The Van Buren press., 1875-11-02
VAN BUREN, ARK NOVEMBER 2, 1873.

disappeared
Mr. Steele stopped minute his voice
faltered the little plump hand of his wife
| slipped into his own he clutched it, and
went on again.
"Onc minute l saw her a. neat and
trim little figure as ever graccd a water.
proof and shoyel-hat, the next she was
gone
"GoneW cried Laura. Gone where 2
Into the water, child; into the hun
gry green waves that surgcd up to take
her away from the tonde.t heart in the
universe, and if it hadn't been for one OF
those very vagabond boys, who had been
| lurking there fora chance to escape from
the island. you'd have lost us both, my
dear, for made an agonized plunge after
her, though I'm ashamed to say
c,sS,.ila,3't &c IA swim stroke, and should only
A" ttom like plum met
Crawford Goa standing by caught
a.. .ne,d me. ana cried out that Johnny
Waters had her, safe as trivet and
presently that vaeabond boy came up
with your sweet mother on the other
side of the boat and the official cried out.
He's a regular water dog, that Johnny
Waters And these were the very
words guest here used in relation to
John minute or SO ago
"John !" cried poor bewilderea Laura,
80 our John? Mammal My mamma
Was mamma the lady' Was John the
boy7 And Is it John, our John, that
saved poor Mr. Stuyvcsant2'
"Thc very same. darling-John, our
John; he's always on hand where there's $
trouble or danger"
Oh. mamma mamma |" cried Laura,
forgetting all the years that had passed
since the accident and crumpling both
the coitfeured heads in most reckless
manner.
Papa she then said, eve must go
and find John. l want to tell him how
much Il"
Yes, DEAR" said Mr. Archibald
Steele, and all the way through the corri-
dor and into the parlors Of the hotel.
with hi. plump and pretty wife on one
arm, his lovely daughter on the other, nc
smiled.
But John WAS still surrounded by the
pretty and sympathetic women, who had
cruelty deserted the blue blooded de-
scendant of the old Dutch Governor. ~
ing in his most graceful and languid OF
attitudes on neighboring lonnge-the
descendant, not the Govcrnor--and had
flocked one and all to the handsome and
heroic founder Of the new school for
teaching people the way to be rescued
from drowning.
These charming creatures. spent so
much OF their time Mt the sea shore, and
it was so necessary and SO nice to be
wise!
John was almost hidden in 1ounces
and laces but when his eyes met Lauras
he plunged out Of these costly billows
with his usual case and intrepidity. There
was something IN Laura's eyes that he
had never seen there before; tempting
languor, bewitehing shyness, a bewitch
ing spendor, that stepped his soul in a
mad sweet hope
Laura stopped one moment to whisper
to her mamma, and John gasped out to
Mr.. Steele,
III dared only dared tell her
1--WE told her myself" said the mer-
chant.
"That I was pauper without home
or friends p
~ told the story in my own way,
John" continued Mr.. Steele. . and
fatter myself told it successfully; don't
spoil it, if you please. have managed
the past and the present; do you look
out for the future, John"
! And John did. Laura walked through
the parlors that night, the envied Of all
the pretty and sympathetic women and
brave and appreciative men that congre.
gated there. -HarperS Weekly