The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-27

trembling from head to foot, f'yOu
know it can never, never be; you
know you are wrong even to dream of
such thing. Some girls would think
it an INSULT know you better; but if
my father heard of this he would say
you had abused his kindness toward
you; he would never forgive you.
Forget your Madness" And she ran
from me.
let her go. Ihad seen in the blush
and the tremor, and guessed that if
l had been Mr.. Lotus, the young
squire, instead OF Dick Hawtry, the
carpenters son, her answer might
| have been different. A great resolve
sprange up in my soul, and I took a
solemn VOW in those June woods. That
very night L sold the old shop (my
father was dead and l had taken to
the business,) and with the money [
bought an outfit and started stra; ght
for Canada. 1t was pretty tough work
at first, but worked like galley
| slave-starved and pinched and saved,
and never spent cent on myself, ex-
| cept for books.
| l sat up half the n ght to read and
study. Well in this country the man
who works and doesn't drink is sure
to get on; and had m ghtv purpose
in my head. By and by bough some
land dirt cheap, and sold it for three
mes what gay e for it-then / began
| to make money fast, l should call my
! luck wonderful if l believed in luck,
and didn't prefer to think [ was help
| ed By Il power far ADLER than myself.
At last, ten years to the very day after
l set foot on Cauad an soil, [ bought
| Indian creek farm, and began to bu Id
this house. All the ne; ghbors thought
my good fortune had turned my brain,
| for fitted it up and furnished it for q
lady, down TO a little rocking-chair b.
my study table and tiny work basket
with tiny gold thimble in it. And
| when all was fn shed took the first
ship for Liverpool.
Ten years ulds a CITY over here. 1t
doesn't make much change IN Devon
shire village. The very gates were
only the people were a little older and
title more STUPID, and there was a
new vicar Old Mr.. Branscombe had
been dead X n months-d ed very poor,
they told me; there was nothing left
for M SIS Winny. NY heart gave one
great leap when 1 heard that. And
Miss Winnya Oh, she had gone gov
erness ng with some people who were
Just OF to Canada, and the ship sailed
to morrow f ON Liverpool.
The Liverpool express never seemed
to crawl so slowly before. l got there
10 find every birth taken on board the
Antarctic, and the captain raging at
the non appearar c. of TWO of his crew.
Without II second s pause l offered for
ore of the vacant places. l was as
strlng rs no Sc, and active enough,
and tiou h the captain eyed me rath-
er ash ancc-I had been to West-end
tailor on my way through London-he
was too glad to get me to ask any
questions, so sailed on the ship with
my girl, little as she knew it. | saw
her the first cay or two looking so pale
and thin that she was | ke the ghost OF
her former self, and yet sweeter TO my
eyes than ever before. The child ell
she had charge of were troublesome
little ere tules, who worried end
badgeret he. l. | longad to cuff them
well. But there was a gentlere ess ana
patience about her quite new to m
idea of Mss Winny, and l only 10
her the more for it. After the sec,
day out the wind freshened, and | s.,
no more OF her.
We had an awful passage. 1t was
late in November-an early winter,
ard the cold was intease 1t blew one
continuous gale. and some of our ma
chnery was broken-the screw dam
aged-and we could not keep our
course. As We drew near the other
side of the Atlantic We got more and
more out of cur bearings, and at last
the fogs told us we Were somewhere
off the banks OF Newfoundland, but
where no one was quite sure. It
seemed to m it had all happened le-
fore. or had read it, or dreamed it.
At all events, it was hardly a surprise
to me, when, on tha tenth night, just
after midn ght. the awful crash and
shock took place-a sensation which
no one who has not felt it can imagine
in the lie stand we knew that the
Antarc5:c had struck.
It's fearful III ng. if you come to
think of it. q great S Gamer filed with
liyi souls in the full flow of life AMI
health, a-d in one moment the call
coming to each OF them to die. Be-
fore YOU could have struck match
the whole ship was in a panic cries, ter
ror. confus on. agony-Oh, it was aw-
full l hope never to see such a scene
aga n. made my way through it all
as if l had neither eyes nor ears, and
got to the state room, had long ago
found out was the ore VIII ch belonged
to my girl. / knocked at the door
with heavy hard, even at that mo-
ment thr II ran through me at the
thought of stand ng face to face with
her again.
..W1nney!" 1 or ed, ':come out.
make haste there is not moment to
loseh
The door opened as Ispoke, and she
stood just within, ready dressed, even
to her Little black hat. The cabin
light had been left burning. by the
doctors orders, and it fell full on me
as I stood there in my sailors jersey
and cap 1 wondered if she would
know me. l forgot the danger we
were in-forgot that death was wait
ing close at hand forgot that the
world held any one but just her and
me.
"Dick?n she cried-.'Oh, Dick.