The Portland daily press., 1876-09-25

plete accounts published, find Mary's name,
but Mrs. Jessamine and Handyside Marbury
were reported among the lost. The surviy-
ors were at little town on the Irish coast,
and thither 1 went.
How I blessed that tightening 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 immu-
nifty from the awful suffering of anxiety and
hope deferred! But it is part of His Dsci-
| plne-so it is right, and to be endured as best
| we may.
1 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
were so ill, and some Of them delrious, that
they had not been able to find out their
names. He pointed to a small house where
they were, and told me that would find a
Sister of Charity there, who would give me
all the information desired.
| 1t was not long before was talking with
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, "one very much injured about the head,
the others in Stupor from the fatigue and
fright. 1t would not be well for you to see
/
friend you seek"
| So told of Mary's beautiful long chestnut
hair, her dark eyebrows, and her sweeping
lashes, and 1 asked the good sister TO see il
on her finger was firing 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
l foare or optroafiac uOuld mott <ho rood ..-.,.
decision; should not see her at present.
| Every means was taken, che said, to bring
these poor girls back to health, but for the
moment every life hung on thread.
do not know why thought of Bertha
Hammerstein in my distress, but did, and
telegraphed to her to come to the poor friend
less girl who had but me left on the face of
| the earth.
So the good sister watched and prayed by
the bedside OF these maidens snatched from
the sea monster. That night the Young Girl
| who had been so injured died. Mary did not
| die. She and the other slowly came back to
| life and reason.
| was pacing gloomily the little town which
had been so suddenly turned into a spot of
| interest for the whole world-for who did not
| follow the survivors OF that wreck ?-now a
carriage rushed rapidly past and hand was
waved to me. 1t was dear Bertha, with one
L
man attendant. whose nationality struck me
| even in that anxious hour, so pronounced
| was it.
Bertha too had suffered shipwreck. l
could see in that generous face the mark of
heartbreak. Ainslie had left, as he has ever
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 and
good care brought her back to me. Twas
more affected by Mary's tender thought of
her dead fathers reputation than by any-
thing else in our first and most agtated
meeting.
Dear Louis" said she, "you cannot i'm.
agne bow brave he was how unselfsh-
what resources he showed! He helped nv
aunt and myself till the last moment; he was
never confused or fatigued. He foated near
me long after my aunt had sunk, when he
found his strength going he said, Hope on,
Mary; try to live. The young should not die
easily-they are too full of splendid possibili
ties. You have Charleton waiting for you.
Live, Mary, try to live and them" said
she with choking voice, she sank and saw
no morer'
So the man of great ideas and feeble inten-
| lions had known how to die! There was
link wanting, as he had said, between him
and the present age; between his talents and
the use of them. Like many a theorist, he
had never been able to construct a theory
that beftted himself Yet there was heroic
side to the man. Nothing in life became
him like the leaving it, has been said of
more than one Handyside Marbury.
wanted too be married at once-in Lon
don, anywhere, as soon as Mary was recov-
cred from her dreadful shock. I wanted the
right to console and cure and defend this
hitherto sadly abused woman; but the maid
en- aunt who had been about as useful here
tofore as it she had been mermaid from the
adjoining rocks, became enormous on the
subject. OF etiquette. She said Mary must
come to the Schloss. and that the old baron
ess must decide when and where and how
she was to be married.
So we journeyed slowly back to Schloss
Eldersteln. was not afraid to have Mary
see its .splendors now. She was mine
wholly, heartily mine.
Then one awkwardness was removed, for
the young Baron had consoed himself He
was betrothed with great foImality and true
GERMAN solemnity, to noble heress of
VIENNA lady who bore sixteen quarterings
on her shield. 1t was more fitting match
than Mary. All of which pleased the old
baroness so that she played numberless CLASH
cal and difficult works on the violin with un-
usual earnestness and precision, land embraced
Mary heartily. 1t was not difficult to run
GOWN an American Ambassador at Baden
Baden~they used to haunt the shades of the
green cloth-as our Catholic friends received
dispensation for one day, and were allowed
to enter Protestant precincts, we made quite
an effect as we entered the Chapel at Baden
Baden. Although the American Ambassador
took Mary to the altar and stood Gin loco
PARENTS, the old baroness insisted on giving
her away, which she did with infinite grace.
And for wedding ling would have moth
ing but the "Ring with Two Lions"
M. E. w. s.