The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-04-30

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Wllie-Wlllie Warner
She did not question his word - she
thought of him rather as a spirit sent 70
save her from destruction, and with PLAIN
tive cry Of joy, she followed whittier Re led.
It was desperate struggle for life, and
might have been unsuccessful but Tor the
timely aid. of the little boat sent out in guest
Of the drowning. Carefully they laid the
two nearly unconscious bodiss upon the
beach, while there went up loud, exul-
tant cry of Joy as the people recognized
their Captain and knew that he who had saw
ed SO many was saved himself at last. bur
few were lost, and those were persons who
would not heed his instructions. Robert was
among the survivors, but from him Jennie
resolutely turned away, refusing to listen
while he told her how he did mean to come
back for her. but the fire hurt him SO badly,
He was scarr'd for life now" he said, and
he babe her look at the blisiered wound up
on his neck, but Jennie had no eyes for him
her sympathies were all in the darkened
room where for weeks the youthful Captain
lay, graphing with what threatened to prove
mightier foe tnan the danger he had escap-
ed. Madly the feyered blood coursed through
his swollen veins, while the lips which had
so lately spoken words Of cheer to the trem-
bling wretches around him. now murmured
incoherently Of events which happened long
ago amid the mountains at home.
Neither persuasion nor entreaty could in
duce Jennie to leave him. She should stay
with him until the crisis. she said, and her
friends could go their way without her. par
ticularly Robert, who received 50 many cold
rebuffs that he at last said to her meekly,
you needn't have me unless you want to.
and guess you don't"
"Of course do mo-" she answered, proud
! ". 81 hate coward, who would leave his
betrothed OF three hours TO die alone.
threw your ring into the Lake aud cast you
of as lightly"
| Robert could do nothing but submitio the
I indignant lady's decree, and half wishing the
handsome captain would die he lett the scene
Of his humiliation and wendell his way back
to his home.
In spite Of Roberts wishes the handsome
captain did not die. and during the days Of
his illness the patient watcher beside him
learned strange story Of love commenced
years and years before. when she was it,
lie girl and Laughed at the boy with patches
on both knees That boy was there before her
now-ihe saviour Of her life. He was not
dead as she had long supposed and when
the fever left him he told her il was the shar-
er Of his lsbors, Billy Warren, VINO had d.
ed and been buried on the banks Of the ca
nal. Both had sickened with the cholera,
and he, Willie Warner, had talked. he
said, of Jennie Johnson, but God in mercy
spared his life and took that Of his compan-
ion. The names were similar aud the mis-
take very natural one, in as much as the
man who reported the news received IL Sc
cond handed from one who left the boat for
her, and asked her to give him another Jen-
ME Johnson in place Of the charred black
hulk floating igncminiously ON the water jus,
in sight Of his chamber window.
And Jennie answered that she would, pro-
vided he promised never again TO sail the
,reacherous Lake. either as captain or sub
ordinate. They would build home Of their
own. she said, on the very spot where the
old stone school-house used 20 stand. And
there. indeed. in the autumn time, a stately
mansion RISE, the future home, eIwas said
of Captain Warner and his bride, and
when the early spring blossoms were burst.
ing into beauty and the birds were singing
Of the coming summer, Willie went The re
70 live with Jennie. who was never so hap.
py and proud as when listening % The prai.
ses of the canal buy with patches On both
knees