The Coming Wave

catch from forty to sixty in a minute. It was exciting work, and the blood of Leopold and Stumpy had been up to fever heat. But this violent agitation had passed away, though

ference of a cent in the price of a single fish made four dollars and sixty cents on the whole fare. Leopold had received a large price the day before, and he

after he had finished counting the fish. "If you sell them at five cents apiece, I shall

cents apiece, Stumpy," rep

than that, what are you going

e fish market don't give me ten cents apiece for the lot, I shall sail over there. I am almost sure I can get ten

wants about so much to make out her interest money. If she don't pay it w

d Leopold, with a deep

He don't put off till to-morrow what can be d

ld rather go to jail

red dollars seven years ago, is worth eighteen hundred or two thousand now. My affectionate grandpa knows this just as well as my mother; and if h

r will get all over the seven hundred, when it is sold," su

ch of Macke

s higher than a kite just now. Nobody except my loving grandpa has got the ready cash to pay down; and mother think

Stumpy's worldly affairs. As the dingy craft approached the pier, a crowd gathered at the head of the landing-steps, for it had been noised abo

crowd on the wharf was Bangs, the senior member of the firm that kept the fish market. He was excited and anxi

eopold had covered them in order to keep them from injury from the sun, and so that

iving to be as calm and indifferent

ou got?" inq

eated himself in the stern-sheets of

nke

ort that I sold

ngs, looking up at the sky as though no

up at the sky in turn, as though not

ng fisherman was beside himself to ask such a price, after apparently glutting the market the day before. "That will d

and I don't know of any law that compels you

d towards the fish market, and the idlers hastene

r two or three of them?" a

Leopold. "But I don't car

you will let me have th

to the cap-sill of the wharf. He saw that if the young man attempted to sell o

cents apiece for all

to Rockland," replied Leopold, who did not wish to offend the members of the fish firm, for they had o

ents did not appear to be a very extravagant price for them, considering the scarcity of the article in the market. In the settlement, Leopold received forty-six dollars; Stumpy's share, according to a standing agreement, was one quarter of the proceeds of the sale; and the eleven dollars and a half which he put into his wallet

ng's work, and Leopold had informed his father of the second big haul he had made that season. As b

added the landlord of the Cliff House, when the exc

tter of him?"

Mr. Bennington. "He has sent for everybody belonging in the

, who, judging by what the invalid had said about the book

e has stolen the book. I laughed at him, and told him no one would steal such a thi

of his diary. He spoke of it as he would have done if it had been some dear friend who had been taken away from him

en he had heard all the particulars the s

to keep it; so I just tucked it into the flue of that fireplace," dr

r place to put i

etter one. I thought it would be s

e that you p

Harvey. "That diary is worth more to me than all the rest I

ick man that it was useless to do so, for he had looked everywhere a dozen times himself

suppose the diary is not really w

ch might be worth a great deal of money to a ba

you suppose has

ome one stole it," added

about the secrets

hing of that sort, for all I know. I think I know just who stole it too;" and Harvey related all the particulars of the tipsy man's visit to the chamber

o thought it was necessary to prove the mo

y room in the night and took it, while he was blundering about over the chairs and tables. I am sure that none of the folks who came in to see me in the afternoon could have taken it without my seeing them-not even the newspaper man. You ma

He had also obtained the name of the man, and the address of the firm in New York city for which he travelled. With this information he hoped to obtain his treasure again, by shrewd management,

allest store in the place, in the window of which were displayed a few silver watches and a rather meagre assortment of cheap jewelry. On the shelves inside of the shop was a considerable variety of wooden clocks, and, in a glass case on the counter, a quantity of spoons, forks and dishes, so

re hard in Germany. Her father was dead, and her elder brother, Leopold, was not yet out of his time, learning the trade of a watch-maker. The younger brother went to the west, taking her with him, and established himself on a farm. He was not very successful, and his sister, at the age of

here she enlarged her knowledge and experience in the art of cooking, till she was competent to take a situation as the cook of a small public hou

er spoke English then as well as a native; and she was not only neat and skillful, but she was a pretty and wholesome-looking woman. Peter married her, and, after a while, bought out t

is mother had insisted upon naming

his mind a plan to make the Cliff House into a large establishment, which would attract summer visitors in great numbers. He

him to join her in America. He was met on the wharf in New York, when he landed, by Mr. Bennington and his wife, and conducted to Rockhaven without delay. He could not speak a word of English then; but for six months he devoted himself to the study of it under the tuition of his sister and her children, till he was competent to carry on his business in the town. He was a very skillful workman, and all the watches in Rockhaven and on the islan

ldren. Leopold was his favorite, perhaps because he bore the watch-maker's name. They were fast friend

for the reason that it contained his own savings. For six months he had been hoarding up every penny he earned for a purpose, and he had placed his money in the hands of his uncle for safe keeping. Perhaps Herr Schlager's iron safe was a

see him in your head," said Herr Schlager, as

old; and his success had covered his face wi

lighted to hear his nephew use the little Germa

ad been preparing himself, during his walk from the hotel

" cried the

in plain English, forgetting for the t

ch!" exclaimed

rman," laughed the young man.

given him by his nephew, and took therefrom a slip of paper. Leopold added the

ugh, Leopold-eh?"

not

re you want

t is rather late in the season, I think they will take

ll buy h

pring they will put the price up again. I

ou haf de rest

f the sum required, if one hundred and fifty dollars would answer the purpose. Leopold left the