New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-17
CHAPTER III.


Stree that nieht when the ship Red Lion rode out the
furious gale upon the African coast and the two infants were
amid the twenty years have passed away INTO
the tomb of Those who then In the moon OF lie
have gown straight forms have become ben-daik and
glossy heads have grown y-young and maidens have
matched to meridian Of their days and those who were
infants then have now become and women grown But
all the work to itself Death has been busy
during that and of and the broad way 10 the
tomb has been often travelled.
evening and in the paror OF one OF the most
sumptuous dwellings Of NewYork City sat the retired
merchant John Aheron All he has changed most woRder'
fully The ole grief sh at his heart and whom he all
a his mind I'LL wander back those long years
sgoue to fearful night when the storm robbed him Of his
wife. He had wished for another Many beautiful
woman his wealth and tried hard to win his
heart he had heart to His first his last his only
love was snaiched from him when the stormdemon
came he could love again His once noble form was
bent aud the which used cluster about the high brow in
glossy brown had crisp and gray and the top OF the
the blasts which swept over it, And then his
features grown spare and aowed and sort Of hsrshne
which there before had upon them In fact be
him Long sorrow hs. shut his heart and present troubles
The old his great chsir with his eyes closed and
his hands essped upon bis kuees moved but sound
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with a. pure and delicate asbaser ard yet blooming
with health Her hair Of rich brown and her eyes deep
liquid blue. She beautiful being and good she
beautiful Esther Lyman orphan who had been
with Mir Aheon several years Her father had Aher
business partner and when he died he the child into
bands Of hs friend babe him and her
she his Her her had died when she
but child and thus when she to fnd home be
eS the old merchants roof abe him her whole heart with
a It's childish confidence and willing obedience control
Wed, father she uttered, she tpped lightly forward
placed her hand the Old mars AN all ready for
tbe start"
"Ah-sO quick Good YOS are smart Esther We shall
-le of by noon 20 morrow
SO suppose; have hurried IL the ship all ready
tosal ?"
YES the the cargo pp. boa-d this afternoon
ToSnoICw she II her papers aud drop down
ronse1en. All my eho, this trip 20 Europe will benefit
80 III. benefits you father, | shall be happy"
"Think you. gentle one
Esther turned leave the for ale bsd only
cone toll. protector khow that she al ready but the
old OILED her back. . 49,
rs her" be "a d. drawing her closer 70 him wish 10
spak with further touching SUBJECT have once toiOfe
broarbed. Eou know what nesn"
"eresk o. SIR" mOfmured the maidep, trembling pT
csrtay u.,,...,,
and lnow be lost II he loses you We viii mate tbs trip
sGer there, when return, the ths shall
be contaminated { k-Ow u IA not tell me nay"
No 10 nv bea friend, shall no. uaY, Though have
vet Loved Marx should ~ish 10 love husband"
Tie old ma pnte.' Kiss upon her fair she spoke
then che the She went up TO her own
there down her bel aud cover
ine her face In the quilt bIf iao teaa She not
really uuhappy bot ssne, indshuable gloom had settled
ufon hers whea threw its shallow hto tho
her sad remembered her orphaned
she e aIL Alberto, Of she felt sure abe could
love him. and hs knew he must sn Der asdAn when
she -efused him, . -
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