The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-21

with pretended groan of envy.
AYE" said Cairns, my wife is no
over-burdened with friends, ana thai
makes me more anxious to take her tC
sea with me- With the exception of 4
sister whom I have never seen, who is
year younger and like my Isabe
when we first met, a bookkeeper and 8
shorthand clerk, she has not a relation
in the world.
THY wife will have to put up witt
gulls and frigate birds at sea-" said Mr.
Jeremy. "She can't take the nightin.
gales along with her"
"Or her sister" said Captain Duns-
tone, pityingly. 1.-THE poor thing will
miss her I'll be bound"
She has friends in London, with
whom she lives" returned Cairns
Friends are a poor substitute for
Kindred remarked the elder Haxby.
She is engaged to the eldest son of
these good folks" said Cairns, land |
understand the splicing of the lovers is
only matter of weeks. He has berth
as second mate aboard an Australian
liner and has good pay, Isabel tells
me- and so one may consider ISIS Wini-
fred well provided for"
'Winifred! Is that her name?" cried
Dunstone 1T sounds as though it
ought to belong to pretty gnrI. Now,
IL l were twenty years younger and a
little less tough and tanned, there
would be chance for me-
I oddly enough" said Cairns show
/ ing his white teeth in a smile. IT don't
know whether Winifred is pretty or not
have never seen a portrait of her
But in your interests, Captain Duns-
| tons, | must ask my wife to give me
sight of one if she has it,"
And he babe the owners and the re-
firing skipper a jovial good-by and
swung off at smart pace homeward.
The mile that lay between Grimport
and the country cottage he had rented
for the honeymoon was soon covered.
Isabel was waiting at the gate. and
there were no passersby to witness the
rapturous embrace with which the mar
ried lovers met after three hours Of sep
aration.
"Oh, Jen!'' his young wife cried as
she met his triumphant kiss. "You
have good news for me! I am to sail in
the Venture with you? Isn't it true?"
True as that the seas are salt and
you are my wifel" Cairns passed his
arms around her slight waist, kissed
her golden hair-for Isabel was a fair
beauty-and looked at her with pride
THE cabin is to be scraped, painted
and new rugged, fit for bride; a piano
is to be shipped for you at the Haxmys
expense, and this watch and chain are
present to me because 1 have been so
lucky as to marry the sweetest and
prettest girl on dry land"
Isabel glowed at the simple fattery.
Her heart was in her eyes as she looked
at him
'They should have given it to me-"
she said because 1 have married the
handsomest man and the bravest in the
whole world" She had heard the story
of the sharks and Cairns dive. ooh,
Jem, If I had lost you then!" She
could say no more.
''As you dndn't know me them an
swered Cairns, with a twinkle in his
bright gray eyes, 'it wouldn't have af-
fected you"
II should never have married." Isabel
fiared out. mo other man but you
would ever have won my heart!" She
covered one of his large strong hands
with both of hers Say" she coaxed
that if you had not met me you never
would have married."
Il should have been a sea husband,
like Dunstone, welded TO my ship for
better for worse" laughed Cairns.
i
ing ashore for good, he'll be wanting
to brew his grog and fill his
to brew his grog and fill his
pipe for him. He wanted to know
about your sister Winifred-whether
she was as pretty as you are, and
she was engaged, and l said
that she couldn't possibly be the one,
but I understood she was the other"
Isabel began to laugh. '"How I am
longing to see your face when you first
set eyes on Winniei" she cried. what |
will you say? What will you think
Oh! I wouldn't show you her photo
graph for the world, though I have got
half dozen; it would spoil the effect 7 !
mean to create"
ASK her to come down and spend a
few days with us before we SAIL said |
Cairns 1T is, for one thing, only prop |
ar consideration for your sister, and for |
another"
You are expiring with curiosity to |
zee her!" interrupted Isabel with a lit
lie gush of laughter Then she pre-
ended to box her husbands ears, and
le kissed her, and they went in to sup |
Der. Next day the letter of invitation
o Wnifred Carlingbrook was written.
The reply came back in due coursea
etter of delighted acceptance, mingled
With gir1ish expressions of grief at Isa
,els impending departure. Mrs.
CAIRNS tossed the letter gayly to her
husband and watched him as he read it.
1.-The hand is yours he observed. |
ISABEL nodded Cairns said no more,
nut gave her back Winifred's letter and
plunged into the perusal of a legal look
ne document which had been delivered
t the same time. 80 they can't do
Without me-" he said frowning, and
,ulling his beard. land all through that
ongShore swab who palmed himself off
n the skipper for a seaman. I've got
o leave you, Isabel, and go up to Lon
on
"Oh," she cried, with a dismayed i'm
onation, How long shall you be
way?"
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