The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 19, 1911, Page TWO, Image 2
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Square-built, hearty, and strong, with
an odor of ocean about him.
Speaking with this one and that, and
cramming letters and parcels
Into his pockets capacious, and messages
mingled together
Into his narrow brain, till at last he
was wholly bewildered.
Nearer the boat stoxl Alden, with one
foot placed on the gunwale.
One still firm on the rock, and talking
at times with the sailors,
Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready
and eager for starting.
He, too, was eager to go. and thus
* put an end to his anguish.
Thinking to fly from despair, that
swifter than keel Is or canvas.
Thinking to drown in the sea the
ghost that would rise and pursue
him.
But as he gazed on the crowd, he beheld
the form of Prlscllla
Standing dejected among them, unconscious
of all thai was passing.
Fixed were her eyes upon his, as 12
she divined his Intention,
Fixed with s look so sad, so reproachful,
Imploring end patient,
That with a sudden revulsion Ms
heart receded from Its purpose,
. Am from the verge of a erag, where
one step mote Is destruction.
8trange to the heart of men, with Its
Quick, mysterious Instincts!
Strange Is the Ills of men, end fatal
or fated are moments,
? Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the
gates of the wall adamantine!
"Here ! remain!" he exclaimed, as he
looked at the heavens shows bin,
Thanking the Lord whose breath had
. scattered the mist and the madness.
Wherein, 'blind and lost, to death he (
was staggering headlong.
"Yonder snow-white cloud, that floats
In the ether above me.
Seems like a hand that is pointing
ana Decauuiug wn uie wcau.
There Is another hand, that la not 00
spectral and ghost-like.
Holding me, drawing me back, and
clasping ^tnlne for protection.
Float, 0 hand of cloud, and vanish
away in the ether!
Roll thyself up like a fist, to threaten
and daunt me; I heed not
Either your warning or menace, or
any omen of evil!
There la no land so sacred, no air so
t ' pure and 60 wholesome,
As la the air she breathes, and the
soil that is pressed by her foot-I
steps.
Here for her sake will I stay, and tike
an invisible presence
, Hover around her for ever, protecting,
supporting her weakness;
Yes! as my foot was the first that
stepped on this rock at the land-,
tog.
80. witn the blessing of God. shall it
4*. he the last at the leaving!"
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with dignified air and important,
-T1"! with watchful eye the tide
and the wind and the weather,
Walked about on the sands; and the
people crowded around him
Baying a few last words, and enforo
tog his careful remembrance.
Than, t?nny each by the hand, as tl
he were grasping a tiller,
Into the boat he sprang, and to basts
shoved off to his vessel.
Glad to his heart to get rid of all this
worry and flurry.
Glad to be gone from a land of sand
and sickness and sorrow,
Short allowance of victuals aad plenty
of nothing but Gospel!
Loet In the sound of the oars was the
last farewell of the Pilgrims.
O strong hearts and true! not
went back In the Mayflower!
No, not one looked back, who had sert
hie hand to this plowing!
Soon were heard on board the
shoots and songs of the sailor*
Heaving the windlass round, and
hoisting the ponderous anchor.
Then the yards were braced, and all
sails set tb the weat wind.
Blowing steady and strong; and the
Mayflower sailed from the harbor.
Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and
leaving far to the southward
Island and cape of sand, and the Field
of the Ftrst Encounter.
Took the wind on her quarter, and
stood for the open Atlantic,
Borne on the send of the sea, and the
swelling hearts of the Pilgrims.
Lea? In silence they watched the re>
Cftl"S FUli vceovi,
Much occrarec to them all, as iozo*
thing living and fuman;
Then, as if filled with the spirit, and
rapt In a vision prophetic.
Baling his hoary head, the excellent
Elder of Plymouth
Said, "Let us pray!" and they prayed
and thanked the Lord and took
courage.
Mournfully sobbed the waves at the
base of the rock, and above them
Bowed and whispered the wheat on
the hill of death, and their kindred
Seemed to awake In their graves, and
to Join in the prayer that they ub
tared.
Bun-Illumed and. white, on the east
Handish
trations by
indler Christy
b&?~ Merrill Cotrjxmv1
era verge or trie ocean
Gleamed the departing sail, like a
marble slab In a graveyard;
Burled beneath It lay for ever all hope
of escaping.
Lo! aa they turned to depart, they
saw the form of an Indian.
Watching them from the hill; but
while they spake with each other,
! Pointing with outstretched hands, and
saying, "Ix>ok!" he had vanished.
{ So they returned to their homes; but
Alden lingered a little.
Musing alone on the shore, and
watching the wash of the billows
Round the base of the rock, and the
sparkle and flash of the sunshine,
TJtro the cntrlt nf Ood. movlne visibly
over the waters.
PrisciUa
Thus for a while he stood, and mused
by the shore of the ooean
Thinking of many things, and most of
all of Prlacllls;
And as If thought had the power te
draw to Itself, like the lodes tone,
Whatsoever It touches, by subtile laws
of Its nature,
LoJ as be turned to depart* PrSstflla
was standing beside htna
"Are you so much offended, you win
not epeak te ma?" said aha
| "Am I so much to blame, that yeetae
day, when yon were pleading
Warmly the. cause of another,, my
heart. Impulsive and wayward,
Pleaded your own, and spake out forgetful
perhaps of decorum?
Certainly you can forgive me for
speaking so frankly, for saying
What I ought not to have said, yet
now I am never unsay It;
Pot there are moments In life, when
the heart Is so full of emotion.
That If by chance it be shaken, or
into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word. It overflows,
and its secret.
Spilt on the ground like water, can
never be gathered together.
Yesterday 1 was shocked, when I
heard you speak of Miles Stand tsh.
Praising his virtues, transforming his
very delects Into virtues.
Praising bin courage and strength,
and even his fighting In Flanders,
As if by fighting alone you could win
the heut of a woman,
Quite overlooking yourself and the
rest, lr. exalting your hero.
| Therefore 1 sjeke as I did, by an tr1
resist)^* Impulse
| Too will forgive me, I hope, for the
| sake of the friendship between urn,
! Which Is too true and too sacred to
I be so easily broken!"
| Thereupon answered John Alden, the
scholar, the friend of Miles Blandish:
1 was not ingry with you. with nay
sell store I was angry,
Seeing how badly I managed the matter
1 had in my keeping."
"Not" Interrupted the maiden, with
answer prompt and decisive;
"No; you were angry with me for
speaking so frankly and freely.
It was wrong. I acknowledge; for It
Is the fnte of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait
like a ghcet that la speechless,
| Till some questioning voice dissolves
the spell of Its silence.
Hence is the Inner life of so many
suffering women
: Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean
rivers
i Running through caverns of darkness,
unheard, unseen, and unfruitful,
| Chafing their channels of stone, with
endless and profitless murmurs."
: Ty^j-annnn unoworwi John Alden. the
young cian, the lover of women:
"Heaven forbid It, Prlscllla; and truly
they Betrr to me always
More like the beautiful rivers that
watered the Garden of Eden,
, More like tie river Euphrates, through
deserts of Havilah flowing,
i Filling the land with delight, and
memories sweet of the garden!"
"Ah, by these words, I can see," again
Interrupted the maiden,
"How very little yon prize me, or cA
for what I am saying.
When from the depths of my heart.
In pain and with secret misgiving,
Frankly I speak to you, asking for
sympathy only and kindness.
Straightway you take up my words,
that are plain and direct and In
earnest,
Turn them away from their meaning,
and answer with flattering
phrases.
This is not right, Is not just, is not
tme to the best that is in you;
For I know and esteem you, end feel
that your nature is noble,
Liftlrg mine up to a higher, a mare
ethereal leveL
Therefore I value your friendship, and
feel it perhaps the more keenly
If you say aught that implies I am
only as one among many.
If you make use of those common and
complimentary phrases
I Most men thi ak so fine, in dealing and
sneaking with women.
j Hut whicn women reject as insipid, u
not as Insulting."
Mute and amazed was Alden; and
listened and looked at Priscllla.
1 Thinking he never had seen her more
fair, more divine In her beauty.
: He who but yesterday pleaded so glibly
the cause of another.
Stood there embarrassed and silent,
and seeking In vain tor an answer.
So the maiden went on, and little divined
or Imagined
What was at work In his heart, that
made him so awkward and
speechless,
j "Let us. then, be what we are, and
speak what we think, and In all
things
Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the
sacred professions of friendship.
It is no secret I tell you. nor am I
ashamed to declare it:
, I Dave iineo to De wiui you, w o*-v
you. to speak with you always.
: So I was hurt at your words, and a
little affronted to hear you
' Urge me to marry your friend, though
he were the Captain Miles StandIsh.
For I must tell you the truth, much
more to me Is your friendship
Than all the love he could give, were
be twice the hero you think him."
Then she extended her hand, and Alden,
who eagerly grasped It,
Felt all the wounds In his heart, that
were aching and bleeding so
sorely,
Healed by the touch of that band, and
he said, with a voice full of feeling:
"Tea, we must ever be friends; and
of all who offer you friendship
Let me be ever ue nrst, me truest,
the nearest end dearest!"
Casting a farewell look at the gHn>
Bering sail of the Mayflower,
Distant hat eOU In eight, and alnlrtng
below the horlaoo.
(To be Continued.)
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