The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-01
4 TRUE ADVENTURE
Rider Haggard and his Wife
are Separated
ON THE COAST OF MEXICO
she Returns to New York by Steamer. and
he Hastens back by RaiI-The
Unexpected Meeting,

aopeclal 10 The HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.1
NEW YORK. March 3l.-Rider Haggard. the
noVehst, and his wife went to Mexico last fan.
LII search OF adventure. and have Just crowned n
successful expedition by the interesting feat OF
losing one another on the way down on the
Mexican seaeoast, only TO be reunited ura,-
pectedly and with all the spontaneous .iov of a
long lost couple at their hotel in New York And
thls Is the way it all came about. After a rro-
tracteo wandering through the wiIds OF Mexico
along rivers and mountains, so remote that
progress was possible only in canoes or on nule
Daek- Mr. and Mr.. Haggard reached the citv Of
vera Cruz. Their plans had been so arrangeat
tnat they were to sail north along the Atlantic
coast to New York. While waiting for Their
steamer Mr.. Haggard took little coasting yes
sci ana made several voyages up and down the
Mexican seaboard in search of curiosfties ana
Iraattions. There is a charm in these waters
auu along those almost barbarOus coasts which
nliLurous OF years ago glOwed with the maguih
CeLGe OF the conquestS Of the buccaneers that
coulu not fail to be greatly attractive 10 n man
50 keenly alert as is the author of she ~ so
~ Is rot to be wondered at that
MS JOurneyings absorbed him So III
ne forgot the flight of time and the sailing dar,
vi ms steamer. Mrs. Haggard felt certain ne
NouId turn up all right Some time or other
WIN an0ther story perhaps: So when the
steamer CITY OF w ashingtOn was ready to weigh
anchor at Vera Cruz on her voyaye Ia Nev.-
YORK, Mrs. Haggard got aboard OF her and
calmly proceeded on her way. just what MIR
Haggard found that kept him so long he has
not yet consented to tell. At ali events when
ne returned TO Vera Cruz there was no sign of
MIS- Haggard or the steamer That he should
De alarmed was only natural; that his Anglo
saxon commOnSenSe should have come 10 the
rescue and assured him that Mrs Haggard was
mot lost but gone before - was also natural
III would be long time before another steamer
ana good many days before Mrs HaRgard
were she on the City of Washington, couldr each
a point at which he could communicate with
her by telegram, so with hope still tempered
Dy wholesome spice of fear he took to the
rallfoad and came as fast as steam could bring
MN TO New York city where he arrived SundaV
night, not knowing exactly what day the CitvOf
Washington would land here. The great African
story teller telegraphed from Decatur. Ala. TO
the once or Edwin H. Low in this city saving
That Mrs. Haggard was probably on the CITY OF
w washington and that he would arrive bV rail
sunday evening When he did arrive in the
Grand Central depot he was still in ignorance
OF the Whereabouts OF Mrs, Haggard He was
driven post haste to the Victoria hotel and
there In the corridor by the parIor door, utterly
unSusplclous OF the others presence in the city
or mouse, the Haggards, who were lost in Mex
leo. were reunited in New York and the ro-
mancer't little romance was ended