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mere toot ike be bar of boullais boul leis dels and shingle before it again to bodies clies the mainland maln lind lu in calm calin weather eather joe kenny might see his unimposing ricks re from ridge so 10 butt with arith gleams ot of ochre achre awl anil timber amber arid ana gold Is in botti botta salt malt and fresh water but in ili stormy tims which camo came oftener it might befall him to lo witness a less lebs pleasing pec of oc hay wisps and s I 1 raw stacks edrew 11 floating at ard d on ill tha wasteful waves so lia be was mt surprised to ind that this had happened when ho he w out one De december comber morning alter after it a wild night chose bluste had rabi sed with bia dreams dreame De desoito its ita closso celoso meshed roping and thick fringe of 0 dangling store stone wel rats the more exposed haystack hay slACk tack had bli been tt recited and och bad cess to the aiu and its bald joe av a le surveyed tile the distorted outlines and made a rueful estimate of 0 tile llie damage damace it if I 1 got tile the cliance chance to silt alit its bartely bellows for it atwould be apt to keep keel its huffin and puffin quiet for one while it would w a 1 this was not however the limit of his losses presently he stood blood looking over the door ot of a halt rooted roofed shed thich contained a good deal of 0 sea water and weed eed also a very small him by a asensi sens that it would enhance tile the value of 0 the clift bl lie ile would be making over to rose hose all the vague and wonderful possibilities ot of tile the treasure trove which in ill his imagination were splendid than any better do fined object as they loomed through gli a haze if at unseen gold and jewels disappointment le 1 1 t had scanty room among his forecasts c lia s i a sure id a right to give el it t to her just tho the way it Is ald any anything thin at nil all inside it for amilt I 1 alln her to take inela in EL a manner like ike that whether h or rood good bad or cornea comes uc it ony its scarce m apt worse luck to be any great things as the full of a krand grand lookin box ill 19 but she might understand as much linuell as to say id be vish wishful fut bho had every chance of 0 the best that I 1 could git for or her tile cr athur it if it was all the gold and silver an and diamonds that ever wore were under the say gayther and ud never liever think to be lo oklis to reckon them no more than it if they were so many y handfuls hand of 0 pebbles oft off of 0 the strand thus reflected joe who nid hid a vein ot of sentiment nt which some outran autran its ills powers of expression arid and thereupon leaving the box atop of tile the wall he went to look after the pigs lie he found them all surviving though the storm isad had caused some dl di in their abode which obliged idin bilm to do a little rough carpentry and deft him hani mering and thumping tor for several minutes A and till when the he returned to the place where lie ho had left the box the box was vias gone lie ho ee co arched wildly for it among the litter on both sides of the wall and noi there could it be seen yet tet at that hour ahat man or mortal was there abroad to have stirred it then ho he thought that the weeds looked wetter than they had been and he said to himself that one of them waves must ha liz up and swep swell it off in it hurry flurry while his back was turned and a alne cn omeral gorri fr eral hed been to go 90 lave it if addin ratch of such a thing happe liln it so as no more moie balls factory explanation was forthcoming he turned homeward empty banded and crestfallen but before he had taken 1 1 ii ani I 1 I j 1 I 1 m IN afi 01 1 ps i 4 I 1 I 1 1 I gat 1 I 1 T 1 I 1 I 1 i ai 1 il ml I 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 11 P I 1 m jill MI ft R 11 4 I 1 ia A i ill jj v 1 ai 1 11 1 11 IT I 1 jj it 11 J jil ill I 1 4 i ill 0 1 I I 1 5 I 1 I jil 11 I 1 11 A 1 1 I I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 xan fava 1 1 I 1 4 j I 1 1 1 11 1 1 11 epli I 1 1 I lj 1 I 1 ill I 1 I 1 I 0 I i il i O Y X I 1 dl I 1 1 A da 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rable ble crisis in his courtship the tailing falling through of his plan I 1 mado him teel feel dejectedly out 0 if humor in which urt enjoyable mood lie I 1 strolled rolled at on towards the tye traces of 0 the spent storm lay all around him I 1 the tide had bad receded some way but I 1 the waves wore fatt fast by still hissing hissin gt and Le ething and flinging themselves vesI down with holl hollow ovir booms beams and thuds they had bad evidently been boating beating high I 1 against ns alost the yard wall for or all along alona iti it they had left great mosses masses of brown I 1 sea wrack tossed in bales and clumps as if 1 loaded out of a cart and these theme were connected by trails of 0 green and i black wood weed skeleton branches shells clotted roth froth driftwood and other debris all in an indescribable tangle As JOB through it lie he struck hit his toot loot sharply against something hard and nearly tripped up when lie he recovered his balance ho he SAW that the obstruction was not dot th the boulder which he had already execrated in huste it wait wai a wooden box lit in much exalt ment joe picked it up and net bet IV if on tho the top of 0 the wall for exacter scrutiny the tha tides were constantly sweeping in with na lingua ori art I 1 the dennys demesne but tic seldom idam did they bring anything thit that might not be y justly I 1 ely termed quare 1 during ring all the course ot of joes ahre and ho was not in his first youth no wait waif had ili d been washed up so promising in ra as this box x about test ten inches square it was and made mad of a ane ahne trained grained dark wood which to have been very highly polished the corners cornera were clamped with bronze like metal elaborately wrought and platen platea of 0 the tame name inlaid the keyhole and ana linges hinges so bo strong was the lock lack that when he tried to wrench off the lid he seemed to have a solid block in hist ahli thanaa andr and it shut so no tightly that the t lines ats a of juncture E a were almost in invisible v 1 ible its weight was considerable eno enough u g ll 11 to increase tits his conviction that it held something very precious joia joes fijut impulse was to rush home with hla his prize exhibit and examine it immediately aft erwardi however it slashed hed across him bini alke an input inspiration aaion that here was robes christmas box and u upon this followed a more le leisurely reso resolve apoll e to keep it a secret until he be should present her with it intact on christmas morning moin lne stilt still distant three whole days this course would cost com kilm him the ot of much impatient curio curic elty alty but it was rc to many steps he be saw sitting under the lee of 0 the bardwall yar dwall torn tom omeara OM eora rows brother who was generally pene rally lee lec to be courting mary kenny joes youngest slater sister the OMe ONi aras estras lived a good step beyond the 0 ther other end 0 of the isthmus arid and joe had begun to speculate what so early a visit might sissify when the greater rr ealer wonder abruptly swallowed the less as lie he became aware that tom hall had the twice loit box bok in hla his hands look looka 26 a joe at diat what im after ill fand nd I 1 fal n I 1 he 1 L called jubilantly il d I 1 moyah halts fine talk ln said joe arid and where at a all 11 did 3 u fend tt it then where boere Is was to be had bad said tom promptly adjusting his ton tone 0 to joes which was or offensive then a we its atop of ct our wall ah ili thero 1 it t T was as said joe Wh ethon now some people has little enough to do that they cant keep keel their hands oft off will thinea they find elit elitist oa other peoples yard walls walla aa and nd supplee it was sit sitters tirs on any blodys wall said bald tom what else except a one of them rowlin rives set act jt it there will itself and it all wet out of the say aay be the lie same came token its quare if one person got as good a right to be littin it on na as another troth and bedad id blither to do thin than to be brandin star gazin at it all dy wal walten tirs to ax lave of 0 the likes of ill soon abow you the sort of rowlin waxe wave there we was me man it if you dont th rouble yourself to be hamilen ha it over out of ith that it and I 1 after lt it up this halt half hour ago said joe with furious irony come on wt ald you come ohl on I 1 torn tom shouted lumping jumping to his feet with a general flourish of defiance at this the dispute bade fair to becore bec orpe art an argument without withof words word and would p probably ba b ly have done so had it not been go that at the h two young most men were the brothers of their As Is was a imort bore of koman sabine complications fettered and handcuffed them a tiling thing elie clie was I 1 to do ald lt but bring it straight ways in to yo your u r sister mary said tom that you on need ed to go for to be roeln rows about the matter its tor for roses christmas box w what flat I 1 think bad of said joe lots halve it 11 between the two of their hem then lien whatever it Js Is said tom feeling that a compromise wass was th the a u utmost I 1 11 ost he could reasonably reagon ably expect fron from circumstances and so ao it was arranged ranKed ar rather weakly on josa part he e being the better man of the tivo tiro and well within hla his it if he had baa chosen to claim the box unconditionally the joint presentation sen tation should take place they agreed on christmas live eve the next duy day hut but oue cue when rose POBO 0 OM lon enri ra would be visiting the hie jennya and t then hen torn tom departed whistling with the pick he had come to borrow the loan of whilo while je consoled himself as best he could for this arbitrary subtraction of more tharl than halt half the pleasure and romance from hw his mAr maaninga ninga find and late on carlz christmas maa eve the kill kitchen was waa full ot of glancing 11 e light find and the widow kenny waln he her r s son n arid and daughters arid and hr her guests toni and and rose 0 omeara Ji feard had all had ihrer wt lot joe and tom were seen to often whisper and nudge on another until at last joe got up tip and produced the box icons its hilling place hut dut tom hast hastened e nod to him as spokesman placing considerable con iodence in tits ills own perspicacity and grace of 0 diction lie ile sat said see sec you here mary and rose this con sarna aarns a the two of ua its Is after gettin the two of anus I 1 maric mane it was joe found it aquilla the same as mt me that picked it up p aquilla ahn same as an me that picked it ft up some borne thin later and its hes givin tile whole of his half of tile of it to hose it as e but hes ti othin to say to the rest of it and its givins mary blary the halt at 0 the whole of the halt half och no its the whole of the its the other vi whole role half of it athla youve pot got it time joe remarked in fit a sarcastic aside im givin mary ilary so fo thais the way of it anil and when weve got the till lid prized oft off for yang just have lave to regulate it between according to what there la Is inside and it its all tile the gold and dal monds in ili the riches of the alie worl corll said 41 1 I 1 firs 1 I 14 I 1 11 I 1 al 17 ii I 1 t I 1 i 1 1 I 1 0 y I 1 I 1 1 it za I 1 ap 4 I 1 T KA K A it I I 1 V 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 V i 7 11 1 I 1 ill I 1 2 I 1 le I 1 ec in much excitement joe picked up the box joe youre kindly welcome to 0 every grain of it rose jewel sy bedad are you to the one halt half of it corrected torn tom with emphasis but his sister tapped him with the und and said Whis ht you big oma dhawn I 1 its a pity of such a thing to be knock in about and gain to loss said mary rubbing her finger on the list cm I 1 bossed L d metalwork metal work dvork and I 1 wonder 2 gone wid whatever crather owned it L under der the salt say lies hes very I 1 apt to be ly ing this night the lord ap be good a to 1 lum um the rustle ot of the waves climbing tip P tile the shingle outside seemed to swell louder as aa she spoke r for or anything vie e can call tell he might ll 11 be tak taken n a look in at us through the flip windy there thin minute to see what were doln bid id it said joe eyes turned towards tile dark little square ot of the window waldo ant and mary blary left oft off handling the box its as suddenly as it it had become red hot oh blathers said tom just raich me the rippin chisel alyin on the windy stool norah and well soon ahry what it Is at all norah the older elder sister made a very long arm and secured the tool with as it little lie approximation as might be to the deep set panes she had neither sweetheart nor christmas box and was disposed dla to take a rather languid and cynical view ot of affairs theres apt not to be any great I 1 things in it im th inkin sald said the widow kenny from her elbow cha chair ir by the hearth the truth was ili that a she had bad been reflecting with some bitterness how bow not so many years since joe would have come |