| Show Hy fly Robert Louis Sh Stevenson Author ot of f Island laland The Tho Master of Ballantrae Case of ot Dr Jekyll and antl Mr lr HYde Hydo otc etc Just Juat then we wo I camo to tho the top 0 01 o. tho hill and looked cd down clown on the torr ferry forry tad and the time hope Tho Firth of ot Forth us Is very vory well vel known narrows at this point to the tho width of a 0 good sized river which makes a 0 convenient ferry tero going north and turns turna the tho upper reach Into a 11 land haven for tor all mann man the nor ncr of ships Right Hight In the midst of narrows narro-n lies an Islet with somme some built ruins on time the Mouth souti shore they o ha a pier on the tho other side of ot tIme tile road and backed against garden garten of ot hall holly trees and hawthorns hawthorn u a pretty I 1 could see seo tho timo building which call tho the thoy tn town n n. n Inn timer ther vj VA v vy y lies ics far far- west and anel the neighborhood of ot tho the Inn looked pretty lonely at time of dD day for tho boat had just that north With Ith gone gono passengers A skiff how how- over ever lay Jay seamen beside tIme tho pier wIth some as ns sleeping on the thwarts this boat waiting told me W was a time brigs brig for tho the captain about and In tho the half haIr anchorage o a 0 mile mUo otto off off and nil all alone alono ho showed mo roo the Covenant O t herself going bustle There was as a 0 fr a on board were cio yards wind blow blew winging Into place and as ns tho hear from that tuat quarter I could tho the song of tho the sailors pulled listened upon the ropes After all as ns I thuy had to upon time the way I look d that ship tt It with an extreme abhorrence and from tho the pitied all bottom of at mn m my heart I poor souls Bouls that were condemned con con- to will sail In here her We e had all three brow of or tho the pulled up on th the tho hill bill and now I march marched cd across tho the road and c cle do e. e I I think It addressed my un unc un- un right to tell says Rn'S I J. J theros nothing that will you ou sir sir mo mc on board that Covenant bring lie He Eh Elm seemed Boomed ho lie to waken wake from a a. dream m. said What's that thaU I 1 toM told 1 him over again Well well vell ho please said well VoU lao o to yo I 1 suppose But what w we sanding sanding- hero for tor Its It's perishing col cold and if Im I'm no mistaken tho Covenant for Cor sea sen they're bushing busking Vt I heidi Befell nt As i soon Boon as we came camo to time tho Inn Inn Ran Ran- sonic Bome led cd us up time tho stall stair to a small sinai room wIth a bed In it and heated an oven b by a great groat fire firo ot of coal At n. n table hard bard b by the chimney a tall lark dare nober looking sat writing In of at the tho heat hoat 0 of the tho room ho wore noro a 0 thick thiele sea Jacket buttoned to neck his anti and a tall tail hairy cap drawn down own n over cars ears yet I not never saw any ony m tn i oven a jUdge upon tho bench lo look u coul Cooler r. r or moro studIous and self solf ses ed than this ship captaIn lb 1113 got goot to his toot feet at once and corning corn com ing forward vard offered his large hand t ti I I Mr l Balfour ama am I. I h. h proud I i. i to see seo you I I Voice and glad i itI v tI that 10 t yo ii are 41 uno hero here oc c in p I time Tho Time winds wind's fair fall and tho the tide upon the time turn well we'll see seo tho time old coal- coal bucket buring on tho the Islo of or May before tonight Captain returned my Undo un un- cle do yOU you keep your room unco hot Its Ita a habit I l nav have o Mr Mr- Balfour Balfour said tho the skipper Im a rife cold man man by my mJ nature I have havo a n. cold blood sir sh Thoro Theres s neither fur Cur nor flannel I flannel no no sir sir nor hot rum will warm up what they call tho the temperature Sir its it's the tho same with most moat mon men that have ha been car car- seas as the they call can it It in the tho tropic car I i Well well I Icle captain replied my tindo tin ua- I do cle we must all bo tho the way made I But it chanced that this thie fancy of ot the captains captain's had a great reat share sharo In my misfortune mis mis- fortune For though I had promised myself not riot to let Jet m my kinsman out of or sJ sight ht I was both so 80 Impatient for a nearer look Jook of the sea and sickened by the tho closeness of the room that when ho told me inc to run downstairs and play myself awhile I was fool tool enough to tako taice him at his word Away wa I went therefore leaving tho the two men sitting down to a 11 bottlo and nud a groat mass mans of papers 0 and crossing the road In front In-front front tr tP of the tho I Inn Inn Inn- walked f down upon tho the beach With the wind In tho the quarter only little wavelets not much bigger than I had seen upon a a lake hake beat upon the shore But tho the I weeds were now to me some me some green II some nemo brown and long and somo some with I little bladders that crackled between m my fingers Even so BO far tar up the firth the smell of ot the sea water was exceedIngly exceedingly exceed exceed- salt and stirring the Covenant besides was beginning to shako shalto ent co out her her sails which whelm hung lun upon the tho yards In clusters and the f spirit of ot all that I beheld 1 put me In thoughts of ot far voy oy 01 I ages and foreign places paces I looked too at tho the seamen with I the tho skiff skiff big biff bro brown n fellows some In I shirts somo with Jackets somo some with colored handkerchiefs about their throats ono one with n cm brace braco of ot pistols I stuck Into InLo his pockets two or three I with knotty bludgeons and all nil with their case caso knives I passed the time time I of ot day with ono one that looked less desperate desperate des lles- llesI I than his lila fellows and asked him himot of ot the sailing of or tho tIme brig Ho said they thoy would get Jet under way va ns as soon as the tho ebb set and expressed his gladness t to bo be out of at a port where there were ware no taverns and fiddlers but all aU with such Buch horrifying oaths that I mado made haste to get et away anay from him This threw mo me back on Ransome who seemed tho least ODst wicked of ot that gang and who soon como out of ot tho Inn and ran to me crying for a bowl of punch I told him I would give him no such thing for tor neither ho orI or orI orI I was of ot ago age for such Indulgences But a glass of ot ale you ma may have and welcome said I. I He Ho moped and mowed at mo me and called me names but he was glad to got the tho ale for tor all aU that and presently wo we wore were set down at a n. table tahle In the tho front room of tho the Inn and both eating and drinking with a n good appetite te Here Hero It occurred to me that as the landlord was a n man of ot that country countr I might do well to make mako a n friend of him I II I offered him a share as was mu muth h tho the custom In days but he was far too great a 1 man to sit with such poor customers as and myself myself my my- self and he was leaving tho the room I when whon I called him back to to o ask If It lie he know Mr Hoot a ay says cams ho and a 0 very honest honest hon lion I est cat man And O 0 O. O teh by says sas he was waa It you ou that came In with Ebenezer Eben- Eben er c AntI And when hen I bail Imd told him y yes ys s Yell bo be no friend of ot his Ills ho naked asked meaning in the Scotch Wo way that I would bo be no relative I told him no nono none I thou thought ht not said ho no and yet yo ye 0 have a 0 kind of ot look of ot Mr 11 Al Alexander AlexanderI exa mm der I said it seemed scorned that E Ebenezer t was aa seen Ill-seen In the time country Nao ae bou bought ht said the landlord Hes a wicked auld man and theres there's many would like to see seo him grinning In a tow rope Jennet Sonnet Clouston and anti many mony mair that ho has lias harried out of house and And yet ho lie was waa an mince anco ancoa co a 0 fine young tellow too But that was before the sough report abroad about Mr r. r Alexander Alexandor that was like the death of ot him And what was it I asked Ou just that ho lie had killed him said Bald the time landlord Did yo Ye O never no hear that tho t j 7 I Continued Tomorrow |
