The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-04-22

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: not be ha?py at home, she coAsent6d to co
sub Captain Martell about me, and take b
= advice. OF course he advised her to subn
S to fate, ard took me on his own vessel. .,
/ first voyage was TO China in the good shi
j. Midas, that Is beating herself to pieces o,
there on TIE rocks. We had fine voysg
! and came home laden with tea and silks.
. astwenty years. old when We reach hd hom,
8 stayed at the Captains Eouse q day an
night before left for my own hom e, whic
; j: some distance froin Plymouth. On thi
visit, at my Captaip'i, first saw his wife
sister, Annie Lawrence. 4 lost my heart I
Ii dear gill Anni.Twas aslady, and he
!. father vas wealthy, and she had many suitor.
. She was eighteen years cid, and had Sc: he
heart against the sea.
90" / will never marrya sailor, though b
were CAPTAIN Of a golden ship, said Annie
~ would sconer marry an. apothecary, ant
live at the back oft he shop, and smell assa
fontida all Ii time" !. -
captain Martcll laughed :; remember,
said he, my wife said the same; but sh
got over her prejudices when she found that
could not be coaxed or driven"
My mother had good property, and she
put half of it in MY hands to make ventures
in our ship, and for q year past i have beer
trading with Captain Martell to the We,
Indies. and adding to M capital very rapid
ly. just before our last vo,yage felt deter
mined to have last word with Annie abou'
| the She knew very well that loved bel
better than all the world, though had never
told her so.
- You :tev think it strange that should
! tell yo5 all this, bat you seem Just as if you
were nv brother and sister. The night be.
/ fore We sailed was q lovely summer evening
! and Captain Martel and his wife, Annie aud
], were sitting in an arbor in the garden
/ for though the house is close in the town. Ii ey
have a pretty garden. We were oil verv
! mert-, trobasi+ Eecahse we "s-e t.ot happy.
! "hrs. Marital seemed to know what |
| wishei to speak to Annie and she drew Eer
/ husband away. and left US alone
/ "Anniej said !, ARE you in earnest when
you say YOU viii never marry man who goes
to scar. fEL 80
am, snid She
"You know, Annic,' said I, tina. am
now Second Mate of Captain Martel's ship,
! De reIt month ! shall be First Mate
90 Is that any thing to me p said she, al
most har.hy.
"Annie, said I, Il love you, and if you
have any regard for me, it IS something 70
yod.
She buried her face in her ha andkerchef,
aud wept passionatelv, terribly.
oh, Ralph she said, you don't know
how miserable am! l have every thing TO
make me happy. people say, but At. miser-
able about the SEA | was wre,cb4d about.
Captain Mar,ell before knew yot, but
since came to be your friend
To. love me, Annie said l /; :. do say
,ha;n. E7f tIfF
Well, ever since the first day I saw you,
and though. Of your going on the hateful,
treacherou- ocean, have dreamed a bout YOU
every week, ver;ls believe. And ] have
always dreamed thar voI we're wrecked. cast
! away on some dreadful breakers, aud ALWAYS
you and Captain Martell were drowned.
have seen vow bruised and bleeding bodies
on the rocks and sands, and beaten about
among the breakers. full fifty times. Oh
to avoid itp Oh. il YOU coula escape from
the sea! Bat you cannot. Captain Mariell
is vour fate ne will never leav. the sea. and
you will never leave him; and the end will
be as have seen il in ny dreadful dreams
so many tines. And then what will become
Of lizzie and mer fG
again she w.pt passicuatelr
Bat, Annie, VIII yon marry me il leave
the sea? ] must 60 this voyage"
Iaa vii, never return alive said she /;
. you and Ca p;.,in Martell will be drowned.
saw you both last night, wrecked and cast
ashore dad" rL
Arnie, said |, If return alive from this
voyn<r "ill YOU marry me p
Her orly reply was, that if W. made the
voyage we would both be drowned.
u left her the next day IN great ,orrow.
and now am going back to her penniess,
for all nv property was in the ship. How
can marry ard be dependent on N wife 2
at is better than being wrecked and
drowned hesiies," said Angus.
Better, but it is nc. WELL said Ralph
| Wilson.
In the afternoon Captain Ma-tell was able
to get up and be dressed. In the eI ening be
came down stairs. .'
! Il s',al. be as good as new to-, borrow
sad he. ! wonder if the people here will
gather tho pieces OF my poor Midas if they
| do, Docto.. save piece for me BIZ enough
I to make q cane. There is one comfor:-we
were insured, vessel and cargo
80. Insured T. e2claiEcd Wilson, vessel
and ,cqrYo?'
..E1acily. sho;;li not have in sufed OH
cargo, but knDie begged pe to do il, chs said
| you would La ruined if we were '-recl, ID,
and thet it would be hard for young man
20 lose an Independence just as he had gain
! ed IT. sa. .g .s=--.- g-ss
'Then she did not quite believe that 4
would be drowned" said Wilson, smiling
! The next day Captain Marell and Ralph
! Wilson wen; h,me. Some weeks after nv
husband received letter from Ralph Wilson
| | give an extract:
II am married to Ttty dearest Annie. Capt
Martel lind ife going INTO business togeth
er. We are going to be wholesale traders,
in coffee, tea, tropical fruits, etc. ! promise
Annie TO give up the the sea, and she prom i
ses me TO give up dreaming.
I" wish you could have been at The we'd
ding. but ! knew that baby could not he
brought and would not stay at home, SO YOU
did not get an invitation. Next summer We
shall come to visit you, even if you do no,
invite us; meanwhile, you will accept ouI
love and the assurance of our deepest graft
tude. We shall always pray heart-prayers
for you. We are four of the happiest people
in the world. and you were the means of al
or happiness.
Besides this letter we go, wonderful Christ
mas gifts from zout friends and from thai
timefo t.is,hcy haze visited us every sum n1er
and we have visited them every winter.
SIZE WADE "A MAN (lEHHVNs