New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-04

was now informed by the doctors that sh'
had an incurable disease. She took he
passage for America in the Albstr0ss fO
! the nineteenth OF December, and MARY
would 60 with her.
II can not leave her, Louis" said she
''she has taken care of me since was sever
years old, and she has meant to be kind
Her faults are the faults of nature; che car
not help them. And now l have another
csre-my poor father! You have seen what
grown-up child he il! 1 must teach him
to bear his $1,000 a year, tor which he has
been 80 long waiting. 1t seems TO him now
an immense fortune. Next month he will
be poor. Have patience, Louis! Your love
and constancy shall be rewarded some
time!'
So saw them all off from Brest, for Mary
would not let me go with them. 1t was an
homogeneous party, with Handyside Mar
bury newly forgiven, and did not wonder
that Mary wished to be alone with her new
complications.
| IL was glorious sunset! The Albatross
walked off into the ocean with ma jestfo
step, and seemed to command the uncertain
water. l watched Mary's white handker-
chief. after true lover fashion. as long as l
could see it, and then turned reluctantly to
the most unpoetioal OF all objects, the rail-
road station.
The first man met in Paris was Ainslie !!
He came forward to meet me with his usual
airy grace. "And how about Bertha 7"
asked.
"Oh! very sentimental Irritation, with
the usual results; the young lady more in
but Baron Hammerstein wrote me that
you had proposed to BERTHA" said l.
$50 uid; so had / was forced to, you
| know, because l saw she took me 80 seri-
ously. These German girls are very differ
ent from our American girls; they are so
much more in earnest. l told Bertha all
about Cecilia in the British provinces, and
told her that thought Cecilia would re-
lease me; for it really is an engagement
which, to tell you the truth, has become
wearisOme to me; but Bertha would not
hear of anything of the sort. She said l
must adhere to her first promise. She
| would not build her happiness on the heart
| break Of another, and all that kind of nom
sense, You know. So it grew awkward,
and came away"
From all have heard of Ainslie since, it
has frequently become awkward, and he
has always come away.
1t was ON Christmas day that the news of
the wreck Of the AlbatrOss came to Paris.
Yes, she had gone down in mid ocean; the
splendid steamer, with her precious freight,
. few lives only saved. l could not in the
incomplete accounts published, find Mary's
name, but Mrs. Jessamine and Handyside
Marbury were reported among the lost
The survivors were at a little town on the
Irish coast, and thither l went.
How blessed that lightning express
which carries the mails to Queenstown.
Day and night travelled with my terrible |
tear, and yet with a certain hope. Would |
that God would allow us to purchase some |
immunity from the awful suffaning of anx- |
iety aud hope deferred! But It is part of |
His discipline-s0 it is right, and to be |
endured as best we may.
met the agent OF the steamer first. and !
he told me that several young ladies had |
been saved. 1.-The young" said he, lean
live when the older can not" And two or
three were go ill, and some of them deliri
GUS, that they bad not been able to find out
their names. He pointed to a small house
where they were. and told me that would
find Sister of Charity there, who would
give me all the information desired
1t was not long before l was talking with
one Of those clear headed sanity women,
who came down to the doorway to speak
with me.
II have three young girls upstairs" said
she, lone very much injured about the
head, the others in stupor from the fatigue
and fright. 1t would not be we'll for you to
the friend you seek"
SO told of Marys beautiful long chest
nut hair, her dark eyebrows, and her
sweeping lashes, and asked the good sister !
to see on her finger was ''1ing with two !
lions"
In few minutes she came back. .The
Dne who lies in the heaviest stupor has such
halr as you describe, and she has gold
ring with two lions heads, and blue circlet
of forget me-nots," said the good sister.
No tears or entreaties would melt the good
nuns decision; l should not see her at
present. Every means was taken, che said, !!
o bring these poor girls back to health, but !
or the moment every life hung an thread !!
l do not know why thought of Bertha
aammerstein in my distress, but did, and
to her to come to the poor
riendlese girl who had but me left on the q
ace of the earth. g
So the good sister watched and PRAYED by
ne bedside OF these maidens snatched from |
he sea monster. That night the young girl 9
Who had been so blurred died. Mary did t
lot die She and the other slowly came r
Jack to life and reason. q
was pacing gloOmily the little town t
which had been 70 suddenly turned into q
pot OF interest for the whole worlf-for y
Who did not follow the survivors of that
wreck f-now carriage rushed rapidly o
'ast, and q hand was waved to me. 1t was t
ear Bertha, with one of the maiden aunts. | il
nd red checked German attendant.
whose nationality struck me even in that y
nxlous hour, SO pronounced was it,
Bertha too had suffered shipwreck l d
Ould see IN that generous face the mark of | v
ear:Dreak. Ainslie had left, as he has | Il
yer done since, shadow on the face of the r.
7Oman who loved him %
There could be no harm to Mary in the n
lslt OF Bertha, whose youth, and love, aud 81
God care brought her back to me. | was q
nore affected by Mary's tender thought of Il
or dead fathers reputation than by any, u
hing else in our first and most agitated | ri
leeting
"Dear Louis" said she. "you can not | al
nagine how brave he was-how unseIfisb- sc
hat resources he showed! He helped b.
" aunt and myself till the last moment: u
3 was never confused or fatigued. He
dated near me long after my aunt had | W
INK, when he found his strength going he fo
nd, Hope on, Mary; try to live. The | 7
Dung should not die easIly--they are too vi
Ill of splendid possible les. You have r
harleton waiting for you. Live, Mary, bs
y to live and then," said she, with "
loking voice, che sank, and saw him no u,
Orew w
So the man Of great ideas and feeble in fo
ntions had known how to die! There was til
link wanting, as he said, between him tn
I'd the present age; between his talents fr
I'd the use of them. Like many a theorist,
, had never been able to construct a
cory that beftted himself Yet there was
heroic side to the man. "Nothing in life
,came him like the leaving it," has been fiji
i'd of more than one Handyside Marburv.
wanted to be married at once-in Lon se
70, any where, as soon as Mary was re-. I'M
vered from her dreadful shock. l an
anted the right to console, and cure, and I'M
fend this hitherto sadly abused woman;
IL the maiden aunt who had been about ev
useful heretofore as if she had been yO
ermaid from the adjoining rocks, became jul
ormous on the subject of etiquette. She tai