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* GENTLE JACK. '
in There little is a high wind and a high tide
a town on tbe Sussex coast this
Christm&8-eve. It is a gay little to wn
in its brief season, ana asks wicked
prices and for its small carriages, lodgings, and its provis¬
ions crazy more crazy
bathing machines ; but now little it is doing
penauce viceR. for all its pleasant sum¬
mer Its winter sackcloth, cold
and black, is about it; and it is strewn,
if not with ashes, with its beach stones,
which the waves tear up and cast about
them, paying back the attacks that all
the idle loungers have made upon them
in the same manner through tbe summer
time. The parade has vanished from
view as utterly as have the t-right
throngs that walked there in the moon¬
light and music of last September. It
is hidden completely by the sable com¬
pany of waves that dance there to their
own and the wind’s music, and that on
such a night as this even cross the road,
and bent for admittance on the windows
*be fropt lodging-houses, and mock
togly remind the landladies, as they shut
them out, that they will have no more
themselves yet for
a weary while.
What light there is is surely cuocen
trated in one spot—a shingly corner be¬
hind the town, where bathing machines,
with their ladders drawn up, stand like
dogs wifh their tails between the legs.
Very white and cold they look contrast¬
ed with the black cottages facing them,
and the black forge that sends out light
strong enough to be seen by travelers
on distant lonHy roads in thisflatcoun
try ; sailor lads and men, with handker¬
chief bundles, going home to spend
Cbr : 8tma8; and sisters and daugh ters
and sweethearts out at service coming
home to meet them.
The work of pudding making is going
on hotly in the cottages; and turned
out husbands who won’t stone raisins,
etmjrnmt the or mind baby, take refuge in
dians forge ; where, with faces like red In¬
in the lightof the smithy fire, they
are listening to a story of the town well
suited self is to such a night. The smith him¬
telling it. .
!* Wfiva Jr first came to this forge (he
bad begpp), ? ' my next-door neighbors
|y of -
were u umi the Uftme Hil rIan>
They were a sea-faring family, by
which I mean they all got their living
by little, the sea. strappling, There was black-eyed, Joe Harlan, tall,
twnpert with a
fury ■ f« f%k ■ who toiled his , little ,
fishing-boat, and earned , the , pounds.—^ .
There was old Mary, /, his wire, round,
c fat, , blue-eyed, . , placid, , . kept her bathing
machines, taugfet the lady visitors to
swim, ducked their children, and earned
the —slim, shillings. Th and re was young Mary
blue-eyed, placid too, dried
the towels aud bathing-dresses on the
beach, and errned the pence. There
were five small boys and rive small girls,
who went out to sea along w.th father,
^d betweeu oarncd^toweliand gowns the shingle to and and fro
J(j Mary young with Mary on the
0 her machines on
» n ' 1 “ r "« d the h .Ifpenoe. Kiev
en children, and father and mother, you
wou think enough for the sea to
l ,rovid8 wlth ‘“o' 1 ' and blue 8 0wns
" n<l blue ,hirt, > • nd '!* r P» ulin ». »» d
mu«liroon hats. But this was not all;
there wus likewise a nephew of Joe’s, a
clioery, happy-go-lucky sort of a lad ;
Who by turn, helped Joe to earn the
pounds, old Mary the shillings, young
Mary Ihe pence, and the small fry the
halfpence. To tell the truth, I think
he liked helping with the pence best.
Now though this lad was the son of
Joe Harlan’s owu and only brother,
whose bones had never been laid dust
to dust, but were contained among the
mysteries of the deep sea, and though it
had been Joe’s own act to take the lad
from his widowed mother, it was only
too well known that uncle and Watching nephew
did not pull well together.
them at work, you would say *t was no
wonder.
Joe Harlan was clever, quick as
thought in his movements, industrious,
bravtf as a lion, and too often not only
hr brave but as furious and dangerous,
Bitter words and sometimes bitter cries
were heard from Joe’s boat by those
who c«*t their nets near them ; and even
on shore I’ve heard the coastguard say,
as he caught some sounds out at sea,
** There’s Hurricane Joe at it again.*
Yet to meet Joe Harlan in an ordina
ry way fellow, waa to meet and a right hearty plea
sant sound true, who could
spin ale a yarn—eh! flat and couldn’t pipes he spiu the
very the out, ee nd show
you a tempest, Joe, could, an >> minute,
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Sparta, Ga., April 28, 1870.
as if be had it in his pocket ? » He was
not far past forty, but he caffed
old Joe. ^
Now young Jack Harlan was so much
the contrary in temper and manner to
Joe, that he was called Fairweather
Jack and Gentle Jack ; and a harmless,
ha npy, good-hnmored soul by the he waa.
That Jack was bred e sea-shore
hands, there was and bare no mistaking. Hair, different face,
breast were of
healthy sandy-browns; aud his eyes
were of a misty sea blue. He was al¬
ways singing, whether at sea vHth Joe,
or drawing out the bathing machines
for old Mary, or mending nets and look¬
ing up at the pretty ladies on fold the pa¬
rade, or helping young Mary the
bathing gowns. Not that Jack had much
notion of any song: the thing he sang
was a sort of chant he might have
caught mix from the roll waves and stones when
they and over in fresh strong
weather There was a surging sort of
rise and fall in Jack’s song which made
one feel that the happiness which was
the source of it was boundless as at sea
His wurds were his own, and as well as
any one could catch them,,were thes^:
which no doubt came to him as he Was
shoving the heavy boat down the sands,
and expecting a fierce voyage of it with
Joe:
to«« Ne^er grieve, o '
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ThmS o»v eouf ”
It was not a favorite song with Joe
Harlan, whj apparently had a theory
that the passions of the winds and wa
ters had their equivalents in human na
ture, and that it was necessary to let
them see it. No sooner, then, did ad
verse winds assail him than he turned
upon them, and upon Jack and all the
world, with a fury that was far more
formilable to the poor lad than the
worst hurricane that ever blew,
ButJack suffered lessthan might have
been expected. He was as ready to
meet and greet his uucle’s return to
tranquility and good natnre as the sum
mer sun is to meet and greet the sea
when the storm-clouds have wrecked
their rage scarcely and passe<l away; and fihe re
suit was less cheerful.* Never
were there two such friends, when they
were friends, as Joe Hurricane and Fair
weather Jack. Joe’s remorse for his
vitoence was deep though silent, and af
ter every outburst the real affection he
bore the orphan lad was strengthened
by the recollection of the almost super
human l' iV natience and irentle g forhe ' iranee
i
Yet Jack waa merely a merry good
humored beinoLsai'nt fellow and sad to sav so far
fro uZ e ^"t^ that hiaimcle U n M«° who
waa w
obliged to put a sudden JaA stop to the tor
rent of fibs to which gave want
w >,pn i|J onesHoned after a rough vovace
as to e J h rl ,I 8e g on his fothheaff or the
gwe lling of hi®^poor red knuckles. He
had fallen out of the boat on Eeleea
Rocks, and met with innumerable ca
lamities, told in the most natural man
Der imaginable, till Joe put a stop to
t he telling by crying out sternly
« Hold hard with those d—d lies,
j^k, will yer ? Mary, *twas me that
mauled him ’
There wer e land .forms oo less than
gea gtorms with Joe Hurricane, and
many a time have the whole houseful
como scampering out and Mary token shelter
in the forge here. Old haa atood
trembling the door there, young Mary
there with Jack’s arm around her waist,
„„d the five bita of boys in their blue
fl„ nne | shirtaaod tarpaolins. and the five
him of airls in their blue-flannel gowns
and m ushroon hats filled the place so
that there was scarce room for the sole
0 f one’s foot I’d have to bear with
the ir company till Joe would be seen
slinking past, black as thander with rage
ai „l shame.
By that time they might safely ven
ture home; and home they would go,
old Mary thanking and “God-blessing’
me for the refuge, and young Mary smi
ji ug and blushing through ber tears, and
joining with her pretty voice in Jack’s
•• He«v*... b*nv«-, o!
P*n niong
and the little monkeys of children jump
ing and tumbling over one another, and
wickedly of pretending to be frightened
out tlieir wits by the distant view of
Joe’s back. In an hour or two would
come Joe himself fuddled with the corn
fort he had taken at the F.ying Fish,
and with remorse and shame.
“ So the devil’s had hold uf me again,
Sturt,’he’d say. Aud my answer was
always : and
« He has, Joe Harlan ; if you dont
have a reckoning with him once fur all,
you’ll find there'll come a day he’ll be
too much for you.’
‘Right you are—I fed it,’Joe. would
growl. Before going in, he would steal
off to the town, and come home with
jumping bulging pockets ; and what with the
and shouting and clamor, and
old Mary’s laugh (which at bathing time
you could hear from one end of the pa
rade to the other), and what with Jack’s
“ Heave-a, heave, O !’ I don’t know but
what neighbors had more reason to com
plain of the peace-making than the
storm.
But Joe Harlan’s passion was not al
ways to blow over so harmlessly. It
came to pass that every fit was longer
and fiercer than the last. The children
crouched down lower now when they
came to the forge for shelter ; and no
more laughed and made fun behind Joe’s
distant back, but kept quietly in their
hiding places till he was out of sight;
while old Mary trembled and young
Mary cried much more than in old times;
but I noticed that she and young Jack
clung to each other closer and closer as
things got worse and wjrse. When
the girl went to meet her father and
Jack after their little voyages, I notic
ed she would take count at once of eve
ry fresh bruise on Jack’s face and hands,
and grow deadly pale; and Jack’s
tsttfir* h - oy * longer
e 1
Jhe j JL!Tfh'T ^ V , .
t ® i. ar » j° ozl °g» n a °d ce sud
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1 *Z f “ rabl,n « afc the door -
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. ,°P. ,,. 1 ® 9 . in and * his back , 8
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..J“ Hariri e ?" u® ® e ^ lfc 1 ? e nt . J° ,
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f an sat A do n.
t -hh i«.ninm£ *u A e ° *° nrie *
LwaV ■» l r
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« J ',. thi. 8 ’ *k
, .. . , . cked
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t °f van * at the coastguard ^ a »tt- *
.. off.
,on » we ve un es . ,
How s that, said I, when you have
. but * ashore? for he dnp
J“ 8 was
pl “ g w * r0 ,? 1 tbe w ^! 8 t ’ .‘ He ® l ? ever
gol J] g to wa J k ther » thl . ® t,m « of night!
He looked , . up suddenly—such a look
w 1 shal1 never for g et -
‘Sturt, Sturt, dont torture me! Jack
is "Other.* .
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Whydjrfho.wg Whereas he. then n » theatorm, while
TToe^ ‘
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J fe,f*’ 8a id I -where h is 7 vour
bmt brother8 h 80nT 4
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* Why did da,1 he sing t Mary’s hymns did be when
we hymns were praising 0 the er ^ Maker ' Vb y of the wind tjnff
that was taking the bread out 0 ’ the
children’s months ?
* I ask you again, Joe, where is the
800 y oa f drowned brother ?
* Why did he steal my Mary’s heart,
a » d her hate her own father for
him?
* You wretch, where’s Jack ? '
‘ He h *J« m “ de » struBgle-its
bis own fault* He knew it ud nle me
,nore P ufc U P b ^ 8 bands like that, and
“Y ‘ Unc ' e . J ou ?" d f “‘ her were
brothera-you d never kill me J
Y ? u p,t,fo1 woundrel,’ says I, seiz
. bis collar, * what have you done
"‘th Jack?
Le « o! D,dn 11 tell you he a w.th
b,s .. mot b e *‘* ,
‘ W,H the y find him tbere when he<8
sought for to-morrow, as he will, be?
‘ in ® hm—find hun ? O my Jack!
the y ®bould tear me limb from limb, if
that would find him.’
Harlan, said I, ‘ if Jack is not
with his mother, where is he ?
* With his father!’ said Joe, in a sort
oi wailing whisper ;* and I sent him
^bere!
And he looked at „ quailing be
f . lf up me,
ore me as 1 should deal him instant
justice. . *
Jack’s face was before my eyes; Jack’s
voice was in my ears. I dared not
niyself alone with his destroyer. Ionly
opened my door wide and pointed out,
and he crept away.
^ d ’ d not g' ve J° e Harlan up to jus
tice . the day, I had fully
next as meant
do ; I did not do it for reasons I shall
le '* > ou by and by.
Joe did not evade me nor put himself
in my way. He did not give himself
-up, as I half expected lie would. He
told nm afterwards it would have been
almost a relief to him to do it, as far as
he was concerned ; but he had not cour
age to undeceive his wife and young
Mary and all at home, who believed tho-
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roughly his first statement—-that Jack
was at his mother’s. He wondered
much at my hesitation. I saw he did.
In fact, once he almost told me so.
‘ Why do you keep the worm under
your foot?’ he said, putting his haggard
face over the low door there, about the
second evening. • Why dontyou crush
it at once? * *’
I turned my back upon him. I had
done so whenever he looked over the
door, as he had done several times since
the night he came home without Jack.
This went against the grain with him
more than any words would have done,
The third evening he was there again
more haggard and wild than ever.
‘ Sturt,’ says he, ‘ it must be all over.
I must have swung for Jack. I must
be in hell now. There’s nothing wo»se
than this—there cant be. They’ll drive
me mad. Its * When Jack comes back,’
from morning till night. What’s.the
use of letting Christmas come ? 'They’ll
know fast enough then, when it co < eR
without him, that he’ll never come at
all. What d’ye say ! Shall I make f an
end of it?’ . ,
I did not look at him or answer him,
and he drew a long breath and c rent
e did not ,nake - eDd
clutching my bn», said, i;
l ( " 0l ne 0 ^—come out, and tell me
w ^' Shaking i „ him are off, a ^ I gaping walked at.’ with him .
t0 the ^ befor « the parade,
which was torn and tumbled about by
the high tides, as it will be to-morrow,
was a fine bright morning, and all
J he g eutr y (there used to be more winr
ter gentry than we have now) had turn
?' t ’ and werestimdmg in Ijttle groups
townsfolk at something had turned out at sea. All
out too, and
w*® at the same thing. We
asked an old sailor what it was, and he
told us it jwas a dead body out just be
yond the pier. Parson Browne—he was
°f y 0 ^ sea-fanciers—was coming
woruing at four o’clock, and
h^ had s^n it, and given proper notice,
little sailing-boat. , , r Ti \*£anwi
I here were some railings where w«
stood, dividing the road from a field the
sea had laid waste. Joe leant against
the8e w,th ® rovC of other watermen,
and looked out in the same direction
everybody else looked. All that could
| be seen ol the thing tHoy looked at from
this was a small dark line on
the little bOat. The motion of the
wave, made it me first St one end aUd,
* m0 " 0t0 “ <>U • r ° C ‘ 1 '
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I , left Joe looking n at it, an returned J
to my work. In the afternoon I went,
duvvn to the sea again, and found all
the town there ; ana more fine ladies
than in the morning were on the pier
parade looking at the little dark
line on the sunny water.
Joe. Harlan waa in the same place.—
He had been fetched home to dinner by
the children, and had slunk back again,
By thi» time all was ready lor bring
ing it ashore. The shell that Imd been
made for it in the morning was down on
the beach, ready for it to be lifted into
out of the boat that was just setting off
‘f fe ' ch ; F ou !; me0 were gomgont in
the boat. Just t as it . waa putting off,
one of them, a young fellow who hap
pened to be a chum of Jack’s, sickened
at the job, and asked to be let off
Joe wiped the moisture from l„. fore
with his sleeve when he saw thty.
Jt 8truck b im that the young man had
a sortof instinct about the thing,though
not the slightest suspicion was afloat
in the town about Jack’s absence.
The lad was let off, and the three
boatmen looked about for some one to
take his place. No sooner did they
catch sight of Joe’s tall strong form
leaning against the rail thau they settled
on him as the man of nil men to be above
letting any squeamishness stand in the
way of a bold waterman’s duty. They
hailed him from the beach: ‘Ahoy
there, Joe Hari.- n. Bear a hand.' „
Joe stood still. It e^er a face aged
years in a few seconds, his did. Crowds
were looking at bim, the man for whom
the boat waited ; they were impatient
to see it off.
What was he to do ? He was not a
man who might refuse this impunity on
the score of nervousness, he with bis
herculean frame and dark strong face.
Ypt to go to help draw the thing in near*
er and nearer, w hile all the town gazed
on it, and would gradually recognize the
features and form of its favorite; draw
that in, while the children all stood
there, clustered thick as shell-fish on the
groin, ready to see all, and exclaim, ‘It’s
Terms Three Dollars.
young c^ack^jifc’a Mary, jrack..!*—draw stjood beside that her in, mother ^hiW
look moved as if by some Ije strange safe instinct would to
on p scene was she #
art other times avoid. She would know
was H M P ? of that; ,was
'Sttfe, (mWever altered he might be by
crrwel death and a cruel restless grave,
{Hilary, both Would murdered h/iouf and.the Hfib—#dold'Ktro^ mujder^ tit
^ glanc^^ud proclaim them both fn heir
agony,i^r all the world-'‘ iri °’ ,Jt v ™.
through It rushed, all this (fid, a mitfufe,
Joe> mibd as he I'eabt agaitifet
the rail: and sell e^e# waited and Watch*
ed to see him anawer the summons ‘ h4r
bad received.
Would he go, I wondered j but asf 1
wondered, he dragged his hat lower over
his eyes, crog&lcf tjhe tlWbeschVpI^hjJing roild, «ndf dashed
noiselessly ddwiT’td
ed through the shingle with long ^orn determine
steps. fellow, wboSte pladKjbk
*'he young ^hove
was to filf helped to the boat off,
H °d in doiug so murtnfirdd his friend
Jack’s Viatel own peculiar hi crV ot songVwhtah. h»#
h cc caught of fh:' - fVW
u,mo ®
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ly The boat sped brjght on at last, and riding shewing kyea
over the w \yater,
no signs of the awfulness of its errand,
except perhaps in the stillness and up
rightness of the four men, each of whom
kept his pippin his mouth in asWady
manner. *. !o A:m* •
dark-little The little saillng-boat, to which tto
line was attached, wasreach
ed. A man—not Joe—unfastenedtbe
rope, and tied it to the other boat; and
presently the four erect figures were
rowing shorewards, and in the dark line
comingwith them, held tow at about
three yards distance, hS teadily^lgentfy'
it came along nearer and nearer^with
the bright sunshine upon it, and the
gaze of all the townov Nearer and near
er it came, till it began to assume other
shape and substance than the tbiabfaOk,
oiThi crowds presseacToso to toe plW
side and to the edge of the parade,-■•/**
were beginning to distingu/sfc *ne white
face from the dark clothes of the flat¬
ing form, wtieo one of thefour boatman
took a large dark piece of stuff from the
bottom of the boat, ana pullrngjlm^ '
till the drowned .ssrwrffearlyiclose
to it, threw it fife carefully over, entirely
tbe «
That was father,’.^heard rgiodtbf young
Macy say. O nkitlier,dhow
‘
*<>“« Havebeen so homblh to see*!’
Joes terrors that hit crirfie would
find him out when the face of the tdeacf
man was seen were I injured groundless changed, ; feHt
was so fearfully and
that not. one of Jack's*old-mates neeog
nized him and as they !placed of the bddy in;
the shell bore itus that a stranger,
and laid it inside ashed in the coal-yard^
Atnriight, when a pair of< strong but
listless arms were thrown over the door
there, !&nd a pairof wild coal-black eyes
were fixed on my fire, I was bad enough
to almoat pity the poor wretr.h I knew
something of the misery he suffered.,. I
knew that if the picture of that bright
aea and the pier-atoivds. and the black
line movmgup.md down, and and down
—I knew that if this was so clear be
fore my eyes wherever I turned that
oight. It waa all far more horribly elear
before didn’t him ■■■■■ ■ .•■.it
He speak till .1 went to push
him off and shut up for the night, and
then he muttered i
‘ I shall give up tbe gamejn the morn
ing. I shall go to Chalmers’ (Vl/p Chal
What’stheuseofwaitingtillhisriioth- mers was a magistrate),^ * and fety all*
er comes aud knowa him,, or till my lads
find him out, as they will do tp mor
row ?* All the watermen and boys are
ordered to go and look at it to-morrow,
/ must go, and I- should dp for payself
alongside Gentle of him * for, I cpuldn’* deny
Jack in deaths however loused
him in lifeJ > Pm? uo t iumh
The mo f uing on wbic'^ Joe had de¬
terrainedtogivehimselfupwasOhrist- aud when 1 looked
maa-eve; in upon
him, to see if be meant to carry oui his
resolution, I fooud him sitting,by the
firm already dressed and his bat ip his
hand, waiting for the time when he
thought I Mr* Chafsnere would be jip 4<
sat down opposite to him, and was
ipvited to stay to breakfast by old Mary.
Looking about tee, I saw that a new
torture had beguo for Joe Hurlsn,
Everybody was expecting Jack, and
preparing bad a.-d watching lor him. It
seemed he n ver been away yet on
Chiistmas-eve, ud old Mary, young