The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

save him. and score OF other direc-
tions and EXPLANATIONS followed in RAPID
succession.
Alvorl went hastily on board the
steamer. where everything now was in
the widest confusion. and found his
friend leaning over the side of the boat,
strange. halt-angry, half-awed look
on his colorless face. He touched his
arm.
YES" he said, glancing up hastily.
sit uas him; you were right.
"How did it happen?" asked Alvord,
in a low, quick way.
As / came up near him / saw. all at
once. that it was him-DeVries, you
know. called his name in sharp, sud-
den way. Isuppose. He turned instantly
-he'was at the extreme edge of the for
ward deck-threw up his hands with
motion as if he would keep me from
touching him. and staggered back and
fell over in an instant He never spoke,
but his face was full of a wild, mortal
terror-the e! they have got him." he
cried, abruptly, rising to his feet. and
standing with white, compressed lips
and folded arms while the boat pulled
in shore
He cannot be drowned" said some
one; she hasn't been in the water five
minutes
But as the boat drew in. cry rose up
6ike wind and spread itself in every
direction -"dead-dead." it said.
"Come, Montford, said Alvord. tax
ing his arm and leading him to the
wharf I'VE must see to this business.
and find her. Do YOU suppose the
scoundrel meant to desert her at the
last?r .mr.
"Hushn said Montford. '.he is
dead"
But that don't make him any the
less a Scoundrel, the way look at it, ;"
was the logged answer.
There was a coach driven rapidly on
to the wharf, directly in front of them.
and woman's face, full of terrible,
wild excitement, lOoSed out and asked:
HAS the boat gone? o, am l too
latern
Alvord stepped to the door. and put
his hand on hers. and whispered:
There has been terrible accident
which has delayed the boat. A man ac-
cidentally fell overheard from the steam
er's deck, and was kilIeti-shall tell
you his name?'
She threw off his hand, and pushed
open the door with sudden, sharp force,
and sprang to the ground.
where is he? Quick.' she cried,
fiercely, the veins in her temples swell
ing to knotted cords.
Alvord tried to draw her arm through
his. TO assist her, but she broke from
him, and, pushing her way through the
crowd to where little group was
standing, fell. with long. wild shrek
of horror and despair, beside the drip
ping form. and the deathly-white face,
with its CHASTITY wound on The left
temple, and its strange opal eyes,
with look of unearthly horror in
them.
Poor Althea, Heaven had pity on
her, and took away her reason, and to-
day, in a Western asylum, she dresses
herself. and watches and waits hour
after hour. working herself sometimes
into frenzy because ALFRED doesn't
come. and the boat will be gomez But
generally she is mild. and tells to who
ever will listen of how happy they will
be when they get to France, for nothing
on earth can separate them- now"
Happily. she forgetS his last heartleSs-
ness, when he would nave deserted her
so cruelty.
New Years Day. Beautiful. happy.
happy New Year. In all the pleasant,
happy West, no home was so happy or
hot 1or- ha
home of the Andersons. You never
saw such happy company as was
gathered there, because there never WAS
such happy people beiore-at least
they thought so, and they ought to
know.
First. there is honest, grave Ben
Anderson, Just little less set and strict
in outward observances, perhaps. than
when he left the shores of the PuritanS, (
bu. none the less true and pure and
sound OF heart: then there is his good
wife. Myra; the same gentle, tender,
loving lit e women as ever, but with a
confusion of smiles and tears on
her ace as she turns every other mo- /,
ment to the pretty flushed face. lying
against the soft crimson folds of the |
shawl draped across the slight shoulders, |
and over the back of the great easy
chair. in the brightest and sunniest cor
ner in the pleasant little parlor.-
1T is more beautiful than any fairy |
story, and our darling is a thousand /
times lovelier than any fairy that ever (
livedr' she cries delightedly. kissing the .
dropping lids and smiling lips tenderly |
and fondly.
Il don't see as nv little daughter !
needs me at ALL" said handsome. :
dark-bearded man, with a proud. fond
look al the little figure in the easy chair. (
with her new father and mother and
new husband. am altogether superiiu-
GUS"
30 papa" and a little hand futtered
out To him. You just ill the measure [
of my happiness and make it perfect. | /
don't believe any one else was ever !
quite as happy as | am to-day. dear
papa"
30. that is what young people always
say on their wedding-day." he rejoined .
And mebbe some that amt so 1
young. uire,n broke in joyial voice
Now I'll bet you anything you say.
and plank the money that there isn't
a happier couple in the whole North
west than Susan and /. come now,
And we amt SO young IS we was once.
and we've been married two weeks: but
don't believe Humming Bird or the
Captain feel any better all the way
through than We do-do you, Susan?
D git out-they don't begin to feel so
good. Shut Teller out of paradise for
.y-five years, and he knows how to APP
Dreciate it. YOU Sec"