THE STORYTELLER.

Waikato Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3602, 3 August 1895, Page 10

THE STORYTELLER.

SECOND SICHTt >ur

rg;Ten jean" ago"'" last September Alfred HoJt^m>^]a;p|-osperousibilt-.captain of tlie fishing smacic Jenny Lee, which c'ruised' along ttie Jersoy coast, and 'supplied=as number' : of/'regiLilar cus•;,Hol| K wasf.. marraed n.tov!\fii/t.young ivwOraaa'-Jliviugian''South It was the very-busy season, and ..the honeymoon/was yeifiibrief;'"! i The first week- in September Holt left; j/ his hbride with her his smack for a,; cargo' o'f' blu6fish] t ''"l For-"several days luck ' tjiiiV, 1 ' 1 and, changing the course of his vessel, lie moved out 30 milGS|irom sJh'ore, • off the lower Jersey - 6oasfc L One of the off-shore so wais 'dhurry-- 1 ( the v rioWrning{ of jits: >com iug '/uii ti Lit was tossing his little vessel .about im ejtw^kS].& rri'liS/55/fas/H)jj ! hbeiaaj (eggshell.! TheMstormi was 1 paging*? 'over,# Brooklyn * and the, lower bay with a fury little less : than ous j® ing rain accompanied the storm,, . etorm was at its.worst, Holt's bride stood at a window in the home of ( her.nfa'tKer)3wbich upper bay. Several members of the family were'present in the room aiihH«™io zmm Mrs Holt -was- watching the storm, andQshe.Jvaß ( pale;!withjfear for tfce safety "of her husband, lie vessel'since'He let't 4 her ? before, and she did .not know where As she stood there looking out at the rain that ""was falling in heard her - utter a startled cry. Looking viip)< that Iter was looking fliraight out into the as eyidfentJthat-noths iog .thererMaible'ihad ' c&uW her sudden alarm, fH& relatives spoko {wianoiheedfCand 1 it wasevident thaljlhe did not hear them. - SMdenly her ] ap.d att rnkfef !r *' Vftn v li' a Kjf in of eacouragement, she ;lftt<^meL k hOTri Ue picture* ! VxMttn Buujaf^A^ Mtl suddenlyubecome I-insane, ihroughifear'ifor the" safety'of "tier, .rt'lftr, IL ' ,/;A Yt Kieio. ,:■! ,<f , i from 'the window,. but she shook out into the blinding storm. y )DiP| n then, with a wilMespairingshriek, &mm mm l ®a faint. It was un]; hour befoie.sher hitfi -htik nf yiMnA tioliiliiuy v,iuu, mn regained consciousness, and then - bind was dead. "Her* 1 fanii balieving that she asked" her what why she <• She told his vessel, the ; • » ■ ■ . d&UsfUi ut iJtiii&uji before the J .stqrm. l and wrecked close to' shored She;' had skn te'hustiarid. andjhiSi; crew\ clingirig/jito the the mast 1 had f^sWepti•'oVer ''the b^riedKthum from her sight. All night Bhe^ept ; for the husband she in the «t">rm, while ■ 9ah-xious relatives The. imorning»; papersi;contained a i^iefjipquntjipf -J ersejTf coast id ut ring :t he stornfrMi ■ ym/ti.l i" l .*'■t't , i>V-^ r »' * ■■'= 't'*j iMtean.toe day, ( howeveri?:inewß came.that the ,pounde'd;t6LpieceßKdh thei Tsaridlduring tonight? sixvmen were: taken j ofti by the '.men- . a monster .\Vave ; haa swept over the Such ,w as, r< the £ . of - the! 1 despatch 'that aKbunced tlie wircck lirideijof < the. i.fisherman !Would>-notl

believe that he was alive until she felt his strong arms around her. "When sheTadlold' Kini of Awhat , J., {""--I".'. . she had seen through the storm he was to admit that she could,not have described the wreck ot tlie Jennie Lee any better if she had been .011 board at the time.