Year: 1873


cord, New Hampshire, Patriot: Twen.
ty six years ago james Sanderson, a re-
spectacle person residing in the Scottish
Hebrides, then verging on forty years,
made a court to a girl some sixteen years
of age and was accepted; but rival
much younger interfered and bore of the
prize. This made Sanderson feel re
vengeful, and the girls new lover having
been engaged in smuggling, Sanderson
informed upon him, and he had to leave
the island to which he never came back
The people were so violent against San
derson that he. too, was forced to leave,
but he married before doing go, his wife
being taken to spite his old mistress, who
had not married.


Arriving on the American Pacific
coast in safety, he bought large tract of
land a few miles north Of Fort Langley,
and devoted himself to its agricultural
development with go much energy and
skill that few years made him compar-
ativeiy wealthy. Better than this, how
ever, the new life brought with it such
endearment Of the woman whom he had
welded without other love than he had
been able to simulate for her deception.
that the increase of their children was his
conversion into the fondest of husbands :;
and when, in 1861, he became widower,
he remained SO ten wears, when he sent
home to a sister in the Ilebrides to ell
gage a wife fox him. His old fame was
selected. and said she was willing to go
to him whom she had Tilted twenty five
years before.


From the time of her second lovers
hasty fight under the denunciation of his
enemy, the smuggler's sweetheart had
never heard of that individual again
and the lapse of time and the increasing
burdens of her lowly estate made her
much less imperious at forty than she was
at sixteen. The wealthy farmer of Br-
tish Columbia sent her ample means for
her outfit and voyage, and the long voy-
age was accomplished without incident
as far as San Francisco. From the latter
city she was to proceed up the coast to
her destination on a steamer in which q
passage was speedily secured for her and
while awaiting this vessel she was seen
and recognized at a hotel by the accepted
lover of her youth. who had been in Cal
ifornia ever since his untimely departure
from Hebrides. There was 4 dramatic
meeting, long story on either side, and
alas, for the waiting widower-a full
revival of the old love.


Both lovers, however, were much So
bered by the discipline of maturer years;
and the lady, having explained by whose
wish and means che was in America, de-
clared that she must go onward as she
had promised, and fulfill her engage
ments as if it was still exacted. She
would faithfully tell all to him who was
awaiting her at the end of her journey,
confess that she could never love him
now as she had lately thought possible,
and abide by his own decision. If he
yet claimed her he must be obeyed if
not, she would return to San Francisco.
As the story ends with her temperance
in the Californian city few days ago,
and quiet marriage there to the former
smuggler, it may be inferred that the
Columbian widower was at once sensible
and magnanimous under his last disap-
pointment, and finally proved himself the
friend of, the woman with whom fate had
twice denied him nearer, dearer rela.
tionship.