Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-08-04

Shiver my timbers, what ails the
lassie 2 put in the captain. Look out
for squalls, if you've annoyed her r And
all the bystanders echoed the words in
more or less threatening terms. She
was evidently favorite on board.
Oh, take him away cried the lady,
piteously; take him away from me,
some onei I don't know himl I've
been misled, deceived I can't marry
him-indeed, indeed can't. He is not
Mr.. Mcpherson who wrote to me, to
whom I came out to be mar. He is
so ugly. Oh, such a dreadful fright !
I'll return him his money. I'll work
my way back to my poor mother. I'll
do anything, but / can't be his wife.
I'd rather die first!
"s Miss Medium, / don't indeed un-
derstand this, said the taken-aback and
completely ly-fabbergasted one. what
does it all mean2 Are we not engaged
Have you not come out of your own
free will to accept the home and the
love ] offer you? Did / not send you
my ikenessY
"sNo, nop
""Surely I did. 1t was taken by Col
lodion, our best photographer, and
when he gave it to me he said s'Mr.
Mcpherson, sir, there is no fattery ere.
Your worst henemies would admit that. :"
Why, myself put it inside the letter
to your mother
"'I repeat, no-decidedly and en-
phatically mol Look at this and
drawing from her bosom little locket
she opened it and displayed the head
and face of younger, much handsomer
and in every outward respect q more
| lovable man than the scared one now
before her. It was the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of Mr.. Jack le Geste, and 1
leave you to imagine what Mcpherson
| thought when he saw it there.
How could it get into the locket, you
ask? Why, in the simplest way in the
| world. That good d-for-nothing fellow,
LIE Geste, when Sandy's letter came into
his possession, thought to sell him,
and SO had surreptitiously removed his
carte de visite, substituting one of his
own, and Effie had W orn it ever since.
"The disappointed bridegroom plead
ed hard and tried every argument to in
duce the girl to let matters progress,
but she was obstinate and determined.
She would esteem and respect him
| always, but nothing more. To let the
cat out of the bag, Miss Effie had fallen
desperately in love with the picture of
her supposed Alexander, and in vulgar
language had spooned over it awfully
during the tedious and lone hours of a
long voyage. OF course she imagined
that it was her intended husband she
was approving. or she would not have
done it-c certainly not.
So, quite chapfallen and in the mad
dest of RACES, Mcpherson returned to
his estate.
g .Ar-rs:ssts r-rs:s there he cut from one of his
coffee bushes the thickest and knottiest
of sticks and proceeded with it in search
of LIE Geste but, fortunately for the
jester, chad made tracks and was gone.
"Then he reverted to his old customs
and habits, sold his not now necessary
goods and chattels and thought as little
as he could of the false Efie.
GA tickle and capricious creature,
woman. Listen, gentlemen, to another
exempliication of old Virgil's dictum.
&C. In the same ship in which, shortly
after the breaking off of her intended es-
pousal, Miss Medium sailed for England
there came on board almost at the last
minute slim, dark-haired, good-look-
ing man, going home. some said for
health; others, in fear and trembling of
an irate Gael with a huge stick in his
hands. Be this as it may, the health
seeker or the fugitive-take which you
please-was no other than LIE Geste,
and, to close my story, when the vessel
touched at st. Helena for water and
provisions he and Effie went On shore
and returned man and wife,"