Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-10-10

squeeze for you to double my pay, and,
as happened to inform Mr.. Trail that
/ was going to marry Enid. long before
he knew she was his daughter, it came
rs Il bit OF shock afterward to hear
that he intends to endow her with
100000 on her wedding day. Now the
question to be discussed is not whether
the adopted daughter of poor light
house keeper. who may be Lord This
and-That in disguise. is n good match
for me- but whether an impecunious
lieutenant in the royal navy is such a
tremendous catch for girl with
great fortune"
Lady Margaret was stunned. She
began to breathe quk ky. Her utmost
expectations were surpassed Before
she could utter word her son pre-
tended to misunderstood her agitation.
"Of course 1t was fortunate that Enid
and had jolly well made up our
minds somewhat in advance, but it was
near thing, a matter of flag signals
otherwise l should have been COM
PEELED to consider myself ruled out of
the game. Therefore, during your tea
table tactics, If the dowager or that
old spit1ire, Mrs Taylor-Smith, says n
word to you about Brand, just give 'em
a rib rooster with Ends two hundred
thou, will you? While they are reel
ing under the blow throw out gentle
hint that Constance may ensnare
Trails nephew. 'Ensnare' is the right
word, isn't it? The best of it is,
know they have been worrying you for
months about my friendship with girls
of their class Oh, the joy of the en-
counter! 1t must be like blowing up
a battleship With tuppenny hapenny
torpedo boat"
So her ladyship-not without ponder
ing over certain entries in the books
of the proudly born. which recorded
the birth and marriage Of Sir Stephen
Brand, ninth haronet, present where
abOuts unlinown"-went to bed. but
not to sleep. whereas Jack Stanhope
never afterward remembered undress-
ing, so thoroughly tired was he, and
so absurdly happy. Notwithstanding
the awkward situation divulged at the
dinner.
Pyne, left with his uncle, set him
self to divert the other mans thoughts
from the embarrassing topic Of Mrs.
Nansittart
He knew that Brand was not likely
to leave them in any dubiety as to the
past. Discussion now was useless, a
mere idle guessing ut probabilities, so
he boldly plunged into the mystery as
yet surrounding Ends first year of
existence
Mr.. Trail, glad enough to discuss n
more congcnial subject, marshaled the
ascertaincd facts. 1t was easy to see
that here at least he stood on firm
ground.
Your father, as you know, was a
noted yachtsman. Charlie" he said.
Indeed, he was one of the first men
to cross the Atlantic in his own boat
under steam and sail Twenty years
ago in this very month he took my
| wife and me. with your mother, you
and our little Edith, then six months
old. on delightful trip along the Flor
| ida coast and the gulf of Mexico. 1t
was then arranged that we should pass
| the summer among the Norwegian
tiords, but the two ladies We're nervous
about the ocean voyage east in April,
so your father brought the Esmeralda
across, and we followed by mail
steamer During the last week of May
and the whole of June we cruised from
| Christiania almost to the North cape
| The fine. keen air restored my wife's
| somewhat delicate health, and you and
Edith throve amazingly. Do you re-
member the voyagc:"
1T is dim memory, helped good
| deal, imagine, by what l have heard
since"
well, on the Fourth of July, putin.
into IIardanger to celebrate the day
with some fellow countrymcn, l re-
ccived cable which rendered my
presence in New York absolutely i'm
perative. There was big develop
ment scheme just being engineered in
connection with our property. In fact
the event which had such q tragic Sc
qucl practically quadrupled your for
tune and mine. BY that time the Ia.
dies were SO enthusiastic about the
/ seagoing qualities of the yacht that
they would have sailed round the world
in her, and poo- Pyne had no difficulty
| in persuadiug them TO take the leisure
| ly way home, willie | raced off via
| Newcastle and Liverpool to the other
side. ! received my last cable from
! them dated Southampton, July 20, and
! they We're due in New York somewhere
about Aug. ) or G. allowing for ordi.
nary winds and weather.
| During the night Of July 81 when
/ midway between the Sicily isles and
/ the Fastnet they ran into n dense fog
/ Within five minutes. without the least
warning, the Esmcralda was strucl,
amdships by n big Nova Scotian bark
| The little vessel sank almost like q
stone. Nevertheless your father, back.
ed by his skipper and splendid crew,
/ lowered two boats, and all hands were
/ saved for the moment. 1t was Pynes
! boast that his boats were always stored
/ with food and water against any kind
of emergency; but, of course, they
! made every effort to reach the ship
which had sunk them rather than en-,
| deavor to sail back to this coast. AS
the Esmeralda was under steam at the
time, her boilers exploded as she went
down, ard this undoubtedly caused the
second catastrophe. The captain no
! ticed that the strange ship went of
close hauled to the wind which blew
steadily from the west so he, in the
leading boat, with your father and mo
Their, you and my wife and child, fol
lowed In that direction. He shouted tC
four men In the second boat to keep
close, as the fog was terrific. The
bark. the John S., hearing the noise of
the bursting boilers, promptly swung
around, and in the effort to render as,
sistance caused the second and fan
more serious catastrophe. The cap
tain's boat encountered her just as the
two crafts We're getting way on them
Some one in the boat shouted, they
heard an answering hail and instantly
crashed into the bark's bows. The sail
became entanglcd In the nMrtingale OF