The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-05-20
THE PARTED LOVERS.

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use. Neither you nor are yet in stu
alton to marry"
4 pretty brunette of eighteen, with
smooth, glowing cheeks and the bright
est of black eyes, said this 10 her lover
Frank Martina good-iooking young
purser, belonging 10 the sioop-of-wai
Lion, from which be had obtained leave
of absence for few weeks.
The two stood on the portico of cot
tage, in the seaport town where the girl
resided with her aunt, anu there, for the
last half-hour, Frank had been vainly
trying 10 persuade the young lady to oe-
come his wife, before he should have to
go back 10 his ship.
@You speak very decidedly, Gertrude,
he now remarked. "Haye / been mis-
taken in thinking your loved me with
vour whole heart?"
"You know do" she said, reproach-
fully.
Perhaps it Is only in a halfway fash
ion,p be responded bitterly. ave have
known each other for two years. and
am sure we are both old enough to
marry"
at is not oar being so young that
makes me object; it is our pecuniary sit
uation'
Il think you are little too practical,
he said. Il would like little more ro-
nance. Where two people really love
they are not apt TO count the dollars and
cents that viii 20 with it"
The pretty brunette smiled; but there
were tears in her soft, black eyes
at Is for your sake she said. III
would grieve me and make me wretched
to see you struggling in vain to support
me-"
"My salary is enough to commence on
In time l may be promoted and gei
more
True; but is il not better to wait few
years, until am twenty-one? Then vi
| will be sure"
@Sure Of what, Gertrude ?"
@Of our exact situation, in pecunisry
sense
That "pecuniary7 grated on Frank
ears Hasty in his coEclusions, as youns
people are apt to be, it now occurred I,
him that Gertrude was of cold, mer
cenary disposition, and that she could
not love him as he would wished to b
loved by the woman he should take fo
his wife.
"Once for all, Gertrude" he said firm
/ ly. Il am resolved not TO wait thre'
wears. If you persist in refusing to b
mine before I join my ship, you and
must part for ever-that Is, if you con
sent"
| Gertrude had a spirit of her own He
black eyes flashed as she answered:
q do refuse; but it is simply because
love you so well. Still, if you are decid
ed that we part for ever"-here her voic'
faltered a little-"I absolve you from
any promises you may have made Il
me-
1T IS well. Goodbye he said.
And away he went, now feeling quit
convinced that Gertrud's love for hin
was not very deep.
From that moment the young girl
happy, light-hearted laugh was seldom
heard in the cottage.
She did not become either pale or thin
but her manner was more serious thai
ever before, and once or twice her aun
surprised her with. tears in her eyes.
She questioned her, and Gertrude ad
mitted that she and Frank were partei
probably forever.
Months rolled on
The young girl suffered deeply, but n
complaint ever passed her lips.
"You want change of scene, Gertrude,
said her aunt, who was mgch attached I
her niece. eve will 90 to Australia
Gertrude smiled family. The speaker
son John, an industrious young man, ha'
written that he was doing a thrivin
business there, and invited his mothe
and cousin TO pay him visit. The gir
knew that her aunt had always wishe
that she and John would take 70 eael
other.
She readily consented to 90 to Au:
tralia, and in due time the two were o.
their way aboard the ship WaIrus.
The vessel had good, swim passag'
and reached her destination il fe'
months.
John Williams, the son of Gertrude
aunt, having heard from the latter Of hi
cousins disagreement with her lover, oi
his best to please and win her, but all i
vain.
Her absent manner when in his con
pany betokened that she was alwsy
thinking Of Frank Marlin, the only mai
she could ever love-
After spending year in Austrahi
Gertrude signifed her wish to retur
home
| Accordingly, she and her disappoin
ed aunt sailed for the United States o
board The wingfeId, one of the be-
ships then in port.
The vessel experienced much ba
weather, and one morning the capsai
found himself in the vicinity of the AM
trail Islands, which were right under h
lee, with a heavy gale driving his shi
directly towards the rocks.
The ocean, foaming and roaring, an
covered with flying spray, sent hug
rolling waves against these rocks, 50 ths
at times they were almost hidden by II
white sheets of water that flew up neS
10 their summit.
1t was fearful sight to the occupant
Of that craft, which seemed doomed
strike upon those rocky walls.
In such gale the skipper could NJ
veer ship; neither could he keep h'