The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-07-09

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informed me the vizier wished to
see me alone, and he accordingly
conducted me to an inner apart.
ment. He ordered the attendant
TO withdraw, and then, in tones
only too familiar, be exclaimed :
"Well, Hastings, my boy, how
90 on the Plungers p"
! 1t was Jerry Donneliy, by all
that was miraculous. | had OBJ
served him staring earnestly at
me during the interview, and
something in bis gestures seemed
not unfamiliar to me, but his flow
ing beard, solemn air and Oriental
dress so much disguised him, that
even when | heard the well-rc-
mcmbered voice could scarcely
realize his Identity.
! "But what on earth are you
doing here, Jerry p said |, "why
don't you 60 home to your wife
I like Christian p
my wife !! we'll that's the whole
affair. You see, she's somebody
else's wife, so I'm better out OF the
way; it would be q pity that poor
Sophie should commit bigamy."
Il assure you that you are en-
tirely mistaken. Mrs. Do1neIly
is not married again.
"Hasn't she, though" said he.
"Don't | know better ? Didn't |
90 back to my bungalow and find
out that she had married that
starched fool, Courtnay, when
! she knew I never could endure
him -
To his intense astonishment J
told him how the truth was and in
turn be related to me his own ad-
ven lures. He had been carried
into Tartary, and there detained
for three years, when he was
allowed to accompany a caravan
or body of pilgrims to Nepaul.
Being by that time a proficient in
the language, he was taken notice
of at court, but very strictly
watched. He effected his escape,
however, disguised as a fakir, and
made his way to Calcutta, but
finding, as he thought, his wife
married again to man in his old
regiment, ho returned, was taken
into favor and had risen to his
present distinction.
"Well, I always was a blunder-
ing fool, but l went home with
heart so sore to Sophie. and avow-
inc that | would never 7ex her
any more with my vagaries, that
when | heard her called Mrs.
Courtnay l turned to stone, and
did not care a rap what became
of me, even to be made a vizier,
which, I Iassure you, Charlie, is no
joke in it's way"
"Well, at all events you must
come homo now and enjoy your
good fortune"
II am not sure about that" said
he. "Recollect, she has grown &C.
customed to be mistress, and l
have grown accustomed to be
vizier. She won't like to be con-
tradicted, and it's thing l never
could bear, and what I never allow
on any account. Now, if went
home, she would not be mistress,
and as sure as fate she would con-
tradict me-. Maybe it is better as
it is"
Next morning be sent for me
again.
II have been thinking" he
said, "of all the strange stories
YOU told me. I am all changed
since we parted. I hardly know
myself to be the same man l used
to be, and am not sure should
treat Sophie we'll. But ask her to
come out here and then she can
try. If she likes me in this out
landlsh place, I will go home with
her; if we quarrel here no one
will be the wiser, and I can con-
tinue to be dead"
But" said l, "havo you no in
cumbrances Perhaps she might
object to the details Of your estab-
lishment."
mot bit," said Jerry, II have
none of your Eastern prejudices;
let her come and she will find no.
body to disturb her."
So she did come, and after living
in Nepaul for two years, brought
Iorr,, ha.l, in triumnh to Branley