Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
THE GREATER LOVE.
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Jack sargent-you might guess it
from his name-was a sailor boy. Not
the kind OF sailor boy that ships on
great trans Atlantic liner for safe,
sure and certain voyage Of a week,
with his return a matter to be known
and expected within the margin Of a
few minutes, but the kind Of sailor
boy who goes down to the sea- in a
sailing vessel Of the old class, and is
absent for many adventurous months
Mary was Jacks sweetheart Jack
thought so much Of Mary that he had
none Of the characteristic freedom Of
sailor boys In her presence
In fact, II was only on the eve Of
his longest voyage that ia * got his
courage high enough to tell Mary Of
his love.
The time was opportune. Mary
loved Jack and he was going away,
going into danger il is not difficult
to imagine the rest.
When Jack went down to his ship
the next morning, he and Mary were
engaged
This one voyage, dear" he told her
as he kissed her good bye Then
Wen be married and live happily
ever after. as they do in the story
books"
And Mary in spite Of her tears,
never felt more confidence in the
beautiful old story book and their
promises than she did at that mo-
ment.
Waited in Vain.
So Jack sailed away and Mary
waited, the way sailor boys and sail
or-b boys sTeethearts have been doing
for ever so long
Mary's waiting was not happy The
death Of her mother left her an or
phan, for one thing Then there came
a long stretch Of interminable months,
with no word from Jack. II WASH t
Jacks fault that his ship touched on
no points for posting letters for a long
time, and that, when he finally
turned for home. the letter dispatched
ahead by fast liner never was de-
lWered
For Mary had set out TO seek her
fortune-she had 10, poor girl
The quest OF her fortune took Mary
to distant town. on another part Of
the seacoast, There she met a light
house keeper named Harrish, an old
friend Of her fathers
Marries Lighthouse Keeper.
She was In despera straits by
then, and Harrish mace .tv welcome
70 his hospitality
Well. You know how it goes no
word from Jack-sh first believed
him faithless, then dead And at last
she married the lighthouse keeper.
one day there was a ship wrecked
off the coast on which the Lighthouse
ST ,od Only one man was saved. Mary
and Harrish leading in the work 81
rescue
That man was Jack Sargent.
There was a meeting can I'M
aeine it-between Jack and his
sweetheart now the wife OF another
Nurses Former Sweetheart.
Then the woman Steeled her heart
and set her face against fate, and
began TO nurse Jack back to health
and strength after the terrible trill.
for Jack, on recognizing his sweet
heart, had lapsed into unconscious
ness that lasted for many days
Harrish had not seen the meeting
And there was no other meeting for
many days after the wreck
Jack had been carried TO the ground
room Of the lighthouse for quiet
Even the waves We're hushed I'm the
ground room. Even the wind shrek
sounded family there
But in the silence the nam who had
been saved from the sea and the
woman who bad once pledged her
faith to him faced fearfuuy the wind
and wave of the life storm
Shadow in Their Lives.
ID was many days after Jacks res
cue before he knew vNfat had han