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

You see we are jolly hard up. 1t Is
squeeze for you to double my pay, and,
as happened to inform Mr.. Trail that
l was going to marry Enid, long before
he knew she was his daughter, it came
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 a poor light
house keeper, who may be Lord This
in disguise. is a good match
for me, but whether an impecunious
lieutenant in the royal navy is such q
tremendous catch for n girl with
great fortune"
Lady Margaret was stunned. She
began to breathe quk ky. Her utmost
expectations We're surpassed. Before
she could utter word her son pre-
tended to misunderstood her agitation.
"Of course it was fortunate that Enid
and had jolly we'll 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 spitfire, 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 cnsnare
{c No III
word, isn't it? The best of it is, l
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 battlcship with n tuppcnny 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 baronct. present where
abouts unlinown"--went to bed, but
not to sleep, whereas Jack Stanbope
never aftcrward remembered undress-
ing, so thoroughly tired was lie, and
so absurdly happy. Notwithstanding
the awkward situation divulged at the
dinner.
Pync, 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, n
mere idle guessing at probabilities, sc
he boldly plunged into the mystery as
yet surrounding Ends first year of
existence.
Mr.. Trail, glad enough to discuss n
more congenal subject, marshaled the
ascertained facts. 1t was easy to see
that here at least he stood on firm
ground.
Your father, us you know, was q
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. II
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 mai
steamer. During the last week of May
Nd fl,p L., Of
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 voyage|'
ut is Il dim memory, helped a good
deal, imagine, by what l have heard
since"
well, on the Fourth of July, putting
into IIardanger to celebrate the day
with some fellow countrymen, l re
ccived cable which rendered my
presence in New York absolutely i'm
perative. There was big develop
ment scheme just being engineered il
connection with our property. In fact
the event which had such tragic Sc
Qucl practically quadruplcd your for
tune and mine. BY that time the Ia
dies were SO enthusiastic about the
seagoing qualities OF the yacht that
they would lave sailed round the worlt
in her, and poo. Pyne had no difficulty
in persuading them TO take the leisure
ly way home. While | raced off via
Newcastle and Liverpool to the Other
side. l received my last cable from
them dated Southampton, July 20, ant
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 whel
midway between the Sicily isles and
the Fastnet they ran into dense fog
Within five minutes. without the Least
warning, the Esmcralda was struck
amidships by big Nova Scotian bark
The little vessel sank almost like 6
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 Pyne's
boast that his boats were always stored
with food and water against any kint
Of emergency; but, Of course, they
made every effort to reach the shlI
which had sunk them rather than en-
deavor to sail back to this coast. AS
the Esmeralda was under steam at thu
time, her boilers exploded as she wen
down, ard this undoubtedly caused thu
second catastrophe. The captain no
ticed that the strange ship Went Of
closd9hauled to the wind, which blew
steadily from the west, so he, in tho
leading boat, with your father and mo
Their, you and my wife and child, fol
lowed In that direction. He shouted tt
four men In the second boat to keeI
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 fal
more serious catastrophe. The cap
tains boat encountered her just as tho
two crafts We're getting way on them
Some one in the boat shouted, they
heard an answering hail and instantly
crashed into the barlI's bows. The sal
became cntangled in the niartingale OF