Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-10-02


The sen sullenly washed the sands. All
else was still. Twice Evesham put ashore
to some dark object, and found only the
brown rocks. He was soaked by the
rain, and chilled by the blast. Of course
the woman must be dead. She could not
be living after SO long an exposure.
He rowed his boat against a snag, and
set her leaking at last. Then he was
obliged to put ashore.
AS he stepped upon the sands, his foot
touched some yielding object. Startled,
he stopped down, and placed his hand
upon cold face and soft human hair.
With an involuntary cry he dropped upon
his knees, and found the inanimate body
of a woman, sunk in q bed of sea weed,
stretched beneath the pitiless night sky
He was mile from the hotel, but close
at hand Il light burned in the shanty of
one of the boatmen. Lifting the senseiess
form, he bore it into the light ofthe blaz-
ing fire upon old Lewis hearth. The men
flung down their cards, and sprang up,
awe-strickcn. Evcslam himself paused
in astonishment rs his eyes fell upon the
face and figure he bore. No marble was
fairer than that lovely, scnscless counte
nance, no lips swecter, no hair a more
lnstrous gold than that which swept in
glittering waves to the very floor.
"It is Miss Vassar" murraured old
Levi, beNildered. II haven't seen her
these nine years"
They laid her before the fire, covered
her with hot blankets, and forced brandy
between those exquisite, pale lips.
She opened her eyes at last, raised her
head, and looked around her, bewildered;
then, with cry, covered her face with
sher hands.
Who has saved 50 frighitiu1a creature
from death ?" she cried.
Evcsham was bewidercd, but one of the
old boatmcn roughly snatched
small mirror from the WALL and held it
before Miss Nassars face.
Sure" lie cried "there's no signs of
small pox about ye now. Your skin is
as clean as the leaf Of a lily. If you'd
but ha' kept lass before you in the old
house, ye needn't have shut ycrself up
away from the world this many year
past"
Miss Vassar looked within the mirror
and burst into tumultaous sobs. The
torn lace of her vail was yet tangled in
her hair. She plucked it out and tlrew
it from her.
"1ou think me silly, you rough, honest
men, to care so much about my looks"
she sobbcd. "But, oh, it would be dread
tlll to see eyes that had shonc with pleas
ure upon you turn awayln fright and dis
gust horrible to beioathed by those who
loved you. Oh, thank God for giving
me back my old facet" And the old
boatmen turned aside with tears in their
eyes.
In the morning Miss Vassar was able
to be removed to her own home. Ewes
ham accompanied her.
lie came often to the old Vassar
House. He could not forget that he had
once held all that loveliness close to his
heart
Miss Vassar was grateful, and the sun
shone for her again Life was no longer
n horrible nightmare, but sweet reality.
And by-and-by she put the orange flow
ers OF bride over that glory of hair, and
promised, in calm content, to love for ave
the man who he'd saved her life, and who
worshippcd her.
And in the new house. in the old gar
den, Evesham has discovered who sings
as sweetly rs Lurlcy.
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sacred duty of the honest and true men
OF South Carolina, who are opposed to af-
hllation with either faction of the Radi.
cal party, and who will not support the