People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
Jennie HarIoWe
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.
CHATTER Y-CONrINrFn

Wy noHuSOLuely' captain Christian
mad related to them the story Of the
girl IN plain, genial, seamanlike
way, that had gone straight to their
hearts, and he told US that with a
lew exceptions, they had set to work
10 see what they could spare. There
were three good dresses, some shoes.
couple OF hats, a shawl, a miscel.
laneous lot OF under-linen and the
IKE. The mere sight of thesa
Things seemed to put a new heart
into Jenny. Heaven knows whether
there were any subtle STRINGS of
memory in her to understand by rec
objection of other attire the INSULT
cheney and even the absurdity of the
apparel OF dressing gowns and so on
IN which she had heretofore gone
clothed. Possibly the natural in
stlncts OF the woman quickened in
her TO the first glance at the dresses
which were good, and one of them
very handsome, and at the embroid-
cred petticoats and other articles.
Needles were borrowed from the
men, ana for the rest OF the dav
she kept her cabin, hard at work
on the few alterations which she
found necessary.
MIR. Marling said to me: "If she's
got no memory how does she know
now to use needle and thread?o
chow does she know how to use q
knife and fOrk?" said !. I'm MANY
directions the mind acts mechanic.
ally without reference to memory.
Habit outlives the eclipse of the in
tellect. People who have lost their
reason yet do many sensible things. {"
"Well, we are rum machines. y
said he. 81 wonder how a man feels
who can't recall? Useful to chan
who owes money, Mr.. Furlong. per-
maps but put it t'other way about; [
mean let him be owed money, and |
tell you what, not being able to rec
ollect will be damned inconvenient. ~
Jennie looked a real beauty as she
emerged next day dressed in one of
the gowns which the ladies of the
lndlaman had sent her. It was a
black silk, little the worse for wear
and no better fit could be wished
1t matched well her rich fair hair
andsthe delicate complexion of her
throat ] observed marked quail
lty of respect in Captain Christians
manner toward her. Finding me
alone in the cabin, he said to me;
"Sir, she's handsome girl, it can
not be denied. She wears her
clothes like lady. Sir, she MIGHT
have a handle to her name for all we
can tell can no longer blame We.
Mr.. Furlong, for wanting wariness.
Upon my word there's something
about her that's enough to make
even an old Cape Horner like me
reflective"
l was nightly pleased by this
speech. Christian was a man whose
hearty, honest character | had
learned to value, and what he had
formerly said about Jenny had
caused me many hours of anxiety
and misgiving, though there was no
taltering in my resolution to make
her my wife. Many time | had
walked quietly over to the boat in
which she had been when we fell in
with her, and which had been
hoisted on deck and slowed near the
long-boat, and infinitely examined
it. but to no purpose. Not the least
hint was to be had from her of the
name or character of the ship to
which she had belonged. She had
the look OF a jolly boat of those
days, and might as easily have been
dashed bottom up on the deck of a
collier OF a hundred tons as have
hung at the davits of ship of
thousand tons The girls under
linen yielded no clew save what was
to be founo in the initials j.. H.
The Lady Charlotte" entered the
magnificent bay of Sydney and
moored at the Circular quay eighty
two days after she had lifted her an
Choir at Gravesend. | took rooms in
an hotel in the neighborhood of
George street. and forthwith went to
work to provide Jenny with the
many necessaries she stood in need
Of AT the expiration of a fortnight
we were married. | will not pre-
tend to say that l had given this
step careful consideration. ..Wben
love celebrates the love is slight
says the poet was fascinated with
my sweetheart's beauty and charac-
ter. Captain Christian and MIR.
Marllng were present at the we'd
ding. The ship was TO remain three
months at Sydney whilst discharging
the freight she had brought with
her from England aud filing up with
wool; and those weeks were a LONG
and golden honeymoon with us.
Her blankness of memory remained,
but indeed now that she was nv
wife ceased utterly to question her.
| desired no knowledge of the past.
What her antecedents were, what
her name, her connection, the coun-
try Of her birth, whatever her past
might contain in short was as naught
to me. The mere thought of even a