The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-05

one of whom Catriona was recommended.
Mrs. Gebbie flor that was her name) was
by great good fortune heavily incommoded
by the sea and lay dav and night OH the
only creatures at all young on board the
Rose. except q white-faced boy that did
my old duty to attend upon the table; and
it came about that Catriona and were
left almost entirely to ourselves. We had
TIN next seats together at the table, where
waited on her with extraordinary pleas
ure. On deck made her soft place with
my cloak, and the weather being singu-
larry fine for that season, with bright
frosty days and nights, a steady. gentle
wind. and scarce sheet started all the
way through the North Sea. we sat there
(only now and again walking to and fro
for WARMTH from the first blink of the sun
till or 9 at night under the clear stars
The merchants or Capt. Sang would some
merry word or two and give US the go-by
again; but the most part of the time they
were deep in herring and chintZes and
linen. or in computations of the slowness
Of the passage and left US to our own con-
Germs, which we're very little important to
any bur ourselves.
At the first We had great deal to say,
and thought ourselves pretty witty; and
was at little pains to be beau, and she II
believe) TO play the young ady of ex-
perience. Presently We got palmer with
each other: l laid aside my high, clipped
English (what little there was Of it, and
forgot to make my Ed nburgh bows and
scrapes; she. upon her side, fell into sort
of kind familiarity; and We dwelt together
like those OF the same househoud, only
upon my side) with more deep emotion
AOout the same time The bottom seemed to
fall out OF our conversation. and neither
one of us the less pleased Whites she
would tell me old wives tales. OF which
she had wonderful. variety, MANY of
them from my friend. red-headed Mel
She told them very pretty. and they were
pretty enough childish tales; but the
pleasure to myself was in the sound of her
voice and the thought that she was tell
ing and l listening. Whites. again,
We would cit entirely silent, not COM
munica.lng even with look and
tasting pleasure enough in the sweet
ness of that neighborhood. OF course
] speak here only for myself Ofwhat
MAS in the maids MIND ! Am not very sure
that ever asked myself; and wha, was in
my own l was afraid to consider need
make no secret OF IL now. either TO mvsei {
or To the reader: l vas fallen totally n
love. She came between me and the sun.
She had grown suddenly taller, as say,
but with wholesome growth; she
seemed all health and iightness and brave
q
young deer, and stood like birch upon
the mountains. II was enough for nue. to
sst near oy her on the deck: and declare
l scarce spent two thoughts upon the
future, ana was so we'll content with what
then enjoyed that l va, never at the
pains 10 imagine any future step, unless
perhaps that would be sometime.
tempted TO take her hand in mine and
hold il there. Bu; I was. too. like a
msser or what joys | had and would yen-
ture nothing on hazard.
WhA, We spoke was usually to ourselves
or of each other, so that if any one had
been At so much pains as TO overhear Us.
be must have supposed rs the most ego
iisticai persons IN the world. II betell one
day when We were at this practice that we
came on discourse of friends and friend
ship. and think now that We were SAIL
ing near the wind. We said what tlpe
thing friendship vas. and how little We
had guessed OF IL, and how il made life a
new thing, and a Thousand covered thincs
OF the same kind that will have been said
since the foundation of the world by
you.-g folk IN the same predicament Then
We remarked upon the strxngeness Of that
circumstance. that friends came together
IN the beginning - ii they were there for
the firss time. and yet each had been alive
good while, losing time with other
people.
1T is not much mat I have done" sad
she. and could be telling you the Eve
minis OF II IN two-:hree words IL is only
girl | am, and what can befall girl. a,
ali events? But went with the elan in
the year -. The men marched with