The Newtown bee., 1897-03-05

was able to come op deck, where she sat all day smiling at the distant hori- zon. It was Mamie who first found out what had happened. Mary's memory was gone.
 The news of the rescue had gone be- fore them, aEd, following close on the arrival of some of the other survivors, had raised John Waidron to a half incredulous night of joy and lelief. He was among the excited people who Hooked to meet the Mary Morrison" with the rescued party on board.
 Mary met him as if they had parted yesterday. She had always been quiet, and at the first sight her quietness hard ly surprised him.
 ''Is it Jacky?" she said, using the cold childish name, and with no more appar- ent excitement in her tender voice than when he he'd come in from school and flung the satchel of school-books or the round table in the little parlor at home.
 My poor darling, what you have suffered p he cried, in the first moment.
 "Yes, Jacky," she said, looking at him in gentle bewilderment, as if she had not quite caught the sense of his words and was struck with something unusual in his appearance.
 "Miss Mary's very tired, sir,'' said the old nurse, coming forward. "She's had to bear lot"
 He held his bride at arms length and looked at her with the keen eye of the doctor.
 "You are right, Nannie," he said. ''She wants perfect rest, and you and must see that she gets it.''
 He left her lying down at the hotel, and drove madly to the house of distin- guished specialist, under whom he had been studying, and told him the facts of the case, as he had gathered them from old Mamie.
 1T believe, sir," he said, s'that it is only temporary cloud; and I pray to God that you may be able to ratify my opinion. 1 want you to see her. If you could come this evening after din. ner, and talk quietly with us, you could observe her at your leisure"
 'I will come, my lad," said the great doctor. "And I too trust that it is only the result of her great shock and suffering, which time will remove"
 Another word, sir, before you have seen her. We are to be married tc- morrow at eleven at St Mary's."
 The elder man dropped his glasses and started.
 "Are you right to do that, Wsldron? How if she never recovers?'
 'She will be Mary all the same. But she will recover. have thought about the matter, sir, and have decided to take her home. believe it will be her best chance"
 "You think she is fit to go through the marriage ceremonyr'
 II defy you, sir, to know, if had not told you, that there was anything the matter with her. Except that she seems to remember nothing, she is just her old, sweet, reasonable self. I will take passages by the "Orient," which sails next week. Till then, except for the marriage, I shall keep her perfectly quiet. She will see no one but old Mamie and me, and you this evening""
 You are good fellow, Waldron," said the specialist. ssI am sure your love and care will restore your wife, if anything on earth can.''
 The great specialist told his wife afterward that when he spoke of John Waldron's wife the young fellow had lifted his head with an air of radiant pride.
 ssIt is the strangest, oldest affair I have ever come across. Miriam," he said. IA woman of forty, and the lads adopted mother; and now with this