Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-10

Powell laughed, and said: "Not if L
knew it..
In week the event had been pretty
we'll exhausted, especially as there was
TO be great dinner and ball at Brad
don, aud all the officers had invita- tions.
This bali had peculiar interest, for the
young lady who had been saved from the
wreck would be present, and rumors of
her riches and beauty had been rife for
several days. 1t was said that the little
steamer was her fathers private yacht,
and that he was man of rank and IN
fluence.
Jones said he should not go to the
dinner, as either he or Saville must re-
main for evening drill, sni that Savi!le
loved a good dinner, while he cared very
little about it. SavilIe could return in
time to let him ride over about ten
O'Clock and see the dancing. Saville
rather wondered why Jones did not take
his place all the evening, and felt half
injured at his default. But Jones had
curiosity about the girl he had saved.
To tell the truta, he was nearer in love
with her than he had ever been with any
woman. and he wished in calm blood to
see if she was as beautiful as his fancy
had painted her during those few awful
minutes that he had held her high above
the waves.
She was exceedingly lovely, just the
fresh, innocent girl he had known she
would be. He watched her dancing
with his brother Officers, or talking to
her father, or leaning on Braddon's arm,
and every time he saw her she looked
fairer and sweeter. Yet he had not
courage to ask for an introduction, aud
in the busy ballroom no one seemed to
remember that he needed one. He kept
his post against the conservatory door
quite uudisturbed for some time. Pres-i
emily he saw Squire Braddon with the
beauty on his arm approaching him. As
they passed, the squire remembered he
had not been to dinner, and stopped to
say few courteous words, and intro.
duced his companion.
"Miss Conyers."
Lieutenant Jones'"
But no sooner did Miss Conyer' hear
Lieutenant Jones's voice than she gave
Joyful cry, and clapping her hands to-
gether, said:
"I have found him. Papa Papal
| have found him'
Never was there such an interruption
to ball. The company gathered in
excited groups, and papa knew the Lieu
tenants voice, and the Captain knew it;
and poor Jones, unwillingly enough,
had to acknowledge the deed and be
made hero of.
It was wonderful, after this night,
what change took place in Jones's quiet
ways. His books and boat seemed to
have lost their charm, and as for his
walks, they were all in one direction,
and ended at Braddon Hall, In about a
month Miss Conyers went away, and
then Jones began to haunt the postman,
and to get pretty little letters which al
ways seemed to take great deal Of an
swering.
Before the end Of the winter he had an
invitation to ConyerS to spend month,
aud furlough being granted he started
off in great glee for Kent. Jones never
returned to the Eighty fourth. The
months furlough was indefinitely length
ened-in fact, he sold out, aud entered
upon a diplomatic career under the care
of Sir Thomas Conyers.
Eighteen months after the wreck,
Colonel Underwood read aloud at the
mess a description of the marriage of
Thomas Jones, of Milford Haven, to
Mary, only child and heiress of Sir
Thomas Conyers, of Conyers Castle,
Kent. And paragraph below stated
that "the Honorable Thomas Jones, with
his bride. had gone to Vienna on diplo-
matte service of great importance.
"Just his luck" said Powell.
"Just his pluck" said Underwood;
"aud for my part, when come across
any of these fellows again that are afraid
of hurting their mothers aud sisters, and
not ashamed to say so, shall treat them
as heroes just waiting for their Oppor-
tunity. Here is to the Honorable Thomas
Jones and his lovely bridel We are
going to India, gentlemen, next month,
and l am sorry the Eighty. fourth has
lost Lieutenant Jones; for l have no
doubt whatever be would have stormed
a fort as bravely as he boarded wreck"
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