The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28
STORY OF THE THREE CAPTAINS.

George Agustus Sala, in Belgravia.l
1--WE are three brothers, all following the
sea from our youth upward, and all captains
Captain Horace, the eldest, and your SER
want to command; Captain Paul, who is but
two years my junior, and Captain Desire
Bienaime-Die eudonne-Marie, the yougest. A
long list of names, but then our mother
loved her youngest child so dearly, and pray
ed for his coming so fervently, had waited
for him so patiently and so long. And then
all his names came to be shortened into one
-Desire-so that there was no harm in his
having a deck cargo OF appellations. was
thereT' rr.-
mot at ALL" I made answer; ~ have a
good many more Christian names myself
than know what to do with, or that ever
make use OF, save when / have to swear an
affidavit"
'You see," went on Captain Bayard, DE
sire is no less than IL years younger than L,
and 10 younger than my brother Paul; but
between Paul and DESIRE there was an
other child-a girl, Marie Jeanne. She was
Pauls junior by nine years, and, poor lamb,
she died when she was but two years old.
Thus my mother prayed and waited six long
years until NotTe Dame de la Grade listened
to her prayers, and e-Bienaime-Dleu-
donne Marie was born. In less than two
of Notre Dame de la Grade You have seen
il high up there on the colline as you enter
the port"
/ think made some stupid remark about
the church OF Notre Dame de la Garde being
built on the sight Of an ancient temple of the
Domino Maris.
"Connais pas.p auoth Captain Baya-d.
''they say the same about cape Colonna
LaIssons la ces vieilIes histories. Our mother
was always praying to Notre Dame de la
Garde, for she was the devoutest of Catho-
lies, and when she died, leaving Desire, a
child of eight to the care Of my brother Paul
and myself, she made us promise that We
would bring up the boy in the ancient faith.
Nv brother and are Protestants OF the Pro-
testants, Huguenots de la vielle souche, and
have been so since the days of the reform
alton to these. We came from Mines orlgi-
nally. aud at the time OF the dragonnadss,
when Psre Ia Cbaise and Madame de Main
tenon (une drotesee cellela, toute begueule
.ou'elle fut) per -uaded the Grand M0narque
TO revoke the Eilct OF Nantes, a branch of
our family took refuge in England. They
were silk weavers, aud set up our looms in a
district OF your city of London called, 1
think, Espitavile"
"Spitalhelds," mildly suggested.
"C'este possible The branch of the Bay
ards of which we are now the representa-
tives came on TO Marseilles, which has ever
been a liberal, generous and tolerant city
From the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury to the beginning OF this we were, from
father to sou, armateurs, or ship builders.
But when steam navigation came In the for
tunes OF woOdea ship building, at Marseilles
at least. wen. out Our father was not rich
enough to start a great iron ship building
yard; so he realized bis property, invested
his modest pecule in the FIVE per cent. rentes,
and retired from business altogether. He
had a right to enjoy his leisure, since he had
been working hard for forty years. But,
recognizing the fact that we must march