WEEKLY - NORWALK - GAZETTE. 3m. A MARRIAGE AT SEA. w. CLARK RUSSELL. CHAPTER 11.. By the aid of three or four lamp posts we had‘pussed I had managed very early to get a View of my sw-eet heart. and found thats to had v. armly 1obed her- self in a fur t1imm ed jacket. and that her hat was a sort of turban, as though chosen from her ward-robe with a. view to her passage through the hole in the hedge. ces, forever praising her; for, now the first desperate step had been taken, now that the wild risks of escape were ended, the spirit that supported her failed; she could scarcely answer me; at moments she would direct looks over her shoulder; the mere figure of a tree would cause her to tighten her hold on my arm. “I is. 1 so wicked! \Vhat will Mam’selle think? girls will talk in the morning !" As we passed through the gate in the rampart walls and entered the Haute Ville. my Captain broke the silence he had kept since we had quitted the lane; How little do the folks who is sleeping in them houses know, Mr. Barclay, of what is passsng under their noses! There aint no sort of innocence like sleep. lie said this and yawned with a noise that resembled a shout. This is Captain Caudel Grace, said I. the master of the Spitfire. His services to night I shall never forget, _ 18.111 to frightened to thank you Cap- tain Caudel, she exclaimed. I will thank you when I am calm. But shall I be calm? And ought I to thank you then? Have no fear Miss. This here oneasi- ness ’11 soon pass. I know the yarn ; his honor spun it to me. What’s been done, and what’s yet to do, is right and proper; if it woru’t-—his pause was more sig- nificant than had he proceeded, I do not breathe freely until the har- bor lay before us. Caudel said, as we crossed to where the flight of steps fell to the waters edge,— ”I believe there is a little air of wind moving.” “I feel it,” quarter?” “Seems to me offihe land,” said he. “There is a man 3" cried Grace, afrest- lug me by a drug at my arm. A figure stood at the. head of the steps. and I believed it 011- A. of 1 our 11 ~11, until a few strides brought us near enough to witness the gleam 01' uniform showing by the pale light of a lamp at a short distance from him. “ A douanier." said I. afraid of. my pet.” “But if he should stop us, Herbert?" cried she. halting. “Sooner than that should happen,” rumbled Claudel, “I’d chuck him over- board. But why should he stop us, Miss? We ain’t smugglers.” “ I would rather throw myself into the water than be taken back." exclaimed my sweetheart. Igently induced her to walk. whilst my captain, advancing to the edge of the edge of the quay and looking down, sang 011t— “ Below there ! Are ye awake? “Ay, wide awake, ” was the answer, floating up in hearty accents from the cold dark surface on which the boat lay, The dommier drew back a few steps; it was impossible to see his face, but his steadfast suspicious regard was to be imagined. Ihave no doubt he under- stood exactly what was happening. He asked us the name of our vessel. I an- swered, in French. “The small yacht Spitfire, lying astern of the Falkestone steamer.” Nothing more passed, and we descended the steps. I felt Grace shiver as I handed her into the boat. The cars dipped, striking a dim cloud of phosphor into the eddies they made; and a few strokes of the blade carried us to the low side of the little Spitfire. I led Grace to the little companion hatch, and together we entered the cabin. It was but a little box of a place, as you will suppose of a dandy craft of twenty-six tons; but I had not spared my purse in decorating it, and I believe no prettier interior of the kind in a. ves- sel of the size of the Spitfire was in those times afloat. There were two sleeping- rooms, one forward and one aft. The after cabin was little better than a hole, and thisI occupied. The berthforward, on the other hand, was as roomy, as the dimensions of the little ship would al- low, and I had taken care that it lacked nothing to render it a pleasant—I may say an elegant—sea bedroom. It was to be Grace’s until I got her ashore; and this I counted upon managing in about four days from the date of this night about which I am writing. She stood at the table, looking about her, breathing fast, her eyes large with alarm, excitement, I know not what other sensations and emotion I wish I knew ho v to praise her, how to describe her. “Sweetl’ is the best word to ex- ..ress her girlish beauty. Though she as three months short of eighteen ears of age, she might readily have .assed for twenty-one, so womanly was nor figure. as though indeed she was Topic-bred and had been reared under :uns which quickly ripen a maiden’s neauty. “At last, Grace!” I exclaimed, lifting .er hand to my lips, “ How is it with on now, my pet? ” She seated herself and hid her face in er hands upon the table, saying, “I on’t know how I feel, Herbert. I know ow I ought to feel. ” “Waita little. You will regain your outage. You will find nothing wrong . all this presently. It was bound to appeu. There was not the least occa- ion for this business of rope ladders 11d midnight sailings. It is Lady melia who forces this elopement upon how late it is! How the I answered. “What’s its “ Nothing to be H “What will she say?” she breathed .rough her fingers, still keeping her ce hidden to conceal the crimson that d flushed her. on a sudden and that as showing to the rim of her collar. “Do you care? ,Do I care? We have reed her hand; and what can she do? ut the old lady will have to give her nsent now, and the rest will be formy usin Frank to manage. Pray look .11; e, my sweet one." “I can’t. I am ashamed. It is a. most sperato act. What will Ma’m’sello y?——aw your sailors!" she murmured . m behind her hands. “My sailors! Grace, shall Itake you ck whilst there is yet time?” he flashed a look at me over her finger I S. ‘Certainly not!" she exclaimed, with .phasis, then hid her face again. seated myself by her side, but it took -fivo minutes to get her to look at me, 11 another five minutes to coax a smile m her. In this while the men were sy about the decks. I heard Caddel's lers in a half-stifled hurricane note. 1 obPi-in'ting neatly done“ this ofllcc I spoke to her in hasty sentenr .wling lungs of leather delivering, 1 but I did not know that we were undei way untilI put my head thiough the companion-hatch and saw the dusky fabrics of the piers on either side steal- ing almo’st insensibly past us. “What is the weather to be, Caudel?" .I called to him. “We’re going to get a. breeze from the south'ard, sir." he answered; “nothiu’ to harm, I dessay, if it don’t draw west- erly.” “ What is your plan of sailing? ” “Can’t do better. I think, sir, than stand over for the English ceast, and so run down, keeping the ports conveniently aboard.” I re-entered the cabin, and found my sweetheart with her elbows on the table and her cheeks resting in her hands. The blush had scarcely faded from her face when I had quitted her; now she was as white as a. lilly. “Why do you leave me alone, Her- bert?” she asked, turning her dark, liquid eyes upon me without shifting the posture of her head. ”Mv dearest. I wish to see our little ship clear of Boulogne ha1bo1. We shall be getting a pleasant breeze p1esently, and it cannot blow too‘ .19 .rd to please us. A brisk fail wind should land us at our destination in three days; and then,— and then " said I, sitting down and bringing her to me. She laid her check on my should 3r, but said nothing, “ Now.” I exclaimed, “you are, of course, faint and wretched for the want of refreshment. What can I get you?" and I.was about to give her a list of the wines and eatables I had laid in, but she languidly shook her head as it rested on my shoulder and faintly bade me not to speak of refreshments. “ I should like to he down," she said. “You are tired, —worn out," I ex- claimed. not yet seeing how it was with her. “Yonder is your cabin; I believe you will find all you want in it. Unhap- pily, we have no maid aboard to help you. But you will be able to manage, Grace; it is but for a day or two; and if you are not perfectly happy and com- forts-hie, why, we will 111.1.ke for t e nearest English port and finish the rest of the. journey by rail. But our little yacht ’ “I must lie down," she interrupted. “ This dreadful motion! Get me a pillow and a rugt‘ I will lie on this sofa." I < ouldhave heapedahundredinjurious 11 aznes upon my head for not at once observing that the darling was suffering. I sprang from her side, hastily procured a pillow and rug, removed her hat, plunge-i afresh into her cabin for some can de Cologne, and went to work to bathe her brow and to minister to her in other ways. She fell asleep at last, breathing quietly, and I cannot tell how it com- forted me to find her able to sleep, for 110:: Imi ht ’ ope it would not take many hous of rest to qualify her as a sailor. In .11 t. ‘1i.3 ti no that I had been below re- fresh; 11;: her brow and attending to her, and watching he1 as a picture of which my sight could never grow weary, the breeze had freshened, and the yacht was heeling to it, and taking the wrinkled sides of the swell—that grew heavier as we widened the oiling—with the shearing hissing sweep that one notices in a steam launch. And now I must tell you here that my little dandy yacht the Spitfire was so brave, stanch. and stout a craft that, though Iam no lover of the sea in its angry moods, and especially have no relish for such experiences as one is said to encounter. for instance, off Cape Horn, yet, such was my confidence in her sea- worthiness, I should have been quite willing to sail round the world in her had the necessity for so tedious an adven- ture arisen. She had a fine bold spring or rise of deck forward, with abundance of beam which warranted her for sta- bility; but her submerged lines were extraordinary fine, and I cannot recollect the name of apleasure-craft at that time which I should not have been willing to challenge whether for a fifty or a thous- and-mile race. I stood, cigar in mouth, looking up at her canvas and round 'upon the dark scene of ocean, whilst, the lid of the sky- light being a little way open, I was almost within arm’s reach of my darling, whose lightest call would reach my ear or least movement take my eye. I felt sleepless—never so broad awake, despite this business now in hand that had robbed me for days past of hour after hour of slumber, so that I may safely say I had scarcely enjoyed six hours of solid sleep in so many days. The hiss of the froth at the yacht’s fore- foot threw a shrewd bleakness into the light pouring of the off-shore wind, and I buttoned up my coat as I turned to Caudel, though excitement worked much too hotly in my soul to suffer me to feel conscious of the cold. “This breeze will do, Caudel, if it holds,” said I, approaching him by a stride or two, that my voice should not disturb Grace. “ Ay, sir, it is as pretty 3. little air as could be asked for." “ What light is that away out yonder.” “ The Varne, your honor." “ And where are you carrying the little ship to ?” said I,looking at the illuminated disk of compass-card that swung in the short brass binnacle under his nose. “ Ye see the course, Mr. Barclay,— west by nothe. That’ll fetch Beachy Head for us; afterwards a small shift of the hellum’ll put the Channel under our bows, keeping the British ports as we go along handy, so that if your honor don’t like the bayrometer, there’s always a harbor within a easy sail." I was quite willing that Caudel should heave the English land into sight. He had been bred in coasters, and knew his way about by the mere smell of the shore, as the sailors say; whereas put him in the middle of the ocean with nothing but his sextant to depend upon, and I do not know that 'I should have felt very sure of him. . He coughed, and seemed to mumble to himself as he ground upon the piece of tobacco in his check, then said, “ And how’s the young lady a-doing. sir?" “The motion of the vessel rendered her someWhat uneasy. but she is now sleeping.” “Sorry to hear she don’t feel well, sir,” he exclaimed; “ but this here see- sickness, I’m told soon passes.” “ Iwaut her to be well,” said I. “I wish her to enjoy the run down—Channel. We must not go ashore if we can help it; or one special object I have in my mind will be defeated. ” “ Shall keep the yacht well out, then sir?" No need to draw in, if so be " “ No, no; sight the coast, Caudel, and give us a. view of the scenery. And now, whilst I have the chance, let me thank you heartily for the service you have done me to-night. I should have been helpless without you; what other man of my crew—what other man of any sort, indeed—could I have depended upon?" ‘.‘Oh, dcrn’t mention it Mr. Barclay, sir; I beg and entrant that you worn’t ‘ mention it, sir," he replied. as though aflected by my'condescension. “ You're a gentleman. sir, bogging your pardon, Advertise in the Gun“. . 'to sunrise before Grace awoke. and that means a man of honor; and when you told me how things stood. why putting all dooty on one side, if so he as therecan be such athing as dooty in jobs which aren’t shipshape and proper, why, I says, of course I was willing to be of use. Not that I myself havemuch confi- dence in these here ‘ elopements,’ saving your presence. I’ve got a grown-up darter myself in service, and if when she gets married she dorn’t make a straight course for the meeting-house. why, then I shall have to talk to her as she’s never yet been talked to. But in this job;"—he swung off from the tiller to expectorate over the rail,—“what the young lady's been gone and done is what I should say to my darter or any other young woman, the sarcumstances being the same, ‘ Go thou and dew likewise.’ ” “ You see, Caudel, there was no hope of getting her ladyship’s consent.” “ No, sir.” “ Then consider the cruelty of sending the young lady to a foreign school f01 no fai1ei or kinder reason than to remove her out of my way. “ I ouderstaud, sir; and I’m of opinion it was quite time the little game was stopped.” It pleased me to be thus candid with this sailor. Possibly there was in me a. little disturbing sense of the need of justifying myself, though I believe the most accidental moralist could not have glanced through the skylight without feeling that I heartily deserved forgive- ness. It was daylight shortly before six, but the gray of the dawn had brightened in- The wind had freshened, and the yacht was lying well down to it, swarming along, taking buoyantly the little sea that had risen, and filling the breeze that was musical with the harmonics of the taut rigging with the swift noise of seething water. As the misty pink flash of the upper limb of the rising sun struck the sky- light and made a very prism of the little cabin, with its mirrors and silver lamp and glass and brass ornamentation, Grace opened het eyes. She opened them straight upon me, and whilst I might have counted ten she continued to stare as though she were in a trance; then the blood flooded her pale cheeks, her eyes grew brilliant with astonish- ment, and she sat erect bringing her hands to her temples as though she struggled to re-collect her wits. “ Why Grace, my darling,” I cried, “ do you not know where you are?" “ Yes, now I do.” she answered; “ but Ithought Ihad gone mad when I first awoke and looked around me.” “ You have slept soundly; but then you are but a child,” said I. “ Whereabouts are we, Herbert?" “ I cannot tell for sure,” I answered, “out of sight of land. anyhow. But where you are. Grace, you ought to know." A few caresses. and then her timid glances began to show like the old looks in her.‘ I asked if the movement of the yacht rendered her uneasy, and after a pause, during which she considered with a grave face, she answered, no; she felt better, she must try to stand; and so saying, she stood up on the sway- ing deck, and, smiling with her fine eyes fastened upon my face, poised her figure in a floating way full of a grace far above dancing, to my fancy. Her gaze went to a mirror, and I easily interpreted her thoughts, though for my part I found her beauty improved by her roughened hair. “ There is your cabin," said I. door is behind those curtains. Take a peep and tell me if it pleases you." ' There were flowers in it to sweeten the atmosphere, and every imaginable con- venience that it was possible for a male imagination to hit upon in its efforts in a direction of this sort. She praised the little berth and closed the door with a smile at me that made me conjecture I should not hear much more from her about our imprudence, the impropriety of our conduct, what Ma’m’selle would think, and what the school-girls would say. Though she was but a child, as I would tell her, I too was but a boy. for the matter of that, and her smile and the look she had given me, and her praises of the little berth I had fitted up for her, made me feel so boyishly joyous that, like a boy as I was, though above six feet tall, I fell a-whistling out of my high spirits, and then kissed the feather in her hat, and her gloves, which lay up- on the table, afterwards springing in a couple of bounds on deck, where I stood roaring out for Bobby Allett. He was a youth of about fifteen who had been shipped by Caudel to serve as steward or cabin-boy and to make him- self generally useful besides. As he ap- proached I eyed him with some misgiv- . ing, though I had nothing to object to in him before; but the presence of my sweetheart in the cabin had, I suppose, tempered my taste to a quality ol.‘ lover- like fastidiousness, and this boy Bobby to my mind looked dirty. “ Do you mean to wait upon me in those clothes?” said I. “ They're the best I have. master,” he answered, staring at me with a pair of round eyes out of a dingy skin that was certainly not clarified by the num- ber of freckles and pimples which deco- rated him. “You can look smarter than that if you like,” said I to him. “ I want break- fast right off. But tell Cargtain Caudel also that before you lav a.t you must clean yourself, polish your face, brush your hair and shoes. and if you haven’t got a clean shirt you must borrow one.” The boy went forward. “Pity,” said I, thinking aloud rather than talking as I stopped to the biunacle to mark the yacht's course, " that Cau- del should have shipped such a dingy- skinned chap as that fellow for cabin use.’ “ It's all along of his own doing, the man at the helm. “How? you mean he won’t wash him- self?” “ No, sir: it’s all along of smoking.” “ Smoking?" I exclaimed. “ Yes, sir. I know his father; he’s a waterman. His father told me that that there boy Bobby saved up, and then laid out all he’d get upon a meersham pipe for to color it. He kep’ allbn a-smoking, day arter day and night arter night. But his father says to me it was no go, sir; ’stead of his coloring the pipe, the pipe colored him, and his welns have run said . nothin’ but tobacco-juice ever since.” I burst into a. laugh, and went to the rail' to look around. We might have been in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, so boundless did the spread of waters look; not a blob or film of coast on any band of us broke the flawless sweep of the green Channel sea. There was a. steady breeze of! the port beam, and the yacht, with every cloth which she car- ried on her. Was driving through it II though she was in tow of c steamboat. [ To be continued. ] ‘ The great Canadian Pacific strike has been settled. The men have been re- instated, and the question of wages will be left to a committee of the Loco'nio- ‘ tivo Brotherhood “ The. omcer .4. H. Braley of the Fall River Police Is highly gratified with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. He was badly run down. had no appetite. what he did eat caused distress and he felt tired all the time. 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