Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-30

asked Dr. Johns on one of these occasions,
when the talk had somehow drifted upon
love and marriage.
son, certainly" said Harrisse, wishing
Captain Hamerten and DIR. Johns were in
the Red Sea, figuratively speaking. 81
remember him-an ancient mariner, al.
ways endowing something or somebody,
eh?"
"Well, you know he fell in love with a
circus-rider Fact And he so, if day
a real love affair ~
81 think I must go below" said Lu.
ellie; "the sun is withering," Naturally
enough Lucille was tired Of the surgeon
"reminiscences /; naturally she had no inter.
est in the vulgar loves of circus-riders and
cd beapx.
60 You will miss the sunset" he said,
aside, OBTAINING her. CDR. Johns will be
gone presently. Let us see the evening
| star come out together on the last night at
sea.
land 1 supposed he married her and
lived happily forever after p said Harrisse,
having carried his point and turning to Dr..
Johns.
mo; she wouldn't marry him. But
when he died he left her fortune, and she
left the profession. y
! And the Hamertons were Mayhoger
stock"
DIR. Johns left presently and the sun
set famed in the west, and darkness
dropped down over the wide, lonely sea,
and one star softly trembled into view
and far off a SAIL like white wing, shone
against the dark horizon, wan and CHASTITY.
The sea has its pearls,
The heaven has its stars,
But my heart, my heart, has its love,
He sang beneath his breath. "Do you
know, can you guess, Lucille-caR you
guess who my love is ?"
81 was never good at enigmas, little
distantly Dr. Hsrrisse, do you remem-
Der when you frat met me-"
It seems to me that have known you
always" he eyaded.
al thought you remembered me when I
first saw you here. I'm afraid you did
not.
Gould ever forget you, Lucille?"
It seems so. she said, smiling family;
Is but l have a confession to make.
$50 have !"
"You will believe that I have deceived
you ?"
'If this is deception, let me be deceived
forever" And then DR.. JOHNS joined them
again. When they parted next morning
he said 81 shall Gee you, if 1 may, at
the first available moment in the week if
anything prevents, shall write"
Sitting down TO dine the following day
with his bosom friend, ''Tom, he asked {;
g You know everything and verybody 4;
can YOU tell me where | have met a Miss
Lucille Lindsay %
"She was the person Captain Hamerton
wanted to marry. You remember old Ham
erton? Forty years her senior. Romantic
story. He tempted her with jewels as
Faust tempted Marguerite with kindness
and luxury but, although she was only a
poor little circus-rider, she wouldn't marry
him. When he died he left her half his
estate. heard she went abroad. She
broke bone, falling from her horse, at
one time. in the circus. | suppose you
must have set it. Gone, Ell? Been on
the ragged edge of a Irritation on the voy-
age Fancy Harrisse marrying circus
rider How Beacon street would howl p
Dr. Harrisse was perhaps thankful that
his patients demanded his attention and
gave him no time to think or visit at once,
and that a case of special and serious i'm
portance importuned him and made it ut
terly impossible, as he said, to do other
than postpone Miss Lindsay. After all,
had he compromised himself Did not
many a bachelor whisper tender nothings
on sea-voyage without intentions Was
it not expected of him to charm away see
sickness and ennui Should he not 90 to
see her, naturally, like any other friend
like DR.. Johns-when opportunity offered,
and let affairs adjust themselves? After a
months reflection he adopted this course.
1t seemed to him that Lucille was trifle
paler than bsfore, but she made up for this
defect by greater vivacity. Presently
he found that when he called for an hour
he was apt to remain two. After his first
visit they never referred TO the voyage.
One day he met DR.. Johns coming away
from her presence he had an air of sup
pressed excitement about him. 1t was a
year since they had parted on the Malta.
"The fellow Is almost handsome" thought
Harrisse, land he is in love with Lucille.
Miss Lindsay was engaged with head
ache and begged DR.. Harrisse would ex-
cuse her. The words sounded strangely to
him he felt dazed and miserable and angry
with DR.. Johns, as if his visit had some
thing to do with it. All at once the fact
that Lucille had begun life az circus rider
seemed trivial and of no Importance COM
pared with the greater fact that he loved
her. Let those laugh who win. What did
it signify to him, though Beacon street and
all creation disspproved
He drove home and went to his library.
Tt seemed as it there was 10 time to lose
He never remembered having been in such
q hurry before in his life. Why had ne
postponed happiness so long? 1t was late
in the following day when he received Lu-
ciIlesrepiy,
Your kind words" she wrote, shave
carried me back to those halcyon days on
the Malta, when l believed myself as des.
perately in love as you believe yourself to
be to-day. confessed all this to Dr.. Johns
when he proposed to me yesterday morn
ing, and he was willing to absolve me"
DR.. Harrisse tossed the letter into the
CRATE and went cut to his patients
Il was perhaps half dozen years later
when, looking over some old papers, he
happened upon the charred remnant Of Lu-
Giles letter, which his servant had res
cued from the fire and folded away. He
opened it curiously and fingered over it, fas
cinated
81 confessed all this to Dr. Johns when
he proposed to me yesterday morning, and
he was willing to absolve me, he said (;
but if you love me poor DR.. Johns
l should ike TO punish you should like
to quote to you, There must be Nautch
girls and circus riders, perhaps, but we do
not choose our wives and sweethearts from
among them, and refuse your gift-but
love you. LUCILLB.
At this date, however, Lucille had long
been Mrs. Dr. Johns.
Accidentally Cured OF Consumption.
When death was hourly expected, all RENE
dies having failed. and DR.. H. james was