Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20

| plsHEllOn; OF Inc Ialse rGmOr CT his OWL
Geath, he knew nothing, or Of all Sis
doubr and grief il caused; and vet, amid
Ill sh> terrible thoughts this unexpected
| intelligence reused, the soft face, the ten
der eyes and touching voice Of Melaaie's
seemed to haunt him.
! 80 this YVES the haunting evil he
dreaded, that had Ccme 90 him In his few
erish dreams, and for which he could find
nc name. But he seemed TO have fore
seen II all in his dream, when st RzDsoon
! before, OF the shsdoTy marriage group in
| Stokencross church-one so powerful that
ne had never forgotten, though deeming
| it only one OF those visions or the nisht
inst come unbidden. HBus seeing in
dreams," says Dr.. Ennenoser, sis a self.
Illuminating OF things, pieces and times
for relation If time snd space form no
obstruction TO the dreamer; things near
d1d Tar are alike seen IN the mirror Of
the soul, according 20 the connection in
which they stand TO each other, aud, SIS
the future is but al unfolding of the
present, SO the present Is Of the past, one
being necessarily involved in the other, it
is not more difficult to the UnIrammaIed
spirit to perceive what is to happen, than
what has already happened"
Cold 1t be that IN the past he had fore
shadowed the present?
"It is impossible," he exclsimed to
himself; "ana well it is for Us thatwe can
neither know nor foresee sll that life may
nave to brig. l shsu get over 1t, sup
pose-life is made Up of getting over
things; never loved any one before, and
certainly am not likely TO do so again."
But with all this attempted philosophy,
very desolata sud loveless seemed the
future before him now, and weakness Of
the body, which returned Ill 8 gr2&t
measure now, FeECEed On his mind, ard
at times he knew nos WHITTIER he wal
deTed or what IL did Tee dr:2ht skv
h2G &r0wn dark ppsTentIy-oupe aEu
love sad me energies OF ijfe were gone;
but j. Was chi, IL whe:3 darkness felt over
the husheG Canl0Dme2ta, and the last DO
giles hsi sounded, that he felt most alone
IL his des0l&tiOn; for be lad no friends
Or chums there. Some were in their
graves, others with the regiment, far up
country, hundreds OF miles away, beyond
Ava and Anarapura.
II the terrible tenor OF that paragraph
was true--Could ne doubt it?-ne would
never, could never, hate Melanie, nor
ever cease to love and pity her, though
lost 20 him forever. Some dreadful ar
gume1ts, some hrrassing alternatives,
must have been applied to her by those
selfish relations, at whose mercy she was
placed; but, anyhow, he would remain in
India or Burmab, he cared not which,
and never return to England for long
years to come.
So he thought, but the hand of disease
was sTill heavy on 1lm, after ell he hsd
undergone, and the list Of a medical
board was peremptory. He was, at that
time, inf. for service in the field, and
ass invaded "IOr home" yet il charge
Of other SICK, sons Of whom were verse
than himself.
At Ghls juDcSure the "bliud goddess"
viewed him with some favor. a relation,
OF wnom he knew little more than the
nsme, departed this life and left MIN
$4,000 yesr.
How welcome this accession would
have been orce. How little he valued it
now! With whom was ne to share this
little fortune il not with MeISuie TALBOT?
Ard she was lost TO him forever!
The future seemed such = frighifnl
blank. OF what might happen in the
years TO come ne never attempted TO spec
uiste, save in the possibility that in & SOL
dier's death someWher he might fad OBJ
livion OF all.
Luckily such thoughts do not last for
ever, and sick though he was he had TO
pull himself together" and look after
bis inyslIds, zee to the medical reports,
the returns for Netley and other prossic
matters.
'Lonsdsle has s wonderful recupera-
tive power great nervous force" said
Surgeon Major Squills, "but he is not
out Of danger yet, and l should not won
Ger i; ne went over TO leewerd in the Bay
Of Bengal with q cold shot at his beels!"
And with this-to him unknoWn-sen-
tence before him, with weary and indifer-
ent eyes, L0lsdale saw the white trooper
clearing the waters Of the Rsngoon river
snd heading away towards Baigue Point,
along the Dalla coast. It seemed but
yesterday that he snd poor Disby Mon
tIessor had stood side by side looking on
il together. Ere long, Elephants Point,
and then the Aguada Reef, with it's lofty
granite lighthouse, sank into the sea on
she starboard quarter, and the great
transport. with It's freight OF sick and |
bore sway into the vast Bsy Of |
Bengal.
To be continued merit geek.