grin to Matt. “Glad to see you miss. How do you do? But the fact is, Mr. Monk, my business won’t keep. Be good enough to step this way.” Full of some unaccountable foreboding, inspired partly by the stranger’s suave yet determined manner, partly by the reappearance of the caravan, Monk alighted, and followed the other across the grass to the close vicinity of

MONK TOOK THE REINS.

the house on wheels. The little elderly man followed, and the man who had first spoken went through the ceremony of introduction. “This is Mr. Monk, sir. Mr. Monk, this gentleman is Mr. Lightwood, of the firm of Lightwood & Lightwood, solicitors, Chester.” * “And you—who the devil are you?” demanded Monk, with his old savagery. “My name is Marshall, Christian name, John, though my friends call me Jack,” answered the other, with airy impudence. “John Marshall, governor, of the detective force.” Monk now went pale indeed. But, recovering himself, he cried: “I know neither of you. I warned you that I was in haste. What do you want? Out with it!” The little man now took up the conversation, speaking in a prim businesslike voice, and occasionally referring to a large note-book which he carried. “Mr. Monk, you are, I am informed, the sole heir male of the late Col. Monk, your cousin by the father’s side, who was supposed to have died in the year 1862.” “Yes, that’s true. What then?” “On the report of his death, his name being included in an official list of officers killed and wounded in action, and it being understood that he died without lawful issue, you laid claim to the demesne of Monkshurst, in Chelshire and that of the same name in Anglesea. Your claim was recognized and in 1865 you took possession. ” “Well, have you detained me to hear only what I already knew?” “Pardon me, I have not finished. I have now to inform you that you inherited under a misconception—first, because Col. Monk was married and had issue; second, because he did not die in India, but reached the shores of England, where he perished in the shipwreck of the vessel ‘Trinidad’ on Christ, mas day, 1864.” Monk was livid. At this moment Jones, who bad been watching the scene from a distance, came over panting and perspiring in ill-concealed terror. “Lor’, Mr. Monk, what is the matter? Look ye now. we shall be late for the wedding.” As he spoke, Marshall, the detective, clapped him playfully on the shoulder. “How d’ye do, William Jones? I’ve often heard of yon, and wished to know

you. Pray atop where fau are. m talk to you presently.” “I don’t know what you mean,” Monk now said, with dogged desperation, “with all this rigmarole. Mr. Lightwood, or whatever your name is. It seems to me you are simply raving. If I am not my cousin’s heir, who is, tell me that?” “His daughter,” said the man,quietly. “He never married, and he never had a daughter.’ 5 “His daughter, an infant twelve or fourteen months old, sailed to England with him, was shipwrecked with him, but saved by a special Providence, and has since been living in this place under the name of Matt Jones.” “Your intended bride, you know,” added Marshall, with an insinuating smile. “Hullo, where is the young lady?” Monk looked round towards the dogcart and on every side, but Matt was nowhere to be seen. “I see her go into that theer cart,” said William Jones. “Call her!” cried Monk. “I’ll stay no longer here. Listen to me, you two. Whether you are telling the truth or lies, that girl is going to become my wife —I have her guardian’s consent, and she herself, I may tell you, fully appreciates the honor I am doing her." “Indeed!” said Mr. Lightwood, smil ing. “Unfortunately, I, as Miss Monk’s legal adviser, must have a say in the matter. Doubtless this marriage would be a very pretty arrangement for keeping the late Col. Monk’s fortune and property in your possession, but I cannot conscientiously approve of the young lady’s marriage to an assassin.” “An assassin?—what—what do you mean?” gasped Monk, staggering as <f from a blow. “Tell him, Mr. Marshall.” “All right, sir. Well, you sec, Mr. Monk, of Monkshurst,” continued ths detective, firmly, yet playfully, “you’re accused of making away with- -murdering, in sact — a young gentleman who came to Aberglyn a few weeks ago in that little house on wheels; and this nice friend of yours (here he again slapped William Jones on the shdulder) is accused of being your accomplice.” “No! nol I never done it! I’m inn<» cent, I am!” cried William Jones. “Tell ’em, Mr. Monk, tell ’em—l’d nowt to do with it!” “Silence, you fool!” said the other. Then he added, turning on his accusers: “You are a couple of madmen, I think! I know nothing of the young man you speak of. I have heard that he is missing, that is all; but there is no evidence that any harm has come to him, for his body has not been found." Here Marshall turned with a wink to William Jones and nudged him in the ribs. “Don’t you think, now,” he asked, “it might be worth while looking for it in that little underground parlor of yours, down alongside the sea?” William Jones uttered a despairing groan, and fell on his knees. “I’m ruined!” he cried. “O, Mr. Monk, it’s your doing! Lord help me! They knows everything.” “Curse you, hold your tongue," said Monk, with a look of mad contempt and hatred. “These men are only playing upon your fears, but they cannot frighten me.” “No,” remarked the detective, lighting his cigar, which had gone out. “I think we shall even manage that in time.” As he spoke he carelessly, and as if inadvertently, drew out a pair of steel handcuffs, which he looked at reflectively, threw up and caught underhand in the air. “You accuse me of assassination," said Monk, trembling violently. “I warn you to beware, for I will not suffer such accusations without seeking redress. If you have any proof of the truth of your preposterous charge, produce it.”

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Capt. Felix Hawkins, of the steamer Tell City, died at Evansville of pneumonia, after being ill ten days. The remains were sent to Louisville for in- : terment Martin Coren, living northeast of Warsaw was found dead in his cornfield. He had evidently committed suicide early in the day, as the body was quiet cold. No sign of a struggle was evident about the spot At Anderson, Elias Skinner, a wag-on-maker, suicided with morphine. He had been drinking heavily. The post office at Will vale has been discontinued. Considerable trouble has been caussd by the school trustees prohibiting country children from attending the Peru schools Miss Gertrude Morse, of Hanover, who created a sensation by suing Paul Scharff for breach of promise, has withdrawn her suit At Kokomo, the (10,000 damage suit brought by the parents of Oscar Walton, who was murdered by Mrs. Augusta Schmidt has been compromised for (600. At Logansport Mahlon Roderick, the ex-school teacher, was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. His mother and broth., both gave direct evidence against hin> There is a ranch near Crown Point with a capacity of hatching 1,000 chickens per day. At Valparaiso a saloon will occupy the vacated Salvation Army hall While Mrs. Frances Thomas was milking at the home of her parents, John and Mrs. Pearce, near Greentown, her brother, Marion Pearce, made an attempt to murder her, firing two shots that passed through her hair, making scalp wounds. The reported case of small-pox in Ft. Wayne was subsequently diagnosed as chicken-pox, and the small-pox scare has been abated. At Huntington a “Jack the Peeper” ■was shot and wounded by a woman. Mrs. Edward Wharton sat at her winwindow and watched the peeper gazing into the windows of the residences of A. W. Rader and William Grim, next to her own home. She got her revolver, and when the man came around to a convenient point Mrs. Wharton fired twice. The man screamed and hobbled away. He was tracked a square by bloody tracks, showing that he was wounded. The populists of Madison county, headed by Leroy Templeton, candidate for governor in ’92, are at the head of a movement to have all delegates go overland ia buggies and wagons to tho state convention, which will be held in Indianapolis about May 22. The move* ment has been kept quiet Letters ; have been sent out to all of the county ■ central committees, asking them to in* ■ terest their delegates in the scheme. I They propose to start three or four i days ahead of time, and allow time tc ' stop and make speeches as they ' gradually draw near to Indianapolis. ' They will form into platoons. Many J of the counties have been heard from, ■ and every one is in favor of the scheme. It is safe to predict that Leroy Templeton will again be nominated for governor. Small boys, who jump on and off trains at Bloomington, are arrested. i Logansport has a “Jack the Push--1 er,” who slips up behind women at night and pushes them to the ground. I A pickle factory has been established at Kewanna.

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