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than he was about to make his grateful acknowledgments; but Rosa checked him.
Fresh obstacles again presented themselves to impede the escape of the lovers. Jack lad secured tho ladder, and he lay beneath the mouth of his cave; but this obstacle was soon obviated. They placed the table astride him as cautiously as possible, on which they also put the stool. Rosa ascended, and Orford followed. As he stepped from the stool, down fell the apparatus.—Jack started up in a fury and fixed the ladder—but Orford drew it up, and left him raging like a madman, vowing their immediate destruction.
He accordingly, urged by his fury, climbed up the rock, and had nearly reached the top, when Orford, with the but-end of a gun, which he had taken with him, knocked him down again. Stunned with the blow, he lay senseless whilo they effected their escape.
Being thus fortunately freed from the horrors of their situation, they left Jack to his fate, and made all possible haste to relieve the anxious fears of Mr. Chapman; whom on their arrival they found confined to his bed. Rosa's father was overjoyed in again beholding his beloved daughter, whose courage had been the means of preserving the life of her lover, and restoring happiness to his family; he soon recovered.
Soon afterwards the marriage of Captain Orford and the amiable Rosa was solemnized with great festivity: the Captain sold his commission, and purchased a large plantation near New Crawford Town, where they live loving and beloved. We shall now leave them happy in the society of each other, aud return to the party who set out in pursuit of Jack.
