The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-07-23

McE,win's excited Imagination saw IN
! the ships wake ali that he wished to see.
4 But what could the ''letters mean? What
memory did they call up in McElwin's
breast?
All of sudden he exclaimed, as he
watched the water closely: "Come, come,
thy abyss of waters is calling me!'
whats the matter with you.my friend?'
said |, taking his hand in mine"
"a grief here,' replied he, laying his
hand upon his heart, "that will kill me.
"With no cure possible and no hope?"
said I.
mo hope replied be, turning on his
heel and going below.
4
All of a sudden towards eight o'clock,
we felt a tremendous shock. A frightful
wave had struck the ship on her laboard
side
There" said Capt. Corsican, "that is
not love pat. That's knock down
blow In the chest"
In fact I might, to carry out his figure
of speech, say that we had been half MUIR
dered. Fragments OF a wreck strewed
.he waves. could see that part of our
larboard bulwark had been carried away.
Still the Great Eastern continued her
course with imperturb eble audacty. In
order to clear away the debris we ought
20 have run before the wind. But the
Captains temper was up, and he would
not yield. An officer and some sailors
were sent forward to clear the deck.
'Look OUT said the Captain; "the worst
is to come"
AS he spoke, wave more tremendous
than the first struck the ship, knocked
down the men, and made clean sweep
over the forward deck. The officer, half
drowned, shook off the water from his
dripping hair and whiskers, and picked
himself up. Then, seeing sailor stretch
ed out, unconscious, by the anchor, he
threw MIN on his shoulders and carried
him off.
! The other sailors barely saved them
selves. The Great Eastern had shipped
} water enough to carry down by the head
, irst-olass frigate.
The Captain was finally convinced that
he could struggle no longer. [ saw him
run to the little wheel which governed
\ the steering apparatus; the ship swung
; round like cockboat, and fed before the
} tempest.
The next day saw nothing of McElwin
from morning to night. Disturbed by
, his absence, approached his state-room
} several times, and assured myself that he
had not left it during the day. IL was
. evident that the throng on deck annoyed
him, and that he chose to be alone met,
J however, Capt. Corsican, and for an hour
We walked up and down the deck togeth
er. We spoke of MELVIN, and could
not help telling the Captain what had
passed between his friend and myself the
day before.
Il know, know" said Capt. Corsican,
with evident emotion. 1.-TWO years ago,
MELVIN counted himself the happiest Of
mortals, and now he is of all men the
most MISERABLE and then he told me, in
brief, the following tale:
/ Mr.. McElwin had met in Bombay a
charming girl, a Miss Hodges,-had loved
and been beloved, and no obsticle seemed
to stand in the way of happy marriage,
when the young girls father had, as one
might say, compelled her to marry the
son of Calcutta merchant, to whom he
was deeply Ia debt, The marriage settled
many business matters for the father, at
the expense of the daughters happiness.
For two years. McElwin, crazy with
grief, and. at one time, sick unto death.
mad not seen her whom he loved not for
a time but forever
! "What was the girls manner" I asked.
"Ellen Hodges" replied the Captain.
Ellen! That name explained the letters
McElwin thought he saw in the ships
wake.
"And her husbands name?" said T.
"Harry Drake"
"Drakel' exclaimed I. "Why. he is