People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-04
Jennie HarIoWe.
CHAPTER ".
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.

"1hlnh q little, said |, soothing
ly, 'it will all presently return to
you. You can tell me your name?"
She frettully bit her lip, frowning
to the torment OF her struggling
mind, then shook her head. | was
COMPOUNDED by this new mental
phase in her and utterly at loss.
wove little imaginary story of her
disaster with some fancy of stirring
memory in her by an accidental
flash OF truth upon the darkness of
her mind; put it that the ship she
was aboard Of had sprung a leak
and that she had been handed into
the boat along with certain sailors
OF the vessel, that one by one they
had persisted, one or two of them be-
Ing cast overheard Ondying, another
drowning himself in the frenzy of
thirst and so on, but to no purpose.
L might as well have read out
a page of Hebrew to her.
Presently she cried a little and
looked at me with an expression of
most passionate misery through the
tears that filled her large dark eyes.
feared her brain might become af-
fected again if worried her with
questions and forced her thoughts
Inward into the hopeless blank
there; so telling her in a cheerful
manner that she would recollect
everything presently, l changed the
subject, spoke of our ship and where
She was bound to, of the slenderness
OF her wardrobe, and how we must
all go to work to see how she was to
be comfortably fitted out. handed
ha from her bunk and found that
her weakness had in a great meas
ure passed. and that she could walk
With the support of my arm.
"lt is time, said |, that you ex
changed this dull cabin for livelier
scene The fresh air of the deck
will serve you as a noble tonic. There
Is nothing in the matter of apparel
to confne you here. have been
waiting for this happy moment to
arrive and am prepared for it"
With that | went to my berth and
brought from it a warm dressing
gown, large enough to completely
clothe her, along with a sealskin cap
and ether articles of attire which
she would be able to make use of
She received them in a mechanical
manner as though her faculties were
almost paralyzed by bewilderment
found Captain Christian in the
cabin and told him that the girl had
recovered her mind, but that it had
returned to her without memory.
"Mean to tell me she can't give
you Ter name9" he cried, bringing
his winking eye to bear upon ne
with look of incredulity.
"She can recall nothing" l an.
swered.
"Well, sir" said the. skipper, be
her name what it will. III tell you
whatll be the yarn to fit her case.
She's lady, isn't she?"
"She has a very pretty speech.
captain There's refinement in her
voice, think"
You'll find" SAID Captain Chris
tian, THAT she was a young lady
passenger aboard some vessel bound
there's no telling where Maybe she
was with her father or mother or
both Whatever might have been
the cause to send the people to the
boats it was something to make EN-
bear hand. That you may guess by
the girls dress. She whips on a
dressing gown and rushes on
deck into the hurry and confu-
sion there; she gets separated from
her friends and is handed into a
boat by some sailor, true man.
The rest Is easily made out The
dlsasterII have been fire, sir. Per-
haps her name viii be on her linen.
and the sound of 1t may serve as a
flare to light up all the rest of what
We want to Know
returned to the girls berth and
found that she had equipped herself
with the articles l had provided.
Her own and my dressing gown made
a warm garment. The sealskin cap
lent an expression almost of arch
ness to her pallid and still haggard
beauty, She had dressed her hair
with care, and stood leaning against
the bunk in posture as though
waiting for me to come. She smiled
on seeing me as she had been used to
in her madness, but this greeting
now was full of intelligence and Of
sweetness OF nature whose quail
tiles could express themselves with
out being deformed or Swallowed in
their deliverance. | at once asked
II any portion OF her apparel was