The Cairo bulletin., 1906-12-05

Jamie. After q long drive she and
der the roof of Mrs MacLean, a
friend of the captains, who received
her with some good will and seru'
tiny both curious and knowing.
The next morning Jean, IN sheer
desperation, sent wild but prepaid
wire 10 the manager of the tea estate,
to which reply came the following
afternoons
Fraser left here four days ago"
Days passed The manager OF the
tea estate wrote and telegraphed in
all directions, and made considerable
exertion to find traces of young
Fraser He had been seen to start
for Calcutta. apparently in the high
est spirits His bungalow had been
refurnished with great pains and
taste. Everything was ready for the
! bride; he had even bought a side
saddle, and begged kitten-and
there stood the empty nest But
the bridegroom was missing, and the
poor bride was deserted-a friendless
stranger in a foreign land
Jean was at her wits end. What
was she to do? Could she get em-
ployment in an office in Calcutta?
TO this question Mrs. MacLean shook
her head
No, no. they were all baboos--na-
tive clerks-no such thing as a Eu-
ropean woman doing typewriting 1t
was awful hard for girl to get en-
ployment in the East Indies
IF We're you Id go home, dearie,
she advised india lays a queer hold
of some young lads, and changes their
nature. Who's TO tell that he has not
made up with some halfcaste Guilty?
/ They are awful handsome and wheed
ling He may he married 10 her"
Capt. Cram was far more kind and
sympathetic than Mrs. MacLean, and
he always came OF an evening, and
took the white, holluwed-eyed girl for
drives about Calcutta. and along the
Red road. and 10 the botanic gardens
down The river The gallant sailor
never breathed word cond emnatory
of Jamie. for which his companion
and late passenger secretly blessed
him But one evening, as they strolled
together under the big banyan tree
in the botanic gardens, after some
what long silence, ne cleared his
throat and said:
Now. I'm going to make sugges-
ton; and If | am wrong and presum-
ing, you must forgive me, for YOU
know | mean well I'm afraid you
will never see Jamie Fraser can
not account for the young mans ac-
ton | truly give it up. I've thought
and thought tin I'm fair silly. And
now it's coming Jean Leith, will you
marry me? I'm 50 years Of age, but
I'm sober, active man, and my
friends will speak for me. ] loved you
from the first time ! spoke to you-
but with all respect-y0u being prom
ised. Id go through fire and water
for your sake, and yon might do
worse than be an old man. darling
If this is beyond possibilities, I'll take
you home on the Lochinyar as my
friend, aud we will never look back
ON this conversation | won't ask for
an answer now, but I'll call in to-
morrow forenoon, and hear your
wishes
Jean spent the whole night in re-
volving the situation in her brain, ana
in the morning had made up her mind /
to become the wife of her good, kind F.!
trua friend Donald Cram
They were married by the Presby !
terrain minister, spent a short honey
moon at Darjeeling, and returned to /
Glasgow in the Lochinyag Explana.
lions We're Observation-Disclosures We're /
stfed II not a romantic marriage, /
Miss Jean Leith had made an excel /
lent match, and before long was m.
stalled in a pretty villa, within an
easy walk Of her native place. 4
But the captains wife has a wan
face ard all her neighbors declare
that they have never seen girl age
50 rapidly as Jeanne Cram. There j
are whispers, too, of queer sorts Of .
madlike doings but these whispers
are timid and faint They would have
il believed that on occasions. when
the good man is away in Glasgow,
Jean goes forth Of a night alone. with
thc collie. and roams the moors,
wrnging her hands. and crying and
wailing like some poor. heart-stricken
creature But few credit such a tale
OF demure, quiet. sensible Jean-a
woman so settled and housekeeping.
Three months after the Lochinvar
left for the Clyde Jamie Fraser reap
peared in CalCutt-- landed from the
sailing ship Southern Crown. a wreck
Of the handsome Jamie OF former
days His story was this: the even
ing he arrived from the tea estate
he went straight down TO the docks.
in order 10 speed an old schoolmate
who was on the point OF departure for F:
san Francisco He hurried aboard to {
snatch a word with his friend, and in {
his haste fell down an open hatch
way. Here he lay insensible Till the /
ship was well down past the sand !
heads When he was discovered aud /
brought up. il was found that he had ]
a broken leg and a badly fractured !
skull For one whole month he Law !
unconscious in the sick hay: but
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