The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-06-01

to leave home again and, and II
rather leave her under some one
care And the captain groaned.
"Ah your health-ah life is very
an uncertain ~ said Augusta
Vandewater, Esq, with a thought o
the captains will at his heart. "A
Seafaring life-ah, rather-ah, danger
Gus -
MY health is perfect said the cap
tain, ''and your Jack is as safe at SCI
as on land, for that matter. But, you
see, something has happened. Nv,
sprung a leak in u gale, and :
wreck has come of it. To tell the
truth, plain enough for marine t.
understand it, I've been specializing
without knowing what l was about
and I've lost every penny possessed
I'm as poor to-day as Jobs turkey
and nat'relly I'm glad to see Kitty set.
tied, for shan't have a cent to give
her, and I'm not young enough tc
make another fortune"
Here the captain arose.
Settle the day between ye,n he
said. "rll leave we together" and he
rushed out of the room.
Kitty sunk upon a sofa and burst
into tears.
Augustus Vandewater, Esq, stood
near her with peculiar expression
upon his face.
Its very distressing, The said. "Pon
my word | sympathize with you. L
ah-couldn't trouble you to talk about
that little matter at so distressing a
moment. l AMI believe delicacy re-
quires Inc to depart--Gu reUOir."
And Augustus Vandewater, Esq,
vanished.
The captain heard of this with a
slight chuckle, and Kitty waited his
return quite in vain.
In a week the captain and his daugh-
ter 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 belongings which had been the
pride of the late Mrs. Tarbox's heart,
began a new life.
And thither, despite Kitty's hopes,
Augustus Vandewater, Esq, did not
come to offer his fortune to the inn
poverished heiress.
Kitty waited for long while, and
then plucked up pride enough to en-
close Nandewater's ring in a very con-
temptuous note, and sent it back to
him, and after that, instead of pining
away, she took heart of grace, and re-
solved to despise those butterflies of
fashion who had courted her society
in an 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, Jack
Thompson came often. Coming in
after those long voyages with his cur
ious gifts from foreign lands, showing
always that kindness and gallantry
which a true sailor always shows to
women who are worthy of it, and
showing more than this. true and
constant love which might have been
any woman's pride to win.
And Kitty, separated from the
throng of fashions votaries whose
glitter had blinded her, saw Jack
Thompson's worth, grew to be very,
very fond of him, and at last gave him
her heart and hand, feeling that all
her universities had been blessings in
disguise-having brought her to this
happy end.
They were married very quietly in
the morning, and in the evening Cap
tain Tarbox proposed "a walk and
some ice cream, and the young couple
assented. The captain seemed in u
very merry mood and full of some i'm
portant secret. He trudged ahead,
followed by the happy pair, through
one of the riverward streets to those
elegant quarters of the city which it
had once been Kitty's lot to inhabit,
and finally stopped before the very
house which had been theirs. 1t was
brilliantly lighted up from roof to eel
lar
They're havin' a party, it seems, -"
said the captain. "Ah, now, if we
only lived here, Ell? Different. quar-
tiers from what we left, ell ? Oh, Lord
love ye! It's enough to make a man
envious."
mo matter, papa" said Kitty, 1--WE
are very happy now. | don't care to
change, for one. Where are you go
ing - For the captain was ascending
In" said the captain, "come
along"
Kitty and Jack stood confounded.
1t entered Jacks mind that, having
had something to drink future pros
perity to the young couple in, the old
gentleman might have taken u glass
too much.
II beg you to consider, captain" he
began.
But the captain roared:
You lubber Don't disobey orders.
We're expected here"
And at that moment the door open
ed, and in the hall were ranged all the
old servants, smiling and courtesying
welcome.
what does it mean p cried Kitty.
"What can it mean ~ cried Jack.
at means that | haven't been ruin
ed, that's ALL said the captain.
''This house is mine and has never be-
longed to anybody else. And what's
more, Jack Thompson, the Sally Tar
box belongs to me still, and there
wasn't bit of truth in what l told
you about being hired to navigate her,
out of compassion, by the new owner.
| played trick, for kitty's sake, on
more than one know of. l reckoned
that land lubber had an eye to Kitty's
fortune and | proved it true. But L
gave the same sauce to both ganders,
and you, Jack Thompson, never guess
ed Kitty was still an heiress. If she
isn't thankful to me now, her eyes be-
lie her.
And Kitty'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 ever
could have cared for anyone but Jack
Thompson, the least in the world.
And in her own room Kitty found
her handsome wardrobe, and was
soon dressed for the splendid wedding
supper, to which the captain had in
vited all those good souls-friends of
the past-who had been elegant
enough for Kitty in her first elevation
of fashionable life, and everyone adj
mitted that on the whole, it was the
merriest wedding supper ever eaten,
and that thenceforth Kitty and Jack
were the two happiest people upon
earth.
TWO GREAT DAYS.
The teacher was instructing the
- H., Z al, L.,