River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-10-11

send the dinner up into my room here;
hats better!n The young man leaves
the room. Then Mr. Tawman enters the
Office again and consults the telegraph
operator.
send this message at once, Mr.. Lind
lay, if you please" He writes something
and the operator clicks it off at once.
It's long message, a very long message
indeed; but the Presidents message itself
is not so important, so interesting to
those whom it Concerns.
Then, by the time the message is sent
the dinner IS ready in Mr. Tawmans pri-
yate office, when Mrs. Setter partakes Of
it. but does ne think proper TO waken
the weary child, that she may eat also.
Then Mr.. TaUman says: "Now you had
better 60. I'll see to the child; I'll bring
the little girl up with me tonight"
mo, no." exclaims the mother, Il
must have my Ellie with me always, sir !.
You are so very good, though, sir; so
very good And Is there no news of the
Good Luck2"
Not q word, I'm sorry to say"
1t can't be possible. The brig must
come in today"
I'm sure 1 hope so, with all my heart
and soul, Mrs. Setter"
Il know you dc" she responds with a
sigh.
Now go. / am sorry you have to
wake the child, but | suppose you can't
help it.
''Come. Ellie" says the mother, tap
ping her shoulder lightly.
The child with i start awakens and
cries: rs it my papal Dear, dear pa
pa"
Then seeing her disappointment she
bursts into tears.
Don't cry, dear, don't cry. The brig
will come in. Dontcry." The good old
man speaks soothingly to tine sobbing
child; and the mother catching her hand
walks slowly and sadly away, followed
by Mr.. Tawman, who lifts the girl down
stairs and helps both her and her mother
into Car.
The next morning the woman is again
lettering about the wharves with the
same agoniZed inquiry. She again puts
the question to the wharfmen, and again
receives only the same answer. Then. as
before, she seeks the Office of the brig
owners, still accompanied by the little
girl, and inquiries:
'-IIas the brig Good Luck come in yet?'
Not yet, ma'am."
She sings and looks out Of the window
at the shipping. She says she will wait
for Tawman, and sits down.
When Mr. Tawman comes in, as usual,
he greets her very kindly, and kisses the
little girl and saws:
I'm sorry the brig isn't in yet"
will il be in to-day."
i hope So And he goes behind his
desk and looks over his letters. He has
not long been engaged in his correspond
ence when a scream from the woman
startles him.
She has risen and is pointing excitedly
out of the window.
Here is a ship coming in; look, look -
That's not it, says a clerk: that's
schooner"
"Oh, no" adds Mr.. Tawman; that's
not the Good Luck"
sit is. it is" She darts from the
office dragging the child after her, runs
across the crowded street, across the bust
ling wharf out to the very edge of the
water.
Mr. Tawman rushes to the window,
opens it and calls to her. To no purpose,
however. All the clerks cluster about
the window to watch her.
The woman is mad, says one. ashes
going to drown herself"
Tawman says quietly to thu telegraph
operator:
" It's the Mary
The schooner is being lowed up the
river by tug. She is making prepare
tons TO anchor in the stream opposite the
wharf Iii this time Mrs. Setter is
standing ia the midst of crowd Of ex-
cited people. waving her handkerchief,
and the little girl is waving hers
Look look there. There's "a man
overboardr' cries one of the clerks. A
cry of alrm goes up from the wharf.
Thunder exclaims Mr.. Tawman,
thoroughly aroused. What docs that
meant
Hes swimming like fish," says a
clerk.
"He las landed Hark at the cheers
''GOd of mercy. look, lOokin shout
cd the operator. ''She is hugging him ::
so is the little girl It's Captain Selterr
Then he puts on his hat and runs down
the stairs like a boy. and darts over to
where husband and wife and child are,
united and happy.
"The Good luck has come in" yells
Tawman, Justify.
"Ah" he exclaimed, shaking the cap
tain by the hand, and not caring for the
gaping and wondering crowd all around
him, this Is good luck, isn't itl Did
you get nay telegram
When the man can speak he answers:
"Yes''
Il planned it all" chatters old Taw-
man. You see got dispatch, yester-
dey, from the Breakwater, saying that
Captain Setter had been picked up on a
raft by the schooner Mary, bound in, and
that you were coming in by rail from
Lewes | telegraphed word for you to
come up in the schooner, for certain
purpose. The shock would have been
worse to her if had not. l told her
when / put her in the car yesterday, that
the brig would come in and come in it
did Over to the office, every one of you,
and after dinner and dry clothes, Cap,
we will have a talk about BUSINESS. Come
on"
Tragic Ending ora Bri al Four.
Fin. \. Scoop, twenty-five years of age
had been married scarcely four months.