The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-30

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flag, and the sweetest little face-kisses
Just sticking out all over It'll But wasn't
she the sickest little mortal that ever set
foot on dccka I tell you she was all green
and elbow, and looked half starved. I do
not believe she'd kept down quarter of a
dinner for month past.
"'Hello, Jackl" said !, "what's the
mattera' Aud l gave the lady seat on
the lounge in my cabin. The poor little
thing couldn't sit up straight, 80 / Just
hoisted her feet up and made her com
Portable among the pillows.
Captain said he, Il want YOU to
marry me to this young lady,
Marry you,' said l. sWhat do YOU
mean2 She's too sick to be married, mani
She can't stand up. If you and she want
to be married, why dent you wait until
you get ashore2"
"You see, ladies, we talked out free be-
fore her, for she couldn't understand word
of Englishl
IF we wait till then, said he, you
and LII be going to her funeral instead of
her wedding. We've got to be married,
anu right away, and you have got to mar
ry u.s.
You see again, ladies, we were great
friends outside ship, and when we were
alone together, we dropped all ceremony.
what in thunder are YOU i'm such
hurry for2' said I. why can YOU wait
till you're ashorc9" Where are the lady's
fricnds?'
" Her stepfather's aboard my ship, he
said. f'
"'I thought So" said l. and 1 won't
have anything to do with it,
He just turned and winked at Inc
'out OF the tail of his cye,' and then re-
membercd, in moment of misplaced con.
fdencc, had told him of some little cir
cumstances in regard to my own marriage.
"'Hem!' said he, grinning like mon.
Key, i think they're sometimes justif1able.
Now just look here, Cap; listen, and III
tell you all about it. That title girl has
no relations, nothing but stcp-father and
she's dependent on him for support. Well,
the old coot's doctor, and crazy at that;
or IT lie isn't. he's the meanest cuss on
earth. He's taken into his added old
head TO discover a sure cure for sea-
sickness, and because just the name of
ship sets poor little Dolores to casting up
accounts, he's been taking her on all sorts
OF long voyages, and trying his various de-
coctions on her. SO want to marry her
to get her out of his way. Of course I'm
in love with her and all that said he,
looking kind of foolish, but if that wan
all, ia wait till we got ashore. Of course
l CAM make him let her alone unless she's
my wife, and If he has control of her much
longer, she'll never see port again."
do you mean to say, said /, staring
at him in surprise, 'that he tries experi-
ments on her-gives her things that amt
"I do. said he, 'and mean to say that
the last thing he gave her was a bottle of
Dcd-bug poison, and it most killed her."
"By the Flying Dutchman,' said I, Il
should think it would! Where's the old
coot now2"
"In irons. I told HIM l wouldn't have
any such doing aboard my ship and he
slapped my face. So put him in irons
and came off to YOU"
''Well, ladies, I just went over to the
sofa, where the little girl was rolling her
big, back eyes at us, and wondering what
in thunder VIC were saying.
"'How old are you, my DEAR asked
in Spanish.
"You see, I'd been married more'n two
years, and thought I'd sorter right to
be patcrnal.
eighteen, Senor Captain" said she in
the softest voice in the world.
"Said l: DO you love this young man,
and want to marry him. You needn't if
you don't, because I'll see to 1t tnat your
step.father don't bother you any more.
II didn't dare to look around at Jack,
Tor knew he'd be looking blacker'n thun-
der at me just then. And, indeed he took
step towards us; but made him keep
oil till she should have answered for her
self.
well, she blushcd very prcttily, and
hesltatcd for second, then answered very
swcetly that if the Senor Captain didn't
mind the t:ouble, she should marry the
Senor First Officer. That the Senior First
officer had been her only friend; that
although she had taken many voyages and
seen many people, she had never before
found anV. npa -,"Fno noEpd 10, j9t2rfarc. in-
ner behalf. that she fell very grateful tt
the Senor First officer, and now became
attached to him, and with the Senior Can
tain's permission would gladly become hit
wife.
"As she said this Jack got out of sight,
Dennd the door, put his thumb to his nose
ana twirled his fingers at me In the mos,
aisrespectful manner. had great mind
10 put him in irons for mutiny-but nc
matter.
'Of course there was nothing to be done
except marry them; she was over eighteen,
and at sea the captains as good as the par.
son, you know.
$50 called up the passengers and tho
officers: and the ladies' dressed her up in
their own fincry, and we had a wedding in
very short order. After that the ships
surgeon prescribed an antldoto for the bed.
bug poison. wv
1.-THE second officer went over and tool,
command Of the coffee ship IN Jacks place
ana sent buck Dolores trunk and clothing,
Az first l thought we couldn't get along
without him, for Jack was 30 deeply in
love with his little sca-sick girl I thought
he'd be of no manner of use. But we had
GOOD weather most of the time, and Jack
did his duty like man.
but 1t was real touching to sec him &C
to his wife's cabin every day and brina
her on deck and flA her comfortably on s
bed the steward made for her under ar
awning. And then he'd nurse her and
care for her just as if he'd been Sister Of