The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
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THE HERMIT OF CAPE MALEA. Pathetic Story of English Sea Captain Among Grecian Goatherds.

F. T. Bullen in London Spectator.
 About twenty-five years ago there was young sailor who, by dint of hard work. integrity of character and hrmness Of will, reached, at the age of %, the sum- init of his ambition-becoming a master of what then would be called a good Upen this accession to good fortune he married the girl of his choice. who had patiently waited for him since. as boy and girl sweethearts. they parted OH his placency This owners gave him the ines timable privilege of carrying his young bride to sea with him.
 HSw happy, he rrSs Tss! Hoy dseP and So a the grlmy Thames :le explained to the light of his eyes all the wonders that she was now witnessing for the first time, mind by his oft-repeated sea stories dur Ing the few bright days between voyages that he had been able to devote to court shin. The ship was bound to several autumn. and consequently the most idea season fer a honeymoon that could pos sibly he imagined. CadiZ, Genoa, Naples weary moment wherein to wish for some thing else. Even flying visit to old Rome, from Naples. had been possible. for the two officers, rejoicing in their no unnecessary cares should trouble him and bore willing testimony in order that he should get as much delight out of those halcyon days as possible, that the entire crew were as docile as could be wished, devoted to their bright com mander and his beautiful wife. Then at Venice game orders to proceed to Galatz and load wheat for home. Great was the stantlnople and the Danube. Life would hardly be long enough to recount all the wonders of this most wonderful of we'd ding trips And they sailed, with their hearts overbrimming with joy as the blue sky above them seemed yelling over with sunlight.
 ing occurred to cast a shadow over their happiness until nearing Cape Malea al that fatal hour of the morning, just be- fore dawn, when more collisions occur into by a blundering Greek steamship coming the other way, and cut down amidships to the waters edge. To their peaceful sleep or quiet appreciation of the nights silvern splendors succeeded the overwhelming fiCcd, the hiss and roar of escaping steam. the suffocating om- brace of death. In that dread fight for life all perished but one. he so lately stfnctively 'clinging to fragment of wrecKage, he had been washed asho, e under Cape Malea at the ebhing of the scanty tide, and his strong physique re- asserting itself enabled him to reach the plateau. Hero he was found gazing sea- ward by some goatherds. who, in search or their nlmple-IOCteo DOCKS. ndu wan dsred down the precipitous side of the mountain. They cndeavored to persuade him to come with him hack to the world. but in vain, He would live, gratefully acceL Lting some of their poor provision. but from that watching place he would not go And those rude peasants. un, derstandinR something of his depth of woe. sympathized with him 20 deerly that without payment or hope of any they helped him to build his hut, and kept him supplied with such poor norsels of food and drink as sutficed for his stunted needs.
 And there. with his gaze fixed. during all his walking hours upon that tnscrut- able depth wherein all his bright hopes had suddenly been quenched, he lived until quite recent years, ''the world for getting, by the world forgot" a living monument of constancy and patient. un- complaining grief. ry his humble friends. whose language he never learned. he was regarded as a saint, and when one day they came upon his lifelcss body fallen forward upon his knees at the little unglazed window through which he was wont to look out upon the sea where his dear one lay. they felt confirmed In init of Cape Malea.