New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-21

know you, Captain, very much. really am 10
want Of friend. | am Little Dombey was my
friend at old Blimber's and would have been now.
il be d have lived. The Chicken" said Mr.. Toots,
in a forlorn whisper. is very well-sdmirabie IN
his way-the sharpest man perhaps in the world
there q not a move he is ut up TO- every body says
so-but do MT kDow-he s not everything, 80
she is an angel, Captain II there Is an angel
il s Miss Dombey. That q what I've
always said. Really, though, you know, said Mr..
Toots should be very much obliged 70 you Il
you d cultivate my acquaintance"
Captain Cutie received this proposal m polite
manner but still without committing himself 70 rs
acceptance, merely observing, Aye, aye. my lad-
We shall see we shall see p and reminding Mr.
Toots ofhis immediate mission By inqainng to what
he was indebted for the honor OF that vlsiI
why. the fact is replied Mr.. Toots " that It 8
the Young woman come from. Not Miss DOmbey
Susan. you know.
The Captain nodded his head once, with grave
expression OF face. indicative Of his regarding that
young woman with serious respect
d" And IL tell you how it happens, said Mr.
Toots. You know I go and call sometimes on
Miss Dombey. | do Mt go there on purpose. you
know. bot | happen % be in the neighborhood very
Otter and when find myself there, why-why, !
call"
"NatrsIy." observed the Captain.
Yes" said Mr. Toots. " / called this afternoon.
Upon nv word and honor do ut think it's possible
to form an idea Of the angel Miss Dombey was this
afternoon"
The Captain answered with jerk Of his head,
implying that il might not be easy to some people
but quite so 10 him.
"AsI was coming out, said Mr.. Toots, the
young woman, IN the most unexpected manner
took me into the pantry.
The Captain seemed. for the moment, TO object TO
this proceeding and leaning back 10 his chair
looked at Mr. Toots with distrustful if not threat
enng visage
Where she brought out" said Mr. Toots, this
newspaper. She told me that she had kept II IRON
Miss Dombey all day, on account OF something mat
was in it, about somebody that she and Dombey
used to know and then she read the passage 10
me Very well. Then she said-walt minute :
what was it, she said though
Mr.. Toots, endeavouring 70 concentrate ms men,
tai powers on this question, unlutentOnally hxed
the Captains eye, and was so much discomposed
by its stern expression that his difficulty IN resum
ing the thread Of his subject was enhanced to a
painful extent
"Ohi" said Mr.. Toots after long consideration
"Oh ah Yes She said that she hoped there
was bare possibility that it mghtnt be true and
that az she couldn't very well come out herself with
out surprising Miss Dombey, woad go down to
MIR. Solomon ellis the Instrument Makers in this
street who was the party's uncle, and askwhether
he believed it true, or had heard anythng else
in the city She said, If be couldn speak TO me-
no doubt Captain Cutie could. By the bye said
Mr. Toots, as the discovery flashed upon him, YOU
you knowl"
The Captain glanced at the newspaper in Mr.
Toots's hand, and breathed snort and huuiedly.
Well pursued Mr. Toots, :" the reason why
I'm rather late Is, because ] went up as lar az
Finchley first, TO get some uncommonly iine cf.ek-
weed that grows there, for Miss Dombey's bird
B ut came on here directly aterward. You We
seen the paper suppose y
The Captain who had become cautious ofreading
the news lest he should find himself advertised at
full length by Mrs. Mac Singer, shook his head.
"Shall read the passage TO you = inquired MIR.
Toots.
The Captain making a sign in the Affirmative,
Mr. Toots read as follows, from the Shipping Intel
ligence:
Southampton. The barque Defiance, Henry
James Commander arrived in this port 10 day,
with cargo OF sugar coffee and rum. reports that
being becalmed on the sixth day OF her passage
homo from Jamaica, INN such and such latl-
tude Won know" said Mr.. Toots after maxim a
feeble dash at the figures and tumbling over them.
"Ayel" cried the Captain, striking his clenched
hand on the table "Heave head my lad!
e. latitude repeated MIR Toots, with startled
glance at the CT plain, and longitude so and So
the look ont observed half an honr before sunset
some fragments OF wreck drifting at about the
distance of a mile. The weather being clear, and
the barque making way, boat was hoisted out,
with orders to inspect the same, when they were
found 10 consist of sundry large spars and part OF
the main rigging of an English brig, OF about hye
hundred tons burden, together with portion OF the
stern on which the words and letters Son and h
were yet plainly legibe. No vestige oil any dead
body was TO be seen upon the floating fragments -
Log of the Defiance states, that breeze spriDging
up in the night, the wreck was seen no more
There can be no doubt that all surmises as TO the
fate of the missing vessel, the Son and Her, port
of London bound for Barbados, now set at rest
for ever that she broke up in the last hurricane
and that every soul on board persisted.
CAPTAIN Cutie. like all mankind little knew how
much hope had survived within him under discour-
agement until he felt its death shock. During the
reading of the paragraph. and for a minute or two
aiterw ard. he sat with bis gaze fixed on the mod
est Mr. Toots, like a man entranced then sudden
~ rising and putting on his glazed hat, which, IN
bis visitors honor he had laid upon the table. the
Captain turned his back and bent his head down
on the little chimney piece.
"Oh, upon my word and honor, cried Mr.. Toots,
whose tender heart was moved by the Captain 5
unexpected distress this is a most wretched sort
of affair this world is Somebody always dy-
ing or going and doing something uncomfortable IN
it, m sure | never should have looked forward
SO much to coming into my property, II had known
this | never saw such world 1t a great deal
worse than Blimbers."
Captain Cutie without altering his position,
signed to MIR. Toots not 70 mind him and present
ly turned round with his glazed hat thrust back
upon his ears and his hand composing and smooth
ing bis brown face
"Walr my dear lad, said the Captain, q fare.
we'll Walr my child. my boy, and man ! loved
you He warn't my flesh and blood. said the
Captain, looking at the fire ant got noDe-but
something Of what a father feels when he loses q
SON | feel in losing Walr. For why y said the
Captain, Because it ant one loss, but round do
zen. Where 'sthat there young schoolboy with the
rosy face and curly hair that used to be as merry
in this here parlor, come round every week, as a
piece Of music Gone down with Walr. Where 8
thatihero fresh lad that nothing could tire put
out and that sparkled up and bushed 50, when we
oked him about Hearts Delight, that he was beau
tiful to look at ? Gone down with Wafr. Where s
that there mans spirit, all afre that would Mt see
the old man hove down for & minute, and cared no
thing for itself Gone down with Walr. IL ant
one Wafr. There was a dozen Walrs that
know and loved. all holding round has neck when
he went down, and they re s-holdins round mine
now =
Mr.. Toots sat silent: folding and refolding the
newspaper as small as possible upon bis knee
And Sol ellis" said the Captain, gazing at the
Ere, poor nevy less old Sol, where are y0U got to
YOU was left in charge Of me his last words was.
Take care Of my uncle What came over you,
Sol when YOU went and gave the gobye to Ned