The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-18

accident.
She went down for the second
time, even at that dreadful moment,
as the thunder of the waters fell upon
her confused brain, she was conscious
OF thinking that at least she would
escape marriage with the man she
did not love.
But when she again rose to the sur
face she heard voices and dimly saw
a boat from the other vessel-the
topsail schooner coming swiftly to-
ward her.
She would be saved after all. was
her thought. and the sacrifice would
have to be made.
She was half bewildered, In a semi
CONSCIOUS state, when a few ,nolnenis
\ Idter gre was pulled Into the boat,
and ii was some minutes before she
could fully realize her situation.
Some person had an arm around
her, and while he bathed her tenn
pies and forehead, he was eagerly
calling her by name.
When she was fully restored to
sight and sense she uttered Il wild
cry of surprise on recognizing, in the
handsome young officer who held
her. none other than Herbert Wey-
man. her long absent lover!
LET me 60" she sobbed, disen-
gaging herself from him. Take me
back TO my father, WHO is in that
ship in the distance, ana then return
10 your wife, for 1 suppose she is
aboard that schooner"
"My wife ?"
"Yes; your bride. Fanny Major" "
Weyman 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 care,
fully, and as the case was almost air.
tight, the paper had been but little
more than dampened during her re
cent immersion IN the water.
1--WE L." said Weyman, as his face
cleared, "here is the schooner close
to us (! Take good look at her, and
you will see my BRIDE"
ooh. Herbert, / see no woman !''
"True; hut you see beautiful
schooner. There is her name, in red
letters, on tn quarter"
Mary read the name.
1t was Fanny Major"
"That is the name which is in the
notice !" cried the young girl. in
surprise. .....
EYES," he eanswered shut ii means
the schooner nothing more y
why. surely the paragraph is a
marriage notice !"
mo; had not the heading been
partly torn of, leaving only Near,
which l perceive was the sole cause
of your mistake. it would have been
Marine Transfer not Marriages,
AS you supposed. !"
As soon as he had assisted the
oyer.ioyed girl aboard the schooner
he showed her, in perfect state, the
same number Of the paper as that
from which she had cut the notice.
The heading was MARINE Transfer"
and the meaning of the notice was
thus made apparent. Weynian had
been transferred to the Fanny Major
that is, To The vessel of that name.
Furthur explanations followed
Herbert's long silence had been caus-
ell by his 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 bad weather
brought his shattered craft, in the
following summer, to Costa Rica.
There he was transferred to the
Fanny Major, and was sent for q
cruise off the coast of Siberia. Before
going he wrote to Mary. intrustine
his letter to a friend of his, a naval
officer, who had just been married to
a lady in Costa Rica, by the chaplain
of the frigate, and who. with his
bri,le. was going to sail for home on
leave of absence, aboard a merchant
ship. The ship was lost, as he sub
sequently 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 Ma
jor
He must have arrived only a day
or 80 after Thomas got under way,
and thus have just missed a meeting
there with Mary. ....
AS to his overtaking the craft,
which must haye sailed week be-
fnre he was ready to start, this was
probably owing to his having had