The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-30
CARRIERS TALE OF LOVE.
EXTRACTS FRoMADvANcE sYEsTs
OF AR. ARRlSON'5 NOVEL.

OA1GO 9AASCA
From the Chicago Tribune.
Carter Fl. Harrison's love story. 1.-THE
Secret Of the Big Rock !" will be out In a
few days. 1t will be published In conneo-
tion with a series of letters written last
summer, entitled "a Summers Outing
aud is a sequel to an incident referred to in
one of them.
There is not much plot to the story. Mr..
Felden, a rich southerner, marriss his niece
to fulfill the dying wish of his father. Her
beauty is wonderful, but her heart is cold.
and soon after their marriage he says: "a
marble statue would as quickly have aroused
feeling of passion in my heart"
The following summer they visited Lon
don, and while at the flower show Felden
meets young woman who is his "fate.n
In describing the incident years afterward
to his friend Jamison. the hero gives a
glimpse of his moral and intellectual views
Of life and marriage.
Mr.. Jamison. 1 have a very decided theory Of
true marriage. reverence the Bible, but not
every word of It. Nothing 70 me in the
book of Genesis reveals deeper knowledge of
human nature than the account of the creation
OF Adam. God created man. male and female
created he them! They were then good. He
atterward separated the female from the male.
Each thus became imperfect became a
part and not whole. There is constant yearn-
ing in them for reunion. When the true Eve
unites with her Adam they become one, and
their union is bliss When 80 united no man
shall put them asunder. The union is founded
on natural, not moral or religious laws. Men.
one certain woman but In classes. a man finus
his physical mate in one of a certain class"
SEARCHING FOR HIS FATE"
That young woman at the flower show is
Felden's mate-that is, zone of the proper
class" He returns with his wife to their
plantation in the south, but as neither
loved the other, and as he cannot get his
fate" out of his mind, he takes what his
father had left him in money and converti-
bic bonds. deeds everything else to his wife,
and starts through the world hoping once
again to meet the young woman he loved.
In India he meets cunning native who
so totally changes his appearance that even
his own servant does not recognize HIM. In
this disguise he afterward meets his wife
at ball in New Orleans and is a stranger
to her. He can, however, after q certain
time il desired come back to his original
SELF
From New Orleans he goes to his old
home, and Dinah, his foster-nother, and
her husband Jim recognize him by his
voice. he buys them and ever afterward
lives with them. They go to Cincinnati TO
live, where he nurses old Dinah back to life.
AT a hotel in Cincinnati he again sees the
young woman whom he believed to be his
fate" and follows her to Boston, but there
finds out she is younger sister aud an ex-
act counterpart.
Here is racy bit of dialogue during his
first meal at the house of Rita, his "faten
Mrs. Allen, the aunt, was q screw, but an epi-
cure. Like all genuine gourmets the old lady
was a taole-talker, and good one. resolved
fp IA ht7s aru.n I.,.
presence and if possible arouse her interest in
me against her will. When the aunt served me
with tea she said:
"Mr Felden, there is a cup which am sure
can soon become good judges Of coffee, but a
connoisseur in tea must have blue blood In his
veins"
DISCUSSION OVER TEA.
"I do not boast a long line of ancestry" re.
joined, but my palate must be the heritage of
good blood for / enjoy the Chinese drink
greatly, and am very particular as to the brand.
There is only one country in the world where
good tea is almost universal. bad cup Of tea
In Russia found the exception"
"Ah, she said, but 1t is in England that it is
always the beverage!"
Yes acknowledged, 'as a food not as a
beverage. English tea is good to eat---that is to
mix with and wash down your mullins. Russia
tea is drink, and Is even jealous of a thing so
coarse as sugar"
"You have been traveller, then, suppose.
What other countries have you visited2 have
myself wandered considerably, but only in Eu.
rope"
II have visited nearly every Europeon land"
said, for | was determined to please her and
at the same time TO win the attention of the
niece; have hunted the tiger in Indian jungles
and laved my limbs in Holy Ganges among its
devotees."
20 how charming" the good lady exclaimed.
ITO get myself on the best footing, dear
madam, I rejoined, II will say have strad-
died the equator and have used the arctic circle
She clapped her hands, saying: That's CAPT.
tai, is it not Rita9 What else and whore else,
Mr.. Traveleri"
I'm Burmah have ogled beauties with huge
cigars piercing the lobes OF their ears, and have
worshiped Soudanese ladies closely yelled on
the Upper Nile. awakening from my dream OF
alteration to find the Yashmsc OF my divinities
covering ebony -colored features
"Go on, dear sir, go on, - and the old, wizened
eyes sparkled with pleasure.
II have been in ~ glanced at Rita. She
was listening with intense interest; I grew
ashamed of the game and paused But knowing
how a woman's nature clothes the mysterious
man in brightest raiment, and is ready to find
the prince in beggar's raiment l resolved to
show her despised drummer who had been In
oil lands, and even an actor in wild and danger
Gus adventures.
SOME OF HIS ADVENTURES
He then tells, to summarize che remainder
of the dialogue, how he had crossed the
dark teak forests of Siam, where Jungle
fever kills; had lived in grand palace in
Cambodia, the only tenant of a magnificent
lost city, where ''trees were roofing on the
friezes of marble porticoes"; had once been
Gagged in q cave near old Golconda with a
huge tiger striving to tear down the barri-
cade erected to keep him out.
Finally the wall toppled; he crouched for the
fatal spring, when she'll from my faithful gun
pierced his heart, and sank In q swoon from
long excitement and physical exhaustion.
These stories, like Othello's, captivate
Rita, and in due time she and Felden are
married. Afterward they come to Chicago,
and then, about 1870. spend summer in q
camp near the straits of Mackinaw.
One morning after fearful storm be
goes out to catch some fish and is drowned,
a huge piece Of rock piuning him to the
bottom of the lake. Rita becomes heart
broken and In the end prevails upon Jim,
the negro servant to assist her in commit
ing suicide and laying her by the side of
her husband. He does So and then, with
the aid of Jamison, he covers the bodies
with strong canvas, piDning it down with
boulders.
When last visited by Jamison, who tells
the story to Mr.. Harrison. the fated couple
had monument Of sand piled up against
the Big Rock. Some time afterward the
faithful Jim had died, and he was also buried