Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-19

made ieint OF Selling you that would
! have insulted your intelligence and
would instantly have made OF in the
| direction Of the schoolmastef. Mr. Per
kins must have thought il was no, fair
and doubtless told her 50 when they
were so confidential together behind the
window curtains.
Many times that night did Dave STRAIT.
ton wish that he had not brought Susan
Olney and that Patience Whitcomb
might forget that he had done so.
The noise and laughter of blind mans
buff drew the elderly people 10 look on,
and at last Mrs. Whitcomb could with
stand the alluremenis of the game no
longer. Slipping off her shoes she
Joined In and ran about more lightly aud
quickly than any Of the girls. Her ex.
ample was soon followed by the other
old folks, who seemed TO enjoy the sport
immensely.
The fun was at lis height when sud.
denly, above all this mlrth and noise,
! there rang out a loud shriek--a cry so
shrill that Il must have been uttered by
a woman, and yet SO wild and piercing
that none could tell II il were an express
sion Of terror, JOY or sorrow. Every
member Of the company became silent
and motionless as suddenly rs II a
thunderbolt had descended upon one
and all. They glanced toward the fire.
side whence the shrek had seemed TO
come, and there on the hearth q strange
sight met their gaze. The unknown
s,ranger-old no longer, but young aud
handsome, with brown, curling hair in
stead Of the white locks which had hung
about his shoulders-was clasping the
iainting form OF Hope Whitcomb, and
covering her unconscious face with
| kisses.
"Tarnel heavens Its Asa Gibson
come back from the grave /" shouted
old Whitcomb when he had recovered
his voice, Of which surprise had TEN.
porarily deprived him,
II was indeed, Hopes sailor lover.
What a Joyous time ensucd How
they all laughed and cried together for
| Joy! Everybody present had known
and loved the gallant young sailor,
whom all had mourned as dead for
eight long years. How they all crowded
about him to shake his hand rs q
mercy that In their eagerness they didn't
shake II OF.
With Hope restored to consciousness
sitting by his side and holding his hand
--hlushingly, silently happy, and her
| glorods beauty more radient than ever
Asa told them all his story A long
continued and terrible storm had wreck
ed his vessel after the captain had los,
his reckoning and had no knowledge OF
where they were. Floating on spar
he was picked up after period of terri.
bic suffering by boat which he had a,
first thought manned by cannibas.
They proved TO be inhabitants of one OF
the Marshall group Of islands near the
equator There he was kindly cared fdr
and was placed in attendance upon the
savage king.
Five weary years passed by, and then
a vessel bound for Australia touched AT
the island for fresh water lie told his
story to the Captain, with whom he
made the voyage to Sydney. Thence he
dritted TO the gold diggings," where
after a series OF adventures and financial
ups aud downs that would furnish Incl.
| dents enough for a hundred novels. he
secured claim that proved q rich one.
aud the he finally sold for what was A
large for une IN those days. Then he
s.a.leu lor his old home and Hope
! WhiiComb.
Fearing that she must have given him
up for dead long before the expiration OF
his 1--WE years upon the island, where
sending q letter was an impossibilty, he
had resolved not to distress her with the