The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-14
A RADICAL CURE.

blew IN suiien gusts, and some drops OF
sleety rain were begi ming to fall as the
carriage in which Eleanor Grant was
seated alone drove down to the pier at
| Southampton. There was great crowd,
and the noise and hustle, the shouting
aud hurry, confused and half terrified her.
She despatched the servant who had
been sent from the hotel to attend her in
search for the friend whom she expece ed
to meet; and she, meanwhile, remained
shiver:ng in heI place, the little courage
with which she had set out falling rapid
ly. The man was long time gone, and
she was growing impatient and. weary,
when to her great relief she saw the
broad shoulders and cheerful red face of
Capt. Barrow appearing through the
crowd Under his escort she passed
swiftly through the noisy throng and
took her place IN a small skiff which
was awaiting them. Captain Barrow
sat beside her, and the boat shot rapid
ly over the dark and turbid waters to
where the good ship Gray Eagle lay
sombre sky the scene looked very dismal
to Eleanor, aud she more than once re-
gretted' having undertaken to make the
voyage home to America in q sailing yes
sci at this season Of the year. It was
against much good advice that she had
decided to do so. But she felt solitary.
The friends with whom she had come
abroad three years agO-the kind uncle
and invalid cOuSin-Werc dead; and she
felt so alone that the chance meeting
with Captain Barrow, a tong ago friend of
her fathers had seemed like glimpse Of
home His offer to take her III his own
vessel she had then hailed as q piece of
good fortune; but just now the under
taking looked rather formidable
However, when she reached the com
Portable cabin prepared for her, its cheer.
ful aspect revived her dropping courage,
and an hour or two of rest suffiCeG to re-
store her ordinary strength and spirits
At the end of that time there came q
messenger from Captain Barrow to say
that the ship was getting under Roadway,
and perhaps she would like to see it
She gladly responded to this invitation
land went on deck The captain provid
Led her with seat upon a coil ofrope, and
for d few moments she watched the novel
scene. But gradually her attention be
came absorbed by the stern aspect Of the
Isky The clouds which had threatened
ali day were breaking now, and the sun
was setting IN red and gold. a broad
beam Of crimson stretched across the
water, and touched into brightness the
smoky town She could not help think
ing how like was that cold, wintry
CLEAN to the only light which now lay
upon her Iiie-its golden glow, its sum
mer warmth, all vanished. She was not
wretched, she was not glad. She had
done alike with sorrow and joy. There
was nothing in the wcrld-at least SO she
thought could awaken IN her a
hope OF q regret. The storm had passed
by her, leaving behind a dull apathy OF
feeling which was like the chill winter
and Of night--a numbness like death.
She thought even positive pain would be
better pain, at least, is evidence fife /;
but she doubted if the power to feel pain
itself were not gone from her.
The return of the captain recalled her
from her self absorption, and for the first
time she observed, on the other side of the
deck, lady, with two gentlemen, and a
little boy playing about. $50" she said
to her friend, u am not, it seems, your
only passenger. "
ooh, no there are six Of you, all told
Those yonder are Dr. Forester, q naval
surgeon, returning home with his wife
and son, and the Rev Mr.. Sanders, who
has been abroad for his health, I fancy
Our other passenger has not yet come off
| hope he won't take within to detain US
But no-here he is"
Eleanor followed the direction Of his
oI,>
side. A gentleman was seated in the
stern, wrapped in "a large cloak. She
watched him with languid curiosity as
he came up the side, and saw the captain
go forward and greet him cordially
Something in the strangers air and the
carriage of his head struck her as famil-
ial, and she listened with a sudden eager.
ness to catch the sound of his voice. 1t
was some moments before its tones reached
her ear, and then, and then, despite q
half expectation which had arisen In heI
mind, the shock Of surprise nearly caused
! her to fall from her seat att#
Here was sensation, indeed, and from
the culver Of pain which ran through
every nerve, sufficiently showed that feel
ing was not dead within her. Was it
possible that in all these years she had
not any more outgrown that old influence
that the very sound of that mans voice
had yet power to shake her soul to its
center ?-that man who had SO wronged
her? Indignation burned within her as
she thought oft That man had I'M ured
her even more than she could know.
Her whole moral nature had been changed
through him; the waters of her soul SO
troubled that they had never since flowed
clear as before. She felt herself harder,
colder, more suspicious woman for the
shock which years ago he had given to