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A STONE-CUTTER’S STORY,

l abouts, and there was nothing fora lad ‘todo but ship, the Pearl was just a ‘little washed-out lily a fretting until he

He was whistling over his work care-!came home again. And it was so when-

lessly, from long custom, of the solemn

significance of the letters he was cutting | from the first time he nestled her baby | }

in the white marble. The June sun

was nearly at the end of the day’s jour- ney, sinking slowly to rest upon the

‘ever he went, for they were sweethearts

‘face on her breast, when he picked her up from the wreck. She was sixteen when they were married, as near as we

bosom of the broad Atlantic, whose|could guess; and Hiram was a man of

waves washed the shores of the little

seaport town of Monkton. Astranger,

handsomly dressed in gay, with large, lustrous brown eyes, came to the fence that was around the yard where the stone-cutter worked, and read the letter- ing, almost completed, upon the tomb-tdo,

stone :—

COPE OOOOH OEE EHO Ee

H!RAM GOLDBY, AGED 35.

: LOST AT SEA, JAN. 1866. :

The last six was nearly completed. A strange pallor gathered for a mo- ment upon the strangers face, and then he drew a long, deep breath, and said—

‘Is not ten years a long time to be cutting letters on a tomb-stone,friend ?’

‘ Eh, sir?’

The stone-cutter looked, shaded his eyes with his brown hand, as he turn. ed his face to the setting sun.

‘This is 1876, was the grave reply, ‘And Hiram Goldby must have been ten years under the waves.’

‘Well, sir, that’s the question—is he there ?’

‘Is he there? Your stone tells us he is and has been for ten years.’

‘ Yes, sir, so it does—so it does, And yet she has ordered it. She came over a week or so back, with a worried look upon her sweet face that I have never seen but patient in ten long years, and she said to me—‘ You may cut a stone, Davy,’ she says. ‘and put it up in the churchyard, and I don’t want to see it. I’ll pay you whatever you chose to ask, Davy, she says, ‘but he’s not dead and don’t want a tombstone.’ ‘ Lor. mam,’ says 1, ‘ he’d a turned up all these years if he was not dead.’ But she shook her Spretty head, the prettiest I ever seen ir, and said she—‘My heart never told me he was dead, Davy, and I’ll never believe it till my heart tells me so.’ ’

‘His sweatheart?’ qustioned the stranger.

‘His wife—his loving, faithful wife that had poverty, and loneliness, and misery, her full share, and might ha’ bettered herself,

‘Mr. Miles, sir, the richest ship owner hereabouts, he waited patiently for seven long years, trying to win her. Then he said that she was free even if Hiram came back.’

‘Enoch Arden,’ muttered the stran- ger.

‘What did you say, sir?’

‘Nothing, nothing. What answer did the widow make Mr. Miles ?’

“ ‘If Hiram’s dead,’ suid she, ‘I’m his faithful widow while [I live. If Hiram’s living, I’m his faithful wife.’ Maybe you're from the city, sir, and have not heard the story of our Pear! ?”

‘What story is that ?’

“Well, sir, it’s been told many times, more particularly in the last year, but you're welcome to what I know of it. There, that 6 is done, and I’ll leave the Scripture text till morning. If you'll come to the gateway and take a seat on some of the stones, I'll tell you, that is if you care to hear it.’

‘Maybe you’re some kin to the Pearl of Monkton—that’s the way they call Mrs. Goldby hereabouts. It’s a matter of thirty-six years back, sir, that there was & wreck off Monkton rocks, that you can see from here, sir, now the tide’s low. Cruel rocks they are, and many a wreck they’ve seen, more’s the pity. You see them, sir ?’

‘I see them.’

‘Weill, sir, in this one wreck, thirty- three years ago, there was nothing washed ashore but a bit of a girl-baby three or four years old, with a skin like a lily-leaf, and great black eyes. Hiram Goldby found her on the rocks. He was a boy of twelve years, strong and tall, and he carried the child in his

arms to his mother. You may see the cottage, sir,—the second white one on the side of the hill.’

‘I see it.’

‘Well, Hiram took the baby there, and Mrs. Goldby was the same as a mother to her—a good woman, God bless her soul !—the widow Goldby.’

‘Is she dead, then ?’

‘Aye, sir, six years agone. The baby I was telling you of, sir, talked a foreign lingo, and was dressed beauti- ful in rich clothes that must have cost a power of money. But never would tiiram or the widow sell them, putting them up carefully in case the child was ever looked for. She was that pretty, sir, and that dainty, that everybody called her Pearl, though she was not like our girls, but afraid, always dead- ly afraid of the sea. Ihave seen her clinch her mite of a hand and strike at it, for she had a bit of a temper in her, though nothing to harm.’

‘When Hiram made his first voyage, for they were all seafaring men _here-

twenty-four. She prayed him to stay at home, and he stayed home then, and he stayed for a year, buthe fretted for the sea, and he went again, think- ing, I suppose, that his wife would get used to it, as all wives hereabouts must But she never did—never. It was just pitiable to see her go about, white asa corpse, when Hiram went away, never looking at the sea without a shudder like a death chill. All through the war it was just awfal, for Hiram en- listed on board a man-o’-war, and Pear! was just a shadow when he came home the Jast time.’

‘After the war?’

| ‘Yes, sir; but he made no money of any account, and he went again, after staying home a long spell. Well, he never came back. "“Twan’t no matter of use a telling Pearl he was lost; she'd just shake her pretty head and say— ‘He’ll come back. Not a mite of mourning would she wear, even after his own mother gave him up and put on black; for, sir, it stands to reason he’s dead years ago.’

‘It looks so,’

‘Of course it does; nobody else doubts it but Mrs. Goldby. Old Mrs. Goldby’s last words were—‘I am going to meet Hiram,’ and they say the dying know. But even that didn’t make Pearl think so. She wore mourning for her who had been the only mother she knowed of, but not weeds. Weeds was for widows, she said, and she wasn’t a widow.’

‘But the stone ?’

‘Well, sir, I’m coming to that. A year ago, sir, a fine gentleman from France came here hunting for a child loston this coast. He’d heard of Pearl by happen-chances, if there is such, and came here. When he saw the clothes, he just fainted like a woman. ‘She was related then ?’

The stranger’s voice was husky, but the sea air was growing cbill.

‘Her father, sir ?’

‘He took her away.’

‘He tried to. He told ber of a splen- did home he had in New York, for he’d followed his wife and child, sir, to the city they had never reached. He was rich and lonely. He begged his child to go, but she would not. ‘ Hiram will come here for me,’ she said, ‘and he must find me where he left me.’’

‘On what has she lived ?

‘Sewing, sir, mostly. The cottage was old Mrs. Goldby’s, «nd bless you, Pearl did not eat much more than a bird, there is no denying she was very poor—very, and yet the grand home and big fortune never tempted her. So her fatner died sir, and leit our Pearl all his fortune and the grand house in New York. But she'll not go, sir; she’ll die here waiting for Iliram, who'll never eome.’

The stranger lifted his face, that had been half hidden in his hands, and said— ‘There was a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean, Davy, years and years ago, and one man only was saved—saved Davy, by savages, who made him a slave, the worst of slaves! But one day the sailor saved the life of the chieft’s daughter, who was in the foils ofa huge snake, and the chief released him. More than that he gave him choice spices and woods, und sent him on board the first passing ship. So the sailor landed in a great city, sold his presents and put the gold iv safe keep- ing. Then he travelled until he reached the seaport town in which he was born, and coming there at sunset heard the story of his life from the lips of a man cutting his tombstone,’

Not a word spoke Davy. Standing erect, he seized an immense sledge-ham- mer, and with powerful blows from strong uplifted arms, dashed the marbie into fragments. Then, panting with exertion, he held out his brawny hand to the stran- ger—a stranger no longer.

‘I’ve done no better work in my life, than L've done in the last five minutes, Hiram. Go home, man, and make Pearl's heart glad. She needs it. You asked me about the stone. The neighbors drove her to ordering it, twitting her that now she was rich she grudged the stone to her husband’s memory: So she told me ito eut it, but says, ‘Don’t put dead upon ‘it, Davy—put lost at sea; tor Hiram's lost, but he’ll be found and come back to me.’ She never looked at it, Hiram, never. And there’s not an hour, nor hasn’t been for ten years, that she hasn’t been looking for you to come back. Go to her, man, and the Lord’s blessing be upon both of you.

So, grasping the hard, brown hand, Hiram Goldby took the path to the little white cottage in which be had been born forty-five years before. The sun had set and the darkness was gathering, but a little gleam of light streamed from the (window of the cottage. He drew softly

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up, and standing on the seat ot the porch, !

looked over the half cuttain into the neat sitting room.

rh was ae the grand house, Pearl's heritage in New York, but Pearl herself was there. A slender woman, with a yale, sweet face, and black hair smoothly banded and gathered ioto rich braids at the back of her shapely head. ler dress was a plain dark one, with white ruffles, cuffs and apron.

She had been sewing, but her work was put aside, and preseutly she came to the open window and drew aside the cur- tain. She did not see the tall figure drawn closely against the wall in the nar- row porch, but her dark eyes looked mournfully toward the sea, glimmering in the half light. ,

‘My darling!’ she whispered, ‘are you dead, and has your spirit come to take mine where we shall part no more ¢

Only the wash of the waves below an- swered her. Sighing softly she said :— ‘Is my darling coming? I feel him so near to me, I could almost grasp him.

She stretched out her arms over the low window sill, and a low voice answered her, ‘Pearl! Pearl !’

The arms that had so long grasped only empty air, were filled then, as Hiram stood under the low window.

‘Donot move, love,’ she whispered, pressing her soft lips to his; ‘ I always wake when you move.’

‘ But now,’ he said, ‘ you are already awake. It is myself, your fond true husband, little one, who will never leave you again.’

‘{t is true! You have come!’ she cried at last, bursting into happy tears, ‘I knew you were not dead. You could not be dead, and my heart not to tell me.’ It was‘ long before they could think of anything but the happiosess of reunion after the many years of separation, but at last drawing Pearl closer Hiram whisper- ed :—‘ I walked from J—, love, and em enormously hungry.’

And Pearl’s merry laugh chased the last shadows from her happy face, and she bustled about the room preparing supper.

‘Supper for two !’ she cried gleefully The grand house in New York is tenant- ed by its owners. Hiram goes to seano more. But in the summer two happy people, come for a quiet month to the little white cottage at Monkton, and have always to listen to Davy’s tale of theeven- ing when he was cutting Hiram Goldby’s tombstone, and ended by smashing it into atoms.

‘For,’ in the invariable ending of the tale, ‘Pearl was right, and we wore wrong all of us; for Hiram Goldby was lost at sea, sure enough. But he was not dead, and he came to her faithful as she had al- ways said he would.’

FREEHOLD FARM

FOR SALE.

O BE SOLD, by private contract, that

valuable FARM of 50 acres of excellent Land, situate at Graham’s Road, Township No. 20, now in possession of Atneas Brenan. This well-known Farm is eligibly situated in the immediate cicinity of Churches, Schools and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation. For terms and particulars apply at the office of Longworth & Shaw, Solicitors, Ch’town.

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Prinse Edward Island. IN CHANCERY.

SILAS BARNARD, Executor of the last Will and Testament of James Coles, deceased, Complainant.

—AND—

THOMAS REILLY, CATHERINE REILLY and MARY G. REILLY, by her

Guardian, Hannah Reilly, Defendants.

In pursuance of a decree made in this suit by His Honor the Vice Chancellor, bearing date the nineteenth day of November, instant, A. D. 1878, there will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of February next,, A. D. 1879, at twelve o’clock, noon, at the Supreme Court House in Charlotte- town, in Queen’s County—

LL that Tract, Piece or Parcel of Land being part of Town Lot Number Eighty- ninein the third hundred of Town Lots in Charlottetown, commencing at the northeast angle of said Town Lot, on the southeast edge of Kent Street; thence, following the course of the same, westwardly for the distance of eighty-six feet and eight inches ; thence, by a right-angle line with said Kent Street, south- eastwardly for the distance of forty-eight feet and six inches; thence, by a line parallel with said Kent Street, eastwardly for the distance of thirty feet ; thence, by a right angle there- with, northwestwardly for the distance of six feet ; thence by a line running northeast- | wardly to the southwest angle of the dwelling house ; thence, by a line at right angles with the course of Prince Street, eastwardly thirty one feet to the westward edge of said Prince Street ; thence, following the course of the same, northwestwardly thirty-one feet to the poe of commencement ; together with the uildings and improvements thereon and the edpurtenances thereunto belonging. . ated this Twentieth day of November, A. BD. 1878. T. HEATH HAVILAND, Master n Chancery. Neit McLeop, Solicitor for Complainant. nov 22 law ts

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» > 7 'TEVHE undersigned Executors of i of Ralph Brecken Peake, late . ae lottetown, in the Province of Prince ae Island, merchant, deceased, hereby notify a — he said Estate to make persons indebted to the said iste oy mes minedsate payment to them ; — as . . . ha as ‘state having any claims against the said ee hereby required to render the same to undersigned, duly attested, within one year from date. Dated this twenty-first day A. D., 1879.

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