The Mena weekly star., 1910-07-14
AR Lsu9ford Nas an Intensely Das- appointed aad Emblttered Man.

ssa Lsu1ford Wac an sntenseIy Die
 appointed aad Emblttered Man. to say how ashamed he v'as of oil that be had done, and to beg her to forgive him and marry hiIn-
 The death of his father and the no cessity for the administration of the vast interests os the bonanza kings estate prevented him from st once engaging upon the search which he promised himself hU would make, but ne expedited nHxtuTs, sometimes to hts own loss. as rapidly As hs could. and after nearly years stay in Ban Francisco. he found himself in post ton to undertake hls Quesk For c year thereafter hs and tho Southern Cross travereed the unex xplorad, unvie. ited waters of the South seas. He had landed upon island after leland which he he'd examined with minute particularly. Solne he had found in- habited by natives, whom, through .n- terpretere ho had procured, Ae ques- toned unavaIiingly. He ran across stray vessele trading among the is- EandA, and through them with con stantly increasing. ever widening me eium& ne carried on his seaach, but without result. In thus sweeping the paciiio. he visited everything that was charted, and al that he could find that was not. and was nov honeward bound. convinced that the launch must have foundercd and that he would nevcg solve tho mystery of her disap- pearance.
 So assiduousiy had he prosecuted hfs search that the crew Of the South eru Cross. who knew nothing as to the cause of the eagerness, with the CT oeptton of the ship master, looked upon him as harmless visionary. They had been away 10 long and had visited so many islands with so much hardship, dftentimes with Ho much danger from unehartsd reefs iu tho un- known seas that they were ous and all wildly anxious to return from tho, to them, aimiess wandering. If be had communicated to theni at the hlst hin guest, they would have ehaTed hts eagerness, bat be kept it so himself us hs had kept hts own oounsel ia San Francisco. and be straitiy charged his sailing master to gay nothing os 1t Consequently the lookoas on th4 fore-topmast crosstTee on q certain summer morning, catching sight of < dim, blue haze on the horizon far of to starboard, made no report of it What was the usef IL would only do lay matters and they were within s few weeks of Honolulu now, and an' other fortnight beyond Hawaii would | bring them back to the United States for which they all longed vfth the de- sire of men who had been away from homo and confined Co the marrow decks of cguislng ship Coz oEx . year
 Homethina--as to whether 1t was Providence or not he was somewhat i doubtful in hls mind aftsrward-- brought Langford on deck before his usual time for rising. The watch was ln charge of rather sleepy. stupid second officer unimaginative and un obseryant. He had not noticed the land which 1t was difficult to sec from the deck at any rate, especially as I d4d not lie between the yacht and thu sun, and as is had not been reported from the masthead. ha knew nothing Df it
 I.angford had found sleep impos sibie. The year of search the constant disappointment, the pressing sense cl mystery, the feeling that bis conduct was indeed irreparable had preyed upon him. He was thin, worns nervous md irritable. He walked up and dowr the deck in the cool Of the morning thinking For three years practically he had had this woman before bis eyes as the goal of his efforts Now fhe was zone, and he must coneen irate hIs life upon something else. Fl sazed languidiy and iaasfse~ensis ! about the horizon, his unpraetseed eys noticing nothing for time. E-ddea ly. however. stafine on to slatbaare iistlessly aunng pause la his 9taeds