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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-12-07, Page 76 tS 3urdo*: marked n, with; at there;• Market' for the• tomach.' , writes:; ve used' r a longi and Y relief, seve rug ! y I without; ts. 1, iicine I actured ,imited, Illy the ,ust •be- )ept. of ins the - he care' cold. Ind the lu need rder to afe rule be used but for if you the ex- some - n small unit sher tion largest N FURS ed rep- te suc- TORY Omer," dished. I AVE. rt• • December 7,, 1916 THE WINGHAM TIMES Pge 7 int:5nc'�is X51 bEEMESS LINKED BY FATE E9 a�1 BY CHARLES GARVIS anis: Midi' rftealTig s lout • Se .sail. Why should she not go? She might reach the group of ..ands of which Mannering had spoken: on the other hand she aright not. At -any rte she would have saved her self -respect -Would save herself the shame of revealing her love for this mall, The idea, the thought, sent the blood to her face. She ran up to the hut and put her spare clothes hi a bundle, and wrapping the marriage certificate and Fie)"cug's diary in a piieee of oilcloth, put theta in. the bosom of her dress, then returned to the beach and the raft. But she could not go without a word of farewi'll. She was fleeing as anuch from herself as from Hiro, but • she owed him a word of explanation • -of good-bye. She tore a blank leaf from P'lenl- ing's journal and writing on it, "I ata going for both our smkcs. Re- member our I)I.olllise. Nina," fixed it with it stone to the rock nearest the spot where ,the raft floated. Then she took the box of provisions on board, set the raft loose from its moorings, ran up the sail to the mast, and pushed otI into the rolling sea. Mannering did not awake until some hours later. His phenomenally hard work of the previous day and the stress and strain of the events of the night had exhausted him. Ho wormed with the guilty consciousness ••o ping "late," and he went about t patine tasks of the morning. 4filled l• andlitthe fire and � laid the can with water; and all tho time he was performing the tasks he was doing o n so mecllanicallY, with the mein- - ory of last night's experiences hum- ming in his brain. He had held Nina in his arms, Iiad he -had he kissed her? Ilad he spoken a word of the love for her that Welled up in his heart? I'Ie would know when he saw her - when he looked into her eyes. Would she be angry, resells tul? he asked him- self. Poor girl, poor girl! Should he tell,, er tlmt he had learned to love • hethat he wanted her for a wife in raiiit4han name? He went up to the hut intending to call her -to get her outside and have it out with her there and then. Af- ter all, she was his wile. IIis wife! He murmured the svbrcis to himself fondly, with a 'thrill of passionate longir.g. IIis wife! How much it nteant to him! But he would not call her. No • doubt she was tired. IIe would wait, and at breakfast, as they sat oppo- site to each other, like husband and wife, he would open his heart to her -would tell her that he loved her, would -yes, claim her! He went back to the saloon. No 'breakfast was laid; but he made up the fire and sat down to wait pa- tiently. Half an hour passed, then, thinking that he had better call her -that she would be 'angry if he did not do so -he went up to his hut and knocked at the door. No answer came, and after knock- ing again, hi' strolled down to the beach. 'ile missed the raft in an in- • stant and stared with surprise at the place at winch it had been moored. Then the piece of paper efl ntt cl, nR un- der the stone on the rock caught his attention. IIe wear to it, took it from undor the stone ,. nd read it. Read it not once of twice, but a dozen times; then stood.. gazing n g with unseeing eyes and torture -racked heart out to the sea on which the frail raft had ventured, bearing away frons him the girl he had learned to love .11s only strong men can love. CIIAI'T1' R VIII. Mannering sank on to the rock on which Nina had placed her farewell letter, and, covering his face with his hands, sat motionless as, a statue of grief. He did not think of himself - of the awful solitude to which her flight had doomed him. , Only one thought racked him, and that Was that she had flown because she was air id of him. Sho had preferred to t the treacherous, murderous sea rthan , ttt�rerhim It was a hTTeouq reflection, and it Nearly -drove him mad. Sho had not waited until the boat had been launched, but had taken the raft - had run all and every risk rather than remain another day on the is- land with him or confide herself to his care in a joint voyage. Hours passed and he still sat stir- ing with vacant eyes at the sea. It did not occur to him to launch the boat and attempt to follow her. What good would it be if he came up with her? She would probably throw herself into the sea at his ap- proach, she was to proud, so mis- trustful of him. He got up at last and wandered about with the air of a man distraught, Every now and then he plucked a flower or picked up a shell and gazed at it as if it were of the most ntense interest to him, but he was scarcely conscious of what ho held in his hand. Ho felt neither hunger nor thirst; but after a time a strange feeling of exhaustion, of craving for sleep, came over him, anh he dropped down just outside his hut and fell into a deep sleep. It probably saved his reason and prepared him for the still heavier blow that Fate was to deal him. He slept right through the night and past the dawn; and it was the soughing of tho wind and the harsh crash of the waves of the beach that awoke him. It had been raining heavily and he Was wet through, but he did not feel cold, for fever was warming his blood with a baleful heat. As he stretched himself back came his misery with a sharp tor- ture; and with a groan n he dropped d his arms to his side and looked round as if he were trying to per- suade himself that it was a dream, and that he should see Nina coming swiftly toward him. But instead of the vision of her fair, fresh grace and beauty, his burning eyes fell upon something on the beach. Long* before he had reached it he ,saw what 'it was. It was the raft, or rather the re- mains elf it. The sail had gone, the mast was broken, half the logs had • been torn away; the thing had been wrecked in the storm which had rag- ed while he slept, end the incoming tide had cast it at his feet. And Nina! While he stared from the wrecked raft to the c sea and back again from the sett to the raft a small object fleeting on the water caught his eye. He fixed his gaze on it, beginning to tremble and shake, flung himself into the water and swam for the thing. When he calve back with it clutched in his hand, his face was white and his eyes starting. It was the little woollen cap Nina had worn. Panting with his exertion and the agony that the assurance of her death caused him, he lay full length on the sand, his face upturned to the sun which broke out suddenly and mocked hint pitilessly. It was •tln'ce clays after this that in a dogged, sullen fashion he hauled the canoe down to the beach, and, putting in some provisions, made ready to sail. Ile was going,not because ho had any desire for life or to go back to civilization, but be- cause the island had become intoler- able to him. You see, it was im- possible to forget her in a place of which every feature kept her vividly, agonizingly in his memory, and he FCEi lEsr „ USE 9 [ REPS d � PILLS �J� MA LS4(f OOD. 'THEYIRia4llrC1? TO Mrs. J. 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The captain was a good-hearted fellow, and, thinking that -there might be a basis of reason in the castaway's ravings, he hove about for some time in the latitude in which the canoe had been found, but he carte across nothing to reward his humanity and while Mannering was prostrated in his bunk with brain fever, the Eliza Anne got on her course again and made for London. Three months later Mannering was one night, wandering along the Strand. It was just after eleven and the theatres were pouring out their crowds into the already congested thoroughfare. Mannering had not reached London destitute, for, all un- consciously, he had brought with him the small amount of money he had with him on the Alpine; but he had, since his disembarkation, lived with little regard for comfort or appear- ances; and as he moved slowly with the crowd he looked, in his old serge suit and weather -stained cap, so much like a tramp that now and again the policemen eyed him with something like suspicion and one had actually bidden him "move on." Manneringnaltio g obeyed YCCh anitali Y. looking neither to the right nor the left, but drifting aimlessly with the crowd which surged along the wet Pavement. The crush, the noise of the cabs and carriages, the shouts of the 'bus conductors and the talk and laughter of the people acted as a narcotic and soothed him after a fashion. But in the midst of the tur- moil he could hear the boom of the sea on the sands of the island and, hear Nina's voice calling to him "Dinner is ready!" or "Will you bring me some wood for the fire?" and the commonplace phrases took to themselves a mystic, sacred, signi- ficance. igni- ficance. Presently he found himself brought Gaiety Theatre. The up against the a people were just streaming out and Mannering was standing by a lamp post waiting for an opportunity to go on, and, looking absently at the beautifully dressed women and the "smart" men emerging from the il- luminated doorway when one of the gentlemen said: "•I11, my man, will you get a cab for us?" Mannering looked round and Saw that the request was addressed to I him by a gentleman by whom a lady i richly dressed was standing. A grim sense of humor seized Ma,nner- ing, for ho knew them boil, and he forced his way down the street and got a cab. "Thanks!" said the gentleman, and he held out a shilling; then, as Man- nering laughed mirthlessly, the gen- cu'm-`•tell us your adventures!'' t,leman threw up his head and looked Mannering looked from one to the kind suspicion, the supposed cab -runner, and other, first with a k 1 . i of s p icio n, broke into a low exclamation of then blankly, and he sighed, the sigh amazement. of a man who has been living to him- "Mannering! Good heaven!" he self for months. I haven't had any. -Adventures? 1111 n t cried; and before Mannering could re- ply or step away, the gentleman .1.11, yes; I was wrecked. The Alpine caught. 'hint by the arm ancl, turning lost her course, struck and went knew that if he remained any longer to the lady, said in eager (•ousterna- down." brin over his loss and tion: "flood Lord! And you -You were the tragic brood g the en•cumstarices attending it "i3lanche, it is Mannering! Get in- picked up?" exclaimed Ie•t<•hford. that hego ad. to the call; I'll follow." 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You remember what he teas!" "Poor fellow! 01, yes, 1 remem• bee! Of course 1 remember. Did -did you tell hila, Charles?" she asked in a low voice, "No! 'There hasn't been time! He's washing his hands. You most help me, Blanche., 1'11 go to !him!" Ile found Mannering seated at the dressing -table absently fingering the 'silver -backed brushes, and took him clown to the dining -room. Lady Blanche, in the splendor of her even- ing dress, came to meet him cordial- ly but half fearfully, for there was a strange, hunted, strained look in h a eyes. "1 ala sog 1 ad to see you back, Mr. Mannering. n eY•' m g. A nd of course you re- rneluber ate -Blanche Favasom"-she blushed as she gave her maiden - name -"Judith Orme's great friend, you know." Mannering's' eyelids flickered as he bent over ler hand. "1 remember," he said in the deep, hollow voice with which he had spok- en since the day of his great loss. "Sit clown," said Letchford, with, a warning glance at his wife, a glance that said, "Let hint alone for a time; leave him to me." llannering did not look down at his unsuitable attire, did not appear conscious 01 himself or his surround- ings, but stalk into the chair 'and accepted a plate. of the soup which had been kept warn. at the fire- place. "Rattling good piece at the (laiety," said Letehford; anti he went on to spt'ak of it, addressing his wile rather than Mannering, and studiously avoiding looking at him. Mannering got through his soup and some cutlets in silence, glancing in the saute absent-minded, pre- occupied way at his host and beau- tiful hostess. Presently Lady Blanche rose, but her husband signed to her to remain. "Don't go, Blanche," he said with the nervousness of the man who re- lies on his wife in difficult moments. "We want to have a chat with Vane. Now, old chap" -h0 leaned forward and laid his hand on Mannering's You must !lave :ail a lied tiute!" "Yes -I suffered," assented Manner- ing, staring at the table -cloth and fingering !tis fruit -knife'. "011, yes-'. 1 suffered!" „And was no one else saved•?" ask- ed Let ehford. "No -no one rise was saved. She IIis voice died away, and his head sank on his boson!. Lally Letchford leant forward, all tender pity and anxiety: but Letch- ford rose and got some cigars. "Smoke, oldman," he said. "Blanche doesn't mind; in fact, she likes it" Mannering took the cigar as Tager- ly as he had taken the one offered hint in the cab; and as he smoked his face cleared of some of its gloom. "And -and so you came to Lon- don?" said Letchford with seeming casualness. "And have you seen any- one, any of your people, the Les - borough lawyer, anyone?" "No, no one," said Mannering. "That's -that's strange, and -and it's a pity!" murmured Letchford. Mannering raised his eyes. "Why? Why should I see them? I didn't want money. I have same still left." He put his hand 11 his pocket and took out a few, a very few, shillings. Letchford stilled an exclamation. "Mi dear fellow, my dear Vane! Do you mean to say that you have been wandering about London in poverty, in -in this condition; and that you didn't know -oh, good Loral, help me, Blanche!" I'ler face flushed as she leant for- ward and put her white hand on I1lannering's hard but shapely one. •'alt', Mannering, Charlie is trying to tell you something, to break something to you; and he wants nie to help him. And I don't know how! "-piteously-"'}hut I must try, T must try, and "you -you must be patient with me." Mannering looked at her with scant interest, and with a sigh she went on: "You have not been down to Les - borough?" Mannering shook his head. "No; why should I?" "I know that you and your uncle, Lord Leshorough, were not -good friends," she said, "but I thought you alight have gone down, might have heard-" 11Iaunering shook his head again. "No. I've not heard anything. i What is t?" ' Letchford rose and went toMan- nering's n- 0. nering's ride and laid a hand, at once soothing and warning, upon his shoulder. "It's -it's bad news, Vance," ho said, gravely, "full yourself to- gether. The earl's dead!" Mannering nodded and his lips twitched. "I'ni sorry," he said in his deep, hollow voice, "I -I -liked the old man, though we never got on to- gether. He thought me too indepen- dent-I.•Wouldn't accept his money:' Poor old fellow! He was a good sort! Head! And so Augustus is the I';arl of Lesborough!" Letchford drew a long breath, shru • S6 «ell his shouldersand looked helplessly towards his wife, and of course she carie to his relief. "There is still -worse news, Mr. Mannering," she said in her sweet, gentle voice. "Lord Augustus and his boy -you remember him, he was at. Eton? You were fond of him." llannering nodded. "Yes; nice boy, Barry. The only one of the family I cared for," ho said, thoughtfully. '-Were going down to the funeral, There -there-'' ••'There was an accident to the train," Latchford took up the bur- den of the story as her voice falter- ed and broke, "A bad accident. Fif- teen killed. Amongst 'cal was -was Augustus and Iris boy-" • Mannering looked up and from one to the 0th'•••• •'Filled! 'l'Ite boy killed! I'm -I'm sorry!" His voice grew hoarse. "A Hier ho}: we were great friends! Filled!" • The husband and wife exchanged glances and Lete1iford's !hand closed more firmly 00 Mannering's shoulder. •'It's, it's bad, shocking bad!" he said, slowly and impressively. "And -fuel it. alters things for you, old man, doesn't it!" Mannering looked round at him. "Alters things? Trow?" "Good heavens, don't you see, cion 't you understand!" snit] Let ch. - ford. "The old earl is dead. and Au- gustus, and'the poor boy. and so - and 80--" "•lir. llanncr!n0. you are the Fe rl of l.esborough." said Lady Blanche ill tl w 3010 liunnInerinc 11'.ool.pd from One to the other dully, then he legal to tremble, and 11''$'nthy his head was bowed in his hands. nuc! his .great. gaunt 11•tlttf nevi silId ,`Il h}- t.e4^1'115S sobs. ('IIAP"TElt IN. tude, a devil hi his brain called "Suicide" had whispered alluringly to him. IIe was going because there was just enough of the spirit of a plan left in him to make him shrink from insanity' and self-destruction. For ,the •last time . he wandered over thc'familiar scene, the exgnisite- 33' beautiful place which, itis (!awning love had been rapidly transforming into home; but it was a hell now. ing for yell What's happened? IIis lack -lustre eyes, fell upon the You're i11, afen't you? Where have heap of gold quartz which lay out- von been? What- Birt' yon cha'n't side Nina's hut, but it did not keep his attention for a moment, and it never occurred to hirn to take even a specimen. Of what use was wealth to a man who had lost all hope in life and only crarocid a natural and painlessdeath? Instinet rather than any desire to choose a• favorithle time made him wait until the turn of fife tide; then he got into his enno0 and, keeping his gars fixed seaward, set sail. i"hr ' • 1 e to him + ...• favorable weather Was more t than it had been to poor Nina, and • 1• carried him duo south. Once r twice he thought how full of i,py and • i have been it f 'shehad hope he would u t been with him' in the boat, and be sighed with callous incliiferi'nc0 to his good fortune. Why 1131(1 Fate not spared her instead of hitt.-her so full of life and the joy of living? Vii,y° had it struck down so rare and beautiful a ereat'un. and loft kiln to drag t)n fiat exiSteii,(•e of anguish and ftttill' 1•eItlnrse? For a couple of days the weather remained fine then the wind changed answer any questions till I get you home." Mannering gazed before him at the 'crowd with. its ratio,- of umbrellas, tho flashing, ,'ter touting 11g'hts of the cabs and carriages. This coati S voice was like a 'yoke froth the life of the past -the pest he had left be- hiud-lost. ''1 was wrecked, Letchford,'' he said, hoarsely, 41S if he had only just bl e nI )it•I(i±d u) in the canoe.. 1 Sir, Charles T.etl•hford looked at hunt keenly, curiously, and not tt lit- tle pityingly.. r 1: nts,n I3 . 1' ' 91ant But. 11(1 you "Wrecked! I kava a •.•i home. it t•+c ori, 11 tet 1 t c t0 n cigar, old Chap!" It was a subtly uise and kind sug- gestion. Mthnnering;'s bund closed on the cigar, and lighting it hr leant back and smoked hili, 'lf into calm- ness; he had not been able to afford a cigar for the lastfertuight. The cab drew up 13t one of tint + inCourt hon.sl s edema. and Sir Charles led Maantering into t'.' IIs ex - tion, t r - It was ( 1 Tll rpt) t1 • :1. poste the t • rc 'S '` u, u s l TT ct ti t l 1 rough. i and grew r t, vish .feats. to and la the solitude of the. Sia and the tlulsltu its modern glare of its suit -flecked surface, which etpindi tnre coud m ak e it. S ir (ha r- Ir arced an almost intolerable burn- les '<uked round. fn; of the Oyes, 'began to tell upon " 1(TuI rot/ten/1),r 'r her'? trim. Itis 8311131! Supply 0f 3313101' was 1 "' weer' married two months ago--" rapidly 41;minishint;, and he had to Mannering nodded. 111 1313 absent tray, and Sir t'11440.:tt seamed hint, aghast. put. lttlafour t short he Gaud ..:Slag has :?,one to hes repo,, .Colne Qts tit-e�, fourth (fay, h(� cuupL The Army of CoAstipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS see Teaponslole--•they not only give relief--- theypernlanently caro Ctt i _stP- 1.a dln Mil. O teas use tl.;rn for Adios. The i:1 ern, .1„11 not breast .upon Nina upon her Taut until the favoring stir.d had carried her far out to sea; and ;1 r.ay safely lie said that she dill ma realize the rush mu tare 0f her 113terprise until the: first !lash of ]0l)(133.),7' and the first clap 01 thun- der; fur. like most of her s.'v, she had acted 011 the i,nptll,e of the m0- n.eti!., and without cnllt,ti1)14 the oust,• But its the si+e gr,,A, inks black and nab. the wind citt• k 9 of lita,t1..ng. t3rr(r and 1•otnors0 as- sail(ll her in inpat 1f ( tt s m a. , ler- ! E 1 s+ w account, 7 lll(tl . t. on. 11 )11 her T1 21t t r c own ) n 0• a •: o h 1 1.'n 's l l h• e wa. t i c 7ltl 1 .1 1 11a 1 1~ , raga, • sea, anti she ;bad loft lii.tu tui the awful 80111 101e of the island. � � h 810 had I'iesech up enough 01 sea ncss,Ladd€esfion,Sick Hetyactlie,.enoion:s. ma/Ishii/ to lower her sill, and site 1 .. .. '1 .1 °. ft Small !sill Small !hose Small ti... o ay, or r at u t (t nuc 3 3 , t.n the rat . a Pill, ann r " ' Goii h e mot bear Signature (11113it,1; the sail titer her to 0310)11 her partial 1 1."1 r. inn fellai the rain O. grid the wine. ,1'; . '1 tls 8110 frit Tit- , .. tiler 111asaw that the rut! was be - 1!. cunning 111511(1' rat•'.1. and, rising to Ow-�R-�ii�--1���i'�.e;,� 1u l+nu .. she t a h for ti. , +r+;,,..vr •,.' t. , r sail. e e• 4 '•(h i f+ 1.l. ,a ,nl the rope .1t.a 1 1 r•fastened st'lndiu4 it t u .1•tl her. it t0 a cl • 1n!i 3i i ,' t 1 3 t I, It the ! i raft was 1.0+4,l's,. -t lit' aid this me- chaui01)1ly. t(1.1 atter. half rnic0n- fcintlsly, asking herself what Man- nering would 4141 if he wore in her • 111jght. It tiros singulars' Lon ever! 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The Children's Panacea -The' Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTO R IA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always !Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, mamimmimmi this 1i1onrellt of iiei• salifiide and ex- tremity, she relied upon him. It was well that she had taken this precaution, :o1•, the storul growing more furious, the raft soon after broke up and she found herself float- ing « 0 n the smaller port ion. The howling of the wind, the dull roar of the sea deafened, and the salt and spume of the waves blinded her, and she closed 1101. laves and prepared for death; but instead of the death which site would have welcomed there fell upon her u kind of 5100011, the stupor of exhuustion and terror. The storm fell as suddenly as it had arisen, and she opened her eyes to see the stns shining through it. thick mist. The 5011 was quite ('alta now and the logs to' which she was tied floated almost ...Tarn was parched with a thirst which made hunger of no (101(311111. 111111 she' know, in a subtle fashion, that her brain was giving way. Just as Man- nering had clone, she found herself talking and holding conversations with hint; she wont through the whole of the marriage cereutony with 111)11, re -emo'te'd the scenes in the saloon, lived over again the life in the isl- and. 'Then she fell into a Profututd unconsciousness, but after a time sho came to again. and found that she was still floating in this dream-like mist. Ile. whole past life seemed like a• dream .• 'las this wide sea, the isl- and, her marriage. only a dream? Ilow long she floated on the calm mill -pond of a sea she slid not know, but presently tits mist was penetrat- etl by the sound e. music. With c•lo5- ed i;t.•s she bistrncd. Was she dead, and 13115 chis the music of the heav- enly choir? If so, she was at rest in the huurne from whence no tr:11340r returns. But Mannering. her Mel/and -he was still on his des0lete ;stand. Oh. how could she have left hilt! The music grew louder lid nicer• di,t fart , and it seemed to her more earthy; she heard a voice, a deep, stentorian urian voice call: "Man over- board! e board! Stop her!" Then her senses slipped from her slowly. easily. and when they returned and she opened her eye's again they met the pitying ones of a young girl who hent over her with anxiety eloquent in every curve of her body. • • Are you better'? Can you under- stand? Oh, I hope ,e1 )rave come to!'' said the voice leelonging to t11s holy. I- .1 ata better," said Nina; and, as 1f it were a formela, she asked, "'Where ant I?" •0)n board the Island Queen -one of 11:.• 1W'eiclou Line, you know," replied 311» s•olce. \ina did not lin0w'. but she sighed and ..111110(1 her head aw:ly. 'W' found 101) tied to a pal•' of 1. raft .•' said the s'ctie.', which s0uniied acarol• now, "1111ti tv" are all So MIX - iota: about you! 1;Ilt you mustn't try to talk. The doctor said that if you conn 10 110118 to keel, lou quiet." 11 ho -who aro you?" asked N111;1, 141,1;1.0s1'4,, fthout ally great display of in - (,"Polly Bainfot 1." r• ;'hi.•.l Ifo' 1-o10.1. "It was 1 tvhu 10••.1 "aw tan. I was 1,,anin0 c13(r the ..tt,rall, or whitte3- , r the, 01111 it. 111:! 1!.'• 1 81113 11 has, the doctor fa, w,• if 1 till. to ' `! go sleep," 101. 'It to to sl . I• \ata turned user :Ind endeavored tc,colte}. and preselttis fell into It d .:v c flee 1. Rit1l slits ewe.ti1. � �li. Polly ti i - d, wss still sett(rn.; 11, her 3.,.i+ , u1 1 she' nodded opium i301(l anti i•n- c•3ura<lliugly. "That 's right ! P, 111 , what 0 sleep you've had! I•:iihteeu 1•4(317: 11I the clecI(. :ud 3,013 loos. s0 110u•11 hotter! 111•sh! 11ele (10'.8'7 the doctor'!" The ship's 4:04.1 or. (t 3 (tune elan, b' earn• in rit•r shyly and felt. her lmisr. "1'nu lire ninth better." he said: +1'•'m 11•' start311 114 Nina thrust his .si • .(t exclaim- -The mg at • rxelah 1 :ata aside r :d. . 1 ,t , a: 1• - 1. ', 4 want • 1'hc• islilul. Where ren rt . 1 a t !'0 Tiul'14! t n : 111111,) .101 it! 110 i3 it . •','! !loll must i'e:.cae Irian, take {111110 ilway. T---1 1.•n him -alone, all i alonel ". U 'mush!" murmured .the doctor; but as she still continued. to rave he went off for the captain. The captain had five daughters of his OW11, and he It and looked Nin 's bertha stood beside Nine .'s down at her fever -flushed face with paternal pity and tenderness. "What is it my dear young lady? he asked, soothingly. "The island!" panted Nina. "It is close by; you can find it! IIe is there alone -in solitude -+quite alone! In pity, I implore you, 1 beg of you to go back and bring him away! T I - left him. I was foolish -mad--" The captain patted her hand and glanced at the doctor. "What island?" he asked, gently. • "I don't know! Tlow Should I !:now?" she murmured. "It has no name. We were wrecked-" -My Poor girl, we picked you up on the open sea," said the a captain, pityingly. "And that's days and days ago. Wo can't put back-" Leave her to ale," broke in the doctor. "She's raving. Very probab- ly there is nothing in it -no island whatever. Leave her to me." Nina relapsed intc delirium and Polly I3ainford and he nursed and at- tended her. It was a weep before she recovered full consciousness. and by that time the vessel was nearing England. Nina, when site came back to her senses, lets. with closed este; and ach- ing heart, .listening to the stash 01 1 bo' waves against the ship. mingled with the sounds 0f music and sing- ing. They reininc1'(1 her of the sounds she had heard las she tossed on a. !3o1't ion of tine raft. "Win': tiro they singing? What is the nu:si1'' stere almost her first words. I n.i, sl,.0 tlied the 13 l inl hes. • , ,1 --'( r. 1 • •foln• 'ft's tlm, eetl{ani i i at t s e•0(3!.•aiy,' she replied. 'They're 51111; 1118 one of the 5uag5 of 0111• last sul'cess, '71v lad. •1. Prise.' Pees it 110(31te. 7014" 1'11 r;et ii„'141 10 stop. I'ut sure flue, will. tn. th,•, are most avoneus 1)1(3,1(1 soli, c nrl! tlee•re all a, tinea sort." "No. no," said Nina. '•Iten'l stop 1hen, . .Ina :Ire ynrl ere of theme" "Yes," sail Tolle', •'1'.11 one of the: coinpuny. 1'u; lee Loi 0 te•iticip(tl. 1'1e null 1.113 a se!3111 part-. What's called 11 •:(inf;'iiig Chambermaid.' " Nima 1"oked at her t:tIl•olaprehend- ingl} . 40111 1'011>• laughed. "(411. ,. '''4•u', thiit 1'i1' n1117, small potato's. 1,ai: see, ( 11111, t'.'1 unfelt of a \111(',•. 1111.1 5o 1 Ii,ile 14 1141e444 seat. 1(3'' 1 ••m tau im0 111 4‘'1 1..11:1 and V. 0.1'1' ..., 7" Ian 11.,• 1)+'14,,.,.•s-1111 1...e•i.,'I---ii-14e'Ce lace" •1 s ,.. . ;.;:.i;! \11'0. 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