Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01


the sail and the oars, hastily riggs
Ill all hours time there were te
: beings, instead of niue, on that barre
But not for long. Before the Il
the number was the same as wa.
landed, only that the piace of o.
women was taken by crying, pre-
born infant.
The rough men and women did b
could for the poor little wret q
woman with the nursing baby tSg
portion of what was rightfully II
: -child's.
This, in Julian Lorraine opinion +
most rash and misplaced expressio
sentiment he had ever met with.
Toward the evening of that U.,8
scraped a grave for the mother ~
not fill itup at on &c, thinking tia
bye the child must be laid in her al n
AT one time it seemed that it mi
The sailors and the womea, no doubt
ing that a gentleman is nearer heavel
themselves, brought the poor little :
atom to Lorraine, ana asked him to ..
it
With death so Close at hand to 4
not worth while making any demu
can fancy the mans cynical sm':c
sprinkled water from large shell =
child's heal He, Julian Lorraine. Il
priests duty, AMI doing it for tfe i /
of other people!
However, so far as he knew how 4
tized the child, and thinking that q
was. Indispensable with kind 9l
humor christene1 him, for it Yves
Julian.
After all no one elss died, not ee
strangely born baby. The next dag
hove in sight. Such sigma S as sfy
wrecked : rty could make were q
men, WOMB. RnA babies were sool Z
on f.>ar4 So l., . ~ a7sf-' y14l 7aia
No. o..a,4 -Ee' 5-sr fa,ls.igz
knew the name u
man who hal died. L.
she wore, bore no mark hei -
on board, had gone down in the Bla <
What was to become of the child.
Lorraine settled this. Perhap, hs (!
the child had certain ridiculo s
upon him. He was no niggard
money. He told some one-he W
have taken the trouble to see about
self-to find a comforta BILE home
child, and to apply to him when mou,
wanted. Then he went his way. aHtt
for wears as he chose.
Every now and then, when her
ter was in town, the woman who ha is
of the child ventured to bring hin.
his benefactor Sometimes the be
scowled, sometimes smiled his C
smile and took notice of the little Iqs
was called by his baptismal name
Julian. When the boy was years
Julian Lorraine sent instructions thu
to be for warded to Herstal Abbey,
setshire Having been told by tn
people about him that the grand gen,
be now and again saw was his fata
addressed him by that endearing
Julian Loraina. no doubt, stare
laughed, but he said nothing fofbidd
appellation being used So to himye
the world the boy was Master Julian
son of Julian Lorraine, of Herstal A5h
What strange freak induced the ~
present nameless child, of humble al
known parents, to the world as his
shall never know 1haye tried to hi
was from affection toward the chil5
the need even his own nature feltst
thing he could love and call his own
cannot think so. 1t may have beeI
cynicism. He may some day have y
to turn round and say: "What il
See, take this low-born brat, brin.
up as a gentleman, and every one
him born to the station!" 1t may huTt
a baser motive, that of revenge. !
never know.
The boy grew up. He passed. fro
stage of Master Julian to that b
Julian, or young Mr.. Lorraine; yet :
puted father kept the secret-kept 1t
the boy was 10, and, like many othe,
of that age who are only sons )
fathers, began to give himself eirs.
one summers evening, when the ns,a
the boy were sitting ever their
Julian Lorraine thought fit to relaf
more fully than I have given it abe
story OF the wreck and the history
child born gu that rock,
And Tor Twas the boy to wlsse
--turusd deadly pale and gaspa1 Pa
Iieve ] had never really lovel
! suppgsgd t.. ba NV faslarq
,iz"41ie 1rJ' # i5lS51i' -
( val .,esa .bed rlvslit To- my lB5S .
auecrlun. Duu now, as turned n9l
eyes to mis- face. and So the satiri
with which be regarde me, l all b.
him. lrose unsteadily.
Il must go and think all this p
stammeHsd out.
Certainly, go and think it over.r
He spoke carelessly and returned
claret, while | rushed wildly fta