Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-07-14

Come with me" said the chaplain;
I'VE will talk 1t over. 1 have lived
in the world" he went on. gently.
Perhaps l can help you. Have we
your permission to withdraw, Capt.
Ashby?"
Certainly" said the captain.
Pardon me a moment, chaplain"
interposed Whitaker; but the young
lady has asked that some of US go
ashore to take her deposition as to
the matters that have been alleged
concerning our friend here. Capt.
Ashby. will you?"
Certainly, Mr.. Whitaker, l will go.
And If you will accompany me, doctor,
and you, chaplain, l shall be glad. Mr..
Whitaker, you are a notary public
and can administer the necessary
oaths."
Every good, sir" returned Mr.. Whit
taker. The other gentlemen bowed
their ~acquiescence. "The lady said
she would like to be undisturbed until
evening"
"At two bells in the second dog
watch then have the cutter called
away" returned the captain,
beg pardon, captain" said the sur
geon, "but do you or any of you know
this lady to be Miss B%renton?"
NO." said the captain, II don't
know her. Do you, Mr.. Whitaker, or
you, chaplain?"
"Well, then" said the surgeon, as
both the officers shook their heads, ut
will be necessary to have some one
ashore who does know her in order to
swear to her identity to make her
deposition worth anything"
"There is Langford," said Whitta-
ker, "he knows her"
every good" said the captain; "send
a boat over to the yacht and present
my compliments to Mr.. Langford. Ask
him if he will meet us ashore at quar-
ter after five o'clock. Say to him also
that I should be glad to have him dine
with me tonight at seven. Chaplin
will you and Mr.. Charnock take lunch
con with me later?"
Now, to go back to the island. The
woman stood on the strand proudly
resolutely, sternly erect, without q
sign of unbending until the boats
reached the sides Of the two ships
Even then she kept herself in the
bonds of a control of steel. She turned
slowly, walked up the beach, entered
the grove of palms, mechanically found
the path and plodded along 1t, still
Lerect and %unbending, until the wind
ings of the trail and the thickening o.
the grove hid her from any chance
watchers on the ship.
Then, and not until then, did she
give way completely. She threw her
self down upon the sand in the coo
shadow of the great rocks in what tt
her had suddenly become a weary
land, and outstretched her arms as l
to clasp the earth to her breast in de
fault of the man she had dreamed O
and trusted, she had loved and LIVED
for, and lay there a silent, shuddering
wretched figure.
Her crushing disappointment at hi
failure to rise to the measure Of he
ideal Of him, the total end of he
dream OF. happiness, the breaking o
all her hopes, the closing of all he
ambitions, the tearing asunder of he
heartstrings whelmed her in agony
She had thought that e could hu
mainly experience more than the pail
superinduced by the horror of her pc
sition upon the ship, but that pain t
the present was like a caress. For t
all that old horror was added a ney
sense Of loss, of disappointment an,
despair. Like Elijah of old, dismayed
disheartened, broken, she prayed tina
she might die there on the sands.