The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-20
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.
Beatrice and Benedick,
Romance Of the Crimea,
BY HAWLFIY SMART,
AUTHOR BREKzH "IE AND TRICK LONG OD
o L1cRNcE' ETC, ETC
BY HAWLEY SMART,
RESERVED

| Crirnaa are making up for lost time as
/ quickly as you, their sweathearts have moth
ing 10 complain Of Now tell me exactly
what happened to you after y,pu were struck
down in that dreadful RedaU."
Il have not much recollection of the first
part of it." replied Hugh. 81 have an idea
OF feeling very i'll and only wishing people
would let me alone, but whom first came
fairly 10 my senses | was with half dozen
others iC one oil the country carts. suffering
great pain and tortured with the most hor-
rible thirst. | fancy ! was off my head
good bit after that, for my memory seems
all a chaos from then, until found myself
in bed in The hospital at Batchl Serai,
awfully weak and feeling nothing but a
lanquid curiosity as to where was and how
| had got there. From that there's nothing
much TO tell | slowly came round as men
do alter long illness. and when l was
really about again. found myself q prisoner
in the capital OF the old Tartar Khans. The
Russians were all very kind 70 ne, but life
there was pretty much what it is in oil
country towns, dull and monOtonous."
Aud this Mademoiselle IyanhoR nursed
you"
Yves, aud very devoted nurse she was
to me and many Others" replied Hugh,
judgmatically. 1--WE Ia, ted, ! am sorry to
say, on not very good terms. and it's not
likely shall ever see Der again. But now,
Nellie it is time you told me something OF
your proceedings Your fathers death, fo-
instance-how did that happenl Was he Ill
long"
lit was HORRIBLE said the girl with a
shudder. ut was at BoulogEe, only
month ago. There was nothing the matter
with him. He went out to smokea cigar on
the pier as he had done two or three
times before. | went to bed, and when |
awoke the next morning I was told that he
had been found in the water quite dead
The whole case was at once taken possession
of by the police, and there was rigid in
quiry TO show how hs got into the water.
But nothing ever came Of it. There was
heavy bruise on his temple. most likely
caused b. his striking against one OF the
piles. 1t was darklsh night, and my belief
is that lie accidentally walked over the side
Of the pier, was stunned by the blow on the
head he received when falling, and 50 was
drowned almost without a struggle. There
we're vessels lying close by and sailors and
50 on were about all night, but no one heard
his cry for help. | only know poor papa
persisted without hand being stretched out
90 save him"
And tear or two trickled down Miss
Lyndens cheeks, for one who though not
sympathetic, mad always been an indulgent
father to her.
81 am very sorry for the poor doctor"
sad for YOU, Nell"
Yes replied the girl, softly, "for
thought | was left all alone in the world.n
"Ah, but you know that is not So" re-
Joined Hugh, gently pressing her hand.
you were mistaken about that, But
what made you leave Manchester SO
abruptly, without telling any one where you
were goingW
II don't know. Our life has been DUE
10 hot TO SaN oria
death. We left, as you would say, without
beat OF drum, remained a day or two in
London, and then crossed at once to tho
Continent, whore we wandered up and
down with no conceivable motive. Papa
briefly explained he bad business here and
business there. but what his business was
he never confided to me. Our wanderinGs
seemed to be perfectly aimless, and after the
fall of Sebastopol papa seemed to be more
restless than ever. As have already told
you, his information about things Ia the
Crimea was wonderful, and l did think"
she added, smiling fondly on her lover,
"marvellously accurate. IL was he who
told me you were engaged to be married to
MademCiselle Ivanhoff. Perhaps the wish
was father to the thought, for ne never liked
the idea Of my marrying you. | don't know
whyn
"Ahl you see, Nell, my people didn't re-
ceive the news Of my engagement to you
with much cordially. | dare say, the doc
tor thought that my father might have
written to him more effusively on the sub
iect. Bless him, be didn't know that dear
old gentleman when things are not going to
his liking"
"On, but, Hugh, what does he-what
do all you people think of our engagement
nowp
$50 far" rejoined Fleming, "they haven't
had any occasion to think about it. As
didn't get killed, and contrived to be men
toned In dispatches, they were bound to kill
the fatted calf for me during my brief
visit, and as l had completely lost YOU,
there was nothing TO be said about you"
But what will they think of it now,
Hughp
'Well, the governor won't like it: but
then as be wouldn't like my marrying any
body unless she had unlimited shekels. hats
not worth considering. II she had only
heaps Of money might marry a Hottentot
But then, you see, I've got to live with her,
not him."
"But, Hugh what shall do? have no
one to advise me-
mo. darling, marry me quite quietly in
two or three months and then, YOU sse, you
viii always have some one to advise you a
bit of special pleading which brought a
smile to Miss Lynden's lips. ''Now. that's
settled" continued Hugh, How is Miss
Smsrdou? What makes her so hutfy
There's no pleasing her. We've done our
best to blazon the colors, and paid pretty
dearly for the right of carrying Sebastopol
on them"
II don't understand you. Why, where did
you meet her%
II haven't met her," rejoined Hugh, but
l wrote to her to know wEere could find
your
'Ah. she couldn'b tell you because she
didn't know"
mo. but she needn't have answered me
as if ! was almost a stranger, considering
the terms we were on before l left Eng
land"
II think can explain all thai, said Miss
Lynden, laughing "Frauces Is a very warm
friend. and ! hat mcst stfectiouate letter
from her the other day, but she was not go.
ing to encourage young men in marrying
Russian countesses.n
You haven't seen her, suppose, since
you left Manchester"
No, nor heard from her until the other
day but why do you askV
''Oh, don't know said Hugh, care
lessly. I'VE used to think you knew
there was something between her and Tom
Byng." 49,
come CT it now. She wrote to him when
we all thought he was SO badly wounded
| you know. and though ] never saw his re-
| ply know very well what Ie must have
| been. She rallied at herself that she should
be so immodest as to write TO one she knew
would hout her."
Yes Tom has kept very still tongue
| on that sub ect ever since that letter But
| Nell, he has stood by me in my search 70.
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