Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-07

the bridge be looked over the para pet TO
see whether any one taking header there
from would fall clear OF all piers, projec-
lions, and the like. He wandered ann
lessly about the streets, and before long
| found himselfnear NeWgate. Here he was
alfinclined to ring the bell and ask to zee
| what sort of accommodation was provided
! Tor people who got on the wrong side OF
the dock railing at the neighboring Old
Bailey; but he had not the courage. Then
worn out by fatigue, he turned into q
Gomez shop in HolbOrn, where ne ordered
and tried to get through chop; but his
mind was too fun OF the terrOrs which
! oppressed him, and he left it on his plate
mangled and untasted.
Mr.. Pilgrim had made his money IN
Jamaica. Nowadays we hear much about
money being lost there, and where so
much Is lost it is certain that some Will
pick up little out Of their neighbors'
mlsiortunes. Such one was Mr.. Pilgrim
de began life in q very small way, but be-
fore many years he was able to see the
possibility Of retiring with thousand a
year. He was a man OF modest ambitions,
and he had already fixed his eye on that
house 10 the Chaplain Road, house he
had made the object OF his LIES ambition
| when he used, as a small boy, 10 pass
along that thoroughfare on his way to
school. SO he sold all be had. and struck
his West indian tents. He took passage
for his wife and himself on board sail
ing ship bound for London direct; but
just at The last hour a complication with
regard to the transfe. Of the porperty
arose and Mr.. Pilgrim was forced 10 re-
main some time longer. Mrs. Pilgrim,
like Mrs. GilpIn, was OF frugal mind, and
resented the idea Of sacrificing all the
passage money, so it was settled that she
should proceed to England in the sailing
ship and her husband follow in the next
teamer,
''Mr. Pilgrim submitted to his temper
airy bereavement with good grace. He dis
patched his business in time to catch the
next mail steamer, and had a very agree
able voyage to Liverpool, all the moro
agreeable. perhaps. because he sat next to
a certain Mrs. Sawyer, a very charming
widow, at table, and chatted with her for
good portion of the day on deck. When
they landed at Liverpool Mrs. Sawyer
gave Mr.. Pilgrim her address in London,
and expressed hope that their acquaint-
ance might survive the termination of the
voyage. When Mr.. Pilgrim inquired I'm
London at the office OF the owners Of the
Sarah Jarvis. the ship in which his wife
had sailed, he found that she was a week
overdue; but he knew the ways of sailing
ships too well to be seriously alarmed at
this. However, when the week grew
month, and the month became six weeks,
he began TO prepare himself for the worst.
He bad need of all mis- preparation for no
| tidngs ever reached him OF the Inflated
snip, or of any Of her crew.
"After about a year had passed he came
one day upon the address which Mrs.
Sawyer had given him, and he thought
he would pay visit 10 his late travelling
companion. lie found Mrs. Sawyer look
ing more charming than ever. He told
her the whole OF his sad story, and she at
once began 10 console him, and the con-
ISOLATION process in this case followed
strictly the orthodox lines, for, six months
after that call, Mrs. Sawyer became Mrs.
Pilgrim the second.
It'll that day at The Pines, when Mrs.
ScrymgeOur Campion came TO look over
/ the house. Mr.. Pilgrims married life was
/ happy. His wife was goodtempered and
/ ktnd-hesrted and cOntented with Pilgrim,
/ on the whole, when compared with Saw
! yer, who had FASTENED his end by an un-
+ due devotion to rum, and had marred her
1 happiness by deviatons from the straight
/ path of coniugal rectitude. But the thun-
derbolt was yet TO fall.
That eventtul morning when Mr.. Pill
1 grim peeped through the Venetian blinds
and watched the strange lady as she
walked over the lawn, the fearsome con-
| seriousness came upon him that, though
she was according to her visiting card,
Mrs. Scrymgeour CRmpion. she was in
dreadful earnest no other than the Mrs.
Pilgrim whom he had left six years ago
on the deck OF the Sarah Jarvis. AS soon
as he had time to collect his thoughts he
saw that nisfortunes, according to their
wont, were coming in troops. He had been
terribly disturbed by that story of Tim
| Dury's when he bad listened to it; and
| now he could identify we'll enough that
lady a little middle-aged' who had been
saved in the long boat. Aye, and other
things were made clear to him as well.
Timbury evidently knew all the circum-
stances of his past lite, and was preparing
to turn this knowledge to his own advant-
age. How strong is the persuasive power
of an accusing coRscieucei rimbury
knew no more of Mr.. Pilgrims matri-
monial mIsadventnres than did the man
in the moon; but Mr.. Pilgrim at once per-
su AIDED himself that a plot was on foot TO
bring him to the felOn's dock or to squeeze
him dry in that dreadful press which the
possessors OF valuable secrets generally
know how to use. the discovery had CON-
pletely upset his cOmp0sure. He did not
stop TO ask himself what his wife had been
doing from the time of her rescue to the
presentday; why she had never found him
out in the Chaplain Road, ana how it was
that she was now in atiiuent circum-
bbducee, anu kbluk d1oub buS country
buying eli2ible residences under the style
and title of Mrs. Scrymgeour Campion. /
made few inquiries through a friend OF
mine, who knows Jamaica as well as you
know London, and from these l gathered
that the married life OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pill
grim had not been happy one. 1t turned
out, too, that there was on board the
Sarah Jarvis a certain Mr.. Campion, who
made himself as pleasant To Mrs. Pilgrim
as the fair widow Sawyer had done to the
respectable Caleb, and this gentleman,
moreover, was one OF those saved in the
lOngboat, as Himbury had set forth. Mr..
Campion was in business in New Orleans
but before he set sail again tor that port
from Rio, he invited Mrs. Pilgrim to share
his fortunes, and l regret TO say that she
consented. Perhaps she had an idea that
marriages were in some way dissolved by
shipwreck; perhaps her moral sense was
perverted by the weeks experience on a
ships lOngboat, or perhaps the prospect
ofeXchanging "a husband she disliked for
a helpmeet who was most agreeable to her
was a temptation stronger than she could
bear. Anyhow, she went through the
form Of marriage with Mr.. Campion, and,
when that gentleman had made his for
tune they returned to England and setup
housekeeping in neat suburban villa
just outside London.
''Of all this part OF the story, however,
Mr.. Pilgrim was entirely ignorant. He
was conscious only OF the measure of his
own iniquites, and he refused 70 see one
ray Of hope. Whenever he met rural
k.a al halN 10.