El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-28

lifeboats Were picked up next morning
and their crews taken into Mobile. When
they came to count heads, it was found
that the captain, Cambel and one of the
engine room hands We're missing. In the
hurry of the escape they seem to have got
into neither lifeboat. The telegram says
that no other boat would have lived a
minute in the sea that was running at the
time, even if one had been lowered, and
the mate, who writes, does not think that
this was even attempted. because the Port
Edes sank before they had driven out of
sight. We had private cable9ram at the
office before l left. and that told how 9th
er steamers crossing that part of the gulf
had been on to- lookout. but up to then
not even SO much as scrap of wreckage
had been sighted. 80 l fear it is past
doubt that she sank like stone in deep
water and took those poor fellows down
with her
1t is horribly sad, especially when one
remembers what l heard this morning.
Hamilton, the girl Mr.. Cambel went wild
about six years ago, is out in Florida this
minute and free. Duvernay, the man she
married, died six months ago of malarial
fever. You know, Mr.. Cambel was en-
gagged to her just after he left Cambridge
and went as an attache and was desper-
etely fond of her, as L imagined he could
be, and when her people forced her into
marrying the other fellow he threw up his
post and wandered into all the most out
of the way corners of the earth to try to
forget things. What makes me so inter-
ested is this: I've just found out that she
was Miss Mabel Kildare before she was
married, and when was child l used
to know her sister Elsie very well indeed
In fact, l believe we We're some sort of
cousins, and for half a year we had the
same governeSs together and were as init
mate as two children could be. Then her
sister married Mr. Duvernay, who had a
colonial appointment, and Elsie went with
them abroad, and we dropped completely
out of touch with one another. Strange,
isn't it, that l should hear of her again
the same day that brings news of poor
Mr.. Cambel's death?''
, Its small world this, said Fairfax
sententiously, and condolences are the
commonest things in it. 1 suppose in
novel the pair of them ought to have come
together and forgiven the past and mar
ried and settled down in a villa residence,
with ivy and clematiS attachment, and
lived happily ever afterward. Unfortu-
nately real life is balder and far less ro-
mantle
You seem out of spiritS,'' said his
ffancee, linking her fingers over his arm.
Il suppose l am. To begin with, this
Port Edes business isn't calculated to en-
liven one, and then on the top of that I've
had another taste of your blessed guard
ian's business methods which have near
ly sickened me out of the Office altogether.
You know about this Brothers Steamship
company which he is trying to float?
Well, we had preliminary meeting to-
day-quite 900 people, and all, compare
lively speaking, poor. They We're for the
most part the gang he breaches to on Sun
day, with Il sprinklins of shippers out of
work and other seafaring folk who had
saved a trifle of money.
Shelf commenced the business with
prayer, which is ri-ht enough at its proper