January 1. by the sleeves, and let the lady down to brother, tellinsr him the facts, mastered my only just pulled through brain fever, and' It is now owned by Petir Torbert. According! the lower roof in safety. Such a cheer instructions, and next morning I was in had been in bed nearly five weeks. to the local traditionthreaded Win*r is come gvn. The sweet south-west arose for this. Well done, brave men, Paris. Five weeks! I was due in London! I I- aforgotton -wind, and the strong earth into narrative by Mr. Torberta French is laid aside its mantle to be bound well done! I watched and watted. Pulling I found the business at Geneva much told the doctor so, or somebody spoke for tiigate was chased in past Cape Henlopen, By the frost-fetter. There is not a sound, in, the heat was great. I pulled away more complicated than I expected. It meat least the voice was not like my in the Revolution, by an English Save of the skater's heel, and there is laid tothe opposite wing, abbutting on the was a liquidation case. Day after day own. man-of-war, both pursued and pursuer' An icy finger on the lip of storms, river, now almost wholly clad in flame passed days ran into weeks and at last, "Indeed, then, it's out o' this ye don't moving along by Lewes soon aftf sunset And the clear icicle hangs cold and still. And the snow-fall is noiseless as a thought. and smoke, but still itself unburning. after six weeks' hard work and a run to stir, me lad, lawyers or no lawyers. on a cold December day. The frigate Spring has arashingsound, and Summer sends What is thai? Can it be a man or woman Chamouni, I was on my way home again. Quiet, now, or I'll give ye a composer, and kept her course up the bay, hugging the Manvsweet voices with its odors out, kneeling there, and unobserved amid send ye to sleen for another month!" shore until she reached the mouth of the "Well done!" was the verdict passed And Autumn rustleth its decaying robe the shrouding smoke by all the rest who I submitted, ana got rjetter. In a fortnight Mispillion, fifteen miles above Lewes. With a complaining whisper. Winter's dumbI upon my efforts, and it was very welcome, God made his ministry a silent one. are gazing at the gallant men around the I was down again in the anteroom, At the creek's mouth the frigate cast anchor, accompanied as it was with a check for And he hasgiven him afoot of steel stables? The soldiers had arrived and where I was welcomed as a "hero and under cover of the darkness fifty guineas. And an unlovely aspect, and a breath were doing good service but no one of romance." The good-natured quizzing her officers rowed ashore in small boats. Sharp to the sensesand we know that He "Call on me when I return to town," else perceived the solitary form wrapped and congratulations on my recovery were It is recorded in the diary of Ezra Polk Tempereth well, and hath a meaning hid said my friend, in about five weeks' time, Under the shadow of His hand. Look up in an ulster coat, and trembling on the incessant. At last noticing my puzzled that on the evening of the 20th of December, and I will tell you something I think you And it shall be interpreteaYour home wall above the river. look, my brother said: 1780, lights danced about his field will be glad to hear." Hath a temptation now! There is no voice Not a moment was to be lost. I pulled for two hours or more. Then the lights "Perhaps he hasn't heard the real facts Of waters with beguiling for your ear. My thoughts immediately flew to Rosie. in hastily. disappeared, and the frigate weighed^anchor. have you H- And the cool forest and the meadows green Not that I had by any means foigotten Witch not your feet away and in the dells "Leap," I shouted, "leap!" Nest day the man-of-war took the "I have not the very slightest idea her but now I was idle again I felt more There are no violets, and upon the hills As I spoke I rose up in the boat. The frigate into Lewes as a prize Old Ezra's what you aie all talking about," I replied. dejected than ever. Liquidation cases There are no sunny places to lie down. planks winked once more and rattled. diary does not mention or even hint at a "If it's a joke, I don't see it." You must go in, and by your cheerful fire are not romantic! "Jump!" 1 yelled in my excitement. buried treasure. It refers to trapes of 'Now, look, here she is again! Lucky Wait for the offices of love, and hear I was now at liberty to join my brother. One look to heavena glance down to Accents of human tenderness, and feast fresh earth, and intimates the gallant fellow!" And I telegraphed at once, and at Your eye upon the beauty of the young. the swiftly-running river, and the person Frenchman had probably buried a dead "Not a day but what she rides over to eleven o'clock that evening I was knocked It is a season for the quiet thought. I addressed leaped feet first. Unthinkingly, officer there. enquire." up to take in the reply. And the still reckoning with thyself. Theyear I moved suddenly the light gig "Her father's here, too." Time passed, the war ended, and the Gives back the spirits of its dead, and time It was short and to the point. It ran rocked. In vain I attempted to recover Whispers the hisory of its vanished hours "Tell them to come in, Hamblyn, and year 1813 came. Then Milford was visited thus: "Come along, old fellow stay as And the heart, ealliner its affections up, by balance the boat tipped over and I see the preserver of the 'sole daughter of by two French officers, from whose long as you like." Counteth its wasted ingots. Life stands still fell headlong into the water, now covered his house and heart.'" act.-ons the notion of treasure-trove was I went. I lived with the detachment And settles like a fountain, and the eye ved in a with debris. I heard, but scarcely heeded all this first suggested. These officers Sees clearly through its depths, and noteth a'l and what fun we had! Fishing in a fine The two planks started after me together That stirred its troubled waters. It is well "chaff." house near the Milford mills, and spent a river close by cricket a little shooting, Ihat winter with the dying year should come from beneath the thwarts. The door opened a lady in well-fitting month leisurely traversing the Polk faroi for September was upon us now rowing If. P. Willis. 1 sank and as I did so I thought of habit appeared. Mechanically I rose as foot by foot. They employed negroes to up and down the stream and dining with Rcsie, and made up my mind to die, if I she fame in. I looked at her for one dig in several spots, to which ihey bad *m the hospitable Irish residents, made up THROUGH FLOOD AND FIRE. must but I struggled manfully tor life brief second, the next I had clasped her seemingly been directed bv measurements the total of our days after parade or inspection. the while. in my arms made from the mouth of the creek. **I assure you, my dear boy, I am extremplv When one is unwillingly under water "Rosie, my darling Rosie, can it be Three or four times the officers drove One guest nightfor we had our little sorrv to aprer" ^ikind in this the brain seems to become busier than at you indeed?" over to the place straight, but it was social parties occasion allywe were sitting matter, but, belive me, I am acting lot all other times, i know not why, but in No doubt ab^ut it. She had come to not noticed that they brought any thing at the open windows, when the sub. the best.'' that half minute or so that I was underneath thank me. For what? For saving her with them to the mills. In the early uBut surely I may see Rosie as usual?'* ot the party exclaimed: I saw many acts of my life. Circumstances life that night when Sir John Carney's part of January, 1814, the two men wen, "What a glare there is yonder! It's a I asked. looked, from my mental house was burnt. away from Milford as light-hearted and fire, I believe." "I am afraid not," replied Mr. Temple. point ot view, very different It was Rosie I had rescued, then. Wo to all appearances, as light in pocket "Bedad, your right!" said one of the "It would be very injudicious. You are from what they had to my wonder my heart beat so fast as we float as when they began the search. Boys guests. "It's down by Sir John's he Las both too young and too romantic at present. bodily eyes. I had plenty of time to repent ed down the stream. have been accustomed to look upon the a house fall. I hope it's not tho house Besides, your means are utterly inadequate my rashness, to utter a prayer and Rosie was my own at last. She is Polk farm as the abiding place of some itself." maintain a wife." to forgive my enemies and then I struggled, mine still, thank heaven! bonanza, and more than once parties "Shall I turn out the picket?" asked "May I not bid Rosie good-bye, then?" knocked my head, half sank again, Very little explanation is necessary. have used the spade in the old fields. my brother. "Why, look, it's increasing I persisted. "One more meeting cannot put out my right arm and grasped something, Mrs. Temple and her daughter had been Whether the mysterious visits of the they may want assistance." hurt either of us." it was a plank. paying a round of visits, and while staying old French officers and the French gentleman Ashe spoke the flames mounted up "Rosie is not at home," replied ber father, at Sir John Carney's house the fire Seeing a body ruing up close by, I of this latter day may mean anything and the lurid smoke rose high into the gently, almost sympathetically, as had broken out. Rinie had been my raised the head. The person I had tried or not, it is a matter of history, as glare above. he shook me by the hand. "She went to companion during that twenty minutes to save was sensible, evidently. Alderman Vincent, now City Treasurer "Sound the fire-call and turn out the stay with some friends yesterday. Goodnight in the water. Wrapped up as she was 1 Iwas delighted to find that he, too of Wilmington, historian of Delaware, pickets, Hamblyn," said my brother. and hope for better days." and silent as we both were, we did not was floating on a plarik, the twin supporter member of the London Cobden Club, proprietor "Take the men down at the douole Good-night," I replied. "I suppose recognize each other in the dark. The of my arm and how those good of .the Anglo-American Union Well drive over. Come along. Look you don't mean to be unkind, Mr. Temple miller had s'opped tbe wheel and pulled friends tossed about, and drove up against scheme, &c, tells one that there was sharp i" but you have made me very miser- Rosie out of the eddy jast in time. each other in sheer delight, as we all such a thing as a chased French frigate I hurried out for a coat to cover my able." floated away fast down-scream together, For a day or two Rosie had been quite and a chasing English man-of-war. He dress clcthes. Of course, being in a hur- "My dear young friend," he replied baffles description. unable to give an account of her rescue is authority for the statement that during y, I was delayed. In the dark I groped putting his hand on my shoulder, "were irom the fire and when her father arrived the revolution and John Hall's Captaincy I impelled my plank toward the other, unsuccessfully, and at length when I you in a position to maintain a wife, I in obedience to a telegram, he learned at over the garrison at Lewes a French and, no doubt added by that woudrous crossed from my room I found that the would sanction your engagement in time: the barrackswhere he had called with frigate came booming into the harbor. law of attraction and sympathy which others had driven off in the cars our but now such a course, though painful tor Sir John to thank the commanding officer The breakwater was not then inexistence, exists even in wood, I succeeded in getting guests had come over in. us all, is the only one Mrs. Temple and I for his timely assistancethat his daughter's but the frigate found good anchorage, close to my companion. Leaning The sentry at the gate civilly "shouldered can with justice adopt. We "shall be preserver was myself. aud the officers were entertained for my arm upon tbe trusty plank, I managed his rifle as I passed, and in reply pleased to see you again after our return several days by Captain HaU and his The reader will almost guess the sequel. to support the form near me but all to my question told me that the captain Irom the continent. Good-night." Delaware commandat that time a regiment. Soon after my return to London I this time we neither of us spoke a word, and the whole party had gone, leaving I made no replyindeed, I could not The frigate had been a privateering was appointed secretary of a nice little nor could we discern each other's fea word for me to follow, if 1 liked. have spoken just then. My throat was down tbe coast, and was bound for company, with a nice little salary, and tures. The fast subsiding fire was far "Yes but how? They've taken all the choked with tears, and big drops Wilmington with several valuable prizes. work to match, and all through the influence behind us now. cars, sentry." welled slowly from my eyes as 1 walked The treasure was landed, and the crew of of the solicitor. This employment The steady planks kept floating with us "Yes, sir but there's the gig, sir." across the open space facing the house. the vessel marched with it clear up the left me seisure for other work which I toward the bank, but I was not very anxious "Whose gig?" This was to be the termination of our engagement, State road to Wilmington, Captain Hall was lucky enough to obtain, and my to go ashore just then, as the "river "Tbe boat, sir. You can scull down then! Wi1 and his troops acting as convoy. At success emboldened me to ask for Rosie sides were steep, and certain curling eddies almost as quick as they'll drive, yer hon- Rosie Temple and I had flattered ourselves mington the French went into once more. aid not look attractive. or." that a series of dances, picnics, and quarters. The officers were housed This time I was not refused. We were I would pull down. It was not far Tbe moon had been obscured by heavy charade-parties, with a very good knowledge in a building which was formerly married the year following and now, the moon was still bright. I knew the clouds but we could discern the" stones of lawn-tennis and croquet, constituted on the site where the building occupied when we wandei "over hill, over date," river pretty well. No sooner thought which here and there rose up from out of housekeeping. We had only 300 by W. S. McCauly in Mark"* we often recall how we struggled together than done. A soldier from the guardroom the water from a shoal in midstream. We a year between us, and dear Rose always street, above Sixth, now stands. T" lor life that memorable night "through came across and helped me to should soon be in safety. The planks spent 40 at least on her dress annually. immense treasure was buried in the oe floodthrough fire." launch the gig. apparently thought otherwise. Tney She had lately been very economical in lar of the building and constantly ^uarc "That's a big fire, sir they do say it's bobbed about and grew very impatient the matters of gloves, and had made herself ed. One night, several weeks &fle~- tV at the hall below. Poor creatures! I to reach the shore. a bonnet which was in every sense Sleighing. arrival, the treasure was broken in ujv hope they'll all escape. All right, air?" There's distant thunder! A storm is becoming. Still, we were not much nearer and partly taken away, this robbery With never a plume of the wind set humming, coming up. No, it must be a train pass to matrimony then and now I replied in the affirmative. He let go ing so bold and altogether mysten*] The snow has come, and still is coming, ing the bridge above. No the noise increases the painter, with two vigorous strokes of So I pursued my way across the common, that the Frenchmen could never roa&e Yonder, and hither, and everywhere, the sound is born continously the light sculls I was in the stream. and I do not mind confessing that Its silent feet in the pathless air head or tail of it. The thieves were not on the wind. The planks got very restless Fortunately I knew almost every turn I shed tears as I walked in that dark Trip down, and around, and over the ground, caught. French street, now one of the now. The banks even came closer With a vbiblehush there is nothing glum in, and bend of the fine river 4 I should evening beneath the trees and into the maiu thoroughlares of Willmington, was Nothing but beauty and peace piofound. to us, but the stream ran all tho faster. have more than once had a very narrow gloomy and desolate highway, caring for given its name by this occurence. One The noise was getting louder every mm escape, if I had not been quickly upset. nothing and for nobody except Rosie of the French officers, upon his return to Ho, now for fun! never wait for the sun! ute. It is all very well to row in daylight, but my pretty, piquant Rosiewondering Paris, published a book about the trip The girls are dancing, the steeds are prancing, in the gloom, when the banks and the whither she had gone, or had she really I knew what it was at lastI knew too The boys are glancing, and sigh for a run through Deleware, and the only copy of In the glimmering, shimmering, hovering water alongside are equally shrouded, so gone. Was it not a pardonable subterfuge wellit was the mill weir! the book in this country, at the Mercantile covering, that where one egins and the other ends en the part of Mr. Temple to induce If the sluice were open to the huge Library in Philadelphia, would seem Like flaky moonlight dropped on a lover in, is an extremely difficult problem to solve, me to leave the neighborhood? over-shot wheel our doom was sealed. to bear out the story of the treasure stealing. In shadowy glens that a lover knows, and snags and submerged shoals are quite Nothing much short of a miracle could At that time I had, unfortunately, no With their foliage clouds and moonbeam invisible, the pulling down a rapid stream save us. Striking out for the bank, I snows. occupation. I had been a clerk in a alone is no jeke. But I did not mind it The "Polk Farm's" kegs of gold (a called for my companion to do the same, banking-house, but the "bad times" had Now verily, merrily, cheerily go then. Urged by a reckless darinar, I round million of Spanish dollars) are, in but encumbered with the ulster coat his necessitated a reduction in the "staff," Over, and under, aud through tho SDOW, sculled rapidly on alone. the belief of the Milford people, still progress was nt great. and I was one ot those sent away at a Willie, and Lillie, and Nellie, and Joe, being sought for and the Lewes folks are We would find footing on the lasher month's notice and a month's salary. Black-eyed Nellie, and blue-eyed Willie, Alone, but for all the company of two occasionally led to think that certain Hazel-eyed Lillie, aad berry of sloe probably the eddy would a?eist U9. True, I had a small income derivable good planks. Whence came they, and Twinkling under the brow of Joe, strangers are about to make a raid on the from a legacy, but this was scarcely We floated round the tarn in the stream. whither they were bound, I did not think With the mischief in him as big as a crow. coast down below Cape Henlopen. enough to keep me in bread and cheese The wheel was revolving. I could plainly but I noticed that they were kept close to About eighty years ago the De Brock, a and clothing. Ho, with a shout! we are out and away! hear the splash, splash of the monotonous menow swirling away, now in the dim large English man-of-war, commanded Tangling, mingling, janglinar, jingling, It will therefore be seen that Mr. Temple clank and dash the water dripped light meeting, then dividing, turning Laughing, chaffing, twingling, tiigling, by James Drew, was capsized and sunk was quite right. Matrimony was a and ran away from the grinding woodwork, round, separating hemselves, and soon Bells on the horses, and belles in the sleigh. white entering the bay. Besides a fabulous luxury I could not afford. I acknowledged and gladly escaped beneath to inclosing my sculls, eo as to impede my Merrily,cheerily measure the way, amount of treasure between her own it even then as I went home desponding. Shouting up echoes with "Caw, caw!" save being crushed to air on the top of way and endanger my safety. They decks, the De Brock bad in charge two To frighten the crows from thicket and haw. these mighty paddles. hugged rre so closely at last that I lay on Spanish galleons leaded with specie, and When I reached my lodgings I found my oars, and clutching the intrusive We had two channels to choose from Shuffle t63 muffle nose, under the buffaloes! these galleons went down with the manof-war. two letters awaiting me. One was from boards nulled them into the boat, where, one over tbe weir, the other beneath the Smothering, feathering, gathering snow, In addition *o this, there was my brother, who was commanding a detachment Over and under, around and below. under the thwarts' they exchanged dripping wheel. The suction in the latter was once a Spanish prize thip loaded with Yet nobody ca^es but the whitening crow of his regiment in Irland, the confidences as to what they would tremendous. I swam strongly lor the gold and silver, that tried to pass the Fast through the dingle and follow the jingle, other from my father's late selicitor. I do next. What they did shall be told in former. I reached the slippery piles and And a lie for the fellows whodoze by the ingle cape in a storm, but was lost off opened the "official" note first. due course. caught them, A bright light was burning When life goes leaping along the snow. Synepuxeth beach, near Ocean City, It contained only a few lines, requesting "Such great effects from trivial causes spring.' in a small window in the mill,cwenty several miles further down. Treasure me to call on him in London in a yards or so away. We were in an eddy The blazing house was now almost Sixteen Kegs of Gold. enough was washed ashore from this prize day or two, as perhaps I might be able for a moment. I called out loudly. A visible. Tbe reflection was caught by sbip to make rich the wreckers who dwelt to do some work for the good-natured head was put out. I yelled again. The the water just beyond me. On I scudded New York Bun. along the shore. lawyer. plank whereon I lav slipped from beneath round the bend of the bank, the MILFORD, DEL.. November 13.The The other letter was most cheerful, me, rose up again, and carr.ed me stream hurrying me down, and now I presence in this town of a foreigner with and bore a warm invitation to share my headlong down the foamy lasher like an have opened up the town reach, and the The Princeaa Jjouise and Her Dog. the French aceent, a courtly bearing, and brother's country quarters for a fortnight, arrow from a bow, whilo my companion burning and half-demolished building is Her Royal Highness is setting one good ii a strange inquisitiveness after details of "or longer if I liked," next month. was wrenched away and darted for the crackling and roaring half a mile off. example to the ladies of the Dominion which local history, has brought up the Captain Belore I went to bed I replied to both wheel. The smoke, dotted with a million sparks, will be well for their health if they imitate. Kidd story of the Deleware coast. This my kind correspondents, accepting both flies up to heaven, while screams and A loud cry escaped me as we parted. She is an early riser, and has been indulging invitations. foreigner, who registers as Henry Macheret cries and the roar of falling timbers ascend All was over now. Death at last. "On, in several long walks before breakfast of five Next day I went to Londen, and in with them to the lurid sky. Those got a liveryman to drive him over Rosie! my darling Rosie! till we meet or six miles. She generally attended by the afternoon I called upon the solicitor tiny jets of water only served to aggravate in heavenfarewell!" 1 had time to to the Polk farm last evening. The liveryman one or more of her suite, and walks with nervously. the thirst in the fiery throat, and think so muchno more. that ease and grace which can only be acquired says that Monsieur Macheret His business was simple. Did I know not to quench it: no man can live near by habitual exercise in the open air. walked for an hour about the premises, French? I did. Was I acquainted with such a fire as that the heat even in my "He's all right don't you lubbers keep She dresses with great simplicity, bnt appears paced up from, the Deleware Bay shore bookkeeping? I was. gig was soon felt distinctly, and the tw: around like thatsheer off, can't ye? rather afraid of the cold, as she muffles four or. five times, stopping at a different "Well, then," said he. "will you go to planks beneath my feet winked to each Let a chap have a mouthful of air! Hurrah, up a great deal. In these walks she is accompanied spot at the end of each trial, and then Geneva, and transact this business, particulars other in the glare, and glistened side by yer sowls? he's breatbin'!" by a splendid Collie dog, a present gave orders that he should be shown the of which I will give you to-morrow? side at the thought of what was coming. He was. It was I. But how weak, from her mother, who bears around his month of Mispilliod Creek. At eight You shall be paid as my clerk, and have neck a very common looking leather collar how very ill, mentally and bodily, I felt o'clock this morning Mensieur Macheret your expenses and something besides." with a brass plate, on which is engraved: when first I woke again to life and asked A yell, a roar! Four people had got WI will go. bought a ticket for Philadelphia, and "Agreed," I said, gladly "I belong to H. R. H., the Princess Loaise, for Rosie! upon the crambling parapet, some feet When am I to set out?" took the train north. Kensington Palace." The dog is a magnificent "Shure he's wandering in his mind, so above the stable-roof, and were crying As soon as you can get ready. If you specimen of his breed, and the Princess Upon the "Polk farm" thus mysten he is Dinny, run up and tell the captain and shrieking for assistance. Twenty do this well I think I can help you to is said to be exceedingly fond of him, ously visited there is said to be buried a the gintleman's alive. Hurry now." men at once rushed in to offer ropes and something better." partly on account of his donor, and partly royal treasure of sixteen kegs of gold. help. What could they do? The unhappy I remember nothing more until I found I wrung his hand and left him, took the because at the fire of Inverary Castle it was The farm is situated a few miles east of inmates, clad in evening dress, myself in barracks, in my brother's first train home, packed up, and next the barking of Rover which awakened her, this place, in what is known as Cedar looked wierd and unearthly in the fiery quarters. Then I suppose I fell asleep. morning at eleven o'clock was at his office and saved her, perhaps, from a horrible Neck, a swampy place between the Mispillion glare. One was a lady, three were men. But when I again woke to consciousness, in London again. I wrote to my death. and Cedar Creeks and the bay. aking off their coats they knotted them they told me, in muffled tones, that I had