The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-02-16
A Romance Of the Lost Jeanette.

For more than eighteen months past,
beautiful and accomplished young
lady of this city-the lovely and ro-
nance inspiring footstool of the angels
has been in constant state of hope
and despair. The news received night
before last from the wandering JEAN
nette has sent gladness and sorrow to
many breast, but in the young lady in
question it has created the most anxious
fears. A short time since, just before
the San Francisco train pulled out,
matronly old lady might have been seen
supporting heavily-veiled young
woman. They were evidently mother
and daughter, from the tenderly and
motherly manner in which the elder
lady looked after the slightest want of
her companion. A Times reporter, no.
ticing the couple, surmised that the
young lady was laboring under some
great mental sorrow. He looked toward
the coach from which the ladies had just
alighted, and saw that it was private
carriage. His curiosity was aroused.
He approached and cautiously interro-
gated the driver.
It seems that Miss - was visiting
friends in San Francisco during the
winter of 1878 9. She met Lieutenant
Danenhauer of the United States Army,
noble specimen of manhood. The
Lieutenant was smitten with the fair
daughter of Los Angeles. They met
often, and the sequel. was soon evident
in desperate love affair. But the old.
old saying that true love never ran
smooth, was never more plainly illus
trated than in this case. For several
months there was not happier pair in
all San Francisco. This earthly bliss
could not last long, however. The Lieu
tenant was under orders to sail with the
Inflated Jeanette. AS the time drew
near the sweet girl became sad and pen
sive, and it was common thing for her
to meet her lover with fearful eyes. She
told HIM her fears, and pleaded with all
the eloquence only known to lovely
maiden, but her lover had been ordered
by his country to 60 to almost certain
death, and his honor would not permit
him to break his word, even for the being
he wolshipped. The sad day of separa-
ton finally arrived, and the two devoted
lovers. parted, possibly never to meet
again in this world.
This is the sad story told in brief by
the old coachman, who related his tale
with tears in his eyes.
Eyes, sir" replied the old fellow, "she
has been a different girl ever since.
They had only known one another but a
short time, but I don't believe two peo-
pie ever loved as did this devoted couple.
Why, sir, her mother said that when the
Lieutenant came to bid her goodbye it
took two of his brother officers to sepa-
rate them when the moment of parting
came. She tainted almost as soon as he
was out of the house. When she re-
vived she ordered carriage, and imme-
diately repaired to the Cliff House. As
soon as she arrived there she took stand
where she could get good view of the
Golden Gate. Neither commands nor
coaxing could move her until she was
satisfied that the vessel had passed out
to sea. After returning to Los Angeles
she led retired life, having been con-
WINGED from the first that she would
never see her lover again. She has never
failed to be up by daylight since the jean
nette sailed in order to read the news.
That, sir, has been the only thing that
has ever interested her. When she got
the Times this morning and read the
news from the Jeanette you might have
The whole family were in bed at the time.
When they reached her she was in
faint, and everybody thought she was
dead. But God was not kind enough
to put the poor girl out Of her misery.
The first thing she said was: Mamma,
take me to San Francisco at once She
don't seem to know what she wants, but
her mother would start for the spot where
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would ask it.
"How old is she?"
''She was nineteen last October, but to
look at her now you would think she was
at least thirty"
The young lady is well known in this
city, and up to within the past two years
was one OF the brightest and most beau
tiful Of Los Angeles belles.-[ Los An
geles Times.
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