People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11

again the plans we had formed. She
had no knowledge of any country.
What she had seen and knew lay IN
the darkness behind her mind. She
heard me name London, Paris, vi.
emma, New York-such cities as
these without hint in her manner,
voice or face to suggest that they
were more than the idlest words ia
her.
MY wife went to her berth at a
quarter before ten, and | sat with
the captain in the cabin until about
twenty minutes to eleven, slipping at
small bowl Of punch he had
brewed in celebration of the i'm
provement in the weather. and
smoking with him. There still ran
snappish heave of sea, owing per-
haps to the shouldering of the
southerly swell into the north and
west, whence the breeze was blow
ing. But the wind was without
weight. We were showing royals to
1t and mad the water been smoother
the ship would have foated quietly
enough through the shadow of the
night.
The captain said: "YOur health.
Mr.. FurlOng. You're a different
man from what you we're when you
first stepped on board u.s."
l drank to him. 81 am" said I.
land in more sense than one too.
| am perfectly well in health, and |
am married"
lit is not the first time that a wife
has been found at sea" he exclaimed.
odd ocean don't want much dredc-
ing to yield We wives as well as
other things more or less precious.
But it's not often that a wife comes
to man out of the blackness Of q
dead calm, singing softly out of
straying mind, with ne'er a name to
her back, and life beginning as it
were with a knowledge of the man
she marries. | suppose Yell be
living in England, Mr.. Furlong."
"Ay," said |, 1--WE shall probably
settle down near London
a shall drop in upon you," said
he, heartily.
mo living creature will be more
welcome, " said |.
We drank to each other again.
then five bells were struck forward.
Ten minutes later | babe him good
night and went to my wife's berth.
She occupied the top bunk and
lay in deep sleep. A small light
was diifused by a bracket lamp that
swung near the door and | stood
looking at her for some time with
the love in me for her stirred to its
depths by the girlish tenderness of
expression which the calm and
hush of sleep had mingled with her
loneliness. | gazed wondering
whether her past ever opened before
her in dreams 1t seemed incredible
that beauty which discovers so
much power of mind as hers. even
as she lay before me in peaceful un-
consciousness, should be absolutely
destitute OF probably the most
yitalizing influence of the intellect
Gently, that might not disturb her.
fell to unclOthing myself. Seated
in my bunk, was in the act of
pulling of my boots, when | was
startled by sudden, violent roaring
OF voices on deck | heard some
hoarse shouts followed by another
wild roaring noise of human
cries. What could it mean?
There was anguish and terror
in every note of it. The ship
creaked drearily from her heart as
she came to windward in a sharp
peevish lift to the underrun of some
wolfsh, Kissing sea, and in an in
slant after a blow resounded through
her that was as though she had
blown up or struck heavily amid
ships and split in two. A loud cry of
mems voices rose again whilst the
ship lay over, over, over. bowling
down with a dreadful raDidity till
her deck was like the side of a
steep hill. gripped at stanchion
and missed it and fell with the
whole weight of my body against
the bunkhead that contained the
door. My head struck the hard
timber, and down l tumbled motion.
less aud insensible as if my head
hal been laid open by a Ratchet,
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