The Sentinel, 1881-04-22, Page 6Don't Stay Long.
A look of yearning tenderness
Beneath her lashes lies,
And hope and love unutterable
Are shadowed in her eyes,
A, in some deep unrutlleastrearn
Aro clouds and summer skies.
Silo passed to early womanhood,
rui dreamy, sweet girl life,
And crossed the rosy threshold but
To Mid herseif a wife ;
011' gently should he lead her steps
Along the path of life!
And she clasped her small white hands
Upon -his arms so strong,
Ilow often like a summer sigh,
Or a sweet pleading song.
She whispors with a parting kiss,
Belovedono, don't stay long."
They're almost always ou her lip,
Iler gentlest parting words,
S‘y cot as the fragrance from rose leaves
Wlien.by soft zephyrs stirred,
And lingering iu the memory
1.ike -songs of summer birds.
And in his heart they nestle warin
When other scenes amid ;
lit htuys not till she weary grows.
And her fond eYos are hid.
1,1 tears which lies iu bitterness
1:eneath each yielding lid.
oh, how inane hearts are kept
that love -uttering song!
There's searcely one who on life's wave-'
1, Awiftly borne along,
Diit what was heard-frona some dear lips
sweet words, "Delft stay long."
NO RELATIONS ;
,
his owe ventures. You shall have room
for a dozen cases if you like. More than
that, I've bought them for you, and they
are shipped ready for you. I give them to
you."'
" If I could !" replied Stephen.
"Why not? What's to prevent ?"
"There's that gell o' mine; my niece.
Hanged if I don't think they kep' her alive
a purpose to worry an' interfere.
Leave her behind."
"1 might do that." •
"A dozen cases, all your own. They're
full of the things that sell in Richmond and
-the other places. There's women's stays
kid gloves, tooth -brushes, Cockle's pills,
lucifermatches—man ! whatever you take
will sell, 'less it's raw cotton."
" Ay." .
This good uncle was meditating a scheme
for the happiness of his niece.
•" As for danger, there's none. Not that
you are the man to show a white feather.
There's plenty at Liverpool could do it,
but I want (ion. 'Steve Cpbbledick,' I
said, 'would -enjoy the business. Steve
. Cobbledick, as I've kuowu these • twenty
years and more, since I was eittle bigger
then a boy.'"'
" You were ou'y next door to ab boy,"
said Stephen, "when you came aboard as
third mate. 'Twas at Ilavannah. You
were then, you said, the eon of an English
geutleman, and you'd run away. You ship-
ped in the name of Peregrine Fickle, which
afterwards I saw in a printed book. That
was the first "—he looked round him with
admiration—" of his names and descrip-
tions. Never any man had so many
parents, And wicked? How a lad so
young could pick up so much- wickedness,
the Lordknows. Yet there he was. .And.
drink ?, Like- a mermaid. - And swear?
Don't name it And! fight? Like Great
Alexander ;_ for the walloping of a nig, to
get the Work out of him, I don't suppose
there was ever a lade Spaniard, Mexican, or
-Yankee, could come within a mile of him.
And the sweetest temper with it; not proud,
not puffed up with vain conceits, _easy -and
affable with all alike, And at a dignity
bell, the cock of the walk, though Mexican
yellow noses, which are well known to be
more jealous than a alligator, were
waitive outside with knives sharpened on
the door. -step to have his blood." e
"Then you will' go with me ?" said the
hero" of this praise, unmoved. "You will
be my.pilot ? ' I'ipart owner of the ship
lr
and cargo as well as skipper
When do you want eased?"
In a fortnight' -
" Gill() me three days. -I think - I can go,
cap en It's only that cussed gell. Sb's
cost :me- alhousandpounas a'ready, and
I want to get that hack.. I think the job
is as pewees -donee Three days, my. noble
eap'en.". . - - • .- - • '
' In the eveuine Stephen produced an
electrical effect in the smoking -room of the
Wellington Arms by the introduction of
his friend Captain Ramsay, who was, he
added, Commodore- in . the. Confederate
A tittory of To -day.
Stephen then began to narrate his own
experiences. The commodore' of the Con-
federate ;Navy set in the attitude of listen-
ing, which was polite, -bedense the pilot
prolix: After a quarter ef an hour or iso.
paeient pretence, he pulled up the nar-
rator short: -. • -
- Saye• he began, " what de yen mean to
aone-xt?•;- - . • -_
• Nodded replied Stephen. -
eeee-hat?-_ Stay in this -forsaken. hole?.
. 'Sit here and rot like and hulk ie a liar-
- - .
" Ay. .Sit here is the ; word, tap'en,
Timees . come when Pmeteund to ley ...up.
-19ve got religion; Eve got a. dozen cottages ;-
I eollect- the rents of a,- Saturday ; Pm
SiXty-fiN, e years of agee. there's no- Oahe-
' to. do ; and as. for black jobs, why I doubt
whether . that trade . will ever - again be
-worth. What it usedto be Lord' !wipe
-
times- when the :minister is a bloorailie
-
at m.the chapel, I sit and think of the
:
dr es- .of 'ern bought for a song,- !„ as one.
may say, sometimes. took - for nothing,
drivers and all; hurried over theAtiantic that could show her to
_ _
any .Britisii fefeete - afloat -pai4 put up at
New Orleans or Ilavanneli for--e-Here
heSteppea and sighed e "It'secomforlite to
-think . of those times. It brings out ,
tba
flaver ot the hyruns. You ihould.get..yelie
_ _ _ _ _ _
gtou cap en
"Seine dey, may be,: Stepheti.
there was piloting to do?" ,
--Ay. ;ay?T' . The Oa fellowe set - upright.
:and listened intently. .
'Spose. I Was to feey to myeelf; 'Pere
got a job that wants a light handea, quick
..eyeefind a knowledge or the coast .
" What coast?'! asked Stephen. , •
" The coast of North_ Car'lina, and the
port_a_ eeiitnington• -
' "Ile means blockade:. eunnin'
' cried
Stepheti with enthusiasm. "Where there's -
danger, there's Gap en. Ramsay' Where
thereTs money - to be made; there's the
gellane-cip'en! .Where there's rfighthe and
run -pin' away, and. a slioothiof six-shooters,
=there he is in -the middle of it, whether it'e
' Alibusterine or slavin,. or the South Sea
trade or runnin' the . blockade. What -a
- man !" . What a Nero!" . •
"You'.ve guessed -the job; old 'shipmate.
Some: mennwPuld hat. let me beat about the
for an hour-: But yeeleve"got a .' heed
_
upon .our shoulders, Stephen, -sethwed on
-.tight; right end up, and eyeain that e head
.as oan eel:1e straeght. You've -guessed- it'
- " '(„fo on,'cap--; • go on This S948.C10118
flattery! increased thegood Old 'man's desire.
to hear more - Blockade:runnieg-waeneet.
to piracy ; therefore dear to hie.leart
.For he was one ofthoseperverse brethren
who ever loe-e the thing that is illegal., be;
cause it isilleeel. - -
eePye been-blockade-running..since that
-htt1e 'eamebegan, and: I havenet been
-7 caught yet And I -don't Mean to be,
tho.i.igh,. they've put On the. Coast some new
and fast cruisers, For I've got, at .Liter -
pool, Ioteding for nee, a draft,'Stephen, as
would Make your - eyes water. Yes, eI
reckon :you -Would weep for joy that - you
had. Heed -tie see Meek a crate."
' -
" SUnii lines such gracefulness : such
lightness- suah speed'e - -
011 !"
I '
is that one of the other two must go away
by himself. The Poet, therefore. went
away. He adored Avis after the poetical
manner. It is very well known how
Petrarch found consolation. In like man -
mer, this poet sat on a rock; thought of
this girl's eyes and her wondrous face;
made her immortal ----at least, those of his
friends wko reviewed him said Be—in undy-
ing verse; and presently, with tranquility
of mind, married another women.. You
never find a" poet, mind you, going dis-
traught with love.
Ae for the other two, they went about
-without him, happy with each other; they
wandered afield or along the rough Cornish
lanes, with cobbled walls on either side;
they gathered the wild rose; they sailed _in
the boat; they climbed the steep sides of
Tintagel. ' They were yet in the sweet
misty time which comes before the spoken
love; it is then that each to each puts
forth iuyieible arms; eghostly embraces
follow, which are but half felt ; the very
air seems rosy with the glow of sunrise; it
is a time of imperfect joy, of sweet uncer-
tainty,- hopeful fear, tender doubt, and
ever-growing faith. A woman, perfect of
her kind, once told me that marriage,
against which so -e had nothing to say, was
not so happy as the time of plighted troth;
and this, again, not so sweet as that ewer -
each other af; well as in g
abstract quality, I declare
Avis promised to be as well
and Eve, who, as we know,
"Poet," said Jack, lat
strange light in his eyes an
ing ,in his voice. "1 have a
marry me. She is good e
me."
"1 congratulate you," re
song. "My belief is that
the /best thing you possibly
self. Now that you are e
away as fast as ever' you c
the better."
"We shall be married,"
repeated the word, as if it g
fication —" some time ill
I've got to find a house an f
" Don't wait for the ant
away, out of this, as soon
"What do you mean?"
"1 mean that the aline
MB."
" If you will explain
"Well then, what I me
eyes in my head, even
spectalces; that I have b
that I have been watch n
scoundrel who calls *him
Ramsay—no more an o
federate States than of
He is a tiger and a- man -
"Go on—go on."
"And I think he has
tion on—on your fiancee.'
Jack clenched his fists
oath. •
'" They are unholy eye
away at once:"
" He cannot run awa
my. very eyes," said Ja
he dares to say one word
-2--" Here he chocked. -
thin time of undecided wooing, of admira-
tion, and of attraction,
This time must have an end. That is
most sure. Julie de Rambouillet marries
DI.9de Montausier at last and Penelope is
rewarded in the end. But It is pleasant
while it lasts; and, in the opinion of fieme,
the time which follows is more pleasant
still.-
! -
It was a new and divine joy for .Jack to
read, "day after day, the sonl of this inno-
ceut, fresh, and beautifulgirl, whose heart'
Wined unto things goOd, , and beautiful, as.
gib 'hemlock - teems to the, mit A girl's_
thoughts ere 'meetly, Whenfiha findsexpres-
sion, clad.- in Words be Others.; " she, is
not good. et. findingfor weeds 1 of herself; she
-stammere, tehen she •tries;t- it a Shameful
thing; in a -way, for her :tell; in words- all of
her oWie, and directly, the things:she feels
rathei -then thilakee Therefore' every giri.
1.
a
• - - • - •-
11
It
ness as an
at Jack and
ted as Adam
re imperfect.
on, with a
little shak-
ked Avis to
ugh to take
d the man of
u have done
uld.for your-
ged, take her
; the sooner
aid Jack—he
ve him* grate -
the autumn.
riaish it."
n. Take her
ou can."
iere is danger -
is that I have
lough I wear
using them;
the piratical
e f Commodore
er of the Con -
British Navy.
alter."
"Stop!" cried Jack, "you infernal old
humbug and impostor."
"Mr. Davenant 1" Alarmed at this res-
ponse. Stephen began to wish he had put
his figures a little lower.
" I.know what you have done. How you
went away and forgot all about the child;
how the man who held your money went
on paying for the girl and placea her in a
respectable school; how you welcomed her
back with reproaches and grumbling. Why,
she owes you nothing, not even thanks.
Now listen, and then shut up. I shall give
you not one farthing; do you hear ?"
"Not one fartnin'? Do you mean, Mr.
Davenant, that you will not pay me back
even the money I spent on her?"
"Not one farthing. That is my answer,
You will do what you please; but beware
of any harsh word or act to Avis."
Jack withdrew, leaving Steplig,nA in a
state of such disgust and disappel....lieement
as he had never before experiencee9 For
the hope of getting back his money had
grown iu his mind daring the progress of
Jack's brief courtship, until he almost saw
it within his grasp. It was because he felt
so certain that he had allowed himself to
multiply the amount by about three. It
may be oevnea that if Stephen had been
acquainted with the nature of geometrical
pregression, and its relation to compound
interest, his claims would certainly have
been far highet than they were. But to get
nothing, absolUtely nothing at all! WaS
that possible? Was it, this good man
asked, just aria Christian so to act? And
how, if not by means of Jack, *as thie
casting of the bread upon the waters to be
returned to him?
.\ As for. Avie1 marriage that was the very
thing Inewanted.._Nothing could, possibly
suit him better. She would be.'ee'off.. his
bends and out of big. house ; he need not
trouble about her when he was away. But
the cruel disappointment; and when he had .
made quitecertain that -Mr: Davenant Was
e- real gentlemaneevao "would be only too :-
pleased to pay for his fancy. .
" The convereation took place in the porch,
c It eyes of affec-
'
swore a great
is eeinystery end- an enigneee The . better.
she is, the higlite her aspirations. the More
inyetetiouse.ieehe to the lever -idea Would
•faine understand her .deepiese thought, T her
most secret hope..and week...Meetly,. -.how-
.,evpr,' the talk of lovers seems; -tithe 'outer'
world; ceriemenplece. - - :
.":Since Captain •Retiesfet • .ceme,", said
Atis, to .Jack, two days alter the arrival
of that worthy, "1 hear of nothieg but
bldelee:de,renning: My e Miele wantste • go.
Ile hae- got out 1.-cleterte: and theps,arid
spreads them. on my, teble ; lie -pores over
thene, eilithrhis thnuab on the Places Which
be is 'interested '!ip..- And be has been
throWing eient ,binte'..-yeetitnoviehis; hints
are'bicadoneseeabont being able to go it I.
:werenot 111 his! way: , .
eePeehaPs,"-eaid-jfickgravely-, as if'he
lieved.- Wheelie was saying; e Stephenthiiiks
he is getting old; and -would like:to make
better. :prey:6km .for you, - in ..case.--e7-you
'See, Aerie; yen are a giele and have notbeen
brought up to fight yent *ay in. -the. world,
-which is a Piece Where; unleesyou are pro-
Vided with ensIneese. and bessocks "stuffed
With benk-notee, you field the sitting pretty
hetcl." - •-
w •_Captain Ramsey Was, as has been
explained,a, familiar name With 'everyeenen
Who was privileged to hear the,centersettien
of Me. Stephen Cobbledickee For whenever
he bad to tell of a deed of pectiliar itereity,
an ect of mere than conernoti ereecheiy,
a, 'deed which. made thefleeh to -creep and
the blood to boil, transaction More nefar;
ious than is initially cani3ideted passible tohurnanitv
.he fathered it with .every
tribute Of praise :and admiration- upon Cape
tein Remsay.. And this.- heroic lhkrng
actually ?toed -before theyeateful:folks of
_Bescastle ..in the -flesh:. A suia,11; lithe,
qUiet-looking Mari, with ,quick brighteyes,
who- quietly beside Stephen, eaed-. ,for
awhile . said - eothinge.
-The 'sexton, " the blacksmith, and e the
shipwright staredmutelyat the . stranger,
who presently began to talk and to. Smoke
e.You shalt see her, Stephen. Whether
you -fell in with iley- proposal or not, _you
shalLeee her and judge for yourself, e -Now,.
listen, 'In my last trip we did welle got in
and out without a brush or e shoe. Some
. .
ot the boys aboard were pretty-. eenglie--
that's 'aefact-e-and --lust before wp--sighted
Nassau there .evasee little difficulty between
-the -pilot and the chief officer. The- chief
;-•!--offecerdieln't matter, because his sort, though
" he was a phickv-One, airplentifne,andNasean
' swarms evithtlie- young Englieh chaps. read,
for # run; but whenethe pilot had to :send
ie Ins checks too, -and we .heaved . both over-
board at at. once; it was a real loss, rough
upo.n. us as was gerieeary felt. Fo.i pilots
air like angels—they air skarke."
" Young Men," said 'Stephen, e be
young - men. -I've drawed a bowie myself
-before now, and let daylight into theother
- phap.__ Butler _ both to go at once! That
eeeme_a_mest extra,vagent waste -et -
So, being at Liverpool,1- remembered.
..you, Stephen. I said: This is.a chance
. which- .does net. often happen: . If Stephen
Cebbleclick gots it, he is e made Min."
' top 014,'? said Stephen'.
:5‘..Nolisentse- You're as .young -as you
feel:- Your handle firm; and yohe eye is
straight and what's - mare, you knew every
inch of.the coast."
e. I. doe No man. betthr." - . ,
"weey,_ „then, were baith-aenros. ee'ed.e.awleheaetd, Y_a;
thing 'it is I am goipe to give you_a share
In these days it extr
an Englishman to threat
.
canriot make daylight th
revolver, as a Texan mig
Of Colorado. He cannot
ai choice of pistols or sw
even promise to punch h
is undignified. - He. can
law is to do everything.
most law abiding coun
there ie always -that poss
habits of the prehistoric
a stick, Sharpened its poi
carved his flint axes, m
pose of enjoying himsel
should lee get the chalice
One thing Jack could.
and with surprising resu ,He would see
ack; take her
•
ith her under
k -resently. ." If
her, by heaven
ely difficultfor
an enenay.-..tHe
gh birn -with
or .a gentlethan
11 -him out, with
ds. ..He cannot
s head, 'becauee it
nothing. . The
"Yet - he is a tiger,- Jack," -whispered-- the
Poet, in Answer to nething.
. . _ .
•Jack opeped -the conveteation by asking
.
if the commodereValeft the •Statee ee-
eently, and whath honght were.the. pre-
sent profipects of the South. -
" Sire" eePlied that. -officer, '.the preseet
prospect.is certainty... The North is in her
last " throes e they've gat through all • their
.Irisli apd. .Gerneanee they -can'e Oise" re-
cruits nor mene.:y ; they have been—but
theet won't_ON-Va up. -'-already licked into a
cocked_ bat e their generala_air like,Whipped
curs With eheireitils between their - legs-,
theireepapere. air cl Whoring for peace ; --and
the . South will be asked by the North,be-
fore verY long; to be geed enough to 'take
MatyIend and Washington,. and ge about
_her o.eve busieesse *cede -not wish to
bear maliee; we .will :let them aleee; pro-
vided they let us _alone. But go we millet-.
ena go eve shall. That is.so..gentlemene!.... •
"Aelcoierse,"-eada ..-37pn speak AS a
partisan. We hear. (Allot ficeoulits. from
the North:" ' , -
" You hear,. sie,evhateyeelies the meatiest
press in the • World cheeses to tell. yeti.
.What I tell you; sir; is
.Undoubtedly - erbey fitrOng adherent to
the Seceesioe Cause. .Salem - a loog.- way
behind, clean .forgotten. Cobbledick
looked -en-in-admiration. - . - , • e
P-resently-- the eonerwidere pissed froth.
Cenfederathe twitters,. which; " considering
the way in Whiell the endbas felsifiect, his
predictions, together with those of a - great
.ireany fae-eseing editors,.weuldbe
stale. en the -repetition, -and, backed up by
his old' Cemrade-in-ernis, :launched. forth
upon :the sea. of general experience " and
peregnal reminiSeencee. .Lilee !Stephen, he
had been eiferywliere.
Stephen, forehisiparte was guarded. Ile
said nothing, eicept.to.murnher applause;
or to Put a leading question. •, .
"What .de you .think. of hime", piked-
Jeekewlien the eveniug was overe-
eWhat I -said- before, my boy; a tiger,".
replied elle Poet. - Ile looks it."
Avisereflecteonawere exactly the reverse
f
while Avis hersel -was sitting e _c
thinking oeer the. wonderful - happiness
. •
-
et: even in t thep -Which had befalle.n- hey: So -disturbed in
jiL the''frwerld; mind- was her Uncle by Jack'seutigenele_
le retilen'io 1 the. Man. like and mean response to his Fro -
an, who carried Pose'', that be was fain to have a -tileehler of,
fire, and rum and water et once, and to Iliad another
for_the pet; Pipe: •The.geog dispatelied, he set gleomily -
pee eeemee in his arm-chtier, growling menacesenterjec=
--Which.- , 1,tele°en.sw,bealble'rePlireetsesai° tnp-so mofucdhisien°11iletemnatnity",
:and. now, like Da,,,na, is inclined td say, in -
his haste, unkind things-about'ellcoriditions
. . .
old :Cehbledick and tell
going . to doe'. A.ceording
worthy pilot,.ana,withon
eaty :to _ask the permissio
which _ie. a forpailitY' o
-pintoes, he informed him
et, marry her _
"Since" he said, ".sli
ehink -rile Worthy of be
shall be married as 'qnie
You will he free of your
„again. You will be able
never open the window
. place; spread your dinne
get as drunk as you pie
- This,. -eo baeure, was
plien most wanted,bu
to .let theegirleo• witho
'could for himself A
1
the . word " worthy 7 in
phen thought Of the ot
Ito. the 'leveed." Worth."
plied.
-
"Easy a bit young
easy is the word No
further into this huei
-marriage -settlements' 1
upon."
Themeareiage settl
. " I do not think that Stephen cares Much
about Providing for inc." geld Avis gently.
She was not a .girl who . readily . thought
evil- Or ascribed motWee. ,-.Butit was ridi-
culous to imagine Stephen Ciibbledick as
anxious. to work for the sake of herself.
" I hope _you have got easy cushions: for
yourself, Jack."'
. " Mine are easy enough for me," be ere -
plied grufily..". " The question is-e=Avis,
will Yonmarry a poor man?" ... . . .-
"Jaek r"" For, at the 4 word e marry,". all
the possibilities of the iiitua•tion rushed
upon her mind: - ;re . _ ' .
I an getting on, but an artist's life - is
unceetititie , Still, if you love inc is f . love
yoe,__Avieeee--Darleng, Will. you take 'neti ?".
. She knew, she found - but when he spoke
of love, that she . already loved him: . she
felt that life would behitol8rable without
him, but she was lishanied ; .she could not;
'ea teiprieed, accept him. • , - -, .. . 1
1
" Oh " she said, ethe tears startine te
,
her eyee, e".Yon asle me: o 'marry yon, -Jaok;
ofit: Oe!:voinekinaness; 4ust-. -as yop.:-: forced
your -.way to Inc. beeause.you - pitied
You cannotleve me." • - - - •
My.dear," lie Said; taking her.henel;.‘e I
lieve:alwaye: loved . yew leered:. yone.I.
-thitik, feeite the very When -Yen- satbi
the „bdat.so.eeil•and eilent. ..Tekelne,.
my
dear, !and_letionf utiete go --blodkeile-ruw
nlog; .or-blockhead-beeeleing; Or
anything
IC pleases,, with a.miebleepireite :. and
limederere Captain:_lesfey: Avis, once
mere; can yonteee yoneerielene
away emptee after. all -cur talks eAld 'We:MO
and- happy tithes; Avis •Yon..called inc
Irene brother onne - net your bre-
thee . Wier- more' " I must bo your laver, Avis,
or Mothinee". . -
She eqlee.p.utent het
- "1 cannot give up, my trier:0,7811e said,
.tiniiline:.etheOughe bee, tears e and it he
-
Means what he aerie and his handmaid hes.
fonna fever in his sielite-lina.hiewill .ta-kc..
herfor his _eeeeetheart,:who -loves him-eeiet
Theenobleet•nianla:the World to marry
the boblest, Woman.! is a:. dream
which has itlivetyie presented itself te-neeeit
the..fertned..a nightmaee: !One -can jrnagine
the -loneliness; :•the-te.rrible isolation;:of. ea,
lieieeehola -Petfece.ee to be - a. eittindipg.
-and': perpetual reproach te-all-the
our..tney 1981. hpee: 'husband - and :wife,
after inOlith9 of -keeping "7
ex-
hibition of thenobleet virtues to other
as Well -ie. to all the Woridewould-eat
Ily apart Wieli•execreeionse and descend to
IL lower -"!level and-esepitiate,- have,:
beside -s, never. met any. whom 1:69u1a 'Call:
-either - the noblest. . man or -.the,.. noblest-
- .fopied in. the: 'fee-.
-Pier eerettin failingS dUe.: to yenitycjealoney,
love- . pf ledultetion; or .eveiree passion -Jar
port ;.lanclin the :other I have eorn8titeteS
nated tend'eriey. topeisitivenessentiallithese
-atia-enability to.reeOgnizeen the Werldiepy7
thing but what she flees. itin :Sere ithat
Avia, *AS noblest ineeethe ebest
of etenien. ,To begin! with, ehe'Wee not of
the,- best 'educatedi-rb-44 annomoifth,
• rannta, knew- -otioceety. atall, was
ii-operfeetly'instruotea.in the •fashions, end
to ieConerieend ;here ." exeept. het
.-ac-ean - Old- faehibned-quality but ilia-
" . common: in theke days—her virtue.: end
leut, for! aivetage Tam of
- imperfect emortalee. iwithea - good . average'
- .
-Anti, now, old pal, you. s .a
Pf„" _Ile. palled some papere.a.nd:the stump
- 11,- pen-cil out ee his. pocket :- "First you
shall have the .double trip, seveneehun-
-. .dicel-eand—fifey pounds-,oigh. Upon four
• thoileandelolltirs.e'
' "What?" • Stephen jumped out of
bus
: er How much .
Sefen liundred.--.and-. fifty :poundaiterlung -
Ralf peid-down-- on, theday
_t go aboard :Arid ether heet when . we get
back to Stop:a: minute; haVen't
. .
done yet.. Every plan is.-; allowed space or
_
*" /USA so, Mr..Dav
looked unspeakably en
the nearreage fieetleni
eon't ..expect that I a
With nothing:7
"
Jack Was rather seer
as a guardian, Stephe
fied expecting some
Avis.
I aril not 41:rich
cennet eettle reimey u
-have not got, But I
her benefit for any
That Ought to Satisfy
_ "Insure :your life f
phere wite,astenished
tupidity.e"Well, I
just as, yeuelike,
geteletrientse: not hie
benefit. ....eWlices"-a-tal
"And.I Was seYiteg t
frein want by mean'
place- Of nail -triage
quite . -e lista thing to
- "Lord! Lord re ce
& erifin'speak-
Ylien I•seed mareiteg
marriace settlement !
go and beat eleont-t
-e-like a laWyer, seer e
pleie
have?"
" "Vont° "have ? ..Y
-eMe,---eiere:Davene
thee' peed -fee th
fine as if 'ehe'd. been a
relea-u.nipeey pau
of 'pocket for eightee
No, sir ;- I "calculate n
Ile added the last ,
empbeeis, and with d
tion. '
' Good IleaVent"
-think if you
Deeena.ne.,, you will
upon one thousandan
Then . eheriefe the int
" Ie:aessay al.1.1
That -Makesetelteget
theue-and peeled. .
mertiefithat geleha-s
-:settlement upon me
-have. laid out upon
.shee-is:- She -den pi
told ;- •shc. densipg„,
like' a -angel ;;-she7Cal
tell _the; e way as
!she' c:an dress t
proud.; she can talk.
itt e temper e
of lier pettieuts. in •
That's what she is,
. -• •
besides, belongen'
f ainily. It .was. for
a
im what be 'was
he sought! the
'hinking it nece -
f Avis' guardian,
erved by meet
hat he Was shout
ie good eineuglito
ges hneband we
Y as liossiblee So
herge and. happy
o live as you like,'
never clean the
op -the floof, and
aptly whet !).,%e-
-was -not oing
getting -what- .he
when Jack Lused
iis hunaility,! Ste-
meeningatteehed
herefOfe, be
-
-
tleman; soft and
! before we go a bit
s, we must-, have
down and egkeed-
exits ?"
nt"--the old man
eng—e just'se, sire
s. Of course yon.
oin' to let Avis go
of men. ",
'While in this mood, he was- joined. by
Captain Raensay, who, -without sneaking,
took a chaiejand.tiltea- it against the wall:
SO that he coUld sit beck comfertahly. As
usual, he was pecivided- with au immenee
'cigar, smoked Continuensly.
• Afeer awhile-, theiconimedereseielle.
"Well, mete, got an _answer ready?"
go,' eaid Stephen. -
e What eilieut the gel -
She peaY go—where she 'darn .please-,"
replied the pilot. She.may &to-the:devil.
I wish.I'd never seen lier. I wish va vever
spent a ferthing on her. Gratitude? Not
.f7r it: • Slie...7ay marry who
she likes, 1 -don't -care_ Who She _raarries
slue fluiLy—" " Dry eupf mete" seideCaptain Rana.sey, ,
"There's more to he -said-. "Lotus under
.stand: .,.one another.. You come with
mee2T"-here's-ltay said Stephen.
e When I came' hotiee with my little "pile
I Said I'd hateriothing more to do with
niggers.- )4sides, I've gut religion. Ana -I
never did love the blacks; • motto feelaind
o' hearty toe -wards - their shiny -skins ;' not
.even when 't was shippin' of 'em 'acrosSthe
pend for the Cuban market. Sonie eleipe
'pore toted 'em•like their own 'brothers and
.cevehided -• Tem like: their 'own eons. • eiit
:their hearts" 'they deid into ehe eatoenine-•
• •
d at this. -
as perhepsj jnetie
ng to be eettlelon,
," he said, and I
my wife Which I
I insure my life for
asonable apeolint.
e her benefit!" Ste -
:t
the young! man s
on't unlade:, -that's
ti.!'a.'lloki9finiltv:efg1/96;irrer-fijht4g?er;.
at -I will-secUre her
f au. insurance
ttlepienee That is
, believe me." .
-.Stephen. ; "Why
eileip. and !.direet?
ettleneent, meant
If yelp. wentme to
tack and thatrtack
if not, .answer. rne
Iow m-uch ain 'ft to
-
of the Peet's.. She theught that if the Dean
was a tiger, .a,s according to the etatenients
made by Stephen lie most certainly -wee, he
looked like a lamb. - His voice-, to her, was
$o gentle feone the mciment be saw her; his
manner se mild; se caressing; . his very
attitudes HO OlOdOSt a,nd pnassuining, that
SILO uot believe, from his appearange,-
the stories told about him: ,IIe a pirate?
Ile a tiger? No; the imagination -of Ste:
Olen must hate_in- vented. all.
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TIIE COURSE OF TRUE:LOVE.
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0
3 -
tails, kneeer did.". -
"As for kola religion," said-tbe commo-
dore," ancVas for your'Virtue---tbere " Tie
made a, gesture which implied that lie
lieved Stephen's late born virtue to be, like
other llowcs of aututen, e pale atm - scent-
lesa weed. ! 'Well, that'e settled. lefelethe , •
money.shall be -paid to you before we ship, -
the ether hall when we .getback to Nassau;
the Cases cif notions I promised you shall be
yours. Did I ever, treat -au old .Shipneate
unfair,"Steve?" -
-A` Neter; cep."
?1.1
. -Do -You -suppose
gell's education, as
tichesi, sixty peunds
Is a year, money -out
years, for nothing.
t." '
ords for the sake of
e American! intone -
ed a -ea.
,up tha,t sum; 'Mr.
1 •
' well, them " If We're caught—
but that's unlikely -ewe shall have a taste
of a Northern prison; if not, we'll huve
another iner.ry Tun; and another at !the
hack of that. And long may the war last,
and happy may we be! •
:Stephen sprang to his :feet and waved his .
hat with a cheer: .'" • ,
",-Steve "—the aptain-zsvits
ban affable, lie was affectionate toeilay—
'there's inother thin gre That gal of yours
ie as line a gal as.orie see.
I dofil remember, nowheri",any gal as
comes nigh her for good look sand -a str
•
back: and Leenclude :that she hasn't
any call! to make .that fine figure of
nd it °brae. to nigh.
ight lineelred pound.
est, which Would be
nar,e_d: _poiind.. more._
er; -:_pretty .near two,
ow,.the naan who'
t to make a:Marriage.
all that rooriey as I
r to make her whet
the piennee;J: am
hen filleisn't !sulky,.
pateet French, .they•
would fietorash. yau;
make. lier I husband
retty, when she isn't
O can -gap -icing, boldifie
ee band, like a lady.
real lady. eo look at ;
meet; eeepectable
histhat out the
trioney. 'Do not grd IgeiteStephene I says
„to myself ; e it is a c tin' upon -elle' waters,
it will be brought' feek'ontoe you, like a
runaveay nig. -And makeno charge for
ight
-got
here
look liner by stain' and things. , .
No call WhIttSoVer;" said her unclee.she-
is a Cobblediele, which accounts for her
figure --where she lakes after me—a$,well
as :her face. But if you come to. gratitude -
' "-NoW,•;-shipinate coMmodore WW1 .
-
eta], lying hack in the chair, with hisi feet
Upon the lack of another chair, and he
spoke without -taking Ow trouble to remove
the edge -el -front lips--" I've took a fancy
to that.gal o' yOurn,.and I telrYonwhiet,P11 .
do for her—I will marry here' 1
- 4 -gob° contihued:1
the love, nor for th affection, nee fee, .ehe.
r
• The. waye-which the wise 111011 fatied'i share. !of..eirtues,..and a generaLlearung .to _grief=which might
marvellous_ in his eyes—when -there are , what' is .good ratheeithan to wha±e eeyil-, 'be' The death of a
three together,and one of them is a maid-, • and -a power ofuhselfishnesti, and a belief hi —at lositi! of -her-
• -•
ettle on the !chest, and..
ai, orturn to lumbago of le,000,000, being more then the en ire
se as tok---:" - - ateount a the ziagligi civil list'.
e -captain Boycott went toAmeliseceunty, _
recently, to visit fin- cad friend. -
Mt. M. Blacker, afortner justece Qf
the - peace and-. deputy- lord:lieutenant. -
Mr. Blacker is the owner -of 'very !large -
ltienAestatesin Southeide, "Virginiei Itelf
a million dollars or. more have beep inirestea
by a colony of Irish gentlemen in. Afeeiiii,
aounty. It is .thought that it is net nelikeler
Captain Beyeott, niay decide, if :lie
likes the country, to-:-/nake his home in
:Virginia; NvIlerp so rawly of. his„a-cquainte
&pees het° ..already.settled. '
- The now Czar, whose integrity is 'highly
spoken of, is said to have regolvedto reduce
the enormous - expenditure betherteincurred.
in -the huge-Wip.ter Palace and- its belong--
ings, ,4.'St.'Petersieurg paper states- that
the expenditure_ -of the Ministry of the _
Imperial household be, reduced froln -
eleven_to three thillien xoubles, Beilifferente
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