The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-08-16

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riags 10 Emily Fravers in 90 man,
words; he had taken everything for
granted me had left tine way open for
any other beggar that echose % oonE
alo1g. Why, he ssked, had he ssel
foEbted Enliiy7 Eile loved him to-day
{ LIKE brother. ms slle had always done
Loved him like q brotllerI Not she, hs
would reply TO himself, when he hSr
fells1 her hover 30 tine ground, and bar
flung her from him. like zaaxe. Ellt
had reason % hate him, he said OF
course siae did hate him.
Lite lsoksd dark enough % Norman
Macpherson at that time, and you may
be cure ne made no effort % sst things
1igi1t; hut, with tine persiseency of MS
Scottish race, he fitted mis- back % bear
tine burden; and when the three years
cruise lwas over, ne made 10 WHIT % his
honae at all, bnt got another term of eaa
service, much 10 tine relief of e3nae one
else wi,o wished 10 stay ashore.
AS for Emily, she had not been quite
sure that night that enc was not
beside herself Talking 10 tine young
naval oficer who wss going % naarry
Eorny--a eecnst she had hept at 6opnyi Is
requirement., and concerning which sile
had often drawn on her fancy Tor Nor
mans pleasure and surprise when sine
siouFd be allowed TO tell hina--zddress
ing MIN afEectionateIy, IS sfie felt toHard
one 90 coon TO be her brother, and am
swering his threat Of taking Sophy
away by begging him not 70 part her
from her sister, suddenly white maniac
with blazing eyes had appeared IN the
window, and an nplifted arm had fallen,
tine ahriaking 6ophy had nun te lift the
head of her senseless lover, and Norman
wss gone. What 1t all meant sfle could
not conjecture, and she Hss teo stunned
30 make the efbort Efe went about $
If eiae were O moving statue. Every
tning seemed TO 90 on q long, long way
peyond her view size wss waiting Tor g
word that did not come and, when day
alter day and weak afber week crept b
snd NO explanation came from Norman
and sse knew nothing of his Frfere,
sbouts except tine ofieial statement, sle
realized that her world mad collapsed
Ifxe priexed bnhhle, and she collapsed
with It, Il
When Emily came up from that sick
sse It was like one emerging from the
bark valley of the shadow of death, and
souseof the sasa5oE still chung 10 her ::
there w&ss book on her pale face ss If
saae were gazing into q land beyond.
5opny was married AID went AWAY her
ua1thsr eaassd tine house and took Emily
10 Enroee, sitting down AT iast ina little
Eown OH tse Mediterranean shorss, wherei
hnsy onoud piek mp ttaeir scattered
Inranis, and see If they were .sill Amer
lssaa; and the days went by 30 quietly
wiki tine slow rising and falling of the
aine water of the tidelsss sea like an
Sreath sbesitle them, that they
hardly knew how many of them ypsseed.
ftsey were not HAPPY days 10 Emily
neither were thsy entirely unhappy n
sniy there seemed TO be as.hiag 10 heok
forward 10, and, except her mother,
aotning 10 live iioE. ehe used 10 90
snong the people little, TO take long
walks along the saa-uail at sunrise and
1t sunset 10 watch the white wings of
Inc ships ss they wentin and out; and
one day waa jnat a. naonotonoBs as an.
other, and she did mot care whether Iney
staid in this place aor went 1on toward
anathsr; she simply felt that she could
mot go n0nse 10 that hatefnl lhnnsewhere
all.tlse misery happened.
Nor Was there ANY very giddy variety
in N0rmanss days---outc0 of sight of shore,
the sun coming up and going down aait
By machinery, and he only glad toIbeiin
hafbor for the sake of putting 10 seal
again. Indeed, 1t sometimes made him
unions to rec e'sagsness of the young
menfor the pleasures the shore, and lit
Was soseidom thatihe Joined them that
he earned mention With the commander
Asthe most lmorose man afoat.
One day, being in lAsiatic waters, the
the Attassek, that had paused
On her way from more southerly Shar-
boz, came On board, and o. they stepped
On thedsck, almost the 6ratyperson that
Norman saw was tai, dark, handsome