Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-27
srANLENs LOVE AFFAIR.

him with diamonds and he had been
singularly honored by statesmen and
the great men of the Royal Geograph-
ical society. His name was known all
over the civilized world and distinc-
ton and renown awaited him in New
York when he arrived here few
months later.
Stanley hadn't been in New York
very long before his club friends re-
marked that he was partial in his
visits TO a certain mansion on Fifth
avenue. He had been we'll received in
New York society, and, although he
was not particularly endowed with this
worlds goods, he was q handsome
young fellow, aud the young ladies OF
New York society found him most con-
genial. At one OF the homes he visit
ed there was a petite brunei who in
terested young Stanley from the first
hour that he saw her. Her fathers
home on Fifth avenue was one OF the
most attractive of spots for young
Stanley after the introduction. He
would steal away from club friends to
make frequent calls on the little queen
OF that charming home. The young
lady herself began to blush when the
servant announced her handsome
young visitor, and she soon began to
look for his calls. Stanley was the
sort of IL young man to be interesting
to most young ladies. He was hand
some fellow, fine conversationalist,
and he was particularly attractive in
the gallant and reverential politeness
which always marked his conduct be-
fore the fair ones.
His visits to the Fifth avenue man.
sion became more frequent and his at
tcntions to the black-eyed little lady
more marked and pretty soon Stan
ley's friends learned tn at the young
couple We're engaged. Stanley fire.
quently said in those days that he was
ready to settle down and have win
some wife and modest home. He
seemed to be quite contented to rest
then with the name AMI fame that had
already come TO him. Time ran on
and New York did not possess two hap
pier souls than Henry NJ. Stanley and
his prospective bride.
But with Livingstone dead there.
were constant and urgent demands up
on him to resume the exploration of
Africa. At last he consented to make
another journey. 1t was to be short
one, he told his sweetheart, and with
it would end his career as an African
explorer.
Anybody can imagine the loving
tenderness with which Henry NJ. STAN
ley and the girl he loved parted" con-
tinued the club man. There were
tears on her part AMI tender, comfort
ing words for his share OF that trying
experience. They were to write by
every steamer and for two years the
happiest and tenderest correspondence
passed between the young lovers.
Late in November, 1874, Stanley ar
rived at Zanzibar and began the ar
raugements for his trip inland. The
little lady in the Fifth avenue mansion
anxiously read the dispatches about
her lover, and was checred by some OF
the heaviest letters which ever came
through the New York postoaice. She
was delighted beyond expression when
the cable announced that Stanley had
launched the little boat in which he
circumnavigated Nyanza lake and had
named it the lady Alice. That was
her Christian name.
With lovers eagerness he wrote TO
the fair one what he had done, and his
last letter before he left civilization
told her to be of COOL ch ser. He said
that he didn't expect that his task
would be difficult, and he spoke OF the
time when his journey would be ended
and he would return to her rich
and with his days as an explorer ended
forever.
He was on the Congo river for nine
months and reached the Atlantic coast
in 1877. He arrived in London early
in 1878 and eagerly glaaccl over the
pile of letters awaiting him. There
were a dozen or more in the hand
writing of his betrothed RUNNING up
to November, 1876. At that time he
hid reached Nyangwa, the furtherest
northern point attained by Livingstone
or Cameron. The letters ceased in that
month. Down deeper in the pile was
a letter from New York club man,
which told Stanley that his betrothed
had been married early in 1867 to a
gentleman from Michigan.
The highest honors were showered
upon Stanley, but he grew listless,
and apparently without ambition
His friends say he was stunned at the
shock he received. He roamed about
London and his hair daily grew whittier
and his face more pallid. He went
back to Africa and spent five years
there and first appeared in New York
again in 1886. He only remained hero
n few weeks and then started on his