New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-08

Full of bright blooms, broad moons, ana sultr.
Like the full triumph of mortals prime.
when the far heights feel his ascending feet.
Then autumn follows with her slow decline.
When leaves are fallen, and when birds are lied;
Like the sad age that must be yours and mine
When hope has left us and sweet youth is dead.
And last comes winter, eurtaned all about
With paid snow and skies of ashen-grsy;
Like that late hour when lies spent flame burnt
"rhs rest is silence" we poor players
-Charles Noble Gregory.
THE STRANGE STORY OF CAPTAIN
GARNOUs.
'What on earth is the captain looking
att" ....
II don't know
"This is the second time have seen him
standing SO, with bin eyes fixed on the
water. What can it mean. Boulter.'
Something wrong, l fear" replied Boul
ter. For days l nave noticed that he has
been queer"
.Queel! l should think So" said the first
speaker, one James Citation. first mate of
the Aurora. The Aurora was fair-sized
vessel, chiefly trading with the port of
H, in Essex, and Scotland, and was
now bound for the North with cargo Of
wheat on board. 1t was night. The moon
was shining, the sea clear, and Captain
Gsrnous standing at the stern had his eyes
fixed on the water where the moonlight
was playing on 1t in the track of the vessel.
Garnous had been standing there some
time, and for several minutes the first and
second mates had been watching him.
face. More than once he drew his hand
across bis eyes, as though he was troubled
by some vision which he was unable to
comprehend.
do you see that-that face" he asked,
turning to Citation.
"What facet" cried Citation.
"That face in the water! This is the sec.
"Why. man alive. there is nothing in the
water! 1t is only your fancy"
"Fancy! 1t is no fancy, tell you. lean
sec it. There tits on the track of the YES
sel-so white-so ghastly! All" and with q
shrek he covered his face with his hands
and hurried away.
Descending rapidly to his cabin, he went
to q cupboard with trembling hands end
brought out bottle of spirits and tumb-
Ter. This tumbler he half filed and tossed
the spirits down. Then he sank upon .
seat.
"That was Chetwynds face" he said, 81
know it. Hannah told me could see it,
xow!" And Garnous shuddered as he put
this question to himself.
He sat drinking until sleep overcame
him.
In the meantime the first and second
mates were discussing the strange conduct
OF Captain Garnous on deck.
"What the deuce did he mean by saying
there was face in the water!' said Glat-
ten.
"He has been drinking good deal late.
". sad iBoulter. II dare say that explains
at looks as if he were going off his head"
Eyes; l should not wonder if he did 80.
BE has never been the same man since
Hannah Chsrmen refused to have him."
Poor Chetwynd's lover"
"Ah, Chetwynd was nice chap; he and
were good friends. What q night it was
when he was lost! Very different from
this" And Citation looked round on the
smooth bright sea and up at the sky, where
the stars were shining. II never knew q
worse passage than that. 1t blew great |
guns as soon Is we left H; and off sun
terland it was awful. Poor Chetwynd said |
to mel can remember it well-I doubt |
Whethe or l shall ever see Hannah again. If |
1don't, and you should, give her my love-
loan sec his dark eyes now, Just as they
looked. He spoke the truth; he never did |
see her. The storm got terrible soon after
ward, and be never spoke to me again. He
lost bis footing somewhere, expect, for he
was drowned. Poor Hannah! l shall never
forget her anguish when We broke the news
20 her. 1t ever q man was loved bv a
Charmen."
"And the worse luck for our captain, eh!"
"Just So"
"You don't think she'll ever have him, do
your
"Never."
"Never is long time"
IL know it. But Hannah will never
marry GarnOus. Indeed he has never tried |
n on since poor Chetwynds death. The
girl ates him"
"And no wOnder.'
mo wonder, as you say. hate Garnous,
same"
Captain Garncus had never borne a yerv
good name; but the email esteem in which
he was held by his interiors was no barrier
to his meeting with gOoo deal of success.
frofe sionally ne was very clever. No man
ing time Garnous had got his vessel safe to
port while other captains had met with dis
aster. For this reason he was q good deal
patrOnized by merchants who knew him.
and he could always command q better
price than many of his brother captains.
:. II never have to &c looking for business
known, and bis luck too. For twenty years
I've sailed about this coast, and I've never
met with an accident yet. I've helped
many a ship off the G1nfeet; but I've
never wanted any body to help me-"
Garnous was not pleasant man to look
ut, with his thick red hair, red whiskers,
small gray eyes and large mouth. In figure
he was rather shOrt, and he had immense |
arms and hands--arms and hands which he
was accustomed to use in very free man
ner against any one who might have dis
pleased him. His age was about forty-five.
Until year or two before bis strange
conduct on board the Aurora attracted the |
notice OF the first and second mates. Gar 4
nous had been accustomed to profess the {
greatest Indifference to womankind; and if /
The name of lieutenant or q mate serving t
7nder him was ever coupled with that of
pretty girl, GarnOus would eneer at the q
,oor fellow numerically. But Captain e
aarnous' day came at last. He fell in love, | O
md the young woman to whom he offered g
marriage wss quite Indifferent to him.
Hannah Charmen - for this was her q
ame-was very pretty girl; indeed, it q
hight with truth be said that she was t
esy b handsome one. Her father, who held j,
Dme subordinate position in the coast d
uerJ service, resided in the port of H, o
,hich might be called the home of Captain I
axnons; but he had not been stationed Il
,ere long. One sunny autumn day, Gar. p
Dus, 5use returned from q voyage to the Q
,rth, met Hannah Charmen on the beach, Il
oked ct hee, first rudely, then sought to n
,prove his glance into ONE Of admiration. d
be cir did mot he'd him, but went on her 81
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