The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-04
ALL's WELL THAT END WELL!


ALL'S WELL THAT END WELL!
The big white steamboat backs away
from the wharf, swings about, goes
slowly down the river sounding her
whistle at intervals for the fog Is COM
ing rapidly.
The few loafers on the pier eye curl
ously the tan, elegant woman who has
come ashore.
She, casting a half scornful glance
puts this query:
Can hire any one to take me
across the river?"
81 reckon not" declares old Jed, talk
Ing out his pipe to stare at her with as
constituent. THE steamer goes into
port Jest below here ter wait for the
fog ter lift. Thar's no gittin' across the
river ter-night, marm!"
Can you manage a boat, my good
MANI"
All the loafers smiled at this. Old
Jed breaks into mellow laugh which
sends a perfect network Of wrinkles to
his brown face.
"Why, Teddy" he says, there amt
nary boy of 10 or up'ard alongshore
as don't know how to handle boat"
The lady laughs, too. She is very
charming; even old Jed realizes that
She takes a gold piece from her dainty
purse and says;
'If you will take me and my trunk
across the river, this shall be yours"
The trunk is huge affair and Jed
looks at it with one eye closed and
shakes his head.
eff 1T warnt fer the fog marin, eny
one on us 'ud take yer acrost fer moth
ing. But we couldn't see the boats
length tonight"
The lady utters a sharp exclamation,
anger and disappointment clouding her
features A brown faced lad steps from
the corner Of the little red baggage
house where he has been standing.
eff you dare to go,nladam, will take
YOU" he says.
She gives him a radiant smile, at
which he flushes to the roots of his
fair, waving hair.
Jed and one of the the two other men
demonstrated with him to no purpose.
"A small brown wherry is brought up to
the flight of weather beaten steps lead
ing down from one side of the wharf
The big trunk Is lowered into it, and
The lady handed down by Andrew Rus
sell, who is thrilled by the touch Of her
cool, satiny fingers. He pulls off into
the fog bank while the loungers on the
wharf made their comments
mighty fine-looking craft that"
Carries too much sail"
''What can she want over the river?"
"P'raps she's bound for Barring
ton's"
"P'raps. She looks like his kind
1t is late in the evening when An
drew Russell returns. Old Jed meets
him hurrying up the village street.
''Well, Andrew you got acrost all
rigl1t?"
Eyes, had compass"
''Where'd she go?"
ct can't tell you," is the curt reply.
as the boy passes on.
All subsequent inquiries elicit no
further information that Andrew land
ed her at the road which leads UP by
Barrfngton's, and that she expected
some sort of conveyance to come for her
there.
Darlington is reported to be immen-
sely wealthy. He never mingels With
the people there, and he lives in a lord
Nv fashion He brings his own company
from distant parts, and there are storf-
es of gay and wild doings ait the great
house which fill the unsophisticated
natives with arnazement-
He come and goes as he likes, and is
altogether very mysterious.
Andrew Russell has a sweetheart on
that side of the rivar-pretty Jen Hardy
the fisher1nan's daughter.
1T is only natural that frequently he
should row across in his wherry. But
Jen Hardy does not see him every
time he goes during the next fortnight.
He tramps Through a. strip OF woodland
across lots until he reaches a sheltered
vale this side of Barrtngton's.
Here he meets the mysterious lady
again and again. Andrew is 2O-taIll,
STRONG. and manly looking. Cars Ferris,
as she calls herself, uses all her bland
ishments to complete his enthralment.
enhe U-vaborssth th1nhtam militia aa
She tells, him pretty story. How that
her uncle is determined to make a nun
nf her. THAT Darlington being her
cousin and friend, she has come to him
for protection, until she can get out OF
the country.
She wants to go to Europe, for as
soon ais her uncle discovers her hiding
place he will follow her. She is appar-
emily very cUnfiding with Andrew, who
is too innocent ito see the flaws in her
story. "Would he think she was 25?'' she
asked coquettishly.
Andrew returns a. decided negative,
never once dreaming that she Is III
wears Older. Jen Hardy is too proud
no own that Andrew does not come to
see her any more. Andrew has mo
mother and his father, who is not
very cIear-sighted man, sees no change
I'm his boy, who is moody or exalted by
fits
In two weeks time Andrew imagines
himself madly in love with this woman,
He does not stop ITO reason over the alb
surity of SO brilliant creature finding