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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9527, 20 July 1899, Page 1

avenue, she recoiled in Burprise and dis pleasure, to see that Margaret wa with him. Tom's long legg measured off th ground as if he were shod with seven leagued boots ; and two girls running breathlessly at his side, had enough ti do to keep up with him. The shon was about half a mile distant, but hi knew lota of short cute through thi trees ; and before loDg they were 01 the sands and scrambling over th< rocks, Tom holding Vivia's hand, anc Margaret making her way in the besl manner she could, with now and thet an encouraging word from bim. Tht sky looked dark and menacing, th« wind raged over the heaving sea, and the surf washed the rocks, far out, in great billows of foam. ' Look there,' said Tom, pointing to something that really looked like a huge mess of stone tower. ' That's the Demon's Tower, and they call that the Storm Bar beyond it.' ' What a place ! How the sea and wind roar among the rocks 1 I could stay here for ever.' ' I have often been here for hours on a stretch with Leicester Cliffe,' said Tom. 'We cut those steps in the rock, and, when we were little shavers, he used to play Bobinson Crusoe and I Man Friday. We named it Robinson Crusoe's Castle, but that was too long for every day ; so the people in Lower Cliffe—the fishing village o?er there—called it the Devil's Tower. Vivia, sing a song, and hear how your voice will echo round these stonewalls. , ' But,' said Margaret, ' I don't think it's safe to stay here,-Tom. You know, when the tide rises, it fills this place nearly to the top, and would drown us all.' ' Don't be a goose, Margaret. There's no danger, I tell yon. Vivi«, get up iv Robinson's Crusoe's seat, and I'll be Man Friday again, and lie here at your feet. , Vivia got up the steps and seated herself on the stone ledge ; Tom flung himself on the stone floor, and Margaret sat down on a pile of dry seaweed in tha corner. Then Vivia sang some wild Venetian barcarole, that echoed and re-echoed and rang out on the wind, in a way that equally amazed and delighted her. Again and again she sang, fascinated by tho wild and beautiful echo, and Tom joined in loud choruses of his own, and Margaret listened, seemingly quite as much delighted as they ; until suddenly, in the midst of the loudest strain, she sprang to her feet with a sharp cry. ' Tom ! Tom 1 the tide is upon us ! Instantly Tom was on his feet, as if be were made from head to heel of spring steel, and out of the black ar<;h. For nearly two yards, the space before the archway was dear of the surf; but, owing to a peculiar curve in the shore, the tower had become an island, and was almost encircled by the foaming waves. The dull day was darkening, too; the fierce blast dashed the spray up in his eyes ; and in one frantic glance, be saw that escape was impossible, He could not swim to the shore in that surf; neither he nor they could climb up the steep sides of the cavern ; and they all mast drown where they were. Not for himself did he care—brave Tom never thought of himself in that mement, nor even of Margaret, only of Vivia In an instant, he was back again and kneeling at her feet on the stone floor. ' I promised to protect you,' he cried out, ' and see how I have kept my word.' 'Tarn, is it true? Can we not escape?' ' No, the eea is around us on every hand, and in twenty minutes will be over that arch and over our heads. Oh, I wish 1 had been struck dead before ever I brought here !' 'And can we do nothing?' said Vivia, clasping her hands—always her impulse. ' If we could only climb to the top.' Again Tom bounded to his feet. ' I will try. There may be a rope there, and be a chance, after all.' Tn a twinkling he was at the top of Robinson's seat, and clutching frantically at invisable fragments of rock to help him up the steep ascent. But in vain—worse than in vain. Neither sailor nor monkey could have climbed up there, and, with a sharp cry, he missed his hold and was hurled back, stunned and sonseless, to the floor. The salt spray came dashing in their faces as they knelt beside him. Margaret shrieked, and covered her face with her bands and cowered down. And still the water rose. [TO BK CONTINUED, j > A PIER BOROUGH COUiNCIL Ihe ordinary meeting of tho Borough Counoil, held laet night, was attended by the Mayor (Ms G. H. Swan) and Ore 0. H, IGdwaids, F a. Fmith, O. H Cranby, H. P. Cohen, Q. Faulknor, and P. Dinwiddie. Leave of absenoe from the meeting was granted to Ore Plowman and MoVay. COKEEBPOMDBNOK, W. Lucas, superintendent of the Spit Fire Brigade, applied to the Oounoil for Bomo ooneideration as he had served for 19 years and as the superintendent of the Napier Brigade now receives a yearly salary.—deferred to the Fublio Works : ommittee for consideration and report. W. J. Hemlin wrote oomplnining that he had b"en oharged exoeasively for the water used on his premises in Bre water street — Referred to the Waterworks Committee, the inspeotor to report Ihe executors in the estate of the late William Goleneo notified that they were prepared to pay the followirg earns to the Mayor and Oounoil, as bequeathed by deoeased in trnet for the purposes set out on ths exeotion of euoh document aa roight be approved by the exeoutors' solioitors, Mesera Sainsbury and Logan :—For 20 poor families, £1000 ; for poor prisoners, £600 ; for distressed seamen and strangers, £500 ; for prize fund, Napier publio eohoole, £500 ; total, £2600.—Befened to the Flnacoe Committee for report. The Loyal Napier Lodge of Oddfellows applied for a refund of ha'f the ratee paid on their property in Kmerson street on the ground that i>ince the City Band had oeaeed prantigir g there the building had been nnocoupiod—Weferred to the Jfublio Works Committee The Wellington Harbor Board aeked the Oounoil to 00-operato in opposing the passing of the Publio Oontraote Hill by verliameni in its present form - Keferred to the Publio Works Committee for consideration and report. WOBKS COMMtTTHB'B BKPOBT Xho following rooomrnondationß by tho Fublio Works Uommittoo wore adopted: — 1. Tenders, * ightsoil Oari.-Thut the tender of the Vuloan Foundry, at £77, bo aocepted, 2 Tenders Horce Shoeing.— That tho tender of Mr Gleeson, at 7a 6d per «et for draught horses and 5a for buggy horse, and 3s for romovaJe, be aooopted. 3 Tenders, harden Hoats —That tonders be invited for tho gupply of 10 garden seats, returnable at noon on Monday, August 14th next HBA.KEK EOM4IN BOiBD. 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