Year: 1874

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than for any of the others, and his dealt
seemed to take away all the little energy
that had been left in me | had no longer
any heart for anythng-not even to re-
light the black cinder fire in the cabin.
read the burial service over the lad, and
carried him to a great bed of tall reeds
about a quarter of mile from the ship,
where covered him up as well as | could
with the dried fragments of the reeds, and
left him. When | got back, | filled my self
pitcher OF water, and took half-a-dozen
biscuits, which placed at the side of my
berth, and then | covered myself with all
the blankets and rugs | had, and tried to
sleep


Here was alone in a frozen-up ship, in
an inhospitable part Of the world, with no
one to help even for the sake OF humanity.
thought bitterly Of poor Jane, and how
she would be watching and waiting and
Wearying herself away with trouble and
disappointment She would be getting
short OF money, too, and that adds pang
to the worst OF troubles. Why did take
her away from her comfortable home to
expose her to all this A few years Of
mingled happiness and trouble, and then
a long blank life before her-to go back
and share her fathers narrow means; a
burden and trouble; her whole lite a
failure. 1t was a bad outlook all round
and was too sick at heart to have any
hope of life


In the dead of the night | awokc in
| dreadful pain; the cholera had visited me
| at last. My brain was all in a turmoil
with horrible visions and fances | could
no longer distinguish what was real from
the pictures Of my disordered mind For
day and night lay alternately ln pain
and in perhaps longer-tor | lost
count of time. At last the pains and
troubles in my head and body began to
abate. | recovered the full use OF my
| senses for a time, but only to feel more
| polgnantly the misery and helplessness of
my situation. | was weak and helpless as
an infant. | had emptied the jug Of water;
the dry flinty biscuit was Incapable of
swallowing, felt that with nourishment
and stimulants | might have chance for
llfe; but that, solitary and abandoned by
every human creature, it was only left for
me to die. sank into Il state of languid
| torpor, Just conscious that was alive, and
that the numbness and deafness that were
| stealing over me We're the precursors of
| the last moments.


| awoke after a troubled dream Still
| in the wretched cabin Of the torsaken ship.
| was alone, and dying. II was daylight
and chill comfortless light filtered
through the doorway and the creyices Of
the headlight And vet | felt a warmth
and comfort about me to which | had
hitherto been a stranger | must still be
dreaming, Tor it seemed to me that | could
hear the roar OF a fire in the stove in the
next cabin, and, most assuredly NV organs
OF scent We're sharing the general illusion,
Tor there was very sayOry and delightful
| smell. My throat was parched with thirst
and | mechanically stretched out my hand
tor the emptied .iug-and this time could
not be the victim OF epti0n--within my
grasp was tumbler of drink barley
| water, or some delightful beverage, with
a lemon IN it; and then actually | saw a
figure III the doorway-a young man in
| eastern robes, an extremely handsome
young man Greek physician, no doubt
| Tor he held in his hand a medicine bottle
and glass The figure made motion en-
joining silence, filled the glass, and gave
me to drink. | took the draught contiding-
ness about me- and fell into a deep and
| refreshing slumber.


1t was night and a lamp was burning
beside me. | felt wonderfully renovated
| and refreshed; | felt that | was saved
longed to thank my preserver, to ask him
to what happy chance | owed his pres
ence | coughed gently my unweared
attendant was at the door in moment
"kfend5," | began, in a weak piping
voice, that | hardly knew how to n0du-
late; l was no great linguist, and didn't
know in what language to address him
| ne au's eatrenaenlent-Im heartily thank
tul to you, old fellow


10 my astonlshment and somewhat to
my alarm. the young doctor knelt down
at my bedside, and taking my face in his
hands, gave me long and tervent kiss


My dear old man'-between laughing
and crymg-'1 never thought to hear vour
voice again. But talk English, Jamie, |
shall understand you better at that


why, what.' said |, holding my visitor
at arms length; you're Jane my own
dear old Jane -


Yes. it was Jane, who had found me
out, and come to me Just in time to save
me from death As soon as [ was 4 little
stronger she told me the whole history OF
, how she managed it, 1t seemed that these
Armenians she lodged with were well
known to a Greek lady who had married
one OF the pachas, and who used often to
come up to Pera 10 see her old friends
She took q fancy to my Jane, and was very
fond of talking to her about London and
England. Well, she found out that Jane
was in trouble, not knowing what had be-
come OF me and my ship-a long time
overdue, and she took compassion on her
and caused her husband to make inquiries,
and he had all the seamen that could be
got hold Of brought to his divan and in
terrogated but they knew nothing OF the
Orient Till at last one old salt came for
ward and said that he had heard OF such
a craft lying in quarantine up the Danube
that he had heard that ali her crew were
dead with the plague. Well, with that,
nothing would do but Jane would start of
to look for me. And here the pacha's
wife was her friend AGAIN and sent her
with government escort overland, to
look for me; only, to avoid delay and
scandal, she made Jane travel in the dress
of Greek physician. That she found me
out you know, but have no time to tell
you of her adventures in the search.


By the Sultan's orders, we were pro
yided with a house in the outskirts OF the
town of Galatz, where | was removed as
soon as | was strong enough to bear it,
and through the influence of the friendly
pachas wife, we were furnished with
every comfort and luxury the place would
afford There my eldest little boy was
born and by the time Jane had recovered
had got together crew, and we sailed
away from that deadly creek, which even
now, after many years, | look back on
with something like horror!


The longer I live the less | belieye in
names, and the less | care for them in re
ligious affairs Calvinist or Arminian,
Episcopalian OF Independent, Ritualist OF
Quaker, what matters it what we are if
the love of Christ is in us, and he calls us
| la.scelates.2 2 iliats IL.