The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-01-11
VOL. XxXI.--NO. II.

the comely maiden head, and gave to
every warrior there golden coin. From
that day forth the stranger youth was with
all those tribes very god, and when his
beach canoe would ply about the stream
they all would line the shores to give him
welcome, and never did he fail to pass them
some reward
''Then oft he landed and bargained for
their lands, and gave them in exchange a
rich supply of gold and silver coin. One
day the beach canoe came floating up the
stream, and the youth was lying helpless
'gainst his oars. Wicomico saw something
was amiss, and quickly brought the drift
ing boat ashore. The youth was i'll of
parching fever, and scarce could speak.
The kindly chief conveyed him to his
thatch-roofed tent, and laid him gently on
a couch of furs. He was soon delirious.
Pomona, like a ministering angel, stood
about his couch. He rapidly grew worse,
and soon his spirit fed Just before he
died, he had moment consciousness.
and taking from his breast chain and
charm, he threw it over fair Pomona's s
head, saying as his last expiring words
My mother s gift place upon your neck
Keep it till you meet some pale-faced
friends, then kindly hand it over to their
care and tell whosoe er it be to send it
to-, but before the sentence could be
finished he had breathed his last.
.'One of my paternal ancestors CHANGED
10 be the first pale-face whom fair Pomona
met, and she, with great tears in her
lustrous eyes, told how the youth had
died, and how, wrapt in their choicest
furs, they had placed him in his beach
canoe, and sunk it in the river broadest
part. Then told she, as best she could
explain, about the chain and charm, and
insisted that my great-grandsire should
keep it as his own. Upon my wedding
day the charm and chain, as it was then
denoted, and which l had so long admired
as being an Indian relic, was placed upon
my neck by my loving grandsire's hand. -
Here Madam Sunstrum paused, and,
looking directly into the admiral face,
asked
"Do you not think that noble pale-faced
youth bears a striking resemblance to your
English Arthur Adair, and does not this
mosaic coming from his dying hand estab-
lish it as certain 2
The recital being concluded, there was
perfect unanimity upon the conclusion to
be drawn, and Stacey's next move was to
obtain the chain and mosaic which was
now carefully examined, and found to be
the veritable Missing Link He asked
the conditions upon which the madam would
yield up her valuable possession, and vol
unteered princely remuneration when it
had secured to him his vast estate. The
Sunstrum made was Indicative of her
noble character, and was couched in these
words "Upon condition that you in
demnify to double the amount lost, every
citizen of these twin villages, which you SO
ruthlessly destroyed 16 months ago, |
yield the locket up"
Stacey readily assented to the PROPOSE
ton, and arrangements were made that
Madam Sunstrum and her daughter Winnie
meet him in London before the Christmas
tide, when he would receive the jewel, and
produce it as the missing Link in court
The engagement was kept, and the court
officials and the legal lights of the great
English metropolis were awe struck and
mystifed when Stacey interposed the long
lost charm, but the immense fortune to
which it was the 'open sesame was soon
in Stacey's hands. He offered to make
Madam Sunstrum the vehicle through
which the contract should be fulfilled, and
for time it looked as though it were
agreed that way, but changes came about
before the spring, when Madam Sunstrum
was to return to America. Winnie Sun
strum became Mrs .RearAd dmiral Stacey and
Rear Admiral Stacey in turn became an
American citizen The three returned to-
gether and the Sunstrum home, always
elegant, became far famed for its magnii-
canoe and for its elegant hospitality. The
people of those two Inflated hamlets had
ample cause to forgive the man who had 50
grievously wronged them, for his idemnity
was so princely and so graciously dispensed,
that all else must be forgotten.
The Sunstrum mansion is treasured
land mark in the town of c. today,
and just beyond the borders of that still
enhancing spot is an old stone church, and
around it lies the city of the dead The
Sunstrum and the Stacey lot is there. and
Winnie's only child, son, is careful that
his consecrated dead shall be remembered,
for those three graves are so trinity kept
that fairy feet might scarcely tread their
even length, without leaving behind traces
of Intrusion And o 'er the tombs creeps
ivy, which seems to tell happy immor-
tality and to catch the tears that fall from
the eyes of those who come to mediate
upon the lessons which those noble lives
have taught