The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-08-12

When he arrived in the city, however,
he was too weak to attend to business
Immediately, and entering q carriage,
he told the driver to take him to
hotel.
(Which one, sirp" asked cabby.
"Any one, don't care" was the re-
ply of the sailor, who was only con-
scious of longing to lie down and
rest.
The driver looked in astonishment,
and then seeing that his passenger was
ill, he started uptown.
"I'll take him to first-class place,
anyway, where he'll be taken care of" he
thought, and drove to one of the best
uptown hotels.
Van Anden staggered into the office
and asked for room.
Eyes, SIR" said the clerk. politely
enough, but indifferently. "Please reg
lister your name," and he pushed the big
book toward him.
Van Anden wrote his name, and
leaned against the counter, waiting
for the clerk to assign him his quar-
ters.
But the clerk stared at him in aston
ishment when he read the name.
"Are you Charles Van Anden, of the
steamer DuchesseP" he asked.
"Yes," said our hero, not little sur
prised in his turn.
The clerk summoned the proprietor of
the hotel and told him who the latest
guest was, and Van Anden was speedily
installed in the handsomest room in the
house, and served with the best of every
thing that he could wish.
And halt q dozen cards were sent to
his room within half an hour, the names
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But he was told by the obsequious SER
want that the passengers of the ill-fated
Duchesse had gotten safely ashore. and
were stopping at the same hotel to which
he had come.
And when he was rested sufficiently
to converse, he found that he was hero
with whose praises the whole town was
ringing.
His first inquiry was for Miss Dan
forth, and while the servant was telling
him that she was one of the guests who
had inquired especially after him, an
other servant came with a magnificent
bouquet, to which was attached tiny
card bearing the name of Mary Dan
forth.
AS soon as possible, he sent note
asking that he might see her, and in q
few minutes more he was in her private
parlor.
Her magnificent beauty was not i'm
paired by the exposure to which she had
been subjected, but her flashing eyes
looked on him with an interest that
thrilled him as nothing had ever thrilled
him before.
He never remembered but one thing
that happened ut the interview, how
ever, for he was as modest as he was
brave. That one thing was that she
made him promise to call again.
And he did call again the mex day,
after he had seen Messrs. Shipley Il
Wright, who received him coldly
that he could give in the lawsuit that
they expected to be involved in regard
ing the insurance money,
They had told him that they could
give him a subordinate position on one
OF their ships that was going to China
within week, and he, knowing that he
must work for living, had accepted
the offer.
So he told Mary Danforth that he was
going as boats vain on the ship Mary
Ann. and she bIazed with indigna-
| ton.
"A AS boatswainr' said she; "indeed
you shall not. I'll build you ship my
self sooner than have you do that. You
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tain"
The bashtul sailor was overwhelmed.
"Oh, Miss Danforth," said he, " you
are too kind. But it is too much for
you to do. l can fight my way up alone,
and if you will only remember me
kindly | shall he nerved to the struggle e
by the, greatest happiness l can ever
know"
She looked at him moment without
speaking. She knew that he was too
modest and too manly to appear in the
light OF fortune-hunter, and she could
not bear the thought of his leaving her.
So although her cheeks famed with
bushes, sne spoke again:
Yes, l will build you a ship and
make you the captain, but only on one
condition.
What is that'" said poor Van An =
den, bewildered, and yet half guessing
at what was coming.
"Only on condition-that you-make
-me-your first mate" replied the
blushiug beauty, hiding her face in her
hands.
He seized her hand and drew it gently
from her face. 1t lay quietly in his own.
Then he kissed it, and still it was not
withdrawn. And then
But it is not for me, nor for the reader
to know what he did next. All that
concerns us to know is that the ship was
built, and on the very first voyage Cap.
tain Van Anden made his wedding
tour.