Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-24
CHAPTER XIII.

: g1StH ana neF fortunes, tiilPt 10 EeicH
4 Waterloo at 5:0i p. M, rolled into the
station. The train was IA fast one.
but the telegraph had been faster. Al
the evening papers had come out with
accounts Of their escape, and most of
| them had added that the two survivors
would reach Waterloo by the 800
train. The consequence was that. when
the train drew up at the platform. Au-
gusta, on looking out, was Mortified to
see a dense mass of human beings be
ing kept in check by a line of police
men.
| However. the guard was holding the
door oren, so there was nothing for it
but to eet out, which she did. taking
Dick by rhe hand. The moment she
got her foot on to the platform the
crowd saw her, and there arose such
a tremendous shout OF welcome that
she very nearly took refuge again in
the carriage. For a she stood
besitating. and the crowd, seeing how
aweet and beautiful she was. cheered
sgain with that peculiar enthusiasm
which a discerning public always
shows for a pretty face. But even
while she stood bewf!dered on the plat
form she heard n loud voice "olake
way-make way there" and saw the
multitude being divided by n little
mot OF officials, who were escorting
somebody dressed in widows weeds.
In another second there wis a cry
Of joy, and a sweet. pale-faced little
lady had run at the child Dick. and
was hugging him against her heart,
md sobbing and laughing both at
once.
"Oh! my boy! my boy cried Lady
Holmhurst, for 1t was she. Il thought
You were dead-Iong ago dead.'
And then she turned, and, before all
the people there. chung about Angus
ta's neck, and kissed and blessed her.
because she had saved her only child,
and half removed the dead weight of
her ~desolatIon. Whereat the crowd
cheered, and wept, and blessed their
stars that they Were there to see.
And then. in a haze Of noise and ex-
element, they We're led through the
cheering mob TO where n carriage and
pair were standing, and were helped
into it, Mrs. Thomas being placed on
the front seat and Lady Holmhurst
and Augusta OF the back. the former
with the gasping Dick upon her knee.
Then another event occurred, which
we must go back n little way TO ex-
plain.
When Eustace Meeson had come to
town, after being formally disinherited,
lie had managed to get a billet as Latin,
French and Old English reader in a
publishing house Of repute. AS it hap
nened CT this rarJ AFTERNOON he was
strolling down the Strand, having
finished a rather stiff days work. He
looked older and paler than when We
last met him. for sorrow and misfor-
tune had laid their heavy hands upon
him.
AS he was walking home that May
evening lie was rejecting sadly enough
of all that he had lost through that
cruel shipwreck. He had lost Augusta,
and, what was more, he had lost his
uncle and his uncle's vast fortune.
For he, too, had seen the report Of the
application re Meeson In the news
papers,, and though he knew that he
was disinherited, 1t was a little crush
:Hg. lie Iad lost tine fortune for Au-
gusta's sake, and now he had lost Au-
gusta also; and he reflected. not with
out dismay, on the long, dreary exist
ence that stretched away before him.
With a sigh he halted at the yelling
ton street crossing In the strand. Pres
entity a boy with a bundle OF unfolded
newspapers under his arm came rush
ing along, making the place hideous
with his bowls.
"WOnderful escape Of a lady and
han hi~nfant!' he roared. Account Of
the survivors Of the Kangaroo-won-
derful escape-desert island-arrivaI
OF the Magnolia with the criminals
Eustace jumped, and Instantly
bought a copy of the paper. stepping
into the doorway Of a shop where they
sold Masonic jewels OF every size and
hue IN order to read 1t. The very first
thing that his eye fell on was an edi-
torial paragraph.
'.In another column ran the para
graph, twill be found a short account,
telegraphed to us from Southampton
Just as we are going to press, OF the
most remarkable tale of the sea that
we are acquainted with. lie escape
OF Miss Augusta Smithers and OF the
little Lord Holmhurst, from the I'LL
fated Kangaroo, and their subsequent
rescue, on Kerguclen Land, by the
ADerican whaler, Will certainly take
rank a. the most romantic incident Of
its kind In the recent annals Of snip
wreck. Miss Smithers, who will be
better known Q the public as author
ess Of that charming book, Terminals
Vow which took the town by storm
about Z year ago, will arrive at Water
loo Station by the 5O4 train, and we
shall then
Eustace read NO more. Sick and
faint with an extraordinary ~revulsion
of feeling. he leaned against the door
Of the Masonic shop, which promptly
opened In the most hospitable manner,
depositing him upon his back on the
door OF the establishment. In a second
he was up and had bounded out OF the
shop with such energy eAAt the shop
man was on the point of hallooing
"Stop thief" It was exactly 3 o'clock,
and he was not more than a quarter OF
Z mile OF. SO from Waterloo Station.
A hanson, was sauntering along In
front OF him; he sprung Into II. Wat.
erioo, main line, 2 he shouted, as lard
you can GO" and In another mo
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