Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-06
CHAPTER XIV.
.ESILTS IN LONDON


How awfully CHASTITY said Amy Riv.
ors. Yes said Fairfax Those an.
archist people ought to be shot down like
dangerous wild beasts whenever they open
their mouths. Think Of it. Not only
fine ship but $500. 600 in specie blotted ont
Of existence by this murderous bomb It
will come fcarfully heavy OH some of the
underwriters. There will he black pay
day at Lloyds' when they settle up over
this. You never saw such excitement as
there is in the city. Papers were selling at
half n crown apiece.
And is 1t certain that poor Mr.. Cam
bel IL drowned
I'm afraid practically so. The two
!iicboats were picked up next morning
and their crews taken into Mobile When
they came TO count heads. IL was found
that the captain, Cambcl and one Of the
engine room hands were missing In the
hurry OF the escape they seem to have got
into neither l;febuat The telegram says
that no other boat would have lived
minute in the sta that was running at the
time. even II one had been lowered. and
the maze. who writes. does not think that
this was even attempted. because the Port
Edcs sank before they had driven ont OF
sight. We had u private clblcgram at the
Office before | left and that told how 9th
or steamers crossing that part Of the gulf
had been on the lookout. but up t. then
not even so much rs a scrap of wrcckago
had been sighted 20 I fear IL is pas. Il
doubt that she sank like stone in deep
water and took those poor fellows down
with her
1t is horribly sad. especially when one
remembers what I heard this morning
III an
about six years ago is out in Florida this
minute and free. Duvcrnay. the man she
married, died SIX months ago of malarial
fever. You know, Mr.. Cnmbel was en-
gagged to her just after he left Cambridge
and went az an at,ache and was dcsper-
Ftcly fond of her, rs 1 imagined he could
be, and when her people forced her into
marrying the other fellow he threw up his
post and wandered into all the most out
of the way corners of tho earth to try TO
forget things. What makes me so inter
csted Is this: I've just found out that she
was n Miss Mabel kildare before she was
married. and when ] was a child 1 used
to know her sister Elsie very well indeed.
In fact, l believe we were some sort of
cousins, and for half a year we had the
same govcrness together and were as init
mate as two children could he Then her
sister married Mr.. Duvernay. who had a
colonial appointment. and Elsie went with
them abroad, and we dropped completely
out of touch with one another. Strange,
isn't IL, that should hear of her again
the same day that brings news of poor
Mr.. Cambel's DEATH
Its n small world this" said Fairfax
sententiously, land condolences are the
commonest things in IL. / suppose in n
novel the pair of them ought to have come
together and forgiven the past and mar.
ried and settled down in n villa residence,
with ivy and clematis attachment, and
lived happily ever afterward. Unfortu-
nately real life Is balder and far less ro-
MANTLE
You seem ont of spirits" said his
fanccc linking her fingers over his arm.
Il suppose am. To begin with. this
Port Edes business ISN'T calculated To en-
liven ono. and then ON the top of that I've
had another taste of your blessed guard
ian's business methods which have near
~ sickcned me out of the Office altogether.
You know about this Brothers Steamship
company which he Is trying to float:
Well, VIC had preliminary meeting to-
day-quite ZOO people, and all, compara-
lively speaking. poor. They were for the
most part the gang he breaches TO on Sun
day. with sprinkling OF shippers out OF
work and other seafaring folk who had
saved triile'of money.
shelf commenced the business with
prayer, which il right enough ut its proper
time, hut struck me as being particular
ly out o. place there The audience. how
ever. C-oa-ed approval and their conf