Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-06

SO very good, though sir; so very goodi A nd
is mere no news OF the @ oil Luc <9''
Not word, I'm sorry TO say"
| In to day"
so I'm n sure hope so, with all my heart and
| sigh. "i'd
Now go. I'm sorry you have to waken
1ne enid, but suppose you can't nelp it
"COme, Ellie" says the mother, touchin =
her lightly on the shoulder.
Inc child with a start awases and cries:
is III my papa Dear, dear apa,"
Ihen seeing her dIsappoiDtment,s she bursts
Don't cry, dear, don't cry. The brig will
come In! Don't cry!" the good Old man
SPEAKS sootnlngiy 20 the sobbing child; aud
The mother catching her hand walks slowly
and sadly away, followed by Mr.. Tawman.
who lifts the little girl down the stairs, an /
heIps both her and h-r mother into a car.
Inc next morning the woman is again
lettering about the whArves with the same
agonized inquiry. She again puts the ques-
TO nto the wharfmen, and gain receives o liy
the office of thu brig owners, still accomp. A.
MED by her little girl and asks:
has The brig Good Luck come In YETI"
mot yet, ma'am."
She signs and looks out of the window at
the shipping. She says she will wait for
MI Tawman, aud sits down.
Wnen MI. Tawman comes In, as usual, he
greets her very kindly, and kisses the little
girl and says:
lin sorry the brig isn't in yeti"
will 4 be in to-day"
"Ihope So" And he goes behind his desk
ana looks over his letters. He has not been
long engaged I'm his correspondence, when a
scream II ON the woman stsrtles him.
She has risen and is pointing excited y out
OF the window.
Here is a ship coming In; look, look,
,'Thats not it," said clerk; chats a
oh, mol" adds Mr.. Tawman: chats not
The Good Luck"
at is! it is!'' She darts from the office.
dragging the hid after her, runs across the
busiling wharf out to the very edge of the
water
Mr. Tawman rushes to the window. opens
II, and calls To her. Tono purpose. however.
All he clerks cluster about the window to
watch her.
The woman is mad" says one. "She's
going TO drown herself"
Iawman says quietly TO the telegraph
operator:
Its the Mary"
The, schooner is being lowed up in the
river 10y tug. She is making preparations
10 anchor in the stream, opposite the wharf
All This time Mrs. setter il standing in the
midst 81 "A crowd Of excited people, waving
her handkerchief, and the little girl is wav-
ing hers.
Look! look there. There's a man over
ooard!' cries one OF the clerks. n cry OF
alarm goes mp from tue wharf.
Thunder eXclaims Mr. Tawnan. thor
ougnlv aroused what does that mean"
Hes swimming like "A fish, says clerk:
"GOd OF Mercy look lOOk!r shouted the
operator "Shc * nuggIng him; is the
little girl. It's Captain > eiter!"
"Ihank GOd!' eXclslms TaWman, "and
pray heaven she may not sink unler the
shock Poor woman. How she clingS TO the
drenched man. Dear, deaT''
Then ne puts on his hat and runs down
stairs Ike "a boy, and darts over where hus-
band and wife and child are, unILei and
happy.
The Good Luck's come in" yells Taw-
man. Justify.
"Ah!" he exclaimed, shaking the captain
by the hand. and not caring for the gaping
and wondering crowd all around him, '.ihis
Is good luck, my boy, isn't il, Ell? Did you
get my u legrdm?''
When the man can speak he answers:
YES"
Il planned IL ALL" chatters old Tawman.
Z" on see, got "A dispatch, yesterday, from
the Breakwater, saying that Captain Setter
had been picked up on a raft by the SchOo ler
Mary, bound in, and that you We're coming
up by rail from Lewes. / telegraphel back
word for you TO come up in the schooner for
a certain purpose. The shock would have
been worse to her If 1 hadn't. | told her
when put her I'm the car yesterday, that the
brig would come In, aud come in IL did.
Over TO the office, every one Of you, and
after dinner and dry clothes. Cap, we will
have talk about business. Come on"