New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-06
CHAPTER XVIII.


Tho massage home was too uneventful 20 write
about even if had room for it or you had patience
r. listen 70 more talk about the There was no
LONGER the interest of the sailing-shp. Gains and
strong breezes we lad in plenty; but they had
nothing 20 do with us. Day and night onward the
metal fabric showed turlng Der canvas III the stag
paDt az? OF the head wind. or expanding II 70 the
fayoring breeze and rounding the Cape we
climbed our way nOrthward over the Equator INTO
the Trop;c of Cancer, with familiar stars rising
HIGHER and higher over our bows every night. and
consultations II the south settling out of sight be
hind the sea.
shortening pont of view the worst that happened
70 rs was strong head wind that delayed Us over
week. and So I'll pass over H. over the hours tloI-
ence and ! spent together, over our conversations
with Aunt Damaris over Che kind and liberal treat
ncnt we received aboard the Clanwllam; over
,nanv q matter which to relate would swell tins
yarn into the longest story that was ever written ;
in order to come buntly to the date OF the fifteenth
of March
That was the day on which the steamer arriN ed
oil Gravcscnd. where l went ashore Florence ana
her aunt had been landed In Plymouth, Tor the
conv nIeuce of beng able 10 take train once to
Bristol They wanted me 10 accompany them; nut
| told them 1t would salt me better to proceed d.
stock of clothes and then go down to my unc.es
! bopse. And vet though 1t to be but snort
| nartinp-as Florence and hoped and prayed. and
| ., Amt Damaris promised-what leaye-tahlng 10
WA, when it came to their going over the side into
| the cutter that was ~ carry them ashore You'd
| have thought we were never to meet again. Twice
| Amt Damaris drew hack from the gangway 70 kiss
| me,y. bovs 10 kiss me while to my hearts de-
| Iirht-bnt ayast Jack, you're ont of all danger
now so sail on ike mau to the end OF tins story
and coil down aud clear out and be hanged to you
for your Jaw bids fair to carry you on TIL the crack
O. doom shuts up all hands.
Well you see. boys. that shipwrecked as had
| been | had saved my purse. Ii in ny pocket
when tumbled into the gig before the otathmore
| fonpdered and in 1t were ten-pound note and
some SOY ereigns. This very easily carried me from
Gravesend 70 London. by Tiibnry; and the first
thing ! did when ! got ont at Fenchurcl Street
station was t0 buy me a bag, a nght-shlrt brush
and comb aud other neediu articles OF That kIAu
and then, calling cab, 1 went 10 tHe la'I5'oCA
Hotel IA COVent Garden, where wrote ny A~li'5
down in the address book COOIlN, ialjh. rs ~ 1
we're lust from Manchester OF Leeds instead OF ST.
Paul's Island III tine Indian ocean
IL was IN the evening; dlncu, ana lhel WIott 10
my uncle. cOntcnt!ug myself with giving MN Jht
urrt,t on Inc of my adventures with lQrence anu
| Amt Damarls: and added that when had rugged
myself out fresh-all my clotbc, having gone 90" u
with the StrathmOre-Id take leave 20 spend IL"
| weeks with Aim at Clifton. llls IettcE beiuB
vested ! Withdrew to the big smoking room ana sa
tll hard upon II O'COck, thinking ana thinking anu
! sipping whlskey and water ana pulling at a cigai'
LITTLE needing the crowds OF proyIncials VINO WoIe
! c0nQregated around the tables rafting away u
many different kinds of British Dialects though II /
I hadn't been SO full of thought II would have
amused me TO watch aud listen TO them. i or what
| came home to me now was what would MI haW he
/ sgvf OFTEN enough you may suppose during lAe
| massage TO England, my darling ana hid tdIAeo
| aGout that bat somehow. when at sea IL away :
SEEMED too far of Tor the mind to Thoroughly eaten
| nod of: and you'd notice how little able We were
| IN realize IL OF give thoughts 20 IL Oy tle way
N,'d break of and fail to lOve-mdkng or TAKING oA
! other things, as though, indeed. WHAT FItNS III.
| Hawke might entertain OF my cOuIlshp anu ~" .
we might come TO decide about II, were very Lsnt
| trouble easily hove on one ade bt hoa We VIZ VIZ
all ashore; by this time Florence ana hei aunt were
- CIiftou Lodge may be, while sat smoking anu
! thinking old Hawke was hearing the "Ioie S'oig
! along with Aunt Dandriss RECOMMENDATIONS ~
| ,re md her opinions tho subject Of ms friend
| Sir Reainald MOrecOmbes son and What Woulu He
sayf Into what agOnIes OF fancy ulu Ian, vNeah,
M n my bit of a mOustache. Tipping oil my oigaI
ash iii ia occasionally send the cigar Itself across
fine room sometimes staring at the ceiiIhg. SOmc
| times at my boots. / knew had won l"teAcoi
knew that if a girl gave her heaTt % Il yotn1
| ma she had given hers 20 me- lhht no oaitHuf
| mower was likely to wrest her love away rom ino
! hat Aunt Damaris would peck and nght foT me
had appealed to Florence on behali OF HlyIoooioo
| but did not know what old Hawke wOulu Pay aie
| ~ had not the least doubt, love me as iOIoho'
| aid aud faithful as she would Prove as s"eol
| heart that she wOald never consent 70 De NY wv
nnless our marriage were sanctioned Dy neI lntnoI
| why. lads tumbed and twisted In that sinokiiIig
| room armchair in a hundred mental CONFUSION