The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-16

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tenderhooks of anxiety aud expectation,
as nervous as schoolgirl, and behaving
himself as such.
"Then at last it was told to him that
the vessel was III the offiug, was round
ing the point, was at anchor IN the har-
Dor; and in the Master Attendant boat,
cushioned, tagged and bedecked for the
suspicious occasion, Sandy Mcpherson,
Esq, of Ailsa Craig, planter, rowed
alongside same like he governor the
native spectators observed.
"Scrambling up the side, he took
hasty glance at the many passengers as
sembled on the poop; and instinctively
guessing that Miss Effie was not among
them, he Owed below, and confronted
the stewardess.
60 Miss Medium on board and well ?
asked he.
"Yes sir, replied the matron; can
a very nice, good, kind, pleasant young
lady she is, and I've taken the greatest
care of her. She felt sure that the gent
was Miss Ms husband to be, and that
there was money i'll his purse for gratu-
ity, Notwithstanding that, according to
the terms of the passage money, stew
u,
a fiction, gentlemen, pleasant fiction,
which you will find out when you go
down to the sea i'll ships.
"Take this card to her." said the pale
and trembling gentleman. "I'll wait
her coming up In thao far corner OF this
saloon"
"Glancing at the pasteboard the
woman disappeared; and presently there
assembled, step by step, from the regions
below, first neat straw hat, trimmed
with bright ribbons, beneath that hat
face somewhat worn with years and cares,
but still fresh and comely enough; then
slight compact figure, draped in we'll
fitting garments, shawled, and ready for
soma, stood before her hand-seeker,
the shore. Miss Effie, in 3)r0pria per
blushing celestial rosy red
He advanced from his cOign of want
age to greet her; but as he drew higher,
instead of the warm affectionate welcome
he looked for, there was fixed stare, a
shudder, n hasty retreat, and LOUD
scream which resounded from stern to
stem of the big ship, and brought
everyone from decks and cabins ia the
saloon.
"Miss Needum-Effie, my dear girl,
what on earth is the matter?" hurriedly
stammered out the astounded Sandy.
6 'Shiver my timbers, what ails the
lassie p put i'll the captain. Look out
for squalls, if you've annoyed her ? And
all the bystanders echoed the words III
more or less threatening terms. She was
evidently a favorite on board.
" On, take him away cried the lady
pitcously-' take him away from me
some one / don't know him I've been
misled, deceived | can't marry him
indeed, indeed | can't He is not Mr..
Mcpherson who wrote to me, to whom [
came out to be mar. He is SO ugly!
Oh, such dreadful fright I'll return
him his money! I'll work my way back
to my poor mother III do anything,
but [ can't be his wife ! I'd rather die
frstp
Miss Medium, | don't indeed under
stand this, said the taken-aback and
completely fabbergasted one. What
does it all mean? 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 like
ness q
W. llO
'"'Surely ] did. 1t was taken by
when he gave 1t to me he said 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, undoubtedly no, and
cmphatically no! Look at this and
drawing from her bosom a little locket,
she opened it, and displayed the head
and face of n younger, much handsomer,
and III every outward respect a more
lovable man than the SCARED one now
before her. 1t was the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of Mr.. Jack lie Geste, and ]
leave you to imagine what Mcpherson
thought when he saw it there.
Glow could it get into the locket, you
ask? Why, In the simplest way in the
world. That good for-nothing fellow lie
Geste, when Sandy's letter came into his
possession, thought TO SELF him, and SO
had surreptitlously removed his carte
dc UiSjte, substituting one of his own,
and Effie had worn it ever since.
The poop dell of disappointed bride
groom pleaded hard, and tried every
argument to induce the girl to let mat
ters 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
most desperately i'll love with the pic
ture Of her supposed Alexander, and in
vulgar language had spooned over 1t
awfully during the tedious aud lone hours
of a long voyage. OF course, she i'm
agined it was her intended husband she
was approving, or she would not have
done it-certainiy not.
$50, quite chopfallen and in the mad
dest of RACES, Mcpherson returned to
his estate.
CARVED there, he cut from one of
his coffee bushes the thickest and knot
test of sticks. and proceeded with it in
search of lie Geste; but fortunately for
the Jester he had made tracks and was
gone.
"Then he reverted to his old customs
and habits, sold his not now neces-
sary goods and chattels, and thought as
little as he could of the false Ellie"
GA tickle and capricious creature,
woman. Listen gentlemen to another
exempliication of old Virgils dictrlm
:" In the same ship in which, shortly
after the breaking Of her intended es-
pousal, Miss Medium sailed for England,
there came on board, almost at the last
minute, a slim, dark haired, cookbook
ing man, going home, some said, for
health; others, III fear and trembling of
an iFata Gael with a hupn stick IN his