Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-20
AN EXPLORERS AMOURs.
The Romance OF lIr. stanley's Life
BethrOthed to a Jewess and Tilted
while In Africa-Love at First
Sight I'm Athens.i

1Qere are lew men III Tile WOIlu W WHO'LL
life should apparently be so pleasant as to
Mr. Henry Stanley; there are few, however,
to whom it seems to be so bitter. All Eng
land is ready to do him honor; he has been
overwhelmed with praise and congratulation;
the queen has received him; parliament has
thanked him; the two great journals for
which he has made his explorations have
amply rewarded him. But he is sullen,
morose, disconnected and savage; he seems
to enjoy nothing save occasionally making
himself intensely disagreeable at public din
ner or meeting, where every one is anxious
to do him honor. This is strange. Mr..
Stanley is yet young man, and life should
still contain much joy for HIM. What Is the
explanation of this mystery? Mr.. Stanley
has had romance; it ended unhappily for
him, and this it Is which has soured him
to the heart Before he went upon his
second expedition to Africa. he met and fell
madly in love with a charming young lady,
the daughter of wealthy citizen of Jew
ish extraction, whose name Is perhaps
best known In connection with the erection OF
an extensive but unfortunate operahouse.
Mr.. Stanley's passion was deep and violent,
but he was told that, at least, he must wait,
and that an Immediate marriage was out OF
the question. He was anxious to win even
greater tame and fortune and lay them at the
feet of his beloved. 1t was at this moment
that the second African expedition was pro-
portunity for distinction and reward, and he
eagerly embraced the perilous commission.
Throughout the whole of that terrible Jour-
ney through the jHngles of Africa, amid all
his tolls, dangers, sickness and disappolnt-
ments, he was sustained by the thought of
his love, and by the confident hope OF recelv-
ing the reward which was dearer to him than
the applause of the world or the riches of
Golconda. He gave the name of the young
lady to the most beautiful lake which he dis
covered. as he gave it afterward to the hand
some boat in which he made a portion of his
exploration-the Lady Alice At length the
source of the Congo was found; the great
returned with a proud and happy
heart to the coast. At Zanzibar packet of
letters was awaiting him, and he fastened
to open them, hoping to find some messages
of love and affection from the mistress OF his
soul. A fatal blow struck him. One of the
letters contained the intelligence that Miss
Alice - had been married several months.
From that moment Stanley was changed
man. His natural good humor and buoy
ancs of spirit gave place to long fits of mel
ancholy, alternated with violent outbursts of
petulance and anger. The plaudits with
which he was received upon his arrival in
England were distasteful to him, and he re-
venged himself by attacking with unreason-
able rage everyone who ventured to differ on
even the slightest subject with him. This,
however, was Mr.. Stanley's second love af-
fair. He had experienced a previous disap-
pointment, but it had not deeply wounded
him. CHANGING to be some time upon the
Island of Crete, he saw from his window a
young Greek maiden in the garden of the op-
posite house, and he at once felt that his fate
was sealed. She was about fifteen years old,
and Mr.. Stanley has since declared that
never before nor since has he beheld SO sweet
and beautiful a creature. He at once Sought
laI fch
the state of his heart. The CONSUL who had
himself married Greek lady, babe him not
despair; took him forward to the house of his
inamorata and presented him to her mother,
who was widow. Stanley could speak no
Greek; the mother no English; the consul
was the interpreter. He did his work so we'll
that at the end of half an hour the young
even to touch her hand; but he conversed
with her by his eyes; they soon understood
each other well. At the end of week he
was an accepted lover; at the end of a fort
night the day for the wedding arrived. All
this while he had seen the young lady once a
day, always IN the presence OF her mother.
On the day before the wedding he had been
permitted for the first time to take her hand
and to impart upon it chaste
salute The morning of the wedding
arrived; Stanley was dressed for the
ceremony and was awaiting the happy
moment. There entered to him three Greeks,
whom he had never seen before, and an in
terpreter They are introduced as the broth
ers of the bride, and they produce a parch-
ment which the interpreter explains. 1t is a
deed of settlement which binds Stanley to
pay so much year to the mother, so much to
each brother, and so much to his wife, and to
plank down the first installments on the spot.
In vain Stanley explains that he is worth
nothing and cannot pay; the brothers look
daggers, the interpreter frowns, and the
scene closes by the arrival of the consul, who
with difficulty gets Stanley out of the clutches
of his tormentors and ships him oft to Athens.
He never saw his beautiful Grecian maiden
acraIrn