Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-10-12
very different thing.

You told me to go, and l went. p"
"You did-on the instant. p"
"And you blame me for that now!
Did you not mean me to take you at
your word?''
mot like that" slowly. "You went
oh, yes-as if you were glad to go. I
dare say you were, but you needn't
have betrayed your feelings quite SO
! plainly"
81 haven't the smallest intention Of
betraying my feelings for your gratifi-
cation" he says with some warmth
"You have treated me shamefully, but
I,see little use i'll discussing it now. /
don t want to reproach you for jilting
me. You we doneit, and that's enough
esJilting you! Oh. Jack!''
"Call it what you please" and he
turns away YEARLY. eve won't quar-
rel about that. Celia was right, see"
"Celia?"
eyes. She said I would only make
matters worse if l saw you. didn It be-
lieve her, butt
Cecilia tried to stop your coming?''
''If you like to put it in that way,
yes,'' with a look Of surprise. "But
thought I ought to bring those letters
myself, SO I came"
cecilia seems to have been unwarrant-
, ably busy with my affairs,' say cold
". 81 don t know, of course, what she
may Or may not have told you, but this
[ Go know-that I have never trusted
her, and that trust her less than ever
now"
''You are ungrateful surely. She tried
to spare you this interview"
clad it not been for her it would
never have been necessary. But go to
her, since you'd rather take her word
than mine" passionately. 600 to he1
and tell her that she has succeeded,
thanks to my folly and your
I break Off, unable to speak for the
rising sobs that choke my utterances,
and turn away abruptly to the window.
Succeeded? Celia?'' he repeats more
to himself than to me. "Maud, what is
the meaning of all this? Is it possible
that Celia misunderstood -
''She misunderstood nothing" ]
speak in a dull, expressionless way and
without turning round. ''She is far toe
clever for that. Il is you who misunder-
stood and I.
"What have misunderstood? Oh, if
you won't tell me, must go to Celia
and''-
eyes, go to her. What are you stay
ing here for?''
"Nothing now" And he walks to
the door. In another instant he will be
gone.
Can I let him go like this? No, a
thousand times no.
"Wait!o And I turn impulsively.
"You-you have forgotten something. "
"Have I? And what?"
"Your ring I have no right to it
now. as you say. -
81 never said SO, but',-he checks
himself give it to me, then"
'tCome and take it. %
''No, dear, dom want it. If it is
to come Off at all, you must take it. -
sit seems almost a pity, doesn't it?'
I say softly, and my voice is scarcely as
steady as it might be. He makes no re-
ply, but passes his ann around my
Waist, and his hold on my hand
tightens.
give got used to it, you see, and
should miss it. May keep it, Jack?''
''On one condition.
ttAnd that isl
':That you keep me too. -
'sOh, Jack, how gladlyH'
He is my Jack once more, and I tell
him all, my head Oh his shoulder.
Our quarrel is over, and we both de-
test Celia. She can never come between
us any more. -Gentlewoman.
FIRST TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER.
She Was an American Vessel Using Both
| Sails and Steam.@
The first steamer to cross the Atlantic
was an American vessel called the Sa-
vannah. She was steamship, and used
both sails and steam, and was built by
! Croker & Pickett at Corlear's Hook in
New York city. The present. belief is
that she was built by a party Of capital
lists who intended to sell hef to some
foreign monarch. She was commanded
by Captain Moses Rogers and was a
ship rugged vessel Of nearly 400 tons.
She had horizontal engine, which was
placed between her decks, and her boil
ers We're in the lower hold.
1t is generally admitted that the Sa-
vannah sailed from New York in 1919,
going to Savannah, her namesake, in
seven days, four Of which she used
steam. There she was chartered by the
city corporation to go to Charleston to
take President Monroe, who was then
travelling through the states On pleas
ure excursion. He failed to accept the
invitation, and the boat returned to Sa-
vannah. After remaining at this port
for some days and taking out parties
of curiosity as well as pleasure seekers
the Savannah sailed for Liverpool,
reaching it after voyage of Is days,
seven of which were made under steam.
The arrival of the strange looking YES
sci, with huge clouds of smoke ascend
ing from her decks and obscuring her rig
ging, caused quite a commotlon when
she entered ST. Georges channel off
the city Of Cork, and the commander of
the British man-of-war lying in the
harbor thought she was vessel in dis
| tT6SS dllu bClip Two CuUUSIS w UOt8Io ACl'
Everything found all right, however,
the Savannah was allowed to proceed
on her way, and thousands of people
greeted her as she steamed up the Mer-
sey to Liverpool with the American
flag flying at her head. The Savannah
then made trip to Copenhagen, Cron-
stadt and ST. Petersburg and then re-
turned to this country, where she was
relieved of her steam apparatus and
for many years ran as a packet between
New York and Savannah, finally going
ashore and breaking up on Long Island.
The Savannah was, of course, q side
wheeler. and as it was impossible to
carry a sufficient supply Of fuel in her
to keep up steam on a long voyage her
, wheels were removed during good sail
/ ing weather and canvas substituted
) The king Of Sweden wanted to buy the
r boat when it was abroad, but the deal
) Went through. Now, those are the facts
' about the first steamship that ever cross
!, ed the Atlantic ocean. washington
Stag.