Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-15

! pISn&I1onj CT the false ruDOr OF his OVr
| Death, lie knew nothing, or. of sill tbs
doubt and grief it caused; and yet, amid
81 the terrible thoughts this unexpected
! Intelligence reused, the soft face, the ten
Der eyes and touching voice OF Melsnie's
| seemed TO haunt him.
80 this WAS the haunting evil Re
| dreaded, thsJ had come 10 him in his few
erish dreams, and for which h could hcd
no name. Bat he seemed to have fore
seen l. al IN his dream, when a. Rsngoon
! before, OF the sbsdOWy marriage group in
! St0kenCToss churCh-one SO powerful that
he had never forgotten, though deemlrg
! II only one Of those visions OF the nisht
! that come unbidden. "But seeing IN
Dreams" says DR., Ennemoser, sis a self
! illuminating of things, places and times
| f0r relation If time End space form 0
| obstruction TO the dreamer; thiGgs near
and Tar are alike seen in the mirror CT
the soul, according to the connection in
| which they stand 30 each other, and. IS
the future is but Sn unfolding OF the
present, SIS the present Is Of the past, one
being necessarily involved in the other, it
IS not more difficult to the untrsmmeled
spirit to perceive Whist is 20 hsppep, than
what has already happened "
Cold 1t be mat in the psst he had fore
Swallowed the present?
sit 10 impossiblen' he exclaimed to
himself; "and well it is for 3 that We can
neither know nor foresee sll that life may
! have TO brig. l shsll get over it, [ sup
| pose-Iife is made up Of getting over
| things; [ never loved zny one before, and
certainly am not likely to do so again"
But with all this attempted philosophy,
very desOlate and l0veless seemed the
! future before him now, and weakness of
! the BODY, which returned IN 8 great
measure row, reacted on his mind, and
at times ne knew not whittier he VICE.
deTed or what he did. The bright sky
| had grown dark apparently-hopea and
! love and the energies Of life were gone !;
! but 1t Wss chiefly when darkness fell over
the hushed CsutOnments, and the last bu-
| giles had sounded, that ne felt most alone
! In MS desOl&tion; for he had 10 friends
or Chums there. Some were in their
graves, Others with the regiment, far up
! country, hundreds Of miles away, 6eyond
Ava ana Amsrspura.
II the terrible tenor Of that paragraph
! Wa3 tTue-COWld he doubt i,?-ne would
| never, could never, hate Melanie, nor
ever cease TO love and pity her, though
| lost to him forever. Some dreadful ar
| gCme4ts, some hsrassing alternatives,
rnuat have been applied TO her by those
| selfish relations, st whose mercy SIZE was
| placed; but. anyhow, he would remain in
| Indi8 Or Eurmab, he cared not which,
and never return to England for long
| years TO come.
| So he thought, but the hand Of disease
YVES still heavy on hin, after all he nso
! undergone, snd the fat Of 6 medical
bOsTd WAS peremptory. He was, at that
time, unfit for service il the field, and
was invaded "ior home," yet ia charge
of other SICK, some OF whom were worse
than himself.
At this juncture the "blind goddess"
Yieged him with some favor. A relation,
Of whom ne knew little more than the
name, departed this life and left him
f2C00 year.
Rcw welcome this accession would
have been once. How little re valued il
now! With whom was ne to share this
little fortune # not with Melsnie Talbot?
AND she YVES lost to him forever.
The future seemed auch frightful
blank. OF what might happen in the
years to come he never attempted t0 spec
ulate, save in The possibility that in sol
dief's death some wnere ne might fad OBJ
ligion OF all.
Luckily such thoughts do not last for
ever, end sick though he WAS he had 10
"pulI himself together" and look after
his inVahds, see to the medical reports,
the returns for Netley and other prosaic
matters.
LonsdSla has wonderful recUpars.
tive power great nervous force" said
Surgeon, Major Squills, ''but he is not
0u. OF danger yet, and should not won
der il he went over to leewGrd in the Bay
CT Bengal with q cold shot at his heels."
And with this-to him unknown-sen-
tence before him, with weary and iadifer-
ent eyes, LoIsdale saw the white trooper
clearing the waters Of the Rsngoon river
snd heading away towards BaigUe Point,
along the Dalla coast. II seemed but
yesterday that he and poor Digby Mon
tIessor had stood side by side looking on
it together. Ere long, Elephants Point.
and then the Agusda Reef, With its Lofty
granite lighthouse, sank into the eea on
the starbosrd quarter, and the great
transport, with its freight of sick and
wounded, bore away into the vast Bay OF
Bengal.
. s--esss J To be continued merit sceek.l
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