The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

Things as an honorable man should, ana
yet he could not help loving her. When
we reached Trinidad, he notified the
English consul, placed the woman in
the household of friend and then sail
ed for the port of New York.
The story of our picking up the living
and the dead was published far and
wide. First and last it must have ap-
peared in 500 newspapers, and sailors
talked of it in thousand ships. Three
months passed before we returned to
Trinidad, but no one had identified the
woman. She had to have name, and
they had given her that of Mrs Rescue.
She was well and happy and glad to see
her lover, and talk and argue as he
would he could not convince her that
any other man might have claim on
her. She simply repudiated the past.
We got charter for France, went to
London In ballast and thence got
freight to Demerara. While the ship
was discharging cargo Captain Clark
went up to Trinidad There was no
news and no change The publication
of that story all over the world had not
solved the mystery. No husband had
come forward no relatives had written.
AS our ship had been chartered to run
between New York and Liverpool, Cap
tain Clark decided to take Mrs Rescue
home with him. and this was done, and
she was placed in the family of his sis
ter on Long Island. l never saw her
after the trip across, but / can tell you
what followed
When almost three years had elapsed
and there was still no news, the two
were married. The woman had not re-
covered one single point of memory.
She was a stranger to herself. She had
no country, no relatives, no name ex-
cept by chance. After marriage the cap
tain left the sea and went into the ship
chandlery business in Brooklyn. One
evening, two years after the wedding,
the captain of an English tramp steamer
just in called to ask for some informa-
ton. He complained of not being well,
and, one thing leading to another, he
finally related tale of woe. Several
years before, while his ship was at the
Azores, his wife, who had been sent
ashore in the morning, attempted to re-
turn about nightfall and just as a squall
was coming up. The boat was upset and
the occupants lost. They found neither
the boat nor the bodies, but there wasn't
the least doubt Of the calamity. The
loss of the wife SO affected the husband
that he was i'll of brain fever for months,
and he had never read line of her res
cue in midocean There was the hus-
band at last, and Captain Clark realized
that he had rights before him. He had
married the woman on chance, and
chance had gone against him. They
were alone in the Office, and perhaps he
thought of killing the man who had
come to break up his happy home. 1t
was only a step to the edge of the slip,
and perhaps he thought of suicide as
the best way out. The climax was
curious one, but in keeping. The strange
captain, who had given his name as
Burke, was looking at Captain Clark in
a puzzled way and wondering why he
Should be SO affected by the story when
a yacht anchor swinging from a beam
above his head parted its fastenings and
fell upon him and crushed him to the
floor, and though he did not die for two
or three days he never spoke again
G. B. LEWIS