The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-14


like ghosts. and were gone, the revolv-
ing lights like great glow-worms, lilt- !
ing sea-songs, repeating all the love and |
romance of the melancholy main"
Colonel Audenreid's artic expedition !
as well as his Indian voyages furnished
material for conversation, even had he
not been once shipwrecked. and once in
peril from mutiny; but he seemed the
merest dilettante while he lounged upon
the sand, quoting poetry and caroling
snatches of ballads to two pretty girls.
"fThe sea hath its perils,
Tho heaven hath it's stars;
But my heart, my heart,
My heart hath it's love-"
he repeated one night, as he gave his
hand to Stella to rise.
=" Did you noticePn said Felicia, later;
he spoke in the present tense. He
ignored the past"
He was quoting from the German"
How stupid you are, Stella! If you
will not respond, how is lover to know
If you care P"
And what makes you think that l
care P"
How can you help it ? Oh, why
doesn't he make love to me that wayl"
Nonsense. Felicia; he makes the
same sort of love to every girl he meets,
I suppose"
II don't suppose anything of the
kind"
The following day the wind turned
east, a drizzling lazy rain set in, blot
ting out everything, and obliging them
to fold their tents and take refuge in the
little Sea shell House at hand; and by
night all the powers of the air were
| oh nj, nd fr 10
low under their very windows, the wind
whipped it into fine feathers of spray.
and the darkness was Ike a garment,
There was a gray sickly dawn creeping
up the sky, when Stella, looking from
her window, saw in the distance the
outlines of wragged wreck painted
boldly against the horizon, and the
shore swarming with people moving
sbouG uncertainty.
"Oh, Ste la" cried Felicia, "here's a
real shipwreckl Let us put on our
wraps and creep down to the shore, ana
hear all about it. / wouldn't miss it
for worldsW
Felicia's teeth were chattering might
lily as they took their way to the shore,
and mingled among the groups Of men
and women.
"She'l 20 to pieces in no time at all, y
some one was prophesying. Jim saw
folks a-clinging to the masts and things
with his glass"
That's n master glass of his'n," said
another. But amt they going to for tc
do nothing !"
They've sent out a lifeline; but il
tin't no pleasant places that lines fallen
into, let me tell you. Jim he was a. go.
ing with it but for me and the children
I'm powerful glad he didn't"
Girls! eirls!' cried Mr.. Martin
bustliDg up, this is no place for you
Better go bacr to your beds. Tryinl
scene. None of these men woulC
carry out the line to save n soul. Aud
enreid has gone out with it himself-f
terrible risk. So much brilliancy anC
cultivation, 50 much wit and experience
as good as thrown way. They'll have
to pull the line In presently, no doubt
and it would be painful Tor you to b'
here, my dears, after so much pleasan
= companionship. Oh. Stella! Stella! my
5 dear girl"
4 Stella had tainted away.
1t was stirring morning that fol
Q lowed at the little Sea-shell house, pro
t viding for the rescued, listening to thei
4 story, and talking over the event. Whel
G Stella left her room, about noon, sh
h was met by fisherman's wife bringing
a her a sealed note. 81 found it in tn
Il pocket of Jim's a-jacket, and mad
i out how it was ior Miss Stella Ames
c and they told me you were the lady a
I tainted on the beach," she explained
"You see, Jim has gone for the docto
+ up to town, and he changed his Goa
) first to look ship-shape like"
= THANK you," said Stella. VIII
s can have written to me here" as sh
y tore it open and read:
:. 81 am going to carry the lifeline ou
a to a shipwrecked crew. shall probabl
y never return alive, but it is their onl
y chance. While you are dreaming o
!, your pillow / shall, perhaps be tastin
= the bitterness of death and partinl
- Verify, death is this'-to see you n
. more till the sea gives up its dead. M
Il darling, my darling, let me have th
u happiness of repeating love you, / loy
/ you, Stella. Goodbye, sweethear
=, goodbye"
y John AUDENREID."
Then she turned to the torn enveloI
10 addressed to miss Stella Ames, Sc
~ y shell House. To be given her only
r case l never return" The revelatiC
- was premature. Colonel Audenreid hf
y returned, but so spent that The doctC
= 70 had been summoned from town. M
q" a, Martin took his family back to Marti
x vale, but Colonel Audenreid remain,
at the seaside fortnight longer und
treatment, In the mean time, Stel
AZ went Monochrome for Stella meaning 8
,o tendance on the whims of wealtl
~ ~ hypochondriac, with a small stipen
IN without relaxation. One morning t
9 post brought her a letter from Felici
.rs' Perhaps it contained news of Color
/, Audenreid. 1t did with vengeance.
DEAREST STELLA Git began,
X "How odd that the very thing wish
he should come to pass! I'm alm'
er daft. To think that, after all my nj
sense, it should be me-myself
,or Insignificant, near-sighted Felicia Nj
is tin, whom Colonel Audenreid asks
marry him! l can hardly believe ]
- ears; and all the while l believed
mis- was smitten with your charms. III
I glad am that you didn't care for nj
4 ", Ia mn hYsidaTnafH Nam