The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-07

came II Anserica and fnand sseass
wosss1 wsxk Ii iazssEses for I vas ; good
eook. ard Their sez re ksep the boz. EbsszzA
fbe. asza4 pay me nszeA. aid could iook
sas sEassire. ard friends heiped fee hunt
s FTenehrnan ihar Has rca selling cofs-e
said nsy hRsbansi was IL Cincinnati. bat ne
bs4 never been there. and il took nae 3
year &C. ind that out. One n1aa waFke 81
fog Ysst advertisements 10 The papers. ard
woaaan sfote . ietEsr 80 co ne 70 - L0Gss
ami enuld fiDd ny man. p The Old izsy's
Erst tears started at the recollection and
hsF srinkies chin guiverssl piteously. She
fassst have been verT happy n that jeuTney
g s. L7ass. ard the bitter disappointment
waieh followed her hopes baS ever ssnce
made those hopes vivid sorrow. Bat u
Taa nof mv mai He looked like him ard
vas Fferei, hut + was another man. II
Eas q long. har3 iourssey. for there we're
not many railroads shen- I found many
FTeneb people lived 10 Nex Orleans. and
vent down the river 70 that city But the
baat was sunk ard nsoss u nlv money vas
lost. asit they pa. rs al On The shore, aad
ne weFt down on 81 tsaer noat. only some
men ard women wer~s iroeneG
ke incident, be il wreck or hunger, war
or pestilenoe.sis 50 Der more tkan the most
trivial furnishings II her story, the mnnec-
essaFy things that eIisg about Der more
important aesrch--that Is all: the search Is
everything.
"When I goi back to New York the boy
was gTeEn mp II BE q man, so be worked.
'09. wherever he wens. and was good
painter. He always wanted NE 10 stop,
sss4 Il aa@fA keN
aid ist bis father 20; but | wanted to find
him. One day when sny boy vas - years
old he went To Perth AIuh0y sui painted
and when the man didn pay him be was
sick and ! went there 70 tend him. bat nv
fr.enas at New York were stu looking.
Then / found my bog. eaa Ehen vas
going to get hisn medicine one day i saw
Marshal Monier
The dim eyes are aiirht now, the face IS
iifsei. the muscles are tense That after
noon almost half a century ago is present
again. The sceGfs Of the siekrocnl, tile
warm air the unobAusiye noises OF a conn
sTy town are ali about her, and her old
eyes see again that straight figure which
knocked At her door in Berne when she
was only girl
He was sitting on bis porch, for it was
3
him. but BIZ did not see me. he wa look
iug Oh away from the town. He was much
the same, onlv grayer. and he had on
American clothes. When / could walk
sgain I vent and got the medicine, but /
did not tell my son. In few days / asked
who lived there, aud they said q French
man named MouFner. so he had changed
his name little, bat ii was the same--it
was the same
The hands are clasped now; the eyes are
bent ON the carpet and the aged frame is
rocking slightly. She does not proceed at
once, and is allowed her time.
But they told me he was married
again"
There is no reproach. II is only as if
she wondered If that could be true when
she had searched for him twenty live years.
II went by every day, and saw his wife
and little girl. 1t was good woman, but
so young. ! cogt5 not look 81 him when
she was there, and / never told. | bought
a little house aud raised q garden They
called me Nine. Monier. but they did not
pronounce II like he used TO. and he did
not 90 away from home much, nor meddle
with news like other men. MANY, many
days | wanted 20 tell somebody; l wanted
TO speak TO him. Bat be was happy, and
his wife aad girl and my boy was happy,
and il was only ME that knew And I
could not be happy II | spoke. l could not
have him back sgain. so / watched him
every day, winter and summer, and when
he died, | went to the funeral and took his
sword aud asked the minister to put it in
bis coffin. Then they knew me. but then
he vas gone"
She seems TO have no conception of the
dramatic nature OF that scene. The sword
OF a Geld marshal Of France; his first wife
in the presence OF his second; an age of
patient search. OF untold pain. of sacrifice
past ali accounting Was Enoch Arden so
devoted7
'we were good friendships other wife
and !. He thought / was long dead.
Some men told him so. She was not to
blame. When my boy was married lived
with him, and when he died aud his daueh-
ter grew mp and married Canary | lived
with them. But do not remember much
about these things. | know the days when
We we're all afraid OF Napoleon. and the
days when soldiers were flying all over the
land. and I remember every city that We
lived in and every one that helped me
search. but when he died all these things
didn't matter then
The spirit OF speech has left her. She Is
older and weaker for the effort. yet she
loved 70 tell of those years. She has lived
them over again. all their sorrow. their
one quick pang OF JOY the terrible truth
which ended all--ihis has been really pres
ent with her BUT she has kept troth with
him. ard buried beside hira the sword that
he bore when nations were severed and
battles we're won. How fitting that her
homes. when death does reach her. should
lie beside him in that quiet graveyard-the
brave by the true.
Lovers can lave on love in the parlor all
right. bat not 81 the dining-room.