Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-05
tain's will at his heart. "a seafarirg Ii

on land, for that matter. But, you see
something has happened. I've been a
precious fool and gone and heaved anchor
Just when I'd no business to do it. I've
sprung leak in q gale, and O wreck has
come Of it. To tell the truth, plain
enough for a marine to understand it, I've
been specializing without knowing what 1
was about, and I've lost every penny l
possessed. I'm as poor today as Jobs tur-
key, and naturally I'm glad to sec Lizzie
settled for l shan't have cent to give
her, and Pm not young enough to make
another fortune"
Here the captain arose.
''Settle the day between you," he said,
"1'll leave you together" and he rushed
out of the room.
Lizzie sank upon sofa and burst into
tears Melton Melton, Esq, stood near
her, with a peculiar expression upon his
face.
"It's very distressing he said. "'Pon
my word. sympathize with you I-ah
I couldn't trouble you to talk about that
little matter at so distressing q moment.
AMI believe delicacy requires me to-
ah-depart-au revoir!"
And Melton Melton, ESQ, vanished.
The captain heard of this with slight
chuckle, and Lizzie waited his return,
quite in vain.
In week the captain and his daughter
had gone back to the old second floor in
the riverward street, and there, with the
painted furniture the plaster parrots, the
bunch of white coral and other belong
ings which had been the pride Of the late
Mrs. Hackct's heart began a new life.
And thither despite Lizzie's hopes, Mel
ton Melton, Esq, did not come to offer his
fortune to the impoverished heiress
Lizzie waited for a long, long while, and
then plucked up pride enough to inclose
Melton's ring in a very contemptuous
note and send it back to him, and after
that, instead of pining away, she took
heart of grace and resolved to despise
those butterflies Of fashion who had court
ed her society in the elegant establishment
over which she had once presided and
who never found their way to the river
ward street and the humble rooms upon
the second floor.
But thither once again Tom Hadaway
came often, coming in after those long
voyages with curious gifts from foreign
lands, showing always that kindness and
gallantry which true sailor always shows
to women who are worthy of it and show
ing more than this-a true and constant
love which it might have been any wom-
ans pride to win.
And Lizzie, separated from the throng
of fashions votaries whose glitter had
blinded her, saw Tom Hadaway's worth,
grew to be very, very fond of him, and at
last gave him her heart and hand, feeling
that all her adversities had been blessings
in n how tn
happy end.
They were married very quietly in the
morning, and in the evening Captain
Hacket proposed "a walk and some ice
cream" and the young couple assented.
The captain seemed in a very merry mood
and full of some important secret. He
trudged ahead, followed by the happy pair
through one Of the riyerward streets to
those elegant quarters of the city which
it had once been Bessie's lot to inhabit
and finally stopped before the very house
which had been theirs. 1t was brilliantly
lighted from roof to cellar
They're having party, 1t seems, " said
the captain. "Ah, now, if we only lived
here, eh? Different quarters from what
we've left, eh' Oh, Lord love you! It's
enough to make a man envious."
mo matter, papa, said Lizzie. eve
are very happy now. I don't care to
change for one. Where are you going?"
For the captain was astounding tho stonn,
''In," said the captain. "Come along"
Lizzie and Tom stood confounded 1t
entered Toms mind that, having had
something to drink future prosperity to
the young couple in, the old gentleman
might have taken glass too much.
II beg you to consider, captain, he be-
gan.
But the captain roarcd
''You lubber, don't disobey orders We
arc expected here"
And at that moment the door opened
and in the hall were ranged all the old
servants smiling and courtesying well
come.
''What does it mean?" cried Lizzie.
"What can it mean?" cried Tom.
"It means that I haven't been ruined
that's all, said the captain. "This is
my house and has never belonged to any
one clse And, what's more, Tom Hada-
way, the Betsy Hackct belongs to me still,
and there wasn't a word of truth in what
told you about being hired to navigate
her out Of compassion by the new owner.
I've played trick, for Lizze's sake, on
more than one know Of I reckoned that
landlubber had an eye to Lizzies fortune,
and I've proved it true. But I gave the
same sauce to both gamblers, and you, Tom
Hadaway, never guessed Lizzie was still
an heiress If she isn't thankful to Inc
now, her eyes belle her."
And Lizzie's eyes did not belle her, for
in her heart she was thanking heaven for
her escape from a fortune hunter and
wondering how she could ever have cared
for any one but Tom Hadaway the least
In the world.
And in her own room Lizzie found her
own handsome wardrobe and was soon
dressed for the splendid wedding supper to
which the captain had invited all those
good souls-friends Of tie past-who had
not been elegant enough for Lizzie in her
first elevation to fashionable life. And
every one admitted that, On the whole, it
was the merriest wedding supper ever
eaten, and that thenceforth Lizzie and
Tom were the two happiest people upon
earth.-New York News.
Doctor and Parson.
1t is not an altogether unheard Of thing