Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-05-26

face she heard voices and dimly saw
boat from the other vessel-the topsail
schooner swiftly toward her.
She would be saved after all, was her
Thought, and the sacrifice would have to
be made.
She was half bewildered, in semi
conscious state, when n few moments
later she was pulled into the boat, and 1t
was some minutes before she could fully
realize her situation.
Some person had an arm round her,
and while he bathed her temples and
forehead, he was eagerly calling her by
name.
When she was fully restored to sight
and sense she uttered a wild cry of sur
prise on recognizing, in the handsome
young officer who held her, none other
than Herbert Weyman her long-absent
lover
"Let me CO." she sobbed, olsen
gaging herself from him. "Take me
back to my father, who is in that ship
in the distance, and then return to
your wife, for | suppose she is aboard
that schooner"
my wife? ?"
"Yes; your bride, Fanny Major"
Wcyman looked puzzled, until from
little ornamental rubber case taken
from her pocket Mary drew forth and
| showed to him the notice she had cut
out from the Costa Rica journal. She
had preserved it carefully, and ns the
case WAS almost air-tight, the paper had
been but little more than dAmpcncd
during her recent immersion in the
water.
well" said WeymRn, as his face
cleared, "here is the schooner close to
us Take good look at her, and you
will see my bride"
"Oh, Herbert, see no woman
True; but you see beautiful
schooner There is her name, in red
letters, on the quarter
Mary read the name.
II was Fanny Major"
"Thnt is the name which is in the
notice! " cried the young girl, in sur
prise.
"Yes,' he answered "but il means
the schooner-nothing more! "
why, surely the paragraph is a
marriage notice."
"No; had not the heading been partly
torn of, leaving only Mar, which |
perceive was the sole cause of your mis-
take. it would have been Marine Trans.
fer not Marriages, as you supposed T.
As soon as he had assisted the over
joyed girl aboard the schooner be
showed her, in a perfect state, the same
number Of the paper as that from which
she had cut the notice. The heading
was Marine Transfer" and the mean
| ing OF the notice was thus made appar
ent. Wcyman had been transferred to
the Fanny Major; tha; is, to the vessel
Of that name.
Further explanations followed. Her
bcrt's long silence had been caused by
nis being sent TO cruise in the lonely
| Arctic ocean. where he had been shut in
by the ice for one whole winter.
With the greatest difficulty he had,
after many months of had weather,
brought his shattered craft, in the fol.
/ lowing summer, TO Costa Rica.
There he was transferred 10 the Fanny
Major, and was sent for cruise off the
coast Of Siberia. Before going he wrote
to Mary, intrusting his letter to friend
OF his, q naval officer, who had just been
married to n lady in Costa Rica, by the
chaplain of the frigate, and who. with
his bride, was going 10 sail for home on
leave of absence, aboard a merchant
ship. The ship was lost, a. he subse.
quently learned, and with it the letter.
On his return to Costa Rica from
Siberia he found orders left for him to
sail for home with the Fanny Major.
He must have arrived only day or
so after. Thomas got under way, and
thus have just missed q meeting there
with Mary.
As TO his overtaking the craft, which
must have sailed week before he was
ready to start, this was probably owing
to his having had better weather than
Captain Thomas had encountered.
And so, now, Mary was happier than
words can express. A few hours later
she was restored to her fathers arms.
and to Mr.. Weldon the necessary ex-
plantations were made.
A month later his daughter was united
in marriage TO Herbert Weyman.
Captain Thomas, for long time dis
| rongOlala avnufuaI.v marrsnJ a rna,,