Year: 1861

consciousness and listened to holy words of consolation
from the lips Of the priest At first she had raved and
talked of selfdestrucon; but he pointed to her the
dread hereafter and finally calming her troubled spirit
down. afforded her an asylum in convent on shore
where she might spend her future days pentenceand
prayer Sadly but firmly she begged to remain by the
tomb of him Bhom she had dearly loved but the kind
persuasops of the priest at last induced her accept
his Offer and she prepared 90 with the rest who were
to return with the feet


Meantime the Spaniards were engaged in dismantling
the CASTLE and destroying its defences All the pirates
save those who slain, and few that were taken
prisoners the CASTLE had escaped and scattered
among the inlets of the gulf The prisoners were se
cured to be taken to Havana for trial. and the feet
prepared for returning Chico the dwarf would not
leave his Mistress his seemed like the devotion of some
faithful animal which possessing more than common
affection, clngs to its master even in death.


1t three days after the capture of the CASTLE be-
fore the feet was ready for saing but at last all the
persons who have borne such prominent parts in
drama embarked and before fresh easterly breeze
they dashed away from the pirates harbor with bending
spars and flowing sheets.


The nina" no longer wore her well-known flag
Guilermos quest over, aid he determined now to
leave forever the and its pers. Placing his prizes
and his feet under command Of his next senior captain
he bade him make sail for Havana with them and while
they steered that course he bore away the southwark
for Maanza, bidding his captain report that he
would be in Havana to report to the senior admiral



Islands deserted, and from that day has dwet
there.


1t was but three days later The sun was setting and
a sad couple were they who sat as usual upon their
verandah; the parents of Nina and Guermo The east
wind blowing peasanty-the orange grove sent its
perfume the breeze and the distant water rpped like
liquid gold the light of the setting sun hay soft and
bright upon it. distant sail could be seen in the ong
and it swiftly in before the breeze if it
messenger of glad news. But sad and sorrowful was
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Poor father Benito," sighed the latter. 81 cannot
keep my mind from him; what can have become of him.
and it is strange that on the very night when he told
his painful story, he should have disappeared


at is strange this world is full of strangeness! But
the day will come when all will be clear"


Meantime sSiftly in the vessel which they had
seen. Don onsco gazed long and steadily upon it land
then cried:


THAT surely Is Guile.rno's bark"


No it cannot be-" replied the WIFE ''hs flag waves
not from her tall masts. He vowed never to haul it
down while pirate sailed the main, or poor Nina
unfound."


"Yon craft is strangely like bis own, muttered the
father "and she up for the anchorage in the
mouth of our river; it is, it must be he"


While they yet gazed white flag raised to the
barks masthead immense white flag, with the single
word Nina" upon it, in large golden letters.


90 can it be that our Nina has been found? Has the
blessed God of heaven restored our lost one?"
cried those parents while their hearts throbbed with
anxiety they listened to the shouts of the of
the bark who, their Tese came 10 anchor, rent the
air with their joyful cheerings.


And then with tremulous suspense they the boat
that hung at the gtleoas stern lowered and they
it filed with passengers for the shore. Three female
figures did they count four male forms beside the crew
of the boat did they number; and then they the
boat shove off and toward the landing below their
house. Swiftly came the boat toward the Shore and
then the aged people unable longer delay hurried
toward the beach, But long before they could reach it.
the boat had landed and they two forms come bound
ing toward them.


80, God, we thank thee our son and cur daughter!"
they cried, as their children flew to their arms.


And in the fullness Of their Joy they casped poor
Nina and wept-wept more than they would have done
over her graye-but how different the Of JOY from
those OF grief While thus they wept, they heard an
old familiar voice, its words:


eve bless thee O. God for thy wonderful providence"


And then they knew that the good Padre Benito stood
before Them and they knelt they oft had done before
to receive his blessing And another approached
she was alone but she reached the side of Guermo
she kne By his side and looking up his parents said


Thy father and thy mother are mine; bless me, 0,
my parents


One glance at the glad eyes of Guermo, and they
knew that she his beloved they raised her, and as
they kissed her tendcr called her daughter and shed
yet more tears of JOY.


1t was night again and in the house which so long
had been dreary and desoate gaiety and JOY Its
halls were lighted and music echoed everywhere There
was but one sad being there Poor ANGELA heard the
sounds but they peals of laughter within tomb;
she saw bright eyes, but hers tcartu she gay
smiles but her cheek was cold and pale. Bad as had
been Riuard cruel his nature even inc0nsistant
as he had been to her she, all woman she vas yet
loved him, loved his memory, we mean, and mourned
him too, widow mourns the loss of her loved
and only one.


1t was night and before the little altar of the family
chapel stood two fair girls dressed in snowy Whiteby
their sides noble young cavaliers before them
was the good and holy father Bento around them stood
the members of the Alvarez family the conde de Soano
and Angela. They were assembled to witness the union
of those whose strange and interesting history have
followed far and never sweeter and at the same
time more solemn ceremony performed, than thatwhch
welded Edvardo and Nina, Guermo and Blanca thus
completing the linked chain of love and JOY between
them Tears shed at that wedding, yet they were
such tears as we fain would shed forever.


They were wed, and then again resumed therevel
rout Many light Spanish foot bounded to the glad
music many Spanish heart thrilled highland beat
fast with pleasure.


And the night woned on. Midnight came apacc and
one by the guests departed, one b? one the lights
grew dim Then stole one, who had been sad and list
less all that evening out from the lordy halls and down
through the orange grove to where the dash OF the wild
sea came upon her ears. She alone-poor ANGELA
And vet seemed she not alone for she commned aloud
as with an unseen spirit She walked slowly and firmly
as if some great purpose in her heart aud as she
heard the dStat ueancAOly roar OF lle breakers, sue
murmured:


'They sound as if they were calling me. I will come
Il will come 0 how voiced are they--how tell they
me of the past, the glad wild past, when loving
and beloyed--the past that never more can be-"


'Rinard-thou dost seep-but thy spirit Is it not
borne amid the rushing clouds which sweep yonder
sea-cannott look down upon her who fingers lonely
herc Cannot the sound of her sigh so up your carp
On her brow you the shadows of care? In her soul
can YOU read the thoughts Of despair? O. why stay
on this sickenng fostering clay, whenmy loved my own
one has gone?'


Her large dark eye was strangely wildher hair was
flung loose upon the breeze of night and her loose dress
hung careless about her already fading FORM With
hurried steps she neared the sea- she closer
its surges did not sound SO melancholy to her.


so how mld-how sweet thou dost speak dear ocean"
she murmured as she knelt the crest of a tall cliff
which overlooked mass of foamy water 'It my
Rnard's JOY to hear thee speak and when thou ddst
rage in thy stormy anger he did laugh for his soul
strong and he dared to play with thee, child
dares to dash the waveets of the little brook with his
unclad foot"


The poor lady paused, and taking up pebble cast it
down into the fearful depths.


1T is gone, she munnured-'it comes not up again?
Would it be with me- if were to cast this form which
Rnard has clasped often to his breast down into the
cold waters2 Would rise and float and bare my pale
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