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

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hearty laugh. "And I won't say any
thing, " he exclaimed, "about your ont
rage % your superior officer, hut, ihy
Jove,n he cried, with another peal o
laughter, sit serves you right. DID
YOU suppose all tine world wanted II
marry your Emily you ,ooHceited mon
hey Eophy wae a girl much more &c
my mind, lst n1e tell Jyuu. Eophy has
been my wine this many . mouth. And
LIT was Of sophy that Emily was speaking
when VOC tsok tine law into your hands,
4 suppose ar" ran ON tine stranger,
s"tnat I ought 10 give you q good
thrashing hut all tine satisfactionI want
is % hear you say that you are ashamed
of yourself" And you may be sure he
| had 1t.
But there was NO time for converse
tion before they were Joined by uthers,
aud tine courtesies of tine exc ofhests
brief occasion occ1pisd tine timeeedingiy
and guests till the hoat pr1t of again,
and the Attsseck received her own.
But alletter totiie department, request
ing leave o. absence from his ship,
went into tine mail from tine next harnur
they entered, and the time that passed
hetore an answer eaule and the request
wss granted was longer than all the nest
of Norman Alacpfsersonis life. And
although he tnaTelsd homeward 8 isst
q steam could garry him, 70 mis- frame
OF mind electricity would have seemed
SLOW.
With what eEatinn ne saw at last, the
long, long miles having rayelsd nut be-
hind MIN like the clearing of q tangled
sinein, the lights of the city stretching
on all tine radiation of its avenues How
gladly and eagerly, two nouns after that,
ne hurried up tine street OF The little
suburban town, IpictnIing 10 himself the
sight of Emily, tine sparkle of lhar sur
prise, tine next moment when he should
feel her arms around MIN, the way m
which sile wsufd forgive MIN, hardly
daring to iook up, mis- heart wss beating
20. and when he did at last inok up, 1T
was only 10 zee blinds closed and paths
overgroun, and the latch of the gate too.
rusted TO lift ezaiiy--oniy to find, with
q ienunibsd sense of the world having
come 10 an end, that Emily and her
mother mad gone and ss ilis own people
mad scattered hong ago, there was no
body in that neigiiboriood 10 tell him
where.
But after few hours his wits retnrned
10 Mir. Macpherson; he remembered
that the family had friends, and from
one 10 another he went then in the fol-
lowing weeks, but TO no purpose; ali
that me could discover was that Emily
and her mother were in Enppe, but in
wfaat portion of 1t nobody seemed to-
know. For little while he experienced
all the black despair of such revulaion
from hope. But there was nothing to
10. He nnrsed his ill fortune, and con
.trived TO get transferred tothe European
squadron, and then began his search
anew. Asiate had ordered it, perhaps
in moekery of his iimpulsiseness, Inc had
Dotllsarned the name of the officer who
had demanded satisfaction; me did not
sven know If the 1oHiesr belonged 10 the
Attaseek hut he wrote 10 one of his old
comrades 10 learn about him If possible |
and meantime he waited and watched. |
Alz. Macpherson 3 habits changed, 100, \
somewhat. From having never come 4
ashore, me NOW newer staid ON snip, if he
could get away when shore Was in sight.
Town after town he secured, journey
after journey he managed TO make, bank |
after bank he visited. at post after post
ne asked. Bathe iiDnnd no trace of what
he sought; and as the year closed he 4
said 10 himself that it was of no luse, and !
that he was q man with memory and !
without hope. stilllhe continued to go
ashore when in the harbor, although
more iron habit now than from lexpee- |
tiation, sunshine or storm making little |
Difference.
Heiiad come ashore one day as nsnal, I
ON the afternoon of the morning when
the ffigate entered port, and had taken
q stroll through the little town, and had |
loaf lhimseifiin sthenpper partofIit. The
lowering wssther of the morning had /
fipened to a sifisaling mist at last, and |
now 1t WAS running In q steady down,
pour tshatthe wind caught ,npin sianting