Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-08


though we were, we were lovers, and to-
gether we hunted, fshed, sailed and read
books; for when away from her studies
she was as wild as a young Indian.
"A few months after our meeting I
received my AIidshipman's warrant, and
left home to enter the navy; but each
year I got short leave for there was
not naval academy in those days and
my every visit but infatuated me more
with the little Fidele Claire-for such
was her name.
cat length I came home when in my
ODD year, and then it was 1 asked
Fidele to be my wife; for she had
grown to be a beautiful maiden
of II, and under a skilled governess
was accomplished and refined, though
her untamed spirit would often break
out at restraint.
"Like me she had no mother, and her
father, like mine, was hermit in his
own house, and I had never met him,
until together we sought him in his IL
brary, and I boldly told him who. I was,
how I had met his daughter, and asked
for her hand.
ellis brow grew black as I spoke, and
noticed that he trembled; but he said,
in low, stern tones
"'Young man, your father has,
doubtless, hidden from you what he is,
or has been, or you would never come
here to ask for my child to be your
wife
ST stood in amazement, and then
asked:
what do you mean, SIR?
"First, years ago I knew your IA
ther; we both loved the same maiden,
and he turned her against me, and
she became his wife, to die soon after.
"'That I never forgave him, for I
knew that he won her from me by false
hood, and then broke her heart.
"'After that he left England, and IN
til l met him here, some months ago,
knew not what had become of him but
now I know that he bought yonder
house, and lives there in luxury, upon
the gold he gained by piracy
81 will not attempt to describe what
passed, Colonel, for gave him the lie
direct, and he and his servants drove
me from his house; but l sought my
father, and from his stern lips learned
that he had gained his money as Cap
tain in the slave-trade that he had won
Col. Claire's intended bride. from him,
and that she had died of a broken heart
when she knew that he was a SLAYER:
but he had again married, and my moth
er's life also had been made wretched by
what she discovered of her husbands
past.
$50 indignant was I toward him
that he drove me from his house, and
swore that not a dollar should [ ever
have of his, and he kept his word for,
at his death, with the exception of the
mansion, it went to charity as an atone
ment for his sins.
"When 1 next came home, after his
death, both homesteads were deserted,
for Col. Claire and Fidele had gone,
the servants knew not where, and then
became wretched indeed; but, alas
two years after received, when my YES
sci was in the Mediterranean, letter
from lawyer, telling me that the
Colonel had died and left his vast prop
erty to his daughter, and she, too, dy-
ing, had made me her heir.
!. 81 was astounded, I can assure you;
but with the lawyers letter came one
inclosed from Fidele, saying that she
had always loved me, and, dying, had
left me her wealth that I might be hap
py with the wife I had chosen, and, if I
loved her memory, to accept the inherit
ance.
"I resigned from the navy, Colonel,
sought the lawyers, and found that my
inheritance was very large one; 1 also
sought the spot where poor Fidele was
buried, and erected above her monu-
ment, and now, after long years Of wan
behring's, I have gotten up courage to
come here, and in yonder homestead,
left me by the one woman ever loved,
I will live until I, too, die. But come
let us 60 across to Haunted island, and
I will show you the very spot where I
first met her."
It was just sunset as we landed at the
Haunted island, and, making our way
among the bushes, we suddenly came to
a dead stand-still, for there, not fifteen
PAGES away, stood a woman clad in snow
white
Her auburn hair hung in wavy masses
adown her back, her face was darkly
bronzed, but beautiful, and her glorious
dark eyes were turned upon US with
look I shall never forget, while her slen-
der, graceful form was swaying as though