The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-08

/ am AL ready; i must 20 Win you'
''You must not think of it, Clara.
There will be crowding and confusion
at the water-side. You are not strong
enough to bear it. Wait-I won't be
long away-wait till come back
II must, and will, 60 with YOU
Crowd He will be among the crowd!
Confusion! In that confusion he will
find his way to Frank! Don't ask ma
to wait. l shall go mad If l wait.
shall not know moments ease till 1
have seen Frank with my own eyes
safe in the boat which takes him to his
ship. You have got your bonnet on;
what are we stopping here for? Come!
or shall go without you. Look at the
clpcki We have not a moment to
losew
1t was useless to contend with her.
Mrs. Crawford yielded. The two women
left the house together.
The landing-stage, as Mrs. Crawford
had predicted, was thronged with spec
tators. Not only the relatives and
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strangers as we'll, had assembled in
large numbers to see the ships sail.
Clara's eyes wandered affrighte1 hither
and thither among the strange faces
in the crowd, searching for the one
face that she dreaded to see, and not
| finding it, So completely were her
nerves unstrung that she started with
a cry of alarm on suddenly hearing
Franks voice behind her.
"The Sea-Mew's boats are waiting,
he said 81 must go, darling. How pale
you are looking, Clara! Are you ILL.,
She never answered. She questioned
him with wild eyes and trembling lips
HAS anything happened to you
Frank? anything out of the comluon?'
Frank laughed at the strange question
Anything out of the common?" HI
cept sailing for the Arctic Seas. That
out of the common, suppose; ism
it,"
HAS anybody spoken to you since
last night? Has any stranger followed
you in the street,"
Frank turned in blank amaZement Il
Mrs. Crawford What on earth doe
she mean?"
Mrs. Crayford's lively invention SIP
piled her with an answer on the spu
of the moment.
"Do you believe in dreams, Frank
OF course you don't! Clara has BEEF
dreaming about you, and Clara is fool
ish enough to believe in dreams. That
all; it's not worth talking about
Hank! they are calling for you. Sa
goodbye, or you'll be too late for tn
boat"
Frank took Clara's hand. Long al
terward-in the dark Arctic days, in tn
dreary Arctic nights-he remembers
how coldly and how passively tina
hand lay in his.
Courage, Clara!" he said gaily. a.
sailors sweetheart must accustom her
self to partings. The time will 500
pass. Goodbye, my darling. Good
bye, my wife,"
He kissed the cold hand; he locke
his last-for many long year pei
haps!-at the pale and beautiful fac,
How she loved me! he thought. Ho'
the parting distresses her! He sti
held her hand; he would have LINGERIE
longer, if Mrs Crawford had not wisel
waived all ceremony and pushed hil
away.
The two ladies followed him at sal
distance through the crowd, and sa,
him safely step into the boat. Th
oars struck the water; Frank waved nj
CAP to Clara. In q moment more
vessel at anchor hid the boat frol
view. They had seen the last of hi1
on his way to the Frozen Deep!
mo Richard Wardour in the boat,
said Mrs. Crawford. mo Richar
Wardour on the shore. Let this be
lesson to you, my dear. Never be fco
ish enough to believe in presentiment
again"