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Those Joys The World Holds Dear;
Smiling I Said, "To-Morrow'S Sun
Will Bring Us Better Cheer."
For Faith And Love Were One. Glad Faith!
All Loss Is Naught Save Loss Of Faith.
Ii.
My Truant Joys Come Trooping Back,
And Trooping Friends No Less;
But Tears Fall Fast To Meet The Lack
Of Dearer Happiness.
For Faith And Love Are Two. Sad Faith!
'Tis Loss Indeed, The Loss Of Faith.
Mary B. Dodge.
Adam And Eve.
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 16Chapter Xxxvi.
From The Day On Which Adam Knew That The Date Of Jerrem'S Trial Was
Fixed All The Hope Which The Sight Of Eve Had Rekindled Was Again
Completely Extinguished, And, Refusing Every Attempt At Consolation, He
Threw Himself Into An Abyss Of Despair A Hundred-Fold More Dark And
Bitter Than Before. The Thought That He, Captain And Leader As He Had
Been, Should Stand In court Confronted By His Comrades And Neighbors
(For Adam, Ignorant Of The Disasters Which Had Overtaken Them, Believed
Half Polperro To Be On Their Way To London), And There Swear Away
Jerrem'S Life And Turn Informer, Was Something Too Terrible To Be Dwelt
On With Even Outward Tranquillity, And, Abandoning Everything Which Had
Hitherto Sustained Him, He Gave Himself Up To All The Terrors Of Remorse
And Despair. It Was In Vain For Reuben To Reason Or For Eve To Plead: So
Long As They Could Suggest No Means By Which This Dreaded Ordeal Could
Be Averted Adam Was Deaf To All Hope Of Consolation. There Was But One
Subject Which Interested Him, And Only On One Subject Could He Be Got To
Speak, And That Was The Chances There Still Remained Of Jerrem'S Life
Being Spared; And To Furnish Him With Some Food For This Hope, Eve Began
To Loiter At The Gates, Talk To The Warders And The Turnkeys, And Mingle
With The Many Groups Who On Some Business Or Pretext Were Always
Assembled About The Yard Or Stood Idling In The Various Passages With
Which The Prison Was Intersected.
One Morning It Came To Her Mind, How Would It Be For Adam To Escape, And
So Not Be There To Prove The Accusation He Had Made Of Jerrem Having
Shot The Man? With Scarce More Thought Than She Had Bestowed On Many
Another Passing Suggestion Which Seemed For The Moment Practical And
Solid, But As She Turned It Round Lost Shape And Floated Into Air, Eve
Made The Suggestion, And To Her Surprise Found It Seized On By Adam As
An Inspiration. Why, He'D Risk _All_ So That He Escaped Being Set Face
To Face With Jerrem And His Former Mates. Adam Had But To Be Assured The
Strain Would Not Be More Than Eve'S Strength Could Bear Before He Had
Adopted With Joy Her Bare Suggestion, Clothed It With Possibility, And
By It Seemed To Regain All His Past Energy. Could He But Get Away And
Jerrem'S Life Be Spared, All Hope Of Happiness Would Not Be Over. In
Some Of Those Distant Lands To Which People Were Then Beginning To Go
Life Might Begin Afresh. And As His Thoughts Found Utterance In Speech
He Held Out His Hand To Eve, And In It She Laid Her Own; And Adam Needed
Nothing More To Tell Him That Whither He Went There Eve Too Would Go.
There Was No Need For Vows And Protestations Now Between These Two, For,
Though To Each The Other'S Heart Lay Bare, A Word Of Love Scarce Ever
Crossed Their Lips. Life Seemed Too Sad And Time Too Precious To Be
Whiled Away In Pleasant Speeches, And Often When Together, Burdened By
The Weight Of All They Had To Say, Yet Could Not Talk About, The Two
Would Sit For Hours And Neither Speak A Word. But With This Proposition
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 17Of Escape A New Channel Was Given To Them, And As They Discussed Their
Different Plans The Dreadful Shadow Which At Times Had Hung Between Them
Was Rolled Away And Lifted Out Of Sight.
Inspired By The Prospect Of Action, Of Doing Something, Adam Roused
Himself To Master All The Difficulties: His Old Foresight And Caution
Began To Revive, And The Project, Which Had On One Day Looked Like A
Desperate Extremity, Grew By The End Of A Week Into A Well-Arranged Plan
Whose Success Seemed More Than Possible. Filled With Anxiety For Eve,
Reuben Gave No Hearty Sanction To The Experiment: Besides Which, He Felt
Certain That Now Neither Adam'S Absence Nor Presence Would In any Way
Affect Jerrem'S Fate; Added To Which, If The Matter Was Detected It
Might Go Hard With Adam Himself. But His Arguments Proved Nothing To
Eve, Who, Confident Of Success, Only Demanded From Him The Promise Of
Secrecy; After Which, She Thought, As Some Questions Might Be Put To
Him, The Less He Knew The Less He Would Have To Conceal.
Although A Prisoner, Inasmuch As Liberty Was Denied To Him, Adam Was In
No Way Subjected To That Strict Surveillance To Which Those Who Had
Broken The Law Were Supposed To Be Submitted. It Was Of His Own Free
Will That He Disregarded The Various Privileges Which Lay Open To Him:
Others In His Place Would Have Frequented The Passages, Hung About The
Yards And Grown Familiar With The Tap, Where Spirits Were Openly Bought
And Sold. Money Could Do Much In Those Days Of Lax Discipline, And The
Man Who Could Pay And Could Give Need Have Very Few Wants Unsatisfied.
But Adam'S Only Desire Was To Be Left Undisturbed And Alone; And As This
Entailed No Undue Amount Of Trouble After Their First Curiosity Had Been
Satisfied, It Was Not Thought Necessary To Deny Him This Privilege. From
Constantly Going In and Out, Most Of The Officials Inside The Prison
Knew Eve, While To But Very Few Was Adam'S Face Familiar; And It Was On
This Fact, Aided By The Knowledge That Through Favor Of A Gratuity
Friends Were Frequently Permitted To Outstay Their Usual Hour, That Most
Of Their Hopes Rested. Each Day She Came Eve Brought Some Portion Of The
Disguise Which Was To Be Adopted; And Then, Having Learnt From Reuben
That The Mary Jane Had Arrived And Was Lying At The Wharf Unloading, Not
Knowing What Better To Do, They Decided That She Should Go To Captain
Triggs And Ask Him, In case Adam Could Get Away, Whether He Would Let
Him Come On Board His Vessel And Give Him Shelter There Below.
"Wa-Al, No," Said Triggs, "I Woan'T Do That, 'Cos They As I'Se Got Here
Might Smell Un Out; But I'Ll Tell 'Ee What: I Knaws A Chap As Has In
Many Ways Bin Beholden To Me 'Fore Now, And I Reckon If I Gives Un The
Cue He'Ll Do The Job For 'Ee."
"But Do You Think He'S To Be Trusted?" Eve Asked.
"Wa-Al, That Rests On How Small A Part You'M Foaced To Tell Un Of,"
Said Triggs, "And How Much You Makes It Warth His While. I'M Blamed If
I'D Go Bail For Un Myself, But That Won'T Be No Odds Agen' Adam'S Goin':
'Tis Just The Place For He. 'T 'Ud Niver Do To Car'Y A Pitch-Pot Down
And Set Un In The Midst O' They Who Couldn'T Bide His Stink."
"And The Crew?" Said Eve, Wincing Under Captain Triggs'S Figurative
Language.
"Awh, The Crew'S Right Enuf--A Set O' Gashly, Smudge-Faced Raskils
That'S Near Half Maltee And T' Other Lascar Injuns. Any Jail-Bird That
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 18Flies Their Way 'Ull Find They'S All Of A Feather. But Here," He Added,
Puzzled By The Event: "How'S This That You'M Still Mixed Up With Adam
So? I Thought 'Twas All 'Long O' You And Reuben May That The Lottery'S
Landin' Got Blowed About?"
Eve Shook Her Head. "Be Sure," She Said, "'Twas Never In Me To Do Adam
Any Harm."
"And You'M Goin' To Stick To Un Now Through Thick And Thin? 'Twill Niver
Do For Un, Ye Knaw, To Set His Foot On Cornish Ground Agen."
"He Knows That," Said Eve; "And If He Gets Away We Shall Be Married And
Go Across The Seas To Some New Part, Where No One Can Tell What Brought
Us From Our Home."
Triggs Gave A Significant Nod. "Lord!" He Exclaimed, "But That'S A Poor
Lookout For Such A Bowerly Maid As You Be! Wouldn'T It Be Better For 'Ee
To Stick By Yer Friends 'Bout Here Than--"
"I Haven'T Got Any Friends," Interrupted Eve Promptly, "Excepting It'S
Adam And Joan And Uncle Zebedee."
"Ah, Poor Old Zebedee!" Sighed Triggs: "'Tis All Dickey With He. The Day
I Started I See Sammy Tucker To Fowey, And He Was Tellin' That Th' Ole
Chap Was Gone Reg'Lar Tottlin'-Like, And Can'T Tell Thickee Fra That;
And As For Joan Hocken, He Says You Wouldn'T Knaw Her For The Same. And
They'S Tooked Poor Foolish Jonathan, As Is More Mazed Than Iver, To Live
With 'Em; And Mrs. Tucker, As Used To Haggle With Everybody So, Tends On
'Em All Hand And Foot, And Her'S Given Up Praichin' 'Bout Religion And
That, And 'S Turned Quite Neighborly, And, So Long As Her Can Save Her
Daughter, Thinks Nothin'S Too Hot Nor Too Heavy."
"Dear Joan!" Sighed Eve: "She'S Started By The Coach On Her Way Up Here
Now."
"Whether She Hath Or No!" Exclaimed Triggs In Surprise. "Then Take My
Word They'S Heerd That Jerrem'S To Be Hanged, And Joan'S Comin' Up To Be
All Ready To Hand For 'T."
"No, Not That," Groaned Eve, For At The Mere Mention Of The Word The
Vague Dread Seemed To Shape Itself Into A Certainty. "Oh, Captain
Triggs, Don'T Say That If Adam Gets Off You Don'T Think Jerrem'S Life
Will Be Spared."
"Wa-Al, My Poor Maid, Us Must Hope So," Said The Compassionate Captain;
"But 'Tis The Warst O' They Doin'S That Sooner Or Later Th' Endin, Of
'Em Must Come. 'Twould Never Do To Let 'Em Prosper Allays," He Added
With Impressive Certainty, "Or Where 'Ud Be The Use O' Parsons Praichin'
Up 'Bout Heaven And Hell? Why, Now, Us Likes Good Liquor Cheap To Fowey;
And Wance 'Pon A Time Us Had It Too, But That Ha'N'T Bin For Twenty
Year. Our Day'S Gone By, And So 'Ull Theirs Be Now; And Th' Excise 'Ull
Come, And Revenoos
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