The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-01

other" have you and Miss Selden been
cross with each other? Then why don't
you kiss and make up, like the way Tom
and me does?"
Perhaps Miss Selden and don't want
to make up" said Surrey, amused in
spite of himself.
Oh, Tom and me always does. The
Sunday book says love your enemies
you know it does"
Miss Selden awoke that night with a
dreadful sound in her ears. Was Mr.
Surrey Consoling himself with those dirge-
like airs at dead of night, or was it the
shout of angry waves besieging the ship,
the sound of voices half drowned by the
blast, of winds chorusing in the rigging,
OF feet hurrying from stem to stern? Had
they been boarded by pirates, struck
reef, or sprung leak? She dressed
hastily and opened her state-room door
Mrs. Bruce was already up, wringing her
hands and pacing the saloon.
/ always said so; kneeo we should
| 90 to the bottom sooner or later" she
cried. 80 Serena, you'll never see Cal
cutta, nor anybody! And there's all your
trousseau'I never do anyone any good
and that splendid peacock silk that was
so becoming-and to think he'll never
see you in it-and | going from Dan to
Bersheba to match the trimmingsm
" -going-down?" asked Sc
rena, steadying herself and her voice
with an effort.
g Any minute, for all know. l can't
find out exactly what's happened, but
know the Fury has become unmanage-
able, and she's drifting about at her own
sweet will. We might as well have a
cat at the helm. The three men who
went to sea in bowl aren't circum
stance to US. They've cut away Heaven
knows what, and there was a noise like
the crack of doom just now, which
must have been a mast"
Where-is-Mr Surrey?"
:" | don't know. Swept overheard, for
all l can say. Mr. Bruce would have al
lowed me to 60 to the bottom in my
sleep, do believe. He never so much
as called me. Well, Mr.. Surrey" as
that gentleman appeared, this is nice
situation for Mr.. Bruce to drag his limo
cent family into, isn't it? Don't mind
me. Comfort Serena, if you can. If he
who has promised to love and cherish
leaves me at such crisis, what can | eX-
pect Of a stranger? viii the ship hold
together till sunrise, do you Think"
I've no doubt of it," he answered.
crossing to Serena. At that instant
there was a sound as if the heavens
themselves rolled together like a scroll;
the ship quivered at every fiber, and
seemed to crack at every beam. Mrs
Bruce threw up her hands and uttered a
| prolonged cry. Il think we have struck, "
said Mr.. Surrey, solemnly. I'm afraid
our days are numbered. Miss Selden-
Serena-hadnt we better take Amy's ad-
vice and make up? If | may not live in
the light of your COuntenanCe, you will
not deny me the privilege of dying with
you?"
For an instant it seemed to him that
her figure swayed toward him, that she
trembled and half turned to him, with
an unwonted sOftness in her gaze, and
then she had drawn herself up proudly,
and had left him with outStretChed arms,
alone.
1t proved that they had collided with
/ a merchantmen, bound hOmeward from
India with a cargo of jute and gunny-
bags; but, while the FAIRY was found to
be in sinking condition, the Comet, be-
ing a heavier vessel, had sustained but
slight injuries, and was enabled to put
about to the rescue of crew and passen-
gers. 1t was a CHASTITY scene that fol-
lowed, photographed indelibly upon Miss
Selden's memory: the awestruCk faces
of the rough men who were flashing little
Amy upon Mr. Surveys shoulders; the
Intellectual flare of lights against the
twilight of dawn; the boiling sea which
tore the life-boats into chips; the Slip
perry cable across which she toiled to the
Comets side hand over hand, now sus-
pended above some deathly ocean chasm,
now almost shrouded in the spray of its
angry waves.
g shut my eyes tight" said Amy,
afterward, and Rugged Mr.. Surrey. 1t
was awful dark and lonesome. Have we
got to do it again? Do we always stop
that way"
" Heaven save US" calculated Miss
Selden. 81 don't believe but | SHOULD
! slip into the sea and have done with it if
| it were to do over;" and she leaned back
indolently in her seat under the canopy
which Surrey had improvised, being on
deck for the first time after days of i'll
ness the reaction from excitement
" What are you reading, Mr.. Surrey? l
really begin to be persuaded that am
still denizen of this breathing world,
and to take an interest in my species"
C am reading the Calcutta Daily, and
it's like newspaper issued the day be-
fore the flood. 1t tells US things we
didn't know, to be sure, but which are
old stories at the same time"
:" We are finding a new road to the
Indies, like Vasco da CANA, only it isn't
a shortcut. What is there new in Cal
cutta, or rather what is there Old?"
Z" see that my old classmate, Ned
/ Lombard, has foresworn himself and
married. Begun Princess, for all
know. That won't interest you, though.
Here's an interesting account of the re-
cepton of the Prince of Wales, and
Are you faint, Miss Selden? Shall take
you below"
81 must see the Calcutta Daily first,
please" but the letters all swan before
her eyes. "Who did you say was mar
ried? Your old classmate? Who?
"Only Ned Lombard. You knew of
] him lilnlt WON ~