The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-13
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went on board the Proserpine and CHOSE
her the best stern cabin.
General Rolleston had ordered Hell.
ems cabin to be furnished, and the
agent had put in the usual thingE, such
as standing bedsteAd with drawers
beneath, chest Of drawers, small table,
two chairs, wash-stand; looking.Rlass,
and swinging lamp.
But Seaton made severals visits to the
| ship, and effected the following ar
rangemeDts at his own cost. He pro-
vided neat cocoa mat for her cabin
deck for comfort and foothold; he un.
shipped the regular six-paned atern
windows, and put in single pane plate.
glass; he fitted venetian blinds. and
hung two little rose-colored curtains to
each of the windows; all SO arranged
as ODE easily removed in case 1t should
be necessary to ship dead lights in
heavy weather. lie glazed the door
leading to her bathroom and quarter
gallery with plate glass; he provided a
light easy chair, slung and fitted with
Rrommets, to be hung on hooks screw.
ed into the beams in the midship of the
cabin. On this Helen could SIT and
read, and so become insensible to the
motion of the ship. He fitted small
bookcase, with button, which could
be raised when book might be want
ed; he fixed a strike-bell in her maids
cabin, communicating with two stri-
kers in Helen's cabin; he selected
books, taking care that the voyages
end travels were prosperous ones: No
nal, p or "Shipwrecks and Disasters in
the British Navy"
Her cabin was the after. cabin on the
starboard side. was entered through the
cuddyi had a door communicating with
the quarter gallery, two stern windows,
and a dead-eye on deck. The maids
lat ka NJ of hit NNs
opened into the cuddy and quarter gal
lery. And a fine trouble Miss ROLES
ton had 10 get n maid to accompany
her; but at last young woman offered
to go with her for high wages, demure-
ly suppressing the fact that she had
would have gladly gone for nothing.
Her name was Jane Holt, and her hus-
bands Michael Donovan.
In one of Seaton's visit to the Proser-
pine he detected the mate and the cap
tain talking together, and looking at
him with unfriendly CORRESPONDING
at him would hardly be too strong a
word.
However, he was in no state OF mind
to care much how two animals in blue
Jackets received his acts of self.martyr-
dom. He was there to do the last kind
offices of despairing love for the angel
that had crossed his dark path, and IL
now forever.
At last the fatal evening came; her
last in Sydney.
Then Seaton's fortitude, sustained no
longer by the feveIish stimulus of do
ing kindly acts for her, began to give
way, and he Responded deeply.
At nine in the evening he crept upon
General Rolleston's lawn, where he
had first seen her. BE sat down in sui
len despair, upon the very spot.
Then he came nearer the house.
There was lamp in the dininR-room;
he looked in and saw her.
She was seated at her fathers knee,
looking at him fondly; her hand was
in his. Tears were in their eyes; she
had no mother; he no son; they loved
one another devotedly. This, their
tender gesture, and their sad silence,
spoke volumes to any one that had
known sorrow. Poor Seaton sat down
on the dewY grass outside, and wept,
because she was weeping.
Her father sent her to bed early.
Seaton watched, as he had often done
before, till her light went out; and then
he flung himself on the wet grass, and
stared at the sky in utter misery.
The mind is often cleaPestin the mid
die ofthe night; and all of sudden, he
saw, as il written on the sky, that she
was going TO England expressly to
marry Arthur Wardlaw-
At this revelation he started up,
stuug with hate as we'll as love, and his
tortured mind rebelled furiouslY. He
repeated his vow that this should never
head to prevent 1t; but it was project
so wild and dangerous, that, even as
his heated brain Matched IL, his cooler
judgment said, "Fly, mailman, fly or
this love will destroy you 20
He listened TO the voice of reason,
I'm IN hn FNF fNf
the premises. He fluttered to his lodg-
When he got there he could not go In;
he turned and fluttered about the
streets, not knowing or caring whittier;
his mind was in a whirl; and. what
with his bodily fever, and his boiling
heart, passion began to overpower rea-
son, that had held ont so CALAMITY till
now. He found himself at the harbor,
staring with wild and bloodshOt eyes at
the Proserpine. he who, an hour ago,
had seen that he had but one thing to
do,-try to forget young Wardlaw's
bride. He groaned aloud, and ran
wildly back into the town. He hurried
up and down one narrow street, raging
inWaTdly, like some wild beast in its den
BY and by, his mood changed, and he
hung round a lamp post, and fell to
moaning and lamenting his hard fate,
aud hers.
~
maudIin drunkard, and hRlf-adVised,
half-admonished him TO go home.
At that he gave a sort OF fierce, de-
spairing snarl, and ran into the next
street, to be alone.
In this street he found shop open,
and lighted, though it was but i've
O'Clock in the morning. II was bar
ber's, whose customers were working
people. HAIR-cUTTIEo. sINPENCE.
Easy STAINING, THRREPENCE. Hot
COFFEE, FoURPRNcE THEouP. Seaton's
eye fell upon this shop. He looked al
side of the way, and then hurried on.
He turned suddenly and came back.
He crossed the road and entered the
shop. The barber was leaning over the
stove, removing a can of boiling water
from the fire to the hob. He turned at
the sound of Seaton's step, and reveal
ed an ugly countenance, rendered sin
lister by squlnt.
Seaton dropped into a chair and said,
81 want my beard taken on. .l-..
The man looked at him, If 1t could be
called looking at him, and said, dryly,
40, do yer Ho much am Ito have for
that jo62"
HYou know your own charge.n
"Of course doi ithreePence a CHM
Every we'll. Be quick then.n
HStop bit; that is my charge To
working folk. / must have something
every wen, man, III pay you
double"
"My price to you is ten shillings."
"Why, what is that fort" asked Sea-
/ TO-, 10 oOnoo oIaruo. he th0nObE in his