The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-05-06

married sisters. MY vile olcd, leaving one
daughter Nv misfortunes, Mr.. Charlcton,
began early, and then Mrs. Jessamine adopt
ed my daughter.
Mrs. Jessamine, Mr.. Charleton, has
treated me with odious contempt and cruel
ty. She would have prevented my daugh-
tcr's loving and aiding me If she could. |
have never been permitted even to see her
openly; hut my daughters love has con
quercd all things.
~ have also TO confess that the ring which
YOU SO kindly redeemed in jewelers. shop
here about a week ago had been sent to me
by my daughter when j lay here very i'll.
Mrs. Jessamine, as you are aware, is not
lavish 10 my daughter in the matter Of
money"
So the mystery was cleared up, and Mary's
conduct shone out pure and lustrous. Be
tween such an aunt and such father she
was indeed entitled to her secrets
Handyside Marbary was o shabby old
fathex in law, and To man less in love this
relationship might have dashed very con
siderable ardor. But it only made me love
Mary better and hurried on to Paris by the
night train, anxious to console and defend,
and protect her. When she heard of the ac-
cession of fortune Mrs. Jcssaminc forgave
Handyside Marbury, and even treated Mary
a little better; but the habits of lifetime
are not so easily mended.
There seemed TO be no reason now why
our engagement should not be announced: /:
no reason why should not take Mary and
the " ring with two lions" to myself forever;
but Mrs. Jessamine became for once an un-
willing obstacle. The poor woman had
been aiing for long time, and she was now
informed by the doctors that she had an in
curable disease. She took her passage for
America in the Nbatross for the 10Th of De-
cember, and Mary would go with her.
81 cannot leave her, Louis said she;
81 she has taken care of ME since | was
seven years old, and she has meant to
be kind. Her faults are the faults of
nature; she cannot help them And
now / have another care-my poor father!
You have seen what a grown-up child he isl
must teach him to bear his two thousand a
year, for which he has been so 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 timer
So | saw them all off from Brcst, for Mary
would not let me go with them. 1t was an
ineongruous party, with Handysidc Marbury
newly forgiven, and | do not wonder that
Mary wished to be alone with her new com
plications.
1t was a glorious sunset! The Albatross
walked Off into the ocean with majestic step,
and seemed to command the uncertain water
| watched Mary's white handkerchief, after
true love fashion, as long as l could see it,
and then turned reluctantly to the most un-
poetical of all objects, the railroad station.
The first man / met in Paris was Ainslic!
He came forward to meet me with his usual
airy grace. And how about Bertha?n
asked.
'Oh! very sentimental Irritation, with
the usual results: the young lady more in
earnest than the dreadful man, you known
But Baron Hammerstein wrote me chat
you had proposed to Berthan' said I.
So did; so / had i was forced to, you
l. I Il.
ously. These German girls are very different
from our American girls; they are so much
more in earnest. l told Bertha all about
Cecilia lin the British provinces), and told
her that thought Cecilia would release me;
for 1t 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 must adhere to my first
promise. She would not build her happi-
ness on the heart-brcak of another, and all
that kind of nonsense, you know. So it
grew awkward, and came away"
From all ! have heard of Ainslic 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
a few lives only saved. | could not. in the
incomplete accounts published, find Mary's
nraIutrIy -srortod among the lost Tho
survivors were at little town on the Irish
coast, and thither / went.
How | blessed the lightning express which
carries the mails TO Queenstown. Day and
night | Travelled with my terrible fear, and
yet with certain hope. Would that God
would allow us to purchase some immunity
from the awful suffering of anxiety and hope
deferred! But it is part of His discipline
so tits 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. "The young" said he, "can live
when the older cannot" And two or three
SO i'll, and some of them delirious, that they
had not been able to find out their names.
He pointed to small house where they were,
and told me that | would find a Sister of
Charity there, who would give me all tho In
formation desired.
1t was not long before / was talking with
one of those clear-headed, sanity women,
who came down TO the little doorway TO
speak with me.
81 have three young girls upstairs" said
she, lone very much in ured about the head,
fright. 1t would not be well for you to see
them yet, but you can describe to me the
friend you seck.'
So | told of Marys beautiful long
chestnut hair, her dark eyebrows, and her
sweeping lashes, and / asked the good sister
to see if on her finger was a ring with two
lions"
In few minutes she came back "The
one who lies in the heaviest stupor has such
hair 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; should not see her at pres
ent. Every means was taken, she said, to
bring those poor girls back to health, but foI
the moment every life hung on thread.
/ do not know why thought of Bertha
Hammerstein in my distress, but did, and
tclcgraphed to her to come to the pool
friendless girl who had but me left on tn,
face of the earth.
So the good sister watched and prayed
by the bedside of these maidens snatchet
from the sea-monster. That night the young
girl who had been so injured died. Mary
did not die. She and the other slowly cam,
back to life and reason.
| was pacing gloomily the little town
which had been turned SO suddenly into the
spot of interest for the whole world-for who
did not follow the survivors of that wreck
when carriage rushed rapidly past and
hand was waved to me. 1t was dear Bertha
with one of the maiden aunts, and u red
checked German attendant, whose nation
ality struck me even in that anxious hour
so pronounced was it.
Bertha too had suffered shipwreck.
could see in that generous face the mark OF
heart break. Ainslie had left, as he has eyeI
done since, shadow on the face of the
woman who loved him.
There could be no harm to Mary in the
visit of Bertha, whose youth and love ant
good care brought her back TO me- ! was
more affected by Mary's tender thought Of
her dead fathers reputation than by any
thing else in our first and most agitateC
meeting.
Dear Louis said she, "you cannot i'm
agine how brave he was-how unselish-
what resources he showed He helped m,
aunt and myself till the last moment; h,
was never confused OF frightened. He float
ed near me long after my aunt had sunk
and when he found his strength going b,
said: Hope on, Mary; try to live Tht
young should not die easily-they are too
full of splendid possibilities. You hav,
to live and then" said she, with chok
ing voice, " he sank, and saw himlno more"
SO the man Of great ideas and feeble in
tentions had known how to die There was
a link wanting, as he had said, between hin
and the present age; between his talents ant
the use of them. Like many theorjst h
had never been able to construct theoT,
side 10 the man. Nothing in life becam,
him like the leaving it," has been said o
more than one Handyside Marbury.
wanted to be married at once-iD Lon
don, anywhere, as soon as Mary was recov
cred from her dreadful shock. ! wanted tb
right TO console, and cure, and defend thi
hitherto sadly-abused woman; but III
maiden aunt, who had been about as usefu
heretofore as if she had been a mermait
from the adjoining rocks, became enormou
on the subject of etiquette. She said Mar
must come to the Schloss, and that the oil
| Baroness must decide when and where an
| how she was to be married
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